STRONGEST One-Punch Man Discussion Thread!

[Bernkastelll]

In what way-

about being hot

 

[Magmag]

In what way-

psychically and mentally

 

[LordTracer]

psychically and mentally

Mentally, sure. Psychically, objectively no.

 

[Magmag]

Mentally, sure. Psychically, objectively no.

well physically as long as it aint head on, and pretty sure fubuki finna surpass psykos latter on, she seemed to get a big amp during the psyhic sisters arc.

 

[LordTracer]

well physically as long as it aint head on, and pretty sure fubuki finna surpass psykos latter on, she seemed to get a big amp during the psyhic sisters arc.

Maybe Fubuki will surpass Psykos later, but as far as we know right now, Psykos is far stronger than her.

Fubuki doesn’t neg diff her in any way whatsoever.

 

[Magmag]

Maybe Fubuki will surpass Psykos later, but as far as we know right now, Psykos is far stronger than her.

Fubuki doesn’t neg diff her in any way whatsoever.

my fault, no diff.

 

[Emirp sumitpo]

On that note, since alot of people seem to deem his work as the inferior version, why are we using it for feats instead of the original webcomic?

Because the webcomic is not canon to the manga and we treat both as separate canons. We've been doing this since like late 2020

 

[Emirp sumitpo]

There are too many different reasons that a person could prefer the webcomic over the manga so the reasons varies from person to person. My personal main reason is just the handling of Garou in the current portion of this arc. Everything that happened since Garou came to the surface after fighting Darkshine has made him a joke, had him do things that goes against what he was preaching right after fighting Darkshine, made his will weak and just put him on the back burner in favor of God and the Blastvengers.

Not to mention the strange humor that is very unlike ONE, mediocre art for what is supposed to be the arc’s climax, major redraws and rewrites showing clear lack of planning, weird severe deviation from the WC while simultaneously trying to stick to the WC etc etc. I can go on and on.

I think this sums it all up for me

 

[Pepsiman25th]

 

[Pepsiman25th]

Hes awake, but I guess its coming either Wednesday or Thursday

 

[DbzDB2]

this man murata knows how thirsty we are for the next chapter but decides to give us zero info regarding its release date. the translation for the tweet is just "good morning". oh murata, you little tease

 

[Pepsiman25th]

this man murata knows how thirsty we are for the next chapter but decides to give us zero info regarding its release date. the translation for the tweet is just "good morning". oh murata, you little tease

bruh, you missed this tweet he made.

 

[UltimateDarkGod666]

Any IRL girl that looks like Psykos

 

[Pepsiman25th]

Any IRL girl that looks like Psykos

https://media.**********.net/attachments/936611513999962112/983238669584449586/unknown.png

 

[Bernkastelll]

https://vsbattles.com/threads/zombie-man-speed-crt.137353/

 

[ByAsura]

Here's an idea. Instead of scaling all the heroes to in-training Saitama with very little basis, why don't we just somewhat downscale the ones that noticeably kept up with and troubled a heavily weakened Garou (i.e Stinger, Glasses and Chain'n'toad), who could still avoid fire from Death Gatling and Gun Gun.

 

[Emirp sumitpo]

Here's an idea. Instead of scaling all the heroes to in-training Saitama with very little basis, why don't we just somewhat downscale the ones that noticeably kept up with and troubled a heavily weakened Garou (i.e Stinger, Glasses and Chain'n'toad), who could still avoid fire from Death Gatling and Gun Gun.

Ehhhh.... That one is weird, as moments afterwards, an even worse Garou could keep up with an MHS Genos.

The whole fight is kind of PIS, if I'm being honest

 

[ByAsura]

Garou got a second wind from remembering his bullying, used Bang's technique, and began largely overpowering them. He was especially weakened in the second Gun Gun scan I gave because the poison was actually effective then.

 

[Emirp sumitpo]

Fair, I suppose?

 

[CosmicWreck]

There are too many different reasons that a person could prefer the webcomic over the manga so the reasons varies from person to person. My personal main reason is just the handling of Garou in the current portion of this arc. Everything that happened since Garou came to the surface after fighting Darkshine has made him a joke, had him do things that goes against what he was preaching right after fighting Darkshine, made his will weak

I see. Yeah Garou's depiction is a sore topic to a lot of people. I just so happen to be one of those that find it endearing though so each their own. It's probably because I barely read the webcomic so I didn't really get a chance to be attached to the original showings of that character.

