One-Punch Man Season 3 - Episode 12 discussion

*One-Punch Man Season 3*, episode 12

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Suitable_Tutor60062025-12-28 17:36

Finally, what a great ride it has been. A ride of frames, disco colours, speedlines and getting lollipops.

ivo00092025-12-28 17:39

Did they have any good animation in the last episode ?

Cartesian_thinker-972025-12-28 18:01

In Gyoro Gyoro vs Tatsumaki and Saitama vs Orochi

Omadany2025-12-28 18:01

Only few mins. Animation aside, the directing is shit

MrTzatzik2025-12-28 18:14

People complain about animation but they forget that directing sucks ass so much in season 3 like nonsense cuts, reusing frames very obviously and stuff like that. I remember Garou fight where I thought that they skipped a few seconds.

Omadany2025-12-28 18:20

Don't forget the sound effects and OSTs too lmao. Horrendous and inconsistent drawing too. Can't think of a single good thing about this season

Frontier2462025-12-28 18:01

It was basically close to season 2 level of animation, for what it's worth.

MyOtherTagsGood2025-12-28 18:47

And it still doesn't even measure up to a mid episode from Dragonball Super

Frontier2462025-12-28 18:02

It's been a heckuva journey surviving this season with all of you.

Mundology2025-12-28 20:01

With part 2 scheduled for 2027, I hope they finally give this adaptation to a more motivated and bigger team. The production was stretched thin and it showed.

Luciifuge2025-12-28 19:04

I haven’t even watched any of it, just reading the comments every week is entertaining.

AbedGubiNadir2025-12-28 20:40

It's like reading the Boruto manga with all those speedlines.

Yaggamy2025-12-28 17:40

You just know the next cour is going to be low budget just like the first one when you realize the poster for it is just the flipping of the characters.

Frontier2462025-12-28 18:02

"Sir, how do you want to handle the key visual for part 2 of season 3?"

"Do you think we have time to draw anything new!? Just reverse the Saitama and Garou image, that'll be enough!"

lupoin52025-12-28 18:38

Yeah this was so annoying. No effort when it comes to this anime, I don't just understand.

Treknx012025-12-28 20:07

but surely with them having a whole year to get the 2nd cour out there will be some actual animation…….. right, oh wait they had far longer for the first cour, so yea a year to wait and we are still going to probably get rushed slop.

G15968722025-12-28 17:47

I just want to win the lottery so I could pay for an actual adaptation

Frontier2462025-12-28 18:02

Win enough to remake Tokyo Ghoul too while you're at it!

flashmozzg2025-12-28 18:09

Budget wasn't the main issue. They were given like half a year to animate this, while twice as much is considered already borderline.

APRengar2025-12-28 18:54

You know why we get these rushed adaptations right? Because telling investors "yeah, we're going to take your money and then create the best piece of art ever, but it'll take 2 years before you see a cent." makes them have an aneurysm. Even if waiting 2 years gives them a better ROI in the end, they don't want to wait 2 years.

Winning the lottery means no outside investors, it means no rushed timelines due to people wanting an return on investment ASAP. And hiring staff, and work space, costs money. And sitting on episodes that are done and ready to go, also costs money (opportunity cost).

So yeah, the comment you're replying to makes sense. I hate this "it's not budget" argument so god damn much. Yes, it's not "shovel money into anime machine = good anime". But time IS money for professionals, so in order to get more time, we need more money. In order to hire big name animators ON TOP OF our standard animators for crazy sakuga moments, we need more money. Them offering to work for free just because they absolutely LOVE an anime property should not be built into the calculation, people ought to be compensated for their work.

It's the equivalent of saying "You know, money doesn't equal happiness." But when you're dirt poor or are in massive debt, having SOME money would absolutely mean happiness. And there are actual studies that show there is a level of money where every additional dollar doesn't actually make you happier... but any dollar under it absolutely does. And it's usually around the level of "I'm so wealthy a parking ticket doesn't bother me." So the saying is just untrue. But these kinds of things are said by people who are trying to seem smarter than they actually are.

flashmozzg2025-12-28 19:39

> You know why we get these rushed adaptations right? Because telling investors "yeah, we're going to take your money and then create the best piece of art ever, but it'll take 2 years before you see a cent." makes them have an aneurysm. Even if waiting 2 years gives them a better ROI in the end, they don't want to wait 2 years.

No. There is no ROI in anime (generally). It's because anime is just an ad. In this case it was supposed to be an ad for OPM gacha game. And that means it needs to come out by specific point. Chances are, it took them less time to pump out a gacha game than it takes to schedule any decent anime studio in advance.

> But time IS money for professionals, so in order to get more time, we need more money.

You could reframe it like that but then you go ahead an invalidate your point by reducing it to "more money better animation" stuff

>In order to hire big name animators ON TOP OF our standard animators for crazy sakuga moments, we need more money.

There are some "big name" animators working on OPM (not the biggest, but still), and there are sakuga moments. There are probably more fantastic sakuga moments in this season of OPM than your average seasonal anime that is much more well received. They just fall flat, because overall production is in the shitter due to time constraints. At best, you get to S2 level (remember the number of animators in credits for each episode...).

Recall the infamous mahoraga JJK episode that while having many beautiful cuts was a complete mess because a considerable chunk of the episode wasn't finished in time so the flow just didn't make sense (notably, it also had a strict deadline imposed and the fact that both jjk s2 and opm s3 barely managed to finish before the year end is no coincidence).

Also, most talent is already booked and committed to a project. When you need to make an anime, and make it RIGHT NOW due to poor planning/management decisions (well, maybe not so poor, if it still works), they won't be able to contribute even if they want to (even ignoring the fact how feasible it'd be in the given timeframe), no matter the cost (unless we start approaching it from unlimited budget perspective). At the end of the day, countless of anime gets produced with the same budget or lower as OPM (even ignoring the exception that was S1) that is nowhere near as close to such disaster.

>It's the equivalent of saying "You know, money doesn't equal happiness."

No, it's not. What you are trying to push is equivalent of "two women will produce a baby twice as fast", however.

If you still don't believe me, here is the opinion of someone [really prominent in the industry](https://www.reddit.com/r/OnePunchMan/comments/1pulxsn/animator_evakoi_jjk_s2_bleach_tybw_vinland_saga/).

Hades_Re2025-12-28 19:55

Which OPM gacha? There is one released two years ago. Or is the said RPG also a gacha?

What do you think about the fact that there is part 2 scheduled? This is not really needed for an anime as an ad for a game. In particular if you know that you have to rush some things.

flashmozzg2025-12-28 20:16

> What do you think about the fact that there is part 2 scheduled?

Because they wanted to animate the whole arc (the current "part" ended in a very awkward spot), but couldn't do it in one go for obvious reasons (they barely managed to do part 1). It's not uncommon (DanDanDan was split as well for similar reasons).

Also, another point re:budget vs time - remember that in 99% of cases animators are not part of the regular staff and are paid basically per drawing. And unless you are a literal superstar, the variance in pay is small. So taking, say, twice as long to produce a season wouldn't meaningfully increase the spending (although it would be an opportunity cost for the studio if they wanted to free up hands to do something else, e.g. see how JJK S2 suffered due to MAPPA prioritizing CSM which was also negatively affected) but would considerably increase the quality of animation and everything else. Rush job is a rush job, even if you'd get paid extra to do it.

Hades_Re2025-12-28 20:24

Ah, I didn’t watch OPM and only checked in to the opinions, didn’t know how awkward the ending is.

And thanks for the additional information.

flashmozzg2025-12-28 20:27

Yeah, it basically ended in the middle of a few fights.

tugtugtugtug42025-12-29 20:22

That explanation is not only wrong, but makes no sense in this context. OPM Season 3 was greenlit like 6 years ago right after S2 ended. They had tons and tons and tons of time to make it. And the IP is owned by Bandai Namco. They aren't going out to private investors looking for money to fund their anime season. They have tons of money already.

This was done on a short timeline and a crap budget because Bandai Namco don't give a shit. They know its a popular IP and will do 90% of the same numbers if its total powerpoint slop as if it was a masterpiece that they spent billions animating.

Big anime studios in general likely see the writing on the wall that AI generated animation is going to replace 90% of the workers in the next 5-10 years, so you're going to see a lot of these big IPs and high-visibility projects getting absolutely phoned in until AI gets to a point they can fire everyone.

BosuW2025-12-28 21:13

And twice as much is considered borderline... _for an average production_

An action manga with so many detailed designs especially on the kaijins is going to be even more demanding

Not all productions are born the same

Careful_Ad_90772025-12-28 22:20

9 months is ok IF you have a competent staff that is experienced in budget AND you are aiming at limited animation. That was studio shaft's area of expertise before they won the lotto.

realrimurutempest2025-12-28 18:26

“No i don’t want that! Proper time for animators and sufficient budget? I want still-frames and funny colors for 10 more seasons at least!”- JC Staff higher ups probably.

GamerGateFan2025-12-28 20:06

This series is all about relentless evolution, starting from god-tier animation, devolving through slideshows and weird filters, and in the end it will be finally reaching its peak form, a glorious Drama CD where the the voice acting carries everything.

JulienBrightside2025-12-29 13:25

Drama CDs can be fun :p

Bananasutra2025-12-30 14:01

In the end it's under 100 "frames" per "episode" and we learn that the ultimate evolution, is a manga!

