Anime 30276 One Punch Man Reviews Filter Check 3

One Punch Man is a comedy/parody shounen anime. Unfortunately it fails as a parody and it fails as a shounen.

The Comedy:
Saitama, the main protagonist, is really really strong, but he's also bored. He is so strong that he doesn't even get excited while fighting really strong opponents. That's the main joke of the anime, and if you don't like it, well, too bad, because it will be shoved down your throat every single episode. There's nothing much else to talk about him, it's basically all his personality.

Outside of Saitama the humor is pretty much hit or miss. It's funny, because this is supposed to ... be a parody anime, but even then it takes itself wayyyy too seriously. Expect the typical epic/dramatic ost playing often, innocent people suffering and in danger, melodramatic speechs about justice, etc etc. After thorwing all that at you the main character, bored as always, will easily defeat the dangerous villain. OPM lives in a weird limbo between typical shounen and parody, it would probably be better if it decided what it wants to be.



The Plot:
The anime is pretty much plotless. A random generic villain will appear, cause some ruckus, and be defetead by the bored bald protagonist every time. At some point a hero association appears, what about it? It serves to introduce new characters, and that's it. The association does nothing the whole anime, as far as the anime goes there's no conspiracy behind it or anything. The main character wants to go up in the association, but of course that doesn't matter one bit, it only serves to provide some more "hilarious" jokes about how the main character is so strong and yet he is misunderstood by everybody.

There's nothing to keep you hooked and wanting more, wondering what will happen next. If, god forbid, a second season is made I pretty expect to be exactly the same thing as season 1: main protagonist is bored jokes and generic villains appearing, with pretty much nothing else.



Sound:
Nothing much to talk about really. One or two tracks are good I guess, the rest is average.



Art/Animation:
The art is bland and forgetble. The animation is good and fluid, but to be honest the fights itselves are not that good. Everything is so fast, it's difficult to see things clearly sometimes. Although this anime really is above average in this category, it seems like a child throwing a tauntrum to get your attention: there is very little variety in the fights (every character pretty much fights like a DBZ character), it is all completely predictable, but hey, it looks cool, and the camera spins really fast, and there is epic music, so it is good, right???



Veridict:
OPM is all flash and no substance. It should mantain your attention for at least these 12 episodes, but that's it. It's just one more of those anime who pander the lowest common denominator. If you are expecting something truly interesting, fun or exciting you can forget it.

Goddamn, last season was heavy on the shonen/superhero stuff, wasn't it? Seraph of the End: Battle in Nagoya. Ushio and Tora. Noragami Aragoto. And of course, the most popular one of them all, One Punch Man. It's going to be difficult to find something new to say about each of them, but lord knows I'm going to try my damndest to do so. Might as well start with the one that got everyone's attention, even if not for all the right reasons. I mean it's a giant understatement to say that I wasn't the only one who watched One Punch Man, but it's also a ... big understatement to say that I wasn't the only one who wasn't impressed with the thing.

It's even worse in my case, because I don't get shonen action as substance at all. I don't hate it, and there was a time when I enjoyed pretty much everything that came out of Shonen Jump's mouth the same way I enjoyed Marvel v. Capcom, but you'd think the genre would grow up along with the audience and focus more on substance rather than repeat the same outdated Dragonball Z-style over and over again because holy hell did we not get sick of that ten years ago. But with the explosive popularity of One Punch Man along with David Production continuing to make more bloody adaptations of Jojo, I think it's pretty clear that that isn't going to happen anytime soon. So who cares if the plot is weak? Who cares if the satire goes for all the easy shots? Who cares if the characters don't have any real struggles or flaws or story or anything going for them besides how they look and a stupid name? It's a popcorn anime, and it's very good at what it does.

Except even by the standards of popcorn anime, I'm not sure it does. I mean you have the director of Space Dandy and the production values from Madhouse on this project, so obviously you're going to get a great-looking show. With that said, why is the action so fucking bad? Every time it showed up, the camera would spin around or zoom far-out whilst characters threw massive explosions at each other or delivered a punch in a desperate attempt to make it look cool when in reality, it looks overblown and retarded. There is absolutely no choreography being applied to any of the action and it becomes really boring to watch as a result. And even if there was, it is an absolute cakewalk to determine who's going to win the fight before it even starts because the whole show is built around Saitama saving the day in his own dry way with nobody in the entire universe being close to his level in terms of fighting prowess. Add in the fact that nobody really dies in this show anyways but the one-off characters who have less charisma than a Marvel villain and there's a limit to how much tension One Punch Man is allowed to have in regards to its fight scenes (i.e. zero).

Not helping is the fact that Saitama is an incredibly boring character who has no depth to him besides one joke: he's a normal dude who became the strongest in the world by training really hard and is bored with his life as a result. Every other hero in this show became powerful through genetics or body modification, and as such don't believe Saitama when he says that he just worked hard, nor do they trust him because thanks to his lack of brains, he's lowly ranked in the Hero Association. This could have made for some interesting conflict, but One Punch Man never really treats Saitama's invincibility as anymore than a cheap joke or a deus ex machina trying to be a cheap joke, no thanks to the other heroes having zero chemistry with the dude and making DC's good guys look like Marvel's. Aside from a cyborg whose only real purpose in life is to lose so that Saitama can have someone to save, I can't recall a single time he's ever had a real conversation with anybody. Hell, I'm pretty sure Genos has had more overall screen time than him.

And don't even get me started on the villains in this thing, who make Marvel's bad guys look like DC's. I can't even remember anyone's name, let alone what they added to anything. There was some attempt at making the final bad guy an "invincible contrast" to Saitama, but it was so poorly handled it made the relationship between Spiderman and Green Goblin look like Batman and The Joker - and I still didn't bother to remember the dude's name afterwards. Word of advice to anyone creating a bad guy: Marvel's villains are absolutely awful! Nothing but a bunch of random animal or element gimmicks applied to some misguided fool trying to overcompensate for the fact that Mad Hatter has them beat in the character department. But you know what's worse than that? Actual animal or element gimmicks fully realized in physical form, without even an attempt to make them realized as actual characters.

