https://x.com/marooooonsan/status/2121931881054937147

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These two techniques gave me the same vibes.

Saw this was as I was re - watching Naruto.

Any one else noticed this?

Gentle Fist vs Fist of Flowing Water…

I don’t care about names, but more stance, vibe and use.

Also neji can disable the chakra network and pretty sure garou* could basically render people’s body useless. Interesting….

Don’t know if anyone already said this.

Obviously Saitama did have some changes as he's now tolerating people presence around him even tho he mostly get annoyed very quickly.

But the biggest character development he has during the cosmic fight where he question if he's even a good hero was removed via time travel.

As far as everyone is concerned, Saitama is still this passive hero who usually arrives late.

The question is, should he remain like this?

Reposting this because idk , I LOVE OPM!!!

TL;DR: Three characters in the webcomic (Genos, Garou, Saitama) “broke their Limiter” under the same conditions, but it only gave each of them a temporary boost. So the Limiter isn’t broken, it’s shifted. Saitama did this every day, 500+ times in a row, and learned to control it at will.

This theory uses the webcomic only. The manga and the webcomic may run on different rules, so the two aren’t mixed here.

Three data points

1. Genos (Ch. 160). Kuseno declares that Genos has a 0% chance of winning. Genos decides he has to win at any cost, breaks the Limiter on his core, wipes out a horde of mega-robots, and then falls apart.

2. Garou vs. Darkshine. Garou had already lost to Bang and Bomb, to three Demon-level monsters, and to Gyoro Gyoro. He sees Darkshine as the perfect opponent, but his technique doesn’t work, and Darkshine taunts him until Garou snaps: he has to win to destroy this false justice. He suddenly gets much stronger, uses a technique that shouldn’t be possible to use alone, wins, and nearly dies.

3. Saitama vs. Crabante. He has just failed a job interview and is ready to die, but decides to save a kid at any cost. The monster has already killed several people, and Saitama is still an ordinary human. Even so, he gets back up after taking the claws and wins.

The pattern

All three cases share the same three conditions:

1. An emotional peak.

2. A hopeless situation. There’s no chance of winning.

3. An unbreakable will to overcome, no matter what.

The third condition explains why Garou didn’t break his Limiter earlier. He had plenty of emotion in his earlier losses, but not yet the will to push through the wall, so he just blacked out. That may also be why Mumen Rider didn’t break his against Sea King: he’s heroic, but “overcome at any cost” is a different kind of strength.

The Limiter doesn’t “break”

This is where the theory departs from the usual view of the Limiter. If breaking it were a one-time, permanent event, there would be no aftermath:

• After Crabante, Saitama didn’t become super strong, and later he couldn’t even do basic training.

• Garou got stronger temporarily, then monsterized.

• Genos reached Dragon+ level, then fell apart.

So the Limiter is shifted for a while and then returns. The word “break” is misleading here.

What Ki is

In Ch. 102, Tatsumaki says every living being has Ki, which espers can influence directly, but she couldn’t do anything to Saitama’s Ki. In Ch. 160, Kuseno says Saitama’s body and the data from his fights are “meaningless noise” to him.

The likely conclusion is that Ki works outside the physical body, possibly at the level of consciousness, and can’t be measured by instruments. That explains how Genos, a cyborg, was able to get stronger at all. The Limiter caps the Ki available to you so your body can handle it. A sudden surge wrecks the body, which is why all three ended up so injured.

Why Saitama is different

Where do 500 “breaks” come from? His training monologue: train so hard that you think you’ll die or go insane. Every workout was an insurmountable wall, a battle for his dream, so every day he met the same conditions: emotional peak, hopelessness, will.

There’s an obvious objection: the body adapts, and 100 squats eventually stop being impossible. The likely answer is that by then Saitama had learned to surpass his Limiter at will. He didn’t know about Ki or the Limiter, but his subconscious figured out how to do it, the way a brain memorizes the multiplication table. After 500+ repetitions his body got used to the surges and they stopped injuring him.