R4hu1M52025-12-28 22:08

JC Staff, what a studio you are!

2521201115112019212025-12-29 16:08

*Bandai execs

unga_bunga_mage2025-12-28 19:00

If I was a billionaire, there'd be so many properties I want to give proper adaptations to. House in Fata Morgana, Spirit Circle, and Blame just to name a few.

toadfan642025-12-29 08:02

If I become a billionaire and keep my same interests, I will find a way to get a Ghibli Zelda film.

Also calling up Paul McCartney on getting that Beatles anime in my head I always wanted done.

Sr_DingDong2025-12-29 10:12

This is one of the many reasons Musk pisses me off and is a loser.

He calls himself an anime fan and could drop 50m to adapt the whole thing at top level and it wouldn't be shit to him, but he doesn't. If I could give $2 and have OPM be goated I'd do it without thinking. I'd give 4 and say do it extra nice.

KuKuIsland2025-12-30 06:00

I'm pretty sure Bezos did that with The Expanse.

TheMechanic042025-12-28 17:47

I'd like to say to say thank god it's over but there's a part 2 coming 2027 and with the way things have panned out this season i won't be as excited for it this time

Frontier2462025-12-28 18:03

It's like "hey, maybe they can end it on giving Saitama a cool enough finish against the Big Bad" but no...we have to get more of this...

tyler9809082025-12-28 18:24

I hope by it coming in 2027 means HOPEFULLY (coping) they’ll get more time on it.

Bluxen2025-12-28 18:48

Season 3 was announced in 2022, so no.

Ashteron2025-12-28 18:56

Just because it was announced in 2022 doesn't mean that's when production started. Ranma remake was announced in June and it premiered in October of the same year. It doesn't mean they did it in less than half of a year.

Bluxen2025-12-28 18:59

exactly my point?

Ashteron2025-12-28 19:06

How so? You implied season 3 being announced 3 years before the premiere means season 3 part 2 announced 2 years before the premiere isn't gonna get longer production time.

Bluxen2025-12-28 19:09

because there is exactly 0 chance Season 3 part 1 got more than 1 year of production time (I'm being way generous here), and now there is even less time between the part 2 announcement and release date, so the possibility of it getting more production time than part 1 is even less

PeaceAlien2025-12-28 18:39

Oh... so that's why it felt incomplete (story-wise, not animation-wise this time)

Quna_chan2025-12-28 17:50

After an entire season of watching side characters fighting side monsters, random monsters back stories who didn't live for 20 minutes, jokes that fell flat. The plot finally picked up on its final episode. It's a good thing talented animators and studio are not wasting their time animating this mediocre anime with non existent plot.

Frontier2462025-12-28 18:04

Honestly finally showing Saitama again and his handling of Orochi as just another thing for him to one punch really put into perspective how it feels like the show might have lost its way (both narratively and production-wise).

MrWaluigi2025-12-28 18:33

This arc had Saitama put on the sidelines hard. It gets fixed in the end and following arc, but still…

Maqoba2025-12-28 18:38

Can't blame Saitama, he obviously didn't want to be involved with that season

Raidoton2025-12-28 20:45

Saitama getting sidelined is the fix. Otherwise he would solve every problem very quickly.

Mission_Effort91032025-12-28 18:24

nah, cause ain't no way a gacha enjoyer is talking shit about anything at all. LMAO trash only recognizes its own people after all. SMH.

Quna_chan2025-12-28 18:35

Don't waste your energy crying to me. Go and cry to JC staff to save your beloved anime with some more frames for part 2

Pristine_Cod51892025-12-28 17:51

The national nightmare is NOT OVER... or at least we get 2026 off. Hoping for a vast improvement come 2027.

Frontier2462025-12-28 18:09

I wonder if they're going to need to find another director...

PM_ME_AWESOME_SONGS2025-12-28 19:32

I suppose anyone with some experience in action anime would be an upgrade. I'm sorry for the attacks he received online, but his work just sucks.

toadfan642025-12-29 08:10

Surely we won't get another hentai director for the next part...

Gatlindragon2025-12-28 18:50

National?

StardustGogeta2025-12-29 19:37

Probably a reference to the famous Gerald Ford inauguration quote, "Our long national nightmare is over."

Gravijas2025-12-28 17:56

Finally some animation. there were a couple of nice frames in this episode.
If only they could have kept the entire season on this level.

Frontier2462025-12-28 18:05

You know it's bad when getting the finale to look like an average season 2 episode is an achievement.

RamD862025-12-29 00:14

Saitama looked off when he was in his serious form in this episode. And I'm a person that doesn't knit-pick at anime's much. They should have taken longer to have this animation look proper. I wouldn't have minded waiting longer.

demurefox972025-12-28 17:59

So it's official, the flashy flash ep had better animation than the freakin season finale. Wth was this studio thinking? It's crazy that they're still gonna make more.

