Audience reviews
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colelouch
Coming into One Punch Man Season 2 after hearing all the backlash and criticism, I was prepared for a disappointment, but while many of the critiques are understandable, especially when comparing it to the iconic first season, I found the second season to be far from terrible. It’s a noticeable downgrade, yes, but it still has its merits and does a decent job of continuing the story, albeit in a different tone.
One reason this season faced such heavy criticism lies partly in the story direction itself. Season 1 was a high-energy, comedic twist on the traditional hero’s journey: Lighthearted, self-aware, and packed with crisp, thrilling action that made it instantly memorable. Season 2, on the other hand, shifts to a more conventional shonen format, focusing on hero rankings, organizationa…
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Short Review:
I don't understand the hate this season got. Probably because I haven't read the manga. In a vacuum, this season was hilarious and very exhilarating, making me want to know what happens next, in a way superior to the first season. I think this is for one main reason, which leads to a hot take I have: Saitama wasn't featured that heavily. In my opinion, based on the little of it that I have watched/read, OPM excels when Saitama isn't featured too heavily. And so, when you introduce a much more compelling, interesting, and funny character than Saitama in Garou, then you see that the show would actually fare much better if said new character was the real main character. That's right: if Garou was the main character, then I think OPM would be even better than it is now. Focusing…
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One Punch Man, a series loved by many for bombastic animation and hilarious physical comedy has been viciously murdered by J.C. Staff.
Unless you have been living under a rock for the last year, it’s known throughout the anime community that Madhouse handed the second season of OPM to J.C. Staff—a studio known for cutting corners in their animation. Our expectations were low, but JESUS CHRIST THIS IS GARBAGE.
The art is awful. It’s flat, the color pallete is dull, and the shading is messy dog shit. Character designs were changed from their clean cool style to jagged and hideous imitations of their former selves. Metal textures look especially awful; it doesn’t have a shiny effect anymore, it just looks pudgy and gray.
All of the animation is practically a stop motion slide show. When th…
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WATCH THE BLU RAY VERSION ITS SO FUCKING GOOD.
I think its somewhat because I came in with a really low expectation for this one because this definitely proved me wrong. It was pretty damn good. None of the fight scenes here surpasses the episode 12 of season 1 but everything with Genos was fucking awesome. My favourite character now. Speaking of characters, they were way better in this season too.
I briefly read the manga a few years back and Kinzoku bat's fight sadly got shafted here but we got compensated by many other great shit it had a lot of good shit in such a short span of time. I've seen many long running things which deteriorate in quality in many episodes but this anime still looks way better than those kinda things even though production schedule was rushed am I right? I loved…
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I honestly find the second season better than the first one, ok, the animation is "worst" than the 1st season, but then, animation style is purely subjective, and i didn't really found it worst than the second season, except metal textures, honestly, it was much more entertaining to watch, there was a story, the first season is just fighting over and over with good animation and that's all, we learnt more about characters in this new season than the first one, i quite liked how the show was animated, it wasn't the best, but still really good and shouldn't be as much criticize as it is, you all said shit about this second season because you first heard it was shit, if no one said this before you would all have found this second season pretty cool, and the new ost were so much better in my o…
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Strap yourselves in for an honest review of One Punch Man Season 2!
Obviously the anime fandom could hardly contain themselves when another season of one of the most popular new anime was announced. Faced with clear comparisons that will be made with the first season as well as a change of animation studios, how did this sequel season fare?
Story: 7.88 / 10
Where the first season was focused around Saitama and retreading the same recipe: monster appears, monster defeats many heroes and Saitama finally arrives and ends the fight immediately – leaving very little story – this season actually has an underlying plot. Since the focus is on the anti-hero and the antagonist organization, the plot is actually something worth watching for. Of course, Saitama’s role in this season doesn’t change,…
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Okay, I'll start with the most obvious and easy part to review: the controversial animation. Yes, it's worse than it was on the 1st season, no doubt about it, but what I don't agree with what most people are criticizing is how much this affected the anime. We need to remember that the MADHOUSE animation was highly above average, so a downgrade from that does not necessarily mean it's bad now or even mediocre. I guess people just assumed this season would be terrible when the first trailer came out. Yes, that trailer was horrible, terrible editing and all, but that was just a glimpse... what happened was that, by the time, the score on MAL was already 7 and something and the memes were all over the weeb internet. I really didn't bother at all with the animation throwout the anime. I mean, i…
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The second season of One Punch Man has several problems. Most people have no trouble pointing the problems caused by the animation filled with cost-cutting techniques and the pacing that seems to be so compacted that it almost seems like the storyboarding and script for each episode was done by cramming as much content from the manga as possible as can be animated. But the biggest problem of all is that One Punch Man, adds nothing to ONE's work.
ONE is the author of One Punch Man, and in order to get some context for what I'm about to criticize, I'm going to talk about him as well as the other works of his that have been adapted, and even the previous season. ONE is pretty unconventional, not only in regards to the content he creates, but also in regards to the circumstances through which…
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JC Staff taking on One Punch Man?..to that LA says............
But first.
One Punch Man is back and with a focus and look more into the Hero Association's and Monsters all the while Saitama is still depressed he can't find a worthy foe.
Now in this second season, Saitama goes through a martial arts tournament all the while a person is out "killing heroes" named Garou voiced by Hikaru Midorikawa AND all the while Monsters have infested the world of One punch Man to the point they created an association to make worthy humans and heroes into monsters. So ALOT happens in season, but if anything if the first season gave us what happens when a person becomes so powerful, he becomes bored of hero work but works to become a hero in the eyes of public, then the second season is dealing with Sait…
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This anime must be understood in a different way because it holds deep meanings .
