One Punch Man 2nd Season

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Synonyms: One Punch-Man 2, One-Punch Man 2, OPM 2

Japanese: ワンパンマン

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Type: TV

Episodes: 12

Status: Finished Airing

Aired: Apr 10, 2019 to Jul 3, 2019

Premiered: Spring 2019

Broadcast: Wednesdays at 01:35 (JST)

Producers: Shueisha

Licensors: Viz Media

Studios: J.C.Staff

Source: Web manga

Genres: Action, Comedy, Parody, Sci-Fi, Seinen, Super Power, Supernatural

Duration: 23 min. per ep.

Rating: R - 17+ (violence & profanity)

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In the wake of defeating Boros and his mighty army, Saitama has returned to his unremarkable everyday life in Z-City. However, unbeknownst to him, the number of monsters appearing is still continuously on the rise, putting a strain on the Hero Association’s resources. Their top executives decide on the bold move of recruiting hoodlums in order to help in their battle. But during the first meeting with these potential newcomers, a mysterious man calling himself Garou makes his appearance. Claiming to be a monster, he starts mercilessly attacking the crowd.

The mysterious Garou continues his rampage against the Hero Association, crushing every hero he encounters. He turns out to be the legendary martial artist Silverfang’s best former disciple and seems driven by unknown motives. Regardless, this beast of a man seems unstoppable. Intrigued by this puzzling new foe and with an insatiable thirst for money, Saitama decides to seize the opportunity and joins the interesting martial arts competition.

As the tournament commences and Garou continues his rampage, a new great menace reveals itself, threatening the entire human world. Could this finally be the earth shattering catastrophe predicted by the great seer Madame Shibabawa?

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Adaptation:	One Punch-Man
Prequel:	One Punch Man, One Punch Man 2nd Season Commemorative Special
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Furukawa, Makoto
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Ishikawa, Kaito
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Midorikawa, Hikaru
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Mumen Rider

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Nakamura, Yuuichi
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Yuuki, Aoi
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Kaji, Yuki
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Fubuki

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Hayami, Saori
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King

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Yasumoto, Hiroki
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Metal Bat

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Hatano, Wataru
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Puripuri Prisoner

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Onosaka, Masaya
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Hosoya, Nobuyuki

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Sakurai, Chikara

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Iwanami, Yoshikazu

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Furukawa, Makoto

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Jul 2, 2019

12 of 12 episodes seen

Overall Rating: 4

Stark700 (All reviews)

379 people found this review helpful

I wish I could say the sequel for one of the most popular anime of this year to be good. I really wish I could. One Punch Man’s release back in 2015 made headlines with its high caliber animation quality and ultra comical character cast. The manga itself is also very popular. Ask anyone who’ve read the series will tell you that it’s more than just your usual battle shounen. Known for its top notch quality comedy and unorthodox storytelling, it’s a sensation. But this…second season is nothing short of a horror story. It’s the type of horror that scared me to realize how far this anime has fallen. What did the second season go wrong?

Well for starters, there’s the change in the staff. Director Shingo Natsume left this season and responsibilities were handed to Chikara Sakurai. One of their previous project was Majimoji Rurumo, a show that probably most people has forgotten by now. One Punch Man has already established itself beyond the anime medium and with a growing popularity, it tries to aim higher. However, fans coming into this season shouldn’t have any high expectations especially if we take a look at the promotional material. While the key visual doesn’t turn heads away, the preview will. With the J.C. Staff in charge of this sequel, this raised a lot of red flags. In respect, the animation quality severely suffers in quality. Rather than a sharp, crisp quality animation with stylish aesthetics, we get static-like power point slides. Maybe I’m exaggerating a bit but this second season’s quality is easy to point fingers to. Unfortunately, it seems J.C. Staff couldn’t handle the job of making this into a sensation again. They already have their hands full with a lot of projects this year after all.