Frontier2462025-12-28 18:08

Black Sperm had better animation than most of this season.

Raidoton2025-12-28 20:38

I mean he's probably the easiest character to animate.

PrestigiousHandle3172025-12-28 18:10

I personally think episode 9 and 12 were better.

Electrical_Chance9912025-12-28 18:45

Its not like they deliberately wanted that flashy flash ep to be the best one, it just happened to get the more time/conditions to let the staff finally do something. It just happened to be one of the priority eps.

I'd assume they wanted Ep 3, 5, 7, 8, 9, 11, 12 to be the "priority" episodes of the season. That's why you can see small snippets of good/decent animation in those eps. Even the staff list for those eps was pretty solid. It's just that pretty much all of them were compromised due to the horrendous schedule.

RefrigeratorLow69812025-12-28 18:00

as some one who has seen the manga art, the animation this season and in this episode has been nothing but pure dissapointment

Mundology2025-12-28 19:57

[The trailer for part 2 has dropped and it's a still image.](https://youtu.be/CFNXR6k3zwI)

I don't know whether to laugh or to cry...

[](#laughter)

Impressive-Card94842025-12-28 20:20

As much as the animation sucks, most teaser trailers for upcoming next seasons or a movie of an anime is a still image, at best its clips of past seasons. Especially if it was announced just right after the current season ends

giitaru-kun2025-12-29 01:24

Is it me, or do I feel like I've seen this image before?

It is as if I've seen this image for Part 1...

Looks it up on reddit: [https://www.reddit.com/r/TwoBestFriendsPlay/comments/wr8kbt/one\_punch\_man\_season\_3\_visual\_key/](https://www.reddit.com/r/TwoBestFriendsPlay/comments/wr8kbt/one_punch_man_season_3_visual_key/)

It looks like they just reused the same background, added a red glow effect, and switched the positions of both Saitama and Garou at the end.

I think they could have at least have a different key visual?

LittleTurret12372025-12-29 07:23

you gotta be fucking kidding me bandai

falconx1232025-12-29 09:34

I don't get why call it a part two if it takes over a year, it's just season 4.

Hailgod2025-12-28 21:47

the still frames make it feel like im reading the manga again

Interesting_Bag10462025-12-29 13:40

Manga has more animation bro. Don't disrespect it. 😭

Frontier2462025-12-28 18:01

The Blizzard Bunch are working their way through the Monster Association hideout and King absolutely does NOT want to be there...but he hides it well! I mean, he's basically made it his brand to obscure the truth about him while looking cool! And just like the audience, he's wondering where Saitama is.

The monsters really thought they could eat Pig God, but whenever Pig God sees something monstrous in front of him, all he sees is a prey where he's the predator who can dine on some delicious monster meat! A lot of that going around this past season!

Superalloy Blackluster vs Insect God! The absolute in insect armor and physiology versus the pinnacle of human muscle! Insect God picked the wrong human to mess with because Blackluster is in the Top 3 strongest humans...and he makes it clear by tanking Insect God's hits and tearing him apart in one hit! Saitama would approve.

Speaking of Saitama...finally! He's doing stuff, even if it's just one-punching monsters while trying to get directions. He even successfully disciplines Pochi! With a punch so strong it sends reverberations across the underground lair that EVERYONE feels, though only Genos (who I don't think we've seen in like 6-7 episodes) can recognize as his master at work.

Tatsumaki vs Gyoro-Gyoro! The battle of psychic dominance! Gyoro-Gyoro throws everything he has at Tatsumaki, but for her it's nothing more than a little light workout and a convenient massage before she twists and tears Gyoro-Gyoro apart with all her smug gremlin superiority and psychic power. Tatsumaki may have a high opinion of herself, but it's one that's absolutely valid.

Gyoro-Gyoro is not above calling for help, especially since Orochi himself was trained to follow his every command...though too bad Orochi just happened to run into Saitama. Orochi can tell that Saitama is a legit threat, possibly the BIGGEST threat to all Monsters, and knows he has to deal with him in his most absolute form.

Orochi is a living God foretold by Prophecy, the Ultimate existence, the most powerful...yeah, Saitama's heard it all before. This is really just an average day in the week with him and yet another monster who talks a big game but will go down in one punch, yet another being that sought strength but lost sight of the meaning of it in the process. Which means that no matter what they throw at him, they can't stop Saitama before he destroys them as One Punch Man!

King's reputation does him in again as the Blizzard Bunch leave him alone. Though it turns out the King Engine CAN defeat a monster by terrifying a shapeshifter into defeating himself. Still not going to make King feel any better.

Oh hey, Garou! Almost forgot about you.

