Episode 66: One-Punch Man

worry about that. Yeah. No, I'll be on a fun mission of just going around getting like special Comic Con snippets for a special jam pack s DCC two thousand nineteen episode of Nerdificent. Uh, wish me luck everyone. It's going to be a wild journey. But you know, I believe in myself. I believe in us. I believe in us, and I bet I believe in a little thing called love. Yes, we are joined up top by one of our good friends. He also listens to this podcast, Iffie. That's how good

of a friend. He is a real friend. And if you if you know a lot of people won't do it, but they asked to be on it. Yeah, it is true. We have comedian podcaster, host photographer Aaron Powell. Thanks for joining us, no problem, thanks for having me. I do listen to the show. I do my research for going on any podcast, and I just I just like listening to YouTube. So you know, I've been a guest on

I think all of you guys podcast. I've been across band Across its super from Crillakrill is super special episode of dragon Ball super at if He's Home. Yeah, You've been across all of the Danny Iffi cinematic universe. I am like the m V. I'm the Krillan. I am always there for you guys. Yea Hector would have made a card out of you to see if you survived. I think I was like one more episode away from just being a part of the show, just like the

recurring as well, the Mountain rushmore of krilling it. You know, before we jump into what we're here to talk about, which I'm super excited about, we talked about what we're seeking out about this week, So what are you geeking out about this a week I'm still gigging out about. Anime Expo had just passed. Um. I was there um all five days because there it's really five instead of four now um working hard doing photography. I was on

a couple of panels. I was on People of Color and Cosplay panel, which was awesome time, which I feel we needed more time to do, Like one hour was not enough for that one, but we got a lot of good information out for that. I'm just honestly just having a really great time with all the new anime that I found out about, one of which, if you would be really into, it's called, um, how much how much do the how much? How much weight do the

dumbbell as you lift? It's it's it's a very long anime ish title, and I know that, Yeah it's a long question, but you were asking me serious. It's basically like, how much do you lift? Bro? In anime? Is that? It's pretty It's hilarious. It's not like a second episode I'll send you. It's I'll send you the links and stuff. I'm down. But yeah, yeah, well all right, well that's cool. I'm super excited to you check out do you left

bro the anime? Super tight? What I'm geeking out about is if you and I were at the Lion King premiere, I was super dope. Beyonce was there, she got a standing ovation before the movie started. Think it's like everyone else chill, chill, chill Beyonce, everyone stood up here, and y'all can say to people, I went to the movies

with Beyonce. With Beyonce, it was a good time. What I wanted to say was I thought Billy Eichner like stole the show so funny as Toman, Like I really didn't know if they could do more with those characters him and Seth Rogan, and they really did um And also we were just talking about this before before we started recording, but like everyone is kind of dunking on They like released part of Matata for Jimmy Kimmel and

everyone is like dunking on it. And if you and I were like, that is not what it looks like on the big screen. But like and so it's I just like, have kept I've just been quiet. I think people also think I'm biased. They're like, oh, she does stuff with Disney, like you know, but they don't. It's like, because I'm sorry to interrupt, but like, movies are basically filmed digitally, and they're made for larger screens, so when you see it on something smaller, it's gonna look different.

That's just pretty much the name of the game right there. Now. Yeah, and there was like so many parts that you haven't seen. So but I understand if people are like, it's not the original whatever, But like for me, it's great because now we actually have like poc voicing the Lions. I mean, it's a big deal in same with like a Laddin. Now we actually have a person of color, but that's voicing Aladdin. Um And like I know, it's not a big deal to other people, but it's a big deal

to certain groups. So maybe you just like keep that in mind when you're like, why why should this exist because you don't want to hear dj is from full House's boyfriend. Yeah, you know he was. He was like a product of that time and now it needs to be updated and anyways, So that's that's my piece on that. And um, I thought Billy though, like stole the show. Who's so great and funny? If you what are you

speaking out about? So for me, I am seeking out about Cosmic Ghostwriter, which is a like kind of guy. It's being written by Paul Sheer and Nick Giovanetti, who or my showrunners for the show that I'm on, and you know, the fun thing about working with someone who is writing a comic is you're you know, usually you know, between when we're working, you know, he's also dealing with notes on the stuff and getting a little sneak peek. And I gotta say, I really love the direction that

they're going in this next issue. I have been laughing. I'm super hyped about it. So definitely look out for that next month. But yeah, it's been cool, and you know, you've been giving me some pointers and stuff, and it's very interesting, uh to uh to really see that other side of writing. So we'll see what happens with that. If you what are we talking about today? Today we're talking about an anime, and uh, anime that is better

multiple punches, Uh, no, just one. It's One punch Man, which is, you know, great anime that is super fun even if you don't watch anime, but even funnier if you watch anime because it plays with a lot of that kind of stuff. But first we're gonna get the nitty gritty out of the way. One Punchman is a Japanese superhero web manga created by One which began publication

in early two thousand and nine. The series quickly went viral, surpassing seven point nine million hits in June two thousand twelve. The Japanese shortened name uh Wan Panman is a play on the long running children's character On Ponman Wan Pon, being a contraction of one Punchy One Punch. One punch Man tells the story of said Tom, a superhero who has grown bored by the absence of a challenge in his fight against evil and seeks to find a worthy opponent.

