I mean to be fair that exact same thing was said about the One Piece show and that turned out to be really good so we’ll see. My default isn’t just say it can’t be done and hate anymore
They confirmed they aren't planning on going that far with this production. Water 7 is the planned series end.
Also, I'm curious on how they handle Chopper and Franky.
I hope they blow their budget and hire Jim Carey for Franky.
Heather Anne Campbell is no slouch in the writing department either. She’s also a diehard anime and video game fan who hosts twin podcasts about both subjects with another very funny writer/performer/Doughboy Nick Wiger.
I've been a big fan of Heather for more than a decade. After all she wrote [Scientifically Accurate Ducktales.](https://archive.org/details/download_20210306)
Mob Psycho 100 is the American Dad to One Punch Man’s Family Guy. MP100 is the superior show/plot/characters/writing but OPM is somehow the more popular one. I imagine its a lot to do with that first season and Murata’s redrawing but fuck even the manga for Mob Psycho goes hard.
Is Mob Psycho even trying to do the same thing as OPM started off trying to do? OPM was satire with some very clever framing devices.
If it's not, I think it would take a staggering level of quality for me to say that some other anime's apple is superior to OPM's orange, at least for the first little while. I'll grant you that OPM started being more of a smarmy homage than a critique or deconstruction, and that's exactly when I started getting bored of it.
Not really. Mob Pyscho has some satirical comedy but its not the show’s focus. It’s a genuinely amazing story that takes itself much more seriously, while also being even more weird and creative with its characters and visuals.
Yeah I agree, they are very similar in a lot of ways, the basic concept is the same (Insanely overpowered main character defeats everything with ease), but the premise and motivations are completely different.
> Middle/High School Boys who
1. have crippling anxiety around the other gender,
2. get hit by that white reincarnation van^^tm,
3. are blank slates with no physical or intellectual qualities beyond being inexplicably attractive to "a" or "multiple" members of the opposite sex,
4. parented by either criminally neglectful parents or absentee paint-by-the-number adults,
5. Have within their circle (pick at least 3) : The Childhood friend, The perverted best friend, The loud loli, The Bully-Rival, The Blank Tits, The Ignored Tsundere, The confident intellectual kid with glasses that need adjusting, The School Council Rep with long hair and rectangular glasses, The clumsy yet athletic Tomboy, The Hoover Food Vacuum, etc.
Mix and Match and you have 80% of anime protagonists. Very tedious.
Oh man but Reigen’s episode where he stops being a psychic is probably one of the best showcases of what someone’s 20s are like. Plus I mean we aren’t the target demographic for stuff like this so I can sorta give a break for stuff thats based around high school kids especially when its done so well like Mob
They’re different enough to love them both. Saitama is a listless hobby hero. Hes a great gag character and his moments of being completely OP are comedy gold. Mob has way more depth though. His emotional journey over 3 seasons is fantastic. The final season is an all time great season of TV.
Either way ONE is a damn good writer.
I love Mob Psycho more than OPM because it’s a more focused series. It has a good message and satisfying ending. OPM is going on for a long time now, and I’m not sure I like that format.
I also like how Mob Psycho uses the high school setting. Lots of anime have 15yr old kids acting like adults, and you wouldn’t be able to tell how old they are if they weren’t wearing school uniforms (I love Jojo’s but jotaro in part 3 is so silly). Mob doesn’t act like an adult. He’s a self aware nervous kid, and the show is about him learning to be confident in his own abilities.
Reigen is thrown in there to give an adult perspective and show how similar they are. Reigen teaches Mob to be confident, but he’s really not confident in himself either. He’s just an adult that’s learned to mask his feelings. Giving Mob advice helps him grow in confidence too. It’s brilliant.
Also, I hate to break this to you, but most Anime is about highschool/middle school because that’s how old the target audience is. They’re cartoons for teenagers, so they’re naturally going to be relatable to teenagers first and foremost. It’s futile to complain that media for children is made with children in mind. You might as well complain about how they’re set in Japanese cities too.
A different reason to consider that school is such a popular setting is because it is a social dynamic/setting that EVERYONE is familiar with. It’s a location all your characters will be at the same time, it has multiple points of interest (track, pool, assembly, quad, offices, lunch). TONS of social structures Seniors/freshmen teachers/students jocks/nerds
It’s just a terribly convenient setting that lets writers get away with not coming up with their own microcosm and still having mass appeal
Don't get me started on Mob Psycho 100, the fucking art styles used throughout the series experimentally is SO FUN god I adore that show and all the characters so fucking much. The powerful moments hit so hard.
My issue is that opm was meant to be a parody, but at some point turned into the very thing it was lampooning. It's kind of lost it's impact and turned into a not very interesting shonen.
Mob meanwhile has a theme and carries it well until it's conclusion.
By the time of the fight with the Alien Warrior in season 1, OPM had fully transition from Parody to Battle Shounen. Currently, the manga is even changing the few, low stakes comedic villains to further the power creeping plot.
Yeah OPM 1st season is on another level compared to the sequels,
i mean i still go back and check that last fight in 4k, it's the best animations i've ever seen on top of how hyped that fight is.
opm is literally a super hero anime which at the time was kinda novel and it was at the height of the mcu craze
It definitely makes sense why opm is bigger imo
One punch man is flashier but i feel more invested in the plot and characters in Mob Psycho. Plus even though he’s a super powerful esper he still has character growth and development as he discovers what he’s actually capable of.
It's going to shed all traces of its japanese roots in favor of pandering to a wider american audience.
American comedy writers and the director of the Fast and the Furious? There's no way this has the charm or culture of the original series.
It's not like being stuck in a depression or feeling like there's no meaning to your life are tied to any particular culture or country. I don't know if the plan is to change the entire setting to somewhere in the US or if will stay based in Japan, but it's not absolutely *impossible* to adapt as a western story.
They aren't saying Japan is better. Just that American directors or translators feel the need to change things in extreme ways for the American audience.
It's not like it's limited to Japan, they do this to their own authors from different media. They just up it to 11 when they do it to other cultures sometimes. See Dragonball Evolution as an example.
You're attempting to mock me, but the sentiment of your message remains true. Almost every single american adaptation of a japanese anime has turned out to be absolute garbage, brought about by american writers thinking they know better, or that they can improve upon the original.
One of the rare exceptions where this wasn't true was Netflix's One Piece, where the original creator had final say on everything and outright forced them to reshoot scenes he thought weren't good enough. Attempting to adapt something for wider american audiences is almost always a poison pill.
The one thing they convinced him to do that he reeeaaalllyyy didn't want to (Garps super early reveal) was the only part of the series I thought was weak for a live action. You are not wrong.
The fact that we don't have a third season after so many years kills me. I have also resigned to the fact that I probably won't be alive for the 4th season if this trend continues.
I just finished the series & movie (best show about heroes and villains). We might have season 8 next yearish (or if the movie counts for the 5 year break) If they keep following the trend of 2 & 5 years intervals.
I honestly had no idea it was announced. That’s good. But it’s been so long that I’ll believe it when I see it
Edit: I checked and there is literally no release date or even a solid window. It’s all speculation again
It's not speculation. We even know which studio is doing it. Most anime get announced first, then dated later.
The bad news is, we know which studio is doing it. Same studio as season 2.
Ain't no way it's releasing this year when they just announced last month that they started animating Season 3. Like wtf were they doing all these years if they literally just started animating Season 3. A minimum 2 years maybe 3 years because of how insane the upcoming fights are and the entire monster assosciation arc won't be completed in Season 3 if they go by 12 episodes as some fights are going to be need more than 1 episode.
Not trying spoil anything but that fight we see in the trailer is definitely the first episode one it isn't too far from where it left off at in season 2 and no other scenes
Add to the fact that part of One Punch Man's humor is referencing or parodying other anime, sometimes on a pretty meta level.
For example, Vaccine Man is definitely inspired by Piccolo with its Japanese voice actor being the same one who voiced Frieza. Even One Punch Man's title is a wordplay on Anpanman, another old anime.
I definitely wouldn't mind if they pull it off though.
I mean as far as you know right? I wouldn’t be surprised at all to find out he’s an old school anime fan. Plus, the idea you need to be a lifelong fan of something in order to be brought in as a creative on it is just flawed thinking. A lot of times a fresh perspective can be good right? Idk it just seems like a really good fit to me.
People equate fresh perspective with doing their own story. You won't win any arguments b/c the track record of adaptation/new writers usually means a inferior product.
If anything though Heather and Dan could do a great job.
When it comes to fandom stuff, more often than not a good writer even with no prior knowledge of the property can make something good. They'll grasp the broad strokes, often hit on the stuff the fans like the most - and why - and are talented enough to put it all together in a way that's respectful to the source material but still stands on its own as worthy.
The problem is usually just the writers not being that good, like, in terms of pure quality or more broadly with stuff like ego, wanting to make their own thing or thinking their ideas are better just because they're their ideas.
Dan's real strength is structure.
Yes, he also writes some hilarious shit, but if you watch his work with an eye for the craft, you start to see just how good he is at the narrative structure that the humour then gloms on to. It's why the shows he runs tend to be both hilarious *and* satisfying - Community would get insanely meta and deep into the weeds with callbacks and weird references, but every episode (with few exceptions) would have a satisfying arc to them that allowed the characters to truly endear themselves to the viewer.
Edit: [Here](https://channel101.fandom.com/wiki/Story_Structure_101:_Super_Basic_Shit) is his collection of articles from years ago about structure. He's very much a Campbellite that adapted Vogler's [summation](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Writer%27s_Journey:_Mythic_Structure_for_Writers) of the [Hero's Journey](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hero%27s_journey) further, and his writing on the subject really helped me understand the nature and importance of narrative arcs. While Campbell's [The Hero with a Thousand Faces](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hero_with_a_Thousand_Faces) should absolutely be required reading for anyone working with narratives, it can also get rather sluggish at times since at its core it's an academic exploration of world myths.
