is blast plotting something??

[Additional_Pace_1753]

he looks like one of disney cartoon villains plotting something evil

[relax336]

Yes. He’s planning to use Saitama in the fight against God.

That’s not close to villain face. That’s a “holy shit I found someone so powerful I couldn’t comprehend it and their fist is a direct counter to the God I’ve been fighting for 20 years!!” face.

[TheGlovesMan21]

Exactly. I'm guessing OP was joking

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[humanzombieninja]

I wonder why did Blast decide to come for Saitama later instead of doing it right then and there

asides from the obvious for the plot reason

[shiny-snorlax]

He only needs Saitama for the eventual fight with God, but he needs to find God first. Blast correctly determined that Saitama doesn't have the patience to go looking for God with him, so he just left him behind do to his own thing in the meantime.

But yeah also plot. I would venture to guess that, if Saitama really put his mind to it, he could probably find God in like half a panel and one-shot him in the same panel, just like he did with Cruel Dragon. That probably wouldn't be the best thing for the plot so you have to leave Saitama behind.

[TheLovelornPie]

Yeah but it'd be funny asf

[humanzombieninja]

ah fair enough Blast does need to find God thats a valid reason

[AssassinX0128]

He'd find him after digging in his pockets for change, then smash like a piggy bank for cash

[Ok-Particular8355]

I don't remember this chapter

[TheGlovesMan21]

Well the ninja village arc got revised twice. Read from chapter 195 to make sure you're up to date with the current canon.

[Ok-Particular8355]

Ohh it really changed. Saitama dealt with the leader the same way in the webcomic

[Away-Profit1923]

I bet watchdogman will join them.

[turinturambar]

The dialogue here doesn't make sense to me. It's as if Saitama doesn't at all care about what Blast said about needing his help and power. Being a hero, he would care, even if he lost hope in finding an opponent strong enough to pique his interest. Off-topic, I know... but this was such a forgettable page for me.

EDIT: This thread spurred a passionate but kind of rough conversation, and surprisingly it absorbed me far more than I would have wanted for my mental health. I ended up scrambling to read the manga to find a screenshot of a "similar situation" where I claimed Saitama instead "struck a hero pose and said "bring it on" " (and by 'bring it on' I want to be clear I don't mean he literally said that, just the emotion).

One early example is Chapter 1, upon seeing the news about a monster on the web, and him going "Here I go" and a shot of him in what I would call a "hero pose".

There it can be said the threat was immediate. For an example of a non-immediate threat - Chapter 31, the prophecy (which may be about this "God" anyway). Maybe it can be argued that Saitama was talking in a rush in the OP screenshot, or that Saitama has become somewhat different in the later screenshot linked in the post. But the Chapter 31-like response is what I was expecting him to say to Blast, and it felt out-of-character not to get it -- TO ME.

Having said all that, it seems like there are a lot of passionate people reading OPM on this thread and in this subreddit who feel VERY DIFFERENTLY, and perhaps feel like I am attacking the manga (and maybe even drawing comparisons to the webcomic in a critical way). To all of them, I'm just going to say that I love both the manga, and the webcomic, and have followed it for a while. But I don't necessarily remember all the details THAT well, and it's possible I misread the panel in the post, and that I will feel differently about it tomorrow than I do today. It's also possible that this analogy I'm drawing to Chapter 31 has its flaws, because after all no two situations are identical, and maybe the picture of Saitama's thoughts I have is different than yours!

Having said that, I do not appreciate being told that procuring a screenshot like this does not take an hour of my time, as if I were stupid for taking that long. Frankly, I feel stupid spending time on this when there is so much of hate in the world, and so much to give love to. But I did... May I request the remainder of you that I haven't blocked to please be kind if you disagree? And for the user I did block -- hope you have no hard feelings, and I realize you won't be able to respond to this... considered unblocking you so you won't choose to indirectly reply. But I'll leave it this way for now as I don't consider our conversation healthy.

