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One Punch-Man Anime Character Designs Revealed

The official website of the upcoming TV anime adaptation of ONE and Yuusuke Murata’s One Punch-Man manga has revealed the first character designs for the upcoming October series. The designs revealed are for the main characters of the series, Saitama and Genos.

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The first character designs have been revealed for the two main characters of the of the upcoming anime, where the cast were earlier revealed, and includes:

  • Makoto Furukawa (Banri Tada from Golden Time) will voice Saitama

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  • Kaito Ishikawa (Tsumugu Kihara from Nagi no Asukara) is voicing as Genos

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The main crew members of the anime’s staff were also unveiled and will consist of:

  • Director: Shingo Natsume (Space Dandy, Hori-san to Miyamura-kun)
  • Scriptwriter: Tomohiro Suzuki (Tiger & Bunny, Saint Seiya: Legend of Sanctuary)
  • Anime Character Designer: Chikashi Kubota (Robotics;Notes, Shinsekai yori)
  • Animation Studio:  Madhouse (No Game No Life, Wolf Children)

The first promotional video for the One Punch-Man anime was earlier revealed at AnimeJapan 2015:

The official website of the One Punch-Man anime has released three Twitter icons for fans of the series to use as their Twitter profile. The icons were released to celebrate the anime’s official Twitter reaching over 100,000 followers on the social media network.

One Punch-Man is an action, comedy, parody manga written by ONE and illustrated by Yuusuke Murata. The series began in 2009 as a free online web comic written by ONE, before being picked up by Shueisha and being featured in their Young Jump magazine publication in mid 2012, with Murata illustrating. To date, a total of 7 compiled volumes have been released with the 8th volume releasing on April 3rd. The series has become a phenomenon in Japan, selling over 4.5 million copies as of November last year, doubling its sales in one year.

Here is a synopsis of the series from MAL:

In this new action-comedy, everything about a young man named Saitama screams “AVERAGE,” from his lifeless expression, to his bald head, to his unimpressive physique. However, this average-looking fellow doesn’t have your average problem… He’s actually a superhero that’s looking for tough opponents! The problem is, every time he finds a promising candidate he beats the snot out of them in one punch. Can Saitama finally find an evil villain strong enough to challenge him? Follow Saitama through his hilarious romps as he searches for new bad guys to challenge!

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The One Punch-Man anime has been reported to be airing from October during the Fall/Autumn 2015 anime season. Further information will be revealed at the series panel during AnimeJapan on March 21st and the 22nd, where the staff, cast and first PV will be unveiled.

You can visit the anime’s website here: http://onepunchman-anime.net/
And follow its Twitter here: @opm_anime

 
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