But yeah, I knew that nitty gritty just off rip and I always That's what makes it so cool to me is that this isn't your typical anime that's like anime that's like based off of a manga from like a a manga house, or like a publication that normally you know is cranking out dope shown an anime or dope action enemy. This is like a person who had a web comic that like blew up and now it's this insane respected anime, which I just love stories like that.

It's like very inspiring. I don't think I knew. Did you see the comic before you watch the show? I did, um I saw that this was actually the one like anime property that actually got me to read manga. Like I never read manga before. I never read it before. And then I saw the web comic. I think I saw it on like read it or something somebody posted like a picture or something, and it was just this like really unassuming looking guy who was just like beating

the crap out of everybody. Was just like one punch and I'm like, wait a minute, this can't be real. And then and then I started reading more of this is kind of hilarious. So at the time, like I don't think the anime had come out yet, but they had already started doing the manga. So I started just reading it. I was like, oh god, I just need to see more of what this dude is doing. And like the more I read it, the more I was like, hey, this is making fun of everything. It's just like hilarious.

Now it makes it better because it's like, okay, it's just he's really just taking all these different tropes and just like just crapping all over and it's the it's the funniest thing ever. And then when you go into the backstory of the main characters side to my um, I related a lot to him. You know, it's just a guy who's basically doing something that he likes to do just for fun, just for the challenge of it.

You know, he just wants to get better at doing stuff, but he can't find any challenge anywhere, so he's super depressed about that. Yeah. I love that they make fun of the superhero shown in genre. Yeah and well, this is a quote from one who the creator said, punching is oftentimes pretty useless against life's problems. But inside one punch Man's universe, I made say Toma a sort of guy who was capable of adapting his life to the world that surrounded him only armed with his immense power.

The only obstacles he faces are mundane things like running short of money. In my opinion, that's not mundane. But if money problems are mundane and you you good, we're doing good, Well, it's probably because he can defeat anyone he wants. Yeah, you know, I mean, even though he uses that primarily for good. But that might be why. Um So, what exactly drew you too? I mean, aside from it being funny, what drew you to this franchise? Um? Well, when I saw like a full picture of side to

my um. The title the title character one punch man, I saw a lot of myself and the one he's he's a skinny dude. He's like kind of tall and stuff, and I'm like, okay, cool, a skinny hero. Finally, let's do this. You know, we didn't get that to what like Goku win Super saying God slim death. If he is visibly upset that I brought that up. He is visibly upset that I brought that up. But yeah, it's

just like a skinny a skinny dude. Like if you go into his origin how he decided to become a hero, he was just he was an unemployed guy looking for work and he saw someone who needed help. Um uh. Probably one of one of a long line of weird villains in this show. H dude name of Kraiblante. He was just basically a half craft half half man walking around in tidy Whitey's bad because some little kid drew nipples on him. Um. And he had the most challenging fighting.

He just chased that feeling until he got you know, too strong for everybody. And then the artwork was. The artwork was great. Um. The storytelling was. The storytelling was awesome because they took out a key element of storytelling, which is conflict. And the side of my hats absolutely

no conflict. He can solve everything with literally one punch, and his conflict actually comes from real life problems like being late for sale or you know, not having enough money for rent, or like you know, not being able to beat his friend at a fighting game. Stuff like that. So when they take like the things like, oh, well the world is about to end, don't worry. I'll punch that problem away. Um onions go on sale today. I

gotta make it to the market. So so, like we said, just huge success online and this series really began to take off by the time uh one had written the fifth chapter so on Nitosha, which is the site it was hosted on. Originally, a series was considered popular if it consistently received at least thirty comments, but by the time that One had published chapter thirty, he was receiving nearly a thousand comments per chapter, and in February two ten, One put the series on hiatus to focus on work

on his family. But things changed in two thousand eleven because he was contacted by the artists use gave Murrada about a possible partnership where Murata would redraw the manga for One Murada had been an enormous fan of One punch Man and was ill at the time, Fearing that he was going to die, he contacted One Wolf. Reflecting back, he said, around that time, I was actually really sick.