Ullaspn_20032025-12-28 18:05

Even if this anime received good animation,it cannot save the boring plot of this anime

Inside_Chicken30422025-12-28 18:08

More boring than generic anime girl gooner bait number 10027373?

Mission_Effort91032025-12-28 18:26

Bro you play Gacha, I don't wanna hear anything from down below.

coffeecakesupernova2025-12-28 19:39

Can you try another comment instead of repeating this one over and over? Maybe one that's actually about *this* show?

Electrical-Sample2025-12-28 21:11

Good animation is what is saving most of the generic anime that people are gushing over....

zool7142025-12-28 18:05

The season overall still was quite meh for me but the character which this show is named after finally getting some screentime and doing what he does best and what we love, just showed the core reason why this season wasn’t very fun. Just his nonchalance reminded me why I got into this show and not to mention how that also kinda leads into him finishing his enemies off so easily. I couldn’t stop laughing at how he didn’t care for the monologue and just wanted to deal with the noise below his apartment building lol.

Again, doesn’t make up for the rest of the season, but if Part 2 has more Saitama I’d probably still watch it. His reaction to things are just hilarious

Frontier2462025-12-28 18:07

I love how Saitama basically just became really self-aware of how the show is supposed to be about him one-punching long-winded and hyped up monsters who are barely worth more than a normal punch from him.

We needed more of that.

zool7142025-12-28 18:13

While Saitama one shot-ing everything can get old and predictable, this season (and honestly season 2 too) went a bit too far the other way and depraved us of the main character

LynchianNightmare2025-12-29 06:27

If I remember correctly, while Saitama was sidelined in S2, he is still given stuff to do and is generally amusing to watch. S3 he is just walking around and being grumpy. It's depressing.

Teal_is_orange2025-12-28 19:33

This arc is considered the weakest one precisely because Saitama is mostly written out of it. His lack of screen time isn’t due to the studio but due to the source material showcasing all the other heroes and monsters first before Saitama finally shows up to end the big bad guy in one punch

MetalDue9202025-12-28 18:10

damn this anime is so shit. i don't know what i was expecting after season2... but this is not it. the whole season was so boring and even that finish was like "ok".

i dont even care about slideshow animations i just don't want to get bored watching this. and i was halfasleep this whole season.

LeonKevlar2025-12-28 18:12

My favourite part [is definitely Tatsumaki turning into her webcomic form and asking for a massage from Gyoro-Gyoro](https://i.imgur.com/Ja3kfCj.jpeg). The dude has been so smug this entire time that it's fun to see him finally meet [an esper that stronger than him.](https://i.imgur.com/AAXxFms.jpeg)

[I also love how Saitama interrupts Orochi's monologue.](https://i.imgur.com/4OXpFeQ.jpeg) He's heard it all before and in the end he knows all of them will go down after a single punch. Not gonna lie, [I kinda feel bad for Saitama there in the end.](https://i.imgur.com/yOAF6S1.jpeg)

Frontier2462025-12-28 18:17

Tatsumaki not only has great legs but amazing psychic power and it makes her flexing and clowning as a gremlin all the more entertaining. Smug and superior Aoi Yuki is peak.

Saitama's disappointment at the end practically mirroring the fans' opinions after watching this season lol.

RamD862025-12-29 00:08

They drew Tatsumaki out with decent boobage as well. And the part where Gyoro-gyoro did gravity on her, I did enjoy her Chibi artwork.

lupoin52025-12-29 09:58

> Saitama's disappointment at the end practically mirroring the fans' opinions after watching this season lol.

You couldn't have said this better, and I'm saying this as a big OPM fan.

darthvall2025-12-29 03:01

On another hand, it puts so much perspective how Garou (the so called hero killer) is not all that strong compared to the S-rank heroes. Most of them didn't even take a lot of damage fighting dragon-class monster.

Hot-Log62832025-12-29 04:49

>The dude has been so smug this entire time that it's fun to see him finally meet [an esper that stronger than him.](https://i.imgur.com/AAXxFms.jpeg)

I find it strange that Gyoro-Gyoro with all his eyesight still underestimate Tatsumaki even though she has used her power in public many times before (unlike Saitama), and it's not just a small margin either she barely seems like she broke a sweat fighting him.

Kelmi2025-12-29 10:35

He's just a regular powerscaling fan and used her verifiable acts as her maximum power

2kenzhe2025-12-28 18:12

At least we got King killing a monster with just fear. Saitama might beat anyone with one punch but King could do it with just a stare.

King Engine >>> Serious punch?

Frontier2462025-12-28 18:16

King has truly weaponized aura farming.

teokun1232025-12-28 22:52

Luck is unbeatable

Armdel2025-12-28 18:15

This was certainly a season.

There were some glimpses of actual quality animation here and there, but yeah...

