Onepunch-Man - Sir this is a dine-and-dash investigation

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rannum: Nov 3, 2012

The war in Naruto Part 2 took about 200 chapters (apprixmately under a third of the manga and about half or more of Part 2 in total) and in unvierse was over the span of like 2 maybe 3 days
Naruto & Sasuke have like 4 big power up sequences spread across however many chapters of the "final battle" which in-universe took place over a coupe hours

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TheLoneStar: Feb 9, 2017

There's also One Piece. With a great many of the arcs, even the longer ones, a large brunt of them take place within the course of about a day. It's not uncommon for the Straw Hats to step on an island and beat the main villain before the sun goes down. Dressrosa was the most glaring example, with a 102 chapter arc where a majority of it took place sometime in the morning and ended before the sun was even close to setting.

# ? Jan 12, 2020 00:14

Terror Sweat: Mar 15, 2009

AtomikKrab posted:

If you bad to doggo, doggo bite back. If you good to doggo and tell him to be a good boi and sit, doggo obeys.

Dog is good.

He's sitting because Garo beat him and told him to sit, and Saitama beat him and told him to sit. The dog was literally abused to force it to respond to commands

# ? Jan 12, 2020 00:24

Gologle: Apr 15, 2013; The Gologle Posting Experience.

<3

I don't like thinking about things like that Terror Sweat.

# ? Jan 12, 2020 01:39

Meme Emulator: Oct 4, 2000

JamMasterJim posted:

Akagi, and it was actually finished.

Although the stretch from Minefield Mahjong to One Poker was also one night and its like 26 volumes

# ? Jan 12, 2020 02:51

Kild: Apr 24, 2010

HXH had several episodes dedicated to like a 30s segment.

# ? Jan 12, 2020 02:57

Roland Jones: Aug 18, 2011; by Nyc_Tattoo

To be fair, in HxH the fact that it was only 30 seconds (or however long it was) was actually relevant. All that poo poo going down simultaneously in so little time actually mattered, it wasn't just "yeah this all happened in this amount of time, whatever".

# ? Jan 12, 2020 06:38

ninjewtsu: Oct 9, 2012

It helped a lot that hxh was showing the actions of like a dozen+ people in separate groups over the course of 30 seconds

# ? Jan 12, 2020 07:30

skaianDestiny: Jan 13, 2017; beep boop

Bucswabe posted:

It's insane to me that just the raid on the Monster Association is a story that will have taken years to tell over dozens of chapters (and probably multiple seasons of the TV show), all to cover events that take place over, what, like 2 or 3 hours in actual story time?

I don't know if this sort of thing is common in manga/anime by can't think of a precedent in any other story I've ever heard.

That's what happens when there's multiple plot threads to follow and the participants are all at minimum supersonic in their speed and reaction times.

# ? Jan 12, 2020 09:17

MiddleOne: Feb 17, 2011

It's cheating to bring up any shounen were people fight really. Especially tournament arcs.

# ? Jan 12, 2020 11:48

Elentor: Dec 14, 2004; by Jeffrey of YOSPOS

On the opposite end of the spectrum, in Saint Seiya where everyone can go at Supersonic+ and the anime opens up with the characters dodging bullets, there's a segment that takes 12 hours in-universe and I'm pretty sure that some of those hours (marked by a ticking clock) took less than 30 minutes of screen time.

Edit: The first one shouldn't have taken more than 5 now that I think about it.

# ? Jan 12, 2020 11:53

Blaze Dragon: Aug 28, 2013; LOWTAX'S SPINE FUND

Elentor posted:

On the opposite end of the spectrum, in Saint Seiya where everyone can go at Supersonic+ and the anime opens up with the characters dodging bullets, there's a segment that takes 12 hours in-universe and I'm pretty sure that some of those hours (marked by a ticking clock) took less than 30 minutes of screen time.

Edit: The first one shouldn't have taken more than 5 now that I think about it.

Saints are as fast as the plot needs them to be. Sure, Gold Saints and our protagonists after a few arcs can go at the speed of light...but you know, we need them out of the way for some good ol' Athena kidnapping or jobbing of a minor character (see: Aldebaran), so now they are extremely slow until we get to a fight scene.

# ? Jan 12, 2020 15:16

Supersonic Shine: Oct 13, 2012

Watching Saitama actually enjoy himself never fails to delight. lol at the grunt monster thinking he can just kill a Class-S by tossing him off a cliff.

# ? Jan 14, 2020 04:20

EponymousMrYar: Jan 4, 2015; The enemy of my enemy is my enemy.

And then deciding not to because man, that's a long way down :allears:

# ? Jan 14, 2020 04:27

Supersonic Shine: Oct 13, 2012

Lots of time to regret your decision. The risk of that is arguably worse than the certainty of death.

