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Oct 12, 10:07 AM

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Lmao this was ass. I don't remember what the animation was like in season 2, but I don't think I was ever this bored with an episode.
Oct 12, 10:07 AM
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Only power point, lmao
Oct 12, 10:08 AM
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I’m disappointed!😢
Oct 12, 10:11 AM
Oct 12, 10:11 AM

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Only power point, lmao
@Leon888 next in the line of Blue Lock season 2
Oct 12, 10:12 AM

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Lmao this was ass. I don't remember what the animation was like in season 2, but I don't think I was ever this bored with an episode.
@UnknownGhost5 felt the same
Oct 12, 10:14 AM

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Neat build-up episode for the invasion on monster association HQ. Very strong drawings throughout the episode. Waiting on the story to get to the meat and potatoes of the arc to see the core vision of the new series director. Color palettes remind me of BLEACH TYBW here and there.
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Lmao this was ass. I don't remember what the animation was like in season 2, but I don't think I was ever this bored with an episode.
@UnknownGhost5 because the storyboards is ass even poorly animated episodes of evangelion is never boring because of great storyboards by anno
Oct 12, 10:16 AM

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Can't believe it's been over 6 fucking years since Season 2 came out. What took 'em so long? Oh well. I already accepted that Season 1 was a one-of-a-kind event that won't be replicated again. But surely, after all this time, Season 3 is going to be better than Season 2 at least, right?

*Watches first episode of Season 3*
Oh... It's bad. They didn't even put any effort in the first episode which is usually one of the better animated episodes of any anime. Sure, it's just people talking. But somehow the studio made even that look so boring and flat. I'd say that maybe they're saving the budget for the fight scenes. But even the fucking scenes of Garou walking looked so cheap... Yeah, this doesn't bode well. This shit makes Sakamoto Days look like a masterpiece. There's a slight chance Season 3 might be even worse than Season 2. Now that'd be a fun dumpsterfire to watch burn lol.

Anyway, I guess the OP is decent. Better than Season 2 OP at least. It's sad to see OPM, a series that could easily become really popular if done right be done dirty like this. Reminds me of the upcoming CGI remake of Fist of the North Star. I just don't understand wtf they're thinking. I'm just glad Mob Psycho 100 didn't suffer the same fate.
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But even the fucking scenes of Garou walking looked so cheap... Yeah, this doesn't bode well. This shit makes Sakamoto Days look like a masterpiece. There's a slight chance Season 3 might be even worse than Season 2. Now that'd be a fun dumpsterfire to watch burn lol.

You're spitting facts. Is this what I have been waiting for all these years !? 💔💔
Oct 12, 10:22 AM
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Genuinely, not even being hyperbolic, this looks like Queen Bee animation.
I'm... very sad now.
Oct 12, 10:25 AM

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OOOHH HOO HOO HOO—Fubuki?? 👀

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Oct 12, 10:25 AM

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I love how Saitama's apartment just keeps getting more crowded as a hangout spot for heroes. Poor Fubuki though.
Oct 12, 10:26 AM
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hype lets go. I think it will be like season 2.
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Oct 12, 10:27 AM

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I still remember just how heated the discussion threads were back when season2 aired and, in all honestly, I'm not too surprised to see this discussion thread for the 1st episode of season 3 of be a reminder of those days back in 2019.

Half of my praise is solely on Tatsumaki, because she's awesome (I'm biased, sue me!), but other things that I like were the OP song being pretty good and the main visuals do look better than how season 2 went.

Unlike a lot of other people, I won't be concluding my thoughts on the production quality based only on a build-up episode alone, as that would be a pretty stupid thing to do. It'll all come down to how well animated the fights are in later episodes that'll be the main make-or-break part of this season. As for me, I highly doubt we'll get the quality of the first season and anyone should do well to keep their expectations more realistically instead of letting it go out of control, which happens more often than not, but if the staff do their job well, then they'll get some well deserved praise come the end of the season.

Either way, each Sunday is going to bring out the best and worst of this website, so I'll grab some imaginary popcorn and pretend to eat away. For better and for worse, I look forward to seeing how people will react with each new episode. XD
Oct 12, 10:28 AM
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At this point we can pray that this was April fools joke
Oct 12, 10:28 AM
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I felt it was rushed
Oct 12, 10:29 AM
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It feels like somewhat animated manga, not anime.

