• One Punch Man Enemies

Original runOctober 5, 2015 – presentEpisodes22 + 7 OVA One-Punch Man: Road to HeroProduced byMinoru YamaokaWritten byTomohiro SuzukiStudioMadhouseReleasedDecember 4, 2015Runtime24 minutesOne-Punch Man (: ワンパンマン,: Wanpanman) is a Japanese created by which began publication in early 2009. The series quickly went, surpassing 7.9 million hits in June 2012. The Japanese shortened name Wanpanman is a play on the long-running children's character, wanpan being a contraction of wanpanchi ('one punch'). One-Punch Man tells the story of, a who has grown bored by the absence of challenge in his fight against evil and seeks to find a worthy opponent.A remake of the series, illustrated by, began publication on 's website in 2012.

The chapters are periodically collected and printed into volumes, with nineteen volumes released as of April 4, 2019. Has licensed the remake for English serialization in its digital magazine.An television adaptation by aired in Japan between October and December 2015. It was in English during the summer of 2016, and later that year a planned second season was announced. On September 25, 2017, it was announced that they would be changing both its production company and director. The second season premiered in April 2019.

See also:On an unnamed Earth-like super-continent planet, powerful monsters and villains have been mysteriously appearing and causing disasters. To combat them, the world's government created a Hero Association that employs superheroes to stop violent creatures and villains. Each of the Hero Association's superheroes are ranked from Class-C to Class-S.

Was an unranked hero, hailing from the metropolis of City-Z, who performed heroic deeds for his own entertainment. He has trained himself to the point where he broke his 'limiter' and can effortlessly defeat any opponent with a single punch.

Second season of One Punch Man. After rigorously training for three years, the ordinary Saitama has gained immense strength which allows him to take out anyone and anything with just one punch. One-Punch Man is a Japanese superhero web manga created by ONE which began publication in early 2009. The series quickly went viral, surpassing 7.9.

However, since Saitama became a hero for the fun of the experience, he has lately become bored with his superhuman power, and frustrated at the complete lack of strong opponents that can challenge him.Over the course of the series, Saitama encounters various superheroes, friends, villains, and monsters. He quickly gains a pupil, the cyborg, who is on a revenge quest to find another cyborg that slaughtered his entire family and hometown. Eventually the two join the in order to gain official recognition. Genos proves to be a prodigy and is instantly placed in Class-S, while Saitama barely passes because of the written test and is therefore placed in Class-C, making him the lowest ranked hero. Saitama performs many feats that go mostly unnoticed and unappreciated by the public, such as defeating the ninja and destroying an incoming meteor that was going to obliterate City-Z. Saitama is promoted to Class-B after he defeats the powerful Deep Sea King, who rains destruction on City-J. Monsters begin to appear in City-Z, searching for a mysterious.

Soon after, the great seer has a vision that the world is in danger. Panicking, the Hero Association calls all S-Class heroes to a meeting, begging them to protect the world. Immediately after the meeting, the leader of the Dark Matter Thieves, Boros, invades the planet and destroys City-A. Saitama duels with Boros and defeats him by using some normal punches and a serious punch. During the invasion of aliens, the S-Class hero, warns Genos that the S-Class hero, is his enemy. The Hero Association salvages City-A with the help of Metal Knight, and they build a new base of operations that will allow the Hero Association to deploy heroes more easily.Saitama begins to gradually know other superheroes. He quickly becomes friends with the old martial arts master, and the 'Strongest man on Earth' named, who is actually a cowardly nonviolent who got his S-Class position by accidentally receiving credit for many of Saitama's previous victories.

When the Hero Association executive tries to recruit villains to become superheroes, Bang's former apprentice, emerges and starts beating down many of the other heroes, prompting the association to make a small effort to stop him.In order to earn money, Saitama enters a martial arts tournament in disguise as a disciple of Bang. During the martial arts tournament, the Monster Association leads an attack on multiple cities, causing massive panic and damage. The Hero Association struggles to keep up with the attacks. Genos fights monsters and protects the tournament so that Saitama can safely compete. Despite being the most powerful hero in the world, Saitama loses the tournament by default in his last fight with due to being caught wearing a wig and impersonating another martial artist named. Saitama flees the tournament in fear of being arrested by the police.

During the award ceremony, the powerful monster lays siege on the tournament after defeating Genos in combat. Gouketsu presents monster cells that can turn humans into monsters after being ingested to the people of the stadium, telling them that he'll kill them if they don't ingest the cells. Some people partake of the cells becoming monsters, including the martial artist Bakuzan. Saitama returns to the stadium after hearing explosions and the winner of the tournament 's desperate cries for help. Saitama defeats Gouketsu and Bakuzan with a single punch.

Saitama humbles Suiryu and inspires the martial artist to become a hero.The B-Class hero tries to have Saitama join her faction of heroes. Garou, determined to become the most powerful monster, continues to grow stronger and stronger and hunts more heroes down including S-Class heroes. The Hero Association ranks him at a threat of 'Dragon' level, the second highest that is possible. They fail to capture him after sending a team of A-Class heroes to stop him. Bang confronts Garou and almost kills him, but the Monster Association rescues him at the last second to try and recruit him. The Monsters continue to attack people and continue to gather in City-Z being led by the powerful psychic Gyoro Gyoro and the monster King Orochi.

Garou refuses to join the Monster Association and continues to defeat the heroes. Meanwhile, the Hero Association leads a war against the Monster Association with hundreds of heroes after the monsters kidnap the child of a high ranking contributor to the Hero Association. A new group known as, consisting of powerful robots, allies itself with the Monster Association by sending robots such as G5 to help in the war.Production One-Punch Man began publication in 2009 when became interested in creating a comic super hero who was already the strongest in the world.