I broke out in the hives and my inner organs were infected and I couldn't breathe well and my wind pipes were swelling as in the hospital, and I thought, I guess people die just like that. If I'm gonna die, I want to do something I'd really love to. I want to draw Mango with Mr One. That's what I thought. That's insane. Yeah, so you know what I gotta do. Yeah, I gotta hit up a curatory and uh right when my time is coming. Yeah. He was like, hey, you

gotta do it. So then U Barada. Since he was already a successful manga artist, he was able to use his connections in the industry to get a publishing deal with Weekly Young Jump Comics, and that's how the manga started. That led to the anime, which led to the legend we all know as One punch Man being on like Netflix and well I saw it on Adult Switch. No, I saw it before Adult Swift. Where was that before? Before Adult Swim it was on? Was it on Netflix? Okay?

So I saw the Netflix and then Adult Swim had the dub. Yeah yeah, yeah, I remember that. I think our friend Kylie Berry's in that. And now it's on now it's on Hulu. Okay, yeah, now it's on who Exclusively app but leave. Oh so Adult Swim pulled it. I think Adults Swim pulled in like or I mean they pulled it. Yeah, and like it's on us on Hulu now because they just wrapped up season two like two weeks ago, and I heard season two's out. Someone

go and watch. Yeah, so it's great for everyone listening, Like you're not actually far behind the cover and they're on season eleven. And like I wouldn't even people try to hop into someone like I wouldn't even do it. I can't wait to hear the five part nightmare. That's one piece when you leave what I do. What I do is I just skip and I watched the movies. Yeah, that's what I do for a lot of things. Like we saw One Piece Gold and it was great. I

actually love that movie. I started with the show and then I was like, this is way too much going on right here. I'm just gonna just skip to the movies and just go from there. And now I'm a much happier person that well. Yeah, like One Piece started in yeah, and it's still running untill to this day. And that they they're they're up there with like episode I think like ww raw has like more episodes than One Piece, and it's like neck and neck. Yeah, One

Piece is gonna lap Raws. Yeah, if you wanted to watch One punch Man, you can get right in right now because it's only on season two. Yeah, you don't have to go through that long wait that we had. Yeah, it was like years. That was a dragon ball Z way what happened? There a lot going Yeah, there's actually more. There's more seasons of Stranger Things and there are man

so get in. Speaking of the world of One punch Man, So it takes place on an unnamed Earth like super continent planet where powerful monsters and villains have been racking havoc in the city's To combat them, the world's government created a hero association that employs superheroes to stop them. Here, I do want to say when this came out, also my hair Academia and they're on the same time, very similar. Yeah, Like something was in the water with like superhero classes.

It was like, let's let's make superhero and occupation with that, you know, and like a world that idolizes them. Uh. The heroes are ranked from class C to Class S, said Tom. An unassociated hero hails from the metropolis of City Z and performs heroic deeds for his own entertainment. Love that very much. Kind of like a Goku character

in Man, Yeah, yeah, yeah, but smarter. He has trained himself to the point where he broke his LIMITU and can effortlessly defeat any opponent with a single punch, which is what we were talking about. Um, so talk to me about some of his Some of the villains and the villains in this are quite hilarious actually, the villains, um,

they go through typical villain tropes. The first villain we see is vaccine Man, and he's basically made from all the pollution and stuff that people have put into the earth. The Earth wanted to fight back, so vaccine Man was He went on this long monologue and one and side him, I just punched him in the mouth because he was just talking too much. He's like, look, you're just boring me right now. You limited twenty words or less, so we can get down with this, do you anti vaxer

put that in there? Like Captain Planet being like shut up, right, you just just just cut it out. I do want to say, I went to uh Disneyland, um the other week, and they have at Pixar pier. It's the saddest if you'll have to send it to you. It's, um a picture of these otters. It's like this picturesque like Bay Area, like painting this mural. But then there's like these otters and they're like holding a six pack ringlet and like

very sadly look like they're about to cry. And I'm like this is so intense to be right, it's like don't pollute and it's like right there for all the kids, and it's like these otters like trapped in this like ring pack. Anyways, Um, so we have the anti vaxer. Okay, the anti vaxer have Lord Boris. I'm gonna I'm trying to get my notes, right, Lord Boris. He's like the main villain of the first season. Uh, very super saying three like if it was evil looking with one eye

like and the boros yes, thank you. Uh. He was basically one of the few people who could give Side to My challenge until you find out that he was holding back the entire time and was just like doing this out of pity. He would he basically fought someone out of pity, just knowing that he could have beaten

him a long time ago. He just wanted to give him some fun before he gave him the one punch, which he unleashed his super move, um, the super serious punch at the end of the episode, he looks yes this also uh, Speed of Sound Sonic, who is kind of like a ninja like looking like Ninja guiding who is just obsessed with defeating Side to My because Side never remembers his name any time that they see each other, like who are you again? Like do we know each other? Yes? Yes?