For example Saitama, he feels bored despite his strength So we see him looking for himself.
And Garou also why he defeat heroes without killing them? because he's not evil. Or when he tried to protect the child from attacking heroes who tried to kill him in search of fame, not justice The child ran away from him even though he had hurt himself in order to protect him.
In the end I would say I enjoyed the anime and I hope there are more seasons.
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*Minimum Spoiler Review*
TL;DR: From convoluted plot to character overload to just downright shitty animation & cba CGI failures,
OPM S2 is not great, but it's not terrible either. It's just okay... If you like comedy that is.
[Story: 6/10 , Characters: 5/10, Art: 4/10, Sound: 4/10, Enjoyment: 6/10]
"I'm a Hero. You did well on your own. Leave the rest to me" - Saitama
2019 is the year of sequels. From highly anticipated sequels like Mob Psycho S2 to SnK S3 to BNHA S4, we are now experiencing delayed gratification at its finest. Major question to ask as a fan of OPM, will its sequel live up to the expectations? Will it be a masterpiece or a disaster, given how long we had to wait? Now let's be real, given that sequel ruining studio, JC Staff, is adapting this anime and somehow Chikara…
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Back in 2015 an anime came out that lit up the community. Every week, everyone including myself, would wait on pins and needles for the latest episode to be released. It was an event. Each episode managed to top itself in terms of shear quality to the point where the final episode was worthy of a big screen experience. When the anime concluded, fans were eager for its return. Years went by with no season 2 announcement. Excitement was starting to waver when out of nowhere it was announced. So, was it worth the wait.
The story of One Punch Man has always kind of fascinated me. Yes it’s very simple and even has a monster of the week type formula. It reminds me of the Saturday morning cartoons I watched as a kid except with more crisp animation. Part of the reason the story sticks out to me…
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I really do not agree with all the hate this season gets. I feel absolutely compelled to address all of the people intros review section that hate on this series for ALL THE WRONG REASONS.
Yes, season 1 was a smash hit, it featured Shingo Natsume working in conjunction with some top the greatest battle animators of all time. BUT, I'm about to hit y'all with the facts and explain why season 2 of One Punch Man is better than season 1.
Season 1 was done by studio Madhouse, a studio famous for not salarying workers, and relying heavily on freelancers. Better yet, a studio infamous for hospitalizing animators from overwork. Yes season 1 was a grand achievement in battle animation, but at what cost? Animators at Madhouse are literally living through hell and outside of Japan we celebrate this…
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There will inevitably be a lot of people attempting to diagnose what went wrong with One Punch Man season 2, but I think anyone could tell you why it doesn’t work. The obvious answer is the downgraded animation and confused direction, but there’s a bit more than that. Let’s just start with the biggest problem.
~Sound~
You thought I was gonna say the art/animation? Well, that isn’t the biggest problem with One Punch Man season 2. An equally big problem is the sound effects and sound design, but to drill down further it’s the studio. J.C. Staff has no idea how to do action. Don't believe me? Go watch Taboo Tattoo. They have no idea what they're doing.
Now, J.C. staff does really well with the slice of life and romcom genres. They produced Toradora and Azumanga Daioh, which were outstanding…
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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. Sadly, the inability to live up to any decent set of expectations isn’t unexpected when you look at all the writing on the wall. The stiff and barely animat…
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One Punch Man 2 is just tiresomely stupid and ugly.
Four years ago, Madhouse animated One Punch Man aka OPM and blew the charts with an outstanding production. The fans waited four years for a sequel, and in exchange, they got a piece of trash that is in pair with productions just as "Mommy, please save my eyes," "Honey, I destroyed OPM." I do not know if "Boku no Pico" is better than this junk, but it is clear that J.C. Staff failed severely. In one sentence: OPM2 is the kind of sequel you may end up wishing you’d never seen. If you are an OPM follower, be advised, proceed with caution, and be ready for a long agony.
After watching the first episodes, I was feeling miserable (the feeling never changed). I was not expecting to see something poorly drawn by a group of professionals that…
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It is nothing short of a tragedy what happened to One Punch Man. The first season was a stone-cold masterpiece, a showcase of action storytelling so consistently awe-inspiring that it exploded out of the tight shackles of the anime fandom and actually gained a measure of mainstream appreciation. No joke, I was actually down at a Walgreens just a couple days ago, and mixed in with the Star Wars and Marvel action figures, I saw none other than Saitama the Caped Baldy himself. That is how far mangaka One, Shingo Natsume and his team at Mad House took the appeal of this doofy little story about a bored superhero who was so powerful that ended all his fights in one punch, robbing him of any meaningful challenge. And it isn’t hard to see why; even today, with the shadow of its eclectic younger b…
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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…
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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 s…
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Modern superhero movies suffer from regurgitated stories, negligible character developments, and unmemorable villains. Yet Hollywood inundates the public with action-packed spectacles (advertisements) for the mere purpose of generating boat-loads of cash and previewing the eventual sequel. Which, in turn, previews the subsequent film — creating an endless cycle of bombasity. Frankly, it’s nauseating.
Given the pitfalls of the superhero genre, I expected the first season of One Punch Man to be a parallel Japanese equivalent of the cookie-cutter, American model. What I received, however, was a self-deprecating, meta anime that humorously broke the formulaic ‘rules’ of a soulless industry. Instead of dragging out battles to fill airtime, they simply had Saitama defeat the villain with one p…
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