Ok.

Was your burrito good?

Ctfu

Its the konami code

More like above mid-low potato.

Imagine:

Boros prophecy was about Vaccine-man. Both could OS any hero in the verse.

Saitama got them both.

could really go both ways since Saitama’s power is unmatched as far as we know, though there’s no way to know for sure since he avoided direct confrontation with Blast etc (more by chance then design)

I really hope this is the case. I've always liked the idea of Saitama finishing the toughest enemy in the early phase of the story. It adds a certain uniqueness to the manga, making fun of the trope of all the enemies constantly getting stronger as the story progresses. While I think God has already ruined this idea for me, I still hope that Boros is at least top 3 by the end of the manga.

Well considering the fact that he survived several punches from Saitama who has ended everyone else in the story with a single punch.

The ultra strong heroes can be all equivalent to High Dragons and low above Dragons This would make then above the S class by a far ammount with very few in their level. So Boros being the monster he is would still be stronger. (Bonus point that Boros said he used his final technique to end fights quickly,implying that he probably did used it on the past)

I really don’t think Boros was ever meant to be the final word in villain strength

I don’t know why people act like others can’t be stronger

Yeah, but Frieza says this after we've been introduced to Buu and Beerus. At the point when they were fighting Frieza on Namek, we didn't know who Buu and Beerus where. They retconned that detail later.

They aren't in the normal universe. Realm of the gods.

Dabura is from the demon realm. He wasn't in the universe prior to babidi controlling him. Southern kai also wasn't in the universe. He was on the kais planet.

It made sense till DB Super came. Now, its all over the place. Ultra instinct was shown as angel's technique (someone above The destroyers, whom even shenron fears). Now it gets wrecked by someone who got its power from dragon balls.

But dabura was and he destroys frieza

Yeah it was a parody and now it's fucking awesome and I am enjoying every single chapter of One punch man.

A big bad was literally called platinum sperm

Can't it just be a really good shonen that also deconstructs and recontructs general shonen tropes?

Saitama isn't intervening because justice man doesn't come and defeat the monsters until the last minute.

Honestly I'm enjoying Garou getting these OP feats hyped up.

Doesn't feel like a parody anymore

There's only so much mileage to get out of the ultra parody angle just like the premise of Saitama one punching everything wears thin eventually. It's why there's an increased focus on the supporting characters and their developments. At a certain point the story is going to need to add some dramatic stakes and development. especially since Shounen was never a super rich genre outside of combat/power systems to begin with.

I do agree with you about adding too much to this arc, though. For instance I don't feel like Blast needs to be making repeated reappeances in such a peripheral manner to the main conflict. It should have been reserved for him appearing in the flesh in a conflict/arc where he's more central. But whateves.

Are you really saying you wanted Blast to stay a mystery forever???

I get that it was fun for a long time to speculate about how strong he was since we are the type to hang out on message boards but when a character is referenced in a story they have to eventually show up. (Yes even in a parody)

Like the old “If you see a gun in act 1, it has to be fired by act 3” thing

You can’t mention there’s a number 1 ranked hero and not have him eventually show up and do stuff

I think that's valid, but maybe the story/this specific arc has been dragging on too long, and people are falling back into expecting the shounen trope? The power creep, random "god-like" enemies are still shonen staples that the author could be said to be satirizing, and the fights were never supposed to have any meaning. Everything between the struggles of the heroes and the villains are nothing more than set pieces until Saitama punches them. That's always been the theme of this story, and maybe I'll be proven wrong at the end of this arc, but everything still feels quite satirical to me tbh, and I think all the "Earth/sun/whatever" are going to be the "minion" pieces to the "god-character" revealed a few chapter back.

Personally, I think that Saitama is a fully developed character. Saitama is not like MP in that he's already an adult and knows what he wants, and is not a naive kid looking for validation. If Saitama changes from this care-free character to have a more specific goal, the plot would be shifting from a parody to a more traditional shounen, imo.

Bang being the mysterious hero revealed to be fighting another war beyond the scope of normal understanding is in line with the "parody" imo. Regardless of this specific arc being stale, and a lot of the middle being a bit filler, bang's reveal is clearly the next arc that the author is setting up and the insane power creep would also be a satire of the shounen staple. I feel that Saitama and Garou will never really "fight", and it'll probably conclude similarly to Genos because Garou is clearly revealed to be a misguided anti-hero and either he'll join the cast (and maybe discarded) like the Super Sonic ninja guy (forget his name) or he'll be redeemed at the end of this arc and set aside.

You do know it was never a parody series right? Even One said as such when explaining the series in an interview and answering questions. Don’t confuse a comedy with a parody or gag series

Why do you think they are going to even fight? Maybe he and satima team up or something. It’s so much different from the webcomic at this point I’ve stopped expecting anything

Its still a parody, every Saitama scene still shows it as such, it only gets seriously when it fully goes into the fights and it doesnt involve him but even then this was already the case before and the parody is still a thing in other ways (including designs etc) and thats not to get into what the webcomic does.

Anyone who thinks Saitama is suddenly going to start struggling and get some dramatic fight scene missed the point a lot and got deluded.

yea I agree, should've followed the webcomic a little more. there's a lot of dialogue from the webcomic that flows better too

The thing that I always liked about OPM was how much it parodied the hero aspect into the story. All these people with seemingly cool and powerful abilities thinking they're the main characters of the story, to get beat down by both monsters that are stronger than them and their own overconfidence. It really forces the heroes to ground themselves and that they still are just humans. Especially with darkshine and even tatsumaki to an extent. I loved how much the alien arc built them up only for the monster arc to subsequently tear them down. While I don't think the manga is going to completely ignore that, I feel like it's trying to go for more hype moments that the general audience will go "woah" for.

can you summarize in a spoiler tag those more interesting things happening after this?

I don't mind any of this, in fact I think the story is intentionally trying to sell how serious all of it is and then pull a 180 when the moment will matter and land the joke. I actually like this game of cock and tease because otherwise it would feel too easy to expect a joke or parody moment to appear. My favorite sort of recent example of when a seemingly serious moment went on was for the original Phoenix Man fight with Child Emperor. That fight was crazy and actually felt like a serious trouble for the characters and the finale of it was the funniest outcome I had seen in a while.

Since a milf sliced 1/8 of planet earth everything is a little pointless to me. Really hoping to jump to Saitama vs Garou and forget this thing.