That makes Saitama the only one who truly “broke” the Limiter in the original sense of the word. Garou and Genos can’t reach his level because even a single surpass takes everything lining up perfectly, let alone doing it every day.

Thoughts

• Serious mode might be a conscious surpassing of the Limiter. Saitama could have noticed that getting serious boosts his power and called it a “mode.”

• Genus and Zombieman. What Genus did to Zombieman off-screen looks suspiciously like this process, except that Zombieman’s regeneration means he needs a new “wall” every time.

• The manga. This could be applied to it too (the fight with Cosmic Garou, the “infinite durability” claim from the promo site), but it’s unclear whether the rules are the same there.

What do you think? Where does the theory fall apart? Especially curious to hear from people who’ve followed Ch. 160 more closely.

Took me a lot of time hope you like it :( :)

https://x.com/yumiko_honda/status/2120138873435259062

You guys know how Saitama's durability vastly exceeds that of his clothes, meaning that after pretty much any explosive fight he's usually the one left standing completely naked.

I think it'd be hilarious if he gradually started developing a reputation for constantly showing up naked, to the point where people genuinely start thinking he's some kind of pervert. This could even tie into the Hero Name Victims Association mini arc where his hero name gets reset, only for things to somehow get even worse. Imagine him finally removing his Caped Baldy name, only getting stuck with something even worse like naked pervert as his official hero name.

IDK the idea just sounds really funny to me, and I feel like it fits perfectly with the humor of this world.

Saitama's actual feats are constantly downplayed, his accomplishments get stolen or misattributed and people end up focusing on the most irrelevant things about him instead. It'd be hilarious if Genos casually mentioned something like, "MASTER rumors about a naked bald man who keeps appearing in the middle of catastrophic battles are spreading across the internet," and Saitama actually gets mildly panicked because he's worried people are starting to see him as a pervert.

It also plays into a funny trope in anime and action series in general where characters can survive the most explosively destructive battles imaginable, yet somehow always have just enough tattered clothing left to conveniently cover their nudity. Saitama, on the other hand, completely defies that convention. His clothes never stand a chance lol

Here's the continuation of part 5. It's a little short but i hope you like it!

Anyone own either of these and knows for certain what's included in them? Can you confirm whether the autumn festival live drama reading performance/transcript is included?

The live drama reading of 「お祭りだよ全員集合！」 (Roughly: "It's Festival Time! Everybody Gather 'Round!") was performed as part of the 2016 One-Punch Autumn Festival event.

As part of the One-Punch Man Season 2, Volume 1 (Japanese Special Limited Edition only) there's 148 minutes of material from that event, but I can't actually find confirmation as to whether there's a complete recording of the 「お祭りだよ全員集合！」 drama performance.

The 2018 Maji Shool Festival live event had a pamphlet that was explicitly advertised as containing the live-reading scripts. But the 2016 Autumn Festival pamphlet was only advertised as including "cast and staff comments, among other content." I can't find any evidence that it does or doesn't include live-reading scripts.

I'm asking because I'm dismayed at the lack of English translations of the supplementary material. Many special CD drama and mini-dramas simply don't have an EN translation floating around. And most of the EN translations posted to the wiki are quite loose and contain errors. They're fine, you can usually understand the gist, but they're not the best.

So, I wanted to do my own translation.

Given that the autumn festival drama is written as a sequel to the two S1 dramas, "A Festival with Saitama" and "Genos's Fireworks", I would have thought there'd be some interest in this third episode where Saitama and Genos go back to another festival... But there's not a lot of information out there.

But the DVD is pretty expensive, and I'd have to source a Japanese one specifically. And I can't tell if the pamphlet contains transcripts. Either way I'd be looking at paying international shipping. So maybe this is going out on a limb but if anyone can at least confirm or deny it, that'd be very helpful!

Redrew a frame from the manga with a slightly different King

This "fight" was AWESOME!