Overwatch 2 Adding One Punch Man Kiriko Skin

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Soon, the collaboration between Overwatch 2 and One Punch Man will arrive in Blizzard's free-to-play team shooter. On March 2, Blizzard revealed that Kiriko would be receiving a new Legendary skin as part of the collaboration coming soon to Overwatch 2, and shared some details about how the new skin was made.

According to Blizzard, the Overwatch 2 x One Punch Man collaboration runs from March 7 through April 6. Fittingly enough, the event has been highlighted by Doomfist appropriately receiving a Legendary skin based on Saitama, the eponymous One Punch Man. While the series has been considered a one-hit wonder following its first two seasons, One Punch Man will receive a third anime season in the future. While ONE's work is a pastiche of the superhero genre by design, only time will tell which studio has the unenviable task of turning the series around following its critically-panned second season.

Overwatch 2 Fan Makes Adorable Custom Emote for Kiriko

As forOverwatch 2, Kiriko's Legendary skin for the One Punch Man collaboration is based on Tatsumaki, the Terrible Tornado. Though she is a bratty and arrogant girl, Tatsumaki possesses potent telekinetic abilities, which allowed her to take down some of One Punch Man's most notorious monsters. While this seems like a strange choice at first glance, considering that Kiriko is a Support hero, the powers that both Tatsumaki and Kiriko possess are as swift as the wind.

However, according to Overwatch 2 art director Dion Rogers, one of the reasons that Kiriko will receive a Tatsumaki skin for the event was due to how the character's base silhouette felt natural for making a cosplay-like skin for the event. Rogers stated that while giving Kiriko just the hairstyle would have been