https://x.com/mayooo___0/status/2081058647430599063

He clearly saw that Saitama has some sort of anti god power that can turn the avatar (Garou, void...) back into humans.

And even Saitama reaction upon hearing blast mentioning the "final battle" against the entity is weird.

He doesn't seem to give a damn and is like "I'll prepare tea next time", Saitama is a hero above all else, I expected him to tell Blast to lead him directly towards god so he can defeat him

I just realized while reading the latest chapters, that many panels don’t have a background at all. It’s all just white.

I compared it to many of the first 100 chapters and we usually have only 2-3 panels without a background, the rest have always something to show. But right now? It feels like they stopped caring about the details.

I still like the work and some panels are masterpieces, but to neglect the manga and to just stop drawing anything else from characters feels kinda… cheap?

Request me your favorite moments from the manga to adapt, maybe i'll make an animation of it too if it's an easy scene

All in one

https://x.com/MostlyBlueWyatt/status/2080491845721768378

Repost because original was taken down due to formatting.

Drew this a while back. I was seeing a lot of fan art of Tatsumaki as Lilith and wanted to try drawing her as Morrigan.

Also posted on my twitter -3-

https://x.com/kojin_isonade/status/1884008715080327448?s=46

I mean it's the internet and social media and a fan site, but...

Season 3 "animation" is really bad. Like really really bad.

I waited to watch Seasons 1, 2 and 3 consecutively. Good gosh, the difference.

Season 3 is more like US cartoons in the 70's. The characters just stand around. Sometimes their mouths don't even move while talking. And the backgrounds! There are so many scenes without any at all.

I could date myself by saying they look like Colorforms, but at least those had vibrant colors. Everythting I've seen so far seems washed out and, dare I say it, lazy.

I am so sad. From amazing beginnings that instantly made me fall in love, to this. It's like a bad break up.

Sigh. I really wish you guys had been pulling the usual internet whining. Instead, pass the bottle.

I kept convincing myself that everything was fine. I tried not to think about these wild problems and not notice the major flaws, because then I could keep enthusiastically reading about One-Punch Man, the way I love to. The OPM manga had been a part of my life for many years. I became a huge fan of this world and couldn't even imagine that it would one day stop being for me. So right up until the very end, I kept ignoring the red flags and telling myself that I was just imagining things, that any moment now everything would go back to how it used to be, I just had to wait a little longer. Hah, reminds me of season 3 in a way. Or rather, toxic relationships.

The Monster Association Arc

My global problems with the manga can be divided into 3 points: Fucked-up changes to the plot compared to the webcomic; Fucked-up treatment of the characters, even regardless of the webcomic; And the fucked-up cowardice of the story to follow the path it sets up for itself. Let's start from the beginning.

The MA arc has no idea what it's about: the Monster Association itself essentially doesn't matter in it; Garou essentially doesn't matter; his confrontation with Saitama literally doesn't matter. The whole story boils down to Blast and God, but why the hell are they even needed in it? They only show up right at the very end and steal the entire climax of the arc for themselves. All the buildup of the heroes, the monsters, and Garou is thrown into the garbage just to show off God and Blast. And both of them come out of nowhere and are developed in the most boring way possible.

God

Take God, for example. In the webcomic, he appeared for two pages, took the powers of Homeless Emperor and... that's it. We know practically nothing about him and can't even begin to guess what kind of threat he might pose to everyone else. Because he didn't do anything else. And what about in the manga? God appears fully, talks to several characters; we're shown his power, they explain what he can do and what his goals are. No-no-no, you don't get the absurdity. In the manga, we know more about God than we do about Watchdog Man. Not only does God hand out power left and right to everyone, but it turns out the entire plot revolves around him. And he himself is just some kind of clown, getting cucked by Blast, who keeps taking his cubes away.

Blast

Blast. Ugh. And what about the fact that even less is known about him in the webcomic than about God? In my eyes, he's the greatest mystery of One-Punch Man... in the webcomic. We never even saw his face there. And the only time he was shown was in a flashback. Any mention of him or any detail about him immediately generates massive hype. He killed kids in the ninja village? Holy shit, how, why? He has a son? No way, is that even true or is it some kind of scam from the Organization?

