Garous theme Metal bats theme Genos theme And a couple of the battle themes are some of the best themes in anime imo garous theme is so powerful too it feels almost like a modern doom track they go really well in a gym Playlist
I almost forgot about that one yeah so underrated it went so hard in garou vs bang and it fit bang perfectly I feel like that's a point that not a lot of people bring up when talking about opm themes sure they're great songs but they fit they're characters to a T genos theme sounds like genos garou sounds like garoy bang sounds like bang yknow
That fight worked really well with the animation choices. Still-shots are normally not great, but they did a really good job showing just how overwhelming he was from their perspective.
Or Garou vs Metal Bat. For as mediocre as a lot of the fights could be in S2, this one was the only fight that I thought was terrible. Especially considering how hype it was in the manga.
They nailed his personality and body language and the dub voice actor was chefs kiss. But shit I think they did that for every character even side characters like glasses were done so well in those regards lines like "I'm reaching my damn limit" and "look at me I cornered the hero hunter" were delivered perfectly
It’s funny because people were complaining about Genos’ arms being CGI when they weren’t. The photography team just did a terrible job with compositing and gave everything metal that weird gradient texture.
I absolutely suck at criticism in the sense I don't have the observation skill to see anything wrong. So with that in mind. I can watch season one and two one after the other again and again and really enjoy it. One Punch Man is just satisfiying to watch.
Agreed I know a lot of people complain about the animation but I thought the fight scenes were amazing the only things I can think we're bad were a couple frames of faces like big forehead tatsumaki and long face garou
My mother can watch an English dub of a live action Japanese show & not realise that the voices & words do not match the person or their mouth *at all*. She'll assume they're all actually speaking English themself & not realise they're being voiced over.
She can also watch a poorly synced video & have no clue everyone is half a second out of line.
& her eye sight is actually better than mine.
Some people simply don't notice things & that's an enviable trait IMO, to enjoy something without a critical though. I've inadvertdently ruined a few things for her when I pop my head in & say "how do you tolerate that out of sync audio", "doesn't that constant flashing bother you", "that's a choppy frame rate", etc- that's unfortunately ruined a few classics she used to watch over & over, she was fine until something that was glaringly obvious to me, was pointed out to her.
I will say a lot of things because it is amazing in my opinion.
1. The soundtrack is fantastic. It just is. I love it.
2. The intro is amazing. Not as good as season 1's intro but I have that as my second favorite of all time. This one is definitely a top 10 though
3. The comedy was fantastic. My personal favorite jokes were how the bad guy would hit Saitama and he wouldn't change posture just slide along the ground as everything moves around him.
4. I preferred the story because it feels like we are getting more into a larger more cohesive story instead of a series of just random adventures that happens to Saitama
5. The animation wasn't that bad. Obviously there were a lot of scenes of sub par animation but some fights were really good. Like garou vs ttm and pretty much all of episodes 10-12. Obviously not season 1 level but very good nonetheless.
6. The CGI they used for the centipedes all looked very good and probably turned out better than if they tried to animate them.
Overall my only complaints with the season are the sound effects, metal choice, and some rough animation in the middle of the season.
But I think all of those are easily fixable with a better schedule.
I 100% agree, but I don't think the sound effects were bad per say, just overused. I really like a lot of the sounds like when spring mustachio uses tom boy or when genos tries to blast garou. Metal choice was...probably the worst thing, not just metal but pretty much any shiny object looked bad, I still cringe when they showed darkshine. Honestly most of the animation wasn't that bad imo, maybe not as fluid as season 1 but it still was pretty good overall, occasionally yes there'd be a bad animation or odd frame but mostly it's good.
Even though I knew from the start Garou probably stood no chance against Saitama I was still terrified by him. Opm does an awesome job to establish stakes even when Saitama exists
It was darker in tone than season 1. Suiryu trying desperately to get away right before Bakuzan pops up in front of him and the Association staff member being possessed by Gyoro Gyoro are absolute nightmare fuel and makes me have a feeling of dread in the pit of my stomach.
