In a statement shared
through the Tonari no Young Jump service , cartoonist Yusuke
Murata reported that the “ One Punch Man ”
manga will go into suspension because the last eight chapters of
the work will be remade . Consequently, chapters 240 to 247 are no
longer available for reading on the official platform, since Murata is remaking
them. What changes will be included in this new edition?
The statement wrote:
- Thank you very much for your love
of the Tonari no Young Jump version of One Punch Man! Regarding
the new chapter, we apologize for the inconvenience, but I would like to
take a break to review the chapters from 240 onwards. From chapter 240
onwards, previously published on this site, they are now temporarily
removed until the corrections are available. What will change after these
modifications? I hope you enjoy making some comparisons in the
future. We are working very hard for this process, so please look forward
to it.
ONE began publishing “ One
Punch Man ” independently in 2009, and later Yusuke Murata began
publishing it as a manga in Shueisha 's Tonari
no Young Jump service in June 2012. The work inspired an anime
adaptation of twelve episodes produced by Madhouse studios and
released in Fall-2015 (October-December) , followed by a second season
of twelve episodes produced by JCSTAFF studios and
released in Spring-2019 (April-June) , plus a third season in
production.
And of course, the
announcement of this suspension did not go unnoticed:
- « The fight between the
ninjas was inarguably better in the webmanga version, so I understand why
Murata was not satisfied .»
- « Imagine having to redo
entire plot points twice, when you literally already have the original ONE
material to draw on. Honestly, it doesn't look good to have such a messy
work plan, especially when you are adapting something .
- « At this point I have no
idea what is true, but I have heard that ONE is responsible for the story,
so any changes Murata makes, or rather suggests, must have been discussed
with ONE and approved by he ".
- « I don't know how this is
getting downvotes, it's objectively correct. I love this guy's art and his
commitment to executing whatever vision he has. But he is a perfect
example of the phrase “it is faster to take your time to do it the right
way once, rather than to do it quickly twice .”
- « So rewinding frequently
and sometimes completely changing the direction of the narrative as if
forcibly using an undo button is just bad. I think that's fair to say,
regardless of who is responsible for that problem. It is a unique
privilege that Murata has and one that is greatly abused. No one else
could even dream of going back months of work and delaying progress as
often as he did. Imagine if that happened with a show, it would be seen as
tedious and wasteful. Even if the final product justifies it by being
good, it is a strange and bad precedent to set instead of getting it right
the first time .
- « If this were any other
manga, except maybe Oda, they would be eaten alive for doing something
like this. Can you imagine what would happen if Hiro Mashima or Nakaba
said “I don't like the beginning of this arc, forget about the last 4
months of chapters, I'm going to start over”? ».
- " It's pretty clear
that ONE doesn't want an exact copy of the webcomic, so they're changing
things now that they have the chance ."
- « As a reminder, chap. 240
is when Saitama, Flashy Flash and Manako/Oculette went to the Hero
Association to visit Blast. Which means that everything afterward,
including the meeting of Flash and Sonic, will be redone .
- " I'm not surprised.
Honestly, the overall pacing and narrative cohesion of the story has
sucked since the second half of the Monster Association arc. I wish they
had stuck closer to the story with minor additions like Mob Psycho 100, or
even the original webcomic .
- « I don't even remember
which chapters are real or remade. What is the Emperor Child's mech like?
Did that monster lady die or not? Who knows! ».
- « I don't know which canon
is destroyed more. The one with Genos or the story of One Punch Man ».
- « And now I have one more
reason to believe that One and Murata don't plan anything at all and don't
seem to know where the hell they want to take the story. I know that right
now they have abandoned the idea of faithfully following the webcomic, but
seriously? abandon a perfectly good, ready-made story so you don't know
where to go? Isn't that a little pathetic? ».
- « Both the art and the
story weren't really the best, redrawing both the art and the story seems
to be the norm for One Punch Man now, in fact I wonder if ONE and Murara
really know where the fuck the story is going because at this point They
don't seem to plan anything in advance .
- « I understand why Murata
may feel he has to redo the chapters, but this makes it very difficult to
feel involved in anything that is published. How can I get excited about
what happens each week if there's a chance Murata will go back and change
it completely? Part of the fun of serialized fiction is the ups and downs
of following a weekly series and seeing how the author adapts over time .
- « It's also annoying
because Murata should be working from a roadmap. We know the webcomic is
good. The series will be good if it limits itself to adapting the
webcomic. Instead, it goes off on strange tangents that end up requiring
these redraws to solve problems .
- « In the end, the comic is
published in print. You do your job so that the end result is that paying
customers receive the best story possible. The story basically goes
through stages. The webcomic is the script, the manga is published
biweekly and is redrawn from time to time. This allows the story to be
really refined, well thought out, coherent and profitable .
- « This manga is far ahead
of the others. The biweekly calendar is better for the author, because the
weekly one is tortuous. It's better for the reader because it's usually
weekly or monthly and monthly mangas suck. Furthermore, the story is
already well done when it is printed on paper and sold. For the fans who
don't spend money to support the artist, the writer and the studio... You
have to hold on, brother .
- " Fantastic. I love
when my stories go on hiatus so the author can go back and change things
that have already been done (and most of the time the changes are small,
meaningless ones), and they already have a base plot to follow anyway. . I
love ".
Source: Reddit
