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Nov 9, 9:09 AM

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Man, it’s honestly pretty clear now. I didn’t want to say anything until we got a full fight episode to really judge things, but after this one… yeah, this season is cooked. And it’s not just the animation.

Everything feels rushed. The pacing and transitions are all over the place, scenes jump around with no flow, and it completely kills the atmosphere. Big reveals that should’ve been hype or intense just end up feeling flat. The dragon-level monster Pochi’s reveal, for example, felt way too casual. Those moments should’ve been terrifying and dramatic, but they come off like just another scene.

Then you’ve got these random, well-drawn “epic” frames that pop up out of nowhere but don’t match the rest of the episode’s quality, which makes everything feel inconsistent. There were so many key moments in this episode that had the potential to hit hard, but because of weak direction, awkward cuts, and lack of proper BGM or buildup, they just… don’t.

And the production issues are so obvious. You can literally see missing animations, like the part where Super Mouse crashes into the wall trying to attack Tareo (which Garou deflects) being completely cut out, yet the next shot still shows the broken wall. It’s just sloppy.

At this point, it honestly feels like an average fan animation with constantly shifting art and animation styles. It’s disappointing to see such an amazing story and character like Garou handled this poorly. The only thing that can save this season now is a mid-season halt. This production desperately needs breathing room. Give the animators some freaking time, Bandai a**h****

𝓜𝓪𝔂𝓫𝓮 𝔀𝓮 𝓽𝓻𝓲𝓮𝓭 𝓽𝓸 𝓵𝓮𝓪𝓿𝓮 𝓪𝓼 𝓶𝓾𝓬𝓱 𝓶𝓮𝓶𝓸𝓻𝓲𝓮𝓼 𝓸𝓯 𝓸𝓾𝓻𝓼𝓮𝓵𝓿𝓮𝓼 𝔀𝓲𝓽𝓱 𝓮𝓪𝓬𝓱 𝓸𝓽𝓱𝓮𝓻 𝓫𝓮𝓬𝓪𝓾𝓼𝓮 𝔀𝓮 𝓴𝓷𝓮𝔀 𝓸𝓷𝓮 𝓭𝓪𝔂 𝔀𝓮 𝔀𝓸𝓾𝓵𝓭𝓷'𝓽 𝓫𝓮 𝓽𝓸𝓰𝓮𝓽𝓱𝓮𝓻 𝓪𝓷𝔂 𝓶𝓸𝓻𝓮
Nov 9, 9:10 AM
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really glad I read ahead before this episode came out


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I swear, this is my new favorite thing. Thank you, jc staff.
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Nov 9, 9:22 AM
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I haven't watched this episode yet, I'll watch it later today, but from the looks of it, it's another shitty episode. Color me surprised.

The people defending this shit, episode 5 didn't cut it...AGAIN, so what's your excuse now? Don't tell me we have to wait for episode 6 to see good animation, you've been saying that shit since episode 2.
Nov 9, 9:24 AM
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Vairloff said:
@Zolo_124
for what?
you dont need to know how to make bread to tell its not tasty.
you dont need to be filmmaker to tell movie is shit.
you dont need to be football player to see that team is not good.
understand?
no one cares about production problems, we care about result.
and we pay for results.
if you buy bread an it will be not cooked enoug, you eat it with taste? beacause you need to consider bakery problems that they dont have time to cook bread long enough?
and you know what will happen if there is more people thinking like you?
lets say my bread example.
bakary will start to sell only undercooked bread because its faster (cheaper) and people are willing to eat it and pay the same price.
simple enough to understand for you?
mayby i,ll make picturers

That is different, going with your example here.

when you know the circumstances behind the making of the bad bread, you either don’t go in the first place.

Sure I agree saying that this is bad and all, but will I harras them and say the bread is trash to the bakers who made it ? They will agree with me and be like “man I get you, even I wouldn’t eat that shit. We can do much better.” But regardless, they will pissed off at the trash talking. You know why ? Because they regardless of the result they worked hard and with just a bit more time, they would have made something even better.

So what I would do is shit talk the boss here who did nothing and sits his ass off giving orders to the bakers who made the bad bread.

