Nearly a decade after its webcomic launch in 2009, the One Punch Man fandom hasn’t at all lost its steam. It’s biggest hopes of late now ride on the animated series following its premiere in 2015 with the long-awaited season two launch now set to arrive in April of next year with Sakurai Chikara directing at J.C. Staff.
VIZ Media, who announced the date on Sunday at an event in Japan, secured the master license for the new season of One Punch Man back in May with multiplatform rights in North America, Latin America and Oceania. JAM Project is back once again to score the opener signaling the newest chapter of Z-City resident, Saitama, a self-trained superhero-for-fun often jaded by the current roster of supervillains unable to put up a better fight than him, and his noble disciple and roomate, Genos, a heroic teenage cyborg eager to improve his own skills. Monitoring all hero activity and recruitment is the Hero Association, tasked with overseeing and categorizing its cadre of heroes accordingly from the lowest ranking C-class to the top elites of S-class.
The last few days also saw the emergence of the new key art for the 2019-bound season that centrally reveals Garou, ex-disciple to S-class hero and martial arts master, Silver Fang. Check it out below along with the official description of the One Punch Man manga from VIZ.
Based on the best-selling manga series created by ONE and illustrated by Yusuke Murata, ONE-PUNCH MAN depicts the adventures of Saitama, a young man who only became a hero for fun. But after three years of “special” training, he finds that he can beat even the mightiest opponents with a single punch. Though he faces new enemies every day, it turns out being devastatingly powerful is actually kind of a bore. Can a hero be too strong?
