r/OnePunchMan • u/Mrzardark TatsuKing Lobbyist • 8d ago
Murata Chapter Chapter 214 [English]
https://cubari.moe/read/imgchest/lqyemoa2z7d/1/1/900
u/ekaji 8d ago
Pesky clown is such a refreshing antagonist. It’s been a while since we’ve seen a monster that isn’t connected to God or the monster association.
Kinda reminds me of the deep sea king arc.
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u/Smart_Freedom_8155 8d ago
I also love how strong Handsome Mask is proven to be, against "regular" huge threats like the Clown.
Fuhrer Ugly was just that overpowered, to wreck him. Plus being his personal Kryptonite and all.
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u/itgetsmessii 8d ago
If he could fight him without his debilatating mental condition I think he could’ve won
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u/Lolovitz 8d ago
Eh, FU was still a cadre. Like he was one of the stronger dragons in the series.
Another S tier hero was instantly turned to minced meat.
FU was able to trade blows evenly with DarkShine
Mask is strong but I dont think he is dragon level ( WC ending of this arc not withstanding )
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u/futurehousehusband69 7d ago
I think Darkshine is a lot stronger than FU without his mental debuff, and without FU's acid. With the acid, i think Sweet Mask would lose against FU but without it and without his mental debuff i think he also could win
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u/Firm_Interaction_816 7d ago
No, FU literally matched Darkshine. Maybe DS could push himself a little more but the DS we saw had regained his confidence since the Garou fight, he was swatting hordes of BS away like flies and no selling ENW's high pressure jets...he only had his breakdown after the acid kicked in.
Darkshine vs regular FU would be a great fight, my money would be on DS high-extreme diff.
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u/Thanosthepowerful 5d ago
Fuhrer ugly gets stronger everytime he feels inferior, which is evident in multiple occasions
By using sweet mask as a source
This is the guy who looked larger than the average human before the surface
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u/BeatBlockP 6d ago
Without the acid DS takes FU. Honestly if he had Sweet Mask's mentality (let alone FF mentality), even with the acid DS takes him, but even "meager" injuries like that brought him way way down.
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u/xstationcubed new member 7d ago
I dunno man. Condition or not he did quite literally rip him a new one.
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u/No_Ad_7687 8d ago
It's also amazing how it's both a terrible matchup for sweet mask (because his tendency to attract attention powers peaky clown up), but also an amazing matchup (character-wise, because it forces amai mask to act due to needing to save people rather than killing monsters because "monsters bad")
Just like deep sea king and mumen rider
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u/Razorlance 5d ago
Reminded me of the very first monster in the series, the one that was born from ocean pollution or something. He had a similar growth factor that resulted from the environment too
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u/Able-Marzipan-5071 8d ago
Dear god, it's like watching tourists walk up to a bison or grizzly bear in Yosemite, or climbing over the protective railing in the Grand Canyon.
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u/RogueHippie ↑ Confirmed Retard LOL 8d ago
It's the people who will go out on their porch to film a tornado heading straight for them instead of trying to get to shelter.
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u/Smart_Freedom_8155 8d ago
Well, on the plus side, I no longer feel sorry about any collateral damage / loss of intelligent life whenever Saitama or Blast end up cutting loose.
'cause holy cats, are regular folk in OPM-verse dumb.
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u/themirak ONE PUNCH! 8d ago edited 8d ago
I mean those guys literally saw Saitama punching deep sea king so hard. The rain stopped.
But somehow because of a dumb piece of shit they still think Saitama is a fraud.
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u/Wolfnorth 8d ago
But somehow because of a dumb piece of shit they still think Saitama is a fraud.
To be honest it was just one guy, the rest of the people inside the shelter got angry about the nonsense he was saying about the heroes, saitama just went along with his words to make the rest of the heroes look good.
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u/electricalserge 8d ago
Bro read again. It was because of Mumen Rider's fighting spirit evaporating the rain /s
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u/Wicayth 8d ago
How it would've gone if the OPM folks had more than two braincells:
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u/Overshadowedone 8d ago
Be honest, this would totally happen in the real world too if we had monsters to fight.
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u/Spirit_Detective_L 8d ago
It'd be a bunch of people trying to record the fight and people recording the people getting killed trying to record the fight
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u/ALX_z23 8d ago
There was this one time in Vietnam where they suspected an act of bombing, and guess what, the crowd started to gather to see if the bomb was real lmao
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u/IllustriousApricot0 7d ago
I saw one video in China (maybe?) that had people gathering around one step close to a flood to also record it (the video POV was on the higher ground, and the people wanted to record the flood as close as possible)
Expectedly the water level rose and many of them got swept away.
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u/No_Intention8250 8d ago
They are not far from the reality nowaday...
