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Joking aside I think One Punch Man is a solid show, I just don't think it had enough interesting comedic, dramatic, or structural ideas to really captivate me as a viewer all the way through. It's content settling into the particular niche that it built given its premiere and mostly became articulations with varying degrees of effectiveness of the same writing and themes, which left me feeling pretty bored. Saitama was by far the least interesting part of the show for me and all the alternative avenues the show posterized were left widely unexplored.
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@noelnarwhal Playing devil's advocate for the point that Saitama is an uninteresting character, he does kinda share that with most big superhero names. Also season 2 is almost definitely happening and so I'm expecting resolutions for all the unexplored elements
Monday, 21-Dec-15 00:03:33 UTC from web-
@merrytiffmas Yeah, but my problem isn't just that he's so uninteresting but that the show devotes so much focus to him. To draw example from another anime that "deconstructs" superheros in some capacity, Hajime is far from the most interesting character in Gatchaman Crowds but the show covers an incredible amount of ground outside of her circumstances. It utilizes her as more of a symbol than a genuine character and in its two seasons it's managed to provide thought provoking insights into gamification, culture of the information age, crowdsourcing, emotional appeal in politics, the nature of approaching national conflict, and so much more. The writing is internally aware of the roles its characters play which makes it more convincingly effective for me, whereas I felt OPM had distinctly uninteresting priorities.
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@noelnarwhal To be honest I disagree. I think there was just enough focus on Saitama to progress the story but he never really stole the limelight, even during his scenes (at least in regards to the second half). I feel like with the way the story's going, season 2 especially will focus on the friction within the Hero Association, which came across to me as the intent of the last six or so episodes already. Obviously if you disagree then you disagree, but I've enjoyed the amount of limelight the other S-Ranks have been getting personally.
Monday, 21-Dec-15 00:26:52 UTC from web-
@merrytiffmas I just wish there was more personality in the style and writing of other S ranks aside from "hit stuff really hard". I think the show sort of hit its emotional and dramatic peak with the Mumen Rider episode and has since gone back to revolving between increasingly less weighty fights juxtaposed against Saitama's one punch non-fights. Saitama works incongruently to dramatic structure, but so do many of the other characters in the show. The only real personalities to me came out with the psychics, but they can't carry a show. It was a show that to me came off as having occasional hints of greatness, but I think one season of it is enough for me.
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@noelnarwhal I understand now. I think season 2 will be better, but I get that it being such a slow-burner wouldn't exactly speak volumes about the show's quality
Monday, 21-Dec-15 00:47:20 UTC from web-
@merrytiffmas I dunno if I'd describe a show where it's constantly promising "this will get better, I promise!" as a slow burner, but that's just a matter of opinion.
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@noelnarwhal indeed
Monday, 21-Dec-15 00:59:49 UTC from web
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