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***X-SOLDIER*** · 04/22/2015

I love literally EVERYTHING about this manga. It started off as a little webcomic (that you can read here: http://galaxyheavyblow.web.fc2.com/ ) that went HUGELY viral on Twitter, and so Yusuke Murata -- who's a really talented manga artist -- reached out to do the art for a collaboration, and the result is just purely fantastic.

I binge read this a while back when it was first coming around and then recently remembered it and dove back into it. I'm through 5 of the 6 volumes that I have of it so far, and then I'll see if there's more, and if not, since it's ongoing, I'll be working in keeping current with it. Just… oh man, I think a bunch of you would enjoy this.

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Obsidian Fire · 04/22/2015

I remember reading part way though it. It's an interesting deconstruction of the superhero genre. I'll have to get back into it...

***X-SOLDIER*** · 04/24/2015

It's gotten really good, and it manages to still be really interesting and expanded its cast a little that helps the structure keep up its pace while also expanding the amount of action that is showcased. I'm past the point for the US-released volumes, and reading through the existing content on the internets. It's my goal to get caught up this weekend.

Also this was announced a month ago:

YouTube Video

Translation from ANN:

Text: Have you lost a precious thing in exhange for power?

Text: Over 5 million copies in print.
Text: Web comic personality: ONE
Text: The strongest Jump successor: Yuusuke Murata
Text: The manga by the strongest tag-team
Text: Is at last being adapted into anime.

Text: Director: Shingo Natsume (Space Dandy, Fullmetal Alchemist: The Sacred Star of Milos)
Text: Series Composition: Tomohiro Suzuki (Tiger & Bunny, Saint Seiya: Legend of Sanctuary)
Text: Character design: Chikashi Kubota (From the New World, Robotics;Notes)
Text: Animation production: MADHOUSE (Summer Wars, Hunter x Hunter)
Text: Makoto Furukawa (Gaist Crusher, Golden Time) as Saitama
Text: Kaito Ishikawa (Gargantia on the Verdurous Planet, Haikyu!!) as Genos

Text: A man who became too strong.
Text: A calm-type...
Text: Superpowered hero...
Text: It only takes ONE hit!
Text: ONE punch!

Saitama: "I took up being a hero for a hobby."

Text: An everyday knockout action premieres!

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***X-SOLDIER*** · 04/24/2015

So, I'm all caught up on the WSJ collaboration of One-Punch Man, and I'm considering reading through One's original comic from where that leaves off, but haven't quite decided if I'm gonna be patient, since they do minor retooling in the Individual WSJ releases and in the Volume & Digital releases, I can't decide if I'm throwing in for full story content, or if I'm gonna stall for the Story + Ultra HQ Art version.

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***X-SOLDIER*** · 04/25/2015

Yup. Went and read the original comic. VERY worth it. Made it to Chapter 99… all caught up to current. The interesting thing is that despite knowing the story, I'm looking forward to seeing it again with all of Yusuke Murata's art (kind of the same feeling if watching an anime after reading a manga). So if anyone else does get in on this, I'd recommend jumping to the original webcomic when you run out of the collaboration manga.

(SPOILER)

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***X-SOLDIER*** · 09/07/2015

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OCTOBER HERE WE COME!!!!!

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***X-SOLDIER*** · 10/28/2015

I found these .gifs of the manga panels strung together, and dear god I can't overstate how beautiful they are:

The anime has really been doing this series justice with the crazy amount of work that Madhouse is putting into it, too. It's everything that I ever could've hoped for. I am really curious what'll happen with it as a series of sorts, since they're fucking TEARING through the material so far at a breakneck pace.

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***X-SOLDIER*** · 11/02/2015

Here's a nice article about why - even with the anime being a thing - the manga is still relevant and well worth reading: http://kotaku.com/one-punch-man-show...ter-1739993533

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***X-SOLDIER*** · 11/26/2015

One of the episodes I'm most looking forward to is gonna be this week. (I've been watching them here: http://www.daisuki.net/anime/detail/ONEPUNCHMAN )

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***X-SOLDIER*** · 12/21/2015

The first season if the anime ended, and it is just perfect. Yusuke Murata promised to work extra hard to get enough material done to hopefully get them a second season. I'd guess by the end of 2016 we manage to have enough content to see if Madhouse will do a proper season 2. There're still 5 more OVAs to keep us going until then.

