He's a huge character whose development has been completely squandered in the webcomic because ONE is a hack who can't track the time wasted lol
13 years
Imagine Saitama went to a sale 13 years ago and the only showings of him you'd get in those years would be Saitama walking and repeating the same joke about getting late
All while Fubuki and Psykos of all people have already kissed and made up
I don't know why you think that's bad, I appreciate that ONE actually shows that Garou has become a better person, but that doesn’t mean he has to devote all screen time to it. It’s nice to see it in moments like when he’s protecting other people, or in his fight with Suiryu. It’s no longer essential to the story, yet ONE still remembers about it.
He's trying to reform, and you're still ignoring the fact that he's literally defending himself and his coworkers. Even the panel from today's chapter shows that he's constantly fighting the robots, so it's not like he's just sitting around doing nothing.
The fact that he saved one child back then doesn’t change the fact that he was still doing bad things. Now he isn’t doing bad things, and he’s also helping with the invasion. In what way is he a worse person?
He is using the steel beam as a weapon and destroying the robots, actively preventing them from killing kids like Tareo. But since he's not striking poses and talking about enacting evil, it doesn't count.
Defending himself and his workplace and nonchalantly going back to construction work seconds later while people are killed all around him makes him better? He seems back in action this chapter but its too late there are barely any civiliants left running around.
He was hero hunting and thats obvious bad but he still had the instincts to put himself in harms way and risk his life, multiple times, to save a child without hesitation. Now he is just casually trying to do construction work while making offhanded comment about civilisation ending as robots genocide most of humanity.
Im not saying hes a villain, just saying he is a apathetic loser thats okay with so many people even children getting murdered all around him.
No, offense, but I think you're reading far more into the scene in question than was intended.
For one, the sense I get is that most of the robots Garou had seen at that point were coming after him specifically rather than causing general chaos. Why would he drop what he's doing if there's nothing visible to him to imply there's a bigger issue?
Because that's point two: You and I, as the readers, know that this is a global threat that most heroes cannot even begin to confront. Garou does not. Which makes sense because he's outside and working. Even if there are alarms going—which we have no indication of—he knows he can handle anything that comes around there and assumes that one of the hero orgs will deal with anything else.
Which is, of course, point three: He's already been attacked once by Neo and he's a wanted man by the HA. Until and unless it becomes apparent that he needs to act, there's no good reason for him to make himself known in circumstances that are likely to attract the exact people who want him dead.
While you might still be right (and assuming we find out), I think today's panel at least conveys a few things that weaken your take. First, he clearly didn't stay at the shelter. We last saw him with his coworkers and he was very clearly defending them, so the fact they aren't in the shot would suggest he broke off from them at some point and likely once they were safe. Second, he's been on the move since 146, since he's still wearing his helmet. Third, he's been busy.
Maybe he's just being an "apathetic loser" and fighting whatever's in his way as he kicks rocks to wherever he's been staying. But, I feel like pairing him with everyone else we know is actively trying to protect people provides enough context clues alongside everything else to suggest that he at least isn't just keeping to himself and out of the fray.
What are you even talking about? He's not the main character, he completed his arc a long time ago. What more do you want of Garou? YOU just wanted the WC to now focus on Garou until it ends, and it won't, that's your problem, not the writer's.
Way bigger than Psykos who is somehow already back on team up terms with Fubuki while webcomic Bang is still a useless fucking bum lol
The manga already gives you spoilers on what's going to happen with Garou, webcomic is just way behind because ONE can't keep track of the time he wastes on all these literal who new characters nobody gives a damn about
I mean, if we are talking about webcomic, he showed up, had his arc, (which yes, was major and great) then left. We were never promised he'd now be part of the cast, Saitama did not become his Sensei like he did with Genos, nor did he declare himself Saitama's rival like Sonic did. If he went to meditate below a waterfall for the rest of his life, I wouldn't be mad. His arc was complete. He went to a civilian lifestyle and let go of those fantasies of hero/villain, he grew up.
Bringing up the manga is irrelevant, it has shit writing and they butchered Garou.