All of which could have been forgiven if the show was funny, as One Punch Man is supposed to be a comedic satire on the shonen action/superhero genre. Thing is, the show only has one joke (Saitama being Saitama) and said joke never made me laugh. Not once. Which would already have been a giant problem by itself, but the fact that the satire sucks too does it no favors. And not just because it goes for all the easy shots, but said shots are even misaimed a few times. There's one moment in the show where Saitama makes himself out to be the bad guy in order to save face for the other heroes due to some random jackass who apparently never appreciates anything in his life, but it falls incredibly flat because it's incredibly obvious it was done so that the show can repeat its one joke. Not one single person was buying the jackass's bullshit, so there was no reason for Saitama to do that, especially since it's never brought up again afterwards. It's an extreme, but by no means the only part of the show where it's clear the writers have no ambition for this show beyond taking cheap potshots at a genre that has been satirized so well in the past.

Let me make it clear that One Punch Man is by no stretch of the word "bad". It knows what it wants to be and does it well, even if it wants to be is nothing higher than mediocre at best. Because if we're judging it in comparison to the rest of the shonen/superhero anime that aired in Fall, One Punch Man is the worst of the shonen action anime that I have seen. Good visuals can only take you so far, and whilst I commend Madhouse for keeping the quality high for most of its run, thirteen episodes is a long time to watch something that has little to no substance. Hell, the specials don't have anything noteworthy about them visual-wise, leaving you with nothing at all.

My advice to you guys? Watch Concrete Revolutio instead. And no, I'm not going to stop sucking Concrete Revolutio's dick until more people admit they were wrong to abandon it for the much weaker Sunday superhero show.

One Punch Man is a highly accurate parody of the shonen and superhero genres. It mimics them with stunning precision.

Overpowered protagonist? Check.
Like Superman on steroids. One! Punch!

No plot worth mentioning? Check.
The overall plot is uneventful to say the least, and the show is mostly episodic. Even within each episode there is little meaningful moral conflict or development. It's good vs evil for the blandest reasons, and none of it matters in the long run. There are plenty of fight scenes though.

Bland throwaway characters? Check.
Most of the cast is a collection of one-shot nobodies with barely any screentime. The villains are a revolving ... door of bland bad guys ready to get punched to pieces. The heroes get maybe a few minutes if they are lucky. The motives of the characters are so generic that when they are holding their usual speeches even the protagonist Saitama is disinterested. The few recurring characters don't fare much better. Saitama was actually bored of his own sidekick's backstory.

Limited joke repertoire? Check.
One! Punch!
Actually, that's not quite fair. There are a few other ones:
- The Hero Association is a bunch of faceless bureaucrats who do more sitting in meetings than helping people.
- The repetitive nature of the show is itself a joke. Just make sure you're sitting comfortably because it's a long one.

Mindnumbingly repetitive? Check.
Once you have figured out the formula, expect more of the same:
1. Random villain of the week appears and explains his backstory. Evilutionary scientist, alien overlord, king of the lizard people, whatever.
2. Saitama's sidekick Genos or some other heroes get thrown around.
3. Saitama appears and there's a punch.
4. Tune in next week. Same bat-time, same bat-channel.

Too many episodes for the plot? Check... somewhat.
But to fully parodize this there should have been at least a hundred. Future seasons may be able to fix this. All aboard the hype train.


So all is well, then? Well, yes, if you don't mind ending up as bored as Saitama himself. One Punch Man has taken mimicry to the point where it suffers from the same tedium as its targets. From fight scene to fight scene, from generic villain to generic villain, it has captured the formulaic nature of shonen and superhero shows and become just as formulaic.

The show accurately portrays how Saitama's existential angst and disillusionment with society have turned into apathy, and it inspires the same in the viewer. After a while, watching this show starts feeling meaningless.

One Punch Man is a show that has one joke and theme that is only entertaining in the first two episodes. If you are into the "meta-animeverse" and are interested in parodied tropes then go watch this. Heres the joke, one punch man wins every battle without trying. Fun for an episode or two? Sure. A whole 12 episodes is rough. This show really didn't need a second season. The rest of the characters I barely even remember, but just know that they are one-dimensional parodies of tropes in anime.

This anime is a gimmick and its not a gimmick that is possibly entertaining after ... the first few episodes. Atleast its original.

3/10.

I have to admit OPM is not like a regular shounen anime where the
villain beats the crap out of mc and all of his friends start crying
to save them and the mc turns super saiyan 5 or 6 and then beats the
heck out of the villain.

But guess what.. OPM still sucks and terribly.

I tend to keep my reviews short but i found the need to enlighten this
world about why OPM sucks so i decided to give a detailed review based
on 12 episodes of the anime.
...
I tried my best to make this review spoiler free.

Story: 1/10
In a sentence "An extremely overpowered guy who knocks out douches
with one punch" sounds legit.Comedy is supposed be the main objective
of this anime but imo their attempts at comedy were pathetic.I fail to
understand how naming people or rather creatures Vaccine
Man,Beefcake,Smile Man,License-less Rider,Atomic Samurai,Pig God are
supposed to make us laugh.There were a few moments where i had a faint
grin but they got overshadowed by the stupidity of the mc.

Art: 8/10
The best part of this anime is the art.Ofcourse the art would be
amazing because it is made by Madhouse.Also this is the only reason
why i decided to watch this anime.
I cant believe i am appreciating OPM but i have to say this as guys,
the minute details in the surroundings were actually impressive.Also
the animation in the last episode was good.The character design of
lord Boros was epic.

Sound: 4/10
There was this one guy in our college who kept annoying me by singing
some random anime opening and turns out that it was OPM's opening.He
also told me that the soundtracks were amazing and give the vibe of a
Godlike badass.After listening to soundtracks especially Saitama,s
main theme instead of screaming "ONE PUUUUUNCH MAAAAN" i yelled "WHAT THE HELL IS WRONG WITH THIS GUY"

Character: -1/10
I read this description of Saitama on the OPM wiki which was
"In this new action-comedy, everything about a young man named Saitama
screams "AVERAGE," from his lifeless expression, to his bald head, to
his seemingly unimpressive physique. However, this average-looking
fellow doesn't have your average problem... He's actually a superhero
that's looking for tough opponents! The problem is, every time he
finds a promising candidate he beats the snot out of them in one
punch. Can Saitama finally find an evil villain strong enough to
challenge him? Follow Saitama through his hilarious romps as he
searches for new bad guys to challenge!"

