@claymore1998: the part you left out of your definition is: "in imitation of the style of another art". OPM imitates noone, it just happens to be comedic sometimes.
Hehehe friend you are implying if I was leaving details out of the definition. That's not what I was trying to do friend I was trying to explain the thing to you but since you've quoted it, my job becomes easier.
What style of art does One Punch Man imitate? Simple, the traditional superhero genre. What happens in normal super hero series? A villian comes who is normally more powerful than a hero, the hero then goes on a massive training of some sort. Finally comes back with a way to defeat a villian.
See how One Punch Man works, a villian comes, Saitama kills the villian and continues to lament that the villians were too weak. Happens everytime. That's the genre it is making fun of.
Lets go chronologically, remember when Genos shows up for the first time. You see Saitama struggle to kill a single simple mosquito. So tell me, was that because the mosquito was too powerful for Saitama. No, because its a parody. They are just having fun starting a story.
Look at Saitama in the heroes association meeting, he is normally looking at one end of the ceiling etc.
No one else but maybe Saitama in OPM remotely exaggerates above comics.
Sorry I do not get what you are trying to say or why we even have comics there as comparison. Also what exaggeration are you referring to, friend? Sorry I don't really understand.
Isn't anyone who has insane powers a parody then?
Hehe but do you not see the difference between the instance you are quoting. Okay lets go all the way back to Hickman's run of Everything Ends. The battle you are talking about happened there between Ms Marvel and Hulk.
Now tell me, did you see Hulk crying about the fact that Ms. Marvel was too weak? See where the difference lies, friend.
How many super hero series can you name me where superhero is so powerful that his biggest complain is he never gets hurt?
I am not sure how you are missing it friend, but its all right there in the series.
A parody blatantly makes fun of a series via imitation of some sort.
Just like One Punch Man has done throughout the series.
Saitama trained really hard in karate and chi and then learned ki and turned superhuman transformation mode, it would be a parody.
Compared to what happened in the anime where he does a standard bog training for 3 years to become as powerful. Remember his moto, train hard enough that your hairs fall off and you will be strong.
You are suggesting the explanation given is any better than the joke you are trying to make there, friend?
Even the hero association, Saitama's power source, the characterization, morals, its all very unique to me.
Hehehe you don't see a parody in Saitama's power source. 3 years of standard training. Evidently he ran, did push up and as a result he lost his hair. Now that he has a completely expression less face. The way he looks how is that not a pretty indicative of parody, friend?
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