Most frames are still pictures with characters that barely move the lips or something as the whole animation.

Also transitions are not organic, it's like taking the frames of the anime as a crude storyboard and make it happen. For example, the scene in which Kid Emperor contacts Metal Knight, just happens, with no transition, with no added something that indicates Kid knows he's there listening or anything, it's lifeless, it just happens. The ending of the episode is another example, in like 5 seconds 3 scenes happen with just 3 different frames like a storyboard with no transition.

This feels like Blue Lock S2, there's really no animation, it's mostly a visual novel with audio.

I know the anime industry is famous for not having too much frames, they have developed techniques to trick the audience, but this is ridiculous, it's blatantly obvious.

The drawing does not look bad, we'll see in the next episode if they are saving material for fights or something, but it's not a good start. Usually the first and last episode of a season have great production quality than the middle ones, for obvious reasons.
Oct 12, 10:29 AM

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Well that went about as expected. It's another slide show powerpoint season. Unfortunate, people can stop sniffing the copium now.
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Oct 12, 10:30 AM
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Yay JC staff for their shitty animation
Oct 12, 10:31 AM
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Good OP, Genos' arms don't look weird now, and lastly, I want to hang out at Saitama's place
Oct 12, 10:34 AM

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It feels good to finally watch this :)

Love the new OP and the ED! I think the first is still my favorite of the bunch but the new one isn't bad. Really like the ED song though.

Did Child Emperor get a new VA? I swear they sound older lol I rewatched season one and two a couple weeks ago so maybe I'm just not remembering it right.

Looking forward to watching this every Sunday! Not much has really caught my eye this season apart from this and like maybe two other shows.

Edit: Damn, looks like a lot of people really don't like the animation this season, and yeah tbh I agree. It looks pretty off, but I do think it looks a bit better than the second season. Either way I don't really care, and I've seen way worse. I think I'm still going to really enjoy this.
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Oct 12, 10:37 AM

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waiting for the episode with actual fights... and... animation :P
Oct 12, 10:38 AM

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oookaaay... that long of a wait for that Episode 1? whew, JC shoulda made it a double-length Ep instead of a standard one. because we had lotsa talking, yet little going on. i guess some info-dump is required but ohmahgawd... a whole Episode's worth of expositional dialogue? plus, we gotta wait yet another week for something to happen? definitely needed a 48minute episode.
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Oct 12, 10:38 AM
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It's over, considering that this is a production disaster, the chance of the opening scenes being scenes from the episode is very high. This is a smart way to save resources and speed up production, just like they did by reusing scenes from past seasons.
Oct 12, 10:41 AM
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My 17th Summer 2025 anime! We are SO back after 6 years since Spring 2019 when season 2 came out! I have been WAITING! Fun fact, season 2 was the only anime I ever watched ongoing back then before I started watching anime ongoing in Winter 2021. I remember this was a Wednesday anime at the time 🤣 never forget. Whenever people ask me what my favorite anime is, I always say One Punch Man. I rewatched seasons 1 and 2 last year in Summer 2024 just for the hell of it and it was amazing. Season 2 was actually not as bad as I remember it being 🤣 like obviously it’s not as good as season 1, but it was still better than I thought. I remember Season 3 was supposed to come out a lot sooner but just kept getting delayed to the following Fall season. My most anticipated Fall 2025 anime. Finally here we are! 🙌🏻🥊

I miss season 1’s OP and ED 🥲🔥 the best

I better hear a lot of that one main OST “Seigi Shikkou” this season. We only heard it ONCE last season at the end when Saitama punched the centipede 🤯 for only like 10 seconds.