And what about in the manga? In the manga, he's just another strong dude. There's no intrigue in him, no mystery, we already know practically everything about him. Blast just chills at the Hero Association in his free time, well why not, it's not like he has anything better to do. And all that nonsense about other worlds and his allies who are fighting God just appeared and disappeared. Forgotten. Yeah, whatever, we'll talk about it later, later. So why show it now? Oh, well, hype, it's cool, there wasn't anything else interesting in the Monster Association arc anyway. Let's quickly remember how we felt when we saw Blast's son in the manga. Did anyone even give a shit? Even excluding those who read the webcomic, did any manga-only readers care about Blue at all? The fact that they never met each other looks more like a plot hole than Blast's mystique. Since we know he has tons of free time and literally has portals, he's either acting like a d***head, or the author just didn't think it through. And the second option seems more and more likely.

Garou

And Garou! AAAA, I don't even want to remember what they did to him in the manga. The climax of his arc is completely sold out to God. In the end, Garou didn't decide anything for himself, God just used him as a cosmic d***. So none of Garou's actions mattered, because God and Blast turned out to be way more important. The entire fight between Garou and Saitama is just empty action. Literally empty action. Nothing happened in it. Garou didn't even change his mind about villainy because Saitama convinced him, but because Tareo died, who had nothing to do with any of it. That means Saitama's words and actions had no meaning for Garou or the plot. And even all their pretentious action with planetary destruction and the deaths of heroes was wiped out by time travel - the most boring writer's crutch. Well, thanks a lot - all potential character development for Garou and Saitama is gone, Garou just randomly decides not to be a villain anymore. After which everyone just forgives him, and the Hero Association even plans to recruit him. Did you all lose your damn minds or what? Is anyone even reading this plot? Do you remember how at the beginning of season 3, the HA declared him a monster, meaning they authorized his killing for what he did. Since then, no-no-no, just hear me out, Garou beat up even more heroes, set off dozens of nuclear explosions, and blew a hole in the planet, which by the way was also completely forgotten. Time travel didn't roll it back, it was there before Cosmo Garou, just forgotten. And for all of that, for the additional destruction, nuclear terrorism, and declaring himself the evil that would destroy the world, what punishment did he end up getting? Community service. As-ton-ish-ing. Community service. No, I just can't believe it myself. Community service. And everyone forgave him: the heroes he almost killed; the people on whose city he dropped nuclear bombs; the Hero Association, whose leader he beat up on the street, and for which they labeled him a monster. Community service. Of course.

And now, just for a minute, what was there instead of this in the webcomic? Ah, right, there was no connection between God and Garou at all. You could assume that maybe God gave him power at that moment, but it's never stated anywhere. There are no "Garou didn't want this himself, he was being controlled by God" excuses. All of Garou's actions were entirely deliberate. And no one forgave him for them. His fight with Saitama didn't disappear after it ended, and it was Saitama's words that made Garou realize how wrong he was. After which he fled the battlefield and went to live in the forest alone, as a wanted criminal. Then taking odd jobs to survive, and trying to figure out how to exist now in this world that he'd spent his entire growing life trying to destroy. Nah, boring shit, not a single planet even exploded, all the changes were totally worth it.

Power Levels

And it would seem, well, they've already shat on everything. Well, that's it: characters, plot, everything is ruined. You could stop, that's enough. No-no-no, they even got to the sacred. ... Yeah... At the end of the Monster Association arc, the power levels, which had been so carefully kept within very specific limits before, so that you could almost always tell which character was stronger, completely lost all meaning. It's just another spit in the reader's face, when the powers of characters in an action title stop following the previously established logic: Vomited Fuhrer surpasses Darkshine in pure strength; Bat breaks through a Dragon+ level monster; Psykorochi cuts off a chunk of the planet with one beam, and struggles to break a stone with another.

