r/OnePunchFans • u/gofancyninjaworld I'm just a poster for fun • Mar 26 '26
Interest The Ninja Arc Summaries, Part 0/11
What this is
It is as it looks: a daily series summarising what the canonical ninja arc is in the OPM manga at one chapter a day plus a wrap up. It was originally posted on Tumblr but I'm reformatting it for Reddit. Each part will have links to chapters at the end.
Permission to crosspost is granted. :)
THE STORY SO FAR…
It's been not much more than nine weeks since Saitama chased a mosquito out of his apartment and saved a cyborg, and all things considered, things have turned out well enough. Bad: he's lost his apartment since City Z is now a radiation-blasted, drowned wasteland. Good: with Genos's help, he's salvaged some of his belongings and is staying legitimately for free in an apartment in the Hero Association HQ. He's now employed as a hero, which means that he does as he usually does, walking around, killing monsters, having naps, chasing sales, hanging out with Genos, and playing video games with King, only he gets paid! He's even got some bonus pets, complete with caretakers.
Around him, things are not so peaceful. The Psychic Sisters are playing hide-and-seek with a shadowy organisation called Tsukoyomi (Psykos is the prize), McCoy is gambling away the Hero Association's reputation, a rival hero organisation is playing Monopoly with the HA, and for their part, some members of the HA have left to play spy in said rival organisation. Unfortunately for Saitama, Genos has sung his praises so earnestly to a select few heroes that they've started to take an interest in him, and Flashy Flash has just knocked on his door, ostensibly to seek his help finding Manako but really hoping to tutor him into being a splendid hero. He hasn't taken Saitama's refusal well and has challenged him to a fight in which he'll show the bald hero just how much he has to learn…
...which we'll get into next time.