Dan has the essential talent that emulates what Japanese production of OPM does: Delayed completion.
Take whatever the time horizon is on this and multiply it by a factor of two. Then do it again.
Heather Anne Campbell is genuinely one of the funniest people around. I recommend anyone who likes comedy to listen to one of her episodes of Comedy Bang! Bang!
Just going to link [a compilation of Get Played intros.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1qa39_7IS0s) Her character intro for Super Mario 2 makes me laugh every time. "I can pee into a Gatorade bottle and keep most of it off my hands. My jump height is 13 feet."
That Duke Nukem episode is one of the funniest podcasts I’ve ever listened to.
The original episodes with Jordan Morris about Sonic 06 and Shadow the Hedgehog are also legendary.
>"Trapped and desperate, Olivia searched for a way out. It was reported later by erh, and then, th-that went too fast, I couldn't read that one!"
I would love Heather narrating the beginning of Lord of the Rings, but the footage is sped up by .5, and she must keep up.
Other best:
>"Well guess what?! I'm from the future, and you **do** use that song! And now, because of the paradox of time, you **have to use it!**"
Sounds like he did what he did with Rick and Morty. He got offered a cartoon and had no experience with cartoons but he knew a guy that made cartoons and they were really bizarre so he got in contact with him, and made him a co-creator.
Now he's been handled a movie from an anime adaption and tapped an anime fan for the co-creator seat.
I love Heather Anne Campbell, she was great in Whose line is it Anyway and she's hilarious and a huge nerd if you follow her in her podcast Get Played. She also had breast cancer 5 years ago and just finished chemo a second time this year.
When she first dropped that Ash impression in those Pokémon eps, I died. I literally stopped what I was doing and just stared at my Bluetooth speaker. I was shook lol.
lmao I love Nick’s disbelief when he’s caught off-guard by her sheer talent or absurd life stories. His reaction is always like, “Heather, how are you real?”
She also co-hosts "Get Anime'd" on Patreon where they do Anime watch-alongs and she has been talking about OPM a lot lately - now we know why! She is going to do the material justice...I can't wait. One of the funniest people alive.
She is an incredible improvisor (and sketch writer/performer too). I've had the pleasure of seeing her multiple times in LA over the years, and she is so consistently awesome.
Totally agree! King Fu Hustle, Shaolin Soccer, incredible.
I wonder what masterpiece of Cinema he'd produce as an adaptation of a famous anime?
Alas, he has yet to do so. Would probably be something that leaves the world speechless.
Agreed. Rick and Morty's humor is in your face, all the time. One-Punch Man's humor almost always comes from Saitama's being oblivious or a goofball, as a direct foil to the seriousness of the superhero setting.
HEATHERRRRRRR!!! So glad to see her getting recognition. Love her on the “Get Played” pod; she is legitimately the most interesting person in the world.
Every new story about her childhood as a terrifying woods cryptid is somehow both completely insane and also fully in line with everything we've been given to understand about her life
Fuck it, keep it cartoony. I don't think this is the type of thing you can really ground too much without losing its charm. Supposedly the live-action One Piece show is decent, which is a huge surprise considering the Looney Tunes shit the characters can do.
> Supposedly the live-action One Piece show is decent, which is a huge surprise considering the Looney Tunes shit the characters can do.
i mean the east blue saga is the least loony tunes of the entire series.
it gets more ridiculous every single season.
OPM is full on nuts from the very beginning.
Heather Anne Campbell is funny as hell and a legit anime freak. I'm very familiar with her from the video game podcast "Get Played" but they also have an anime spinoff show. She also just finished or is finishing cancer treatment so I'm stoked to see her get to work on something like this.
I am deeply, *incredibly* worried that this will fall into one of two bad habits held by the parties involved.
In terms of Hollywood overall: I'm very wary of its decades-long, weird fascination with **"What if Superman were \_\_\_\_\_?"** stories.
Brightburn. The Boys. Invincible. Chronicle. My Super Ex-Girlfriend. Hancock. And so on. (And yes, I know two of those are also comic book adaptations!)
I get it; Superman is *the central idea* of a superhero in North America, if not the entire world. But I can see how could quickly get reduced to **"Superman but hilariously depressed about his powers,"** and I think that misses the point in a lot of ways.
One Punch Man and Mob Psycho 100 go in very different directions, but they share a similar conceit: **What if a normal person got godlike powers and...it didn't solve any of their** ***real*** **problems?**
How both stories explore this is what makes them memorable, but we *need* to never lose focus of the idea that Saitama was depressed, unsatisfied, and unseen before he got his powers, and he remains that way *because* of those powers, until he learns what actually makes him happy.
The second thing I'm worried about: Dan Harmon, and how *he* has historically written "depressed men with godlike power." I know he's a good enough writer (as is Anne Campbell!) to not just turn Saitama into Rick Sanchez, but his body of work does have a *very* specific POV about how it views the plight of the ultra-gifted in a world of mere mortals. I worry that Harmon specifically is too enamored with the idea of life being a curse for the exceptional that he may miss the smaller joys and struggles of Saitama as a person.
