These panels are gorgeous and One Punch Man is hilarious. Loved his most recent fight with Garou. I think my favorite character in this series is probably either Saitama’s disciple Genos or the top hero King. I think it’s because of the way Genos looks up to Saitama with such reverence, and—without spoiling too much—the whole story around King and how he’s managed to be seen as Mister Number One Hero. I haven’t read the original web toon but it might be interesting to check out the original source material. Only problem there is that the visuals will be no where near on par to Murata. As you pointed out, he makes a nonstop masterpiece of the story’s events. Can’t wait for more of the One Punch Man anime to come out.
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I have read very little of the original webtoon, I feel that style of drawing causes me a lot of visual noise and I just preferred to avoid it. I only read it on one occasion that I wanted to find out more about everything when the monster association arc was starting. Genos is also a pretty amazing character, seeing the different transformations he's had throughout the manga was also epic. I'm pretty sure that in this new arc he'll be given much more prominence :)
Visual noise is a good word for it. It’s very rough and the scratchy lines are very similar to sketching but less clean. One of the newer mangas that really wades back and forth between clean lines and that scratchy style is JJK. Sometimes I really like the art and sometimes I’m thinking, “What am I looking at?lol”
The comparison between Genos and Saitama is funny—one tries to purposefully exceed being human by becoming more machine, while the other accidentally surpassed the limit but somehow still stayed human-like. I love how imaginative OPM gets when creating different monsters and super powers, which all seem useless in the face of Saitama basic abilities: infinite strength, speed, durability.