So the strongest guy huh.. then nothing to watch here.This is a failed
attempt at parody.I cannot comprehend how they show <SPOILER>his ass
getting kicked by Boros,suddenly starts retaliating and finally Boros
agrees that he was no match to Saitama.So this is just another shounen
anime without all the friendship drama although it doesnt have that
tag.

Enjoyment: 0/10
I wasted 17280 seconds of my precious life on this disgusting piece of
crap.I should be on tons of meth to give OPM a score of 0 out of 10.

Overall: 1/10
The only reason i gave it 1 is because of Madhouse.Guys trust me i had
to do a reality check twice after i finished this anime about why
people liked this so much.I began doubting whether i was living in the
normal world or i was living in the parallel universe where anime like
perfect insider and one outs barely manage to get an 8.5 but this shit
gets a score around 9.

Please donot watch this even if people recommend this anime as it would be a sheer waste of time.

Now if you excuse me i gotta go ONE PUNCH that guy in the face who told me OPM soundtracks were amazing.

It's an absolute embarrassment how highly this show is rated in the Anime community, over many long running and sophisticated animes that took effort to write and sent emotions running high and low. I feel like this rating is driven purely by emotion from people who enjoy the eccentricity of a self-aware anime. To be fair, that is a very comedic aspect and is worth some points. However, this anime was never meant to be serious and has been drastically overrated for the aforementioned reason. The storyline is very shallow and it seems like it was put together on the spot as you continue through ... episodes. It becomes very dreadful to watch only a few episodes in and the focus turns away from Saitama. Saitama has a very unique personality, and his apprentice has a satirical unfitting one. But characters fade in and out of the show quickly, with no real connections being made between the watcher and other characters. Also, the comedy is very one-dimensional for a series based on comedy. It focuses solely on exaggerations and comic relief. The art is arguably very creative for people who don't mind the styles switching once and a while, and that was a plus for me. It actually adds to it's eccentricity. Anyway, in conclusion, I'd give it somewhere between a 3 and a 4.

Normally I would do a review analyzing each thing, but I'm going to do an analysis at the same level as the anime, weak.

It's almost impossible to analyze history, especially because it doesn't exist. It's something so simple that it feels like you're watching SpongeBob.

It's an anime extremely made for a children's audience, anyone over the age of 12 and doesn't realize how boring the anime is, they have no critical sense whatsoever, besides the story being totally boring, there's no cool character to look at, no. There's a character that you look at and think "I love it when he appears".

The only two things ... that I cite as good are the design of some characters, which are well done, but unfortunately not all of them, and the art of the anime, which also sometimes shows an extremely beautiful line in some scenes, however, it does not remain.

And now presenting; Puddin’s First Review!

I know a little something about superheroes, ladies and gents, and I know a little something about comedy. One Punch Man gets a looooot of love for, apparently, “doing both of these things so well,” so obviously a natural Joker like moi, was obviously going to be drawn to this after having read all of Les Mis in one sitting and had a craving for something a bit less heavy handed. Something that could make me laugh that isn’t my own jokes for once, you know?

But this, this is NOT what I expected, nor what I consider a ... “Pioneer of Parody.” Folks, telling the same joke more than once, let alone OVER and OVER again kills it. KILLS IT. It takes a crowbar right to the gut and yanks, gnashes, tears it to shreds, until there is nothing more but a pile of viscera and doggy dinner scraps sopping wet in cold, ripe blood. Does that sound very appetizing to you? DOES IT? Because to me, The Clown Prince of Crime himself, that sounds deliberately disdainful. In fact, telling a joke more than once is quite similar to explaining the joke. And if you have to explain a joke, then there is no joke!

And all of the heroes in this show? RIPOFFS! A man who can defeat anything in one punch, wears a cape, flies around, and is BALD? Excuse me, but you seem to have mish-mashed good ol’ Lexy and Supes into some horrid catastrophe of a character, and labeled him some contrived “Hero” wearing something only that total HACK Ronald McDonald would put on willingly. And people think “Satanma” or whatever his Wapanese name may be, is a hero? Must I describe to you what a hero is? I certainly hope not, there seems to be loads of them running around nowadays, you’d know it if you saw it, all it takes is some fraud wearing colorful underwear over their pants and BOOM! You have yourself a hero, listeners, and they don’t even need to have powers. Take Bat Brain and his boy-toy sidekicks of his.

And what just really hurts me inside is that they didn’t even have the decency to rip him off like all the rest- the best we get is Green Tornado, Asian Cyborg, and Katana wannabe. If that type of damn near PLAGIARISM is allowed to go on further, I swear upon my mother's grave that Madhouse Studio will have earned itself a place on my hit-list, and finally live up to its name… literally! Have you seen what I can do with some paint and a little patience? I’ve transformed whole museums into art houses truly worth experiencing, how hard can a little cartoon company be?

And don’t give me all of that guff about “the animation,” kiddo, because I could care less. In a down to earth sense, what matters here ain’t the look, as I’ve learned throughout my days, it’s the substance behind the appearance. There’sa aint’sa no substance’s here to be found but a poorly written aneem, partner.

So in short, avoid this like the plague. It neither makes you laugh nor accurately portrays all of those superpowered boners dicking around in tights. If you want superheroes, well then, put on a cape and a mask and hope I don’t kill your whole family. If you’re in the mood for a real laugh, go watch “A Serbian Film” or “Seinfeld.” Either one works!

