How "One Punch Man" Turned a Simple Idea Into a Great Anime.
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- Опубликовано: 19 окт 2024
- One Punch Man is a great anime. They turned a simple idea into something unique and fun. I know this show was adapted from the Manga, but I really think the writers did a great job bringing the show to life. Hope you enjoyed.
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There are 4 things that made people invest in OPM
1 The conflict of Saitama isnt against a stronger opponent but to him self, being over power is his struggle, like the Midas Effect
2, The Characters are all likable and had a very significant role in the flow of the Story
3 the Shock of each opponents when they found out Saitama is Over powered, Boros, Garou, even Tatsumaki’s reaction when they found out how strong he is
4, The way they construct the story, there are full of coincidences and a case of being in the right place in the right time. There will always be a situation that will hide saitamas true strenght
Let's not forget Saitama's hilarious character design, the jokes and the bgms
Saitama is basically the Columbo of superheroes.
One Punch Man is not about the hero beating the villain but about villains living in a world with an unbeatable hero. Just as Columbo is not about an inspector catching a murderer but a murderer trying to not get caught by a detective.
A better way of putting it is that Saitama is basically like a big fish in a small pond.
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For me, I never had a doubt in my mind that Saitama would ever lose a fight. For me it's when he shows up to a battle that I get that excited feeling because I know he's about to shock everybody that's there with his crazy strength!
And best thing is is how he purposely underplays his powers to everybody after every battle, a humbleness I think many viewers wish they had~
I definitely agree! I always wanted the other heroes to see his true strength also, but I also thought that maybe he’d face someone who stood a chance against him one day
@@thefictionaddiction i think that one person none other than god>
@@Takatou__Yogiri In the recent manga chapters, Saitama got his power copied by Cosmic Garou so he had to exponentially grow beyond his full power in fractions of nanoseconds to beat Cosmic Garou eventually he outgrew Garou.
So technically he already got stalemated but grew WAY beyond that in fractions of nanoseconds.
Honestly it was Saitama's personality and the fact that he's down on his luck with practically nothing going his way (except for when he fights) despite the fact that he's the strongest, it was entertaining and endearing.
peak Action, peak Comedy, peak pure story telling, peak Art . What else do you want ! 👌
Peak pure story telling?
@@thekirb9942 meaning its not trying to shove *"ideas"* down your throat.
@@Dr_Holiday ok
@@Dr_Holiday looking at you jjk...
To be fair with the "smartest man alive" example, Mr. Fantastic is consistently known as the smartest-dumbest man alive. In layman's terms he sacrificed all his practical street smarts for book smarts.
Haha that makes sense
I feel like the fact that they have Siatama there, but in the background it feels like there is a full anime running with a full plot and devolved characters, makes this show work. The side characters make this show great.
I would like to add that although Saitama is so strong we are invested in him trying to feel challenged to the point that it is kinda sad. The immediate aftermath of his fight with Boros where he tells Saitama that he know he was holding back was very interesting and sad at the same time.
Also his relationship with other characters and his selfless attitude like trying to make it seem he killed Deep sea King because the other heroes had softened him up is very endearing to the veiwer.
One punch man is amazing
Edit: Awesome channel, you earned your self a like and subscription
How come you only have few subscribers? Having this good videos you should deserve more.
Thank you! We only started our channel a few months ago so hopefully more will come overtime
@@thefictionaddiction(:
Season 1 of OPM is one of the best paced anime I have ever seen.
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Quality of vid made me automatically assume you were a popular channel in the community. Nice work
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I mentioned the same thing about this franchise.
It's not about Saitama, it's about everyone else who lives in his world.
Dude your content is S-tier. I hope you get the success you deserve soon
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@@thefictionaddiction ur content is S class Rank 1 😂🤣
Underrated channel. I think you’re on the right track to becoming a popular channel in the future
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I realy like your videos! For me its rather the fact that he is unbeatable that makes it interesting
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One Punchman is meant to be a comedy of a hero who can defeat every foe with a single punch and as such, he bored out of his mind, however, the idea just grew from there as a manga series, while MHA is pretty much X-men, a lot of Japan stories in anime and manga were inspired by western media, but sadly western comics are now a shell of their former selves, while the movies & TV shows are loosing trackson because of bad writing and people who are more intersted in pushing a political agenda, over simply telling good stories, thus people are tuning out, even the once mighty Star Wars has been waylaid by this same problem, but far worse, they can't even get a movie off the ground because they fear it be rejected by the "Old fans" and not court the "New fans" they want, which is just a phantom, thus, they begun to fall from grace and Manga has pretty much replaced the North Armeican comic book market and anime is rising fast as the western stuff, simply fall apart at the scenes!!
