Tuesday, March 22, 2016

Viewer Log: One-Punch Man ep 6

The life of a hero can be rather… dull. Or at least that’s what Saitama experienced. Five days after officially joining the Hero Association in the last episode, and he’s done nothing. There’ve been no giant monsters or crazy mutant creatures attacking. Genos, who’d moved in Saitama earlier to do some intensive study of his master, informs Saitama of a small rule that he’s overlooked. As a C-Class hero, he’s got a quota that he has to meet. C-Class heroes need to do at least one heroic thing in a seven-day period, or they’ll be removed from the registry. And Saitama has spent the last five days laying around reading manga. Idiot. That’s a little harsh, since Saitama typically handles huge catastrophes and such, he’s not used to paying attention to the little things like muggers and “spur of the moment” crimes. But seriously, pay attention in meetings.
I don't care if he's "in  the Top Ten" of the C-Class.
No one would take this idiot seriously.
After giving Genos a BS speech about him “changing his mindset” in order to improve himself, really just didn’t want Genos following him and potentially inadvertently taking the credit, he runs off. Trouble is, there is no crime to stop. City Z is quite, when not being attacked by super-sized titans. Take the good with the bad. The following day, Saitama is starting to have a serious freak out. The face he ends up making makes me uncomfortable. He runs into Speed-of-Sound Sonic, who’s looking for a rematch. Saitama does his best to ignore Sonic, still looking for crime to stop, but Sonic is rather persistent. A local “hero” with the dumbest theme ever, Tank Top Tiger, arrives to handle the suspicious situation. Not Sonic, but Saitama. Apparently his mini-freak outs were making more than just me uncomfortable. Sonic, who’s tired of being ignored, knocks out Dumb Guy in Tiger-Print Tank Top and starts flinging kunai everywhere. Saitama, finally realizing that the solution to his problem is LITERALLY staring him in the face, knocks Sonic out, and meets his quota for the week.
Some officials from the Hero Association close the Sonic Case, but still have a more interesting Case open, the Ghost Town. This Case is so big, even an S Class hero named Tornado is interested in it. We learn that there is a district in City Z that is completely uninhabited. This District is hit hardest by the various monsters that attack City Z, so nearly everyone has moved out. Only the basic essentials of electricity and water still run there. Rather than “waste” Tornado’s time with the case, I get the implication the execs are worried she’d be overkill, two A-Class heroes are sent in to handle it. Golden Ball and Spring Mustachio travel through the Ghost Town, and meet a giant Seaweed Monster. Said Monster wipes the floor with them, all the while delivering some exposition. Apparently the Ghost Town is known amongst the monster community, and the toughest of the tough go there to try and defeat the unstoppable denizen of the Ghost Town. Then Saitama walks by. Hm… an invincible superbeing that thrashes the worst monsters, I wonder who it can be? He mentions forgetting to buy soup stock, before the Seaweed monster attacks. We don’t see the monster, but in a pretty dark twist, Saitama apparently killed it and was using it in his soup. Messed up.
The man can bite through a sword. Who can stand a chance?
I feel it’s important to mention that One-Punch Man started out as a manga. Actually, it started out as a web comic that was then redrawn as a manga, and then turned into an anime. I suggest looking into the original Web Comic, not because it’s good but because it’s ugly as sin. I’m really shocked anyone was interested enough in it to make the manga version. My point? Just like most other series, there are occasionally standalone stories in between longer story arcs. Sometimes it’s just one story, sometimes it’s a few, but either way it breaks things up a little. I bring this up because I know that the reason this feels like two stories is because it is. Part one, fighting Sonic, would have been one to three-chapter story, and the Ghost Town investigation would be another. Both segments, while largely unrelated, do help to shape the world they live in. We learn a bit about the hierarchy, C-Class heroes are the Spider-man/Daredevil/Batman sort that handle street crime and the “spur of the moment” crime. Life is always the hardest for rookies. We also learn that the Hero Registry is run by a bunch of idiots. Seriously, if they’d just run through their own Registry, they’d have seen a C and S-Class hero LIVE IN THE GHOST TOWN. Can you think of anyone better to get info about an area then from the guys that live there? But it is also interesting to learn that Saitama is a legend, even if people still don’t take him seriously. So yeah, while the stories don't connect very well, it's a fun episode to just see how more of this world works. Next time, either One-Punch Man episode 6, or my review of Batman V. Superman, depends on when my next day off is. Until then, have a great night.


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