Damn, this show has a lot of characters… Read more
One Punch Man
One-Punch Man Season 2 – 03
ONE does have a way of humanizing all of his combatants, even the villains, so you always feel like you have an idea what they’re thinking. Read more
One-Punch Man Season 2 – 02
Saitama may overtly resist factional politics, but he’s already developed a tribe of followers whether he wants to or not. Read more
One-Punch Man Season 2 – 01
The level of negativity pre-airing for this sequel has been pretty ridiculous. Read more
Top 10 Contest Haiku
For our winner, Melodic Thoughts… Saitama, Genos Are just friends, I swear. Except, Inside Comiket Read more
One Punch Man – 12 (End) and Seies Review
So long, Saitama – but this ain’t no goodbye. The first season of One Punch Man draws to a close with without a question its most emphatic battle sequence yet – though the results certainly come as no surprise. In a series built around anti-climaxes stopping in the middle of […] Read more
One Punch Man – 11
I’m not getting my hopes up, but we may just be headed for an actual climax. That preview message came as something of a shock, and that’s in spite of the fact that I knew full well that next week’s episode is the finale. As I said last week if […] Read more
One Punch Man: Road to Hero (OVA)
Rather than a punch, I’d say that was more of a good dope slap. One Punch Man weighs in with its first OVA (another one is coming up at Christmas), and it’s more or less in the vein or an origin story. And it was pretty successful, though the whole […] Read more
One Punch Man – 10
Say this for Madhouse – they sure know how to do epic. It occurred to me watching this week’s episode of One Punch Man that it would really, really suck if the anime were to end here. It’s a truism for one-cour adaptations anyway, but rarely do I recall a […] Read more
One Punch Man – 09
What a waste of a great voice actor… It strikes me, not for the first time, that there’s a fundamental contradiction at the heart of One Punch Man. Every time the protagonist gets into a fight it’s an anti-climax, which would normally be a huge narrative problem – but that […] Read more