

The Monster Association attempts to recruit him and kidnaps the child when Garo refuses. Garo bonds with Tareo, a child who idolizes heroes, as he hunts down more heroes, his combat prowess slowly rising. They attack various cities, recruit fighters by offering them "monster cells" that mutate humans into monsters, and kidnap a Hero Association executive's son. Due to childhood bullying, he holds a grudge against everything "heroic." The heroes learn that the monster influx comes from the Monster Association, an organization of monsters under City Z intent on destroying the Hero Association. Monsters begin appearing faster while the rogue martial artist Garo, a former apprentice of the hero Bang, and self-dubbed "Hero Hunter," begins terrorizing heroes. The heroes kill the invaders and destroy Boros's ship as Saitama defeats Boros in single combat. Later, shortly before her death, the seer Shibabawa predicts that the world is in great danger as the alien Boros invades the planet. His feats remain unnoticed even after saving people from an asteroid and then a sea monster, barely getting himself promoted to B-Class. Saitama and Genos join the Hero Association, hoping to attain notability, but Genos instantly obtains an S-Class rank meanwhile, due to scoring low on the written exam despite having a perfect score on the physical exam, Saitama only becomes a C-Class hero. He becomes a reluctant mentor to Genos, a cyborg seeking revenge against another cyborg who killed his family and destroyed his hometown, after Saitama defeats a monster that defeated Genos. For three years, he has trained enough to defeat any enemy with a single punch, his unmatched strength leaving him bored. Saitama, an unassociated hero, hails from City Z and performs heroic deeds as a hobby. The millionaire Agoni creates the Hero Association, which employs superheroes to fight evil. On a supercontinent version of Earth that has four Moons, powerful monsters and villains wreak havoc.

See also: List of One-Punch Man characters By April 2020, the manga remake had sold over 30 million copies worldwide, making it one of the best-selling manga series.


The second season premiered on the block in October 2019.īy June 2012, the original webcomic manga surpassed 7.9 million hits. Licensed in North America by Viz Media, it premiered in the United States on Adult Swim's Toonami programming block in July 2016. A second season, produced by J.C.Staff, was broadcast from April to July 2019. In North America, Viz Media has licensed the remake manga for English language release and has serialized it in its Weekly Shonen Jump digital magazine.Īn anime adaptation produced by Madhouse was broadcast in Japan from October to December 2015. As of November 2022, 27 volumes have been released. Its chapters are periodically compiled and published into individual tankōbon volumes. One wrote the original webcomic manga version in early 2009.Ī digital manga remake, illustrated by Yusuke Murata, began publication on Shueisha's Tonari no Young Jump website in June 2012. It tells the story of Saitama, a superhero who, because he can defeat any opponent with a single punch, grows bored from a lack of challenge.
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One-Punch Man ( Japanese: ワンパンマン, Hepburn: Wanpanman) is a Japanese superhero manga series created by One. One-Punch Man: A Hero Nobody Knows (2019).