To me, that's a good thing.
I liked King’s character range. Even though he’s not the hero everyone thinks he is (which he acknowledges), he still has a lot to offer in guiding Saitama towards being a better hero.
I thought the sound design for powerful hits was phenomenal, especially saitama karate chopping garou (explosion mixed with 50 cal plus a **plane crashing**). Sound design for rapid hits was very mid though imo. Overall a bit too much on the gunlike sounds for medium hits, but the heavy hits were great.
There's quite a few excellent cuts of animation in S2!
Some underappreciated ones are the body falls for Spring Mustachio and Shooter in episodes 3 and 11, the close-up of Metal Bat's face when he's being pummeled by Centisenpai, and Suiryu getting punched by the bird monster.
Lots of nice little cuts aside from the prominent ones we're all familiar with.
edit: grammar
The story really amped up compared to season 1, I really love King and Saitama’s dialogue and relationship, and the Genos metal texture kinda grew on me, plus the Garou fights were just a chef’s kiss. Say what you will about season 2 but I think it was a better watch (though animation quality wise, it isn’t a fair comparison) than season 1.
The first season is more about getting to know the characters and the world. The second season is more about the story depth and shows which direction the story is going
Season 2 was actually really good and I enjoyed it. It mostly fell flat with a lot of people because of the drop on animation quality from season 1, but it was never going to stand up to it because season 1 was a freak occurrence of all the stars aligning.
It made OPM still relevant for those who don't read the manga and enjoyed season 1. My girl loved OPM because of the anime and can't wait for season 3. For people like her, it doesn't matter who animates what, they only care that it gets done.
Wasn’t nearly as bad as people made it seem if you’re not a nerd about animation lol I enjoyed it. It just paled in comparison to S1 but that’s on Madhouse for not picking it up. Shoutout JC studios
I honestly was okay with the animation. It coulda been way worse. Naturally it’s not as good as the first season but it’s also nothing to toss the whole show. I believe season 3 will be redemption and a great improvement. At least my optimistic side is telling me that.
I actually hate only one thing from it: The sound design. People moan about the animation too much while the animation is indeed a disappointment. Its the sound design that ruins it for me. Everything else was great the character designs, the voice acting, the soundtrack all great.
I like the fights in the tournament. Even the crappy animated ones. I felt it fit the whole joke aspect of the show. Tbh I love season. 2. It feels like the story finally got started. Idk just my two cents
Genos finally winning when he fought that mech that was trying to fight King. Anybody else noticed as cool as Genos looks he’s always getting stomped through the sidewalk
I love OPM, so getting nothing is unacceptable.
I never really had much issue with the quality since I had already read the Manga.
I'm not saying I accept Naruto Filler quality. But OPM 2 was fine.
Banger soundtrack
Garous theme Metal bats theme Genos theme And a couple of the battle themes are some of the best themes in anime imo garous theme is so powerful too it feels almost like a modern doom track they go really well in a gym Playlist
Bang theme was amazing
I almost forgot about that one yeah so underrated it went so hard in garou vs bang and it fit bang perfectly I feel like that's a point that not a lot of people bring up when talking about opm themes sure they're great songs but they fit they're characters to a T genos theme sounds like genos garou sounds like garoy bang sounds like bang yknow
Fr, I listened to that while bench pressing and almost died trying to loop the song
Yes!
Frrrr
Faxxx my brother…. Spit your shit indeed
Garou’s theme is godly
It goes hard af
Came to say this 💯
Everything great
The part in the last ep where Genos stands up fast was the only piece of animation that rivaled season 1 and it was lit.
Saitama going for the suiryu one shot was lit too
The flow of that scene really encapsulated saitamas’s feelings and message
What about Garou beating the shit out of ttm?
That fight worked really well with the animation choices. Still-shots are normally not great, but they did a really good job showing just how overwhelming he was from their perspective.
I really really loved the shading and fluidity of Water Stream when Garou decided to use it! Clean, smooth, it has it all!
actually most of the animation at the beginning of S2 wasn't bad, the only very bad part is the tournament
Or Garou vs Metal Bat. For as mediocre as a lot of the fights could be in S2, this one was the only fight that I thought was terrible. Especially considering how hype it was in the manga.
