One-Punch Man (anime)

A 2015 anime about a bald guy, based on the manga who is based on a webcomic of same names.

Saitama is just a hero doing his hero job. The thing is, things are easy. Very easy. And that's because Saitama is powerful. Very powerful. To be more exact, almost 99% of his enemies go down in one punch. One. Punch. That's all thanks to Saitama's training, that apparently also made him bald. Thing is, Saitama has become so powerful and his job has become so easy, that he is becoming bored of the superhero business. Such a pity, because now is when both heroes and superpowerful monsters are finally noticing his existence.

The truth is, One-Punch Man isn't a serious story. It's a comedy and a parody of both superhero comics and fighting manga.

The first season was directed by Shingo Natsume and animated by Madhouse. The second one was directed by Chikara Sakurai and animated by JC Staff. Based on a Seinen manga with art by Yusuke Murata, adapted from a webcomic written and drawn by ONE.


 * Arbitrary Skepticism: Everyone finds Saitama's training regime results absurd despite the fact pretty unrealistic technology and magic exist in the series' setting.
 * Cute Monster Girl: The Mosquito Girl from Episode 2 is way more humanoid and sexy than her male counteparts of the House of Evolution.
 * Cyborg: Genus and Armored Gorilla, one human and the other, well, obviously a gorilla.
 * Dark and Troubled Past: Parodied. Genos' backstory in Episode 2 is presented through voice-only narration which goes on for a long period of time, annoying both Saitama and presumably the villain.
 * Fanservice Extra: For all of her hotness, Mosquito Girl doesn't last even one entire episode before Saitama easily kills her with an slap.
 * For Science!: Dr. Genus' experiments were created with the objective of vastly improving the human race with super-powers related to other animals. He lets them roam free but has no plans of domination or profit.
 * Lonely at the Top: There is no doubt Genus is a genius, even if it took decades for his hybrid experiments to give fruit. It also made him isolated from other people to the point the entire staff of the House of Evolution are his own clones.
 * One-Hit Kill: Unless they're on a pretty high scale of power, monsters and villains die to Saitama from one punch.
 * Power Parasite: The best way of explaining Mosquito Girl's powers, given feeeding on large quantities of blood should make her fast, not change her color and make her vastly more strong and durable.
 * Something Something Leonard Bernstein: The theme song is mostly in Japanese but has a little English.
 * Training from Hell: Saitama's training regime which he said that managed to turn him invincible would be pretty brutal even to trained iron-men, something given the popularity of the series was analyzed by actual fitness trainers and deemed feasible but pretty hard to do. Of course, it doesn't result in hyper-speed and strength and toughness.
 * Too Dumb To Live: A thief gets killed in Episode 2 by a horde of mosquitoes by ignoring the warnings about monsters attacking just to get more gold.