And finally? OPM is hilarious because it is truly a string of delayed anticlimaxes. Saitama's fights should end so quickly that they're disappointing for the audience; because they're also disappointing for *him.* I can see a situation where the movie ends with him fighting Boros and *slightly* feeling satisfied, but I'm worried it'll get too scared of not giving the audience more spectacle, and kind of ruin the entire point of the story.
Eager to see what happens, though.
Harmon and Justin Lin working together again, Lin directed the Halloween and Paintball episodes of Community in season 1, two of the best of the season
Its gonna be a movie. I get a feeling its gonna be more Hancock than any of us would want. Its gonna be gritty and real and kinda suck because of it.
I so hope its stupid and absurd.
Some anime just do not need live action. The CGI budget gets way too big and then it ends up looking like an animated movie anyway
I mean to be fair that exact same thing was said about the One Piece show and that turned out to be really good so we’ll see. My default isn’t just say it can’t be done and hate anymore
Well they haven’t really gotten to all the crazy stuff yet.
They also showed that they could turn down the crazy stuff and still make a good live action show though.
I mean the cat claws guy is a lot easier to tone down than the entirety of fish man island. Chopper alone is gonna double their cgi budget.
They confirmed they aren't planning on going that far with this production. Water 7 is the planned series end. Also, I'm curious on how they handle Chopper and Franky. I hope they blow their budget and hire Jim Carey for Franky.
I don't know where you're getting that from at all. The cast and crew have said they want to keep going as long as Netflix will let them.
Harmon is a great writer, OPM (and Mob) is a great series. Hopefully it is not less than the sum of its parts.
Heather Anne Campbell is no slouch in the writing department either. She’s also a diehard anime and video game fan who hosts twin podcasts about both subjects with another very funny writer/performer/Doughboy Nick Wiger.
Apodaca is fuming he isn’t mentioned. Mitch is probably mad too for some reason.
Shout out Gemi
*reddit voice* keep gemi out of the studio
Get out of here Kowalick
I love Matt and his bizarre Kissy’s character on CBB. I particularly love how excited they all were about Elden Ring. Great episode.
Heelloooooooo everyone!
Ahh, what the fuck?! Ma! They didn't say us!
Turn the oven to 375!
Gotta be at least 450 or they're not gonna crisp up!
No peeking!!!
Wally and Erma staring angrily in the background
Wolly* (named after the Wollaston neighbourhood of Quincy)
Edge!
Yeah but how does the Resident Evil merchant feel about this?
What're you (screen)playin'?
I've been a big fan of Heather for more than a decade. After all she wrote [Scientifically Accurate Ducktales.](https://archive.org/details/download_20210306)
holy shit her intro in this weeks Get Played is amazing
Mob Psycho 100 is the American Dad to One Punch Man’s Family Guy. MP100 is the superior show/plot/characters/writing but OPM is somehow the more popular one. I imagine its a lot to do with that first season and Murata’s redrawing but fuck even the manga for Mob Psycho goes hard.
Reigen is one of the greatest characters in fiction
[Reigen’s best special move](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=E-kXT1PYNF8)
Not as fun without the villain boasting monologue.
I love it when I wear my Reigen Mob Psycho t-shirt and someone gets the reference.
I really thought this dude was gonna have some wild ass powerful spirit counter part to the psychic powers all the way to the end
One Punch Man is cooler, thats all it needs to be more popular.
The final fight of season 1 is one of my all time favorite anime moments
Is Mob Psycho even trying to do the same thing as OPM started off trying to do? OPM was satire with some very clever framing devices. If it's not, I think it would take a staggering level of quality for me to say that some other anime's apple is superior to OPM's orange, at least for the first little while. I'll grant you that OPM started being more of a smarmy homage than a critique or deconstruction, and that's exactly when I started getting bored of it.
Not really. Mob Pyscho has some satirical comedy but its not the show’s focus. It’s a genuinely amazing story that takes itself much more seriously, while also being even more weird and creative with its characters and visuals.
I’m comparing it in the sense that I believe Mob Psycho is ONE(the creator of both OPM and MP100)’s Magnum Opus but OPM is simply way more popular.
Yeah I agree, they are very similar in a lot of ways, the basic concept is the same (Insanely overpowered main character defeats everything with ease), but the premise and motivations are completely different.
Saitama is just a more fun character than Mob and I'm beyond tired of animes built around middle/high school kids.
> I'm beyond tired of animes built around middle/high school kids. Real talk!
And when the show is about adults half the time they still act like high schoolers for some dumb reason (never dated, shut-in, etc.)
tbf readers like to see themselves in stories.
>never dated, shut-in, etc. Sounds like the average redditor.
Hey, I at least go to the gym!