I honestly love Murata's Garou more because of just how flawed he is compared to almost every other character in the show. He's afraid of death. He wants to become the sole source of evil to become the driving unification force of the entire species. He's so focused on martyring himself he's willing to destroy the relationship he has with his (seemingly) only father figure. He pushes himself forward and yet worries that he can never succeed in changing the corruption he sees in society. Us Murata Garou fans root for him in hopes that he's able to overcome his issues which he does. He even chastised himself for how weak he was in the face of the gratitude of the people he saved.

WC Garou probably is not weak in the same way, but so what? Murata's anti-villain Garou is relatable in a way WC characters (and even other Murata characters honestly) simply aren't.

and just put him on the back burner in favor of God and the Blastvengers.

God and the Blastvengers have only a couple handful of scenes combined my dude, in which none of them are at all explained. Sure, Garou is depicted as becoming his avatar but even before that Garou did unbelievably better in his fight against Saitama than not only literally everyone else currently depicted in the franchise, but WC Garou himself where he even explicitly becomes weaker.

God and Blastvengers are obvious foreshadowing for some overarching plot-line down the road and in no way detracts from how impressive Garou is.

Not to mention the strange humor that is very unlike ONE,

One has a strange idea of humor himself, considering the way he depicts african descendants. Is there something One did that shows a better understanding of humor?

mediocre art for what is supposed to be the arc’s climax,

This I Have to disagree on. Murata's art is gorgeous, shows just how powerful S-Class and monsters can be. At the very least it is objectively better than One has made (I use the latest chapters of each canon for comparison).

major redraws and rewrites showing clear lack of planning,

This is fair.

weird severe deviation from the WC while simultaneously trying to stick to the WC etc etc.

Sure from what I hear but why does that really matter? Different canons have and do contradict each other for many different franchises even if they follow the same vague plot points though admittedly Murata seems intent on pushing this concept towards the limit.

Thank you for sharing your legitimate worries though, even if we don't share eye to eye on this topic. I should also point out that I don't think you're concerns are wrong in any way. I just felt that the points are interesting points of discussion I wished to share my own perspective on.

Because the webcomic is not canon to the manga and we treat both as separate canons. We've been doing this since like late 2020

Yes I know. The point is since the WC is the original canon it should have been used for feats and scaling, and not Murata's manga, or at least not without a note differentiating the two. Thank you for attempting to clarify though.

 

[Emirp sumitpo]

The point is since the WC is the original canon it should have been used for feats and scaling, and not Murata's manga, or at least not without a note differentiating the two

I'm not sure why we never made a note tbh, we should really do that.

 

[ByAsura]

We'll just make entirely separate profiles when the current webcomic arc concludes, as is the plan currently.

 

[Matthew_Schroeder]

My favorite scene in One-Punch Man is one Caped Baldy said his catchphrase, "It's baldin' time" and balded all over those guys

 

[Emirp sumitpo]

I remember that one time Saitama did his "Serious Sweep" and sold 100 Saitamillion dollars

 

[Epiccheev]

Speaking of Saitamillion dollars wasn't there a rumor saying that Sony was going to produce a live action about OPM?

 

[ByAsura]

 

[Emirp sumitpo]

Speaking of Saitamillion dollars wasn't there a rumor saying that Sony was going to produce a live action about OPM?

First movie to sell 99e+99 Saitamillion tickets

 

[Matthew_Schroeder]

Speaking of Saitamillion dollars wasn't there a rumor saying that Sony was going to produce a live action about OPM?

It is confirmed. ONE even tweeted about it. It'll probably suck.

 

[Emirp sumitpo]

Fr, I'm hoping it never comes to fruition.

 

[JustANormalPerson01]

Listen to me, that film will give us our first tier 3 OPM feat

 

[Emirp sumitpo]

They'll cast The Rock as Saitama.

Mark my words

 

[Epiccheev]

Imagine if some kind of opposite of a miracle happens and the movie becomes a sucess and causes Marvel to buy Saitama and star him as an avenger who's just like hulk but bald and then it's revealed he's the Ancient One's younger brother who followed the path of the body instead of the path of the soul.

 

[Emirp sumitpo]

Imagine if some kind of opposite of a miracle happens and the movie becomes a sucess and causes Marvel to buy Saitama and star him as an avenger who's just like hulk but bald and then it's revealed he's the Ancient One's younger brother who followed the path of the body instead of the path of the soul.

No way is letting the mouse gain a hold of OPM a good thing

 

[Lugh_Tuathe_Dé]

They'll cast The Rock as Saitama.