I understand why people are disappointed, but regardless at least understand that the people who made this are humans. If you wanna be insufferable. Then don’t any of you dare say shit like “mappa treats their animators badly.” Stay on that side.
@Zolo_124
so what if they working hard. (and how can you know it)
what matters in this world is results.
and of course if i buy bad bread i go to complain to bakery.
mayby not first time (accidents happen) but nex for sure.
amd i,ll also put opinion on internet to warn people to not go to that bakery.
its only way to teach them to not cut costs on essentials.
i,m paying for good bread so i want good bread.
and about not going there in first place: lets say that was my favorite bakery and i was buying bread there my whole life. so if they start cut costs and making bad bread,i,ll eventually stop going there (about 3 episode :) but i will be very dissapointed (i was contributing to succes of that bakery a lot)
and i,ll start making threads on internet how good this bakery was befoe and how shitty is now :)
onbly results matter in this world
and mayby more drastic example:
workers building bridge and contractor cutting costs on material. result: a lot of people die because bridge collapse.
do you think: workers done what they could, they were working hard so lets dont complain about that to not hurt someone feelings.
they make next bridge better for sure :):)
Nov 9, 9:25 AM
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Can they just sell the rights to the animated series to someone else willing to re-animate it properly from beginning of Season 2?

Edit: they literally animated the Konosuba movie, THEY CAN DO SO MUCH BETTER THAN THIS
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Reply to Vairloff
@Zolo_124
for what?
you dont need to know how to make bread to tell its not tasty.
you dont need to be filmmaker to tell movie is shit.
you dont need to be football player to see that team is not good.
understand?
no one cares about production problems, we care about result.
and we pay for results.
if you buy bread an it will be not cooked enoug, you eat it with taste? beacause you need to consider bakery problems that they dont have time to cook bread long enough?
and you know what will happen if there is more people thinking like you?
lets say my bread example.
bakary will start to sell only undercooked bread because its faster (cheaper) and people are willing to eat it and pay the same price.
simple enough to understand for you?
mayby i,ll make picturers
Vairloff said:
you dont need to know how to make bread to tell its not tasty.

But it's still better than eating shit. And that's a huge difference. You can still eat a not tasty bread. We have an average animation here and people are talking about it like this is the worst.

And btw, people are making insanely stupid statements as well regarding the animation without knowing anything about animation. Like how someone pointed out the inconsistent visuals and pasted 3 Garou screenshot. This same level of inconsistency was praised by people in case of JJK S2 as "really good" animation.
E.g. https://imgur.com/a/O7xc5ec

So yes, people are overreacting this and it's just pathetic at this point.
Nov 9, 9:28 AM
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Wow. So much movement
Nov 9, 9:30 AM
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What made this episode bad isn't the animation (which is still meh) but the pacing.
The pacing is so bad, it was bad since the season started, and in this episode it is very noticeable.

Even S2 had better pacing which made S2 decent, but S3's pacing is just too horrible.

Animation isn't satisfying at all, who the hell would rewatch this season for the "animation"?! RIP OPM 🙏

If OPM ever gets S4, JC Staff will never dare to do another OPM anime ever again after all the negative comments and hate they got from it,
they probably get traumatized every time they hear or read "one punch man" anywhere..
Nov 9, 9:32 AM
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Reply to ktg
Vairloff said:
you dont need to know how to make bread to tell its not tasty.

But it's still better than eating shit. And that's a huge difference. You can still eat a not tasty bread. We have an average animation here and people are talking about it like this is the worst.

And btw, people are making insanely stupid statements as well regarding the animation without knowing anything about animation. Like how someone pointed out the inconsistent visuals and pasted 3 Garou screenshot. This same level of inconsistency was praised by people in case of JJK S2 as "really good" animation.
E.g. https://imgur.com/a/O7xc5ec

So yes, people are overreacting this and it's just pathetic at this point.
ktg said:


And btw, people are making insanely stupid statements as well regarding the animation without knowing anything about animation. Like how someone pointed out the inconsistent visuals and pasted 3 Garou screensho

I personally cant eat bad bread if i,m not starving.
what is the point if you can get better bread?
opm3 is not only anime existing so i need watch it no matter flaws.
and animation is terrible, its worst animation i,ll sew and i watch anime for more than 30 years.
GTO comedy slice of life anime from 198something looks better and more alive.
Nov 9, 9:33 AM

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Reply to ktg
Vairloff said:
you dont need to know how to make bread to tell its not tasty.