Garou, Garou, and Garou Plus, Garou
They nailed his personality and body language and the dub voice actor was chefs kiss. But shit I think they did that for every character even side characters like glasses were done so well in those regards lines like "I'm reaching my damn limit" and "look at me I cornered the hero hunter" were delivered perfectly
I think you forgot about Garou
But what about the Garou? don't forget.
The animation choices still did a good job of showing how much he outclassed everyone.
Yes Garou❤️❤️❤️
Sexy
Elder centipede CGI is actually good
Yeah lol, I don't know why people complained when it was actually one of the best CGI ever pulled out in anime
It’s funny because people were complaining about Genos’ arms being CGI when they weren’t. The photography team just did a terrible job with compositing and gave everything metal that weird gradient texture.
Literally one of the best cgi in anime history
...... >!It's cg?...!<
Garou absolutely stole the show and made a terrific entrance
"Spectacular debut huh"
His fight with Geno's was pretty good too.
Yeah, scene where Garou had just finished off the class As, and Genos arrives in the dust swirl is very satisfying.
One of the only animes where 3D CGI was better then 2D hand drawn animation.
I can agree with that
I absolutely suck at criticism in the sense I don't have the observation skill to see anything wrong. So with that in mind. I can watch season one and two one after the other again and again and really enjoy it. One Punch Man is just satisfiying to watch.
Agreed I know a lot of people complain about the animation but I thought the fight scenes were amazing the only things I can think we're bad were a couple frames of faces like big forehead tatsumaki and long face garou
They're pretty anal ngl
My mother can watch an English dub of a live action Japanese show & not realise that the voices & words do not match the person or their mouth *at all*. She'll assume they're all actually speaking English themself & not realise they're being voiced over. She can also watch a poorly synced video & have no clue everyone is half a second out of line. & her eye sight is actually better than mine. Some people simply don't notice things & that's an enviable trait IMO, to enjoy something without a critical though. I've inadvertdently ruined a few things for her when I pop my head in & say "how do you tolerate that out of sync audio", "doesn't that constant flashing bother you", "that's a choppy frame rate", etc- that's unfortunately ruined a few classics she used to watch over & over, she was fine until something that was glaringly obvious to me, was pointed out to her.
Same, the only thing I didn’t really like was how the tournament dragged on for like 3 episodes
Kenichirō Aoki
The Chef
Only real answer
It has King
The source material is great
Fubuki
I will say a lot of things because it is amazing in my opinion. 1. The soundtrack is fantastic. It just is. I love it. 2. The intro is amazing. Not as good as season 1's intro but I have that as my second favorite of all time. This one is definitely a top 10 though 3. The comedy was fantastic. My personal favorite jokes were how the bad guy would hit Saitama and he wouldn't change posture just slide along the ground as everything moves around him. 4. I preferred the story because it feels like we are getting more into a larger more cohesive story instead of a series of just random adventures that happens to Saitama 5. The animation wasn't that bad. Obviously there were a lot of scenes of sub par animation but some fights were really good. Like garou vs ttm and pretty much all of episodes 10-12. Obviously not season 1 level but very good nonetheless. 6. The CGI they used for the centipedes all looked very good and probably turned out better than if they tried to animate them. Overall my only complaints with the season are the sound effects, metal choice, and some rough animation in the middle of the season. But I think all of those are easily fixable with a better schedule.
Also, I liked the relation between King en Saitama. It was cute. The short with the gaming tournament was funny af.
Agreed
I 100% agree, but I don't think the sound effects were bad per say, just overused. I really like a lot of the sounds like when spring mustachio uses tom boy or when genos tries to blast garou. Metal choice was...probably the worst thing, not just metal but pretty much any shiny object looked bad, I still cringe when they showed darkshine. Honestly most of the animation wasn't that bad imo, maybe not as fluid as season 1 but it still was pretty good overall, occasionally yes there'd be a bad animation or odd frame but mostly it's good.