Now that I have got your attention via my ratings (even when I know many will insta dislike my review), read the last paragraph at least. lol

Do try and read through this fully..
:p

One Punch Man, saviour of anime or just a creator of an idiotic fanbase?
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So its over, the most anticipated anime of fall 2015. An anime which generated so much fanbase that it routinely got subreddits of the day and had a subtopic created in meme pages. But as experience teaches us, popularity does not automatically convert to quality but we also cant deny if we act as hipsters and start dishing out ... bad reviews just because they are popular, it makes us look like the fools. So where does One Punch Man stand really?

First of all the manga deals in a lot of themes, there are gags, there are subtle references to society, there are fights and there is "man of steel" esque destruction. It is a shounen action at heart and never tries to be something else. you will find over the top action, lots of dialogues in fights, lots of punches and kicks thrown, yeah, until the protagonist comes in.

Yeah One Punch Man is about this, it just shows the futility of the powerup times in dragonballz, the "deep philosophical talk" in between fights and even takes a jab on people talking in space. It is telling you, "look there are so many tropes in shounens, but you know what at the end of the day its all about one finishing move, one punch" and to do so they created an insaney op hero as a jab to all the OP badasses out there, and then giving a hilarious backstory of how he got his power. Which serves twofold, naive watchers and kids might try to follow his regimen and get fitter(of course some adult discussion is necessary so that the kid doesnt overwork himself), and this has actually happened in japan and secondly more seasoned watchers can understand this as a parody of all the various training regimes in different shounens.

However as you can already imagine, you know from beforehand how each fight will end, you know whatever be the opponent he is going to kill him by one punch, and that no matter how you look at it will reduce the thrill of the anime. But the anime intends to be that. Its almost as if it is telling you "I am not you standard shounen with great fistfights, so if you expect sudden twists, you better drop me, I aint for you". But then inspite of this the anime hooks a large section of the watchers, even watchers which are calling this one a shit anime. Why is that? it is because "one punch Man" isnt about One Punch Man, it isnt about Saitama killing villains, its not how whether he can recreate a big bang with his punch, its about something else. but to show that something else the author needed to put the obvious storyline in the way he did, and at the end, that cannot count as positive, even when I understand what his intention was.

One punch Man is about Saitama getting recognition he deserves, you root for him, want him to show the others how good he is , but then suddenly you find someone else to root for, a hero with no powers, trying his hardest, because "its not about winning and losing its about whether you stand up to somebody", and OPM delivered this to perfection in 1 line better than any other shounens have done in 200 episodes. And as more and more heroes get introduced, starting from the tsundere loli to the ninja and the martial artist, you tend to harbour some affectionate feeling for some of them as well(the names are sometimes hilarious as well Puri puri prisoner) and hate when they dont recognize saitama. this anime makes you either love/hate the characters, and unless its indifference thats pretty much a job well done for an anime.

And then in the final episode, MADhouse delivered one of its finest animation masterpieces. It elevated the manga by linking some stuff with the very first episode itself, created such fluidity in animation without much CGs that ufotable will be proud of them and used the correct soundtracks at the correct moment to create an epic final battle, a battle which lasted more than one punch. It is very rare for the anime transition from manga to be so brilliant even during the gags, but this last episode exceeded all expectations. When I read the manga , because the story wasnt that interesting(already said why), I wasnt really sure about the anime, but based MADhouse took that and created an anime which will rank among its best animated works for years to come(yeah you can fuck off hipsters, I have seen people saying the animation was bad trust me, either they are idiots or dont know English).

Oh yes one last thing, episode 12 actually makes you feel for the hero and villain both, in a way very different from any other anime out there.And the scrnshot you will find everywhere is actually a great depiction of how it is very lonely at the top. One came searching for a fight of a lifetime and got it, while the other at least had some enjoyment but still couldnot use his full potential. The last gag after credits was genius as well.

But as with all half decent anime, the problem was a cancerous fanbase which increased exponentially given the nature of the anime. the anime was fun, there were fights and OP characters with great animation and blood pumping music. Goku and Superman vs Saiatama posts flooded the groups and memes flooded the pages which resulted in antagonism towards the anime by a certain section. But is a cancerous fanbase the right parameter to judge how good an anime is? because then you are judging an anime not by the anime itself buy by the people who watch it, which is preposterous. I urge all the people to ignore all the OPM posts and judge the anime just as itself without the fanbase and you will see that even if it has created such a fanbase, it is still a damn good shounen, which makes you feel without melodrama and gets your blood pumping without shouting for one episode.

So in the end what is the answer to my original question. Saviour of anime? No. "Just a creator of cancerous fanbase? No. this is an anime which made the world look up again. This is an anime which taught the world there are anime beyond DBZ. This is an anime which made the common mass who only watched DBZ look up and see how "compactly" an idea can be presented.

This is an anime which finally started putting the wheels in motion, so that the world can now move on from Dragonballz and realize even in that genre, even with just fistfights and no psychological battles, you can make a good anime and probably the anime which will inspire many more to actually delve more into the medium as such. And thats why probably it is a "New Wave" in the world of anime, even if it is not a saviour.

actual rating- MADHOUSE/10

* CONTAIN MINOR SPOILER*

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THE GOOD THING ABOUT THIS ANIME: THE CONCEPT
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The good thing about this anime is the concept is different with other superhero anime. Normally, you will watch super villain who smart and very dangerous, and the super hero who want to protect the city at all cost. Normally it is serious.

In this anime, THE CONCEPT IS FLIPPED upside down
Now, the villain is just a stupid person who want to beat the others and the main character is super strong and can beat the villain into pulp by just one punch. And it is wrapped in comedy-action drama.

... The concept is good.

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THE BAD THING ABOUT THIS ANIME: ALL EXCEPT THE CONCEPT
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I expect this to be a good comedy anime, so I just sit casually, but...

1. First, the comedy is not really funny. In the first episode, There is a child with chin like a butt. I find it is not funny at all. Then, most of every episode there is a naked man. Then the bad guy turns into a stupid person who act cool when winning. "I sound like a robot to make it cool". And this joke is repetitive. The same joke is shown over and over.