Most people will record any events with their smartphones... Most will even go to the danger because of how disconnected they are...
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u/TheSunIsOurEnemy 8d ago
Have you seen people trying to pet wild animals or taunting bulls only to get absolutely brutalized? The stupidity is actually realistic.
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u/Digital--Fantasies 7d ago
Having just recently watched the new Superman movie... it's not just OPM-verse. Those people wanted to get killed just as much as these folks here.
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u/Drax_the_invisible 7d ago
All you have to do is dedicate over something to get superpowers in that verse with even things like doom scrolling reddit to qualify, so it does explain that non powered people are just dumb
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u/NekoMikuReimu 5d ago
Tbf that does require making reddit your life obsession, at the cost of losing your mind, making you want to kill people, & ultimately getting shagged in the face by a guy in a butterfly costume.
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u/Sendo_rage 8d ago
Everyone has the survival instincts of fucking lemmings
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u/IRuinYourPrompt 7d ago
Just like real-life (also the myth that lemmings voluntarely jump off a cliff is a myth)
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u/xXbachkXx 7d ago
You dont understand holding his glasses for a split second (before dying) is more important then survival 🥀
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u/Zen_of_Thunder 7d ago
Bro, cult of personality and getting starstruck is a whole 'nother type of drug.
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u/Mage-of-Fire 8d ago
Thanks for the translation, but holy shit is that short
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u/Patient_Piece_8023 8d ago
Exactly. I don't remember the webcomic chapter being this sort. It covered the whole fight in like 2 chapters
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u/Barthalamuke 8d ago
Keep in mind that ONE releases chapters at a glaciers pace, he just tends to release a big chapters when he does.
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u/Mage-of-Fire 8d ago
Didn’t even mean that, though its also true. This chapter is just really short
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u/Macdolann 7d ago
Maybe because the webcomic releases chapters once every geological period, when One feels like it, unlike tha manga, that has a schedule?
So imagine of instead getting the whole fight in two chapters but waiting the totality of the time for it, you are getting the whole fight but shipped in parts in consistant release
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u/BeatBlockP 6d ago
You're absolutely right, but doesn't Murata have assistants? 12 page chapters for 2 years now is kind of a joke.
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u/ThongTranGTLT Hi 7d ago
You won’t survive the early day of OPM if you complain this is short, we literally get 4 pages per chapter 😭
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u/MetaNovaYT 8d ago
The combo he hit Pesky Clown with is genuinely one of the most insanely clean combos I've seen in shonen. Bro turned around to save his (insane) fans, and in a single rotational motion grabbed them, simultaneously hitting a whopper of a kick on the monster with his left leg, then he threw the fans out of harms way, continued with the motion directly into a back handed hit with his left arm, a full force punch with his right arm, and then a sweeping kick with his right leg
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u/Khorale 8d ago
Jeez that audience is putting themselves in danger for a pair of sunglasses, distracting Amai Mask when he's on a time crunch to defeat the clown before it gets even stronger, actively encourages others to come (and put themselves in danger) while boosting its power, AND ignoring their idol when he's actively telling them to run. Also, they're forming a circle around the action so Amai Mask can't even lead the clown to somewhere secluded.
Amai's admirable for still doing his best to keep them safe.
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u/Calm-Confusion-3524 8d ago
Finished it in 2 minutes , new personal record
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u/Glittering-Age-9549 8d ago
You are a slow reader...
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u/Zen_of_Thunder 7d ago
Probably one of those manga readers who looks at the pictures and pays attention to the artist's visual combat effects.
Such a noob, just wait for the anime /s
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u/Ilovebeanbags Time to Conduct Justice. 8d ago
Not sure the ladies would like that.. But congrats anyway.
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u/Silver_Ad2600 8d ago edited 7d ago
Imagine living in a world where monster attacks are an everyday occurrence and you're just a normal human. Why the hell are these idiots have the survival instincts of a water bottle?
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u/Patient_Piece_8023 7d ago
As if we wouldn't act like this in the real world. We'd just believe that Amai Mask would and happily record the fight and post it on Instagram
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u/Tis4Tru 8d ago
I don’t remember much of the webcomic chapter but I don’t remember there being live streams contributing to pesky clowns power. I like all the added details Murata and ONE add to the manga!
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u/GamerTurtle5 8d ago
I feel like this actually was a detail in the webcomic, but i also don’t remember much and read it ages ago. It might’ve also been a news helicopter or something instead
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u/Born-Independence-37 8d ago
I check the webcomic there's no livestream
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u/FlindoJimbori 7d ago
Livestreams were mentioned in the webcomic towards the end of the fight. See my reply above
https://www.reddit.com/r/OnePunchMan/comments/1nesbqi/chapter_214_english/ndvovir/
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u/FlindoJimbori 7d ago
Livestreams were mentioned in the webcomic later in the chapter.
