Monday, 28 March 2016

Review 52: One Punch Man (Cute, bold, potato man)


Another one that was suggested by my boyfriend, and many other people that I speak to on a chat site called Chatango. Just one thing... Is that training for real?

One punch man is an action, comedy, weird, cyborg, human testing, hero fighting naked thing of an anime...Seriously, some of the guys in this just either like being naked or just lose their clothes half way through a fight. It's very strange and something I had never expected because of the title, I thought it was going to be a super serious hero who fights for justice and the innocent!.. But no, he's a short bold man who fights as if he's a hero for the fun of it. Rather quite strange actually, as soon as he started fighting as One punch man... he lost all of his hair.

We meet this weird, small bald man who only fights and protects people because he enjoys it. In the series, three years before we meet him, he did basic fitness training?.. I know! How can a summer of basic fitness training magically give you the power to destroy anything with just one simple punch? He lives in a small trampy and old looking apartment and he lives all by himself, just a bold looking potato man really. In this world, the Hero association is what protects humanity. People who think that they are hero material register with them and then are placed into a category and a Rank, an example would be Rank C 283 or something along the lines of that, and the highest is the rank S. A lot of people are involved with the Hero association and many of them are just idiots who think that they can fight. But the whole reason for the Hero association is that the world is attacked by monsters constantly. So, the heroes are called in to keep everyone safe! The threats come in levels too so some heroes don't have to waste their time and some go because they are supposed to go.

His real name is Saitama, and he's got to be one of my few favourite but slightly odd looking, who has a strange personality kind of characters... if that even made any sense. When he started his basic fitness training, he had started to notice that his hair was falling out and ended up becoming completely bold by the end of it. So the training he does is that ridiculously basic that no one can take him seriously about it. he does 100 Push-ups, 100 Squats, 100 sit-ups and runs 10K every single day... Which is ridiculous, just the idea of it all is ridiculous really, how the hell can this sort of training allow one little man to destroy anything and everything with just one punch.
He's a really funny character, he wants to watch TV and do nothing all day, but then he wants to find something so strong that just One punch won't kill it. So he's always searching for something interesting to kill but he wants to go shopping and watch TV and then water the flowers on his balcony every now and then.

Quite early on in the story, he meets a Cyborg teenager who wants to become a hero and bring "justice" to the cyborg animal thing that destroyed his village.  Believe it or not, when these two become heroes together, the cyborg kid actually ends up being a higher rank than One Punch Man! Oh, and this creepy cyborg kid follows One Punch Man around everywhere as he is now his master and trainer... It's slightly odd, but you get used to seeing them together after a while.There isn't really much to say to be honest with you guys, he punches things and they die?.. That's about it really. All he wants to do is get fans, become the strongest, go up in the rankings (when he finally understands them) and find an enemy who will take more than one punch before dying. Not much to ask for really!

It's been a while since I found an art style that enjoyed, the transitions inbetweenn the smooth clueless potatoe man and the series fighter who needs to prove himself are flawless and enjoyable to watch. It's weird seeing such an innocent man destroy everything that challenges him. It's extremely funny to watch and I quite enjoyed the whole series, It's a shame that I don't have enough time to watch anymore because I would love to just sit down and watch it again really.
It's very a very enjoyable series, but the only problem that I have with the series as a whole is... How the hell can a monster come and destroy practically half of Japan and then in the next episode it's all just randomly re-spawned?

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