One-Punch Man (Webcomic) - Ch. 155

[Amphguy]

The manga adaptation made me feel like this series lost its heart. I was wrong. The heart is in the webcomic. It seems like ONE is consciously writing for two different audiences with the webcomic and the manga. (That or whoever is writing or helping write the manga adaptation is not very good).

 

[murasaur]

Food for thought, all of Bofoi's robots are chess pieces. Drive knights moves are all shogi pieces.

 

[codetaku]

So, Kuseno is obviously evil. The question is, is Genos truly evil or can Genos be saved? tbh, even though Genos is misguided by false memories, I think he will be able to accept that he was tricked and won't carry on Kuseno's will.

The manga adaptation made me feel like this series lost its heart. I was wrong. The heart is in the webcomic. It seems like ONE is consciously writing for two different audiences with the webcomic and the manga. (That or whoever is writing or helping write the manga adaptation is not very good).

ONE has a lot of respect for Murata, and so even though ONE is still credited as the writer for the manga, he pretty much rubber stamps whatever dumb changes Murata comes up with.

It was hard to convince anyone of this four+ years ago (was super obvious to me for ages) but nowadays people finally accept it as clear-cut reality.

 

[R2D2TS]

Thanks for the chapter.

 

[Hem]

Yes, Murata revised, a lot. But at the end of the day, ONE has the final say on the story. Is said in most of interview back then. Its kinda crazy to expect them to always comment on it yearly just to please some unhinge fans..

• Morikawa: Murata, One Punch Man is written without regarding ONE, right?
• Murata: Oh, no, ONE teacher changed it... He changed it... So, we consult with each other.
• Morikawa: Oh, I see.

It’s true, but also 原作：Tappei Nagatsuki (Re:Zero), 原作：Rifujin na Magonote (Mushoku Tensei), and 原作：Fuse (Slime), etc. So what’s your point??
The only exception I can think of is Aiya Kyu (Shield Hero), who openly said she's both the writer and the artist for the manga adaptation.
Given how strict Japanese copyright laws are, doing otherwise without disclosure would be a scandal.
If ONE or Murata confirm it in the distant future, I’ll stand corrected. But until then...

You seem to love inserting highly biased and speculative opinions on this. Then again, you seem to be an expert on this matter, so maybe I should trust you…

We could conclude that ONE is an asshole and is sabotaging Murata, maybe ONE just wanted to write straight DBZ bullshit but be able to pin the blame on someone else if it didn't work out...
Then turn around and make a better version whenever he has time just to make Murata look even worse.

I personally was not a fan of Versus so much, but it shows ONE's usual style when it's not lingering too long on panels of pointless action.

Or as someone said above, maybe ONE actively decided to write OPM as "a paid version for DBZ morons" and a "Just a hobby version" as a homage to what got him noticed and made him a "famous" professional Writer/Mangaka.

 

[NotSomeone]

There's MOUNTAINS of evidence that ONE no longer writes it. The last storyboard we know he did was the phoenix man fight. In which he delivered a 12 page storyboard which Murata turned into 3 redraws, +100 pages and entirely changed the ending of the storyboard.

You really think ONLY for the OPM manga ONE just decided to completely stop writing in his usual style and decided to have a bazillion redraws (when we know they were requested from Murata specifically) when this has NEVER been the casr in any of his other works? OPM webcomic, Mob Psycho 100, Versus, Bug Ego etc NEVER had any rewrite and all ooze of ONE's writing style. Meanwhile the manga long lost ONE's writing style and has a bazillion rewrites. And the writing style is VERY similar to Murata's attempts at writing his own oneshots at that.

And the whole "Story by ONE, Art by Murata" is a mistranslation. The original Japanese says "Original Story by ONE, Manga by Murata"

Like I stated earlier, you must be genuinely retarded to think ONE is writing the garbage that is the current manga and forcing Murata to make redraw after redraw. There's no evidence he has been writing it for the past 5 years. It's obvious he just let Murata take over so he can focus on his other works and the webcomic. The blame ONE has is that he stopped tard wrangling Murata and left him to his own devices.

Reading both is enough to convince me. There's no reason for the "first draft" that is the webcomic to have better writing than the manga, which should be the "revised" and "official" version.

 

[NorwegianJap]

Yes, Murata revised, a lot. But at the end of the day, ONE has the final say on the story. Is said in most of interview back then. Its kinda crazy to expect them to always comment on it yearly just to please some unhinge fans..

• Morikawa: Murata, One Punch Man is written without regarding ONE, right?
• Murata: Oh, no, ONE teacher changed it... He changed it... So, we consult with each other.
• Morikawa: Oh, I see.

It’s true, but also 原作：Tappei Nagatsuki (Re:Zero), 原作：Rifujin na Magonote (Mushoku Tensei), and 原作：Fuse (Slime), etc. So what’s your point??
The only exception I can think of is Aiya Kyu (Shield Hero), who openly said she's both the writer and the artist for the manga adaptation.
Given how strict Japanese copyright laws are, doing otherwise without disclosure would be a scandal.
If ONE or Murata confirm it in the distant future, I’ll stand corrected. But until then...