I guess with that both Orochi and gyoro gyoro are gone and probably the monster association with them?

I see a cour 2 has been confirmed for this season, hopefully whatever happened that caused this trainwreck can be fixed up before then. if it could at least have season 2 quality...

LoneChampion2025-12-28 18:22

This was a horrible season, would not watch again

Independent_Row_13522025-12-29 02:02

Watch it at 1.5x speed, that improves it.

MrBarret632025-12-29 08:58

That way the agony ends even quicker 😁

PhantomXxZ2025-12-28 18:22

The animation wasn't even the biggest problem, the plot just sucked. Pure slop.

Lodju2025-12-28 18:25

The animation and other issues aside, the biggest let-down for me really was the lack of Saitama since he was the reason i liked the first season so much...

Teal_is_orange2025-12-28 19:32

Saitama not getting much screentime is intended since this arc is adapted directly from the manga & webcomic source. It’s considered a weaker arc for that reason, despite all the action and monsters introduced

Username19919122025-12-28 21:18

Yes, the comedy in general has been lacking. First season was great because it was fucking funny, not because of the amazing animation. This season has not been funny and it has focused on fights that people dont really care about.

AndroidHero232025-12-28 18:28

Meh episode honestly, it had a few good animations but it was not as good as episode 8 ( Flashy Flash fight) that episode was definitely the peak of this awful season.

The worst thing for me this season was definitely the direction.

QuadraKev_2025-12-28 18:30

sure was something

Namaryu2025-12-28 18:32

The OST placement was all over the place.

lactatingRHINO72025-12-29 00:00

This is something that sticks out to me. Obviously the poor production conditions had a major impact on all aspects of the show and the first thing most people notice is the animation and art quality, but I cant stop thinking about how they completely overuse the emotional/dramatic music in places where it doesn't make sense.

darthvall2025-12-29 03:04

I don't know why they felt that the character theme must be on everytime the character talks.

I've seen a lot of horrible animation, so this season is still acceptable for me. However, the sound editing is personally much more distracting than that.

LynchianNightmare2025-12-29 06:15

Most directing choices were poor, honestly. I don't get the random neon color palettes. It works for Jojo because Jojo is defined by being over the top visually. It makes no sense in OPM. Also, hardly any of the jokes landed, and you don't need great animation for that.

So the problem goes far beyond "bad animation".

Kurumi_Tokisaki2025-12-28 18:32

Personally I feel like one punch man will continue to divide people. Mainly the saitama only jerkers and the we like the side cast gang.

Feel like one took what was appealing for it and split the much stronger stories into mob for the single (mainly) focus. And while it’s still probably too early to say, his other work Versus has a better overall full cast of characters to care about without a saitama issue. Although imo it lacks some highs for the main cast like a king or tatsumaki and the enemies have a bit/lot more appeal.

pentamache2025-12-28 19:03

I think the "OP MC" trope work best when you have a solid group of side characters, this season presented a tons of characters that I personally couldn't care, too many undeveloped heroes plus the monsters.

Re utilizing Saitama's gang plus a few S heroes makes way more sense. Then you can present the new heroes from a known place (interactions with characters we already know) and leave space for the monsters' presentation.

l11-latona2025-12-28 19:45

>Although imo it lacks some highs for the main cast like a king or tatsumaki and the enemies have a bit/lot more appeal.

Well the main focus of Versus is the fights and interactions between NEs, but I agree the Humans need to shine more, but chapter 30 is starting to give us that.

ObvsThrowaway51202025-12-28 18:37

One punch from Saitama and poor Pochi got neutered lol. Classic.

He even cut Orochi off when he was doing his big villain intro monologue with basically a “yada yada i don’t give a shit” lol.

I guess that’s it then? To say this season was rough would be an understatement. Idk if they’re gonna continue with this same level of production. I honestly wouldn’t mind another season, but if this is the quality we’re getting I’m more than happy letting this die and going back to reading the manga. I gotta catch up anyway.

Frontier2462025-12-28 18:55

Dog, cat, Big Bad...they get one-punched all the same!

Hammerheadshark552025-12-28 18:40

Honestly its boring as shit. Everything is bad, even the writing.

PerfectBeige2025-12-28 18:49

Incredible finale to an incredible season. The animation was superb, and the pacing was a vast improvement over the source. The masterful way they interwove Saitama throughout the season made the final confrontation so satisfying. Thank god Madhouse came back for Season 3 and was given ample budget and time to create this masterpiece. It has helped me so much as an emotional support in dealing with the traumatic brain injury that doctors said would make me unable to process reality. Well I guess I'm having the last laugh.

reg_panda2025-12-28 19:50

.. NOT!