But it's still better than eating shit. And that's a huge difference. You can still eat a not tasty bread. We have an average animation here and people are talking about it like this is the worst.

And btw, people are making insanely stupid statements as well regarding the animation without knowing anything about animation. Like how someone pointed out the inconsistent visuals and pasted 3 Garou screenshot. This same level of inconsistency was praised by people in case of JJK S2 as "really good" animation.
E.g. https://imgur.com/a/O7xc5ec

So yes, people are overreacting this and it's just pathetic at this point.
@ktg

I'm assuming you're talking about me. Is something wrong about enjoying the silliness in the inconsistencies? Did I anywhere belittle the animation this episode discussion? No. Stop misinterpreting things and projecting dude.
Nov 9, 9:40 AM
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Rest in peace, OPM. Goodbye, mainstream.

One Punch Man was my beginning. It’s the reason I fell into anime, the reason I started reading manga. It ignited something inside me, something rare. And now, they’ve destroyed it. They’ve taken the fire and left only ashes. Watching it now feels like betrayal, like a wound that won’t heal. Because of this, I can’t keep watching. I’m done. I will quit anime—for good.
Nov 9, 9:44 AM

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Wow that eps rating, also the overall score dropping almost by the minute.

I dont even hate this, sure animation is atrocious but some scenes look decent. Its not what the source deserves (atleast not Muratas version) but its more about the story anyway, Ones webcomic got popular with trash graphic as well.
If anything Im impressed what JC manages to put out with likely 5 yen total budget.

Surprisingly decent episode. In the manga I did not even like all the Garou focus but this was good. Feels natural. Orochi also looks better than I remember.

"Stronger than Tornado" press X to doubt and F to pay respect.

Prefer it so S2, though admittedly S2 lowered my expectations into the ground.

I wonder when big G will get mentioned? I remember the ominous focus from the manga, maybe it only starts later.
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"This emotion is mine alone.
It is for Madoka alone." - Homura
or how I would describe Mahou Shoujo Madoka Magica.
Nov 9, 9:51 AM
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They should stop cutting GREAT fight parts from the manga..

they deleted REALLY good parts in this episode from manga and that's a crime, how could they?!
Nov 9, 9:52 AM
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Well, this episode was indeed BETTER than the PowerPoint Presentations we've had in previous episodes, but it's still pretty mediocre.

The actions scenes were decent, though.
Nov 9, 9:54 AM
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Whoever is working on this show has no idea how to make a good anime. Sure, there are certain shots and certain sequences that look very good, but, on the whole, if you skimp out this hard on stuff like walking and more dialogue-heavy scenes, it looks very cheap and it's like two different studios working on the show and handing it off to the other every now and then. A well animated show doesn't have great moments and stretches horribly animated scenes between that; they are well animated throughout. But I can still ignore that, the story itself though? I feel like I'm watching a show on 2x speed trying to speedrun through important plot points. Every single scene feels out of place while it's going on and incomplete when it finishes. I just also generally hate the idea of this arc with Garou. It just feels like the show's trying to take itself more seriously than it should. This show feels nothing like S1; like it's a different anime altogether. There's also basically no hope that it gets better from this point as well.
Episode Rating: 4.5/10
Nov 9, 9:59 AM
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This episode had so many good things and so many bad things.
Nov 9, 10:00 AM
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worst animated anime squeal ever
Nov 9, 10:03 AM
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terrible episode once again
Nov 9, 10:07 AM
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They're back to bad pacing what a shame. Ep 3 and 4 was better
Nov 9, 10:12 AM
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Rest in peace, OPM. Goodbye, mainstream.

