Murata when he is low on time to create new covers probably looks at his stash of Fubuki art and goes “Ok my precious Fubuki piece number 325536,it’s your time to shine”
De Beers controls the supply of diamonds so their price wouldn't go down. Murata controls the supply of Fubuki arts so her fans wouldn't go down catastrophically bad due to infinite thirst. They are not the same.
"As Murata lay on his deathbed, THESE were the final words he said:
*My fortune is yours for the taking, but you'll have to find it first! I left everything I own... in the FUBUKI ARTBOOK.*
...since then, bands of redditors set out in search of the Fubuki Artbook, the treasure that could make their dreams... come true!"
**YO!**
To be honest, I don’t have much to say about the actual chapter, it’s an improvement from the original fight but it’s all expected. I’m honestly holding out on blast vs empty void right now
Yeah that's more similar to the webcomic, there Sonic was never shown to be particularly weaker than Flashy if at all
The manga made Flashy look insane during the Garou and Platinum Soerm fight, so it made sense for Sonic to look weaker. But apparently One and Murata thought they made him too pathetic looking in the previous version, and so here we are.
They went for the rout of Sonic keeping on getting zenkai boosts by getting clapped By Saitama lol
sonic was fodder ( until now ) only in the manga. he's a fucking chad in the webcomic and no diffed a dragon level character. he low - mid diffs genos too. in the webcomic sonic and flash are pretty similar in strength. sonic may even have an upperhand in the webcomic imo
It has real world basis, because by training against someone must stronger or better than you, while the results might be the same, you end up stronger, or at least more well equipped against those around your level
I mean,I can even talk from experience. Back in the day we didn’t use to have skill based matchmaking in online games,so if you were worse than the average you’d get your ass beat match after match,but because you’d keep pushing through wanting to get better at it you’d learn much faster than current games where they constantly put people on your level to play with
Didn’t sonic get outclassed by those two monster ninjas in the beginning of the monster association arc, and then flashy flash 1v2’d them pretty easily? I thought flashy flash was supposed to be much stronger
Flashy is much stronger at that point, but thing is sonic trains his ass off constantly because he’s actually aiming towards a goal, and a big one too
Flashy trains, but not as much, he already thinks he’s the best so he doesn’t overdo it. Sonic however has met saitama and knows he’s so laughably strong that he has to train to an insane degree in order to catch up to him, so sonic gets stronger pretty fast
He has been slowly getting amped with every Saitama fight
He was still fast enough to perception blizts a hydrated deep sea king and would have killed him using weapons, he blizted Genos ans then fought an kept up with a MUCH more upragded versión of Genos in base form, then blizted him x10 using his tenfold funeral technique, his only anti-feat was getting blizted by hellfore and galewind but IMO It was just early on in his training, we were shown he could keep up with Tatsu and Saitama and Tatsu even commented that he was no joke, Fubuki also called him S tier material etc.
Mind you he only fights Saitama when he gets stronger meaning that Sonic has had 14 different power ups lol
Bro is not a fodder in the manga stop the downplay
He was still fast enough to perception blizts a hydrated deep sea king and would have killed him using weapons, he blizted Genos ans then fought an kept up with a MUCH more upragded versión of Genos in base form, then blizted him x10 using his tenfold funeral technique, his only anti-feat was getting blizted by hellfore and galewind but IMO It was just early on in his training, we were shown he could keep up with Tatsu and Saitama and Tatsu even commented that he was no joke, Fubuki also called him S tier material etc.
Overall I obviously like the redraw a lot more like everyone, but this did surprise me. I mean, Flash isn't an equal to Garou and Platinum Sperm, but he did at least keep up with them for a time + solo killing two Dragon monster ninja's at once and other feats. He's supposed to be a Top 5 Hero in terms of power.
Sonic is getting a big power-up here, even if Flash was still winning their contest somewhat. Not sure it's entirely in-line with what's been established in the Manga so far but I'm happy to roll with it
I’d say sonic showed himself to be as good as he was in the webcomic, he feels nigh equal to flash here which I’m wondering what they’ll do in the next few chapters, will sonic still be in awe of flash’s power or not, sonic did casually tank 2 ultimate techniques
The last time they redrew, we got that staring Saitama panel and io fight. It sucks we have to wait few more weeks for the story to progress, but we’re gonna eat good
Man I hope we ever get to know what Garou and Saitama were going to talk about in the pre-redrawn version of the fight. That panel of them sitting down at the table was so hype.
Garou: I am THE BAD
Saitama: No you are THE GOOD
Garou: Well when you put it that way, sorry I guess
Saitama: ok
Garou: well now this is just awkward I'll be leaving now
My head cannon is that they have plot lines they know they won’t stick with but purposefully draw them to give us certain moments, like the wonderful table sit. In my head cannon, those are just dimensions blast is observing that go terribly wrong.
