>just finished fighting Metal Bat
>parrying metal bat was implied to almost be his limit (hands shaking)
>barely escapes Tank Top Master one on one
>barely escapes Golden Ball one on one
>is grievously wounded, sees King
>barely survives a kick from Saitama (so strong he gets memory loss)
>one day later he has scarcely recovered from numerous injuries
>is immediately cornered by a group of heroes, gets severely poisoned and stabbed with arrows
>poison should give him maybe a few minutes before he is unconscious
>is literally losing consciousness and at a disadvantage near the beginning of the fight
>suddenly decides to fight like he's at his peak again, kills all of them perfectly, parries seemingly THOUSANDS of bullets BARE HANDED
>has the everloving shit beaten out of him by TWO S Class master martial artists to the point they say not even they would be standing if hit with these attacks
>he can still think coherently and plan
>poison ceases to even be mentioned
>somehow gets even stronger, almost hits the Limiter
Does anyone else feel like this is kind of ridiculous, even by OPM standards?
Just finished fighting Metal Bat
Metal bat seems to have no limit, He's probably like the hulk just instead of anger its battle spirit. Only reason he passed out was because his niece made him lose his battle spirit.
OP is talking about Garou, even if he started with Metal Bat
I meant that parrying Metal Bat was noted to be particularly intense for Garo, to the point his hands were shaking from blocking it. Funnily enough, Garo sort of steals Metal Bat's shtick in this fight since it seems like every time he's at his limit he keeps getting a second wind and hyping himself up to keep fighting.
It's also annoying how many chapters this one character is eating up.
ah well then, to reply to the OP on his actual point then. I don't think its rediculous because thats the point, its supposed to be a person whos pushed to near death constantly and survives. The only reason we care about garou is because he's one of the very few people who succeed in this type of situation. In this world there are probably millions who go through what he does and fails very early on. He's also supposed to be a parallel to saitama he just doesn't get the godly powers saitama does, he does get super powers just not godly.
His power levels prior to the Death Gatling confrontation were significantly lower, they raised him up like three power tiers in this one fight alone. I would have been completely fine with Garo killing all these A Class heroes if they hadn't specifically shown him almost falling unconscious from the poison arrows. It was an unnecessary injury that was presumably intended to 'add tension' to the fight but is only acknowledged at the beginning. He should have been poisoned near the end of the fight, not the start
S teirs are like 10 levels above A ranked people and he's already handled a few S tiers. So yes he needed to be super nerfed for those A tier people to stand a chance like they did.
You're missing my point, he was already nerfed by his injuries, because he'd been taking nonstop beatings by S Class heroes the day before (including a blow from Saitama that scrambled his short term memory again from how strong it was).
He acts like he is in a weakened state at first, and is then struggling to even remain conscious from the poison arrows right as the fight begins, but then suddenly they drop all of this and make him fight as if he's at full strength again. It's sloppy pacing.
It sucks because I LOVE the idea of Garo almost hitting his own limiter just because his actions brought so many strong heroes to him to fight all in a row, pushing him beyond his limits, but the poison arrow and getting fucked up by Bang and his buddy seem like they should have ended the fight full stop, but he lives through it because plot armor. They could have paced it so he is being worn down and has to psych himself up more and more, not just being at a complete disadvantage the entire fight and still getting stronger
I don't see it as him being full power. I see it as him refocusing and using whatever power he has left.
If a severely wounded, poisoned, exhausted, bloodied garo can easily slaughter like **EIGHT** A Class heroes in a row then he should never be out maneuvered or have any trouble whatsoever in any fight after this at full strength.
you just dont get how big of a difference A class and S class are. That gap is supposed to be shown by this fight. No matter how damaged or bruised A classes just cant stack up.
That's incredibly stupid, the point of the fight from Gatling's perspective was supposed to be not to look down on A Ranks. While I guess the fight is supposed to tell you the opposite.
Saitama is B Rank, and King is S Rank, the power tiers are completely arbitrary and mostly decided by committee or who is generally agreed to have the most credit for stopping a monster (somehow King gets to be S just for claiming a couple of Saitama's victories as his own, even though he has never been in a single fight in his life).