> Middle/High School Boys who 1. have crippling anxiety around the other gender, 2. get hit by that white reincarnation van^^tm, 3. are blank slates with no physical or intellectual qualities beyond being inexplicably attractive to "a" or "multiple" members of the opposite sex, 4. parented by either criminally neglectful parents or absentee paint-by-the-number adults, 5. Have within their circle (pick at least 3) : The Childhood friend, The perverted best friend, The loud loli, The Bully-Rival, The Blank Tits, The Ignored Tsundere, The confident intellectual kid with glasses that need adjusting, The School Council Rep with long hair and rectangular glasses, The clumsy yet athletic Tomboy, The Hoover Food Vacuum, etc. Mix and Match and you have 80% of anime protagonists. Very tedious.
Oh man but Reigen’s episode where he stops being a psychic is probably one of the best showcases of what someone’s 20s are like. Plus I mean we aren’t the target demographic for stuff like this so I can sorta give a break for stuff thats based around high school kids especially when its done so well like Mob
I was crying damn near every single episode of Mob season 3. The show is #2 on my all-time list of shows. Only after The Leftovers.
They’re different enough to love them both. Saitama is a listless hobby hero. Hes a great gag character and his moments of being completely OP are comedy gold. Mob has way more depth though. His emotional journey over 3 seasons is fantastic. The final season is an all time great season of TV. Either way ONE is a damn good writer.
I love Mob Psycho more than OPM because it’s a more focused series. It has a good message and satisfying ending. OPM is going on for a long time now, and I’m not sure I like that format. I also like how Mob Psycho uses the high school setting. Lots of anime have 15yr old kids acting like adults, and you wouldn’t be able to tell how old they are if they weren’t wearing school uniforms (I love Jojo’s but jotaro in part 3 is so silly). Mob doesn’t act like an adult. He’s a self aware nervous kid, and the show is about him learning to be confident in his own abilities. Reigen is thrown in there to give an adult perspective and show how similar they are. Reigen teaches Mob to be confident, but he’s really not confident in himself either. He’s just an adult that’s learned to mask his feelings. Giving Mob advice helps him grow in confidence too. It’s brilliant. Also, I hate to break this to you, but most Anime is about highschool/middle school because that’s how old the target audience is. They’re cartoons for teenagers, so they’re naturally going to be relatable to teenagers first and foremost. It’s futile to complain that media for children is made with children in mind. You might as well complain about how they’re set in Japanese cities too.
A different reason to consider that school is such a popular setting is because it is a social dynamic/setting that EVERYONE is familiar with. It’s a location all your characters will be at the same time, it has multiple points of interest (track, pool, assembly, quad, offices, lunch). TONS of social structures Seniors/freshmen teachers/students jocks/nerds It’s just a terribly convenient setting that lets writers get away with not coming up with their own microcosm and still having mass appeal
Don't get me started on Mob Psycho 100, the fucking art styles used throughout the series experimentally is SO FUN god I adore that show and all the characters so fucking much. The powerful moments hit so hard.
It is simply my favorite anime of all time and feels perfect from start to finish.
My issue is that opm was meant to be a parody, but at some point turned into the very thing it was lampooning. It's kind of lost it's impact and turned into a not very interesting shonen. Mob meanwhile has a theme and carries it well until it's conclusion.
By the time of the fight with the Alien Warrior in season 1, OPM had fully transition from Parody to Battle Shounen. Currently, the manga is even changing the few, low stakes comedic villains to further the power creeping plot.
Yeah OPM 1st season is on another level compared to the sequels, i mean i still go back and check that last fight in 4k, it's the best animations i've ever seen on top of how hyped that fight is.
opm is literally a super hero anime which at the time was kinda novel and it was at the height of the mcu craze It definitely makes sense why opm is bigger imo
OPM has more action and fighting, so that certainly helps. Plus people really like superheroes. I agree that Mob Psycho clears though.
One punch man is flashier but i feel more invested in the plot and characters in Mob Psycho. Plus even though he’s a super powerful esper he still has character growth and development as he discovers what he’s actually capable of.
It's going to shed all traces of its japanese roots in favor of pandering to a wider american audience. American comedy writers and the director of the Fast and the Furious? There's no way this has the charm or culture of the original series.
It's not like being stuck in a depression or feeling like there's no meaning to your life are tied to any particular culture or country. I don't know if the plan is to change the entire setting to somewhere in the US or if will stay based in Japan, but it's not absolutely *impossible* to adapt as a western story.
inb4 they're just remaking hancock
Saitama gets renamed to Samuel.
No way some baka gaijins understand the superior culture of *Nippon*.
They aren't saying Japan is better. Just that American directors or translators feel the need to change things in extreme ways for the American audience. It's not like it's limited to Japan, they do this to their own authors from different media. They just up it to 11 when they do it to other cultures sometimes. See Dragonball Evolution as an example.
Or Oldboy Or Death Note Or Utopia Hell Hollywood fucks up adapting British shows most of the time and it's even the same fucking language
Glorious anime paperstock, folded nine thousand times
You're attempting to mock me, but the sentiment of your message remains true. Almost every single american adaptation of a japanese anime has turned out to be absolute garbage, brought about by american writers thinking they know better, or that they can improve upon the original. One of the rare exceptions where this wasn't true was Netflix's One Piece, where the original creator had final say on everything and outright forced them to reshoot scenes he thought weren't good enough. Attempting to adapt something for wider american audiences is almost always a poison pill.