And u um House of Evolution. There's also like kind of kind of villains kind of just not on the side of good totally, but not outright evil or anything like that, you know, because that's where his sidekick, Geno's pretty much came from the House of Evolution, out of like an experiment that made like a teenage kid a cyborg who also talks a lot, which much to disagreeing up Side to the villains in this show get a lot more shine than the heroes because when you actually

watched the show or read the manga site, Tomad is barely there, like because again he can solve all these problems with one punch. That's just bad storytelling if you just throw them in there. Everything kind of like circles around everyone else, and the inside to My shows up usually late, usually on accident, sometimes butt naked, just like just to just to get out there and just d end all the conflict going on. In season two, the villain's name was Garu. He was the hero Hunter. Basically,

he was this guy. He was super duper strong, very talented at killing people. He was trained by one of the top heroes, and he just hated the hero way of life and only wanted to fight the highest ranking heroes. He didn't even think about side to my, even though he encountered him several times. Inside him, I just basically dealt with him with one punch, one kick, and one very hilarious scene and he was just like, what's that over there? You you just kicked the guy through a wall. Yeah,

I know he was in my way. He was running towards us. You know, we have to take a really quick break and then we're gonna hop back into one punch Man right after this and we're back. And so Aaron, you mentioned Jenos. Can you talk about like how sa Tama you have been saying it different. That's how I say. You say you got an accent on a different part than yeah at me if you like no, I'm sure you're correct. I know I probably watching and I watched. I watched it. I watched it both and I've heard

it pronounced both ways on the same show. So we're both correct. We're both right, like vegeta yeah, and Andarato and I'm just speaking with the cd Y accent and sits from CDZ, so they have a different accent. And we can you talk about how he became a mentor to Jennos and like what happened with Jennas really didn't want to he really didn't want to not so he met Jenos. He was fighting another villain who basically she was a mosquito who could control other mosquitoes, suck the

blood out of everyone. Else her name escapes me at this point and signed him up. Basically happened upon her on complete accent as he was on accident as he was chasing a mosquito through his house and then through the neighborhood trying to kill this mosquito, like like, he can kill anybody with one punch, but the mosquito is where his weakness lies in this episode, and Jennals was already in the middle of this fight, uh, and was about to self destruct because that's what Jenerals does. That

that happens a lot. General's trying to self destruct because he feels like he failed and this is the only way out. Then he sees that Sion comes in takes care of everything, but of course one punch and he's like, well, you need to teach me how to get this kind of power, And he's like, no, I really don't want to. You have a nice day. I'm gonna go put some clothes on and like, and he basically decided to convince him to take the hero hero exam because you have

to register to become a hero and this society. Uh, they both registered and become heroes, and then out of nowhere, Jenos just shows up at side from his apartment with all of his stuff, saying that he was gonna move in. It was just like the worst relationship ever. He's like, hey, man, I'm moving in. He's like, uh no, you're not. And then he just slams a wad of cash on this show, He's like, I can pay your rent. He's like, did

you bring a toothbrush? C DZ must be Korea town where if you need people to just come over and Korea towns in l A and it's really expensive. Yea, I sound a lot like Jeno's my ex boyfriend. Sounds like, say, Toma one day I came over and I just never went and never go home. He he didn't even do like a layers just bring stuff little by little. No, he came with everything. It was like, hey, you're gonna train me. I live here? Now? What about some of

the other heroes that are other heroes? The other heroes are like my favorite part of the show because they all like take something from different parts of anime and like in different hords and all that stuff and put it together and it's it's just a price to see one of my favorite heroes from this show. And if You've heard you say this on the on the on the Ship on this podcast as well. Is a movement writer. Yeah,

the cyclist for Justice movement writer. He is just a regular guy in BMX, biking out in outfit and he rides around town something fighting crime on a bicycle his armor. Kind of is a not too common writer, which also is my favorite metal hero love the Common Writer series. Uh, but like, yeah, he kind of is like this regular guy. He's a regular guy just trying to do what's right and all he's aimed, all he's armed with is his bicycle, his bicycle helmet. And I saw so many moment Rider

cost players at Anime Expo. Has made my heart smile when I saw that. I mean, it just really shines as a character. Uh. And this goes to your point where you say, like a lot of the show doesn't

really surround Saitama because he can handle everything. And so really the like uh C King arc kind of was about uh, movement writer and Supersonic, Like it really highlighted like their journey and their motivations who they are, and it was painted out perfectly fine because when you're C class hero, you have to fight more crime than the S class heroes. You have to solve, you have to fight more like you have to do justice twice a week to keep your rank or else you just lose

your license to be a hero. So he's just basically out there putting his nose to the grind, just trying to you know, level up. Uh. There's another hero that just makes me, just makes me laugh because it's it's just it's such a Japanese thing. Should call someone This child Emperor's a ten year old kid who is an S class hero who basically is like this super genius

kid who's very good at he's a tactician everything. He walks around basically in a school uniform with a backpack and a laptop and he just goes out and he just makes up strategies for everybody to defeat someone. Then there is He's the guy in the chair. Basically he's the guy. He's the guy in the chair who can actually put in work. Then there's the absolute weird Poori Poori prisoner U Poori pouri prisoner is um And this