As for the Collaboration/Redraw manga: we're smack into Metal Bat's fight against the HUGE centipede and have moved into his confrontation with Garou. Meanwhile the ONE manga is up to all sorts of great shenanigans with Saitama and Tatsumaki.

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***X-SOLDIER*** · 08/11/2016

The dub of the series is pretty well done. I'm not a fan of Genos' VA, but everybody else seems really well done so far. Additionally, I'm still loving the manga & webcomic whenever they release.

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***X-SOLDIER*** · 09/08/2016

Interview with two of the people in charge of the anime adaptation. Really spectacular: http://yattatachi.com/one-punch-man-interview

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***X-SOLDIER*** · 09/26/2017

Madhouse and the original director aren't gonna be there ones doing Season 2, and I am suddenly filled with MASSIVE amounts of doubt: https://kotaku.com/madhouse-isnt-doi...n-2-1818775287

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Shademp · 09/26/2017

Tennyo · 09/27/2017

Why is this?

04/22/2015	#1
*X-SOLDIER* *Administrator* Great Old One Harbinger O Great Justice Join Date: Nov 2008 Age: 35 Location: SLC, UT - USA	One-Punch Man [WSJ] I love literally EVERYTHING about this manga. It started off as a little webcomic (that you can read here: http://galaxyheavyblow.web.fc2.com/ ) that went HUGELY viral on Twitter, and so Yusuke Murata -- who's a really talented manga artist -- reached out to do the art for a collaboration, and the result is just purely fantastic. I binge read this a while back when it was first coming around and then recently remembered it and dove back into it. I'm through 5 of the 6 volumes that I have of it so far, and then I'll see if there's more, and if not, since it's ongoing, I'll be working in keeping current with it. Just… oh man, I think a bunch of you would enjoy this. X __________________ Cyclops. Is. Right. …Xenomorphaux Pas… Shademp – on the subject of my seemingly boundless optimism wrote: After Ungoliant had sucked the light from the trees Telperion and Laurelin, she found that there was a third tree but whose light was too potent and immortal for her to absorb. Thusly, Ungoliant left Valinor in tears for she could not absorb the light of the tree named X-SOLDIER. #TotzCanon ~ \| G+ \| Facebook \| Tumblr \| Twitter \| DA \| TLS \| FFOF \| FF \| SCL \| KC \| CC \| ~

04/22/2015	#2
Obsidian Fire Elite Member Ahk Morn! Join Date: Oct 2010 Location: Fractal Continuum, Azys Lla AKA: The Engineer	I remember reading part way though it. It's an interesting deconstruction of the superhero genre. I'll have to get back into it... __________________ [SIGPIC][/SIGPIC]

04/24/2015	#4
*X-SOLDIER* *Administrator* Great Old One Harbinger O Great Justice Join Date: Nov 2008 Age: 35 Location: SLC, UT - USA	So, I'm all caught up on the WSJ collaboration of One-Punch Man, and I'm considering reading through One's original comic from where that leaves off, but haven't quite decided if I'm gonna be patient, since they do minor retooling in the Individual WSJ releases and in the Volume & Digital releases, I can't decide if I'm throwing in for full story content, or if I'm gonna stall for the Story + Ultra HQ Art version. X __________________ Cyclops. Is. Right. …Xenomorphaux Pas… Shademp – on the subject of my seemingly boundless optimism wrote: After Ungoliant had sucked the light from the trees Telperion and Laurelin, she found that there was a third tree but whose light was too potent and immortal for her to absorb. Thusly, Ungoliant left Valinor in tears for she could not absorb the light of the tree named X-SOLDIER. #TotzCanon ~ \| G+ \| Facebook \| Tumblr \| Twitter \| DA \| TLS \| FFOF \| FF \| SCL \| KC \| CC \| ~