2. The main characters is a hero for fun. He has no interest at helping people at all. He is so selfish and egoist.
If there are monsters, he does not care about the others' safety. If others are injured and like dying, he does not care, or sometimes he just asked "are you alive?" but nothing more.
He rarely listens to other people and rarely becomes serious in real life.
He does not care about others' opinion about himself because at the first place, he is already been by himself alone. He is anti-social and never in this anime he decided to discuss about plan or working together..

The main character here is not a good character. I bet if Saitama does not have the power, nobody will praise him for his attitude.
The only good character in this anime is mumen rider. Even though he is weak, he keep trying to help others.

3. No main conflict and no twist.
In this 12 episodes anime, you will find repetitive episode over and over.
The difference is there is another new villain.
There is a little conflict though: "a hero who do not get appraised", but actually saitama do not care at all, because at the first place he is anti-social. He did not get any disadvantages at all because of this issue.
Then, no twist. Saitama is still the most powerful character till the end.


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SUMMARY
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So, here I will give 4 as bad.
It will be good if you have a different taste of joke than me.
However, I prefer joke like "si juki" or "Bowling King" who can make you laugh hard.

One Punch Man, if you thought Dragon Ball and One Piece were too intellectual this is the show for you.


Story: 2

The story or lack thereof is about Saitama, a very average looking bald man that for some reason (which is never explained) can defeat the most powerful enemies with just one punch. Throughout the 12 episodes the show will present the viewer countless nonsensical situations, where Saitama needs to defeat very powerful beings obsessed with destroying things. But since the hero can kill anything with just one punch, it completely negates any sense of tension or struggle.

While the premise of this anime could lead one ... to believe that this would be a parody of the super power shonen genre, 95% of all comedy bits fall completely flat. Just because a joke can be amusing once that doesn't mean it will be funny for the next 11 episodes.


Art: 6

By far the best part, the art in this show is actually pretty decent, especially the fighting scenes.
The drawings have a significant amount of detail and the animation is fluid.
But that's where the art "pro's" end.

During fight scenes there's a lot of shaky cam and most of them involve a gigantic amount of destruction right from the first episodes. This means the anime quickly becomes visually repetitive and annoying. And when it comes to the comedy bits it don't fare much better.

When the show tries to be funny (and fails) the art goes from the very simplistic to the very detailed. But because the jokes don't work most of the time, it ends up looking lazy and pointless.

A more visual consistent representation would work much better.


Sound: 5

I can't remember a single track from the score so i have to say it's forgettable, but since i also didn't find it to be annoying enough to remember that can only be a good thing.

When it comes to the voice over i have nothing negative to say and i think most actors did a good job.


Characters: 5

In a story where the main hero is invincible what role does the other heroes play?

None, they are completely irrelevant.

While i found some characters compelling (much more than Saitama) they serve no purpose other than to fill the enormous void that is the pathetic story. They have strengths and weaknesses and character flaws, but all that is pointless when their struggles are met with a invincible hero that can't die.

It really is too bad, since i they would be interesting characters in any other shonen story.


Enjoyment: 1

I'm glad to say that this show is slightly more amusing than watching grass grow, or maybe not i can't tell anymore.


Overall/ Conclusion: 4

One Punch Man has to be one of the most fascinating social experiments in anime form i have ever seen. It truly is the living proof, that you can turn a unbelievable mediocre show into a success, as long as you cater to the lowest common denominator.

But despite how incredibly dumb and lackluster it is, i can still recommend this show for the lovers of the brainless super power shonen genre.
Just keep in mind that if all you want is senseless explosions and destruction there are much better alternatives out there.

« Well that was lame... I kinda had my hopes up too. »

This quote is not coming from me ; the one saying it is Saitama himself - OPM's main protagonist and « hero » - after just another one-shot strike on a bad guy.

For One-Punch Man has a very basic main concept, which is pretty much summed up right in the title : Saitama is a normal guy who dreams about becoming a super hero, in a world that's frequently attacked by a plethora of monsters coming in every format and color you can imagine. In order to accomplish that he follows a simple ... training for some years during which he does push-ups, ab exercises and jogging. He ends up becoming the most powerful man in the world : every opponent he meets is reduced to shreds by just one punch. Worst thing is nobody's aware of Saitama's power and noboby's going to believe that this tiny baldy guy with a blasé face posesses such a power.

There you go ! There's almost nothing else to say, the recipe for each and every OPM episode is already layed out. Like this : bad guy appears >> bad guy knocks everyone out >> bad guy puffs out his chest to show off how strong he is >> bad guy also beats every hero that's trying to stop him >> Saitama pops out of nowhere (or has been slowed down during the whole episode) >> bad guy laughs at Saitama cuz he really looks lame, am I right ? >> Saitama blows a hole into bad guy >> Saitama's f*cking disappointed and goes home.

And so on. During 12 épisodes. And I'm not even exagerating.

I'm not criticizing this particular recipe per se, it should be enough to make a few funny episodes, it's an efficient gag that brought a smile to my face once or twice... but not more really. That's what's shameful about OPN : it really overstays its welcome and is wallowing in its premise without ever risking going out of its comfort zone. So much that at the end of the last episode we're still where we were at the beginning. When you announce something as big as « hey this is our hero and he's stronger than anyone else » at the beginning of a shonen anime, you should at least try to shake our certainties as viewers. If you don't, all that's left is one running-gag that's already annoying at the third episode and that doesn't get better as time passes.

Now people will come and tell me that not EVERYTHING revolves around Saitama, that there're parallel plots evolving, other heroes fighting against overpowered beasts (like when Geno starts to fight before Saitama does, or when everyone get beat up against the Sea King, or when the heroes unite against the self-regenerating alien...). Okay. But come on, the strings are so transparent and obvious that it is impossible not to understand that every time everything is made to make us feel that everything is hopeless until Saitama arrives. Therefore the only perceivable stake of the episode is related to the circumstances that will keep mister One-Punch from getting into the ring and ending the tension. But what tension really ? Certainly not the stress of not knowing the outcome of the fight since Saitama is already assured to win. And certainly not the survival of the fragile supporting cast since none of these guys is engaging or relatable. Seriously, I did not relate to any of those shallow multicolored imbeciles (same thing with Saitama by the way), whose personalities are poorly wrote - except maybe from the bicylcle guy whose name I keep forgetting and that offers probably the only touching moment of the whole story. None of those f*ckers is developped beyond their gimmicks. These guys reminded me of the One-Piece character zoo, except that at least Eichiro Oda has the talent to breathe life and passion into those weird and deformed characters. While OPN ends up just throwing them onto the screen to make us admire their caricature.