The correct expression is "fall apart at the _seams."_ But to discuss lousy writing (as you did here), your "at the _scenes"_ version is actually an improvement! *>chef's kiss
Did that horse just kill a man?
I almost passed on this great show, coz I thought to myself, "he finishes his enemies with one punch, what's so interesting about that?", the same goes for Death Note as well, when someone writes your name in this notebook, you die, so I thought how can that be interesting to watch. The power of good writing turns these basic ideas into great animes.
Each character has goals and their actions actually work towards that... We like seeing people who strive for what they want... It inspires us... We are invested in the characters... When they fail at something we feel it... When they are defeated and saitama saves them... We feel Joy that they are saved but also feel sad that Saitama still doesn't feel the rush of having a "good" fight... There are contradictory emotions and complexity
Dude, your videos' quality are insane, i'm blown away say whaaaa?
Thank you!
Guy can win any fight in one punch, looks for an interesting fight; Hilarity Ensues
I disagree with all of this.
The only reason I think him being OP fits is the same as Saiki-K powers aren’t the focal point. Ya he is really strong but him facing physical challenges isn’t the problem. The challenges he faces is in the mundane things.
It works because powers isn’t the focal point, the focal point is his everyday life along with the side plot. Saitama isn’t even really the main focus of the plot in my opinion he is just a really strong character to fix problems that happen. The main focus is the small shit that goes beyond the fighting.
I just watched your Hunter x Hunter video and this one was recommended to me and you're shitting on MoM again. Funny
most anime follow the consistency which i love in anime even romance let you except to be satisfying i feel shows like simpsons dont follow any character progression like they try to make it happen but end up being return to there is nothing happen in anime on the other hand it will end to be really cute and cheerful look non other than dress up darling or shows like kobato
Bruh i put on your video while writing my pointless notes and then i finished it and looked at your video and saw 8 likes i thought this was a fairly bih channel honestly wow
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I don't really think it's about doubt. I've never thought that Saitama might not win. Frankly, the win is the least interesting part of any fight, so it ultimately doesn't matter much how sure we are of the outcome. It's the circumstances that make the fight interesting. The question is whether Saitama will arrive in time to avoid casualties. Whether he'll be able to solve the problem in a way that avoids further damage. It's whether his friends will be fine. It's even whether he'll finally get the recognition he deserves.
"Problems" in storytelling are not contingent on a character's physical prowess. That physical prowess is just one tool they have at their disposal. But if you don't know where the enemy is, punching hard isn't going to do you much good. The writer (singular) of OPM knows this, and knows how to create interesting problems for their characters without having to constantly give them new toys while taking away old ones.
The problems that Saitama faces are never about a contest of raw strength. They're always about how he can make that raw strength useful. It's absolutely certain that he'll win any physical contest, so his problems are just solved one step earlier than they would be for a typical character having to fight an enemy.
Usually, Saitama doesn't win and save the day by punching the enemy, he wins and saves the day by arriving on the scene. What comes after is just the clean-up. The problem already has a solution, we're just following that solution through.
We know the problem is a nail and that we have a hammer. We just need to line the hammer up and strike. But where is the hammer? How will we find it? Is it hidden somewhere? But how do we find out where that is? That's the sort of thing that helps create the circumstances in which the problem isn't trivial. And if the problem isn't trivial, it means there can be stakes.
I actually think the best examples of how this works are when it's subverted. Because the problems Saitama faces aren't always nails. He can't punch people to make them thankful that Genos and Mumen Rider fought. He can't punch his boredom to make himself happy. He can't punch a store manager to still get his discount the day after a sale ends. He _can_ punch a meteor, but it's only going to decrease the damage it does, not mitigate it.
If you haven't watched the writer's other work that was adapted to anime, Mob Psycho 100, you should. Many people say OPM and MP100 are similar stories, but they're quite wrong. They just both happen to have overpowered protagonists. Although, unlike Saitama, Mob is someone whose ability to win we're allowed to doubt. We're shown the limits of what he can handle, both physically and mentally. He's not unbeatable. That makes the contrast between the two of them quite stark.
Mob Psycho 100 is also different in other ways. Whereas Saitama doesn't really change, Mob changes a lot. And where Saitama's strength is already a fully-formed solution to the parts of his problems most other characters struggle with, Mob has a mindset and philosophy that makes this unviable. And so he's constantly forced to reflect on what he believes in, because it directly affects his ability to solve the problem in front of him. It also gives him a way to win, yet still lose; he can win the physical contest but lose the mental one. His mental state greatly affects what he is and isn't able to do, so these situations always carry a certain weight.
