One-Punch Man gives its hero an unbeatable fist and a serious boredom problem, since nothing left in the world can challenge him. The first volume runs 200 pages and sets up the joke the whole series depends on.
The comedy comes from inversion: the usual shonen engine of struggle and improvement is removed, leaving a protagonist whose problem is that every fight ends immediately. Yusuke Murata's artwork plays this straight, rendering monsters and destruction at a level of detail that makes the anticlimax funnier. Volume one introduces the hero, his routine and the first of the creatures that keep appearing.
Reading order and format:
• Opening volume of the One-Punch Man series
• 200 pages in the collected paperback edition
• Highly detailed action artwork by Yusuke Murata
• Suggested for readers aged twelve and above
For manga readers who like their action carried by comedy, published by Simon & Schuster India and available through Boipoka.