Super Official Anime Discussion Thread

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LuckyTrouble said:
The fun part of One Punch Man isn't necessarily the fighting. It's a gag show. First and foremost, it's trying to make you laugh. If you aren't laughing at One Punch Man and are instead trying to watch it focused on the action, you're watching the show wrong. As it stands, they've done a good job so far introducing ridiculous characters and situations that make the OP MC seem more silly than a serious fighter.

Even for the fighting, they still have people who aren't completely OP duke it out before the MC walks in and brings down his fist of fury. I mean, I feel like the content has a pretty solid balance.

Definitely this...in particular the bolded. The main premise is really about Saitama's boredom and his inability to be recognized more than the actual fights. In a lot of ways, his character feels like a parody of characters in older shounen action manga like Dragonball Z and Fist of the North Star. Heck, some of the characters look straight out of a Toriyama work; I swear I saw that Hammerhead guy in the Majin Buu arc.

Personally, I like it a lot. It puts an exaggerated comedic spin on a character type I've seen a million times. Not that I dislike the character type, but it's definitely fun to see things switched up a bit now and again. I'll probably pick up the manga when this season ends, since it doesn't seem like there's much to catch up on.