is how progressive this anime is as well. He is an openly gay uh superhero who is very much he's he's the anime strong man, like whenever he flexes, he gets more muscles than he absolutely should. He's just he's just really just tubuff for his own good. And at the same time he he openly flirts with any man that he finds attractive. Villain or hero, doesn't matter. And that's why he got sent to jail because apparently he got a little bit too grabby with some people and

they put him away. He does a lot of sailor moon transformations and stuff. He does the poses where the hearts come out in the back. Besides like his like, you know, predatory behavior. Kind of funny dude, you know. Besides, but besides like the parts of him, I'm like I could do without that, you know. Jeno's also U S

level hero watch dog Man. Watch dog Man is as a guy who dresses up as a dog, and he has the prowess and the agility of a very strong and very agile dog, and he looks like I'll show you a picture of watch dog Man so you can get what I'm saying. Yeah, he basically dresses up like as he looks like side to my in a dog outfit, and he's super strong, super agile. I think it's smart for a tender profile picture. Absolutely. He he has the

ultimate profile picture picture for tenders. He's like, look, I'm a dog and I and I helped the community, you know, on the top level of all of this, so I don't even have to solve crime twice a week. You know, I have time for you too. Uh what about Bang and King? Bank and King? Bank and King are very very much featured in the second season. Bank and King are two top top level heroes old school martial arts masters. They actually trained the villain of the season as well, Garu.

I think, um, I think this is not much of a spoiler, but they there's been hinting that he's one of their sons. King is Site to Us best friend now like they he is the one who can beat him in King. King takes credit for a lot of Site to Us work in the community. He's just a normal guy, no powers, nothing like that. He can barely fight, but he's really good at video games and he's just good at being in the right place at the right time. And he's basically been taking credit for other side of

his work for years. Mr Yeah, yeah, yeah, he's he's basically Mr Satan and taking over for Gohan. You know King has he has like the scars over his face kind of like what Marvel character is that? I mean, that's so many, yeah, a lot. I don't know. I just ran myself into that. But he looks like just every eighties action movie hero. I have a quick Can you talk to people about what Saitama looks like in his outfit and why he like wears why his outfit

looks like that? So go ahead, because then it is truly one of my favorite things about the anime, because this anime arguably has and I don't know if it's the same for the manga. Two art styles for science, yes, there's two separate art stuffs. There's Saitama. When he's just a regular Joe, it's very baggy, he's like bald, he has no no facial expression, has no definitions, no zero. But let him get when he gets ready to punch,

he just transformed. It's like overly detailed, like super like his clothes no longer like it's super tight, and he's buff. It's so good, and I think that's like his real fault. I think, And this is just a theory for me, and anybody can tell me if this is like something that's been confirmed. But I think what we see when side somebody is like kind of in his plane, like any kid just drew this mode. That's how he sees himself and how he gets serious, that's how he actually

looks because that matches the animation of everyone else's. He's drawn totally different from everybody else. And even when you look at like flashbacks back when he had hair and there's a reason why he lost his hair, when you look at before he lost it, he doesn't look the same. It's not it's not like you can put hair on his serious mode and you get back to where he was.

It's like, whoa, that's a totally different dude. And his suit is I think it was issued to him because when you become a hero, the Hero Association gives you a uniform if you don't have one already, and they also give you your superhero name. You do not get to choose your superhero name. And his superhero name is caped Baldy, which is like the laziest that's like Shank Song's Island. Yeah, Like that's like so lazy that they just call him Cape Baldy. And like um Geno's hero

name is Demon Cyborg, which totally awesome name. Totally awesome name, but like he's drawn so plain. He looks like just a regular banana. His suit is yellow with black belt with a gold buckle. He has a white cape with two black things that fastened this cape to his to his body and that's his suit here, red boot and red u. Huh. I remember the first time I saw cosplay of him and like, why are these people dressed

like cleaning people? Like he looks like he's a cleaning and or has madic Yeah, with his yellow suit and his gloves. Yeah, he was like an anime version of Charlie Brown. I think one of the reasons I really like Genos too is I don't know if you'll remember this anime when it came on Adult Swim or if he saw it on your own, but Andrew ki Kheider was really cool. It was like essentially a Pinocchio story with this android and uh, he was looking for his

creator and that's kind of story. Yeah, So it just reminds me like Genos. Genos is interesting because he could be the strongest person on the show if he had any kind of battle since because he knows how to fight. He knows how to hold his own. He just can't get the job done for some reason without trying to

blow himself up. You know, he's too impact. He's only seventeen, so like age might come into play with that, and he absolutely has no idea what he wants to do with it's life, you know, which is a great point

of his character. The other heroes, there's also there's there's a couple of female heroes in the show, but the one that I love the most is and I'm I don't know, I'm not alone with this is a Tornado of Terror who she just basically wears her little black dress and she has green hair, and she can basically just she can make um, she's telekinetic, she has all types, all sorts of mind powers, can you can fly and