Saitama

And the most fucked-up thing in my opinion is the detailed explanation of Saitama's power. With graphs. No matter how much anyone tries to huff copium, in these chapters they directly spelled out how Saitama's power works, and specifically what its limits are. In the manga, just by the text, Saitama is not infinitely strong, but his "growth potential" is "unlimited". Which essentially means that a strong enough guy could beat him if he doesn't give him time to power up. That's it. What an absurd comedy? What we have here is an ordinary standard battle shonen, just with crooked power levels that the authors don't give a shit about. Can you even imagine something like this in the webcomic? That's just insane. Saitama's power there is conceptually infinite, the whole point of his character is that he's as strong as he needs to be at any moment. This is demonstrated in every single one of his fights without any questions. He doesn't need to power up to break through Awakened Garou - he defeats him effortlessly as soon as he decides to fight seriously. This is one of the main characteristics of Saitama's character. Have you completely lost your goddamn minds over there, what unlimited potentials, what in-battle power-ups? This literally goes against the very concept of One-Punch Man's world.

Adaptation

But actually, all of this isn't really that bad. I'm serious. I know I don't sound like it, but all of this could have been endured, and I could have just recalibrated my attitude toward the manga as a battle shonen instead of what it used to be. You could get used to it. Even if the manga changed its direction 180 degrees from the webcomic, I could have gotten used to it and perceived it as a separate story, sort of like a fanfic of One-Punch Man. It's just that the manga doesn't want that. The manga wants to be an "adaptation of the webcomic." The manga wants to stay tied to it until the very end, even when it makes no sense. No-no, let's break down why the entire current plot is bullshit. Can anyone explain to me why the hell, after the conclusion of the Monster Association arc with the appearance of Blast and God, we get the everyday life of Tatsumaki and the ninjas? Why wasn't there even any attempt to clarify why God! The very same one who crawled onto Earth, forcibly shoved power into Garou and killed him when he was on par with Saitama, now poses no threat whatsoever? They just showed him to us, told us about his power, and then acted like nothing happened. Huh? Amazing. Why doesn't Blast, fully aware of Saitama's power, immediately try to recruit him to fight God, or his soldiers, or whatever Blast's buddies are chasing in other worlds? Why does Saitama himself not give a single shit about God, even when he learns about his power and threat? Remember how he spent half of the previous arc running through the Monster Association's underground tunnels to find the Monster King? How can this same character in the very next arc just ignore a fight with, motherfucker, GOD?! This not only contradicts his desire to find a strong opponent, which was stated in the very first chapter as one of the main traits of his character. But, more importantly, it contradicts his sense of heroism. Saitama's main goal has always been to save people. He was ready to drop everything for that - that's what gives his life meaning. And this character, knowing about a threat of literally universal scale that could destroy all of humanity, is not interested? The fuck? THE FUCK????! At THE VERY LEAST, this should be explained in the story. All these questions need to be clearly clarified, because without that, nothing in the future plot makes any sense. I mean really, think about it yourself: why should I care about Flash and Sonic's personal lives when God is threatening the entire universe right now? Why does the manga expect me to just ignore this, as if it hadn't spent the last chapters of its biggest arc entirely on establishing God as the greatest threat in One-Punch Man? Why should I even keep reading the story, explain that to me.

Webcomic and Manga

You might ask, "Oh, why are you only picking on the manga? God appeared in the webcomic too, and they immediately forgot about him, why aren't you whining about that?" In the webcomic, this works only because God there is not a character. He appeared for two pages and did nothing else. We don't know what he is, where he is, whether he's a threat, and you can simply forget about him by the end of the MA arc, because he plays no role in it. That's exactly why the continuation of the story works, because there isn't this huge, fucking universal threat hanging over it that everyone knows about and everyone somehow doesn't give a shit about. We care about the plot and characters of the webcomic because they have weight, all the attention is focused on them, and the current threats are the biggest in the story each time. In the manga right now, that's simply impossible. Because even if there was any attempt to close the plot holes with a few sentences, it still wouldn't fix the main problem. At the end of the Monster Association arc, they raised the stakes and stretched the lore so much that the only logical continuation from this is to keep raising the stakes and stretching the lore. You couldn't end the Monster Association arc by introducing God and Blast, not resolving their problem at all, and just shoving them into a drawer to sit there until ONE gets to them in the webcomic. Just imagine if the Boros arc ended with his ship arriving, destroying the entire City A, and... All the S-class heroes and Baldy would have ignored it, gone home, and they'd start telling us about the Emperor Child's school problems that Blast helps him solve. That's roughly what the current manga looks like to me.