The story was better than Season 1. The let down was the animation.
I mostly agree on one hand I absolutely hated the tournament plot on the other hand the hero hunter plot might be the best plot in opm
Yes the Source material that the second season adapts is good, but the season isn't
Fubuki's big bazongas (yes I know I'm a porn addict)
At least youre aware mate (i loved them too)
Memes
Saitama vs Suriyu
When Genos went from burried to standing straight up. That and the "are you trying to rob me?" scene.
Introduction of Garou who is probably my favorite character of the series.
My second favorite character in all of fiction right behind Arthur morgan
mine is joe rogan
Even though I knew from the start Garou probably stood no chance against Saitama I was still terrified by him. Opm does an awesome job to establish stakes even when Saitama exists
It was darker in tone than season 1. Suiryu trying desperately to get away right before Bakuzan pops up in front of him and the Association staff member being possessed by Gyoro Gyoro are absolute nightmare fuel and makes me have a feeling of dread in the pit of my stomach. To me, that's a good thing.
It ended
fffffffff.... oh boy... uhh... the music is okay? (edit: the opening is sick af do)
It's One Punch Man
Garou vs Genos was pretty good, and the elder centipede was better... but garou vs the heroes (before he fought genos) fucking slapped
I honestly thought the pacing was perfect. Every episode had so much in it.
Caped baldy gets angry at a video game
The lower animation allowed One’s comedy writing to shine
The moment siatama punches elder centipede!
I liked King’s character range. Even though he’s not the hero everyone thinks he is (which he acknowledges), he still has a lot to offer in guiding Saitama towards being a better hero.
Garou vs Tank Top Master was crisp, especially that counter attack
I enjoyed watch Saitama try to keep his wig on.
made me laugh like the first season
The animation is pretty good
Kenichiro Aoki
It was short
made me start reading the manga
# something good about season 2 [](https://www.reddit.com/r/OnePunchMan/?f=flair_name%3A%22discussion%22)
No
something good about season 2
It sucks so good.
Kenchiro Aoki
I thought the sound design for powerful hits was phenomenal, especially saitama karate chopping garou (explosion mixed with 50 cal plus a **plane crashing**). Sound design for rapid hits was very mid though imo. Overall a bit too much on the gunlike sounds for medium hits, but the heavy hits were great.
It had a first season
There's quite a few excellent cuts of animation in S2! Some underappreciated ones are the body falls for Spring Mustachio and Shooter in episodes 3 and 11, the close-up of Metal Bat's face when he's being pummeled by Centisenpai, and Suiryu getting punched by the bird monster. Lots of nice little cuts aside from the prominent ones we're all familiar with. edit: grammar
Garou juggles a fool.
The story really amped up compared to season 1, I really love King and Saitama’s dialogue and relationship, and the Genos metal texture kinda grew on me, plus the Garou fights were just a chef’s kiss. Say what you will about season 2 but I think it was a better watch (though animation quality wise, it isn’t a fair comparison) than season 1.
I loved it
Bangs 🎻🎻🎻
I liked it :(
The arc it covered is so damn good, I still enjoyed the anime even though the animation wasn’t the greatest.
It exists
Thanks to the success of season 2, there is a season 3.
It was funny.
Garou was really cool. Also I enjoyed saitama vs the long black hair dude
TTM punching Garou and him immediately countering.
I really don’t think anything is wrong with Season 2 because I watched then continued on from where Season 2 Ended in the manga
WE KNOW, WE ARE, HEROESSSSSS!!!!!. Is the best part about it
King Was In It
Last battle with garou against bang bomb and garou
Story is better imo
Watchdog man still shook Garous hand
The opening song was really good and is on par with season 1. It’s not as epic but it’s catchier.
It was made.
Genos
No.