Storytelling itself doesn’t improve much either if we talk about the main plot. Again, I really wish I could say the opposite but this sequel proves itself to be a tragedy. From the rushing of certain content to underwhelming delivery of some of the important fights, I felt no impact from this season at all. Zero. Early on the in season, we also meet Fubuki (Blizzard) who leads the B-Class hero group. At first, I was ecstatic to finally see her gain some relevance. However, the fight between her and Saitama passed like a flash. There’s almost no charisma besides Saitama’s heroic speech and attitude. Even on a comedy level, it didn't draw much popcorn entertainment. Similarly, many of the dialogues this season sounds very scripted. As a manga reader, I wanted to see much more than characters speaking their lines. What I got instead is just words and words coming out in a desaturated manner. Saitama is still the bald caped hero with unstoppable power. The first season captured the magic of his character while this sequel didn’t move the needle. What I mean is Saitama’s fight against adversaries this season isn’t even near the caliber as the previous season.

But it’s not always fair to compare the previous season with this continuation, right? Truth to be told, season 1 did set the bar high. Known for its visual dynamics and ONE’s creative writing, One Punch Man has always done all it could to be its own special series. Here, it’s lost the fire. People made memes out of One Punch Man because it was comically entertaining in a genuine way. Here, there’s worthy made besides weak impressions. Even the hero hunter Garou didn’t make much of an impact. As a foil character to Saitama, I expected his personality to be a bright flair. However, Garou ended up being someone that I forgot easily. Perhaps it’s because the overall directing of the show as several events takes place at once this season. There’s the fighting tournament involving various heroes, the invasion of the monsters, and Saitama living his day as usual as a hero. The joke of being one punched is far over after we’ve seen it so many times. The monsters themselves are hardly worth writing home about. To be honest, does any antagonist this season even contain an ounce of charisma compared to Boros? That fight from season 1 was legendary.

On the hero side, we do have some characters making reappearances. Names like Genos, Metal Bat, and Tatsumaki are a few I’m sure fans remember. Unfortunately, their roles this season has degenerated to little value. New faces like Suiryu brings in some excitement although he can hardly carry this season. In fact, the Super Fight Tournament arc felt like one big talent show of weirdos gathering together. I didn’t feel the stakes were impactful nor did the results feel satisfying. I mean, the show is One Punch Man. Who else is going to dominate this tournament?

Oh how the mighty of fallen is the easiest way to describe One Punch Man Season 2. The first season was a juggernaut that exceeded expectations. Fans still embrace what became a blockbuster. It’s 2019 now and we’ll have people talking again One Punch Man again. Unfortunately, people will quote more from the manga than recommending this sequel. Trust me, One Punch Man Second Season is a mistake. A grave mistake.

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Jul 2, 2019

12 of 12 episodes seen

Overall Rating: 3

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*Mild Spoilers for One Punch Man Second Season*

The second season of One Punch Man is a miserable fall from grace, with a quadruple whammy of circumstances contextualizing the gravity of the show’s failures. It’s a sequel to one of the most well-animated mainstream anime of all time, released over 3 years later. On top of that, this franchise’s counterpart, Mob Psycho 100, got adapted for a second season that practically pushed the boundaries of current TV anime 3 months before this season came out. Combined with the awful feel and presentation of this new season, that set of circumstances becomes the world’s nastiest measuring stick. read more

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Jul 2, 2019

12 of 12 episodes seen

Overall Rating: 3

Karhu (All reviews)

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It's not a very hard task to tolerate with low production values, but when the heart and soul of a beloved franchise gets destroyed by directing that completely misses the point of the series, it becomes near impossible to overlook the massive amount of problems we have at hand. Welcome to the 2nd season of One Punch Man, sequel which inferiority is beyond comparison, show which is not only terrible but an absolute disgrace towards its fans. This is simply not acceptable.

This review will cover 3 main points explaining why I personally found this series to be complete bollocks. These are 1) Comedy 2) Directing, and 3) Art.

1) The comedy doesn't deliver due to poor comedic timing. It's a hollow, near dead version of what it used to be. Scenes end before they reach their climax. Nothing shines or stands above the rest. The content is never pushed to its limit or even tried to. There is no pinnacle to be found as the show is flat like the chest of those countless loli tsunderes J.C. Staff is most famous for. It's like the entire thing has been made without any vision, possibly by someone who never thought there was anything fun about this series to begin with.

