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[Spoilers] One-Punch Man Season 3 - Episode 1 Discussion

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I have been waiting for this for years! Trying to be open minded about this. The OP is pretty cool, the style definitely changed again from last season, I think it looks pretty good so far.

She is back!

Of course they are just goofing off lol.

Terryfying a

The story is as great as ever. And Goofy. It feels great to have this show back!

nodo 6mo
I'm just happy Sonic lost 2kg

And its funny to see Fubuki reasonably shocked again with the strongest heroes laying low on Saitama's apartment like it's just a normal Tuesday
- pyramidsjosh 6mo
  almost 5 pounds from diarrhea is insane
  ANK22 6mo
  Tbf people used to die from that
Younghoon 6mo
Maybe it's because it's been years and I've grown up since then but man not even the comedic portion of this episode (which is OPM's strongest suit) hit as much as it used to... guess it's a drop
Elvenn 6mo
First ep animation makes me scared for the fights...
- Kirokito 6mo
  Well its the same studio who gave us season 2 so expect to be disappointed again......... Idk why they allowed J.C.Staff to do it again. Honestly I didn't even know it was them doing this season again but after seeing that just killed all my hype for this season lol
  CallMeWeeeb 6mo
  
  Idk why they allowed J.C.Staff to do it again
  
  I dont think they need to be allowed by anyone. JC just happens to have the rights to animate it, and the rights are with them unless they plan to surrender them. correct me if im wrong
  Kirokito 6mo
  I honestly don't know myself but either way they are not a good studio for this series so even if that is the case it still just sucks that they are the ones to do it
  das 6mo
  This is incorrect, if you check the sidebar you see that the only Producer is Shueisha, the company behind Shounen Jump. They own the rights and J.C. Staff simply got contracted for this. Only very few studios can afford to make their own works.
  BeastMaster6964 6mo
  sybau
  CivilightEterna 6mo
  Chill bro ?
  CallMeWeeeb 6mo
  oh thats how it works
  Fxmf 6mo
  Season 2 had some incredibly well animated fights though, Kenichiro Aoki cooked throughout Season 2 and he's working on Season 3, not all hope is lost
  Kirokito 6mo
  I personally didn't like anything from season 2 but I do hope something pulls through
  Kameron75 6mo
  i just rewatched s1 and s2 after a few years. s2 was still pretty good imo. obviously not s1 quality animation but i have yet to see another show that rivals s1 and its 10 years old.
  das 6mo
  The guy sure can draw, but a single talent can only very rarely salvage a production on their own. Insiders are saying that the production is cooked, but this of course doesn't mean that there can't be some well-animated scenes
  ToddHarry258 6mo
  @das he wasn't the only one who carried it as they had still others helping
  das 6mo
  Yeah, naturally
  continue this thread →
  Roxy377 6mo
  im pretty sure other studios either didnt want to pick opm up or schedule conflicts
  ToddHarry258 6mo
  also busy with their own projects
DerpyDinoX 6mo
wooo, they got babymetal on the op!! 🔥🔥🔥
CallMeWeeeb 6mo
6/10 honestly. I understand it's the dialogue-heavy part of the story but the anime wasn't much engaging
Removed 6mo
Is that the first time we see metal knights face or I'm i misremembering?? He looks goofy the type of desing One love to do
Removed 6mo
So happy that the one punch man anime is back. It was an alright episode.
- Batson 6mo
  Same
JacBar 6mo
I hope that for his sake, Garou doesn't cross paths with Saitama now, because otherwise Saitama will be the one to go to Orochi with Garou's head.
- comma 6mo
  that's if he has a head left...
Kbomb 6mo
it was a good episode but it was obvious that they were trying to cheap out and show as less movement as they could
- 1Frieren 6mo
  tru🥀
KiriPistols 6mo
Namaryu 6mo
I understand that we wouldn't get fights in the first episode but for such a heavy exposition dump portion they could have at least adapted it in an engaging way. What we got is the most flavourless, by the book approach you could ask for that even managed to butcher the comedic timing, which was the last thing I wanted to nail since even when the fights fail there could be some moments of laughter... but not here.
BlackSpectrum 6mo
i kinda don't like how art changed, makes me sad (inner voice: why, even though the studio is same) especially those weird face proportions like how long atomic samurai's face got, also feels like most characters are wearing a wig, and saitama's face, why do I feel like it changes every frame... or is it just me, also I feel his face got squashed!
Removed 6mo
If they focused the animation budget on the fights, I'm all for it.
If not, then...
Roxy377 6mo
its an alright narrative first ep, they did the most they could to save budget in the talking and idle scenes.
CaliPalu22 6mo
that definitely was an episode- kinda boring exposition dump but it's setting stuff up for next episode so it's fine-
Visually the characters look great honestly- it's just lacking animation / interesting direction with some of the dialogue scenes. But, if they're saving the animation budget for the fights and action, then it's totally understandable.
Someonen3w 6mo
slideshow and close ups...it's NOT looking good
IronFree 6mo
The animation is really minimalist, it's almost a slideshow. The drawing quality lacks consistency.
I'm not sure anyone would ever praise that if it wasn't "One Punch Man" ;D
XMw2k11 6mo
One of the worst OPM episodes I've seen, drawing is just terrible, fans' productions look better than this.
Still frames with little to no animation, bigger than ever black outlines, distorted faces, etc.
- Astrea 6mo
  Thought I was tripping seeing others say this was a good episode. That Darkshine scene is just terrible.
- stravanasu 6mo
  Completely agree. Already at the very beginning there are scenes with frozen people (Hero Association HQ) and just audio for several seconds.
  
