Well… I’m totally late on this.

It’s time to introduce Genos into the mix!

We start off with Saitama having problems with mosquitos.  Meanwhile, there’s a huge mosquito swarm heading for his city, and Genos arrives to take care of the problem.  Y’know, eventually.

The monster behind the mosquito swarm is Mosquito Girl.  She’s fast, deadly, and… can communicate with mosquitos, apparently.

Genos starts out slightly stronger than Mosquito Girl, but then she absorbs blood from more mosquitos and gets a massive powerup.  She proceeds to completely wreck Genos, as he is prone to do.  He figures he has no options left but to resort to self-destruction.

Luckily, Saitama swats Mosquito Girl away with impossible ease, and a grateful Genos asks that Saitama take him as a disciple.

Genos exposition dumps to Saitama in a hilarious scene that’s easily better than its manga counterpart, then they get attacked by monsters.

Most of them are easily dispatched, and the last one, Armored Gorilla, is interrogated.

Next episode we get an exposition dump about the leader of the House of Evolution, Dr. Genus.  No relation to Genos.

Turns out it was Armored Gorilla who was explaining Genus’ backstory.  But the gist of it is that Genus has been performing illegal evolution experiments and wants Saitama to further his research.  The two heroes figure they should get rid of him, so they make their way to the House of Evolution.  Genus and his clones prepare traps on all floors of the hideout, but Genos goes and pulls a Trunks and just blasts the entire place into rubble.

But turns out there’s an underground section.

Genus releases his ultimate creation: Carnage Kabuto.  The monster makes quick work of Genos.

When he turns his gaze on Saitama, every instinct tells him to back off.  For good reason.  When he asks how he got to be so strong, Saitama tells all: 100 push-ups, 100 sit-ups, 100 squats, 10 km running every day for three years.

Hell, it’s more than I can do.

Everyone calls bullshit, and Carnage Kabuto gets some confidence back and goes all out, unleashing Carnage Mode.

After taking everything Carnage Kabuto has to dish out, Saitama finishes the battle in one punch when he realizes the big sale at the supermarket is today and he’ll miss it.  Genos says they can still make it if they run, so they blow a hole into the wall and get going.  Genus’ dreams are crushed.

This anime is a lot less interesting when you just summarize it.  I assure you, it’s freaking awesome.  I guess you could say the same thing about One Punch Man as a whole, though.  I’m sure you could struggle to get someone interested in it if you described the premise at face value, especially if you fail to preface it with “It’s a gag comedy…”

The animation is amazing through and through, and the music is awesome.  I was skeptical at first, but they’ve really done a spectacular job adapting the manga and capturing everything that makes the series so good, even enhancing it in many places.  It’s quite possibly the best adaptation of anything I’ve ever seen.

I’ll try to get caught up on the watchthrough posts as fast as I can, but I’ve also got Ushio & Tora and Young Black Jack to catch up on.