Saitama (One-Punch Man)

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Saitama is a male anime and manga character who features in One-Punch Man.

Biography

Saitama (Japanese: サイタマ, Hepburn: Saitama) was a Japanese male who lived in his apartment in the Z-City Ghost Town by himself. As a child, Saitama often watched superhero shows and dreamt of being a hero.

On the second school day of middle school, Saitama reads a health and physical education manual. He does not hear the talk about the two third-year bullies who beat up a freshman who called himself "The Bicycle Commuter" the day before. After school on a rainy day, Saitama watches the news about an ongoing monster incident in Z-City and the increasing outbreak of monsters in the last decade. Saitama drifts off to sleep and forgets to do his homework. The next day, his homeroom teacher calls him to the teacher's room to rebuke him. On the way to the teacher's room, he is confronted by the third-year bullies who had bullied the Bicycle Commuter. They demand his wallet, but Saitama tells them he doesn't have one and prepares to fight them instead. However, Saitama is too weak to defend himself and the bullies steal his 200 yen. Suddenly, Piggy Bancon rams one of the bullies and demands money from them. Saitama hears that one of the bully's reason for threatening the freshmen to steal their money was to pay for his little brother's lunches. Saitama chases after the monster to get the money back but the monster knocks him into a wall. After the police and special unit forces defeat the monster, Saitama returns to school to see his homeroom teacher. The teacher scolds Saitama for his behavior. On his way home, Saitama thinks about how unfit he is for society.

Overview

Personality and attributes

In appearance, Saitama was an ordinary-looking bald man with a thin but well-built physique and was of average height and weight. Under the Hero Association, he was assigned the hero name Caped Baldy (ハゲマント, Hagemanto; Viz: Bald Cape).

Even powerful foes posed no challenge to him which meant that he did not take his hero work seriously. Ultimately, he yearned for an opponent that could provide him with a challenge.

However, the lack of worthy opponents led him to suffer from a self-imposed existential crisis. He claimed that his ability to feel any and all emotions had been dulled considerably as a result.

Powers and abilities

According to Saitama himself, he had trained for a year and a half with this consisting of 100 daily push-ups, sit-ups, and squats, plus 10 km daily running. This led to him achieving some level of superhuman strength with this this training being apparently so intense that he at times felt he might die and claimed that it caused all of his hair to suddenly and eventually fall out.

As a hero, he wore a costume that consisted of a yellow one-piece jumpsuit with a short zipper at the collar and a black belt with a round golden buckle at its center.

He came to be registered as a professional hero in the Hero Association (ヒーロー協会, Hīrō Kyōkai) and was ranked as a B-Class Rank 7.

Notes

• Saitama was created by ONE where he featured in the setting of the One-Punch Man universe.
• In an interview, ONE commented, ""Punching is oftentimes pretty useless against life's problems. But inside One-Punch Man's universe, I made Saitama a sort of guy who was capable of adapting his life to the world that surrounded him, only armed with his immense power. The only obstacles he faces are mundane things, like running short of money."

In other media

Television

Video games

Appearances

• One-Punch Man:

External Links

• One-Punch Man Wiki Entry
• Comicvine Entry
• Wikipedia Entry

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