One-Punch Man's Saitama Finally Found His Strength's Match (Literally)
Warning: Contains spoilers for One-Punch Man chapter 165
The impossible finally happened in One-Punch Man: Saitama, the series' overpowered protagonist whose defining trait is to be stronger than anyone and anything, finally found his equal. The «Hero Hunter» Garou is proving to be a match for Saitama, not just due to his latest absurd power-up, but also because he can mirror Saitama's own devastating power.
One-Punch Man is the hit manga written by One and drawn by Yusuke Murata. The appeal of the story is that it flips many of the shonen genre's well-established tropes, making its protagonist completely overpowered from the beginning. Contrary to most other similar manga, where the main characters have to repeatedly train and get better to overcome bigger and bigger obstacles, Saitama has no real challenges due to his jaw-dropping strength. This allows One-Punch Man to dance on the thin line between parody, comedy, and actual action shonen, while at the same time making fans constantly wonder if and when Saitama will find the worthy opponent that he craves. The best candidate to give Saitama a good fight seemed to be Garou, a martial artist who despises «heroes» and wants to build a world based on his own version of justice, based on «absolute evil». Garou is actually very similar to classic shonen characters, in the sense that he had to struggle and overcome challenges to reach higher levels of power until he broke his «limit» and transformed into a half-monster.
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Unfortunately even this, however, seemed useless against Saitama, but chapter #165 turned things around. In a major change from the One-Punch Man webcomic, Garou received a further
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