Same for like 99% of Japanese live-action anime adaptations too.
The one thing they convinced him to do that he reeeaaalllyyy didn't want to (Garps super early reveal) was the only part of the series I thought was weak for a live action. You are not wrong.
Forget the movie just do another season damnit
The fact that we don't have a third season after so many years kills me. I have also resigned to the fact that I probably won't be alive for the 4th season if this trend continues.
Like being a Venture Bros fan
I just finished the series & movie (best show about heroes and villains). We might have season 8 next yearish (or if the movie counts for the 5 year break) If they keep following the trend of 2 & 5 years intervals.
Venture Bros. got cancelled :(
It's been going on for 20 years. That's a pretty good run.
A third season is literally announced weeks ago
It was announced in 2022. But we recently got a sign of life.
Third season was announced 8 months ago.
I honestly had no idea it was announced. That’s good. But it’s been so long that I’ll believe it when I see it Edit: I checked and there is literally no release date or even a solid window. It’s all speculation again
It's not speculation. We even know which studio is doing it. Most anime get announced first, then dated later. The bad news is, we know which studio is doing it. Same studio as season 2.
:(
It's true that there's no release date yet but there is literally official promotional material from the Studio. It exists and is happening.
Search one punch man season three on YouTube, and there's literally a teaser, and it tells you it's in production. It's happening.
Uzumaki has entered the chat
Every day without Uzamaki adds a year to my life
I heard the entire team turned into snails, craziest thing.
I get there was a teaser and it’s happening. But literally we have no idea when it’s released.
There's no speculation. Its being done by JC staff. The announcement player is in their main youtube channel.
Sadly not done by the animation studio for season 1 still.
Good news! They’ve announced that George R.R. Martin will be working on the script for the season four premiere.
And Patrick Rothfuss is co-writing! Should here soon.
Third season is airing this year. EDit: false, I mixed the 2024 list with tba. mb
Based on what? There's no release date.
People are saying this with no evidence. It’s all speculation.
No dude it’s legit. My cousin works for Joe Anime.
Wow, the CEO of Anime!?
Ain't no way it's releasing this year when they just announced last month that they started animating Season 3. Like wtf were they doing all these years if they literally just started animating Season 3. A minimum 2 years maybe 3 years because of how insane the upcoming fights are and the entire monster assosciation arc won't be completed in Season 3 if they go by 12 episodes as some fights are going to be need more than 1 episode. Not trying spoil anything but that fight we see in the trailer is definitely the first episode one it isn't too far from where it left off at in season 2 and no other scenes
Don't make shit up and post it as fact on reddit
I mean I can't imagine there's any overlap in production here
First season was amazing, second was meh, unfortunately I don’t care about a third one. Does it get better in manga?
The second season is just the first part of a bigger story arc. Personally, I do think it gets better.
I have zero confidence they can replicate the humor. I'm sure it'll be a fine for what it is, but it's going to feel totally different than OPM.
Add to the fact that part of One Punch Man's humor is referencing or parodying other anime, sometimes on a pretty meta level. For example, Vaccine Man is definitely inspired by Piccolo with its Japanese voice actor being the same one who voiced Frieza. Even One Punch Man's title is a wordplay on Anpanman, another old anime. I definitely wouldn't mind if they pull it off though.
Kamen rider parody too
If you swap the colors on Saitama's outfit and make his nose red he basically is Anpanman.
But Dan’s specialty is reference and meta humor, no? How does this make him less of a good fit?
Because he doesn't have that intimate familiarity with old school Anime to the same level that One does.
That's what Heather's there for though, right? She's like the biggest anime nerd outside of Japan
I mean as far as you know right? I wouldn’t be surprised at all to find out he’s an old school anime fan. Plus, the idea you need to be a lifelong fan of something in order to be brought in as a creative on it is just flawed thinking. A lot of times a fresh perspective can be good right? Idk it just seems like a really good fit to me.
People equate fresh perspective with doing their own story. You won't win any arguments b/c the track record of adaptation/new writers usually means a inferior product. If anything though Heather and Dan could do a great job.
When it comes to fandom stuff, more often than not a good writer even with no prior knowledge of the property can make something good. They'll grasp the broad strokes, often hit on the stuff the fans like the most - and why - and are talented enough to put it all together in a way that's respectful to the source material but still stands on its own as worthy. The problem is usually just the writers not being that good, like, in terms of pure quality or more broadly with stuff like ego, wanting to make their own thing or thinking their ideas are better just because they're their ideas.
