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One Punch Man TV |OT| Just an average guy who serves as an average hero.
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I don't know if that helps your enjoyment or not, but his "blackness" is questionable.
Here's a minor spoiler about his background (it's neither a twist nor relevant to the story), note his skin color and hair.
So, it's literally some kind of alloy?
Well, if you google "bodybuilder" images, you'll see a lot of people with unnatural shiny, slightly darker skin, especially for competitions. There's such a thing called posing oil.
Mr. Smiley
Member
In an alternate universe where dark skin plus fat peach color lips in anime wasn't an offshoot of blackface or commonly mocked facial features of black people seen in many other series, I'd like to see Darkshine from your perspective. As is, nah I can't. And thinking about it,
BUT STILL, and this is my personal view, he isn't as bad as it could be and his character is pretty entertaining. Do I get a little irked and wish for alt design when he pops up? Yeah, but I can still enjoy his character.
Darkshine not actually being a black guy doesn't really help. It's kinda like saying Mr. Popo is A-Okay because he's a genie. And Darkshine doesn't have that personal benefit to me being exposed to at an early, unknowning age where nostalgia takes over personal judgement.
Aaronology
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Speaking of Metal Bat, Murata has drawn new art for him for Jump:
Mr. Smiley
Member
How would an OPM video game work? As in what would be the best genre for someone like Saitama to work in to justify a playable Metal Bat and Zombieman to devote 100% of my time?
Musou, singleplayer only. You can play Saitama and just smash everyone with one punch, or you can take the more fun route with basically every of the other characters. I imagine something like Pirate Warriors in particular.
Or of course the ace in the hat for such questions: Platinum Games, where you play Genos. It's a bit problematic since people probably want to play Saitama, but him one punching everything wouldn't make a fun game. That's why you should primarily play something else. Maybe even an original character via editor where you rise through the ranks of the hero association while getting stronger and meet known characters or something.
Saitama isn't a playable character. Instead you play as another hero who after lowering a boss's health to near zero get beaten up only for Saitama to show up and beat it in one punch. Each stage will feature a different hero, with a crazier villain after each stage. Or maybe you do get to play as Saitama , but only in the final level. While you still beat everything with one punch he still has a health bar. In the end of that chapter you fight a boss who doesn't die in one punch but it's all actually a dream.
Developed by Ninja Theory.
Poodlestrike
Banned
Musou, duh.
You play Genos for the entire game, then the final boss is an Unwinnable Bossfight, and right when you hit like .01% health Saitama shows up and casually oneshots the boss.
Grizzlyjin
Supersonic, idiotic, disconnecting, not respecting, who would really ever wanna go and top that
This is where I'm coming from on his character. I saw someone mention he is just a really tan bodybuilder and I had to JenniferLawrenceOkay.gif in my seat. Even if that's the author's explanation, it's a big pill to swallow. Especially with the lips. He looks like the other depictions of Black people I've seen in other shows. Design aside his actual character seems fine, nothing that made me shake my head like Puri Puri.
Someone made a pretty great but ultimately "never gonna happen" concept about this already, but I'm failing at remembering all the details.
Basically, you'd make your own hero (looks, powers, everything... as far as customization is viable) and start at the last rank. From then on, everything is in your hands to reach the top of S class. Take missions in the various cities, scout dangerous areas, manage your public perception/popularity, etc... all littered with scripted events such as catching the attention of newbie crushers, the Fubuki group, Sweet Mask, etc... randomly meeting named heroes from the story, and so on.
Poodlestrike
Banned
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You know, the last thing this thread needs is to go off on a Superman tangent but I'm gonna do it anyway.
So long as you get the flying controls down, there's no particular reason a Superman game with him at full power couldn't work. There's plenty of stuff in the DCU that's as strong or stronger, as tough or tougher, as fast or faster. Just put him up against those guys.
There is always the possiblity of an invasion by aliens who are strong enough to work as goons in the DC Universe.
The Omega Man
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Sadly this isn't the case with OPM
Poodlestrike
Banned
Pretty much.
How about Daxamites?
Yeah, true.
Though there's some hilarious potential in a Telltale style affair.
