One Punch-Man (ONE)

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Follows the life of a hero who manages to win all battles with only one punch. This ability seems to frustrate him as he no longer feels the thrill and adrenaline of fighting a tough battle, which leads to him questioning his past desire to be strong.

Original Webtoon

Type

Manga

Related Series

One Punch-Man (Alternate Version)

Associated Names

One Punch Man (ONE)

One Punch Man (Original)

One Punch Man (Webcomic)

One Punch Man (Webcomic/Original)

One-Punch Man (ONE)

Onepunch-Man (ONE)

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Latest Release(s)

c.154 by r/OnePunchMan 1 month ago

c.153 by r/OnePunchMan 2 months ago

c.152 by r/OnePunchMan 4 months ago

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Status in Country of Origin

152 Chapters (Ongoing)

Completely Scanlated?

Anime Start/End Chapter

Starts at Chap 1 (S1) / Chap 42 (S2)

Ends at Chap 41 (S1) / Chap 54 (S2) Anime based on the expanded manga

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2 topics, 3 posts

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User Rating

Average: 8.8 / 10.0 (465 votes)

Bayesian Average: 8.65 / 10.0

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Last Updated

May 16th, 2025 1:45am PDT - 1 month ago

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Action Adventure Comedy Drama Sci-fi Slice of Life Supernatural
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Activity Stats (vs. other series)

Weekly Pos #575

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Monthly Pos #1237

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3 Month Pos #1516

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6 Month Pos #1702

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Year Pos #2173

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List Stats

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On 375 wish lists

On 110 completed lists

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What else do we have from ONE except for 117 original chapters?

5 years ago

Original or redrawn?

5 years ago

User Comments [ Order by time added ]

The Art Is Technically Horrible But I Swear It Works

by IHavoc
12 years ago

Rating: N/A

ONE's stories are primarily constituted by ninjas, psychics, demons, monsters crossed with household object, giant animals, superheroes with absolutely absurd abilities. It all smacks of something a deranged teenager scribbles in his notebook and the art reflects that.

Yet the characters and villains are the stupidest things you'll ever find legitimately entertaining, the tone is mixed up enough to keep both the stories and the gags fresh, and the amount of depth put into to his worlds and scenarios as well as the skill behind his paneling and general composition are surprisingly impressive.

The art style looks silly, but in a way that often works with the gags, and when he actually puts the effort in he draws some pretty badass stuff, like the "God" image and stuff from the Garou arc. I love it. I like it about as much as Murata's art but I'm a bit weird.

This dude gets that your art doesn't have to be great for it to complement your story, and that your premises and concepts don't have to be "serious" for your story to be legitimately interesting. This applies to basically all his works, so I might as well call this a general review. All of these stories are about super powerful "normal" people.

OPM:
One person is powerful but has a "normal" personality. He appears ordinary, so no one cares despite his living an relatively extraordinary life.

Off the bat there is a focus on a theme of subverting expectations and the story just runs with it. Sometimes it's predictable, a la the One Punch. Other times it's a character or development being significantly different in nature and relevancy than you would expect. Punchlines and twists are both frequent and both fairly well executed. It starts out slower, though not as slow as the next mentioned, but becomes fairly rapid fire in comedy in plot as it progresses.

MnO:
Nearly everyone is powerful while having "normal" personalities. They appear extraordinary, but no one cares because they all live relatively ordinary lives.

This one takes a while to build up, because it starts out mostly mundane with a little weirdness, before it starts to jump wildly between the two and mash them together in more entertaining ways.

MP100:
One person is powerful but has a "normal" personality. He appears extraordinary, so everyone cares but he wants to live an ordinary life.

In the first few chapters that have been (and are currently being) translated, it's really starting to flesh out a cast of characters in a unique way, which usually happens later in ONE works. Promising. It's also his main work, so it updates regularly.

... Last updated 12 years ago

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Caped Baldy FTW...

by Opec
12 years ago

Rating: 10.0 / 10.0

This is the Original Webcomic (ONE), Murata sensei was highly impressed with the concept of the plot and asked author's permission to Re-draw it ...thus 2 Different Version you can find it on web

Like the Title Suggest "One Punch man" and it literally means that, it shows how his Heroic attributes affects his day to day life and how He tries to cope up with it

The supporting cast especially the "King" is hilarious, love his Mr.Satan-esque traits and overall all the heroes are fun and have their own unique personality

Surprisingly for a gag manga it has build up alot of mystery in order to keep the readers intrigued eg: Who is blast ? who destroyed Genos village ? etc etc

The author "ONE" is a genius and a wonderful story-teller....i hope one day all his other webcomics gets translated like OPM coz irrespective of his Amateur Art the Story is sure to Draw you in...

