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Sindai posted:You can tell that from the fact that his name is "Sweet Face Handsome Mask." So is he wearing a mask? Like Mission Impossible style.
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Handsomely Masked Sweet Mask is, like, the best name yet. Just because it's the guy straight up saying "yeah I'm a dickhead motherfucker but everyone likes me anyway because I act like a chill dude."
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Jul 26, 2014 15:25
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Al-Saqr posted:Holy moly, Sweet Face Handsome Mask is one rotten to the core mother fucker. Justice must be served
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Jul 26, 2014 15:58
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AgentHaiTo posted:So is he wearing a mask? Like Mission Impossible style. It's more based off a concept in Japan where outwardly you wear a different face than how you really feel.
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Jul 26, 2014 21:23
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logger posted:It's more based off a concept in Japan where outwardly you wear a different face than how you really feel. HMSM confirmed for evil SMT character.
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Jul 26, 2014 21:26
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Eh, I don't find him that bad really. If I walked into what was once a giant metropolis that was completely and utterly laid to waste and a bunch of what were supposed to be the premiere heroes of the world were standing around going "Well shucks, it happened pretty fast" I'd be pissed to. I probably wouldn't give much consideration to the random alien fuckers who had just wiped out the city either, especially if few to none of the civilians had time to get to shelters. Like he's definitely got a chip on his shoulder, but he is standing in the crumbling ruins of what was earlier this morning a major city.
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cafel posted:Eh, I don't find him that bad really. If I walked into what was once a giant metropolis that was completely and utterly laid to waste and a bunch of what were supposed to be the premiere heroes of the world were standing around going "Well shucks, it happened pretty fast" I'd be pissed to. I probably wouldn't give much consideration to the random alien fuckers who had just wiped out the city either, especially if few to none of the civilians had time to get to shelters. Like he's definitely got a chip on his shoulder, but he is standing in the crumbling ruins of what was earlier this morning a major city. Yeah, but he seems far less concerned about the city than how this might effect his and the hero organization's reputation. All in all he comes off as pretty skeezy.
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If you guys want to read more of ONE's work but don't wanna spoil One Punch Man, check out Mob Psycho 100. http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3653424 It's the work that ONE does for a living and comes out weekly, as opposed to his hobby One Punch Man, which updates about as frequently as Berserk. IMO it's just as good or better than OPM.
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Nah he's bad because he decided not to join because he found the drama shooting more important. So gently caress him. edit: Granted most of the heroes are egotistical assholes but at least they tried. What does he do? Backcoach and lecture after all poo poo is said and done. He's a prick. 
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Terror Sweat posted:If you guys want to read more of ONE's work but don't wanna spoil One Punch Man, check out Mob Psycho 100. Mob psycho is his full time serious mangaka hobby as opposed to his OPM part time mangaka hobby. Rigged Death Trap fucked around with this message at 10:52 on Jul 27, 2014 |
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Jul 27, 2014 07:46
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New side-stories up on Batoto. They expanded one side-story and added another one. Saitama is truly the hero that we need.
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jwang posted:New side-stories up on Batoto. They expanded one side-story and added another one. Saitama is truly the hero that we need.
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New link for Salmon: http://www.batoto.net/read/_/262365/onepunch-man_ch29.5_by_nerieru-scans
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Jul 31, 2014 02:22
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Salmon will always be hilarious. Things one cannot buy was pretty drat great too, though.
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Jul 31, 2014 02:50
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This poo poo is real? What the hell, Japan?
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Say Nothing posted:This poo poo is real? That poo poo clearly has not blown the gently caress up yet
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Jul 31, 2014 05:28
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Welcome the world of architecture and yes, it's too much even for the Japanese.
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Funeral Suspenders is definitely my favourite character now
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Nahxela posted:New link for Salmon: http://www.batoto.net/read/_/262365/onepunch-man_ch29.5_by_nerieru-scans I hope that guy returns as a hero.
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You know, this is amazing. They took the ultimate mary sue, a guy who seems to be literally and figuratively invincible, and made him somehow interesting. How far ahead of Murata's version is the series by ONE?
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Aug 8, 2014 00:57
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An entire arc.
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khy posted:You know, this is amazing. One mini-arc and one full-size arc, plus a couple one-offs in there. Also I don't know if Saitama counts as a mary sue since it's pretty clearly shown that being as overwhelmingly powerful as he is is not remotely desirable. It's basically The One Interesting Superman Story, except ONE is actually managing to work awesome fights against bad guys into telling it without it feeling weird or contradictory.