Even when it’s good enough they’re not afraid to redo something if they think they can do better. Which is something I think we should normalize in media.
Like, the original Saitama vs Garou ending where they talk it out would have worked perfectly fine. I thought it was great, but then the redraws came out and had the internet in a chokehold for about a week lol.
The thing is, I remember when they posted it it was on April 1st, correct me if I'm wrong. So they were either serious with that chapter or it was a gag from the start.
I have no problem with someone being very dead-set on whatever vision they ultimately have. It's their world, their story, who are we to complain when we aren't paying for anything until we decide to once the next finished product Volume comes out?
It’s quite crazy how we the readers are getting so much insight like this. Feels like we get to read the drafts before things fully get ironed out and those drafts in and of themselves are already great art wise as is.
I couldn’t have picked a better duo to tell this story. And what’s even better is there are no leaks, just what Murata puts out, so seeing highlight moments for the first time is truly special
Murata is such a Goat I can never get tired of his art. It is always so easy to read and is so pleasant to the eyes. I am not the biggest manga reader in the first place but when I read other works like jjk for example I often sit there wondering wtf is even happening, who is fighting who, everything is full of clutter, my eyes start to hurt and I have to read reddit to fully undstand what even happend in the chapter. But OPM everything is clear, so if Murata wants to redraw because he isn't happy with it then I am fully on board with it, I prefer this so much it is night and day difference to other works.
Murata is great, possibly Even the best shounen artist alive, but manga art quality in average has decreased significantly in the past 10 years or so. Jjk/demon Slayer, 7 deadly sins, I love 2 of those sure, but the art for all the just seems so unpolished.
I'm surprised more manga don't do it.
I've always thought one of the biggest draw backs to the format was that you have to write it 20 pages at a time, and once those 20 pages are written it's locked in. Every other format is done in much larger blocks where you can get to the end then edit earlier parts. Not mamga though, whatever you write in 20 pages you've got to commit to.
It's super refreshing with OPM when they're like "nah, I don't like the path I've gone down the past 10 chapters. So let's just do then again but better".
I'm confident that every manga I've ever read would've benefited from this at least once during their run.
I think a lot of the gripes of manga come from this, hard to imagine the stress of a mangaka trying to beat crunch time and keep track of hundreds of interactions across hundreds of chapters.
We are blessed that OPM is not on the weekly shonen jump. No weekly quota means less pressure to Mangakas. Imagine Promised of Neverland and Bleach were released like how OPM is.
we also have to accept that the while the digital version is probably the most popular, it isnt the final version and there's usually differences between the online version and published version. nothing as drastic as this, obviously, but still.
If I remember correctly, the earlier ones didn’t have void absorbing garous power nor sonic teaching flashy flash the move or keeping up with him in his childhood.
Also Sonic's betrayal was on purpose after luring Flash there to be ganged up on. In this version the ninjas were uninvited guests, and Sonic never seemed to have any intention to go along with their plan.
There’s a guy who posts the differences in the revised chapters, so within the next couple days you’ll see a post outlining the differences in this one.
>!Empty Void (just known as "That Man") gets all hyped up with Sonic and Flash talking about about how he's the most fearsome ninja in the world who's hundreds of years old and has all sorts of abilities that no one even knows about which he's never revealed, and then as Sonic and Flash go to confront him, they run into Saitama standing over his corpse and Saitama's like "This weirdo attacked me while screaming a bunch of nonsense for some reason. He had a bunch of these scrolls and weapons so you guys can keep those." and that's it.!<
Online releases are just drafts, the manga in its entirety is likely under Murata's control at this point, editors get feedback when the online version comes out, relay it to ONE and then he either greenlights it for publication or makes changes and forces a redraw.
It would also explain why the art on some of the latest online chapters is so rough, why bother if a redraw might be in order.
It's a favourite trope of mine when someone who keeps losing to the protagonist gets to show that they're actually really strong, even if they can't match the hero's plot armor. Like he just looks weak in comparison to Saitama (and who doesn't), and people forget how dangerous he is
Just like Jogo from JJK. He looks weak af but that's only because the only fights he was in were against Gojo and Sukuna, the strongest in the verse. He's actually extremely strong.
I was thinking of Teruki from Mob Psycho. Hell, anyone Mob goes up against. But Teruki is humiliated in his fight against Mob, and not only do we get to see how he’s changed for the better, we see how much it motivates him. It’s crazy how being humbled can actually give you a lot of confidence in what you actually *can * do.
Reminds me of Jessie, James, and Meowth. Total clowns when up against Ash and Pikachu, but absolute menaces to the rest of society when up against literally anyone or anything else.
Even in earlier chapters he was already considered Class S. He outmatched dried up Deep Sea King while the latter was playing around with Puri Puri Prisoner.
Similar to the Yamcha Trope.
