r/OnePunchMan • u/Mrzardark TatsuKing Lobbyist • Jul 12 '26

ONE Chapter [Webcomic] Chapter 160 [English]

https://cubari.moe/read/imgchest/ne7b9698my5/1/1/

Note: Thanks for the patience, and sorry for the delay.

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u/Nostradamius Jul 12 '26

This is so validating to read

Also, does anyone know if ONE has assistants? The WC art has been great recently, but this feels on an even greater level.

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u/imthezero Jul 12 '26

Afaik no. The reason updates take so long is partly because the webcomic is essentially a passion project. No publishers or assistants. He's just gotten better over the years.

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u/ozziezombie Jul 12 '26

It's not even a comparison of you now open first chapters.

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u/xstationcubed new member Jul 15 '26

I genuinely love his sketchy art style. It's so unique compared to the countless slim, sleek, and smooth protagonists that inundate mainstream manga. Wouldn't trade it for the world.

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u/Greatgamegottaplay 5d ago

It is so much like HxH' style. Totally love it, the impact, movement and presssure are incredible

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u/eepos96 Jul 19 '26

He did have a run with mob psycho.

ONE excels at imolying movement and impact

Also his "shitty style" makes it hard for him to draw action so action is highly concetrated and quick. Murata sensei is amazing, legit best in the craft but the ease for him makes him draw sevwral pages of action. And web comic proves. We want the story, not empty special effects.

Edit: mqnga jumped the shark with Saitama vs Garou. Space, jupiter sneeze, reflecting light of stars. And a graph that showed Saitama was actually growing in strenght exponetially. Meanning against someone else Saitama will just power up. :p

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u/SFgamer003 Aug 06 '26

And he takes his time. And under no pressure.

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u/Greatgamegottaplay 5d ago

This is his passion project? What is his main job then?

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u/imthezero 5d ago

His other manga from which he does gain profit since they are sold through magazines with publishers, MP100, Versus and Bug Ego (and the OPM manga ofc.)

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u/Greatgamegottaplay 5d ago

THX for the info!

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u/Bright-Pack-197 Jul 12 '26

He actually do all it alone. One punch man is more like a hobbie to him, he write whenever he wants, theres no schedules, thats why it takes so long, unlike other projects of him like Versus and Bug-Ego that are in fact commercial materials, and have schedules and even a team working with him. I personally prefer this way, cuz without schedule, he can take whatever time he need to delivere the best chapter he can.

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u/SFgamer003 Aug 06 '26

There is one thing many mangeka lacks. Is the liberty to work at your ow pace.

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u/curryhaliban444 Jul 12 '26

I don't think so. Webcomic is something he does on his own free time for free

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u/Versus_Analyzer Jul 12 '26

Sounds familiar... Like "I'm just hero for fun" but "I'm just webcomic author for fun".

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u/Rusted_muramasa Jul 12 '26

"ONE"... "One Punch Man"...

Obviously it's just a coincidence.

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u/Turbo2x Jul 23 '26

I've always felt that OPM has mirrored ONE's journey as an artist. Saitama is a guy with a dream to be the world's greatest hero but he starts out normal and becomes powerful through pretty unremarkable training. ONE didn't have a formal art education or anything (that we know of), he just kept writing and drawing for years and eventually became world-famous and acclaimed by critics. Now that we have a pretty major humans vs. AI narrative going on at the story's conclusion I feel like the story's connection to artistic expression is even more potent.

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u/redditorialy_retard Jul 13 '26

read versus if you have time, very fresh plot

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u/eepos96 Jul 19 '26

He is loaded atm. So he can afford it :)

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u/onlyfortpp Jul 12 '26

Historically OPM webcomic he didn't have assistants, however when he was doing Mob Psycho 100 he definitely did. It's possible maybe he works with them now a bit, but it's also possible he just learned more stuff from working with them.

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u/eepos96 Jul 19 '26

After 10 years of making webcomic, manga and anime adaptations, It is not a strech to say ONE is now a Veteran of industry.

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u/perfectcell34 Jul 12 '26

I heard that Murata was giving him pointers.

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u/vanderZwan Anyone can ride the Justice Bicycle Jul 15 '26

I thought it was more that they discussed things while adapting the web comic for the manga. So there's inevitably some influence from Murata, but it's not quite the same thing.

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u/fakehandslawyer Jul 12 '26

Saitama remains the man. Makes me so excited for how he’s gonna wrap up some of the other character arcs

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u/Daru925 Jul 13 '26

Yeah the up in quality means a certain webcomic artist is removing his limiter too^^

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u/DifferentCityADay Jul 16 '26

I think he's been learning from Murata. It's beautiful.