all this stuff. And she has a younger sister who, yeah her her, Her and her sister are known as the Psychic Sisters. Basically, she's one of the s class heroes as well. I think she's the number three hero like out of all the heroes and the hero association, yeah, which the hero Association, how it got started was taking it back from side to my side to my saved the founder of the Hero Association grandson who was the one who drew nipples on craplane. Yes, would you like

to describe what he looks like, the grandson? Yeah, so the grandson is it's always comedy by the way. It's so it's great and and and a lot of other you know, a lot of other shown in actually does set out to be comedies, right, And there's always one extremely weird looking normal person character and all these So the kid who he saved has this very long, droopy chin, and it's like his chin goes all the way down

to like his navel, I guess. And and he's shape it looks like, yeah, it looks like I'm trying to clean it up because I know this is genitals. Yes, it's it's shaped like genitals. And this kid is a jerk. Like for someone who looks the way that he does, he could stand to be just a little bit nicer to people. But you know, he looks like one of the villains for Men in Black two. He was a

ball Chinian that nothing but nineties references from. So what were some of your favorite moments from the last two seasons. Let's just talk about the first season. What was your some of your favorite moments. One of my favorite moments in the first season was how he actually two of them, how he actually explained his powers and like a quote that he had made that I kind of remember every day in my life now. How he got his powers is extremely underwhelming. It's not like he was born with

him or anything. He was just inspired to just become a hero. He trained, he trained, and his training regiment is super boring. However, it is the most intense workout. It's an intense workout. I I've done it. A couple of push up, hundred hundred squats in a ten kilometer run. No, that's a good workout. It's great. Like you don't have a Yeah, it's a great work out. The next day you will feel like you are going to die, but like it is a great workout. Um, if you're gonna

do it, break it up and sets. Um, so don't do it straight through? Do do ten take arrest? Do ten take arrest? Stuff like that, And then he had a quote that this is what really like locked me into the character. He said that every human being has a superpower, and that is we can change ourselves whenever we want, Like we have that ability, and I'm like, wow, that that really translates very well in real life, Like you can change yourself at any point, good, bad, right

or wrong. You have the power to do so. Um. Those are my favorites from like the first season the second season, which a lot of people dump on because of the animation. I this, this might be me, I might be alone in this. Didn't notice it didn't notice how different the animation was at all. The funny thing and this one is uh side him decided he wants going to find a challenge. He found out about this martial arts tournament, uh, which you know dragon ballzy martial

arts tournaments awesome. Uh. He goes to his martial arts tournament. He's not signed up, so he impersonates someone who is. He puts on a karate gi in the worst looking wig ever that he has to keep fixing throughout the entire tournament. Uh. He they find out that it's not a real wig and he gets disqualified in the finals. And he was basically going against a guy who was also defeating people with one blow. He's beating people with

one kick. He had a bad too pain. It was terrible, like it was it looked like one of those hats that the English guards wear that Buckeham Palace, and it was just blonde and like on top of his head, just just there. Uh. Speaking of quotes, because you had that one quote, I have another one that I like from him, and it's who decides limits? And based on what you said, he worked hard, Well, maybe you need to work a little harder. Is that really the limit

of your rank? Could the you of tomorrow beat you today instead of giving in? Move forward? And I like this other one. I'll leave tomorrow's problems to tomorrow's me. Yeh. I think we all do that. I think, yeah, that's kind of dangerous. Tomorrow is this mystical place where nothing gets done. It's like, as my student loans, that's so our friend, you're doing a Travis has the best quote about that. Either I'm going to pay it all at once or not at all. He's a big He had

his album cover art. First comedy album was one he did a video about um like the differences between the anime and the manga as well, like on Get Out of the Robot. Yeah, one is very interesting in the sense that you know it's if you haven't figured out by us saying one, it's kind of his moniker no one. It seems like no, no, there's no pictures online. No,

I haven't seen one. So it's it's crazy, Uh, just the idea of this person and how like mysterious they're Japanese BANKSI yeah, yeah, well, and it's so weird because in our industry, everyone wants to be recognized and to have someone that's like, is okay with not necessarily being well known, and that that sounds almost refreshing and scary at the same time, you know. But yeah, and he gave us one punch Man, which is awesome. So yeah, the only picture of him online is this picture he

drew him drew him stuff. Yeah, where it's just a circle and just that thin lipped He basically drew base level you know. I I lie. There's a one picture of one japan Award for hiding I remember that. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah. He's looks young. It looks like what the heck? Well, this makes sense if he was doing a web comic. True, he I think he's younger than us. Wow, let's see if the yeah he was Yeah, No, he's older, he's older than us. He's two years older than us. He

was born October. H yeah, he's younger than me. Oh well that's uh, that's really cool. I guess we could talk about the future of One punch Man or things we'd like to see. So we'll see you after the break Welcome back the Nerd Efficent issue. Boy, if you way across from me right now is Danny. You know what? I'm pulling up an article and the article title is why do people like One Punchman so much? I don't

get it. Well, I can totally imagine like someone who likes doesn't watch anime at all, but actually no, because my buddy Kyle, who's never seen anime, he was like, he was like, I just never found one. I was into fell in love because of One punch Man, and because of that, he like took my suggestion and watched