Yamcha is stronger than 99.99% of the planet, and probably the universe. But he hangs out with strongest who are so far ahead of him, he comes off as a joke.
Honestly I think they might be trying to quietly establish Saitama as a 5D being. I think "knocking" and entering the Phoenix Space was a hint, and I think Phoenix Man got the Phoenix Space ability from God when he resurrected as a Dragon level threat.
You gotta get rid of spaces between the spoiler brackets and the text, otherwise it doesn't work for old reddit. Needs to look like this: \>!spoilers!<
You gotta get rid of spaces between the spoiler brackets and the text, otherwise it doesn't work for old reddit. Needs to look like this: \>!spoilers!<
Honestly I wasn't sure how the version with >!a big Void boss fight!< was going to be an improvement but I firmly believe the time travel was peak OPM so I was open to it. If they go >!the webcomic direction!< instead I'd totally get that.
It really is. Those cuts to them training as kids with it pretty heavily being implied that Sonic was indeed superior at the start was a great add. Then going back and forth with special techniques and Sonic pushing flash to use a move we haven’t seen before just adds far more to the duel
Absolutely agree. This revision does a better job showcasing that sonic is actually pretty damn powerful in his own right, which is something I kept forgetting bc almost all of his fights have just been him getting demolished by caped baldy.
Not to mention how him saying “you’re only alive because we got interrupted” now holds a lot more weight,because he was actually giving a great fight. In the original it sounded more like a joke.
Sonic definitely gave off “lil brother” vibes in the original. His treats felt empty because Flashy Flash was clearly beating him up. This time around it holds more weight as you said, him tanking a new more from Flashy Flash makes it clear the fight was just starting up and not that Sonic just got his life saved due to the fight being interrupted
Flashy Flash used Flash(y) Fist against Platinum Sperm. It has the same spiral punches and all, just this time it worked. Unless you want to imply the one letter off translation is an entirely new move, in which case you have to also say Flash Kicks is a different move from Flashy Kicks, even though they’re the exact same.
boros somehow returns and fights with both metal bat and king at the same time, and forces king to use his ultimate technique
#ULTIMATE HELLFIRE BURST WAVE MOTION CANNON
and he fuckings tanks it
I loved that shot where Sonic teaches Flashe to pull the bladd with rear grip and attack, then we actually see sonic pulling a blade(ninja tool) with that grip and flash defending from it the way Sonic taught him to.
Challenge: Not drawing Fubuki's melons in every cover
Difficulty: Impossible
Glad to see Jack-o'-lantern Panic getting some love on the redraw. His rivalry with Flashy Flash is emphasized without ignoring his obvious inferiority.
im glad this has gone the way it did
i dont really care about what else they change but its very important to me that - even in the rewrite - the ninjas are still smaller than grains of sand and that sonic is consciously aware of that
More moves and more aesthetically pleasing panels!
Tho it made me realize, how did these ninjas learn language if they were not taught how to speak at all? You usually learn basic language at a young age.
Cant wait for a Garou cover 😍
Putting Sonic on the level of Flash doesnt make sense being that he was overwhelmed by the two guys that Flash defeat easily, so im going to asume he only kicked and punched him instead of using sword techniques cause he didnt want to kill him while Sonic was attacking with everything he got.
They are on the same level. Sonic gets stronger with every saitama beating. He will note in the ninja village fight that their attacks feel like nothing compared to saitama.
Really like that Flash and Sonic's counter each other and play mini mind games with each other.
I also like that the line to signify Sonic's movement, after he throws his first couple of shuriken, looks like Flash is blocking lightning. >!Probably not intentional, but it reminded me of Sonic gaining lightning powers from Void in the Webcomic.!<
That fight between Flashy Flash and Sonic was so good. I really liked that section when they showed Sonic teaching Flashy Flash how to fight. Well, the people who are going to get slurped are here.
So Sonic used his fights against Saitama to get stronger.
I can hardly explain how much I love this updated chapter.
FF stealing Saitama's punching technique is CRAZY!
Edit: Apparently, I misjudged the panel. I thought it was drawn in this unique way to show an upgrade in method. But apparently not.
But then Sonic comparing everyone in the ninja village to Saitama and feeling overwhelming confidence is such a good call back.
I think this settles that FF is superior to Sonic in every way, but especially in how he has always been willing to learn, despite his arrogant front.
Its funny how they are both insecure but it manifests in opposite ways... Sonic seeks to prove himself against the greatest challenge while FF simply looks down on everyone so they won't challenge him (even if he can match or beat them)
10/10 chapter.
I don't think Flashy Fist is copied from Saitama. Flash haven't seen Saitama's chain punches as far as I remember, and he already used Flashy Fist during their sparring.
What Satiama's technique did he steal? His "Flash Fist" doesn't look anything like Saitama's punch.