04/25/2015	#5
*X-SOLDIER* *Administrator* Great Old One Harbinger O Great Justice Join Date: Nov 2008 Age: 35 Location: SLC, UT - USA	Yup. Went and read the original comic. VERY worth it. Made it to Chapter 99… all caught up to current. The interesting thing is that despite knowing the story, I'm looking forward to seeing it again with all of Yusuke Murata's art (kind of the same feeling if watching an anime after reading a manga). So if anyone else does get in on this, I'd recommend jumping to the original webcomic when you run out of the collaboration manga. (SPOILER) X __________________ Cyclops. Is. Right. …Xenomorphaux Pas… Shademp – on the subject of my seemingly boundless optimism wrote: After Ungoliant had sucked the light from the trees Telperion and Laurelin, she found that there was a third tree but whose light was too potent and immortal for her to absorb. Thusly, Ungoliant left Valinor in tears for she could not absorb the light of the tree named X-SOLDIER. #TotzCanon ~ \| G+ \| Facebook \| Tumblr \| Twitter \| DA \| TLS \| FFOF \| FF \| SCL \| KC \| CC \| ~

10/28/2015	#7
*X-SOLDIER* *Administrator* Great Old One Harbinger O Great Justice Join Date: Nov 2008 Age: 35 Location: SLC, UT - USA	I found these .gifs of the manga panels strung together, and dear god I can't overstate how beautiful they are: The anime has really been doing this series justice with the crazy amount of work that Madhouse is putting into it, too. It's everything that I ever could've hoped for. I am really curious what'll happen with it as a series of sorts, since they're fucking TEARING through the material so far at a breakneck pace. X __________________ Cyclops. Is. Right. …Xenomorphaux Pas… Shademp – on the subject of my seemingly boundless optimism wrote: After Ungoliant had sucked the light from the trees Telperion and Laurelin, she found that there was a third tree but whose light was too potent and immortal for her to absorb. Thusly, Ungoliant left Valinor in tears for she could not absorb the light of the tree named X-SOLDIER. #TotzCanon ~ \| G+ \| Facebook \| Tumblr \| Twitter \| DA \| TLS \| FFOF \| FF \| SCL \| KC \| CC \| ~

11/02/2015	#8
*X-SOLDIER* *Administrator* Great Old One Harbinger O Great Justice Join Date: Nov 2008 Age: 35 Location: SLC, UT - USA	Here's a nice article about why - even with the anime being a thing - the manga is still relevant and well worth reading: http://kotaku.com/one-punch-man-show...ter-1739993533 X __________________ Cyclops. Is. Right. …Xenomorphaux Pas… Shademp – on the subject of my seemingly boundless optimism wrote: After Ungoliant had sucked the light from the trees Telperion and Laurelin, she found that there was a third tree but whose light was too potent and immortal for her to absorb. Thusly, Ungoliant left Valinor in tears for she could not absorb the light of the tree named X-SOLDIER. #TotzCanon ~ \| G+ \| Facebook \| Tumblr \| Twitter \| DA \| TLS \| FFOF \| FF \| SCL \| KC \| CC \| ~

11/26/2015	#9
*X-SOLDIER* *Administrator* Great Old One Harbinger O Great Justice Join Date: Nov 2008 Age: 35 Location: SLC, UT - USA	One of the episodes I'm most looking forward to is gonna be this week. (I've been watching them here: http://www.daisuki.net/anime/detail/ONEPUNCHMAN ) X __________________ Cyclops. Is. Right. …Xenomorphaux Pas… Shademp – on the subject of my seemingly boundless optimism wrote: After Ungoliant had sucked the light from the trees Telperion and Laurelin, she found that there was a third tree but whose light was too potent and immortal for her to absorb. Thusly, Ungoliant left Valinor in tears for she could not absorb the light of the tree named X-SOLDIER. #TotzCanon ~ \| G+ \| Facebook \| Tumblr \| Twitter \| DA \| TLS \| FFOF \| FF \| SCL \| KC \| CC \| ~