That would be cringe in my eyes, and there are other actors that are probably arguably better than him

 

[ByAsura]

 

[Emirp sumitpo]

 

[Matthew_Schroeder]

Unironically ******* Michael Cera would be a better Saitama than The Rock. He's supposed to look unassuming and kinda weak.

 

[CosmicWreck]

Imagine if some kind of opposite of a miracle happens and the movie becomes a sucess and causes Marvel to buy Saitama and star him as an avenger who's just like hulk but bald and then it's revealed he's the Ancient One's younger brother who followed the path of the body instead of the path of the soul.

I'm not gonna lie. That sounds disturbingly like something Disney would do.

We'll just make entirely separate profiles when the current webcomic arc concludes, as is the plan currently.

That does not address the problem. Confusion of canon is still expected to occur, like earlier in this thread where someone linked to an anime screenshot, or in that Boros upgrade content revision thread.

Further, Murata updates way more often than One right now so more threads in the meantime will be made while we wait for you guys to do this. We don't even know when he's going to update. Even when he updates, the current arc almost literally just started. You are asking people to wait months, if not years to address a problem that can be solved now with a simple note. Here is what I think that should look like.

Note: Due to the contradictions inherent within the various media it was decided that the anime, manga and web comic all occur within their separate canons and thus cannot be used as a method of cross scaling,

Here's an idea. Instead of scaling all the heroes to in-training Saitama with very little basis, why don't we just somewhat downscale the ones that noticeably kept up with and troubled a heavily weakened Garou (i.e Stinger, Glasses and Chain'n'toad), who could still avoid fire from Death Gatling and Gun Gun.

There is not enough evidence to replace the current scaling. Saitama's speed feat is used as a lynch-pin for all of the less feat-given characters. With Saitama you can argue his inexperience, poor reason it maybe. There's still less reason to scale even a weakened Garou to them, considering they needed to gang up on him to do any real damage and even then he was still depicted as being faster than them.

Though for Zombie man I guess we can scale him since weakened Garou was certain if any of the S-Class was with them he would have been caught.

 

[Emirp sumitpo]

Note: Due to the contradictions inherent within the various media it was decided that the anime, manga and web comic all occur within their separate canons and thus cannot be used as a method of cross scaling,

This is fine tbh. i'd say we just slap on the verse page

 

[ByAsura]

There is not enough evidence to replace the current scaling.

There's plenty of evidence. Unlike Saitama's feat, who has little scaling, this is something A-Class heroes did.

Saitama's speed feat is used as a lynch-pin for all of the less feat-given characters.

And it shouldn't be, hence why I'm trying to replace it with actual feats.

With Saitama you can argue his inexperience, poor reason it maybe.

You really can't. Bang is by far the most experienced S-Class, but he's not the fastest and most powerful.

There's still less reason to scale even a weakened Garou to them, considering they needed to gang up on him to do any real damage and even then he was still depicted as being faster than them.

They could tag him multiple times from a distance, catch him off guard, intercept his moves, dodge, get direct hits on him, pressure him, etc. Those 3 aren't that much slower until he got his second wind and used Bang's technique, and even then I'd argue it's not enormous.

That does not address the problem. Confusion of canon is still expected to occur, like earlier in this thread where someone linked to an anime screenshot, or in that Boros upgrade content revision thread.

I don't see why that's the case for the webcomic, which isn't even used for feats due to the anime and manga simply having better art, feats and statements.

At best, we'll have to see which statements from ONE do and don't apply, and we already have a pretty good idea of that.

Further, Murata updates way more often than One right now so more threads in the meantime will be made while we wait for you guys to do this.

And? I genuinely don't see why that's a problem. In fact, it's a good thing because it means we won't have a billion OPM threads per day due to the webcomic profiles' inclusion.

We don't even know when he's going to update. Even when he updates, the current arc almost literally just started. You are asking people to wait months, if not years to address a problem that can be solved now with a simple note. Here is what I think that should look like.

At best, I'm asking you to wait months or years. This isn't really a problem for anyone else because we already separate the profiles. Either that, or we could just expedite the process by releasing them as they are.

Note: Due to the contradictions inherent within the various media it was decided that the anime, manga and web comic all occur within their separate canons and thus cannot be used as a method of cross scaling,

I'm not talking about your note. I'm talking about your suggestion to use the webcomic for feats and scaling.

Also, while keep the anime separate, we do use its depiction of feats for the manga in many cases.