Devil Man Cry Baby, which is a huge jump. But like, okay, if you and I know people that make those like houred long breakdown and I feel I could see them not liking One punch Man because power levels have no nothing here and because it's making fun of all the anime they love. So I could see them be like,

why do people like this? Because there's a crab man and like a kid with balls on its chin and um yeah, so I could see people that take those other ones so seriously not liking this, and that's the thing. And Nana doesn't take anything serious. The only thing he takes serious is people making fun of him from being bold. Yeah, Like there was this like this group that they were trying to frame him for doing something. He got mad that they were stealing his look because they were bald too,

so he kept getting associated with them. Um like, he just does not like when people poke fun of him for being bald at all, because like him losing his hair after his intense training is a real sore spot for Yeah, that's real funny because there was that one scene where he draws the eyebrows on. Yeah, that was great. And then the Tank Top Heroes, All I love those

guys Tank Top Tigers. Yeah, those are those were my favorite because I remember because they had that wonderful moment where they were griefing him because the city got you know, destroyed, and and it was that perfect moment of like, y'all ain't doing nothing. You all over here giving him a

hard time. But they were like, oh, it'll make us look good, and uh that was great because then that's where we introduced Lord Borrows in the culmination of all that, which was the end of the season arc which it was all fun. I loved it. Oh yeah, so what so there's fighting game now? Yeah? Yeah, let's talk about the fighting game. The Fighting game, Um, it's it's coming

out soon. And I'm a little bit confused about this because if One punch Man can defeat anybody with literally one punch, are you playing as the Is it going to be like the show where you just focus on all the side characters inside to us the boss at the end that you have to try to defeat and you can't get punched right because he's he's doing all of his his signature punching moves. He's doing a consecutive

punch and all that stuff. And I'm like, I'm trying to figure out, like, because they haven't released too much information about the game at all. I was at the Fundimation booth where they were like playing like gameplay of it. I didn't think that One Punchman was under Fundimation. Crunchy crunchy roll, crunchy roll, Yes, yes, yes, yes, it was crunchy role I wish both YEA would hire me to

do stuff. Gonna slightly apologize for that GAF, but yeah, So they were playing a gameplay and like they didn't have really too much information of like the storyline of the game, so I kind of interested, and how well I have some here. So one punch Man a Hero. Nobody knows that's the name of the game. It will feature three on three versus battle, so that does make more sense what you're saying of having the same characters where you can play of various characters from the animes

such as Geno's Hellish Blizzard, Speedo, Sound Sonic, and Movement writer. Naturally, Satama will be a big part of the game, but the issue is whether he will be an invincible character or not. And then, like speaking to like the future of it, I hope I don't have to wait another to three years for another season. That was because I had an end of Season one ended was so good. I just wanted to see more. But they had issues

with the previous animators. They changed animation. It happens so much. Yeah, it happens more than people. Yeah, I honestly know. Well, and then they came out recently there was an article I was looking at where it was like just how overworked Japanese animators are and like it's just like working

them to the bone essentially to get these out. So yeah, yeah, and that's why there's such a difference in animation quality that has done so much of the anime um that we get because when you change the studio and we change studios and then you have less time to do stuff like it'll, it'll the product will show again. I didn't notice much. There were like some little things, but it was like insignificant to the point where I mean it's like, oh, this animation is bad. Now. Everything kind

of looked the same. Jeneals has a new look, which is which I like. Jennal's had a hoodie that I immediately got online and try to find. Um. Yeah, and then they they Then the manga is still going as well. I think they just released volume twenty a week ago. Yeah. Well, if I have a question for you, um going against your faive Goku, who do you think that would win?

That always comes up. I mean, of course it does, but I mean you have a character that can literally defeat someone with one punch exactly, And my my thing is kind of like the the system is gamed. So I have to as much as I hate to say that, I have to give it to Sai Tama because it is he is. Like for example, when people are like, who can beat the Hulk, and it's like, no one. Hulks literal power is that he gets stronger if he gets angry, he gets angry if he loses. It's a

it's a infinite loop of power that Hulk has. So Superman cannot beat the Hulk. No one can beat the Hulk. And people are gonna write and they're gonna add some dumb qualifier like well smart Hulk, and I was like, well, we're not talking about Batman had prep time. No, not even what prep time. This man is broken, which is why they introduced smart Hulk. Which is why they introduced red Hole because they knew they built it, which is funny because they built a broken character and Hulk and

