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Zzulu posted:I want saitama to eat a monster fruit He'd probably grow a single, very long hair at the top of his head. Thus technically eliminating his one weakness, while simultaneously making things worse.
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Saitama got cancer during his fight with Boros, but his immune system slapped it away. His T-cells would destroy any M-cells in just one... injection of cytotoxins?
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Zzulu posted:I want saitama to eat a monster fruit *bite* THIS TASTES TERRIBLE
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Apr 7, 2017 11:32
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Zzulu posted:I want saitama to eat a monster fruit Honestly this falls into my theory about Saitama eating monsters around city z off screen. He's been eating monster cells for years now, but hasn't gone full monster while still gaining their power.
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Apr 7, 2017 21:54
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Pig god is pretty monstrous and strong. Maybe you need to cook monsters to get rid of the bad mutatey stuff.
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Apr 7, 2017 23:01
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or the world just operates on author fiat?
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Apr 8, 2017 00:37
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The reason Saitama is as strong as he is, is because that is the conceit of the series.
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Donkringel posted:Honestly this falls into my theory about Saitama eating monsters around city z off screen. He's been eating monster cells for years now, but hasn't gone full monster while still gaining their power.  Watch out. Angry Man's gonna mutate any minute now.
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Schwarzwald posted:The reason Saitama is as strong as he is, is because that is the conceit of the series. dumbest theory in the thread imo
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Apr 8, 2017 09:32
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Yeah its clearly because of all the push ups and sit ups and running he did, duh.
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Apr 8, 2017 09:41
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Monsters are not made of monster cells.
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Schwarzwald posted:The reason Saitama is as strong as he is, is because that is the conceit of the series.
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Apr 8, 2017 22:38
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Obviously he crossed an old gypsy woman when he was a child who granted his wish to defeat enemies with just one punch, ensuring that he would be unable to achieve the thrill of a good fight in his adult life.
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Apr 10, 2017 11:52
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Raxivace posted:Yeah its clearly because of all the push ups and sit ups and running he did, duh. I do hope this is the real reason, and that it never gets confirmed because no one believes him or is stupid enough to try it on their own.
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Apr 10, 2017 14:42
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Skippy McPants posted:I do hope this is the real reason, and that it never gets confirmed because no one believes him or is stupid enough to try it on their own. As they say in the theme song to season 2 of The Leftovers, "let the mystery be".
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Apr 10, 2017 14:54
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Raxivace posted:Yeah I think giving it an explanation any more complex than that would likely just ruin the joke. Exactly. It's funnier if his power comes from simple exercise, and the dedication to actually doing it every day, rather than any sort of mystical or magical means. He's just a guy who actually kept up a workout routine for once.
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Apr 10, 2017 15:04
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Lamebot posted:or the world just operates on author fiat? Or all this poo poo is just filler and literally will never be mentioned again. Or that.
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Apr 10, 2017 15:14
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I think the workout routine is actually it and a parody of typical heros who go about heroing through magic and plot rather than hard work. OPM subscribes to the dragonball school of working out.
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Bongo Bill posted:Monsters are not made of monster cells. Yeah, they purposefully brought a bunch of monster cells and then lamented when they ran out. If monsters were made of monster cells, they could just scrape off some of their skin cells to any fighter still willing to transform and wouldn't have needed to bring anything in the first place. I'm under the impression there's a particular monster in the Monster Association whose power is to generate them. Otherwise there's some technique or something. But I don't think it's ever implied eating a monster has any particular affect on you. Genos also eats monsters too as a result of living with Saitama.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uuR2fRxDTtI Comedian Bill Burr started watching One Punch Man and kinda gets it more than a lot of people who watched it did.
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Waffleman_ posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uuR2fRxDTtI
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all of the monsters that used to be people are destroyed by their hosed up brains/the pressures of society
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Apr 11, 2017 02:39
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One Punch Man Punches Deep Man.
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ONE is a japanese treasure
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I don't think he quite nailed it, but he is onto something in his interpretation. I suddenly feel really bad for Mosquito lady though. 
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I mean, it's more thought than the person who comes away from it all "Dude, he could beat up Goku AND Superman!"
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Waffleman_ posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uuR2fRxDTtI He gets the fanbase at least.
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Mordaedil posted:I don't think he quite nailed it, but he is onto something in his interpretation. I mean, he gets his power from hard work but he fights that one guy who gets an injection from his super smart brother, only to kill him before getting out checked. Commentary on hard work versus taking the easy way out? Overfishing and tuna population depletion because of cooking? Sea king? You could think of a lot of villains along this line of logic.
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https://twitter.com/NEBU_KURO/status/851970581910216704 Murata drew Iron Man for a Marvel exhibition. I really want him to draw a comic for Marvel if he wasn't busy enough with OPM.
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Crunkjuice posted:I mean, he gets his power from hard work but he fights that one guy who gets an injection from his super smart brother, only to kill him before getting out checked. Commentary on hard work versus taking the easy way out? You don't really have to get that metaphorical when Hammerhead just wants basic income for the unemployed and Vaccine man cites environmentalism as his reason for being.
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Waffleman_ posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uuR2fRxDTtI not everything is family court, bill.
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I don't think he's far off. The issues he describes are commonplace in Japan and used thematically a lot by mangakas to criticize the system. There are way more abstract animes that are almost entirely dedicated to critizing the subject, and ONE himself had a lot of career issues when deciding to become a full-time artist. I mean, I don't think ONE explicitly thought "this guy is the businessman who eats way too much" but the general gist of criticizing an obsessive society with a tunnel-vision in a robotic career lifestyle is not really too far off, given that he explicitly does that through Saitama and he has pretty good reasons to given his career choices. Mob is also very heavy on political/social issues so ONE is clearly self-aware of these elements. ONE works are fundamentally about real life and the issues Bill describes. Saitama finds out that being super-powered does jack poo poo for his real world life and there's an emphasis on simple stuff like buying off sales and not wanting to burn his clothes. The hero association, which deals with outlandish stuff far outside anything in the real world, still acts like the most souless corporation possible and is ultimately just a regular business like any other. Mob is pretty much all about another super powered character not wanting to be corrupted and not using his powers to deal with real life stuff, while a sleazy salesperson tries to leech off of him. Bill Burr is spot on, especially the part about getting high and watching a bald dude explode stuff. Elentor fucked around with this message at 11:47 on Apr 12, 2017 |
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TenementFunster posted:holy poo poo this guy is a stupid motherfucker If you think that is wild, Ultraman would blow your mind.
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Waffleman_ posted:https://twitter.com/NEBU_KURO/status/851970581910216704 Murata's ability to draw metal that actually looks like metal always astounds me
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Elentor posted:Mob is pretty much all about another super powered character not wanting to be corrupted and not using his powers to deal with real life stuff, while a sleazy salesperson tries to leech off of him. Bill Burr is spot on, especially the part about getting high and watching a bald dude explode stuff. I'll not accept any slander about Arataka Reigen, the psychic star of the 21st century!
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Chapter 73.2 is out.
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Well, they're all wrecked now. I guess Saitama will show up after this because they're surely not going to kill off these three?
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ChronoReverse posted:Well, they're all wrecked now. I guess Saitama will show up after this because they're surely not going to kill off these three? I'm betting it'll be Garou.
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Which would also mean Watchdogman. Because a hound never lets go of his prey!
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EponymousMrYar posted:Which would also mean Watchdogman. Because a hound never lets go of his prey! I was thinking Watchdogman just kicks his rear end so hard Garou gets sent flying all the way to the arena.
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