Season 1 played around with its comedy, waited for the right moment and even pushed the overall comedic resolution to its utmost limit. It was the type of content that constantly showed respect to its audience, and this was done to an extent that made it very easy to respect it back. After all, making a series about a dude who -- most of the time -- wins everything with a one punch is a risky move which could only ever work if there's a perfect harmony and the strongest merits are polished. And that was done and achieved. With this 2nd season, the presentation is bad, the execution is worse, and its overall form is, at best, like a parody of its predecessor; The punch is still there, but it doesn't have any impact.

2) Immersion is the key, and it's best achieved by atmosphere because with atmosphere comes awe, and awe is something that limits disbelief and gives us the basis that is needed to forgive all sort of flaws, problems and questionable choices any series contains and does. Experiencing the gar-like awe this series is famous for and getting into the show at all has been hard, if not impossible. Action comedy series (and visual comedy alike) tend to be on par with blockbuster action by default. They in generally are build around empty and soulless ideas that don't have much good things going on. This weakness needs to be countered to create this so called "genuine entertainment" that has minimum amount of annoying problems that ruin the fun. This is typically done with written details (such as oneliners or unique characteristics), audio directing, and visual execution that solely exist to make the series seem better than it would otherwise be. I.e. value is placed on details to carry the otherwise lacking content. This job is what the director is supposed to do. But OPM S2 did nothing to fight against its own flaws, rather, it only created more of them, poisoning its own core.

Audio choices, audio directing and directing itself are some of the most important things when it comes to turning mediocrities into something outstanding. But it isn't there. Rather than playing around with the mood and teasing the audience by making us wait -- or alternatively doing the opposite by throwing in some ridiculously energetic beats -- the series is more like "let's get this over with" and then they do. End of story. It promises to reward the viewer but never does. No real value is given to any scene or moment with the comedy (like mentioned earlier) and the same thing applies with the story board, the action scenes, the visuals, and music choices and seiyuu work. To get completely serious here, nearly every scene could be used as a material for Every Frame a Painting videos as an example of the unpreferred way to do shit.

Perhaps the best example of all of this are the first 8,5 minutes of episode 09 which are so poorly made I doubt anyone who gets into film school, but hasn't even taken any lectures yet could manage to do worse job even if they tried to. Heck, I doubt there are even many graduates who could purposely achieve this level of awful. Pay attention to the lackluster sound mixing, monotonous voice acting, the near complete absence of SFX and note the music choice that would be tagged as (mellow piano) in hearing impaired subs. Perfect mood for a scene where some incredibly socially awkward dude tries to kiss his crush with whom he has never spoken with, right? Guess again! It's the most badass fight scene in the first half of this arc! And this is only the audio we're speaking of. What the actual krukk? Talk about failed delivery. Life of an art house visionary, I tell you. This can hardly be called "directing", rather, it seems like a serial production process for products that should've been buried deep under ground and sealed away in cement. Tho a better example of how awful the SFX is is a fight scene from episode 11 where the sounds of landing punches were most likely created by someone repeatedly hitting church organs with a wet sock.

3) Art. When we asked for "loyal adaptation", no one meant "keep the webcomic art as it is", but that's all we've got. MadHouse's art and animation cannot be overhyped. One Punch Man is the single best animated action anime that has yet been made, one may disagree but not change my mind. I saw it 4 times, own it on blu-ray and it looks glorious, visually one of the best things that are called anime, especially when looking into modern productions. Season 2 is a generic J.C. Staff production where still artwork flows around the screen, cheap effects and camera tricks are trying to create the illusion of animation and movement; Even the most basic scenes are done with voice-over narration to ensure there is no need to even animate mouth movements; If there is a way to save money and time, it's chosen every single time; Character models are only few steps away from sanic-tier, purposely terribly drawn memes; The color pallet is not only bland, but inconsistent to a point that the episodes could have as well been made by completely different teams who never shared any data between each other. Just compare the colors of episodes 3 and 4. Let me repeat what was said in the opening paragraph: low production can be forgiven, but One Punch Man 2nd Season's production is a heartless piece of industrial waste, anime that has not known love or passion.