This season is supposedly being directed by a hentai director ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°) you know what that means

Seiyuus:
- Tatsumaki Tornado - Aoi Yuuki. She is also voicing Tanya from Isekai Quartet Season 3 this season too! 🤣🙌🏻 literally the exact same character. Little runt girls.
- Atomic Samurai - Kenjiro Tsuda. No mistaking that deep villainous voice man 🤣 he’s him.
- Zombie Man - Takahiro Sakurai. My FAVORITE Seiyuu of all time. He also voiced Tomioka Giyuu from the Demon Slayer Infinity Castle move that just dropped last month. Such a badass cool voice 🔥
- Fubuki Blizzard - Hayami Saori. She voiced Shinobu from the Demon Slayer movie as well, but she’s also voicing Reiner from A Hero Without A Class this season too! Hottest girl in here 👌🏻
- Genos - Kaito Ishikawa. Lucky dude just got married to the hottest Seiyuu ever, Maaya Uchida. Their marriage is all over the internet more than any other Seiyuu couple I’ve seen. He voiced a lot of main roles last season.
- Saitama - Furukawa Makoto. He has so many signature voices, but the funny one he uses when he’s yelling is the best 🤣
- Gyoro Gyoro - Takehito Koyasu. The one eyed pink monster. I just finally learned his voice recently 🤣 he’s also voicing that one villain leader dude from Dusk Beyond the End of the World and that one teacher from Isekai Quartet Season 3 this season too from Re:Zero 🤣 such a fruity voice he has
- 20:00 BRUH WHO IS THIS TELETUBBY LOOKING MONSTER?! He’s so voiced by Umehara Yuuichiro! 🤣 yet another deep cool badass voice. Goblin Slayer.
- Sonic is voiced by Kaji Yuki! Eren Yeager! 🤣🙌🏻 I think I got everyone in this first episode.
- As you can see, One Punch Man has one HELL of a top tier Seiyuu cast 🙌🏻 unique and distinct voices everywhere!

9:50 that’s not how I was expecting Blast Knight’s true appearance to look like 😮🐀

14:10 Fucking King is so full of shit 🤣

15:20 OMG THE BEST OST IS HERE ALREADY!!!! 🤣🙌🏻 only played for a few seconds tho 🥲

Oct 12, 10:42 AM

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0451 said:
But even the fucking scenes of Garou walking looked so cheap... Yeah, this doesn't bode well. This shit makes Sakamoto Days look like a masterpiece. There's a slight chance Season 3 might be even worse than Season 2. Now that'd be a fun dumpsterfire to watch burn lol.

You're spitting facts. Is this what I have been waiting for all these years !? 💔💔
@Niwaka-Samurai Glad I didn't wait. I just stopped caring after Season 2. I'm still surprised it took 6 years to make this slop. It looks like the type of shit they'd pump out just 6 months after Season 2 finished. But somehow they took 6 years and learned nothing lmao.
Oct 12, 10:53 AM
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Seeing Tatasumaki again really made my day. Anyways this episode was ok, just hoping every single penny of the budget was spent on Tatsumaki... Hopefully more in the future episodes.
The opening has some great sequences with her so I am happy for now..
Oct 12, 11:03 AM
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Its so cooked......
Oct 12, 11:11 AM
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@Niwaka-Samurai Glad I didn't wait. I just stopped caring after Season 2. I'm still surprised it took 6 years to make this slop. It looks like the type of shit they'd pump out just 6 months after Season 2 finished. But somehow they took 6 years and learned nothing lmao.
@0451 buddy here really things they were animating this for 6 yrs lmao, like ... there's a limit to be dumb
Oct 12, 11:22 AM
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Literal Powerpoint slideshow, filled with no movement beyond basic gestures and mouthing. It's like they've already run out of budget on episode one and are stalling for time to reach the 23 minute mark.
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Oct 12, 11:22 AM
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Amazing start, W episode
Oct 12, 11:23 AM
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It looks better than Season 2, that’s for sure. Who knows if JC will properly adapt it.
Oct 12, 11:24 AM
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You know what happens in six years? People graduate. A whole pandemic came and went. Presidents got re-elected. Newborns grew up and started school...
AND THIS IS WHAT WE GET AFTER 6 YEARS OF WAITING?
What is this storyboard? What is this direction? And honestly, what is even moving here to call it animation?