If this is supposed to be demonstrating the futile gap in power between A Rank and S Rank, it doesn't do a great job of it. This fight basically implies Tank Top Master could easily kill all eight of these A Rank heroes if they fight 8 v 1.
you pointing out saitama and king is pullign the exceptions. Sure gatling was trying to show that A class shouldn't be scoffed at yet the results show other wise. Yes I'm willing to bet tank top master could beat the crap out of those A class people without much effort.
I LOVE GAROU, HE IS SO MOE
>Yes I'm willing to bet tank top master could beat the crap out of those A class people without much effort.
how does their society even function if it's like that lmao
lots of S Class heroes have been stomped just to show how strong some new threat is in prior eps. now they are basically gods who are the equivalent of an entire squad of heroes one rank below them? WTF?
Because the monsters have the same problem. They have "strong" monsters that would be A class hero tier, but they have dragon tier which range from low S class to high S class. Since S class heros got stomped it just shows that the war between humans and monsters isn't just 1 sided, they both have heavy hitters. Also, if I had to imagine this world without saitama I would see it as a very bleak world where humanity is constantly on the verge of being wiped out.
I mean the easy answer is probably just "the hero rankings and power levels were never consistent", which is fair, but this particular fight I found extremely stupid because they give him serious fight-ending injuries like the poison he is nearly unconscious from, but then drop them as soon as they don't need to build tension, later in the fight
they should have just not used the poison arrows or had Bang show up, it accomplished nothing
This war is pointless. Since the powerlevels are exponentially open-ended, there is no meaning to any victory that does not take out the enemy ace.
It's all just filler, and everybody should be aware of it.
At the end of the day, the only sensible fight would be strongest vs strongest, since the champion of either side would be able to wipe out everybody on the inferior side by himself anyway.
>the only sensible fight would be strongest vs strongest, since the champion of either side would be able to wipe out everybody on the inferior side by himself anyway
So Saitama vs Boros?
I don't care about Garo
He's a whiny man-child who is still stuck in elementary school.
He had the motivations of a 9 year old.
Besides King and Genos, nobody knows about Saitama though.
I do think it's funny that Saitama is living like a couple blocks away from the Monster Association and could easily solve this world crisis on his way to the corner store, if he were just like 5% more informed about the situation
I assumed he was kinda meant to explore the monster transformation people keep spontaneously going through, and I always thought any massive changes in power derived from that.
So the monster cells were something new that was separate from "I love x so I became an x monster" situations?
He never actually undergoes the transformation. He stays human till the end
Yeah, I figured he was (unknowingly) approaching the Limiter Saitama broke past by exercising beyond his logical human limits. Like if Garo hadn't been rescued, presumably he was on the cusp of finding that same power boundary, indicated by his eyes starting to glow. I thought maybe he was like 70 or 80% of the way there at that point
the funniest scene in this entire arc was sonic cooking the monster cell
Garou is supposed to be like a foil on Saitama. They both "work" in basically the same way, they're just normal humans that push themselves beyond their limits. Garou's problem is that he cares too much. He's held back by his monster stuff and his goals and fears and junk. Every time he breaks his current limit he sets a new one. "I'm going to get strong enough to beat this guy," and then he does, but stops there until the next one.
Saitama had no goal but vague undefined "stronger," so when he broke that limit there was nowhere else to go.
I understand Garou is a foil to Saitama and I came to the same conclusions about his motives, I just thought this fight was really poorly paced and I found it hard to stay invested in the story when the power levels are just so inconsistent. If they wanted him to be awake and conscious for like another entire episode, why not have him get hit by the poison arrows significantly later in the fight. He went from "oh no i'm on the verge of collapsing" to "i just have to perfectly kill everyone here to escape [does quadruple backflip into judo slam]"
what's weird is how much screentime fubuki got in this arc despite doing literally nothing so far. and then the one time she might get to do something, she just gets stomped and rescued by tatsumaki who scolds her and flies off, leaving fubuki just sitting there without a word