60 Fun Facts About One Punch Man

Who created One-Punch Man, first releasing it as a webcomic?

One, a pseudonymous artist, began One-Punch Man as a free webcomic with no publisher; its crude art and huge readership led to the professionally drawn remake.

Which artist illustrates the digital manga remake?

Yusuke Murata, the artist of the remake, contacted the webcomic's creator himself after reading it and used his Shueisha connections to get the remake serialised.

Before One-Punch Man, the remake's illustrator was best known for drawing which sports manga?

Eyeshield 21, an American-football series written by Riichiro Inagaki, ran in Weekly Shōnen Jump for seven years and made its artist's name before the remake.

In which year did the original One-Punch Man webcomic begin?

The webcomic began in 2009 and had passed 7.9 million hits by June 2012, the popularity that drew the remake illustrator's attention.

On which Shueisha website has the manga remake been serialised since 2012?

Tonari no Young Jump, Shueisha's web spin-off of Weekly Young Jump magazine, has carried the remake since June 2012, which makes it technically a seinen title.

The series' Japanese title is a pun on which long-running children's character?

Anpanman, the bread-headed hero of a children's franchise running since 1988, inspired the title Wanpanman, where wanpan is short for wanpanchi, a single punch.

How long is the daily run in Saitama's famous training routine?

The routine is 100 push-ups, 100 sit-ups, 100 squats and a 10 km run every single day, never skipping, as Saitama explains to Genos.

Along with exercise and healthy food, Saitama credits his strength to going without what?

Air conditioning and heating were given up, Saitama says, to strengthen his mental fortitude; the regimen as a whole left him completely bald.

For how many years did Saitama train before becoming unbeatable?

Saitama trained for 3 years: he was 22 and job-hunting when he first fought a monster, and is 25 when the story begins.

What hero name does the Hero Association give Saitama in the anime?

Caped Baldy is the English rendering of his registered hero name Hagemanto, a jab at his bald head and plain cape that Saitama finds humiliating.

Saitama's apartment is in which of the lettered metropolises of the supercontinent?

Z-City, whose monster-plagued outskirts Saitama calls home, sits above the Monster Association's base; the heroes' raid on it later reduces much of the city to ruins.

Which pollution-spawned monster does Saitama defeat in the very first chapter?

Vaccine Man, born of the Earth's pollution, declares humanity a virus to be wiped out and dies to a single punch in the first chapter.

How old is Genos, Saitama's disciple, when the story begins?

Genos is 19 at the start of the story; he had his body replaced with cybernetics four years earlier, after a rampaging machine destroyed his hometown and family.

Genos is hunting which rampaging machine for destroying his hometown and family?

The Mad Cyborg is the rogue machine that wiped out Genos's hometown when he was fifteen; tracking it down is the reason he sought out Saitama's strength.

Which scientist rebuilt the nearly dead Genos into a machine-man?

Dr. Kuseno, a scientist of justice, rebuilt the dying teenage Genos as a cyborg and continues to upgrade his parts after each destructive fight.

Genos becomes Saitama's disciple after watching him effortlessly beat which monster?

Mosquito Girl had nearly killed Genos moments earlier; Saitama flattens her with a single slap, and the awestruck cyborg begs to become his disciple.

Despite his godlike power, Saitama's poor written exam puts him in which hero tier?

C-Class, at rank 388, is where Saitama starts after a perfect physical score was dragged down by his written exam; he is later promoted to A-Class in the manga.

Which tier is Genos placed in as soon as he registers?

S-Class, the top tier, is where Genos is placed immediately after the exam, entering at rank 17 while Saitama lands near the bottom of the lowest tier.

Which multi-millionaire founded the Hero Association?

Agoni founded the Hero Association after his grandson was saved from the monster Crablante by an unregistered bystander, a Saitama who at that point had hair.

Which cyclops-like alien, leader of the Dark Matter Thieves, comes to Earth looking for a worthy fight?

Boros, the cyclopean alien, travelled to Earth after a seer prophesied a worthy opponent; his armour exists to hold back his power, and Saitama beats him regardless.

Whose dying prophecy is fulfilled by the alien invasion of the city?