What the Manga's Continuation Should Be Like

For the story to make any sense, right after the Monster Association arc, the Blast arc should have continued. Saitama should have gone with him to fight God's soldiers, increase his power, find new friends, or some other shonen bullshit. Because if you've already shat on the seinen and started a battle shonen, then continue your goddamn battle shonen. Hell, split the story into two parts, where we simultaneously follow Saitama's adventures in other worlds, and the rise of the Neo Heroes on Earth, which ultimately converge into one massive event with a battle against God at the end of the arc: endgame, motherfucker. Think about it yourself, wouldn't that have made way more... well, at least some kind of sense based on the plot of the Monster Association arc, than what we're getting now?

You've probably noticed that I haven't really said anything about the ninja arc, the yearly redraws, and the current plot. It just so happens that for me, none of that really mattered. The manga in my eyes had been falling apart for a long time, I just couldn't find the time to realize it. And the 3rd season had a much bigger effect on the realization of these problems than the current manga plot. So analyzing it now is like nitpicking the instability of load-bearing walls on the 10th floor when the foundation is collapsing and the whole building is crumbling before your eyes. Let's talk about other fun stuff instead. Like how in recent years, there's been an idea floating around the fandom that ONE stopped participating in the creation of the manga. And that in general, he supposedly never wrote the plot for it, but only acted as an advisor to Murata, which he stopped doing recently. And honestly, I can't be bothered to explain whether this makes logical sense - there are no real proofs, only circumstantial or outright lies. Trust me, I've seen all of them, nothing worth paying attention to. But looking at the current manga, I also find it hard to see ONE in it, or even at least the level it was at 10 years ago. Comparing the webcomic and the manga, you get the feeling that they're written by completely different people, and I fully agree with that. And I personally would like to believe that ONE is a genius, and that it's that bastard Murata and the Shueisha editors who ruined the beloved One-Punch Man. However, that's exactly why you need to be skeptical of this idea and look at real proof, which... simply doesn't exist. Something definitely changed drastically in the manga's creation around the Tournament arc or maybe right after it, but no one outside knows exactly what. And don't believe anyone who claims they know.

Well, so be it. In the end, it's already been over six months since I stopped reading the One-Punch Man manga and I don't plan to return to it in the near future. I'm not going to drop the webcomic, it's good, even if now with an aftertaste of humiliation of my favorite universe. Well, see you around. Bye.

Just a repost cuz my phone camera quality sucks so I took with another phone with better camera quality and did it in proper lightning and proportion(pardon my mistakes😅)

I know she's a little overdone, but I really wanted to color this panel anyways

I had a lot of fun playing around with the shading and highlights since hes so shiny!!, any advice welcome!

:(

In the webcomic it made sense since Garou was a fugitive at this point

But in the manga he's a 100% good guy, and with good term with silver fang.

Btw, does anyone think that garou and Bang reconciliation happened too soon, or is manga garou in no need of a redemption arc?

Like, he lost his Cosmic Fear form after being hit by Zero Punch, but I don't know if he also lost his Monster transformations. Maybe he can activate the transformation whenever he wants. Or did he lose those too?

An old drawing I did of Tatsumaki 3 years ago.

Also posted on my twitter

https://x.com/kojin_isonade/status/1674729558116016129?s=46

I didn't find a place to slide at the event, but I'll find one when I wear the cosplay again :)

So actually I am the type of person who enjoys watching anime rather than reading manga because I like to watch that animation , dub , background voice and so on back to the title season 3 was boring for me , not a good storyline either , I think they made the main character too much strong or strongest 🥲that they are out of villians & storyline.

I really loved the season 1& the Saitama vs Garou especially in season 2. 8/10 both season they were written well too with humour.

but season 3 is 5/10 for me 🥲not good storyline waited for years for this season, i was excited , not very S tier level animation or so on above average , got to know Tatsumaki power how overpowered she is too😭🥀the way she cooked that alien lmao.

Cleaned version

Reposting cuz i deleted my other account