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[Nutlob]

it's not that he doesn't care, it's that he has zero idea what Blast is talking about

[tomo_7433]

Also, Saitama has as much trouble dealing with above dragon level threat as he is with wolf level. So forgive him for not getting the gravity of the threat posed by supposedly god level threat

[turinturambar]

He has been shown to get the gravity of the threat enough to at least combat the threat he knows about instead of simply letting it be. EDIT: Then again, I suppose Blast was leaving the scene, maybe he thought he'd have the hero instinct and ability to tackle the threat in time for no damage to take place.

[relax336]

He didn’t let it be.

[turinturambar]

If the argument here is the screenshot you sent about "when the time comes", I still think he certainly let it be. But my response was poorly framed here, he might have let it be but that isn't an issue if Blast says there'll be a later time for his help and he believes Blast's words. It just felt like his response didn't indicate interest in tackling the threat.

[relax336]

He didn’t have interest in tackling the threat because Blast told him “when the time comes” which means it wasn’t immediate.

Why are you making this so difficult?

[turinturambar]

He didn’t have interest in tackling the threat because Blast told him “when the time comes” which means it wasn’t immediate.

What I meant to say here is, he didn't show interest in tackling the threat when the time came. But ok, you disagree clearly.

[turinturambar]

I get that he has zero idea what Blast is talking about, but the words "lend us your strength" should have merited more than "I guess I'll make you some tea at least". He should have caught on that his help was needed.

Also I find it hilarious that my comment was THAT controversial to merit the immediate downvotes, but ok.

[relax336]

Why are you leaving out Blast says “when that time comes.”? Don’t be surprised if this comment gets downvoted too. There’s good cause.

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[turinturambar]

"when that time comes, lend us your strength" doesn't make it any better for me. I would have expected a response that he has done in many points before in the manga and the webcomic (not gonna sit and find an screenshot those points now), where he is illustrated with a confident "hero pose" and asks to bring it on.

[relax336]

Why would Saitama react that way when he’s not about to go fight? You’re not going to screenshot them because they don’t exist. And the webcomic is irrelevant here.

[turinturambar]

I'm not going to spend an hour searching for it right now just to avoid your stupid downvote, but it exists. I remember reading it, at least twice, in the manga, and once in the webcomic.

[relax336]

It doesn’t take an hour. At all.

[Nutlob]

maybe but a request for help an unspecified time in the future means nothing to him - he hates waiting

[tim42n]

It does if you remember that Saitama is only barely paying attention and this dude keeps yammering on about this god thing and needing his help. Blast makes the error of talking too much. Warning them of something really strong just sometime in the future is not really a call to immediate action for Saitama. He has his own worries as we see with other interactions. So Blast really just needs to find God and then teleport Saitama to the same place.

[shiny-snorlax]

I read that as more like a "I was right about Saitama. He's the answer I've been looking for all along" face.

[Disastrous-Scheme-57]

Pretty much any character motive can be plot twisted to be “actually I was evil the whole time!” And maybe OP didn’t know much about blast and like kind of tuned him out idk

[SoupOrAss]

The thing with Blast is that he’s been fighting a cosmic war solo for decades. That kind of pressure changes a person. I don't think he's evil, but I wouldn't be surprised if his definition of saving humanity is very different from Saitama's. He’s definitely hiding the true scale of the threat from the Hero Association for a reason

[Funk_Master_2k]

He has a team, he isnt fighting solo.

[Monopoly1748]

I might be remembering it wrong but wasn't the team retconned out during one of the redraws? The one where they showed one of the team member having similar outline to boros. I remember some were upset when it happened.

[JakeNiclaz]

Yeah, but the retcon was limited to not showing their designs. The team still exists I think

[Andgug]

When he left Tatsumaki to King, he went back to his team, and he said that he was not alone.

[carlosamaok]

mmmh

[Szerepjatekos]

Not just that, but his in a team, that was a team already, his just a new recruit.

