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I know I'm late to the party on this one, but I just binge watched One Punch Man on Netflix. I liked most of it. The parts that deal with OPM's depression and emptiness are the best. But I feel Japan has a different sense of irony than the West. Like, how far can you parody something before becoming the thing you're trying to parody? The part where the cyborg tells his super long backstory is a good example. The punchline is that OPM gets bored with his super long backstory. But if you had to tell a super long backstory to get to the joke, then what was the point? All you did was write the same generic backstory you're supposedly skewering, and the only difference is that you pointed it out in the same script. Maybe I'm overthinking it. But there was some pretty sweet fight animation.

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Anonymous

well one punch man both makes fun of, AND celebrates cliches in anime. It just plays around with the ideas like taking training waaay to far to the point of invulnerability but still has amazing "dramatic" fights regardless. I think it's not nececarily just a raw parody, it was mostly made just to be fun, i don't think it ever had a true "point".