Mob's character also shows what Saitama's character is missing. That's not to say Saitama is a bad character, but his specific brand of overpoweredness limits him in other ways. The writer is good at avoiding the pitfalls inherent to a character like Saitama, but when writing Mob, he can explore an entirely different set of problems that would be incredibly poorly suited to Saitama. There's just no way to have it work without compromising the writing.
Between MP100 and OPM I hesitate to say that one is better than the other, but I do think that MP100 is more well-rounded. OPM's concept is ultimately holding it back in certain ways, and ideas that it's not well suited to exploring get a lot more attention in MP100. I think that makes MP100 more enjoyable overall, but that's of course still going to depend on the person.
As an aside, the source material of OPM is a webcomic, not a manga. But it _is_ true the anime adapts the manga, since it uses the manga's art style. The manga is in turn just an adaptation of the webcomic with more attention to visual fidelity.
I encourage you to take a look at the webcomic, since it shows that you don't even need the ability to draw well so long as you have a worthwhile story to tell. The Mob Psycho manga _does_ actually use the writer's own art, and you can see just how much their skill has improved since they began. The MP100 anime also sticks to the writer's own style more closely unlike OPM, which I personally think lends it a certain charm.
Here's an example with the old spider man movies they have him throw a pumpkin bomb that turns everybody into a skeleton yet he never uses it again as well as he also has sleeping gas somebody only uses it on spider man once in real life if he really had that in the final battle he would just knock spider man out again and kill his a**
Shonen anime is about usually about building up your physical strength so you can take on an adversary, one punch man asks what does it worth for you to build up your physical strength while ignoring your mental health what happens then??
nice essay on OPM subbed
Thank you!
can you make a video about "the boys"?
OPM fans wont get satisfied until Saitama defeat god.
Writers? I think you mean writer
What you fail to notice is every superhero movie does the same thing whenever there's a very powerful thing an hero or a villain can do they only do it once or twice because it's just too powerful and also it starts to make the story boring if you keep doing the same thing over and over again that's why in movies they might do it once or twice for a big dramatic effect and that's all
The idea that Saitama is ever in danger is ridiculous, the point of the show is that Saitama is so unbelievably strong that he his unable find a challenge. Saitama is shown defeating every villian in a single punch and the first time this doesnt happen its revealed Saitama was holding back.
Wait till God shows up
Only 251 subs? I'm 252 then..
The hook of the show almost never comes from can Saitama beat XYZ it is more dependent on the motivations of the other side charachters. Emotionally, Saitama's hook is that he is a 'hero for FUN'.
Indian movies suck because the main character is strong from the beginning but they don't even show how he got that strong or his backstory and the main character just smashes the henchmen of the villain into glass and just a little comedy and done.
"I know this show was adapted from the Manga, but I really think the writers did a great job bringing the show to life."
I agree, but most of the points you bring up were true for the manga before it was animated. The points themselves are good, but it's honestly pretty infuriating to listen to you basically attribute ONE's accomplishments in storytelling to Madhouse.
I didn’t mean to say that the anime is good because of Madhouse. I just haven’t read the manga, I was more acknowledging that it was adapted, I’d love to read the manga someday.
of course it works, but only as a comedy, theres no stakes or tension whatsoever.... also dont talk about thanos only based on mcu, thats trash
I actually read the original infinity guantlet comic and liked the MCU interpretation better.
He's still a maniac but now he isn't obsessing over some girl
that is not just "some girl", literally the personification of death
@@xoradivided7950 fooling himself into believing he is doing the right thing is more interesting than impressing death.
Plus the fight for the stones part is fun to watch while the original story starts with thanos having already completing the gauntlet.
@@petelee2477 thanos quest already shows how thanos got the stones
It got ruined in chapter 167, it literally contradicted itself, it lost its soul
I haven’t read the manga but I did see some people saying it wasn’t the best
@@thefictionaddiction yea, people are theorizing ONE the author may have abandoned it for good as the webcomic (what the manga is based off of) is taking a drastic turn. What gets people to turn to this being legitimate is the fact that ONE has been confirmed to be working on a new manga so he may have just let the editors do whatever with the manga
I don understand what got ruined in 167 tho
saitama goes all out = ruined....?
@@Wally_8 and, judging from the fight, do you actually believe Saitama went all out? you do realize that Saitama is still holding back in that fight, right? coz...
1. Saitama never killed a human opponent before.
2. to Saitama, Garou is a human cosplaying a monster.
3. Saitama also promised the kid ( forgot his name ) that he will help save Garou without killing him.
4. did you actually believe that someone who can simply kick away or grab hyperspace gate, something even monster Garou with god's power can't do, not to mention the one hand serious table flip and the sneeze... can't kill Garou with just one punch if he reallly went all out? 🤔