Monday 25 July 2016

ONE - The Successful Manga Artist

ONE is the pen name used by a Japanese Manga artist famous for his series 'One Punch Man', which he originally released as a webcomic in 2009. Despite the poor illustration it had received millions of hits by 2012 for it's unusual storyline. This caught the attention of another manga artist called Yusuke Murata who contacted ONE and offered to redraw the webcomic for the manga website 'Young Jump Web Comics', first chapter published on 14 June 2012. Announcements for the anime adaptation being made by the popular 'Studio Madhouse' were released on 10 March 2015. The first season was aired on 5 October 2015.

Webcomic, redrawn Manga and Anime comparisons of One Punch Man
One Punch Man Opening:
 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=atxYe-nOa9w

As shown above, 'One Punch Man' progressed from a poorly drawn webcomic to the amazing animation of Studio Madhouse in just 6 years. This is a huge jump from where ONE started but he hasn't stopped there.

Mob Psycho 100 manga cover
ONE also created another webcomic called 'Mob Psycho 100' which he published on 18 April 2012. This was also adapted to anime by another popular studio called 'Studio Bones' and aired on 12 July 2016. ONE's popularity shows as in just 4 years another one of his stories goes from manga to an even more amazingly animated series.

Mob Psycho 100 Opening:



Amazing charcoal animation done by Studio Bones, Mob Psycho Ending: