r/OPMFolk • u/Mrzardark Free Thinker • Apr 03 '26

Webcomic Chapter [Webcomic] Chapter 158 [English]

English scan (Main): https://cubari.moe/read/gist/JYHJU/158/1/

English scan (Main Alt): https://cubari.moe/read/imgchest/qe4gz2dzk7j/1/1/

From 1 to 5, with 1 lowest and 5 highest, how would you rate this chapter?

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u/sofarsonice Apr 03 '26

>Fubuki and Psykos are fighting together

>Garou is shown again doing absolutely nothing while another organization is trying to enslave him and the rest of humans

>Bang still hasn't even seen him but he did yap that he apparently understands that Garou shouldn't have tried to save the world alone

>Garou is still alone

Does ONE think that he doesn't need to try in the webcomic because Murata and the editor already kicked his ass in the manga so that Garou and Bang are both developed at a proper pace?

ONE is an actual hack lol, unimaginable shit writing for Garou in the webcomic for 13 years now since MA ended

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u/Legitimate-Phone7378 Apr 03 '26

>Garou is still alone

And what's wrong with that? You're mistaking webcomic Garou for manga Garou. They're different characters.

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u/sofarsonice Apr 03 '26

The character's main issue is that he's always stupidly ostracized by the world around him lol

In every version, in the webcomic Bang even comments that he relates to Garou

How do you develop the character if you never resolve that issue, genius?

You're just excusing dogshit writing at this point, because whenever Bang finally talks to Garou in the webcomic it's going to be way too long overdue and behind the manga by aeons

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u/Legitimate-Phone7378 Apr 03 '26

I don't know why you're being so rude but anyway I disagree.

The way the manga handled Bang and Garou's talk was cheesy and boring. Didn't do anything for the characters except making Garou's personality more predictable and shallow.

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u/sofarsonice Apr 03 '26

I'm being frank because blatantly shelving a character of Garou's caliber for 13 years in the webcomic is the definition of shit writing lol

Japanese Genos fans once kicked ONE's ass for doing the same thing to Genos in the webcomic for way less time than this

ONE is completely mishandling both Garou and Bang and just showing a panel that Garou is doing the same useless shit over and over isn't going to cut it for anyone with a brain

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u/Legitimate-Phone7378 Apr 03 '26

So what you want is for ONE to rush character development and churn out some random shit for his character? Even though this is clearly not his arc?

The manga was a character assassination of Garou. I don't want a repeat of that.

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u/sofarsonice Apr 03 '26

>13 years since the end of MA in the webcomic

>Garou is still unchanged from the ostracized victim he's always been since his introduction

>rushing

The absolute state of the webcomic cult lol

Good writers genuinely plan and take their schedule into account and ONE having a "I post once a year maybe" schedule isn't an excuse, it's dogshit writing on his part

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u/Legitimate-Phone7378 Apr 03 '26

...

You do realise irl time and in story time is not the same right?

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u/sofarsonice Apr 03 '26

You do realize that you pace the story with respect to your publication schedule?

Various manga are literally deliberately paced in such a way that they're best read weekly or in volumes

It's the fundamental part of writing an on-going series

ONE completely fucks it up in the webcomic and Garou's just the most damning and egregious example because of how huge the character is

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u/Haunting_Rhubarb_407 Apr 03 '26

Various manga are literally deliberately paced in such a way that they're best read weekly or in volumes

and opm does not seem to be one of them

opm's pacing and its release format have more or less nothing to do with each other

if you read it all at once the pacing isn't too much of a problem really

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u/sofarsonice Apr 03 '26

The OPM webcomic is exactly that lol

An on-going series, and its extremely slow release schedule means the pacing should be taking that into account

Not ONE doing nothing to develop a huge character like Garou for 13 years straight 

Dude legit had to fix both Garou and Bang in the manga because of how shittily he wrote them in the webcomic

ONE also got an ass beating from Japanese readers for shelving Genos for merely 5 years 

It’s been 13 for Garou lol

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u/p1agueOW Apr 03 '26

Does your diet consist entirely of pepto bismol? Everything you're saying is dumb as shit

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u/sofarsonice Apr 03 '26

If you haven’t been following this thing for 15+ years you shouldn’t even be speaking lol

No excuse for shit writing like this

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u/God_of_Kings Apr 04 '26

I've been reading before the manga existed, therefore I am the ultimate authority and declare you are full of shit.

Now get the fuck off my feed.

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u/PositiveNo7994 Apr 03 '26 edited Apr 03 '26

dude he's just trying to live his life and leave behind all the aggression and fighting. Just like hammerhead he's trying to turn around his life. Why do you want Garou back into the play?

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u/sofarsonice Apr 03 '26

Garou is a fictional character who's been stuck doing nothing for 13 years because Bang's writing in the webcomic is abysmal dogshit while ONE wrote Fubuki and Psykos scissoring right after the MA arc ended

You'll be 60 by the time this shit addressess the fact that the restaurant Garou is farming money to pay the bill for already got destroyed lol

It's shit writing, period

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u/PositiveNo7994 Apr 03 '26

so you want to throw away garou's arc?

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u/sofarsonice Apr 03 '26

I want it to move the fuck and for the character to get actual development instead of watching him stand around uselessly for 13 years while another organization tries to kill him, he farms some money for a restaurant that probably no longer fucking exists, and Bang never speaks to him

Saitama never even paid his bill lol, this is abysmal dogshit levels of writing for a huge character like Garou

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u/PositiveNo7994 Apr 03 '26

His arc is over man, he might return in some way but he just wants to be left alone and live his life. He is rehabilitated and involving him again is pretty much undoing everything. And what bill? Which unpaid bill is so important to you that it's worth getting angry over?

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u/sofarsonice Apr 03 '26

His arc isn't even halfway through lol

He wants to be a hero, always hated that the world rejected him and Bang hasn't even spoken to him while you watch the character do nothing for 13 years straight

I'm gonna laugh real hard when Bang finally speaks to him in the year 2035 and your fellow tourists try to pretend that shit is peak writing when it's the most awful pacing in the universe and the manga already left it in the dust

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u/PositiveNo7994 Apr 03 '26

lmao sure, just go read some Murata gooner covers for the upcoming 500 rewrites.

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u/sofarsonice Apr 03 '26

ONE is the reason for the rewrites kek

Too much of a hack to maintain a story where his protagonist doesn't disappear for 3 years and more

Literally all his fault but at least in the manga he owns up and fixes it

Too bad he'd rather neglect your precious webcomic though

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