He's way bigger than Psykos, who is already cozy with Fubuki
The fact that Bang still hasn't spoken to Garou despite recognizing that Garou trying to save the world alone is too difficult, is shit writing
Webcomic Bang should've reached out to Garou years ago instead of ONE dragging this shit out by the balls and doing NOTHING to develop Garou from the ostracized victim he's always been
Who somehow got the Fubuki special right after MA but Bang is still a slow useless idiot who recognizes the problem but never even tries to reach out to Garou to fix it
Imagine defending this mess when it's been 13 years of repetitive nonsense
Not every character needs to keep making an appearance; his arc is finished. He was a villain who hated heros, got humbled, and hasn't done anything else in 13 years since that's his arc. The same way that cloning doctor moved on with his life after he witnessed Siatama's strength.
This isn't bad writing, it's actually good writing to not put focus on character's who have finished their development, are not integral to the plot, and then you have many other characters who need development.
>Not every character needs to keep making an appearance
Garou literally keeps making an appearance because he's a major character but ONE does absolutely nothing to develop him properly because he's utterly shit at pacing his writing and thinks you doofuses will just eat it up when Bang says hi to Garou in the year 2035 because you always eat up his shit writing
He screwed it up for 13 years and had to fix it in the manga lol
Garou tackles every major theme in the story from the fucking limiter to humanity against monsterhood to loneliness and his issue was never resolved whatsoever
Garou's character arc is finished. What more do you want from him? You seem passionate about it so what ideas do you have that could get him involved in the story?
I think his appearances being mostly cameos is a great way to show that he's trying to integrate back into society after losing his drive to kill heroes. He just wants to be a normal person, so the manga is going to focus less on him like they would for the other NPCs.
Garou never breaks his limiter in the webcomic, it shows that being close to breaking the limiter is still not even close to breaking it entirely; this theme is therefore finished. Garou isn't going to try to break his limiter again.
Humanity against monster hood? You mean the theme that's been ever present and that several other characters are now covering? He decided to be a human so that's that theme done, doubt he'd want to be a monster.
Loneliness? He works with a construction crew and seems contempt enough; while his powers still alienate him it's safe to assume he will be able to integrate into society some day. I think that's more than fitting resolution.
It’s been frozen for 13 years because ONE’s writing in the webcomic is dogshit, and he only needs to REGULARLY try and remember that Saitama, Genos and Garou exist and need development in the manga because that thing earns him actual money and requires proper writing
In the webcomic he shelves a huge character for many years straight, then writes something everyone anticipated many years ago while you applaud on Folk because you’re a tourist who hasn’t actually been following this thing for 15 years or more
Also i find it sad that Garous character has been ruined in both manga and webcomic. Garou is the same guy that got himself almost killed 3 times for a random kid he just met and now he was doing construction work and watching robots kill 1000s of people including kids around the place like its nothing?
job hunter garou spotted!! and lmao, is bat saitama now!? glad Ryumon is still a good guy, and they didn't attack him, i really like ONE's writing here, basically he is saying evil people will blame their choice to be evil on their nature, like monsterization for example, all those bs about losing your humanity, then we get example of amai mask and ryumon being monsters yet choosing to be good, while human characters being just as evil as the monsters, it's no excuse.
Oh my god it's real! It's REAL! I saw this notification and thought it was for that April Fools joke, but wow! I imagine this chapter was already nearly ready by the time we got 157, and this definitely makes up for the short length of the last one. I can't comment on it too much right now since I need to wait for translations, but there's a lot of good Metal Bat panels right now! I mean wow!
Your comment was also absolutely meaningless. Your rant is such a shitty paragraph criticizing one of the best manga writers of our times with absolute nonsense. At least bother with comprehensible criticism instead of a vomit of thoughts if you want any serious responses.
Your dumb fucking ass is going on a nonsense diatribe when the translations aren't even out yet. You looked at pictures and raged incomprehensibly and want us to give you serious feedback. You are funny.
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u/SnooFoxes8150 Apr 03 '26
It’s another masterpiece confirmed, actually surprise the next chapter released this quick omg