LittleTurret12372025-12-29 07:25

copium overdose

111giraffe1112025-12-30 06:11

genius

HolyDragSwd25002025-12-28 18:54

Saitama got an entire episode just for him . It was the last episode too of Part 1

sheepyowl2025-12-28 18:57

Lmao King walking solo in the dungeon poor guy

mrsirgrape2025-12-28 19:00

Beyond just the terrible animation, the music selection has been awful, editing has been bad, the sheer amount of stupid color filters and speed lines has been baffling, and the story/pacing has just been boring.

See you all in 2027, maybe things will be better.

SpecsMaker2025-12-28 19:03

They did not even show the true form of monster king completely in the fight. The heroes wiped the monsters out. End of season. S1 is still the best for me. The drop off in quality is insane.

Gotprick2025-12-28 19:03

Pretty unwhelming season. Barely any saitama and the animation was dogshit. Even berserk 2017 had more passion and effort in it.

Cautious-Affect79072025-12-28 19:07

This whole season had me more disappointed than a deadbeat father watching his son fail at everything.

iccreek2025-12-28 19:13

So i survived this whole season just to get threatened with the second cour? My heart won't take it, man

itsconsolefreaked2025-12-28 19:22

Look how they massacred my boy meme

Niwaka_Samurai2025-12-28 19:38

They couldn't even finish the final fight decently.. pathetic.
What the hell was that punch !?

Couldn't see that at all.

Let's hope that Bandai Namco never takes this project ever again. Would have been brilliant if it was completely in the hands of J.C staff.

This is the first time I gave an anime rating of 1/10 on MAL.

DirectionExact312025-12-28 19:40

Alright, the Orochi punch was killer. 👊

Time will tell if things improve.

IrunMan2025-12-28 19:40

Still holding up hope they put all eggs in one basket, or rather in one fight. Saitama v Hero killer, is that it, will they deliver something that is memorable?

MechaMat912025-12-28 19:55

those 40 seconds of Saitama vs Orochi is what all of this should've always been about. but no, we need to have countless hours of lame heroes discussing stuff nobody cares about. except for Genos, Bang and Bomb, Fubuki, Atomic Samurai, King and Child Emperor, the rest of the characters are worthless and/or lame (sorry Zombieman stans).

ps: oh, and don't even let me start with the weak-ass lame-ass kaijin grunts, not a single one of them worth a damn. I've seen more fearful weekly monsters in a Kamen Rider show.

MysteryNeighbor2025-12-28 19:56

This whole season has had some of the worst storyboarding and direction I have ever seen in an anime.

Am53n82025-12-28 20:00

Oh hey Saitama remembered to show up in his own anime, what a disappointment of a season.

NanDemoKnaives2025-12-28 20:01

It ends just like that, I thought we'd see some aftermath but we got King freaking out instead lol.

I wish I could have been more satisfied by Orochi vs Saitama, though I liked that Saitama could understand that Orochi was bored from being so strong.

Tatsumaki completely overwhelming Gyoro-Gyoro was amusing.

This getting a sequel cour next year is a surprise after the response and reactions I've seen throughout this season, I don't know how well received this was in Japan but I guess they may be making some kind of profit. I do hope if they don't work on the animation, that writing gets some work, I didn't find this season that interesting or funny to watch.

slap-em-cakes2025-12-28 20:02

Shit was so ass, but I'm glad it's finally over. It was still just as bad as the other eps.

LordVaderVader2025-12-28 20:02

See ya soon in 2036 in One Punch Man Reboot premiere.

CHH-altalt2025-12-28 20:03

Holy shit. This is actually so bad it’s not even funny anymore.

anarion3212025-12-28 20:04

70 to 80% still images or loops. (Literally from min 4 to 5 there's just 4 drawn images, not even a lip move loop)

Neon frames.

Just 1 minute or so of somewhat good animation.

The finale.

MiyabiMain952025-12-28 20:46

This season just disappoints me. I know everyone already knows how bad this season is, but they absolutely could have done so much better. Even with how little time they had, they gave the Orochi v Saitama fight at least "decent" animation, and made me feel something akin to excitement, which quickly turned to disappointment once again because I knew this season was capable of so much more than disappointment.

I hope the next part actually gets love and time it deserves.

corn2rs2025-12-28 20:51

I guess that's one way to advertise the manga

dfiekslafjks2025-12-28 21:02

Apparently it got renewed for another season...by the same studio. Is JC Staff going to use their D, E, and F teams for this one too? I mean how bad is this going to get until someone is held accountable.

cyberscythe2025-12-28 21:05

i feel like one of the big themes in One Punch Man is disappointment

like, it was laid out in season one that Saitama found great dissatisfaction with is ability to one punch everything, that a life of struggle and overcoming difficult challenges is more satisfying than a life of absolute power

it feels ironic because it certainly wasn't on purpose that season one had better direction and was way more popular, but it feels fitting in a way that the show just keeps trundling along despite not having the same spark of excitement, sort of mirroring Saitama's journey

Doomed-here49092025-12-28 21:08

What an anticlimactic end to this trainwreck of a season. It was a hard ride 💔

LezRock2025-12-28 21:18

I shouldn't have bothered to renew my Hulu subscription just for this show... Were there any other Hulu exclusive anime during the past two seasons that are worth watching? Or any Hulu-exclusive show?

This was at least a show to fill up Sundays...

There is definitely a direction issue when the jokes don't even evoke a smirk of amusement, but rather come across as completely boring chatter across the entire season. I don't know if the story is presented better in the manga, but as it was presented via the anime, it became extremely clear that it was supposed to have only been a simple backdrop to allow for awesome-looking fights... which did not exist. At best, they were above- average-looking.

The character designs also annoyed me because without developing much depth for the other heroes, they came across as random designs that seemed cool and were then shoe-horned in to fill random holes. I think King was the only one to get an interesting setup, but he's just an ordinary-looking dude.

Anyway, I will likely watch the next season if there's not much else airing on the same release day.

CrasianLe2025-12-28 21:27

I seriously do not understand the hate this season is getting. Even on MAL it is rated 4.55 as of December 28. People are being way too critical. I genuinely enjoyed this season very much and hope to get a 4th season in the future. Don't be afraid to NOT get the ban wagon with everyone else. You can like whatever you want. 7/10 for me

Effective-City93922025-12-28 23:39

I’m glad I’m not the only one who feels this way. OPM is still an anime I get excited for the day of episode release! I get that the animation has been sub par, but I find the world so interesting and I find the cast genuinely funny.

Ill_Obligation64372025-12-28 21:58

Yeah, 5/10 at best. Anticlimactic and the content was handled horrendously.

The final punch was alright, Saitama and Pochis moment gave me a laugh. But still, this season was handled so poorly it saddens me.

I just wish we could go back in time and keep Natsume on OPM or give it to a studio who would better handle the anime.

Part 2 is supposedly set to drop in the summer of 2027, so here we go....

Rock_Bottom532025-12-28 21:59

at least episode 12 was the best.Saitama in Action.

JBThunder2025-12-28 22:09

I get it, the graphics sucked. But I still enjoyed this season. Still better than a bunch of other shit animes this season :/

koager2025-12-28 22:12

So I see whatever budget they had was all used solely on animating Saitama's cape

Spiritual_Quote_88252025-12-28 22:18

Complete disappointment of a season.

I have no idea how long it will be before season 4 but surely it can't be worse than season 3's animation.

Slideshow presentations, the neon character frames or the sheer lack of effort.

I'm hopeful this season will be reanimated by someone who cares about one punch man.

FarCritical2025-12-28 22:25

The debris panning downwards has to be the saddest thing I've seen in a while.

Lmao at King gaining a solo kill without Saitama though

godrayden2025-12-28 22:31

felt like they rushed the ending.. not even an aftermath digestion type episode to make u feel good of the season ending.

ShadowOfSilver2025-12-29 00:23

I don't know how I could ever buy Garou as a threat to Saitama now when he's been punked out at every turn during his half-baked "redemption arc." All the big bads he fought were so easily dealt with by characters with far less depth. I don't have high hopes for the second cour.

KingKurai2025-12-29 01:59

Now I know this adaptation was pretty bad, but man it's currently sitting at a 4.58 on MAL putting it on par with Conception, which is also almost a full point less than abysmal dogshit like Mayoiga.

I know, I know, don't put too much stock into an aggregated score, but it still shocks me to see it in the bottom 25 of all ranked TV anime. Again, it's not _good_ by any measure, but I've seen WAY worse.

SYZekrom2025-12-29 02:54

That was some weird editing/directing

Like showing pig god eating monsters and then suddenly the next scene we're looking at a monster who was eating and it was actually pig god inside him and ig the prev scene was a flashback

Or Saitama getting lasered by the dog and then it shows the dog firing the laser and then saitama talks in the next scene with the laser already done

Why were the Flashy Flash scenes better animated than this part

Impossum2025-12-30 17:13

It's because this is exactly how it was depicted in the manga. Only in the manga it's fine because you can only do so much with still images and have to use imagination to fill in. The anime's job is to make the scenes feel fluid and coherent, but OPM S3 simply doesn't do it most of the time, it just animates frames from the manga with no transitions between them, which makes it all look incredibly choppy and unfinished.

atropicalpenguin2025-12-29 03:39

Wonder where it is going now, I didn't expect Orochi to get so easily beaten.

Abradolf--Lincler2025-12-29 04:09

The awkward cuts to random music from season 1 was really aggravating me, somehow more than the animation.