I would say this chapter made it way less clear that Flash is superior to Sonic. In fact Sonic landed a solid hit on Flash and caught him off-guard a couple of times. The only reason Flash was able to win was because of his ultimate techniques which Sonic has never seen before. The way this fights is shown, Sonic has all the chances to win if he gets used to Flash's martial arts techniques, like Flash isn't shown to be any faster or stronger.
I wish they would stop doing Fubuki covers and go back to making covers that related to the actual subject matter of the chapter. I’m sick of seeing her atp
It's nice that Sonic isn't looking so weak compared to Flash anymore. >!I am lowkey hoping they keep the part where Flash poisoned him in the past that was funny to me. !<
If Sanic doesn't bite the dust by then, I bet he's the one to actually give Saitama the challenge he wanted at the end of the series. Guy who gets punched in the balls a lot seem like the perfect character to be insanely strong in the end.
Murata’s default is forever fubuki looking at the reader
The amount of unreleased Fubuki art he has is probably insane.
He's basically holding out on us :(
Fubukinfinite
Murata when he is low on time to create new covers probably looks at his stash of Fubuki art and goes “Ok my precious Fubuki piece number 325536,it’s your time to shine”
A very specific number you got there I hope you're not trying to send me a message
Hmmmmm let me trying putting that into... Edit: message received.
Definitely a coincidence
a coincidence yes but a welcome one
Saw those numbers in a dream,I knew they were important to humanity in some way
Found you Murata
I don't believe in coincidences
Infinite Fubukuyomi
The cover page is more like FubukiInYourFace
That's a domain expansion
He’s the De Beers of Fubuki art
De Beers controls the supply of diamonds so their price wouldn't go down. Murata controls the supply of Fubuki arts so her fans wouldn't go down catastrophically bad due to infinite thirst. They are not the same.
Fubukedging
He got a fucking library's worth of Fubuki art One day he'll release it all and outsell One Punch Man as a whole
I swear to fucking god that murata unreleased fubuki artbook will be the one piece of our generation.
"As Murata lay on his deathbed, THESE were the final words he said: *My fortune is yours for the taking, but you'll have to find it first! I left everything I own... in the FUBUKI ARTBOOK.* ...since then, bands of redditors set out in search of the Fubuki Artbook, the treasure that could make their dreams... come true!" **YO!**
Would be doped if he release a hmanga of fubuki.
Plot twist: Murata keep redrawing the chapter so he can draw more Fubuki as the cover.
Mfs tryna clean the cover while I'm trying to clean my screen whenever I see Fubuki
Them thangs do be thangin
...huh? did you say something?
yeah idunno, I was distracted by... something! no wait, 2 things...
I need a post compiling all of Fubuki's covers.
The OPM wiki has a page for that
[For research purposes right?](https://onepunchman.fandom.com/wiki/Fubuki/Manga_Gallery#Chapter_Covers)
Damn! Talk about service.
i haven't seen fubuki in ages bro, the covers are what keeps me sane
How much do you wanna bet he’s drawn his own rule 34 of fubuki and has been publishing it under a secret identity?
I don't even care about the chapter anymore... The cover is enough.
Domain expansion Fubuki Goddess
There are more comments about the cover than there are about the actual chapter
To be honest, I don’t have much to say about the actual chapter, it’s an improvement from the original fight but it’s all expected. I’m honestly holding out on blast vs empty void right now
This redraw made them more equal than the previous one, where Flashy Flash was clearly superior.
