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Where can this go?

posted 8 years ago by firemagefm
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So, I really like most of the main characters and enjoy their style/attitudes and humor.

However, it's not enough necessarily to perpetuate a show that became monotonous later on. By the last 2 episodes of the season, I really didn't see it going anywhere, and the finale had the same generic ending as usual almost. I don't think the little narrator ending or city destruction classifies it as different or special.

Saitama just succeeded as usual with no effort (and I called that happening from the episode prior - I didn't expect an actual tough villain).

Most of the season was pretty funny with Saitama getting into the hero rankings and so on, but I don't see how this show can last that long. What is something "new" it can do?

[–] dai_grepher1051 7 years ago

Clearly it's building multiple stories with Genos and Metal Knight, Tatsumaki and Fubuki, Bang and the student he expelled, as well as other characters. And there will always be new villains to fight against the various heroes. It isn't all going to be about Saitama winning every time.

[–] magemaximus 7 years ago

yep there are different stories going on. sait will remain the strongest though so keep that in mind. i wondered how they could do a show like this if the main char is basically invincible (this was before watching any episodes and just reading the plot). then i watched the show and it was hilarious. i didn't care that he was was too OP.

You can't persuade fanboys. You'd be better off trying to convince a wall. ~CodeNamePlasmaSnake~

[–] firemagefm 7 years ago

Well, I didn't care that he was overpowered for most of the season. But as I said, the last couple of episodes with the whole "He's maybe going to lose - nevermind, he's still the same" was not really that good. Essentially a wasted amount of time trolling us.

So I'm not sure how many of the stories are going to be that exciting because Saitama will just swoop in and save them 99.9% of the time.

[–] jakubmike 7 years ago

I think it is great. Saitama comes of almost as trollish character, just imagine genos as protagonist, it would be your standard anime, but with Saitama... it is like bad fanfic come to life with this ultimate character who makes everyone looks useless. And I do not mean it as criticism, quite the contrary. It is playing of stupid concepts of shonenn manga, yup you have defeated emperor of the universe but in the next season you will meet a guy who makes this emperor looks like a wimp. One punch reverse the concept...what if freeza was the strongest being in the universe, Goku beat him and now...there is nobody to challenge him. He ends every fight with one strike and is growing bored while the rest of heroic world faces of challenges, go on adventures and quests, generally have fun.
I imagine this is how end game MMO player who have the best equipment, greatest build, all quests finished and is basically a walking death feels when he looks at low level characters having fun while he just mopes around waiting for some kind of challenge.

[–] [deleted] 4 years ago

I imagine this is how end game MMO player who have the best equipment, greatest build, all quests finished and is basically a walking death feels when he looks at low level characters having fun while he just mopes around waiting for some kind of challenge.

I wish I had caught this post sooner! You are incredibly perceptive, because this is literally what Saitama says in the manga. There's a scene he has with King when he's trying to explain to him why he's so bored with being a hero. When King doesn't understand a thing he's saying, Saitama uses this exact analogy, precisely because he knows what a hardcore gamer King is.