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Last Celebration posted:Yeah, for people not super familiar with the book that sick golden headband he wears is there to cause him excruciating pain if he misbehaves, since up to the last 80% of the book he will go on a rampage and brutally massacre anything that slights him enough when left unchecked. Like when he went on a rampage warring with Heaven itself and its strongest warriors because he felt slighted, before Buddha himself had to step in. I like how God of High School has one of the more theologically (mythologically?) consistent portrayals of the Monkey King.
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White Light posted:I gotta ask, is there much of a reason to keep up with the ONE version of One Punch Man these days? They used to be very similar in story beats with the occasional differences in expanded content, but sometime during the Monster Association arc the narrative started becoming truly divergent, with things like major plot points and character reveals appearing in the Murata adaptation over the ONE version. Now it feels like a very, very loose adaptation where the entire structure of a story arc is reworked from the ground up; hell, the one right now is already taking different beats entirely. Isn't being a looser adaptation more of a reason to read both?
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One thing I've always been uncertain about is how we're supposed to view Saitama's ambivalence towards pretty much everything. Like it's one thing to be a comedic straight-man, but a lot of the time his behavior crosses over into a bizarre unwillingness to seriously engage with other people. He almost comes off as a character who realizes everything around him is fictional, and has little investment in other characters or their lives as a result. I'm not sure how much of that is meant to just be perceived as a gag, and the line is further blurred by other characters (usually reasonably) taking everything seriously.
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Jerkface posted:He engage with king though, but I think thats because King is the only other one on his level The reason this stuff comes off weird is that people are often saying things that it makes sense to empathize with. Like Flashy Flash actually does have a hosed up background relevant to the current situation, and his story wasn't even long-winded. His opinions make sense to us, readers who are aware that everything happening is fiction. But they're very strange for someone who actually exists in the setting. As ImpAtom says, he's detached, but I'm not sure if the writing means for us to view this as a serious part of his characterization or if it's just a gag. And it also doesn't really make sense on its own - characters like Silver Fang can also effortlessly beat 99.99% of humanity, but they don't exhibit this weird apathy. The apathy is also limited to other people - Saitama is perfectly capable of caring about things like sales or video games. Edit: My personal interpretation is that Saitama isn't even really a character, so much as a "force of nature" in a setting that otherwise takes itself relatively seriously (it's kinda like Mob Psycho where it's a gag-heavy story/setting, but where you're still supposed to care about the characters) Ytlaya fucked around with this message at 00:52 on Mar 22, 2024 |
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Lamebot posted:Saitama, annoyed at being accosted on his way to the store, gently brushes this weird scar tissue guy out of his way and they explode into a fountain of blood and gore. The power-scaling has changed a bit in that the strongest characters can actually keep fighting after a single light Saitama punch (and I think quite a few in Garou's case). The only real constant is that nothing can cause physical harm to Saitama.
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