Shibabawa, the Hero Association's seer, choked to death on a cough drop after foreseeing great danger; her warning gathers every top-tier hero in a single room for the first time.

The self-styled Hero Hunter Garou was expelled from whose martial arts dojo?

Bang, the hero Silver Fang, expelled Garou from his dojo after the prodigy beat up his fellow students; Garou went on to hunt heroes in turn.

Silver Fang's older brother, himself a martial-arts master, is named what?

Bomb is the older brother of Silver Fang and a master of the Whirlwind Iron Cutting Fist; the two brothers fight Garou together in the Monster Association arc.

Which S-Class hero, believed to be the strongest man on the planet, is secretly a powerless otaku?

King earned his fearsome reputation by accident: the monster kills credited to him were Saitama's, and his facial scars came from a monster that Saitama killed.

Who is the mysterious Rank 1 S-Class hero who only appears when humanity is threatened?

Blast, the Rank 1 hero, rarely answers the Hero Association's calls; the manga reveals him travelling between dimensions with a team of companions to collect mysterious cubes tied to God.

Tatsumaki, the top-ranked female hero, goes by what hero name?

Terrible Tornado (also rendered Tornado of Terror) is the Rank 2 esper Tatsumaki; her younger sister Fubuki, Blizzard of Hell, leads the B-Class Blizzard Group.

Mumen, the bicycle-riding C-Class Rank 1 hero, is a parody of which Japanese franchise?

Kamen Rider, the masked motorcycle-hero franchise, is the target: Mumen Rider's name means 'licenseless rider', and he pedals a bicycle instead of a motorbike.

How does S-Class hero Metal Knight, alias Dr. Bofoi, do his fighting?

With remote-controlled robots: Dr. Bofoi never leaves his lab, sending drones and war machines in his place; he first appears firing at the incoming meteor and rebuffing Genos.

How old is the S-Class hero Child Emperor?

Child Emperor is 10 years old, the Rank 5 boy genius whose school backpack sprouts spider-like mechanical legs and carries an arsenal of gadgets.

What is the name of Puri-Puri Prisoner's clothes-shredding power-up?

Angel Style is the power-up Puri-Puri Prisoner enters by tearing off his clothes; the convict hero uses it against the sea monster that terrorises J-City, and loses.

Zombieman, the S-Class hero who regenerates from any wound, was a test subject of which organisation?

House of Evolution, Dr. Genus's cloning lab, experimented on Zombieman and produced his regeneration; Saitama had already levelled the lab by the time Zombieman went looking for it.

Speed-o'-Sound Sonic, Saitama's self-declared rival, is what kind of fighter?

Ninja is Sonic's trade: trained in a hidden ninja village, he hires out as an assassin; his first fight with Saitama ended with his crotch landing on Saitama's fist.

What restores the Deep Sea King to his true form and full power?

Getting wet is what the dried-out sea monster needs: out of water he shrinks into a weakened form, and a downpour swells him back to full size mid-fight.

The Monster Association's true leader, an esper and old schoolfriend of Fubuki, is who?

Psykos, an esper who once ran a psychic research group with Fubuki, controlled the Monster Association from behind Orochi, watching through her Gyoro-Gyoro body.

Which A-Class Rank 1 hero is also a celebrity singer and actor?

Sweet Mask, Rank 1 of A-Class, is a pop idol and actor who blocks promotions to the top tier by judging candidates' looks and conduct.

What is the leader of the Neo Heroes, who claims to be Blast's son, called?

Blue, who claims the Rank 1 hero as his father, fronts the Neo Heroes, a rival organisation that poaches disillusioned heroes from the Hero Association after the Monster Association war.

Which studio animated the first season of the anime?

Madhouse animated the first season, whose fluid, sakuga-heavy fight animation was widely praised and set a bar later seasons struggled to match.

Which studio took over the anime from season two onwards?

J.C.Staff took over from season two in 2019 and also made season three; the switch, along with a new director, was widely blamed for the drop in animation quality.

Who directed the first season of the anime?

Shingo Natsume, who had co-directed Space Dandy, directed the first season; later seasons went to different directors.

In which year did the first season of the anime air in Japan?