12/21/2015	#10
*X-SOLDIER* *Administrator* Great Old One Harbinger O Great Justice Join Date: Nov 2008 Age: 35 Location: SLC, UT - USA	The first season if the anime ended, and it is just perfect. Yusuke Murata promised to work extra hard to get enough material done to hopefully get them a second season. I'd guess by the end of 2016 we manage to have enough content to see if Madhouse will do a proper season 2. There're still 5 more OVAs to keep us going until then. As for the Collaboration/Redraw manga: we're smack into Metal Bat's fight against the HUGE centipede and have moved into his confrontation with Garou. Meanwhile the ONE manga is up to all sorts of great shenanigans with Saitama and Tatsumaki. X __________________ Cyclops. Is. Right. …Xenomorphaux Pas… Shademp – on the subject of my seemingly boundless optimism wrote: After Ungoliant had sucked the light from the trees Telperion and Laurelin, she found that there was a third tree but whose light was too potent and immortal for her to absorb. Thusly, Ungoliant left Valinor in tears for she could not absorb the light of the tree named X-SOLDIER. #TotzCanon ~ \| G+ \| Facebook \| Tumblr \| Twitter \| DA \| TLS \| FFOF \| FF \| SCL \| KC \| CC \| ~

08/11/2016	#11
*X-SOLDIER* *Administrator* Great Old One Harbinger O Great Justice Join Date: Nov 2008 Age: 35 Location: SLC, UT - USA	The dub of the series is pretty well done. I'm not a fan of Genos' VA, but everybody else seems really well done so far. Additionally, I'm still loving the manga & webcomic whenever they release. X __________________ Cyclops. Is. Right. …Xenomorphaux Pas… Shademp – on the subject of my seemingly boundless optimism wrote: After Ungoliant had sucked the light from the trees Telperion and Laurelin, she found that there was a third tree but whose light was too potent and immortal for her to absorb. Thusly, Ungoliant left Valinor in tears for she could not absorb the light of the tree named X-SOLDIER. #TotzCanon ~ \| G+ \| Facebook \| Tumblr \| Twitter \| DA \| TLS \| FFOF \| FF \| SCL \| KC \| CC \| ~

09/08/2016	#12
*X-SOLDIER* *Administrator* Great Old One Harbinger O Great Justice Join Date: Nov 2008 Age: 35 Location: SLC, UT - USA	Interview with two of the people in charge of the anime adaptation. Really spectacular: http://yattatachi.com/one-punch-man-interview X __________________ Cyclops. Is. Right. …Xenomorphaux Pas… Shademp – on the subject of my seemingly boundless optimism wrote: After Ungoliant had sucked the light from the trees Telperion and Laurelin, she found that there was a third tree but whose light was too potent and immortal for her to absorb. Thusly, Ungoliant left Valinor in tears for she could not absorb the light of the tree named X-SOLDIER. #TotzCanon ~ \| G+ \| Facebook \| Tumblr \| Twitter \| DA \| TLS \| FFOF \| FF \| SCL \| KC \| CC \| ~

09/26/2017	#13
*X-SOLDIER* *Administrator* Great Old One Harbinger O Great Justice Join Date: Nov 2008 Age: 35 Location: SLC, UT - USA	Madhouse and the original director aren't gonna be there ones doing Season 2, and I am suddenly filled with MASSIVE amounts of doubt: https://kotaku.com/madhouse-isnt-doi...n-2-1818775287 X __________________ Cyclops. Is. Right. …Xenomorphaux Pas… Shademp – on the subject of my seemingly boundless optimism wrote: After Ungoliant had sucked the light from the trees Telperion and Laurelin, she found that there was a third tree but whose light was too potent and immortal for her to absorb. Thusly, Ungoliant left Valinor in tears for she could not absorb the light of the tree named X-SOLDIER. #TotzCanon ~ \| G+ \| Facebook \| Tumblr \| Twitter \| DA \| TLS \| FFOF \| FF \| SCL \| KC \| CC \| ~

09/26/2017	#14
Shademp Great Old One 69 Join Date: Dec 2008 Age: 33 Sex: Male Location: Sweden	__________________ My YouTube Channel! FINAL FANTASY VII UNCOVERED Clement Rage wrote: All hail Shademp, God of Dirge.

09/27/2017	#15
Tennyo Great Old One Donator Join Date: Dec 2008 AKA: Tennyo, Derringer Meryl, Morgause, Claire Farron, Elena Fisher, Rose Tyler, Kimmy Schmidt	Why is this? __________________ ~~ ~~