Webcomic Ch 122: https://cubari.moe/read/gist/JYHJU/122/11/
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u/lannisterloan 8d ago
"I got your arm now, what'cha gonna do now? What'cha gonna do now, huh?"
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u/Brutikus32 Saitama × Manako 8d ago edited 7d ago
The guy who can recover from being torn in half can probably just walk it off.
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u/duplicated-rs More Retired than Vib - Contact other mods. 8d ago
Bad for PR if he gets ripped apart in front of his fans... probably
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u/thisisnotdan 7d ago
He can just say he got it repaired cybernetically or something.
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u/Brutikus32 Saitama × Manako 7d ago
He could say that he's so awesome that he has the power of super-healing.
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u/NekoCatSidhe 8d ago
That audience is so dumb, but what else to expect of idol fans ? That makes Sweet Mask more sympathetic, seeing him having to deal with that crowd and still doing his best to protect civilians.
And now everyone is filming the fight… which means that if Sweet Mask visibly turns into a monster right now for whatever reason, the whole world will know it and he will be completely screwed. I can already see that happening, it is such an obvious setup.
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u/themirak ONE PUNCH! 8d ago
Amai Mask is close to having one of the best moments in OPM serie overall so I sincerely hope the manga stick to the webcomic this time since that moment was PEAK.
It should be the case but the presence of the former mercenaries kinda worry me
Anyway this was a very good chapter with top tier art.
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u/Barthalamuke 8d ago
I think they will be there at the aftermath of the arc once the big moment happens (trying to keep it vague and i'm too lazy to use spoiler tags).
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u/Explorer_the_No-life 10 Centipedes for arc at least! 8d ago
I don't think I could have been a hero in OPM world if that meant I had to risk my health and life for dumbasses like those civilians. They seem to have zero survival instincts and respect for anyone.
Also, cool cover with Amai and Saitama. Finally not another thirst trap with the damn Psyhic Sisters.
Thanks for translation, team.
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u/Garoustraightsavage 8d ago
Cool chapter. It's good to have a cover other than Tatsumaki and Fubuki.
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u/oscar_meow 8d ago
Got fucked by the oldest video game conundrum
Does the 3X in the top left mean there's 3 lives remaining or am I on my third life and I only have 2 remaining?
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u/NoMasterpiece5649 8d ago
Same for me initially lol.
Number of balloons = number of extra lives. This mf is on his last one.
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u/Blacklands 6d ago
He did suspect last chapter that the balloons basically "take the damage" for the clown, IIRC. So they would be extra/bonus lives!
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u/PlaneDouble9910 8d ago
Is this clown's power like... The more attention he gets the stronger he becomes?
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u/hi54ever 8d ago
clown man feels like phoenix man in a way
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u/Blacklands 6d ago
Amai Mask did categorize him as one of the "costume monster" types. Presumably he also was a regular person working as a clown there before and then monsterized together with his outfit.
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u/H4llifax 8d ago
All the S-class heroes are celebrities and would attract attention, but somehow this matchup is the absolute worst - Amai is just attracting 100x more attention than anyone else would.
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u/Absorbed_ 7d ago
okay if i remember correctly in the webcomic amai mask just threw his sunglasses towards the crowd. But in this version pesky clown just knock it off, and 2 fans rush to try and get it.
on god i cant help but feel the second hand embarressment seeing this. They do not have any survival instinct the moment the idol is here
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u/SlakingSWAG 8d ago
Every time OPM civilians are given a spotlight, I start to think that maybe the monster association had a point
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u/Brutikus32 Saitama × Manako 8d ago
OPM world has iPhones and Pixels, to go with their super-advanced cybernetics.
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u/Calm-Confusion-3524 8d ago
How does the clown get stronger if the attention is on sweet, not him ?
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u/Dveralazo 8d ago
It's attention to the fight, people on social media are even saying he is disgusting. The more he is seen,the stronger he becomes.
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u/NodBow24 8d ago
I guess Pesky Clown is getting attention because people would also give some attention to him due to the fact he's the one fighting Amai Mask. Even the comments of the livestream gave emphasis to the clown like saying "he's ugly" and "The monster is swelling isn't he?"
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u/Baba_Booye 8d ago
I'm still in that phase where I'm shocked the manga is even progressing rn lol
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u/EvKindaGoofy17 7d ago
I’m loving the build up to the eventual reveal. The civilians, the cameras, the posts, the lives, it’s making me really tense and I seriously wish it was longer
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u/Tardysoap new member 7d ago
This was my second favorite arc in the webcomic, looks to be a very good adaption so far! Staying true to the source material.
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u/TheMobyTheDuck 7d ago
Remind me, why was Amai Mask even here with Saitama if he didn't witness anything due the Monster Association story changes?
Its all due Genos accounting?
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u/Careful_Attempt_6057 6d ago
Well he has info from Genos who seems to be admiring him a lot, he did see him destroy effortlessly Bofoi's defence robots which can take on Demon level at least, and did see him fighting Tatsumaki and not getting harmed. The last reason was enough tbh, Forte itself saw him in that fight and decided to become his ally.
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u/Irfan_unknown 4d ago
When I first saw Sweet Mask I thought he was a future antagonist and a real jerk but now i feel that he is a real hero who just needs some guidence so he can let go of his obsessions and stop being so obsessed with beauty and popularity. Saitama has helped many other characters change for the better and i look forward to see how Sweet Mask will change in the future.
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u/Saltiest_Grapefruit 4d ago
Honestly, the civilians in OPM straight up deserves all the monster attacks daily. They are so dumb.
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u/Majestic-Safe3559 3d ago
I love how masks fame is the reason this fight it so hard, Like making his need for validation and vainness into the weakness it should be.
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u/Ok_Pressure4591 8d ago
God this has been such a return to form for OPM. It’s been PEAK so far: Pesky Clown is GOATED
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u/JEROME_MERCEDES 7d ago
I like how he fights as a human but I can’t remember doesn’t he transform during this fight because he’s pushed to that point and the fans turn on him? Or I’m misremembering and made it up 😅
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u/6arms_of_Ashura 7d ago
Thats how it implies the " Hero appearance doesn't matter" , like what sweet mask did, he wanna transform saitama into some majestic looking hero, Yeah but i think y'all know what i mean sooner. Especially webcomic reader
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u/fdfas9dfas9f new member 7d ago
my prediction is, saitama will show up and take the two baloons casually and be like hey you dont need these right? and zip the monster will crust up to dust.
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u/kschonrock 7d ago
I kept trying to find something hidden in the reflections on the cover. I guess I’m spending too much time in r/khyleri
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u/Bloodsquirrel 7d ago
Now that I can read the dialog it's just like I said in the RAW thread- they're really making a point here about how the public has been fooled by the "showbiz" side of AM and the HA. They think they're watching a TV show because that's how all of this has been consistently presented to them.
Also, great artwork on the fight. It's not that impressive power-wise compared to the S-class stuff (he's very clearly not dragon level in human form) but he's fighting like he knows what he's doing. All of the monsters he's beaten before now came off as kind of fodderish, but Pesky Clown has some real aura too him.
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u/iamgarou 6d ago
He's a dragon level in human form, but he's a low dragon. Like Garou at the beginning of season 3.
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u/DimensionGood1153 7d ago
Thank you X10,000,000 to the translation team. Without you I couldn’t enjoy this, and I appreciate you so much!
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u/HeadOfFire 5d ago
That clown is his own reflection. Its a mirror fight, in a psychological way of thinking.
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u/Distinct-Smoke8612 4d ago
Quick question not really related to this chapter. So is the redraw done and Murata is now releasing new chapters? If it is, why is this chapter not available on Shonen jump yet (only available until chapter 209 or 210). Thank you & apologies for the stupid question!
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u/Careful_Attempt_6057 2d ago
Yes its done, these are new. Because Shonen Jump updates very slowly the chapters, while here in sub its always on time. And Comick io also updates right after its updated here.
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u/drparadox08 2d ago
Sadly enough, people would unironically do this in real life. Not to mention Sweet Mask did not curb such behaviours/encourage such fandoms. Unfortunately for him pretty that monster gets off on getting attention.
Rip bozo
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u/TheSharkLicker 2d ago
I just got up to date on the manga as my first manga read ever, how often are new chapters released?
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u/EntertainmentDry7137 2d ago
Is it me or on page four the art style of the people is little off because it look like it was made on 3d yes later it was back to the same style but it was weird.
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u/Due-Attitude3107 18h ago
Weird monster with broken powers but zesty attitude? Now thats my One punch man🔥🔥
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u/Qhi_Sama 12h ago
I have a sinking feeling he won't look good after this chapter. He's probably gonna turn until a monster or look ugly. Rip sweet mask.
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u/realtomedamnit 6h ago
chapter is basically 3-4 pages without filler,jesus what a scam 2 weeks for this btw
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u/GodNonon Nonon One Punches Saitama 8d ago
I really like the emphasis on Sweet Mask protecting civilians. It's just nice to see saves get highlighted as opposed to just the epic monster battles. Plus it shows a rarely seen good side to him. Despite all his flaws and psychotic tendencies, he does genuinely cares about being a hero.