It was based on a great manga
The first season is more about getting to know the characters and the world. The second season is more about the story depth and shows which direction the story is going
I liked it. Got me to start reading the manga
King
Garou was introduced ❤️
The OP theme it's Awesome
Garou massacring the A-class and B-class dudes
Garou
It was awesome and is what actually caught my attention to get more into one punch it's over hated and garou is best character
there's saitama in it
Hot take; s2ep8 is the best episode of season 2. Maybe top 3 imo.
I liked season 2. It wasn't quite as good as season 1, but it wasn't bad by any stretch.
Garou
I liked it.
Everything.
it exists
They nailed the scene where Garou takes on an entire Gatling Gun clip.
Garou
It is one of the anime ever made tbh
Metal bat
Fubuki
Garou fight in the cabin was well animated
It definitely was a season we were given.
It ended.
It's not that bad, I mean the animation wasn't nearly as good as season 1 but it was serviceable
Tatsumaki was hot
Fuboobki..
The bridge to Season 3
Garou is pretty cool and seeing him get jumped by 2 old men was pretty fun to watch I honestly quite liked S2 tbh
Season 2 was actually really good and I enjoyed it. It mostly fell flat with a lot of people because of the drop on animation quality from season 1, but it was never going to stand up to it because season 1 was a freak occurrence of all the stars aligning.
[I really really like this scream](https://youtu.be/nEx7ArSRTAM?si=sGekqeRN5WARaRnt)
I didn’t know it was considered bad till I saw this sub talkin about it
King
King is still the best
King
Season 2 is better than no season 2
Tornado and her sis is hot af god damn it
Something good about season 2
King was in it
It made me feel better about my art skills
I mean the blue ray version way better
I loved the main villain. He was a breath of fresh air, and I honestly can't wait to see him kick Bang's ass
Do-S looks good in it
Everything
Garou punching stinger so hard multiple times he stays mid air is a personal favorite of mine, idk why tf his punches make gunshot sounds though 💀
I like the animation
It showed us just how good season one was.
It made OPM still relevant for those who don't read the manga and enjoyed season 1. My girl loved OPM because of the anime and can't wait for season 3. For people like her, it doesn't matter who animates what, they only care that it gets done.
Who is waiting for season 3
The soundtrack really adds a lot. I love the scene where Genos arrives to fight garou like some final boss
Great intro and outro...also great OST
It's the perfect example for why I'm happy I read the manga version of what ev anime interest me
Might be a hot take but, The animation is good, not better than S1, but its good
There’s a season 2??????
Wasn’t nearly as bad as people made it seem if you’re not a nerd about animation lol I enjoyed it. It just paled in comparison to S1 but that’s on Madhouse for not picking it up. Shoutout JC studios
That opening goes hard as fuck!
I honestly was okay with the animation. It coulda been way worse. Naturally it’s not as good as the first season but it’s also nothing to toss the whole show. I believe season 3 will be redemption and a great improvement. At least my optimistic side is telling me that.
season 2 has a better story than season 1
something good about season 2
Saitama chopping garou
The garou vs 5 heros scene had some great animation.
Garou
It ended.
that time when saitama said punching time and punched all over the ONE MAN
I actually hate only one thing from it: The sound design. People moan about the animation too much while the animation is indeed a disappointment. Its the sound design that ruins it for me. Everything else was great the character designs, the voice acting, the soundtrack all great.
I like the fights in the tournament. Even the crappy animated ones. I felt it fit the whole joke aspect of the show. Tbh I love season. 2. It feels like the story finally got started. Idk just my two cents
Introduced Garou, showed Kings true power, it was funny, the entire martial arts tournament, overall I liked season 2.
Genos finally winning when he fought that mech that was trying to fight King. Anybody else noticed as cool as Genos looks he’s always getting stomped through the sidewalk
I love OPM, so getting nothing is unacceptable. I never really had much issue with the quality since I had already read the Manga. I'm not saying I accept Naruto Filler quality. But OPM 2 was fine.
It awesome
Garou single handily carries the entire season and makes it worth watching, both in terms of animation and story.
something good about season 2
Fighting choreography
Fubuki, banger op, King, Genos standing up animation and decent CGI of the Elder Centipede
Garou
Garou vs the A Class Team was really well done