One-Punch Man's New Chapter Just Pushed Manga Art Into the Future
Warning: Contains spoilers for One-Punch Man chapter 165
The latest chapter of One-Punch Man proved that the artist behind the successful manga, Yusuke Murata, is a visionary creator who is helping the medium to evolve into the future. Murata is taking advantage of the opportunities granted by One-Punch Man's digital format, using animation and color to push manga art to a level that fans have never seen before.
The current version of One-Punch Man is the adaptation of the original webcomic written and penciled by Mob Psycho 100's One. Yusuke Murata, the artist behind the popular Eyeshield 21 series, was impressed by the successful webcomic and asked One to collaborate to adapt it to a new format. One's art style is very approximative and sketchy, so Murata's contribution made One-Punch Man much more visually compelling, ushering in an era of global success for the manga, which began serialization on Tonari no Young Jump, Shueisha's digital magazine. Collected chapters are then published in the classic printed tankobon format, but the digital format gave Murata the opportunity to experiment not just with colors, but with animation too.
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One-Punch Man fans must have been shocked reading the recently-released chapter #165, when they got to page 11 and found a fantastic, full-color, animated splash page. The scene depicts a spectacular moment in the fight between Saitama and Garou. Garou's last attack, «Nuclear Fission», created a huge cloud, and the gigantic shadows of the two fighters appear and disappear inside the smoke, created by the blinking of lightning in the background. Meanwhile, the silhouettes of the other heroes are looking at the
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