I’m trying not to rush to judgment, but this first episode isn’t exactly filling me with hope here. Let’s just hope things improve.
Oct 12, 11:28 AM
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It's a bit hard to believe that it has taken us this long but we're back and with everyone acting up on another emergency. Blizzard is notifying Saitama about it only to be met by incapacitated heroes, King playing games and him hilariously only acting up after being ignored. Tornado is back as well with her antics and Garou will be one of the focus points not only from the poster but for the monster association as well.

Everything looks to be better animated at least in color than last season. If the pacing is good this is bound to be a good run.
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Oct 12, 11:29 AM
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Inappropriate content, just garbage
Oct 12, 11:32 AM
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It looks amazing idk why people are hating over it
Oct 12, 11:33 AM
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Anime_Phenom said:
Re6278 said:
This absolutely does not look worse than season 2

im currently watching s2 for the first time and i dont personally see why s2 is not animated as good as s1 is yet i see everyone say that season 2 dropped in quality. as i am trying to figure out why this is the case could you elaborate to me as to how s2 is worse than 1 in quality of animation?

I agree. I watched both seasons myb 2 years ago and, although I did kinda noticed that the quality dropped, I thought that the animation and whole thing was still great. But having read the manga and seeing the first episode, it's not looking good, I've seen better fan animations than this and I think 2nd season and this can't be put in the same discussion in terms of quality.
Oct 12, 11:33 AM

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Mostly still frames, but at least we got some animated scenes like:

ZackoOct 12, 11:47 AM
Oct 12, 11:33 AM
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How does JC Staff still get so much work? How can they manage to adapt such a beautifully drawn manga into such a pos slideshow?

Sigh
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Oct 12, 11:33 AM
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honestly disresctful to Murata's insane art for the manga. I'm gonna try to stick with it but I may be dropping this one
Oct 12, 11:37 AM
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Mostly still frames, but at least we got some animated scenes like:

@Zacko remove the [img] tags

https://imgur.com/fTXolGA

and i agree 10/10 sakuga for garo there /s
Oct 12, 11:46 AM
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Could have been worse, gotta wait til they start fighting tho
Oct 12, 11:48 AM

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feel disappointed, powerpoint presentation? ngl, it worse than S2, waiting for so long, is actually very disappointing
Oct 12, 11:50 AM
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The post-credits scene with Speed of Sound Sonic was the best part of the episode 😬 since it captured the silliness of the first season so much better than the standard "My Hero Academia" kind of vibe that the show seems to have a lot now (which is fine if that's what someone wants, but it's very different to the initial feeling of the show).

I'm hoping that it recaptures some of the funny Saitama or Genos moments too, and it sort of got that a little bit when Fubiki visited them as Saitama et al. were at home.
Saitama felt weirdly stiff in both animation and voice acting though, and it just doesn't feel the same 🥲
Oct 12, 11:51 AM

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@Zacko remove the [img] tags

https://imgur.com/fTXolGA

and i agree 10/10 sakuga for garo there /s
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Thanks, had some issues with getting the gif to play properly, but seems to work now?
Sakuga indeed. Almost as good as Seven Deadly Sins Season 3.
Oct 12, 11:52 AM
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Thanks, had some issues with getting the gif to play properly, but seems to work now?
Sakuga indeed. Almost as good as Seven Deadly Sins Season 3.
@Zacko ye you converted the mp4 video to gif so thats working for the [img] tags
Oct 12, 11:53 AM
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So, Sonic's "new power" is that he's slightly faster due to being 2kg lighter from the diarrhea he got from food poisoning?

This is peak OPM.
Oct 12, 12:08 PM
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This is not animation. They called it animation, but they made a slideshow. I've watched better short animations on YouTube.
Say_SenseiOct 12, 12:17 PM
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Wow this is bad lol
Oct 12, 12:13 PM

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@0451 buddy here really things they were animating this for 6 yrs lmao, like ... there's a limit to be dumb
@Marutiraya I never said they were animating this for 6 years. I'll be surprised if they animated the whole season for more than 6 months despite announcing it 3 years ago in fucking 2022. But they had 6-ish years to plan and properly schedule this shit and they still wasted it. Yeah, there is a limit to being dumb and unfortunately there's no hope for the production committee and the people who defend this sad piece of garbage.
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