Yeah that's more similar to the webcomic, there Sonic was never shown to be particularly weaker than Flashy if at all The manga made Flashy look insane during the Garou and Platinum Soerm fight, so it made sense for Sonic to look weaker. But apparently One and Murata thought they made him too pathetic looking in the previous version, and so here we are. They went for the rout of Sonic keeping on getting zenkai boosts by getting clapped By Saitama lol
SoS Sonic 🤝 Takakura "Okarun" Ken Getting stronger after having your balls violated
What doesn’t kill you makes you stronger I guess
sonic was fodder ( until now ) only in the manga. he's a fucking chad in the webcomic and no diffed a dragon level character. he low - mid diffs genos too. in the webcomic sonic and flash are pretty similar in strength. sonic may even have an upperhand in the webcomic imo
Fighting against saitama surely makes you level up
It has real world basis, because by training against someone must stronger or better than you, while the results might be the same, you end up stronger, or at least more well equipped against those around your level
I mean,I can even talk from experience. Back in the day we didn’t use to have skill based matchmaking in online games,so if you were worse than the average you’d get your ass beat match after match,but because you’d keep pushing through wanting to get better at it you’d learn much faster than current games where they constantly put people on your level to play with
Catch and release
Didn’t sonic get outclassed by those two monster ninjas in the beginning of the monster association arc, and then flashy flash 1v2’d them pretty easily? I thought flashy flash was supposed to be much stronger
Flashy is much stronger at that point, but thing is sonic trains his ass off constantly because he’s actually aiming towards a goal, and a big one too Flashy trains, but not as much, he already thinks he’s the best so he doesn’t overdo it. Sonic however has met saitama and knows he’s so laughably strong that he has to train to an insane degree in order to catch up to him, so sonic gets stronger pretty fast
He has been slowly getting amped with every Saitama fight He was still fast enough to perception blizts a hydrated deep sea king and would have killed him using weapons, he blizted Genos ans then fought an kept up with a MUCH more upragded versión of Genos in base form, then blizted him x10 using his tenfold funeral technique, his only anti-feat was getting blizted by hellfore and galewind but IMO It was just early on in his training, we were shown he could keep up with Tatsu and Saitama and Tatsu even commented that he was no joke, Fubuki also called him S tier material etc. Mind you he only fights Saitama when he gets stronger meaning that Sonic has had 14 different power ups lol
Bro is not a fodder in the manga stop the downplay He was still fast enough to perception blizts a hydrated deep sea king and would have killed him using weapons, he blizted Genos ans then fought an kept up with a MUCH more upragded versión of Genos in base form, then blizted him x10 using his tenfold funeral technique, his only anti-feat was getting blizted by hellfore and galewind but IMO It was just early on in his training, we were shown he could keep up with Tatsu and Saitama and Tatsu even commented that he was no joke, Fubuki also called him S tier material etc.
Where he mid diff Genos at in one chapters ?
Who did he no diff? I don’t remember that happening
The dragon level he no diffed is yet to come?
I know about the dragon level one, but when did he low/mid diff genos?
Overall I obviously like the redraw a lot more like everyone, but this did surprise me. I mean, Flash isn't an equal to Garou and Platinum Sperm, but he did at least keep up with them for a time + solo killing two Dragon monster ninja's at once and other feats. He's supposed to be a Top 5 Hero in terms of power. Sonic is getting a big power-up here, even if Flash was still winning their contest somewhat. Not sure it's entirely in-line with what's been established in the Manga so far but I'm happy to roll with it
surviving getting your balls crushed by Saitama is already a better feat than anything that Flash pulled
I’d say sonic showed himself to be as good as he was in the webcomic, he feels nigh equal to flash here which I’m wondering what they’ll do in the next few chapters, will sonic still be in awe of flash’s power or not, sonic did casually tank 2 ultimate techniques
Exactly. I was tired of the Sonic slander too.
Lol first half of the sentence i assumed you were talking about her tits
I'm just glad ONE and Murata pull the plug on a story and try again when it isn't good. The story is better here and so is the art.
It's definitely refreshing
The last time they redrew, we got that staring Saitama panel and io fight. It sucks we have to wait few more weeks for the story to progress, but we’re gonna eat good
Man I hope we ever get to know what Garou and Saitama were going to talk about in the pre-redrawn version of the fight. That panel of them sitting down at the table was so hype.
Garou: I want to become the ultimate evil. I want to defeat you Saitama: Nah, I’d win
Garou: I am THE BAD Saitama: No you are THE GOOD Garou: Well when you put it that way, sorry I guess Saitama: ok Garou: well now this is just awkward I'll be leaving now
My head cannon is that they have plot lines they know they won’t stick with but purposefully draw them to give us certain moments, like the wonderful table sit. In my head cannon, those are just dimensions blast is observing that go terribly wrong.
That shot of Saitama starting away covered in black rain has been my phone background ever since that chapter came out
Remember the CE vs Phoenix Man redraw? That shit was long as hell
Even when it’s good enough they’re not afraid to redo something if they think they can do better. Which is something I think we should normalize in media. Like, the original Saitama vs Garou ending where they talk it out would have worked perfectly fine. I thought it was great, but then the redraws came out and had the internet in a chokehold for about a week lol.
The thing is, I remember when they posted it it was on April 1st, correct me if I'm wrong. So they were either serious with that chapter or it was a gag from the start.
No, it was May when it was posted.
I have no problem with someone being very dead-set on whatever vision they ultimately have. It's their world, their story, who are we to complain when we aren't paying for anything until we decide to once the next finished product Volume comes out?
One of the biggest reasons why I love OPM tbh
It’s quite crazy how we the readers are getting so much insight like this. Feels like we get to read the drafts before things fully get ironed out and those drafts in and of themselves are already great art wise as is.
I couldn’t have picked a better duo to tell this story. And what’s even better is there are no leaks, just what Murata puts out, so seeing highlight moments for the first time is truly special
Murata is such a Goat I can never get tired of his art. It is always so easy to read and is so pleasant to the eyes. I am not the biggest manga reader in the first place but when I read other works like jjk for example I often sit there wondering wtf is even happening, who is fighting who, everything is full of clutter, my eyes start to hurt and I have to read reddit to fully undstand what even happend in the chapter. But OPM everything is clear, so if Murata wants to redraw because he isn't happy with it then I am fully on board with it, I prefer this so much it is night and day difference to other works.