just worked around it. They built a broken character in Phoenix and killed her. Yeah, now I got I got something for you. Uh If that you'll that will bring some happiness to you. That Goku is gonna lose to side Toma. Goku has to lose the side Toma why Because Goku's purpose is to train to get stronger. So as long as he has somebody who can beat him, Goku can fulfill his life stream to keep training to

get stronger so that he absolutely can't possibly beat him. Yeah, so they kind of need each other if you think about it. So if they ever were to come across each other like that, well they are very similar that they just want to They just want to change. Yeah, they just want to challenge. They just want to fight to get stronger, right, they just want to change. He'd frustrate Vegeta to no end. But I'm pretty sure that

we tackled this in our Dragon Ball episode. But when um A Curatory actually was like people are reading Goku the wrong way as a hero, like he actually just wants to fight, just want to fight. Yeah yeah yeah. So in the end, it's like he's not as noble as you think, not at all, because like if you see how he treats his own son, you know, he's like, hey, wait, here's a sense you being a villain so that you can defeat my son before you before you kill my son,

I want to make sure you're completely fresh. Hold on, stop charging that being it is all Goku is is just an immigrant parents. It's like, oh, he was like, no, if you beat cell like this, that's a B. You need an A plus. So let me make sure he's fully charged up. I mean a thousand percent. Chee is an immigrant mom. Study I'm sorry, I don't I don't care how much. Uh well, until he makes money and then when you can get all that, Zenny, and then

she's like, you know, I've always believed in you. Yeah, I've always always, always knew your fighting would bring us money. Always knew if this is gonna work. You know, you stopped doing tournaments, which we're paying very well. But you know that's fine. You know you have this billions any cool go train, stay away for as long as you want. I got my two children. That's cool. But yeah, like insight to ords like that too. Because he didn't want to join the Hero Society until he found out that

they paid. He was like, quait a minute, I can make money. I mean that's smart. Like if you're thinking realistically, it's so funny in the in you know, DC and Marvel that it's like everyone just does this out of the goodness of their heart, except for the Avengers. The avengers get paid. I mean yeah, yeah, yeah, but they also have like I mean several of them die so severn but like, yeah, let's do this out of goodness of our hearts. And I gotta go to my day

job tomorrow with bruises and stuff. I mean, freaking Luke Cage was literally a bartender. So yeah, he was a bartender. And he swept the floors at the barber shop. Yeah yeah, yeah, he wasn't even a barber. A bodyguard. Yeah he was a bodyguard. I have to do that, like eight jobs. As if he lived in l A. He could have robbed a bank and he's bulletproof, right yeah, like they say, with great powers, a great responsibility. Well, Blue Cage is a mob boss now, so the responsibility. Where can people

find you? You guys can find me on Instagram at your favorite skinny man, on Twitter, at your faith skinny man. Because they don't let me have enough letters. Uh yeah, big, big, big, just angry about that because of Brandon reasons and Facebook. Aaron Rampal I add, just about anybody, as long as you don't look creepy and as long as you're not evil person, we get to go. Yeah, and you guys can listen to my new podcast I'm gonna be launchings

about two weeks. It's called Aaron's Wine and Cheese Party because I like wine and cheese parties, but I don't like having companies. So it's a remote wine and cheese party. Your wine, your cheese, your house. And if he and I will be at San Diego Comic Con this weekend, if you're on our our friend Mark Ellis's show that is at the American Comedy Co. Right, yeah, yeah, yeah, We'll be doing stand up at American Comedy Co. It'll be fun. There's gonna be two shows. I'll be on

one of them. Uh, we'll let you know closer to the date which hour I'll be on. And then outside of that at eight pm, and that is Thursday July, there's a show at seven thirty and one at nine thirty. So that Thursday, that's what I'm gonna be doing. And then Friday at a eight o'clock I'll be doing a comic com panel with Joe Starr. More details on that will be tweeted out. And then beyond that, yeah, I'll just be running around just say what's up. I have

two panels on Thursday, definitely come out. One of them is at the Grand Marquee. It's Room twelve. It's the Most Dangerous Women panel two pm tomorrow. Brooks, who was on a Wonder Woman episode who kicked but on that is is moderating it. And then I'll be on Sci Fi Wires great debate show with a bunch of other people that are going to be on it. Watch Me debate three thirty pm in the ball room twenty. That's in the con If you and I are doing a meet and greet, you can catch us at Whiskey Girl

five pm on Saturday. We will be grabbing drinks. Come grab a drink, say hi to us, take pictures. How to tell us why Goku could beat Vegeta. I don't know, Um tell tell if you that, no tell wait, no, tell him why Vegita could beat There we go, you know, just get us a drink to have drinks with us. Um And that's where we'll be Whiskey Girl at gas Lamp five pm on Saturday. Come say hi. We will be there. Have a safe can everybody. We'll see you out there, and as we always say, stay nerdy,