Saitama is the protagonist for
the one punch man series. He's actually
still pretty young 25 years old. For Saitama's
body measurement he comes in at
five feet nine inches or 175
centimeters. He's 154 pounds or 70
kilograms. Overall Saitama has a pretty
average weight and height. For the
ranking for one punch man. At the end of
season one of the anime
he's currently a C rank hero. In the
manga however Saitama has already reached
B class. If we actually look even
further into the webcomic saitama has
actually made it into the a-class only
the lower tier though. Will Saitama's
strength ever be fully recognized?
I mean who doesn't think this guy should
be an s-class hero!
The name Saitama also happens to be
the same name of the city that the
author ONE lives in. On top of that the
supercontinent that makes up all the
cities also looks like the Saitama area
in Japan.
What's most noticeable about Saitama is
his very simplistic design. The one
responsible for this is the author of
the series ONE. One noticed that all around him
there's all these super cool looking
heroes everywhere especially when it
comes to their hero costumes.
One punch-man is a parody series anyway
so One decided to settle for a very
simple-looking main character. One
believes that a hero's coolness comes
from the spirit not in the way that they
look. Instead of Saitama looking badass
everyone else around the supposed to be
much more detailed and flashy. For
example take a look at sonic or of
course Genos.
punch man appears to be based off of Anpanman.
Anpanman is a character in a
series for young children in Japan. The
resemblance for these two should stand
out immediately. Saitama's Hero costume is
the same as Anpanman's costume just with the
colors reversed. The only exception is
Saitama's cape which is white. More on
this later. The name of both of these
characters are also pretty similar. Saitama's
hero name in japanese is written Wapanman.
Compare this to Anpanman. It's only off by
a single character!
I mentioned earlier about Saitama's
simplistic design. This of course
includes his trademark superhero costume so
where did Saitama get the inspiration
for his McDonalds colored suit? We
actually get the answer to this in a
special ova episode that was bundled in
the 10th volume of the one punch man
manga. Itt was titled road to hero. This
episode shows us a younger Saitama back
when he still had hair. Saitama was busy
busy performing his duties but
unfortunately he seemed to always be
getting his clothes ripped. At the end of
this special the tailor that was always
helping to repair Saitama's cloth
got inspiration from seeing Saitama. This
tailor ended up making and giving
Saitama his trademark superhero costume as a
gift. It's even hinted that the costume is
made with very special material. The funny
part about this, Saitama was actually
really embarrassed to wear it at first!
At least thankfully it was better than
the earlier design of it!
All great superheroes have their capes.
Saitama is no different. One punch always
shows up ready to battle with his white
cape. The interesting thing about his cape
is that it's actually shown as red in early
part of the manga. I should point out
that it was never red in the web comic.
This is most likely a stylistic choice
by the manga artist Yusuke Murata.
The red cape did give him a more Superman
like feel especially when you consider
the Saitama's abilities. The red cape also more
resembles of the reverse look of Anpanman. By
the way just an extra fun tidbit. Yusuke
also worked on the Eyeshield 21 manga
as the artist.
One punch-man is of course known for his
trademark one punch move. The thing is
Saitama actually has several different
techniques to mix these up. In the anime
one punch only ever has to use actually punch
techniques when he's up against Boros. In
reality Saitama my has a normal and serious
punch set. The normal set includes two
moves: the first is the consecutive normal
punches. We see him use this against Boros.
The second is the two-handed consecutive
normal punch. This one is a more advanced
version of the original. Saitama uses both
fists and also moves twice as fast. For
Saitama's serious set there's four
techniques total. The only one shown in
the anime is in the final fight versus
Boros.
That's the serious punch. This was an
extremely powerful punch that sent a
shock wave across the world. The other
three serious moves that yet to be seen
included: the serious side hops, the serious
table flip, and the serious headbutt.
Definitely look forward to seeing
some of these serious one punches in the
upcoming season 2.
One of the most notable things that
stand out from the one punch anime is
the animation from the actions scenes. The
person we have to thank for these
memorable scenes is Yoshimichi Kameda.
Kameda was also responsible for a
couple of action scenes in Fullmetal
Alchemist Brotherhood. You might remember
some of these. This includes the final
showdown between mustang vs Lust.
and king bradley verses Greed.
Definitely hoping Kameda returns for
season 2!
I mentioned earlier about One being the
author of the mega-hit onepunch-man
series. You may have already seen one of
these other popular series turned into
anime last year. Mob psycho 100 is also
one of One's creation. It's definitely not
a surprise that these series do have
references to one another. In the manga
saitama is seen wearing a shirt of mob
Psycho 1 million when he was younger. The
Mob Psycho manga is also seen at
Saitama's place.
Meanwhile over at Mob Psycho's world we do
get a glimpse of for the one punch man manga.
One has confirmed that Mob and Saitama
do not actually live in the same world so
maybe parallel? One Punch man has been
shown to be this almighty superhero with
strength that rivals the gods. Saitama
was able to achieve this through his restrict
three-year workout plan. What you may
have not taken too much note of is Saitama's
impressive speed too. So just how fast is he?
In the final showdown with Boros we do see
one punch Saitama fighting at his most
serious. During this Saitama was thrown to
the moon by Boros. Saitama then jumps
back from the moon to the earth in only
one and a half seconds. It has been
calculated that in order to do this
Saitama had to have been moving at about
260 thousand kilometres per second or
just under the speed of light! holy crap!
it gets even crazier when you take into
account that this is still not Saitama
displaying his full power!
So about the Saitama and the hero
association in this hero world. Before
saitama even met Genos he had no idea
about the hero Association .Funny because
one punch actually has a strong
connection to it. Three years before he
became a hero
we see Saitama save the balls for chin
kid from this crab monster. This kid
ended up being the grandchild to
the multi-millionaire mr. chinner. after
hearing about what happened Chinner
decided to create the heroes association
in order to fight back against evil.
It was always private funds too. They do
briefly glanced over this in the anime after
Saitama takes a hero test but in the manga
Genos put it right out there.
So yes turns out that Saitama is
responsible for the creation of the
heroes Association. Don't you think that should
at least help them get promoted?
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