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What J.C. Staff is doing here is despicable as it's making their creation seem like an attempt to use this entire medium as an investment platform. Minimum effort and risk to ensure profit. The ultimate safety route. "We missed out Bitcoin so let's see if this can cash us some." I guess that's why they couldn't even color metals properly since those aren't gold or silver. This is the furthest from a work of passion, driven by creed alone. Saitama is not "ok" anymore like in the meme, rather, it's a full turn around with a K.O. (sorry, I just had to put this here somewhere)

When series comes with such obvious and serious issues, I don't think there is any real reason to go in depth with the story and characters because OPM S02 is fundamentally so broken that no amount of pros falling under these categories could fix it. I will only talk about them briefly. Keep in mind that the technical aspects of the show lessen the entertainment value of its story and characters -- and ultimately they are just an inferior version of the re-drawn manga, which I personally recommend reading instead of watching this anime -- but since they are a part of this anime and not an entity that can be completely taken out of context, and considering this review is not aimed for the manga, you will face criticism that is only relevant to the anime. + This anime is not 100% loyal to canon anyway.

The story type changes during this season. The monster of the week formula is put in the background when new type of elements and side-plots are expanding the verse and moving the main focus from Saitama to other characters. At first, the series seems to be quite lost when the storyboard is all over the place, introducing characters at episodic speed and following wide range of different pov's in each, offering fights that don't seem to have real substantial value and showing monsters that are partially making the entire idea for the series seem old and outdated. It takes over half of the entire run time before the story finally tightens up, the supposed build-up phase concludes and the filler-ish feel of the past events start seem significant. Most of this run time is used to make the viewer understand the characters better and see what type of people they are, the actual means used to achieve all of this being secondary. Despite everything there is to criticize, the characters are not a missed shot. Fubuki is strengthening her role as the best girl for anime only watchers, King especially is portrayed to be an actual real human, and Garou "The Hero Hunter" is shown to be an actually very well-thought out villain. With mild issues in the storyboard (and major in their execution, of course), the story knows where it is headed and majorly improves towards the end. From these departments, the series seems bearable even under its massive problems listed above. There definitely was room for improvement from these departments, too, but even so, at least they managed to make watching this series more tolerable.

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Jul 2, 2019

12 of 12 episodes seen

Overall Rating: 10

papsoshea (All reviews)

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One Punch Man is the second series from the 2010s that I have witnessed since Attack on Titan that became a crossover hit with many anime fans and the mainstream. The memes and parodies featuring its dopey, bald star were in every corner of the internet and soon became one of the most popular franchises in 2015. A second season was soon announced, but in 2017, an announcement was made that had the effect of nails on a chalkboard. Because why change something that isn't broken? The series changed production houses entirely, delaying the release. Fast forward to 2019 and the man donning the colors of Hulk Hogan—the yellow-and-red-clad hero has returned to our screens and is packing more power than season 1.

So, let’s get the 'obvious' out of the way. The production of season 2. J.C. Staff (which turned out to be perfect) has taken over the reins from Madhouse, and also directors saw a change, from Shingo Natsume to Chikara Sakurai. Many One Punch Man fans are rejoicing that the visuals are just as spectacular, if not, even better, and it’s understandable since the 2019 version delivered one of the most sakuga-rich anime experiences of the decade, just like season 1 did. The art style is more refined, the animation feels a lot smoother and crisp, the cinematography, in general, seems to have turned up a notch. One word: Dedication. The production team effort is very visible and you can see how many hours were put into this season. All the battle sequences are stunning thanks to the amazing choreography, the sound design is gorgeous, shot-composition perfectly tells the story where you could mute the volume and still understand the story, the characters motivations, their relationships, and feelings.