One Punch Man was my beginning. It’s the reason I fell into anime, the reason I started reading manga. It ignited something inside me, something rare. And now, they’ve destroyed it. They’ve taken the fire and left only ashes. Watching it now feels like betrayal, like a wound that won’t heal. Because of this, I can’t keep watching. I’m done. I will quit anime—for good.

@4zd0f Goddamn man, I know this season is shit and all, but stop being so melodramatic in an alt account.
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IzanaSolos said:
Usually it’s the braindead fans hyping up staff when the lists leak early, but this time the list didn’t even leak, it’s the staff member himself hyping himself up. And for what? Sure, it was the first genuinely good scene of the season, but man what was he thinking gassing himself like that.

We’ve seen how dumb this fandom can get, so if he really thinks that’s enough to ride on, he better lock his Twitter while he still can, because whatever heat the director got he’s getting it ten times worse. Like yeah, it’s ambitious and easily the best cut of the episode. I’m pretty sure it’s that first person one near the end at the start of Garou and Orochi's fight, and okay, fine, the orange gritty tone was a nice touch.

But nah, I’ve got no hope left for this dead production.

I mean.... Vann Oba is a pretty well praised animator in the industry contributing to iconic shots in Jjk, One Piece and many other projects. He was hyping up his shot and it most definitely isn't his fault that it was ruined by messed up in-betweens with no sense of correction. You can see the good KA work underneath all the awkward in-betweens and messed up drawing corrections.
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Nov 9, 10:28 AM
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10/10 best anime ever I am enjoying this season more that AoT and JJK
Nov 9, 10:34 AM
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Idk how yall are saying this is better than the last episode this is worse
Nov 9, 10:37 AM

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This episode's animation was very bad but I will also agree that there were a lot more frames in this episode than we have seen all of the other episodes combined. But also this was the best fight scene of this whole season so I was expecting way better, Bandai Namco really ruined this season of the anime. Can't the writer of the manga do anything about this? Like I am asking whether he has any say on the production and quality of the anime or he cannot argue with the Company at all?
Nov 9, 10:44 AM
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Now rated below Rent A Girlfriend S4!
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Skeltro105 said:
Now rated below Rent A Girlfriend S4!

honestly? deserved.
Nov 9, 10:55 AM

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Now rated below Rent A Girlfriend S4!
@Skeltro105 Soon it'll be rated lower than The Promised Neverland S2 lol
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Now rated below Rent A Girlfriend S4!
@Skeltro105 That's dumb nothing is worse than rent a girlfriend

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https://youtu.be/A9IIgAR7JYM?si=Fkhy5u9ZFOKYWXcz J.C Staff i Shinpei Nagai bądźcie przeklęci
Nov 9, 11:09 AM

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I just leave it here
Nov 9, 11:19 AM
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why don't you people just drop it??? It’s trash, it’s the worst... then why are you still watching???
Nov 9, 11:19 AM
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We ever gonna get back to Saitama doing shit in Saitama’s show?
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Reply to ktg
Vairloff said:
you dont need to know how to make bread to tell its not tasty.

But it's still better than eating shit. And that's a huge difference. You can still eat a not tasty bread. We have an average animation here and people are talking about it like this is the worst.

And btw, people are making insanely stupid statements as well regarding the animation without knowing anything about animation. Like how someone pointed out the inconsistent visuals and pasted 3 Garou screenshot. This same level of inconsistency was praised by people in case of JJK S2 as "really good" animation.
E.g. https://imgur.com/a/O7xc5ec

So yes, people are overreacting this and it's just pathetic at this point.
@ktg ِExactly!

JJK has many inconsistent frames and weirdly animated fights with blurry lazy frames but if you add many of these lazy frames you get the effect of "fast" animation which is still shit and lazy if you compare it to UFOtable, Madhouse, and old animes which had clean frames and never

SnK had also many bad moments like when characters dodged bullets in S4 no one complained

Same for HxH 2011 with the weird pacing of chimera ant ... people thought it is 10/10