One could also say to me : « Relax Max ! It's just a parody ! It's anti-shonen, it inverts the genre and plays with its tropes. It's ironic, it's satirical, it's supposed to be coarse and vulgar ». No it's not supposed to be. When you build a 12 episodes show, when you engage into a narrative, then you have to take on and assume what it implies about how you'll polish every piece of the anime. If you don't then just make a short film or even a video, it would've been largely enough to contain the whole point of One-Punch Man. As soon as the creators make the choice to extend their idea to several episodes, they owe it to themselves (and to us) to offer a product with a certain level of quality, that reinvents itself, that keeps the audience interested, involved, to at least try to set some stakes.

Yet in OPN, there's almost no plot (well there're some plot elements that remain obscure, like what Metal Knight is plotting, or the true identity of the mysterious Blast, but we'll only be able to judge when season 2 arrives). At the end of the last episode Saitama is still far from having found anything to awake him, the characters are all shite due to their one-dimensional personality, the rythm is slow (especially the first three episodes, which is a shame really because those three episodes are boring but they already used all the jokes of the serie, so when the show wakes up a little bit in episode 4 it's already too late and we're as blasé as Saitama himself).

The animation thankfully is gorgeous and produce some mildly-entertaining scenes, and that's the reason why this anime doesn't get a 3.

In fact, now that I think about it, One-Punch Man is exactly like if we were shown a war between two armies of ants fiercly battling against each other... until a human shows up and steps calmly on the pile of insects. Ok, why not, but then we spectators should be put in the point of view of an ant, so that we could be genuinely surprised when the deus ex machina happens. But here there's no surprise occurring since we're warned from the beginning : Saitama defeats everyone with one punch. We're placed under the human's point of view and we're passively waiting for his shiny red boot to crush the swarming mass of insects. And boredom to show his pointy nose as soon as we realise that the creators will NEVER grow tired of their single running-gag. *whispers*

But hey, believe me or not I'm an optimist and I will try to watch season 2. It nothing else at least to see up to where is the anime capable of get stuck in total stagnation before waking up and - who knows! - maybe to turn around its own tropes rather than focusing so hard in parodying weakly those of its glorious elders.



French version :

« Well that was lame... I kinda had my hopes up too. »

Cette citation n'est pas de moi, c'est Saitama lui-même, principal protagoniste et « héros » de One-Punch Man, qui la prononce après un énième gros vilain dûment tabassé d'un seul coup terrassant.

Car One-Punch Man a un concept de base très simple, qui se retrouve résumé dans son seul titre : Saitama est un type lambda qui rêve de devenir un super-héros, dans un monde régulièrement attaqué par une multitude de monstres de toutes les couleurs et de tous les formats imaginables ; pour cela il s'entraine des années par un régime à base de pompes, abdos et jogging et finit par devenir l'homme le plus fort du monde : tout adversaire qu'il rencontre se voit réduit en charpie par un seul coup de poing. Le drame, c'est que personne n'est au courant, et personne ne veut croire que ce petit bonhomme chauve blasé possède une telle puissance.

Hop, voilà ! Emballé c'est pesé, la recette de chaque épisode de One-Punch Man est toute tracée. Comme suit : méchant débarque >> méchant déboîte tout le monde >> méchant gonfle le torse pour bien montrer comment qu'il est balèze >> méchant dérouille aussi tous les héros qui viennent l'arrêter >> Saitama déboule par hasard (ou a été ralenti pendant tout l'épisode) >> méchant se paye la tronche de Saitama parce qu'il a vraiment l'air tout nul >> Saitama fait trou dans méchant >> Saitama dépité, blasé, rentre chez lui.

Et ainsi de suite pendant 12 épisodes, je caricature à peine.

Cette recette je ne la critique pas en soi, ça donne en théorie de quoi faire quelques épisodes marrants, c'est un gag efficace qui m'aura fait sourire une fois ou deux... mais vraiment pas plus. C'est ce qui est dramatique avec One-Punch Man : elle se complait dans ses prémisses sans jamais avancer hors de sa zone de confort, si bien qu'à la fin du dernier épisode, on est toujours pas plus avancé. Quand on annonce quelque chose d'aussi gros que « voici notre héros, il est plus fort que tout le monde » et qu'on suit un arc narratif de shonen, on se doit de mettre à mal nos certitudes. Sinon tout ce qu'il reste est un running-gag qui est déjà lourdingue au bout de 3 épisodes et qui ne s'arrange pas à mesure que le temps passe.

Alors on me dira que tout ne tourne pas autour de Saitama, que des intrigues annexes se forment, qu'il y a d'autres héros qui eux mènent de véritables combats contre des bestioles surpuissantes (cf entre autres lorsque Geno commence à se battre avant Saitama, ou lorsque tout le monde se fait rétamer face au Sea King, ou que les héros s'unissent face à l'alien auto-régénérant). Certes, mais les ficelles sont si transparentes qu'il est impossible de ne pas comprendre qu'à chaque fois tout est fait pour nous faire ressentir que tout est sans espoir jusqu'à ce que Saitama débarque. Dès lors le seul enjeu perceptible de l'épisode tient aux circonstances qui empêcheront mister One-Punch de débarquer dans le ring pour mettre fin à la tension. Mais quelle tension vraiment ? Certainement pas celle d'une quelconque issue incertaine du combat puisque Saitama est posé comme gagnant d'avance. Et sûrement pas celle de la survie des frêles personnages secondaires puisque aucun n'est attachant. Sérieusement, je ne me suis attaché à aucun de ces branques bariolés sans profondeur (pas plus qu'à Saitama d'ailleurs), dont le portrait est grossièrement taillé à la hache – à l'exception du cycliste dont le nom m'échappe, auquel j'accorde une belle séquence touchante. Tout ce petit monde m'a un peu fait penser au bestiaire grotesque de One Piece, sauf qu'au moins ce dernier avait le talent de leur insuffler une vie, une passion – fût-elle risible ou simplement débile, tandis que One-Punch Man se contente de les balancer dans l'écran sans autre forme de procès, comme pour nous faire admirer leurs caricatures.

