One Punch Man 2 has gained quite some discussion since the PV was out, for its worrying production quality. Yes, it is not as well done as the first season, but that's not the topic I want to review here.
Instead I want to review the story part of season 2.
This season has mainly 2 story arcs: Garou arc and Tournament arc. Let's talk about Garou first. Garou is an interesting anti-hero with his own principle and goals, and as the anime goes on more and more of his character is digged out. As we can see Garou did not intend to be a villain; he just dislikes how the society ignores an individual's weakness and helps the strong one bullies the weak one, just because the strong one is more popular by portraiting himself as a "Hero".
ONE uses Garou to throw out a question that has always been present through out OPM: "What is justice?" The Hero Association was a corrupted bureaucracy, and the heros are intriguing each other due to ranking difference. The introduction of Garou further gives doubts to the morals that the world, or the strong ones in the world, forcibly instil us.
But this season fails to give it a conclusion, as Saitama comes too late to just finish the Centipede in time.
The second arc, tournament arc, is presented even worse. We see zero action to show the difference in strength between each contestants, so beside Saitama we don't know who is stronger and who is weaker. They all look like minnows and will soon become the monsters' sandbags. The characterization of Suiryu is fine, but the action scenes are so bad that I can't feel much towards him. Too bad that this arc is story-wise more completed than the Garou arc.
Season 2 stops at Saitama finishing Centipede, and the rest of the story is still unknown to us anime viewers. No wonder the manga readers have been tolding us to read the manga instead, because even after watching season 2 I still did not know where the story is going onwards. What a complete mess.