  In another scene Garou looks deformed while walking; it reminds of the cutout animations by Terry Gilliam in Monty Python...
  
  It doesn't become good animation just by drawing ticker lines...
  
  Keeping my fingers crossed.
AbouDOne 6mo
We are never getting season 1 back. I made peace with that. But man this looks rough with how inconsistently drawn the characters are I can't even imagine how bad it will get in a few weeks. Probably gonna preemeptively drop this one.
sonneeaa 6mo
At least better than season 2, but still One PowerPoint Man ~~
- SuccubusHunter 6mo
  You are extremely high.
  But let's wait for the action to really be able to compare Season 2 with Season 3.
  sonneeaa 6mo
  I'm watching it with my lowest expectations though, so yeah it's rough but there's a lil bit improvement from season 2 ~~
NoBlockhuman 6mo
Episode full of still frames and that one time where someone is a walking on screen, it looks like absolute ass.
As we saw in the trailer, the fight scenes are not going to be any good either.

As the Director said himself, he was clearly not qualified for this anime production.

This is beyond disappointing.
Read the Manga instead.
Kikyuu 6mo
damn even the manga had better animation than this episode
LightSeb 6mo
I saw the anime years ago and honestly don't know what's going on, but I decided to just watch it and maybe it'll work again haha, but I love the intro and the humor. Can't wait for the second episode.
NeoDesu 6mo
I really hate the downgrade in the animation compared to S1, even to S2, which was "okay" but this one is just horrible considering this studio has better works out there, it feels like they only know how to draw faces, but when it comes to body anatomy, it's disgustingly bad, NOT EVEN the opening survived how bad this animation is, I've seen better opning in those shity Isekai anime than this.
bigkwii 6mo
i'm very worried
12HD 6mo
Nooo not the png version
evil 6mo
one slideshow man
RyuichiKato 6mo
This episode was so exhausting to watch ... I hope it gets better ...
Jmanitou 6mo
I gotta disagree with those saying animation only matters for the fights. This episode sucked. OP and ED are boring in my opinion too
Cantido 6mo
I think the only thing that moved on-screen for the first 10 minutes were the re-used shots from last season.
In a world where so many creatively storyboarded shows come out every season, that actually have some shred of passion put into them, this is borderline unwatchable.
What a goddamn shame.
Jingling0613 6mo
definitely one of the episodes of the times. hell even a copycat isekai had more action than this in its dialogue

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