Subpar Spatula
Banned
Characters in the show refer to her as a child. Her design (head size, demeanor, face) when all together evoke images of a child. I don't believe she was designed as petite, if she was designed as petite she is really petite. Every thing the show displays doesn't remind me, or as others has said, a petite woman but more of a child. You can't call it wrong when the norm is to make these kind of figures, One-Punch Man doesn't exist in a vacuum.
Play as Genos and whenever you die to a boss, Saitama comes in and oneshots it.
E. dammit should refresh before posting
Subpar Spatula
Banned
Like Prince of Persia where whenever you die your female sidekick would revive you?
Make a clicker game like Clicker Heroes, but without Saitama as a playable character.
Have an increasingly large army of heroes fighting random-ass monsters with an increasing number of clicks, with the strongest ones taking a ton of work to even weaken.
Then for almost every monster, Saitama randomly shows up, oneshots it, and steals your thunder.
Get Cyberconnect2 on it.
Enemy: your bald head looks ridiculous lol
Options:
>punch him
>punch him
>punch him
Which people?
Gintama taught me to always keep my mind open and not disregard when people think about such jokes. I am perfectly fine with "it just it", but also interested in thoughts beyound that.
Poodlestrike
Banned
Yup.
Though I was thinking more a setup where one of the options in every encounter with literally anybody would be "hit them."
And it would do basically exactly what you'd expect.
But there's also a lot more than JUST the gags. People before have brought up Saitama's obvious depression and his appreciation for a true hero. And then other characters, especially Licenseless Rider, show actual personality and realistic desires beyond the one-note gag.
It's a gag series at heart, but gags don't negate the possibility of depth.
OniBarubary
Banned
You'd think with the existence of Gintama people would know this by now
Man do I love me some Gintama!
I really need to catch up on that series, but I've still got over 200 episodes to go. D:
Because people look at the superlative animation/fight scenes and think this can't be a gag series.
Also many people still want this to be a standard Shounen anime with a different flavor. People like epic battles and power levels.
Speaking of Metal Bat, Murata has drawn new art for him for Jump:
amazing
what a world we live in
>Who're you calling bald, you baldy!!!
i mean the webcomic has another plausible explanation to why he's so strong...
I think it's pretty dumb to rule out speculation altogether
like come on dude
Admiral Woofington
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Though if it's a telltale game no matter what you do he ends up punching them anyways.
I mean I like telltale games but let's not pretend that there's a lot of choice in those titles besides slight differences that end up in a change in scenery for a bit and then everyone ends up in the same place
An outfit fit for a true fan.
I wouldn't dare wear that
Urrrr
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Yeah, yeah totally.
From whatever I hear from Nowi, she's a straight up lie.
"I'm actually a thousand year old Dragon but in no fiber of my being is this visible."
As compared to like, Rachel Alucard from BlazBlue or Evangeline from Negima who are exactly that, old being looking small. That's the whole fun of the trope, for Christ's sake. At least for me.
Back to OPM, I kinda disliked Tatsumaki's voice. Too much young brat, I'd have gone with something a bit more mature and annoyed. Ah well.
User 73706
Banned
the "oh so unless character has big american tts shes a loli well just goes to show you how culture shapes unrealistic standards" argument is hilarious
Subpar Spatula
Banned
People are just getting more and more annoyed by these designs. It's a conversation that does need to happen even by non-Japanese watchers.
foxuzamaki
Doesn't read OPs, especially not his own
I really do enjoy the Japanese street Thug designSpeaking of Metal Bat, Murata has drawn new art for him for Jump:
foxuzamaki
Doesn't read OPs, especially not his own
I'm actually quite worried for this king character, it seems like he is gonna drop dead any second
Not when he has the fearsome King engine.
I wonder, how big is the influence of non-Japanese watchers, now with services like Crunchyroll or Daisuki? Is there any discernible effect/change?
On an unrelated note, having caught up to the ONE webcomic (massive ONE webcomic spoilers):
We can assume that all of Saitama's moves against Garou were not full power (he was going easy on him), right? It seemed pretty clear but since it was never made explicit..
MetroidPrimeRib
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Yeah, you can tell if he's using his serious series attacks. His only serious attack was when he flipped the ground in the air to confuse him.
There is like, 0 influence.
Also, related to your spoilers
He wasn't going anywhere near full power
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