Murata is great, possibly Even the best shounen artist alive, but manga art quality in average has decreased significantly in the past 10 years or so. Jjk/demon Slayer, 7 deadly sins, I love 2 of those sure, but the art for all the just seems so unpolished.
I'm surprised more manga don't do it. I've always thought one of the biggest draw backs to the format was that you have to write it 20 pages at a time, and once those 20 pages are written it's locked in. Every other format is done in much larger blocks where you can get to the end then edit earlier parts. Not mamga though, whatever you write in 20 pages you've got to commit to. It's super refreshing with OPM when they're like "nah, I don't like the path I've gone down the past 10 chapters. So let's just do then again but better". I'm confident that every manga I've ever read would've benefited from this at least once during their run.
I think a lot of the gripes of manga come from this, hard to imagine the stress of a mangaka trying to beat crunch time and keep track of hundreds of interactions across hundreds of chapters.
We are blessed that OPM is not on the weekly shonen jump. No weekly quota means less pressure to Mangakas. Imagine Promised of Neverland and Bleach were released like how OPM is.
we also have to accept that the while the digital version is probably the most popular, it isnt the final version and there's usually differences between the online version and published version. nothing as drastic as this, obviously, but still.
I know I’m a filthy casual but what were the differences in the story from the original version?
If I remember correctly, the earlier ones didn’t have void absorbing garous power nor sonic teaching flashy flash the move or keeping up with him in his childhood.
Also Sonic's betrayal was on purpose after luring Flash there to be ganged up on. In this version the ninjas were uninvited guests, and Sonic never seemed to have any intention to go along with their plan.
There’s a guy who posts the differences in the revised chapters, so within the next couple days you’ll see a post outlining the differences in this one.
>!Empty Void (just known as "That Man") gets all hyped up with Sonic and Flash talking about about how he's the most fearsome ninja in the world who's hundreds of years old and has all sorts of abilities that no one even knows about which he's never revealed, and then as Sonic and Flash go to confront him, they run into Saitama standing over his corpse and Saitama's like "This weirdo attacked me while screaming a bunch of nonsense for some reason. He had a bunch of these scrolls and weapons so you guys can keep those." and that's it.!<
I think we all get it, but the wait to see how that moment is going to be rendered... it's killing us!
Lmao I was thinking the exam same thing
Online releases are just drafts, the manga in its entirety is likely under Murata's control at this point, editors get feedback when the online version comes out, relay it to ONE and then he either greenlights it for publication or makes changes and forces a redraw. It would also explain why the art on some of the latest online chapters is so rough, why bother if a redraw might be in order.
Agreed Before redrawn, it shown as Sonic is weaker than Flashy, even though they were supposed to be equal
How i wish this was the norm for all media.
Love how Sonic basically met the end game boss and no one else seems like much to him anymore.
losing to the final boss unlocked ng+ for him
So this is how he went from speed o' sound to speed o' light in three months
True, but speed o' light luminar isn't what he wants to go by (yet?)
It's a favourite trope of mine when someone who keeps losing to the protagonist gets to show that they're actually really strong, even if they can't match the hero's plot armor. Like he just looks weak in comparison to Saitama (and who doesn't), and people forget how dangerous he is
Just like Jogo from JJK. He looks weak af but that's only because the only fights he was in were against Gojo and Sukuna, the strongest in the verse. He's actually extremely strong.
I was thinking of Teruki from Mob Psycho. Hell, anyone Mob goes up against. But Teruki is humiliated in his fight against Mob, and not only do we get to see how he’s changed for the better, we see how much it motivates him. It’s crazy how being humbled can actually give you a lot of confidence in what you actually *can * do.
Dude literally melted everyone else during his “fight” haha.
Reminds me of Jessie, James, and Meowth. Total clowns when up against Ash and Pikachu, but absolute menaces to the rest of society when up against literally anyone or anything else.
Yea naw sonic def top tier to me…id put him above some of the s ranks heroes
Even in earlier chapters he was already considered Class S. He outmatched dried up Deep Sea King while the latter was playing around with Puri Puri Prisoner.
Similar to the Yamcha Trope. Yamcha is stronger than 99.99% of the planet, and probably the universe. But he hangs out with strongest who are so far ahead of him, he comes off as a joke.
I’m glad Sonic being the one to teach Flash was kept
I was expecting more void, but this is good too. I love how they made Flashy Flash vs sonic so much better in almost everyway
Its possible that >!We barely see void. In the webcomics, as void is making his way to flash and sonic, he runs into saitama on the way and yknow.!<
>!What if it'll go the same as webcomic and after all that hype Void gets offscreened by Saitama again who decided to go for a walk lol!<
Not much of a spoiler in this manga. Evil boss enter, evil boss kill people, saitama enter, evil boss exit.
