One Punch Man

After three years of not reading One Punch Man, I finally decided to get back into it because folks were popping off on social media about how god-like its recent arc was. After hunkering down and getting caught up on the manga, I can definitively say that One Punch Man is, in fact, pretty damn good. No matter how silly a One Punch Man villain looks, they’re never merely cannon fodder for its heroes to conquer. If anything, the sillier the villain’s design, the better the odds that they’ll utterly decimate our heroes. My mind is still buzzing after the culmination of Saitama and Garou’s fight.

Aside from the manga massively tipping the scale in the internet’s favorite machismo debate (Saitama vs. Superman) heavily in the cue-ball’s favor, my favorite aspect of One Punch Man is how beautifully and kinetically movement is drawn in every highly detailed manga panel. No mangaka since Dragon Ball Z’s Akira Toriyama and Grappler Baki creator Keisuke Itagaki has demonstrated such a fine-tuned understanding of manga panel composition to complement the human body in motion like Yusuke Murata. Hell, he could damn well animate the entirety of season three if he wanted to, as he’s proven with his animated short.

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