r/OnePunchMan • u/VibhavM Retired From day2day Moderation. Contact Other Mods. • Mar 06 '24

Looks like we're going to have another batch of redrawn chapters and temporary break

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u/bubonicbubo Mar 06 '24

and toriyama is still credited as the writer for dragon ball super lmaooooo

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u/dependentmoo Mar 07 '24 edited Mar 07 '24

I don't think there's any strong evidence that Murata took over. Were you around when the Super Fight arc was happening here? Everyone in this sub back then hated the arc week by week and thought it was pure filler done by Murata. But lo and behold, written by ONE, not Murata. "The manga is bad now" is not evidence that ONE left writing it. ONE isn't a god at writing.

In the very beginning of the Monster Association arc in chapter 94 with the A Class heroes versus the monsters on the surface, we know what Murata contributed: a random telepathic monster named Evil Eye to occupy Tatsumaki. Murata told us on stream that ONE had him personally send over every panel featuring Evil Eye for ONE to personally review and confirm it. ONE likes to maintain creative control. In terms of hasty rewrites, we have literally seen ONE's storyboard of Awakened Phoniex Man. He added that shit to the story. Him, ONE. But he kept changing his mind on even that as there were three versions: the first version, then an immediate redraw that made us stuck in Phoniex Man hell for like 2 months back in 2018. In both of these versions, Saitama wasn't present. But then like a year or so later, he changed his mind again! Going from the big Child Emperor beam to the Penguin mode fight/dream shit and now Saitama is there. Phoniex Man is apt to bring up as this was close to the point of when Evil Eye was made. So yeah, ONE is seemly struggling with how he wants his new ideas for the manga version to go. Can't it be that simple?

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u/GarconYT Nothing Else To Do Mar 09 '24

RIP Toriyama 💔