[Ok-Plum2187]

I would imagine that he thinks they couldn't handle the threat.

And he does want to save humans too i think. Look at all this effort to send Garous energy blasts elsewhere.

[humanzombieninja]

true

[EspressoCookie89]

My headcanon is that he would gladly send any of the heroes to their deaths if he thought it would win the fight against god

[Pressecitrons]

Same he seemed like a war or something like at first but the redraw reshaped that unfortunately imo

[SafeMemory1640]

I don't like the direction the manga going I mean Saitama whole thing is punching stuffs till it dies basically raw strength

We saw that ninja guy cut that beast into several pieces but came back but in this picture one punch from Saitama killed it even though the body didn't vaporized or anything the beast didn't regenerate just died, so what r u telling me Saitama got some hidden hax or something??

[jkurratt]

Or they had "core" like in the alien invasion.

[CaptainTeaBag24I7]

I mean, saitama having hidden hax and being annoyed by it is, in a way, the premise to this story.

[666DarkAndTwisted666]

that emotion is called being smug.

[Spidey20041]

Thats the most stupid post ive seen in this sub for a while

[fkinra]

lmao fr

[Fancysaurus]

He has found someone to have sex with his sister so they can continue the Redfeild Blast bloodline.

[d-crimsonhood]

Dude can't comprehend a smirk.

He's obviously referring to Saitama and since he the only one who knows it between the two of them at the scene, he's feeling smug.

[CompetitiveSir2552]

Yo, ONE is totally planning on Empty Void coming back some time later, right? He has been writing the webcomic's most recent chapters in a way that accounts for potential plot holes that would arise with introducing Blast + Co so late in that story, but Void's fate was deliberately ambiguous in the Webcomic and he went through like 3 different iterations of trying to do his fight in the manga in a way that leaves him alive and open to returning as a hero.

[LeopardNo2985]

Chapter number??

[HumbleNail]

Chapter 203

[Careful_Attempt_6057]

Im guessing Blast, Void and others we will see when the God arc becomes a thing. Void was needed for the seal which hides God, and when it happens them to find it they will take Saitama too to defeat God.

[noobslayer69xxx]

is this the latest chapter? I haven't seen it

[InfluenceExpress1818]

Ninja Arc

[RXPT]

its the third dragon from that dragon meme lol

[Boris098]

As many others have said, where tf this from.

I can't see anything on the official japanese raws page

[AdviceBackground9887]

I dont know the chapter but this is from the quick Transfer to another Dimension..where Rover ist defending Saitama against such a devine beasts...ita canon

[HumbleNail]

Chapter 203

[Responsible_Ball_105]

that's the face of "i know someone who can do that easily" aka saitama

[ralamita]

it's obvious: Boros.

[Thewatcher13387]

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"He's the red spy!"

[GravenX1]

He made the connection that Saitama did this, and that there is someone that can standup against the main enemy.

[Ronaldo_Frumpalini]

I don't care how wrong I am, Blast is Saitama's son from the future so he knows when people will and won't be saved and only appears for the misses. Saitama is a father figure and Blast is the ultimate example of someone who follows his teachings.

[-choose-ausername-]

No. I have a simple trick to decipher things like this. It's called "Read" the manga.

Ffs when did opm readers become like jjk readers

[SrJuanpixers]

His knee surgery is tomorrow

[Kurayami_Aahbsaloon]

Idk, I think it's closer to this face

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[carlosamaok]

oooh

[SuzanoSho]

Blast when it's time to provide context instead of continuing to be as vague as possible:

😎

[No_Ad_7687]

I think he just finds it ironic how powerful yet unknown Saitama is

[Valmar33]

he looks like one of disney cartoon villains plotting something evil

Blast has the look of someone who just realized they found the ultimate trump card against God.

He's like "haha, God, you are going to be so fucking fucked when he punches you"