MUST READ!

... Last updated 12 years ago

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Horrible Art...

by JapanRocks
12 years ago

Rating: 10.0 / 10.0

But a complete master piece. I'm a bit shallow with my manga and would read a 'meh' story if the art is beautiful. However I'll look at the crappiest art if the story is good and THIS IS GOOD!! It's not the most awe inspiring story in the world but it's damn original and damn entertaining. I think that if people are prepared for the horrible art, then they can eventually get used to it like I did.

However I must warn that right now the original is at chapter 92 and has been that way for a while now. And it's ended at a hair pulling cliff hanger. Right now, neither versions are recommended fully because of the update speed.

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The mother of Murata's OPM that has all of its brilliance apart from ITS ART >.<

by wansmor
9 years ago

Rating: 9.0 / 10.0

Subject tells what this review is about. But not everything since even the grand work Murata did finally diverge from ONE's at some point and there you will truly come to appreciate this original piece of work's greatness.

Art-wise, ONE's version is a true-blue definition of what you may call a storyboard (as @likalaruku1 stated above), but the action and dialogue is just another level. This is the platform that makes Murata's so great, but since he also has other greatness in his art... I feel saying one is greater than the other doesn't do justice for the effort both Murata and ONE puts into the story so I won't.

Anyway, I'll assume anyone come here because of Murata's OPM, so I won't bother with the basic, I'd just want to say that ONE's original is, while it does have less fighting chapters, it doesn't lack in quality remarks and interesting interactions between characters, from which actually OPM's true strength exist. Post Monster Association Arc, we would be treated with intrique of Heroes Associations and its competitor while Saitama would have more interactions with his fellow heroes as he moved to Heroes dormitory following the destruction of his previous condo. Get prepared for some old joke from which ONE still successfully extracted some good laugh from me with.

... Last updated 3 years ago

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Awesome

by Pebble_
9 years ago

Rating: N/A

Ok, the art is generally not as good as the redrawn manga, but as I couldn't wait to know the continuation of the story I started reading this one and it still works! You're still very much immersed in the story, which is still just as awesome and hilarious, with the best protagonist EVER.
Actually, I'm more fond of the way women are drawn here than in the redrawn version. I find them wayyy too sexualized is the redrawn version and so less badass and likable. Here, Typhoon and ESPECIALLY Fubuki are perfect. I'm a bit annoyed at the redrawn version of Fubuki now, they made her look so much weaker! It's really a waste.

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Better than redrawn version

by Gekkoh
9 years ago

Rating: 10.0 / 10.0

I really love ONE's style and technique. It's far better than the redrawn version. I can understand that majority prefer redrawn version but it lost a lof of charm and uniqueness of the original manga. Unfortunately the author almost has stopped issuing new chapters.

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Great Shounen!!

by Hector234
12 years ago

Rating: 9.0 / 10.0

The perfect example of how a manga even with crappy art can have a great story...
Though I can't give a 10 because that deserves good art or at least acceptable... haha
But thankfully there's Onepunch-man with great art too now available but because of that it takes too long to get released...

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Great story of an Average Guy who serves as an Average Hero ~!

by MinatoAce
10 years ago

Rating: 10.0 / 10.0

Okay...as other people saying, ONE-sensei don't have much skill in his Art...
But, he certainly have good Art sense and his art is really clean...everything is understandable!
And though his art skill is not good enough, I can say just by looking that, he gave it his all!

Now about the story...It's really good and anyone can enjoy it...It's about daily life of an epic invincible hero Caped Baldy...amm...I mean Saitama! He is an Average Guy who serves as an Average Hero!...an half-assed setting right ?...but, that what make it Far Moe Exciting To Read ~!

... Last updated 10 years ago

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Glad to see new chapters

by DR MUHAMMAD
5 years ago

Rating: 10.0 / 10.0

Just need to get used to the art style. Its golden.

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The Best Super Hero Story in Manga yet.

by VaizardPlayer
3 years ago

Rating: N/A

Is story that starts with a obvious comedy tone, but leaving aside the cartoonist stylish art you can see one solid plot and another themes along the time.
I tried the other series of this author and this one is above the rest easily.
However I'm sadly unsure of how will ends, because of my bad experience with Mob Psycho 100.
About MURATA Yuusuke's version is like the Anime version, is the best comparation that I can give now.

... Last updated 3 years ago

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