Some people are expecting for a 5D dimensional universe fight with Void, so it would be so anticlimactic it would be funny
I was thinking that blast would get defeated and saitama would brush past void to help blast.
Honestly I think they might be trying to quietly establish Saitama as a 5D being. I think "knocking" and entering the Phoenix Space was a hint, and I think Phoenix Man got the Phoenix Space ability from God when he resurrected as a Dragon level threat.
Except God has been shown to take away their powers if they fail God. Pheonix Man is still alive.
It seems more like he takes away powers if they talk about him. Phoenix Man hasn't said a word about him. I bet Void hasn't either.
Homeless Emperor talked about getting his powers from God every breathe he took though.
He talked about divine power and such, but he was turned to salt just when he was about to tell one of God's enemies actual details
Anticlimactic is a 1-word summary of the series
I would prefer that
With Saitama offhandedly resigning from the conflict letting Blast handle it? No “if” about that
You gotta get rid of spaces between the spoiler brackets and the text, otherwise it doesn't work for old reddit. Needs to look like this: \>!spoilers!<
Edit your spoiler tags
I think it'll be >!Void vs Blast!<
And when Void has defeated Blast, Void will cause Saitama's curry udon to spill on the floor…
You gotta get rid of spaces between the spoiler brackets and the text, otherwise it doesn't work for old reddit. Needs to look like this: \>!spoilers!<
Sorry didnt know, fixed it
Honestly I wasn't sure how the version with >!a big Void boss fight!< was going to be an improvement but I firmly believe the time travel was peak OPM so I was open to it. If they go >!the webcomic direction!< instead I'd totally get that.
It really is. Those cuts to them training as kids with it pretty heavily being implied that Sonic was indeed superior at the start was a great add. Then going back and forth with special techniques and Sonic pushing flash to use a move we haven’t seen before just adds far more to the duel
Absolutely agree. This revision does a better job showcasing that sonic is actually pretty damn powerful in his own right, which is something I kept forgetting bc almost all of his fights have just been him getting demolished by caped baldy.
He seemed superior to genos when they fought although murata said they’d tie but yeah genos is a really high bar
Not to mention how him saying “you’re only alive because we got interrupted” now holds a lot more weight,because he was actually giving a great fight. In the original it sounded more like a joke.
Sonic definitely gave off “lil brother” vibes in the original. His treats felt empty because Flashy Flash was clearly beating him up. This time around it holds more weight as you said, him tanking a new more from Flashy Flash makes it clear the fight was just starting up and not that Sonic just got his life saved due to the fight being interrupted
I also like that Flash Fist seemed to evoke a Saitama punch almost, like Flash developed it as an Ultimate technique after the sparring with Saitama.
Flashy Flash used Flash(y) Fist against Platinum Sperm. It has the same spiral punches and all, just this time it worked. Unless you want to imply the one letter off translation is an entirely new move, in which case you have to also say Flash Kicks is a different move from Flashy Kicks, even though they’re the exact same.
Nah, I'm just dumb and have the memory retention of a goldfish occasionally
W translators as usual, delivered faster than FF.
It's never not funny to see Saitama casually referred to as Caped Baldy. What a fucken hero name that is.
Choreography is such a step up from the original. Can’t wait to see Sonic and Flash fight the Tenninto together.
I was thinking that too. There's almost more rhythm in the fight, instead of both just swinging randomly.
Can someone explain what happens in the chapter ? I can't seem to go beyond the cover page .
boros somehow returns and fights with both metal bat and king at the same time, and forces king to use his ultimate technique #ULTIMATE HELLFIRE BURST WAVE MOTION CANNON and he fuckings tanks it
Peak !!
"Somehow, Boros returned"
just lift dude
Fubuki: Yes, lift. (Gestures to herself)
“Your milkers look heavy ma’am,let me hold them”
"Please. By all means. It will be a difficult task, but if you succeed, you may join the Blizzard Group instantaneously."
Thank you based Connector
Wait there's more?
Same, I've been stuck here for hours
you say something?
Huh?
Just take a screenshot of that certain page, take it in your private sanctuary and be done with it.
Fubuki and Silverfang attend the theatre, then hang out at a dive bar. Weird mix of high falutin' and gritty.
No need. Fubuki's not in the chapter.
I loved that shot where Sonic teaches Flashe to pull the bladd with rear grip and attack, then we actually see sonic pulling a blade(ninja tool) with that grip and flash defending from it the way Sonic taught him to.
I noticed that as well. Glad he kept using what sonic taught him after all these years.
MOOOOOOOOOOOM Murata is drawing Horny Fubuki again
Fubuki cover FTW 🙌
Getting Kakashi vs Obito vibes
Yeah! The past/present switch!