# ? Jan 14, 2020 05:04

Bucswabe: May 2, 2009

EponymousMrYar posted:

And then deciding not to because man, that's a long way down

Similarly, I'm enjoying the shear absurdity of the size of the Monster Association HQ. In the fights with Rover and Orochi, it's shown to be somewhere on the order of 100+ floors and probably as wide as several city blocks.

# ? Jan 16, 2020 17:51

CharlestonJew: Jul 7, 2011; Illegal Hen

I like to imagine Saitama accidentally did most of the excavating for the Monster Association when he chased that mole monster way back when

# ? Jan 16, 2020 20:04

Man with Hat: Dec 26, 2007; Open up your Dethday present
It's a box of fucking nothing; Exciting Lemon

RE: Short times represented by lots of pages I wonder where Flashy Flash vs Ninjas fall on that scale. That's one chapter taking place over at most a second.

# ? Jan 20, 2020 12:45

Elfface: Nov 14, 2010; Da-na-na-na-na-na-na
IRON JONAH

CharlestonJew posted:

I like to imagine Saitama accidentally did most of the excavating for the Monster Association when he chased that mole monster way back when

Orochi: we took over this place from the molemen when Underground King died in mysterious circumstances. Quite fortunate, really, we could never have hoped to scratch his body tempered by pressures at the centre of the earth.

# ? Jan 20, 2020 13:49

skaianDestiny: Jan 13, 2017; beep boop

Elfface posted:

Orochi: we took over this place from the molemen when Underground King died in mysterious circumstances. Quite fortunate, really, we could never have hoped to scratch his body tempered by pressures at the centre of the earth.

Been a while, is this an exact quote? Cause UK, being a peer of the other Kings, is nowhere near any of the Dragons.

# ? Jan 20, 2020 19:33

Mraagvpeine: Nov 4, 2014; I won this avatar on a technicality this thick.

skaianDestiny posted:

Been a while, is this an exact quote? Cause UK, being a peer of the other Kings, is nowhere near any of the Dragons.

# ? Jan 20, 2020 20:05

RareAcumen: Dec 28, 2012

Sea King: Now that those murderous tyrants, the molepeople, have lead themselves to ruin, we can finally take over the lands as well!

# ? Jan 20, 2020 20:21

MonsterEnvy: Feb 4, 2012; Shocked I tell you

Sky King: Now that the Underground, Sea and Ancient Kings are dead it's time for the Sky People to take over the world. Wait is that UFO aggh.

# ? Jan 20, 2020 23:16

graham cracker: Mar 8, 2004; "There is no God! Right, Mama?"

"True."

The Human King would be Pig God imo

# ? Jan 20, 2020 23:25

SpacePig: Apr 4, 2007; Hold that pose.
I've gotta get something.

graham cracker posted:

The Human King would be Pig God imo

Wouldn't it just be King?

# ? Jan 20, 2020 23:40

Fantastic Flyer: Aug 9, 2017

King is the King of Kings (King King)

# ? Jan 20, 2020 23:59

Drunk Theory: Aug 20, 2016; Oven Wrangler

Fantastic Flyer posted:

King is the King of Kings (King King)

Look upon my high score, ye Mighty and despair.

# ? Jan 21, 2020 01:07

Mraagvpeine: Nov 4, 2014; I won this avatar on a technicality this thick.

MonsterEnvy posted:

Sky King: Now that the Underground, Sea and Ancient Kings are dead it's time for the Sky People to take over the world. Wait is that UFO aggh.

Wait, who was Ancient King?

# ? Jan 21, 2020 02:51

skaianDestiny: Jan 13, 2017; beep boop

Mraagvpeine posted:

Wait, who was Ancient King?

Not!Godzilla that Tatsumaki dropped a rock on in the anime. Got canonized to the manga with the latest chapter.

# ? Jan 21, 2020 03:08

Bucswabe: May 2, 2009

skaianDestiny posted:

Not!Godzilla that Tatsumaki dropped a rock on in the anime. Got canonized to the manga with the latest chapter.

Speaking of which... did you interpret that scene as her having conjured the meteor out of nothing? That's how I first saw it (as an anime-only guy), but after knowing the rest of the story from reading the manga, it doesn't really fit with her established powers.

# ? Jan 21, 2020 04:39

MonsterEnvy: Feb 4, 2012; Shocked I tell you

Bucswabe posted:

Speaking of which... did you interpret that scene as her having conjured the meteor out of nothing? That's how I first saw it (as an anime-only guy), but after knowing the rest of the story from reading the manga, it doesn't really fit with her established powers.

She pulled it out of space.

# ? Jan 21, 2020 05:07

Meme Emulator: Oct 4, 2000

Bucswabe posted:

Speaking of which... did you interpret that scene as her having conjured the meteor out of nothing? That's how I first saw it (as an anime-only guy), but after knowing the rest of the story from reading the manga, it doesn't really fit with her established powers.

She just yoinked a nearby floating rock

# ? Jan 21, 2020 05:56