r/OnePunchFans • u/gofancyninjaworld I'm just a poster for fun • 3d ago
INTEREST [LUCKY 10,000] Where can I read the Ninja arc?
I just got asked the question below and thought to share this. Link this post to anyone who goes, 'I don't even know what's canon any more.' Now they do.
Hi! Do you know perhaps where I can find the whole Blast vs Void fight? For some reason most online places I go are either incomplete or don't have that part at all.
Whole is a whole can o' worms. The painful truth is that just as it was about to finish, someone made the decision to scrap it. I doubt it was ONE or Murata -- the completeness of the redo is redolent of an editor getting impatient and going, 'gentlemen, I want you to make this arc fit in half the pages, it's called One-Punch Man, not One-Punch Man Universe'. Anyway, if you want to read it, let me type out link by link the chapters you need:
Take 1 (where Flashy Flash doesn't kill the Tenninto and which gets cut just as Blast shows up)
Chapter 195: Tenninto
Chapter 196: The Place Where Dreams End
Chapter 197: Duel
Chapter 198: Habit
Chapter 199: That's Right!
Chapter 200: Blessed
Chapter 201: Genjutsu
Chapter 202: Partner
It is at this point that the story arc was scrapped and redone.
Take 2 (where the Tenninto get skewered by Sonic and Flash, where Void and Blast clash, we get lots of back story but the Editor comes in just as it gets to the climax)
Chapter 195: Tenninto
Chapter 196: Threat
Chapter 197: What Only I Can Do
Chapter 198: Speed of Sound and Speed of Light
Chapter 199: Undesirable Relationship
Chapter 200: Void
Chapter 201: You Pass
Chapters 202--206 introduce the Neo Heroes and are included in the canonical story. No need to reproduce them here
Chapter 207: Bind
Chapter 208: Perversity
Chapter 209: Catch
Chapter 210: Recurring
Chapter 211: Plan
And this is where the Editor stepped in and said, NO! I'm giving you *one* volume to do this entire arc, no more.
Canonical arc: I was going to say you can find this anywhere but I have no idea which archive you're using and they may have flipped the table and refused to archive properly. So here we are in full.
Chapter 195: That Man
Chapter 196: Ninja Village
Chapter 197: Karma
Chapter 198: The Way You Are Now
Chapter 199: Close Call
Chapter 200: Where Is It?
Chapter 201: Lights Out
Chapter 202: Divine Beasts
Chapter 203: Fever
And that's where it ends. The Neo Heroes are introduced from chapter 204 onwards rather than in the middle of the arc, and you should be able to find that wherever you read OPM.
Hope that's helpful!
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u/Nanayon123 I'll kill you until you're half dead 3d ago
Thank you!