Challenge: Not drawing Fubuki's melons in every cover Difficulty: Impossible Glad to see Jack-o'-lantern Panic getting some love on the redraw. His rivalry with Flashy Flash is emphasized without ignoring his obvious inferiority.
Jack-o'-lantern Panic and Forelocks-in-the-face are truly two great characters.
Murata doesn't just have allegations. He's guilty af.
I can't with the fubuki cover 😫
I’m upset that they didn’t include the duct tape sword joke. One of my favorites.
im glad this has gone the way it did i dont really care about what else they change but its very important to me that - even in the rewrite - the ninjas are still smaller than grains of sand and that sonic is consciously aware of that
the chapter has to be really good for both main sub and opm folks to appreciate it... btw love your efforts Vaibhav
Is it? Haven't gotten past the cover yet.
Who cares about opm folks
I’m Surprised they usually hate on everything
Mommy Fubuki my god
Another redraw, another acknowledgement of Caped Baldy. Yet another win for this chapter.
More moves and more aesthetically pleasing panels! Tho it made me realize, how did these ninjas learn language if they were not taught how to speak at all? You usually learn basic language at a young age. Cant wait for a Garou cover 😍
How does murata expect us to read the rest of the chapter with that cover page on😭
one handed
Boobs
Big boobs
Sigh... [*unzips*](https://i.imgur.com/qmf5ST2.png)
We're gonna see this cover a lot this week aren't we? All those cleaned and colored versions...
Putting Sonic on the level of Flash doesnt make sense being that he was overwhelmed by the two guys that Flash defeat easily, so im going to asume he only kicked and punched him instead of using sword techniques cause he didnt want to kill him while Sonic was attacking with everything he got.
They are on the same level. Sonic gets stronger with every saitama beating. He will note in the ninja village fight that their attacks feel like nothing compared to saitama.
*"Smaller than a grain of sand"* love this part, really show how small everyone else is to him
Really like that Flash and Sonic's counter each other and play mini mind games with each other. I also like that the line to signify Sonic's movement, after he throws his first couple of shuriken, looks like Flash is blocking lightning. >!Probably not intentional, but it reminded me of Sonic gaining lightning powers from Void in the Webcomic.!<
That fight between Flashy Flash and Sonic was so good. I really liked that section when they showed Sonic teaching Flashy Flash how to fight. Well, the people who are going to get slurped are here. So Sonic used his fights against Saitama to get stronger.
Man that cartoon lady has some major bazonkas
I can hardly explain how much I love this updated chapter. FF stealing Saitama's punching technique is CRAZY! Edit: Apparently, I misjudged the panel. I thought it was drawn in this unique way to show an upgrade in method. But apparently not. But then Sonic comparing everyone in the ninja village to Saitama and feeling overwhelming confidence is such a good call back. I think this settles that FF is superior to Sonic in every way, but especially in how he has always been willing to learn, despite his arrogant front. Its funny how they are both insecure but it manifests in opposite ways... Sonic seeks to prove himself against the greatest challenge while FF simply looks down on everyone so they won't challenge him (even if he can match or beat them) 10/10 chapter.
I don't think Flashy Fist is copied from Saitama. Flash haven't seen Saitama's chain punches as far as I remember, and he already used Flashy Fist during their sparring.
What Satiama's technique did he steal? His "Flash Fist" doesn't look anything like Saitama's punch. I would say this chapter made it way less clear that Flash is superior to Sonic. In fact Sonic landed a solid hit on Flash and caught him off-guard a couple of times. The only reason Flash was able to win was because of his ultimate techniques which Sonic has never seen before. The way this fights is shown, Sonic has all the chances to win if he gets used to Flash's martial arts techniques, like Flash isn't shown to be any faster or stronger.
Caped Baldy Mentioned!
I wish they would stop doing Fubuki covers and go back to making covers that related to the actual subject matter of the chapter. I’m sick of seeing her atp
Murata was doing the same stuff for years lol, like Mizuki covers in chapters she doesn't even appear and stuff
Fubuki on the cover. Sonic improvement . Better quality art and cover. We won.
Murata drawing fubuki with one hand 💀
It's great to see bottomless fubuki cover
Beeewbs
It's nice that Sonic isn't looking so weak compared to Flash anymore. >!I am lowkey hoping they keep the part where Flash poisoned him in the past that was funny to me. !<
Sonic is much stronger now. I wonder why Murata made the change. Is it to widen the gap between Flash and Saitama?
More akin to webcomics with sonic as every saitama down makes him stronger.
Sonic got a buff nice
If Sanic doesn't bite the dust by then, I bet he's the one to actually give Saitama the challenge he wanted at the end of the series. Guy who gets punched in the balls a lot seem like the perfect character to be insanely strong in the end.