Ah oui, parce qu'on en vient justement à l'autre point qu'on pourrait m'opposer : « Relax mec ! C'est une parodie ! C'est de l'anti-shonen, ça renverse le genre et ça joue avec ses codes! C'est ironique, c'est satirique, c'est normal si c'est grossier ». Non, ça n'est pas normal. Quand on construit un show de 12 épisodes, qu'on pose une narration, alors on se doit d'assumer ce que cela suppose en terme de soin apporté aux diverses portions de l'animé. Sinon on fait un court-métrage ou une simple vidéo, ç'aurait été largement suffisant pour contenir tout l'intérêt de One-Punch Man. Dès lors que la série fait le choix de s'étendre sur la durée, elle se doit de proposer quelque chose de qualité, de se renouveler, de maintenir l'intérêt de l'audience, de convoquer un minimum d'enjeux.

Or ici le scénario est quasi-inexistant (il reste éventuellement les éléments obscurs comme ce que complote Metal Knight, ou l'identité du mystérieux Blast restée en suspens, mais on ne sera libre d'en juger que lors de la prochaine saison donc ça ne rentre pas vraiment en ligne de compte) ne serait-ce que parce que Saitama à la fin du dernier épisode est toujours loin d'avoir trouvé de quoi se dérider, les personnages sont à chier puisque unidimensionnels et ne s'extraient jamais de leur caricature, le rythme est mollasson (tout particulièrement au début de l'animé, et c'est dramatique : les trois premiers épisodes sont chiants, mais suffisent à eux-seuls à épuiser toutes les maigres cartouches humoristiques de l'animé, si bien que lorsque ça se réveille un peu vers l'épisode 4 il est déjà trop tard : on est aussi blasé que Saitama). L'animation heureusement réserve quelques scènes d'action sympathiques, qui permettent de rendre cette baudruche d'animé passablement divertissant (ce pourquoi il arrive tout de même à 4).

En fait, c'est exactement comme si on nous montrait une guerre entre deux armées de fourmis, qui se battent férocement jusqu'à ce qu'un humain débarque et écrase tranquillement le tas d'insectes avec son pied. Pourquoi pas, mais alors qu'on nous place, nous spectateurs, sous le point de vue de ces fourmis, de telle sorte qu'on puisse être authentiquement saisis lorsque le deus ex machina se produit. Mais ici nulle surprise, puisqu'on est averti dès le départ : Saitama défait n'importe quel opposant d'un seul coup. On a le point de vue de l'humain et on attend passivement que sa bottine rouge écrase sans passion la masse grouillante des formicidés. Et l'ennui de poindre le bout de son petit nez dès lors qu'on réalise que les créateurs ne se lasseront jamais de leur running-gag. Soupir

Mais Dieu m'en soit témoin, je regarderai la saison 2, ne serait-ce que pour voir jusqu'à quel point One-Punch Man est capable de s'embourber dans le plus total immobilisme avant de se réveiller et, qui sait, prendre à revers ses propres codes au lieu de se concentrer si fort à parodier bien faiblement ceux de ses plus glorieux aînés.

The excellent animation quality and occasional comedic gag do little to change the fact that One Punch Man is an anime that is intended for an audience that simply doesn’t include me. This isn’t so much a fault of the anime, I do not enjoy “over-the-top” action series. The running joke behind the series had over stayed its welcome well before the 12th episode finished and sadly that is really all this story had to offer.

Is OPM suppose to be taken seriously? Is it suppose to be laughed at? It’s like trying to peel an onion and is ultimately a futile question as I ... wasn’t entertained for more than a few moments on either front.

So I just finished watching this and I'd like to know what all the hype was about?
Don't get me wrong, it's not a bad show. In fact if you want something that you can watch that's full of action and you don't really have to think, then this is the show for you. But if you've watched DBZ, One Piece or any of the other super powerful main character shonen out there, then you could probably skip this.

Other than the odd funny moment the characters are what you expect from this type of show and having having grown up watching the big 3, I've seen ... enough to know this is nothing new.

The things that did stand out and that I thought were great were the art and sound track. The fight scenes are very fluid and flashy and easily some of the best I've seen in a while. And the sound track suits the show perfectly.

So would I recommend it? Meh maybe just so you can say you've seen it and can give your own opinion on it

This anime is a set of virtually unrelated episodes, the plot of which is a primitive template sketch about a supervillain who will definitely fly off at the end of the chapter (and this is not “Supernatural” from the anime world).

Such a description does not necessarily mean something bad. It just needs to be taken for granted because the first few episodes were really interesting, funny and very beautiful. They were filled with pleasant satire, a curious story, and wonderful action. Yes, in the beginning, when viewer does not know yet that in the second half of the season he'll get a looped senseless and ... uninteresting meat grinder with some kind of random characters who suddenly shifted our protagonist and occupied 90% of screen time.

Seriously, at one point, by the middle of the season, there will not be a crumb of meaning, logic, or at least interesting moments in the show. Happening events would be not interesting and funny, but boring and ... Shameful! Moreover, it is embarrassing not at all because of the sharp deterioration in the quality of humour (although they have really deteriorated sharply), but due to the fact that the brilliant idea and the beginnings of the title are drained so tasteless and ineptly. What happens is decidedly unclear. The most obvious explanation is that the script ended on the fifth episode, and it was decided to improvise, as one eminent director had bequeathed.

In general, after watching remains a negative impression, although this is not the worst anime that you could see. At least it is very short. By the way, I don’t see the slightest sense to watch the second season after that kind of the first one.