Basically, One Punch Man delivers a knockout when it comes to art, animation, and sound. As for the story? Well, this is where it takes things to the next level. But, first and foremost, action and comedy drive One Punch Man, and the series is able to emphasize the best of both when combining them. Saitama’s search for an enjoyable fight lampoons superheroes feats of valor. It’s not a story about an unbeatable hero meeting his match and surpassing it, but rather decking hulking, homicidal maniacs and still searching for more. Though he is played off as a simple person, the layers to his motivation are interesting as his craving for an opponent is almost maniacal. One Punch Man has the thematic depth and really complex character dynamics, which shows ONE’s prowess as a writer. This series is a mirror held up to the malaise of Japan’s disaffected, dissatisfied and disinterested young adult generation. It forms a sort of bookend with “Boku no Hero Academia” as manga takes on the American superhero genre, but this always struck me as the more innately Japanese in approach.

We also get plenty of new characters, but one in particular, Garou. He is a big part of what separates this season from the previous. What really makes him stand out is that in this season full of transparent motives and disinterested slackers, he’s actually passionate about something. He’s a child, no doubt, but his self-belief and work ethic can’t be questioned. As misguided as his drive for monster-dom is, there’s a kind of purity to it. Garou is weird, kind of twisted, and interesting. One of the things that makes him someone you can get behind in a fantastical series like this is that he’s genuinely strong—probably at the top level of A, with the potential to jump to S-class. Also, he never backs down for a fight or bitches about the odds—he takes on anyone, and even any group all at once. He is the perfect foil to Saitama and adds a lot more depth to the story. Still, as with Stain, knowing the character is in the wrong doesn’t mean you can’t empathize with them, and so it is with Garou.

He’s saved hero kid more than once; he disgustedly rebuffs the advances of the Monster Association. He’s not a monster himself in either the literal or figurative sense—just a seriously fucked-up dude with a twisted worldview. But there’s something in there worth saving, and a power that if channeled for good could be of huge value to the heroes in a figurative sense. And that makes him an amazing character too much the greatness of Saitama and give the story more depth. In addition, we have more from characters such as King, Metal Bat, Blizzard (best waifu) and a new character-Suiryu. Saitama and Genos are still a hilarious combo, and the world retains its goofy tone. Calm and collected, Garou is far from another one-note abomination for Saitama to steamroll over, and a growing band of allies promises and delivers a satisfying season arc. The comedy is just the best. A classic ONE gag is when Pri Pri Prisoner went up against a porcupine monster holding a “free hug” sign.

Then you have Saitama’s interactions with King and Suiryu, the Martial Arts tournament, the dynamics between Blizzard and her sister Tornado, even Garou conversations with the hero kid. All punches thrown with weight behind it and successfully hitting its target. The comedic timing remains impeccable, the visuals gags are as funny and meme-worthy as ever. It is just a masterful sequel on every level. And of course, the main killer joke of One Punch Man never wears thin! Saitama one shotting every monster remains as hilarious as ever. Make no mistake, the praise is deserved—ONE’s writing is excellent, and the amazing J.C. Staff have proven once again that everything they touch, turns to gold. They have done a stellar job of adapting it (and Murata’s art style). It was beautifully animated throughout with battles feeling like I was watching vintage Gainax. Take the episode where that wonderfully animated colossal centipede was wreaking havoc as an example.

Season 1 of One Punch Man was a true mega-hit, but season 2 is a monster that solidifies this show as a generational classic. No question it’s a gorgeously produced piece of work from J.C. Staff, and it’s the funniest show of the season. But it’s also deceptively smart and deceptively subversive, setting its sights both on the superhero genre and on the malaise gripping the young in today’s Japan. It is one of these shows that can be enjoyed perfectly well on a superficial level, as the funny and epic thrill-ride it is, but if one chooses to embrace the social satire this show elevates to another level altogether. It speaks to many kinds of fans on many levels and comes at the audience from a very smart and intellectually challenging place. This is the kind of shounen and the kind of hero fiction that can cross demographic and cultural lines and international borders and connect with the masses—this is perfection. Thank you J.C. Staff!

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