One Punch Man #02 — “Why Not Show the Floor Again?”
October 11th, 2015
Did someone mix in the backgrounds with the storyboards again? Oh well. Run with it.
Impressions:
It's always nice when you can pinpoint the exact moment where everyone gave up. There's about a four to five minute span in this episode where everybody clearly just left for the day, and they threw the visuals together out of random stock art of floors and walls. See if you can spot the segment from the screen caps! Unfortunately, the formula hasn't changed much from last last. Do a big world ending introductory sequence, then protagonist pops out to kill the monster and shrug. The tension and weight is all theoretical, leaving the action still little more than the equivalent of jangling keys (very nice, shiny keys, mind you) until they figure out a way to make something matter, which I think would undermine the entire one off gimmick around which all concepts of this show apparently must revolve.
The big change this week is that instead of four basically unconnected segments, there were three. Lengthening the initial one that involves as little of the protagonist and his one note gimmick as possible for close to a third of the episode, and making the unanimated talking heads bit the shortest was definitely the correct move. If it's supposed to be funny though, it's not working. The closest it got was the same kind of joke that General Mills used for a decade to sell Cinnamon Toast Crunch. "He can beat anybody in one punch… but can he defeat a mosquito!?" The other 'jokes' this episode basically boiled down to "You must be a super human." "No I am not." I'm starting to wonder if adding a rim shot or a laugh track might actually help, if not just for the ironic sensibilities. That's a dark road to start going down.
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“Looks at us exposition about a character like every other dirty anime does but we know we’re doing it! Aren’t we funny!?”