The first season aired on TV Tokyo from October to December 2015, and the second season did not follow until April 2019.

Which anison supergroup performs the season one opening 'The Hero!!'?

JAM Project, the anime-song supergroup fronted by Hironobu Kageyama, performs 'The Hero!! Ikareru Kobushi ni Hi wo Tsukero' and returned for the season two and three openings.

Who voices Saitama in the original Japanese anime?

Makoto Furukawa voices Saitama in Japanese and also sang the season two ending theme 'Chizu ga Nakutemo Modoru kara'.

Who voices Saitama in the English dub?

Max Mittelman voices Saitama in the English dub, opposite Zach Aguilar as Genos; Mittelman is also the English voice of Ryuji in Persona 5.

Season three's opening 'Get No Satisfied!' features which idol group?

Babymetal, the idol-metal group, joins the anison supergroup behind the earlier openings on 'Get No Satisfied!', the season three opening, which aired from October 2025.

On which US programming block did the English dub premiere in 2016?

Toonami, Adult Swim's action-animation block, premiered the dub in July 2016 and ran it through October; season two followed there from October 2019.

Which director was announced in 2022 for the live-action Hollywood film?

Justin Lin, director of several Fast & Furious films, was announced by Sony in 2022 as director of the live-action One-Punch Man, a project first set up there in 2020.

Which One-Punch Man fighting game was released for PS4, Xbox One and PC in 2020?

A Hero Nobody Knows, a three-on-three fighter from Bandai Namco, launched in February 2020; the mobile game Road to Hero had arrived on iOS and Android the year before.

In the 2023 Overwatch collaboration, which hero received a Saitama-inspired skin?

Doomfist, whose single devastating punch fits the part, got the Saitama skin in the March 2023 Overwatch 2 crossover; Genji became Genos and Soldier: 76 became Mumen Rider.

In the Hero Association's threat scale, which level sits directly above Demon?

Dragon is the threat level above Demon on the scale Wolf, Tiger, Demon, Dragon, God; Elder Centipede and Orochi were both rated Dragon-level.

In 2015 the manga was nominated for which major American comics prize?

The Eisner Award nomination was in the category Best U.S. Edition of International Material (Asia); a Harvey Award nomination followed the next year.

What is the creator's other well-known series?

Mob Psycho 100, about a psychic schoolboy, ran on Shogakukan's Ura Sunday from 2012 to 2017 and was adapted into a hit anime by Bones.

The creator was born in which prefecture, though he grew up in the one that shares his hero's name?

Niigata Prefecture is the creator's birthplace; he was raised in Saitama Prefecture, which gave the bald hero his name.

Why did the illustrator first contact the creator about redrawing the webcomic?

He was seriously ill and feared dying: hospitalised with a swollen airway and infected organs, the illustrator decided that if he was going to die he wanted to draw the webcomic he loved.

On which Japanese manga website did One self-publish the original webcomic?

Nitosha.net, a free Japanese site where amateurs post webcomics, hosted the original One-Punch Man webcomic, whose readership exploded into the millions before the remake.

Who composed the music for the One-Punch Man anime?

Makoto Miyazaki composed the score for the One-Punch Man anime, including the driving guitar themes that play under Saitama's one-punch finishes.

How many episodes did the first season of the anime run for?

The first season ran 12 episodes on TV Tokyo, from October 5 to December 21, ending with the alien invasion arc.

Who replaced Shingo Natsume as director for the second season?

Chikara Sakurai directed season two at the new studio; critics widely flagged the drop in animation quality from the first season.

Which two writers were reported in 2024 to be rewriting the live-action film's script?

Dan Harmon and Heather Anne Campbell, the Rick and Morty collaborators, were brought in to rewrite the script first drafted by Scott Rosenberg and Jeff Pinkner for Sony's 2020-announced adaptation.

Saitama's strongest attacks belong to which named series of moves?

Serious Series moves, such as Serious Punch and Serious Table Flip, are the attacks Saitama uses when he bothers to try; a Serious Punch ended the alien invasion arc.

Which publisher licensed the One-Punch Man manga for English release?

Viz Media licensed the manga for North America and publishes it under its Shonen Jump imprint; Viz also handled the anime's English release.