One Punch Man Television Anime Receives Green-Light
So powerful that he can overcome any enemy with just one punch!
Yuusuke Murata’s manga adaptation of ONE’s web comic One Punch Man is set to become a television anime, as confirmed by Japan’s Young Jump magazine. The cast and staff working on the series are currently set to be revealed during the Anime Japan 2015 event between 21st-22nd March.
In a world where giant monster attacks are as common as a weekday, the powerful and powerfully plain-looking Saitama enlists in the Hero Association, an organisation of heroes comitted to fighting the threats humanity faces. Despite having the ability to defeat most enemies with a single punch however, Saitama struggles to gain the trust of the hero community and even starts to grow bored – wanting to find an opponent who can fight him.
Viz Media have been serialising One Punch Man in the English edition of their Weekly Shonen Jump magazine, as well as publishing the volumes digitally.