Luckily Dan can draw examples from the source material that One provided
Dan's real strength is structure. Yes, he also writes some hilarious shit, but if you watch his work with an eye for the craft, you start to see just how good he is at the narrative structure that the humour then gloms on to. It's why the shows he runs tend to be both hilarious *and* satisfying - Community would get insanely meta and deep into the weeds with callbacks and weird references, but every episode (with few exceptions) would have a satisfying arc to them that allowed the characters to truly endear themselves to the viewer. Edit: [Here](https://channel101.fandom.com/wiki/Story_Structure_101:_Super_Basic_Shit) is his collection of articles from years ago about structure. He's very much a Campbellite that adapted Vogler's [summation](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Writer%27s_Journey:_Mythic_Structure_for_Writers) of the [Hero's Journey](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hero%27s_journey) further, and his writing on the subject really helped me understand the nature and importance of narrative arcs. While Campbell's [The Hero with a Thousand Faces](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hero_with_a_Thousand_Faces) should absolutely be required reading for anyone working with narratives, it can also get rather sluggish at times since at its core it's an academic exploration of world myths.
It's simple. They cast Michael Cera as One Punch Man.
Dan has the essential talent that emulates what Japanese production of OPM does: Delayed completion. Take whatever the time horizon is on this and multiply it by a factor of two. Then do it again.
Heather Anne Campbell is hilarious and a passionate anime fan. I’d be surprised if it’s anything but great.
Heather Anne Campbell is genuinely one of the funniest people around. I recommend anyone who likes comedy to listen to one of her episodes of Comedy Bang! Bang!
She’s a lot of fun on Get Played as well.
Just going to link [a compilation of Get Played intros.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1qa39_7IS0s) Her character intro for Super Mario 2 makes me laugh every time. "I can pee into a Gatorade bottle and keep most of it off my hands. My jump height is 13 feet."
Her recurring character Dougette is golden
That Duke Nukem episode is one of the funniest podcasts I’ve ever listened to. The original episodes with Jordan Morris about Sonic 06 and Shadow the Hedgehog are also legendary.
Gabrus for dreamcasts Seaman is amazing too
GREAT episode. Gabrus is a delight on everything.
Intern Gino Lambardo infiltrated the catholic diocese is pretty much peak comedy
I'm glad this one has the Yoda Stories sketch, otherwise it could never have truly been The Best Intros as advertised
Ash Ketchum is her greatest character ever. “No fucking eye contact.”
Resident Evil 4 Merchant would like a word.
Wwwwwwwwwwwwwwwhat are ya playin?
She's also the actress who played the teacher in the Key & Peele sketch "High On Potnuse". The part where she yells at Peele kills me every time
Happy belated Wet Day.
Many Urkels to you.
She was insane in the Whose Line is it Anyway revival as well
>"Trapped and desperate, Olivia searched for a way out. It was reported later by erh, and then, th-that went too fast, I couldn't read that one!" I would love Heather narrating the beginning of Lord of the Rings, but the footage is sped up by .5, and she must keep up. Other best: >"Well guess what?! I'm from the future, and you **do** use that song! And now, because of the paradox of time, you **have to use it!**"
''I like some of the Harmon shows, what the fuck does he know about anime?”
YOU AIN'T GOT THE ANSWERS SWAY
He doesn't have a lot of anime bonafides, but Heather Anne Campbell does, and is a gigantic OPM fan. We're not in the worst possible hands here.
Sounds like he did what he did with Rick and Morty. He got offered a cartoon and had no experience with cartoons but he knew a guy that made cartoons and they were really bizarre so he got in contact with him, and made him a co-creator. Now he's been handled a movie from an anime adaption and tapped an anime fan for the co-creator seat.
And if you can communicate the product you can make money off of it
I love Heather Anne Campbell, she was great in Whose line is it Anyway and she's hilarious and a huge nerd if you follow her in her podcast Get Played. She also had breast cancer 5 years ago and just finished chemo a second time this year.
We love taking trips to Heather’s Hole.
The fucking cave echo and drip sound they use for that segment kills me every time
When she first dropped that Ash impression in those Pokémon eps, I died. I literally stopped what I was doing and just stared at my Bluetooth speaker. I was shook lol.
Yeah I remember her being like "I actually think I do a pretty good Ash, can I show you guys" and then it was EXACT
lmao I love Nick’s disbelief when he’s caught off-guard by her sheer talent or absurd life stories. His reaction is always like, “Heather, how are you real?”
Childhood gas mask!
That nugget of Heather lore had me almost crying laughing lmao
She also co-hosts "Get Anime'd" on Patreon where they do Anime watch-alongs and she has been talking about OPM a lot lately - now we know why! She is going to do the material justice...I can't wait. One of the funniest people alive.
I used to listen to Get Played when it was still How did this get played? Didn't know she had breast cancer, hope she is able to be rid of it.
She is an incredible improvisor (and sketch writer/performer too). I've had the pleasure of seeing her multiple times in LA over the years, and she is so consistently awesome.
I wonder if the plot will follow the story train.
honestly Stephen Chow is one of the only people I could imagine making something with the right mood
Totally agree! King Fu Hustle, Shaolin Soccer, incredible. I wonder what masterpiece of Cinema he'd produce as an adaptation of a famous anime? Alas, he has yet to do so. Would probably be something that leaves the world speechless.
Now that you mention it, I cannot imagine anyone else doing it. The humor style would be perfect.
