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Mackorov posted...

OPM is literally the vein of every shouen trope bruh. The story mostly centres around the superheroes trying to fight big villians and new villians and powerups are continuously introduced. Pretty much yeah?

The only difference is you also have Saitama coming in the last minute to end the fights in an anti-climatic way and also gives zero effort for the author to bother coming up with any intellectual storyline whatsoever or even a more reasonable plot device to advance the plot or to let other characters win.

My point is, Saitama is the antithesis to a shonen protagonist. He doesn't work hard, he's not a genius or a hothead or has a harem. He's not popular or handsome. To most people he's entire forgettable. He doesn't win fights through the power of friendship or resolve. There was no hyperbolic time chamber or gruelling training program with a risk of death or a powerful family tree that explains his innate strength. There's never any question that he will win.

I'm not sure what you mean by powerups either, becuase he doesn't get any and the only good guy who does rely on powerups (Zero) is the world's biggest loser. Like he hasn't won a single fight in the entire plot and none of his powerups have improved his winning odds, which is the other gag.

It's literally the worst form of writing ever. Only thing holding the manga together is the artist and an original premise (now getting way too stale at this juncture)

But it's a gag manga dude. Like, it wasn't intended to be a masterwork or anything. It's popularity just ran away with itself and people expect a little too much now. The gag is literally centered around there not being any tension. The artist you're referring to isn't the original author either. The original artist actually really fucking sucks.

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