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Saturday, February 2, 2013

Onepunch-Man 23: Bang reminds me of Zeno

Recap and Comments of Onepunchman 21st attack: The Giant Meteorite
 
Saitama and Jenosu (translated as Genoss usually) are talking in Saitamas place, Jenosu is checking their rankings and Saitama's rank went from the worst rank 388th to the 342nd rank!
Go Saitama!

Saitama asks if Jenosu made any progress. Jenosu thinks that his real ability is around the 17th rank, but instead of that he's the worst rank of S-class. But according to polls taken by ordinary people his rank should be 6th rank.

Then we get the incredible work of art to which the title of this text points to, we are shown over for 11 double pages how a meteorite is approaching the earth. The details and the depth of the drawings is just amazing.

After that Jenosu gets a call from the hero organization and he has to go out for a while.


At the Hero Organistaion someone comes talking to Jenosu, he says that people call him Bang. Jenosu realizes that he's a rank 3 S-class hero and a genuine example of an inluential person.
As soon as I saw Bang he instantly reminded me of Zeno Zoldiyeck from Hunter x Hunter (HxH), I think that the author has been either consciously or unconsciously taken some characteristics of Zeno while creating Bang.

Bang explains that basically everyone has been evacuated and the are being pressed by a dragon level disaster: a meteor is approacing the earth as we knew already. In 35 minutes it will fall right there on Z-city.

Bang is basically saying that he called for Jenosu to help them since he himself doesn't want to evacuate because of him having roots there. He doesn't say it straightforwardly or the translation just sucks - it could also mean that when he shows off at the end with Ryuusui Gansai Ken he wants a duel with Jenos, but that doesn't make much sense.
Bang looks like a interesting character.

It wasn't as funny chapter as we've been used to having, but it was good nonetheless. Once again the art was top-notch and in the end this chapter ended up being more like a setup chapter for future awesomeness. I'm eager to see will rank 3 S-class hero Band somehow crumble under the meteorite or something, but one thing's for sure:
Saitama will be saving the day in the end no one seeing it and he will stay at the bad rank compared to Jenoss. The most probable scenario is that Jenoss actually manages to by some mistake get the credit for destroying the meteorite, so funny stuff incoming I believe. 

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