One wanted to focus on different aspects of storytelling than those normally relied on in standard super hero stories, such as every day problems. One said, 'Punching is oftentimes pretty useless against life's problems. But inside One Punch Man's universe, I made Saitama a sort of guy who was capable of adapting his life to the world that surrounded him, only armed with his immense power. The only obstacles he faces are mundane things, like running short of money.'

One self published the series on the website Nitosha, a Japanese site for publishing online manga.The series was an instant success online, where One generated thousands of viewers and comments within weeks. According to One, the series really began to take off by the time he had written the fifth chapter. On Nitosha, a series was considered popular if it consistently received at least 30 comments, but by the time One had published chapter 30, he was receiving nearly a thousand comments per chapter. In February 2010, One put the series on hiatus in order to focus on work for his family.When One returned to drawing manga in 2011, he was contacted by artist about a possible partnership, where Murata would redraw the manga for One.

Murata had been an enormous fan of One-Punch Man, and was ill at the time. Fearing that he was going to die, he contacted One. Reflecting back he said, 'Around that time, I was actually really sick. I broke out in hives, my inner organs were infected, and I couldn't breathe well with my windpipes swelling. I was in the hospital when I thought, 'Ah, I guess people die just like that.'

If I'm going to die, I want to do something I really love to do. I want to draw manga with Mr. That's what I thought.' Murata, an already successful manga artist, used his connections in the industry to get a publishing deal with comics. Media Manga.

See also:began publishing One-Punch Man as a in 2009. As of April 2019, the web manga has released 111 chapters. When the series became popular, receiving 7.9 million by June 2012, contacted One with a proposal to redraw the comic for publication in 's spin-off website Tonari no Young Jump ( となりのヤングジャンプ, Tonari no Yangu Janpu), published. The first chapter was published on June 14, 2012. The chapters are periodically collected and printed into volumes, with eighteen volumes released as of December 4, 2018. A was bundled with the ninth volume, which was released in August 2015.The series began publication in 's ( Shonen Jump Alpha at the time) in North America on January 21, 2013. The first was released in February 2014.

One-Punch Man was one of a number of series that Viz made available on in June 2014. The manga was released in print in the United States starting in September 2015. See also:An adaptation was announced in the 15th issue of Weekly Young Jump on March 10, 2015. The series' first season was directed by Shingo Natsume at and written by Tomohiro Suzuki.

The series also features character designs by Chikashi Kubota, who also serves as chief animation director, music by Makoto Miyazaki and art design by Shigemi Ikeda and Yukiko Maruyama. Ken Hashimoto serves as the series color key artist, Akane Fushihara is the and Kashiko Kimura serves as the series editor, and Shoji Hata does sound design. The opening theme song is 'The Hero!! Ikareru Ken ni Honō o Tsukero' ( THE HERO!! ～怒れる拳に火をつけろ～, 'The Hero!! Set Fire to the Furious Fist') by, and the closing theme is 'Hoshi Yori Saki ni Mitsukete Ageru' ( 星より先に見つけてあげる, 'I'll Find It Before the Stars for You') by.One-Punch Man 's first season aired in Japan between October 5, 2015 and December 21, 2015 on, airing at later dates on, and, and ran for 12 episodes.

The season on and was on, and 's service. A of the first two episodes was held in the Cultural Center on September 6, 2015. The series is licensed by in North America, Latin America, and Oceania, and by in Europe, the Middle East, and Africa. And handle the distribution of the series in the United Kingdom, and handles distribution in Australia and New Zealand, who also simulcasted the series on. An was released with the tenth manga volume on December 4, 2015.

Additional OVA episodes are included with Blu-ray Disc & DVD volumes of the season, the first of which was released on December 24, 2015.Murata announced in the last weeks of the first season's airing schedule that he was working on making a second season a reality, but had not confirmed it was in development as of December 2015.Viz Media announced that they were working on an English-language dub of One-Punch Man at Anime Boston 2016. On July 1 of the same year, it was announced during 's panel that the series would begin airing on July 16, 2016.A second season was later confirmed in September 2016 and is currently in production.

The second season is animated by with Chikara Sakurai replacing Shingo Natsume as director and Yoshikazu Iwanami replacing Shoji Hata as sound director. Tomohiro Suzuki, Chikashi Kubota and Makoto Miyazaki reprised their roles as series composer, character designer and music composer, respectively. The opening theme song is 'Uncrowned Greatest Hero' ( 静寂のアポストル, Seijaku no Apostle, lit. 'Quiet Apostle') by JAM Project, and the closing theme is 'Chizu ga Nakutemo Modoru kara' ( 地図が無くても戻るから, lit. 'Even Without a Map, I'll Return').

On March 4, 2019, it was announced that the second season would premiere on April 10, 2019, while a television special aired on April 3, 2019. The second season is simulcast on Hulu in the US, on in Canada, on AnimeLab in Australia and New Zealand, and on in Europe. A 10-minute OVA will be bundled with the second season's first Blu-ray Disc/DVD volume on August 27, 2019. Reception One-Punch Man had 2.2 million copies in print in November 2013, 3.2 million copies in April 2014, and 4.5 million copies in November 2014. By November 2016, this number had grown to 11.1 million copies in print.

The series was one of ten nominated for the seventh annual Awards in 2014. As of July 2017, the manga had 13 million copies in print. As of December 2018, the manga had 16.5 million copies in print.Once released in the United States, both the first and second volumes debuted on the, at first and second place, respectively, and stayed there for two weeks. Volume one dropped to second place for the third week, while volume two fell off the list altogether. Volume one was still on the list for a fourth week.

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