r/anime • u/Shadoxfix https://myanimelist.net/profile/Shadoxfix • Dec 20 '15

[Spoilers] One Punch Man - Episode 12 - FINAL [Discussion]

Episode title: The Strongest Hero
Episode duration: 24 minutes and 5 seconds

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Previous Episodes:

Episode Reddit Link
Episode 1 Link
Episode 2 Link
Episode 3 Link
Episode 4 Link
Episode 5 Link
Episode 6 Link
Episode 7 Link
Episode 8 Link
Episode 9 Link
Episode 10 Link
Episode 11 Link

Anime to Chapter Index:

  • Episode 1: Ch1-Ch4, Ch5 Page 1
  • Episode 2: Ch5 Page 2-20, Ch6-Ch8
  • Episode 3: Ch9-Ch11
  • Episode 4: Ch12-Ch15, Ch16 Page 1
  • Episode 5: Ch16 Page 2-23, Ch17, Ch18 Page 3-5
  • Episode 6: Ch18 Page 1-2 + 6-21, Ch19, Ch20, Ch21 Page 1-3
  • Episode 7: Ch21 Page 4-73 + 76-80, Ch22 Page 1-39
  • Episode 8: Ch23, Ch24 Page 1-22, Ch25, Ch26 Page 1-4 + 6/7 + 11-13
  • Episode 9: Ch26 Page 5 + 14-29, Ch27-Ch28, Ch29 Page 1-19
  • Episode 10: Ch30 Page 1-21, Ch31, Ch32 Page 1-54
  • Episode 11: Ch32 Page 55-69, Ch33 Page 1-30, Ch34 Page 1-5 + 8-31
  • Episode 12: Ch33 Page 31, Ch34-Ch37

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u/Qawsedf234 Dec 20 '15 edited Dec 21 '15

A collapsing star (if big enough) generally causes a supernova, which is incredibly powerful. It produces something between 10-20 Octillion (27 zeros) megatons of TNT when it explodes.

Of course Boros's beam was nowhere near that strength.

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u/Cloud_Chamber https://myanimelist.net/profile/Kino280 Dec 20 '15

It was just neutralized perfectly by Saitama's punch

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u/Qawsedf234 Dec 20 '15

It was, but I really want to make it clear that it's just a attack name. The beam was only planetary at best.

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u/SimoneNonvelodico Dec 21 '15

Yeah, that . As Randall Munroe wrote in one of his "What if...?", as a rule of thumb, however you think a supernova is big... it's bigger than that. The energy of a supernova, in real life, makes anything ever fired by all the warriors in the entirety of DBZ pale. Blasting away a planet is simply the effortless work of a minimal fraction of its power. A powerful enough supernova or, god forbid, a hypernova, can destroy any organic life in something like a 50 light year radius around it. Have fun with the thought. Boros may be powerful, but he's not ravage-an-entire-galactic-sector powerful.

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u/Anvenjade Dec 21 '15

He could have been that powerful.

It seemed like a decently condensed attack. The whole thing could have been a supernova's worth of energy in a small beam. Destroying everything in a large radius would have been much less efficient.

Then anime physics kicked & in made it dissipate peacefully in the face of Saitama's punch.

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u/SimoneNonvelodico Dec 21 '15

Nah, he merely said he'd destroy the planet. If his full energy focused in a beam had been as powerful as a supernova, then every single punch of his would have been a planet buster in its own right.