You seem to love inserting highly biased and speculative opinions on this. Then again, you seem to be an expert on this matter, so maybe I should trust you…

You are just in extreme denial, that is all what this boils down to. Like I stated earlier, there's an absolute mountain of evidence and I only brought uo the tip of it, yet you just conveniantly ignores it because it doesn't fit with what you want to be true.

But what can one expect, only powerscalers, gooners and literal children read the manga nowadays. Not exactly the brightest bunch.

Like I already stated, ONE is also to blame for this for not being able to put his foot down on Murata when he goes haywire. His "final say" doesn't mean shit if Murata can just extend his storyboards tenfold and entirely change them like we have seen him do so many times.

 

[NorwegianJap]

We could conclude that ONE is an asshole and is sabotaging Murata, maybe ONE just wanted to write straight DBZ bullshit but be able to pin the blame on someone else if it didn't work out...
Then turn around and make a better version whenever he has time just to make Murata look even worse.

I personally was not a fan of Versus so much, but it shows ONE's usual style when it's not lingering too long on panels of pointless action.

Or as someone said above, maybe ONE actively decided to write OPM as "a paid version for DBZ morons" and a "Just a hobby version" as a homage to what got him noticed and made him a "famous" professional Writer/Mangaka.

I doubt it's less that and more that ONE is just the typical passive Japanese that is too wimpy to put his foot down on Murata.

 

[manga_follow_75743857]

If we can't trust the word of god, One, why would we trust online comments?

 

[huntercheco]

Chess series reminded me of Hadlar's Royal Guard from Dai

 

[manga_follow_75743857]

Chess series reminded me of Hadlar's Royal Guard from Dai

Metal series, King piece is actually useful.

 

[FlyingEclair]

Metal Knight is either 'tech-smart, socially-braindead' to the point of actual stupidity, or he's got some other scheme going.

There were multiple times where Child Emperor pleaded for some scrap of sense for all of the shady shit he'd been doing, and if he'd just had this conversation earlier then this whole encounter could have been avoided. Considering his stated desire to avoid wasting time, surely he could have seen this inevitable clash coming, and would offer up some token excuses along the way to avoid it. Instead, when confronted he kept throwing blame at CE for not being responsible enough for his friends, when he couldn't even hold a conversation with his own pupil.

I think this is all a part of some plan of his to have CE 'break through', to have a younger genius get to greater heights earlier than he could. Or maybe he really just is that much of a moronic hypocrite.

 

[manga_follow_75743857]

Metal Knight is either 'tech-smart, socially-braindead' to the point of actual stupidity, or he's got some other scheme going.

There were multiple times where Child Emperor pleaded for some scrap of sense for all of the shady shit he'd been doing, and if he'd just had this conversation earlier then this whole encounter could have been avoided. Considering his stated desire to avoid wasting time, surely he could have seen this inevitable clash coming, and would offer up some token excuses along the way to avoid it. Instead, when confronted he kept throwing blame at CE for not being responsible enough for his friends, when he couldn't even hold a conversation with his own pupil.

I think this is all a part of some plan of his to have CE 'break through', to have a younger genius get to greater heights earlier than he could. Or maybe he really just is that much of a moronic hypocrite.

Or Metal Knight is also the believer of keep a sentence 20 words or less. Broke his motto because he can't stand a child crying

 

[NorwegianJap]

If we can't trust the word of god, One, why would we trust online comments?

I trust in ONE

 

[CatLife]

I trust in ONE

if i were in One position i already say no more "One Punch Man" from Murata since the Monster Association arc

 

[Shareazu]

wait wuut...
so Drive Knight is just a red herring it seems..

You do know ONE’s still the one who makes the story for Jump's OPM, right?

I said this in another chapter, but personally I find it very unlikely. The narration style is completely different.

I think either someone else doing most of the writing, and ONE is just sort of supervising a little bit, or there's someone pushing ONE to make changes to the story.

 

[Isssra]

Thanks for the chapter. Surely we wont lose Metal Knight after he finally shared is real thoughts right?

 

[Azaleal]

You are just in extreme denial, that is all what this boils down to. Like I stated earlier, there's an absolute mountain of evidence and I only brought uo the tip of it, yet you just conveniantly ignores it because it doesn't fit with what you want to be true.

Which one? I mean sure, feel free to list that mountain of evidence, why just the tip. I’d like to be informed as well..

ngl, I have brain aneurysm reading all of your posts, Ad Hominem, Strawman, Appeal to Ridicule, False Dilemma, Confirmation Bias, Speculative Assertion, Appeal to Emotion, Stacking the Deck, Poisoning the Well...
Are you trying to use every fallacy in existence??

 

[Dashi_kun]

Thanks for the chapter

 

[cromat]

Looks like we're heading towards the endgame

It's tropy but having your final battle be against someone who means something to the protagonist and not some random bad guy makes it a good fighr because then it becomes more than just "who is more powerful" esp in a manga where baldy is the most powerful.

Take naruto for example, their fight vs madara and kaguya was empty and the final fight was actually sasuke vs naruto and their history and friendship and opposing ideals made it the best fight ideologically.


So baldy vs genocide would make for a great final battle and would explain why saifama doesn't just one shot genox immediately