Category: One Punch Man

One Punch Man is a Japanese parody webcomic created in 2009 by an anonymous author using the nickname One. Authors mixed up action, comedy, and thriller in a hilarious way, so it’s never boring and monotonous. After the comic to gain popularity, a manga artist Yusuke Murata created a manga adaptation and later on the anime was released. The events take place on the unknown planet similar to the Earth, in the City of Z, where it’s typical for various monsters to appear and destroy the city. Due to these constant devastations, the city has its own Hero Association working on a daily basis. This manga has a peculiar attitude to the craft of superheroes. If superheroes are always described seriously and pompously, in these series, they are depicted in a hilarious, satirical and frivolous manner without any clichés.
Saitama, an ordinary man, becomes a superhero who can use all possible supernatural powers. Having all this miraculous strength, he soon gets bored – he has already fought the strongest villains, and the upcoming ones are weak and pathetic. His peculiar feature is that he can defeat any rival with just a single punch. Almost all his battles finish within a couple of minutes needed to exchange insults and give a punch. No one can hurt or injure him. That’s why he suffers from an emotional crisis – not having any pleasure of fighting the villains; he’s tirelessly searching a decent opponent to challenge.
His powers are acquired not in the chemical laboratories. To become the strongest man alive, he trained regularly day and night without breaks, maintained a healthy diet and eating regime. After a year and a half of daily push-ups and 10 km running, he managed to achieve such an unbelievable strength. Well, at least he claims that this is the only reason – no person or monster alive believe him. The true origin of his powers stays unknown and mysterious. Among his super abilities, there is an immeasurable strength, enhanced leap, limitless speed, fast reflexes, ability to leave afterimages, supernatural dexterity, agility, miraculous stamina, and invulnerability.
When Saitama was at the dawn of his career, he had black hair but after severe intensive training, he prematurely lost all of his hair. This is a reason why he is given a name of Caped Baldy when he enrolls into the Hero Association. This is a law enforcement organization of superheroes fighting against monsters. Saitama is usually depicted in a simplified way with an elliptical egg-head and dots instead of his eyes. His body is also far from being muscular and massive in contrast to ordinary American and Japanese superheroes. Saitama can’t boast of his costume too – he wears yellow overalls with red boots and gloves plus a white hood. It resembles dustman overalls a bit.
Series dwells upon Saitama’s everyday life and fights with monsters. One day he is joined by a half-cyborg warrior called Genos who is astonished by his skills and abilities. Genos becomes his disciple in hope that one day the master will reveal him the secret of his strength. Saitama also fights an organization called the House of Evolution. Dr. Genus, an evil genius, has founded this organization to conduct experiments on humans and animals in order to create an impeccable human DNA. There are almost no employees expect Dr. Genus and hundreds of his clones. After he watches Saitama in a fight, he understands that his genes will be perfect to create a race of superhumans. Watch the anime to see how Saitama destroys his dream in just one punch!