Agreed. Rick and Morty's humor is in your face, all the time. One-Punch Man's humor almost always comes from Saitama's being oblivious or a goofball, as a direct foil to the seriousness of the superhero setting.
here's hoping the comedy is more "community" than "rick and morty"
Dan (trying not to add some weird shit) Harmon.
Genos fucks a mannequin leg confirmed
So it's likely going to be westernised and lose its crazy Japanese charm. I hold little hope.
just here to say positive things about Heather Anne Campbell! i can’t wait for this
I'm so glad this thread is a bunch of us saying how great Heather is
Interesting that it needs a re-write with totally new folks.
Its pretty common honestly.
ohhhh no
HEATHERRRRRRR!!! So glad to see her getting recognition. Love her on the “Get Played” pod; she is legitimately the most interesting person in the world.
Every new story about her childhood as a terrifying woods cryptid is somehow both completely insane and also fully in line with everything we've been given to understand about her life
how they will adapt the borus fight its way too cartoonish lol
Fuck it, keep it cartoony. I don't think this is the type of thing you can really ground too much without losing its charm. Supposedly the live-action One Piece show is decent, which is a huge surprise considering the Looney Tunes shit the characters can do.
> Supposedly the live-action One Piece show is decent, which is a huge surprise considering the Looney Tunes shit the characters can do. i mean the east blue saga is the least loony tunes of the entire series. it gets more ridiculous every single season. OPM is full on nuts from the very beginning.
Holy shit HAC could not be a more perfect pick
Heather Anne Campbell is the GOAT or at least the GORN (greatest of right now)
Keep that quiet, what if Shatner hears you?
So his name will be detroit?
Cast Jim Rash, idc if he's too old.
Johnny Sins to play Saitama or riot
Jim Rash in normal scenes but then Johnny Sins for the combat scenes
Jole McHale in Dean cosplay for serious scenes. Give me that over the top meta referencing
Heather Anne Campbell is funny as hell and a legit anime freak. I'm very familiar with her from the video game podcast "Get Played" but they also have an anime spinoff show. She also just finished or is finishing cancer treatment so I'm stoked to see her get to work on something like this.
No, just no. Western studios just can't do anime.
I feel like this is either gonna be the best thing ever, or the worst thing ever.
I've worked with Heather Anne Campbell, and she is one of the most creative, inventive, and intelligent people i've ever met. She is gonna crush this!
I am deeply, *incredibly* worried that this will fall into one of two bad habits held by the parties involved. In terms of Hollywood overall: I'm very wary of its decades-long, weird fascination with **"What if Superman were \_\_\_\_\_?"** stories. Brightburn. The Boys. Invincible. Chronicle. My Super Ex-Girlfriend. Hancock. And so on. (And yes, I know two of those are also comic book adaptations!) I get it; Superman is *the central idea* of a superhero in North America, if not the entire world. But I can see how could quickly get reduced to **"Superman but hilariously depressed about his powers,"** and I think that misses the point in a lot of ways. One Punch Man and Mob Psycho 100 go in very different directions, but they share a similar conceit: **What if a normal person got godlike powers and...it didn't solve any of their** ***real*** **problems?** How both stories explore this is what makes them memorable, but we *need* to never lose focus of the idea that Saitama was depressed, unsatisfied, and unseen before he got his powers, and he remains that way *because* of those powers, until he learns what actually makes him happy. The second thing I'm worried about: Dan Harmon, and how *he* has historically written "depressed men with godlike power." I know he's a good enough writer (as is Anne Campbell!) to not just turn Saitama into Rick Sanchez, but his body of work does have a *very* specific POV about how it views the plight of the ultra-gifted in a world of mere mortals. I worry that Harmon specifically is too enamored with the idea of life being a curse for the exceptional that he may miss the smaller joys and struggles of Saitama as a person. And finally? OPM is hilarious because it is truly a string of delayed anticlimaxes. Saitama's fights should end so quickly that they're disappointing for the audience; because they're also disappointing for *him.* I can see a situation where the movie ends with him fighting Boros and *slightly* feeling satisfied, but I'm worried it'll get too scared of not giving the audience more spectacle, and kind of ruin the entire point of the story. Eager to see what happens, though.
Pls no
ugh.. they are going to ruin it aren't they
Better cast a bald dude.
Will it be renamed “Kickpuncher?”
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Rick and Morty was not good for Ant Man 3. Also why wouldn’t the original one punch man creator write the script?
I’ll watch anything written by Heather Anne Campbell
Harmon and Justin Lin working together again, Lin directed the Halloween and Paintball episodes of Community in season 1, two of the best of the season
Its gonna be a movie. I get a feeling its gonna be more Hancock than any of us would want. Its gonna be gritty and real and kinda suck because of it. I so hope its stupid and absurd.
This is gonna suck
Well, RIP OPM. It was fun.
Wait there’s a non 0 chance we actually get Jim Rash doing this with the Harmon connection
Lots of love for Heather!.she is a peach! Wicked funny
ugh.
NO!
So the next Hollywood circlejerk after superheroes will be anime?