There is no plot. This has a writing as poor as DBZ while not being as enjoyable.
Yes here comes a bad meany guy, everyone else but Goku gets rekt, Goku gets rekt, screams a lot and wins.
On OPM is exactly the same but without Saitama screaming or getting rekt.
The story is literally an evil meany guy comes, Saitama finds him and obliterates him. The end.
The final "battle" is exactly the same.
The show only shines when other characters are fighting or when we see anything that isnt Saitama 1-shooting anything on sight.
The plot and the story in itself is beyond insulting as there are a lot ... of questions that can only be answered with : Because the writter said so.
A lot of characters (specially the villains) are carbon copies of other characters that have been on other animes since the beggining of time.
Also i know it might be on purpose but Saitama seems so alien 80% of the time (talking about art). He looks like he doesnt belong to the show. Imagine that Goku from DBZ was into i dunno Nekopara, Kemono Friends or The Simpsons.
I guess omnipotence means losing your eyeballs unless the camera zooms in on your eyes?
Also Saitama VA doesnt fit him at all! I was expecting a voice incredibly calm and soft but he speaks like english dub Goku... I know he is allmighty but the show tries to portray him as a non threatening guy until he punches stuff (and then he gains eyeballs and is drawn into a proper way).
I can understand that one can be amused a little by "Haha that guy seemed so big and imposing and he got rekt" in a David vs Goliat way but that joke gets boring really fast.
Mostly because its not a joke. We all know whatever Saitama is hitting is gonna get destroyed so where is the surprise after seeing him do it for the 5º time?
I don't know how this anime could be considered "comedy" honestly. I barely had any fun.
The art (ignoring Saitama) is the only thing i could praise about the show but is something to be expected from a studio like Madhouse.

This anime has to be one of the most overrated anime I have ever watch I have only been watching anime for about a half of year and I am sure there is alot more overrated anime .but for right now this has to be on my top 4 list of the most overrated anime so far. everybody says this anime is suppose to be a joke but it still doesnt change the fact that it is really boring so lets start the review. the story has to be some of the worse if not the worse I have seen so far. the story ... is about a Character named Saitama who wanted to be able to one punch anything and though hard work he accomplish just that and fighting monsters and criminals defeating them in one punch. thats basically the whole story. now the characters I honestly did not care what happen to the characters ever single one of them lacked personality and just not interesting at all. now the good things about this anime and yes it does has some good things the first one is the art and sound I really enjoyed the art and sound no problems. and all fight scenes that did not evolve saitama. I mostly hate this anime i enjoyed the first 6 episodes it was kind of funny that the character could one punch anything and kind of funny when saitama freaked out but it got old really quick after 6 episodes I wanted this anime to end. good thing this was only 12 episodes anymore then that i would of gave it a 4/10. this anime could of been good if it was only 6 episodes but overall is so fucking overrated and enjoyed very little of it.

One Punch became real popular because it catered to casuals who aren't smart enough to experience well-writen thought-provoking anime. The type of people who lack the ability to understand anything that isn't nonstop action and fighting just the bottom of the barrel kinda, people.

Story(1): Boring nothing good at all, just some guy who goes around punching things and winning. Nothing else to the story so bland, so boring the story had zero depth, it definitely was not entertaining unless all you like to see is pointless fighting didn't introduce any cool themes or thought-provoking ideas. The comedy was far from funny it was just stupid ... and cheezy anyone who laughed because of the faces he made are idiots. Villains are bad because they are bad. definitely far from a thriller, I knew this isn't a thriller but when you think thriller this is the complete opposite. You already know who is gonna win every fight what a surprise.

characters(1): What an awful main character as said above (not gonna waste time on explaining him just read the second paragraph ) the other characters only relied on the main character ZERO character development

Enjoyment(2): far from it

Art(3): if you watch it on 520 p and compare it to 1080 p it looks the same that's how little effort was put into it. A 3 is a pitty point from me

Overall(2): I watched this because people told me it was good and I thought that something was wrong with me for not liking it and in my heart, I thought it was appalling. If you thought this was GREAT and never watched it again its because it was never good.

*this review may contain minor spoilers*

One punch man is more like a comedy and less then a shounen. And feels like a low effort anime.

Story 1/10
Boy trains for hes whole life, and now he can even destroy a planet with 1 punch. He wants to join the hero organisation, to fight ''crime''

Art 9/10
The art is beautiful no complains here.

... Sound 7/10
Nothing to amazing, nothing to bad either.

Character 1/10
The characters are boring and mainstream. No effort at all.

Enjoyment 2/10
This anime feels like a low effort anime, make a guy who destroys everything in 1 punch, how does the typical episode go? Make a few jokes about the day, sees an enemy, makes a joke about how they look, destroys him in 1 punch, goes on about joking what happened that day. When I started watching this anime i was hoping for some epic fight scenes etc, that just did not happen. it mainly focuses around comedy and the shounen part is low effort imo.

Overall 4/10
If you like bad jokes, lame fights and no character development this anime is just for you!
No, but in all honestly this anime is just fan service, do yourself a favour and stay away from it.

One punch man , as the name implies its about a man who can defeat any enemy with only one punch .

"sound pretty cool right? a man who can defeat anyone with one punch ? " is what I thought within the first few episodes .

This without doubt is a very strong production (of a could have been great anime ) but disappointment hits when you realize that the only thing this anime has is an Idea it was funny at the beginning but started to become very boring .

lets begin the review



*story : 3/10* (the original idea was good, but ... in action it become boring for lack of new ideas)

In a world where heroes are needed to defeat the monsters that are invading earth everyday. In this world we see the adventures of Saitama or more like his daily life where he throws a single punch to defeat the monsters .


*Art:4/10*

personally one of the things that made me not watch this anime sooner was the art in short I appreciate good art and this was not for me .


*sound: 8/10*



*characters: 2/10*


pros : funny ,the lead charachter has "dont care" vibe and his facial expressions
cracks me up

cons: no developments in characters whats so ever , Lack of backstories , predictable actions.


*Enjoyment: 1/10*

honestly at around episode 6 I was forcing my self to finish this , same fights same outcome same winner but different types of monsters and same FACE . very repetitive and predictable




*OverAll: 3.6/10*