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BlitzBlast posted:An entire arc. Realistically it's like two, there's a bunch of slice of life hijinks, *then* the next big arc. Which is...a pretty big arc that would eat up quite a bit of time. Shugojin posted:One mini-arc and one full-size arc, plus a couple one-offs in there. He is basically what Superman would be if he actually was a human, rather than absorbing human ideals from the outside. He can bitch and moan, and he's incredibly focused on the tedium of his daily life, but he is absolutely the greatest hero on Earth. Both as a question of strength, and morally.
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Shugojin posted:Also I don't know if Saitama counts as a mary sue since it's pretty clearly shown that being as overwhelmingly powerful as he is is not remotely desirable. It's basically The One Interesting Superman Story, except ONE is actually managing to work awesome fights against bad guys into telling it without it feeling weird or contradictory. He gained powers beyond that of the most incredible heroes the world has ever known, beyond cyborgs and telekinetics, beyond all others. By running 10km and doing 100 pushups, situps, squats per day. He has no visible weaknesses beyond super sale day or whatever. He can take on the most powerful beings shown thus far in the comic with a single punch. And to quote the most powerful being shown thus far, he was still holding back. He's an interesting character and I love him to death but I think he meets almost every requirement to be a mary sue. I'm not saying that as a bad thing. He's the single greatest one ever, because he manages to be INTERESTING and fun and the audience actually manages to join his side and hope that each and every fight he gets in will manage to be exciting for him. And when it isn't we don't feel bored with the character, we sympathize with him.
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nah he's too three-dimensional to be a mary sue
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Please see Mahouka or SAO for current actual examples of Mary Sue.
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"Mary Sue" is usually a useless term, but if you must argue about it, remember that it applies to a certain kind of badly-written character, and Saitama is not written badly.
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Saitama could easily take over the Earth and get all the "sales" he wanted. But he's kind of dumb and also not a total dick, so he keeps staying in his crappy little apartment and only stepping out for cheap stuff at the grocery store or to save the Earth.
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khy posted:He has no visible weaknesses Being completely bald is rather visible.
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His will is weak to good sales.
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He became an official hero to finally have some cash since quitting his job yet his massive power and his own dumbness (and, on occasions, his nobleness) lead him to not actually earn that much money compared to everyone else. There's only two guys that actually like him. That's enough for him to not be a "mary sue" though that term is pretty outdated at this point.
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Saitama is not a Mary Sue, because the thing that makes a Mary Sue bad is that all of their problems get solved for them without any real drama or effort. Saitama's problem is not the monsters, it's the fact that he is bored with life. We as readers are always hoping he will find an enemy strong enough to put up a good fight, but not because the fights are boring or whatever but because we want to see Saitama finally find some satisfaction. He is also not a Mary Sue because Mary Sues are almost always universally loved within their setting but Saitama can't get anyone but Genos and Bang to see how strong he is. And hell, Genos reveres Saitama for his strength and that's not what Saitama really wants. Mary Sues have everything go their way and it sucks any drama out of the story, but there is plenty of drama in OPM.
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BlitzBlast posted:An entire arc. It's more like two arcs.
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It's this thread, it is the Mary Sues
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khy posted:You know, this is amazing. About 50 chapters, but Murata likes to expand and redraw a lot, not to mention the side stories that they create for this version
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AnonSpore posted:It's this thread, it is the Mary Sues No one who uses that term has ever understood what it meant and that goes double for anyone stupid enough to use it today.
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Terror Sweat posted:About 50 chapters, but Murata likes to expand and redraw a lot, not to mention the side stories that they create for this version How often do new chapters get released? Is it a weekly thing or just 'whenever'?
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khy posted:How often do new chapters get released? Is it a weekly thing or just 'whenever'? Whenever someone ruffles through his trash to find one of his many rewrites. Dude does not stop redoing chapters.
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New chapter That was a bad idea Genos  khy posted:How often do new chapters get released? Is it a weekly thing or just 'whenever'? Whenever, at the end of each chapter Murata give an estimated for the next chapter but isn't rare for him to retouch chapters more than once or get sidetracked by something else, so you're best keeping track of this thread to get the new chapters.
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I was hoping Saitama would knock out stupid jerk loli and anyone else who mouthed off to him for saving the world. Shows what I know about his personality.
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