People are just pathetic

It is not that bad ... S3 is still watchable and enjoyable

Let them cry and suffer
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This episode's animation was very bad but I will also agree that there were a lot more frames in this episode than we have seen all of the other episodes combined. But also this was the best fight scene of this whole season so I was expecting way better, Bandai Namco really ruined this season of the anime. Can't the writer of the manga do anything about this? Like I am asking whether he has any say on the production and quality of the anime or he cannot argue with the Company at all?
@UtakaSenpai No he can't once you agree give them the green light you cannot change your mind

It is a contract ... you can discuss the contract before signing it ... not after
Nov 9, 11:28 AM
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Trash animation but then has some good frames but they not even animated. Must of spent remaining budget on Orochi's fire
Nov 9, 11:33 AM
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could have been better but its ok ig
Nov 9, 11:40 AM

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I think this episode was cool to watch even if the animation was not great again but at this point I didn't have hope anymore for this!
Nov 9, 11:50 AM

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From a sliding with Photoshop's drag tool to backflipping in CGI, I'm so proud of my boy
Nov 9, 11:58 AM
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It was messy and inconsistent overall, but I am happy “One Frame Man” isn’t in fact one frame, all these fights are animated and they look genuinely good in some places, you can tell they are focusing more on episodes that demand movement which explains why there barely was any in the earlier episodes. This gives me hope that the rest of the season won’t just be PNGs sliding around, I know it’s a low bar but that’s kinda what this season of OPM has done to me, just it being animated is enough to please me lol.

Production aside, the content itself was pretty epic, Garou taking on the massive dog that fires energy blasts was already tough, but then he found himself in the actual lion’s den with Lord Orochi, who has so many tricks up his sleeve, from multiple snake-like heads that shoot fire to auto-tracking horns, he’s incredibly deadly, his design really is incredible too even if the anime is having a hard time depicting him (they didn’t color that scene when he first transformed lol). Garou is steadily evolving throughout the fight, but he didn’t look so good at the very end, I don’t want that Gyoro Gyoro fella to get what he wants so hopefully the heroes disrupt his plans soon, or better yet, Saitama himself finds his way down there since we saw him lift that manhole cover at the very end.
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Zolo_124 said:
Headpatts said:

so what its better than the last ep? It's not a fucking high bar man. They hyped up this ep but it's turn out to be no different than rest of the season just a little better, some of the frames looked like it was fan made, so plz stfu and let people let out their frustration.

What do you expect ? Seriously…..

Do you know the production state ? The time and over all management of this season ? If we go by comparing it to top notch anime, then sure it doesn’t look good. But, in this case I will not be dumb enough to do that.

Firstly learn how an anime is produced. I can provide you videos to help you understand that.

literally who even gives a how a show is produced??? I know the schedule was tight but As a audience I only care abt the result not the process. You may have a low standard but I do not also just go and turn just a single page of the manga then only you will realise the disappointment of fans.
Nov 9, 12:09 PM
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Garou can't be controlled by the Monster Association
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Paul said:
The character visuals were so inconsistent, it's honestly amusing watching how often the art changes.





The second one actually reminded me of S1, shame they were just still frames.

when I saw the one in the middle I was like "whoever did this part clearly cares more than the rest"
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Nov 9, 12:11 PM

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The best episode so far.
If you're going to criticize the animation so much, why are you still watching the anime?😂
Nov 9, 12:11 PM

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I know the animation is not great... but the MAL score is now under 6.. that's too low.
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Yeah, looks like they’re actually not cheaping out on the battles this time
Nov 9, 12:15 PM
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Literally WTF


I'll still watch till the end of season but if there's S4 and its again by J.C Staff, I ain't watching
Nov 9, 12:20 PM
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Lmao Garou was struggling with those Jack the ripper etc just before and now he is already fighting decently with Lord Orochi.

Next episode Saitama vs Lord Orochi?
Nov 9, 12:28 PM
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They hired Jackson Pollack that's why they have no money left.
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I usually don't complain about animation but man this was rough. Mainly the dog fight just looked cartoon. The orochi fight was somewhat better.

But aside animation the story is not really impressing much either it's a same loop of Garou dying getting stronger beating up dying repeat. Atleast they gave some explanation this time. Showing off Orochi was cool ig. But I expect better. Where is the Fubuki content I was told about >:
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