BassForever
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One Punch Man 1-current
I still really don't care much for this and I really don't get the appeal. The Murata art is GORGEOUS and the series at times feels like he's just showing off just how good he is. At the same time while the various gif chapters are impressive in motion in terms of the story you could have cut those down to just they key shots and have the same impact on the story but with more room to do other things. I get the OPM is more or less a comedy with action elements but I never find the comedy very fun and the action lacks any tension because you know Saitama will always win with one punch. That fact further makes the action of all the support characters uninteresting because they're all basically infinite jobbers till Saitama shows up to one punch someone. I also find the series to be unusually wordy at times with lots of dry exposition at times which at first the series mocks with the 10 words or less scene but then continues to have later on especially when it deals with the political aspects of the hero ranking system.
At the end the only thing I get out of OPM is Murata's art which is without a doubt the best in the industry, but I dunno if his art alone makes OPM worth reading or if someone is better off just viewing the various pics and gifs that get taken from the series and posted everywhere. I'll keep reading OPM as its in US Jump though its probably my least favorite thing they actively serialize.
Side note some of the chapters were out of order where I read the series which was fine I was quickly able to figure that out and adjust, but what I couldn't figure out was if the various side chapters and omakes that sometimes happened in the middle of fights were deliberate or were also a case of chapters being out of order. Is Murata's version of OPM so close to One's that he needed filler? Were the chapters just really badly out of order? Or does Murata just like having random one off chapters at random spots?
I still really don't care much for this and I really don't get the appeal. The Murata art is GORGEOUS and the series at times feels like he's just showing off just how good he is. At the same time while the various gif chapters are impressive in motion in terms of the story you could have cut those down to just they key shots and have the same impact on the story but with more room to do other things. I get the OPM is more or less a comedy with action elements but I never find the comedy very fun and the action lacks any tension because you know Saitama will always win with one punch. That fact further makes the action of all the support characters uninteresting because they're all basically infinite jobbers till Saitama shows up to one punch someone. I also find the series to be unusually wordy at times with lots of dry exposition at times which at first the series mocks with the 10 words or less scene but then continues to have later on especially when it deals with the political aspects of the hero ranking system.
At the end the only thing I get out of OPM is Murata's art which is without a doubt the best in the industry, but I dunno if his art alone makes OPM worth reading or if someone is better off just viewing the various pics and gifs that get taken from the series and posted everywhere. I'll keep reading OPM as its in US Jump though its probably my least favorite thing they actively serialize.
Side note some of the chapters were out of order where I read the series which was fine I was quickly able to figure that out and adjust, but what I couldn't figure out was if the various side chapters and omakes that sometimes happened in the middle of fights were deliberate or were also a case of chapters being out of order. Is Murata's version of OPM so close to One's that he needed filler? Were the chapters just really badly out of order? Or does Murata just like having random one off chapters at random spots?
