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One Punch Man: Fans Defend Murata's Art Against an "Unreadable" Critique

ワンパンマン村田の作画批判、日本のファンが猛反論

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One Punch Man: Fans Defend Murata's Art Against an "Unreadable" Critique
“I was like "wait... people can't tell what's happening?" and then I opened the comments and felt reassured.”

え、、？わからんの、、？って思ってコメント欄開いたら安心した

— @まめすけ-v9o

On One Punch Man, Japanese fans pile onto a critic who said Yusuke Murata drew "3 pages you can't understand," and most of them defend the art hard. The thread splits between people roasting the take ("if you can't read this, question your own eyes"), people calling out the video as outrage-farming that cherry-picks a handful of haters, and a smaller camp who say the panels are fine art but maybe a flat layout. Someone even claims a person this confused would call Dragon Ball hard to follow too — before the last word lands.

Japanese fan comments reacting to a critic's claim about Yusuke Murata's One Punch Man art. （YouTube · ぼっちちゃんの反応集）

Japanese fan reactions (excerpted from 613)

  • Some guy who just wants to bash it, talking about a "controversy" that literally isn't a thing anywhere... okay then.

    叩きたいだけの奴のどこでも話題になってない話をされましても…

    — @安藤アントニオ687 likes

  • They grab like 5 hate comments out of 100 and call it "flooded with criticism" / "sparks controversy." Every one of these Shorts is the same.

    100あるコメントの5件くらいの批判コメントを取り上げて 「批判殺到」「物議を醸す」 どのショートもこんなんばっか

    — @busu_sensei48 likes

  • "It's a hot topic" (it's not).

    @busu_sensei話題になっている(なってない)

    — @まぐ-j2q12 likes

  • Racking up the views though, so the uploader's the only real winner here.

    再生数稼げてるし投稿主の一人勝ちか

    — @んなぁ-b2x7v4 likes

  • This is just a toxic reader who wants to bash something to feed their need for attention.

    これは叩いて承認欲求満たしたいだけの悪質読者

    — @なお-g8y2o284 likes

  • Quit it with passing off some bully group-chat energy as if it were everyone's opinion.

    やめてよね、いじめっこのグループチャットみたいなノリをさも全体の意見であるかの様にするの。

    — @ぶらんじ93 likes

  • Once someone gets labeled "okay to dunk on," this is what happens.

    「こいつは叩いて良いやつ」って認定されたらこうなるんだよな

    — @rarukichi183 likes

  • Probably people who decided that after that whole controversy it's fine to dunk on Murata now, so they're brainlessly piling on. Bashing without any judgment is its own kind of bigotry, you know.

    多分例の差別発言から今の村田先生なら叩いてもいいと思って脳死で叩いてる連中なんだろうな。 物事の分別を付けない叩きも立派な差別だと言うのに。

    — @何処にでもいて何処にもいない29 likes

  • "There were better ways to frame it" — fine, I get that. But "I can't tell what's happening"? You might want to question your own eyes...

    「もっと見せ方あるだろ」なら分かるが 「何してるかわからん」は自分の見る目の無さを疑った方が…

    — @雪白樹387 likes

  • "If you don't think about it you can't tell what's going on at all" — that's just dumb lol.

    「考えなきゃ何してるか全く分からん」 馬鹿で草

    — @TizzyNoisyCrazy-j2b220 likes

  • You normally, like, think while reading a manga though lol.

    普通漫画読む時考えるだろwww

    — @レオパルト2-A89 likes

  • Go easy on them, they're poor souls who can't even read a manga unless someone explains it to them.

    やめたれ、説明してもらわないと漫画すら読めない可哀想な連中なんだから。

    — @真田信繁-k7o5 likes

  • Not being able to follow this is genuinely concerning.

    これがわからないとかやばいだろ

    — @あの猿を見よ664 likes

  • Honestly nothing but idiots here. The point isn't "I can't tell what's happening." Page 1 is at the 10-second mark, page 2 at 13s, page 3 at 17s. Anyone can tell what happens from page 1 alone — the point is that pages 2 and 3 just change the camera angle, so what's the point of drawing them? (…)

    マジで馬鹿しか居ないな、何が起こってるのかが分からないって話じゃねぇよ この動画の10秒の時が1ページ目で、13秒目が2ページ目で、17秒の時が3ページ目だぞ 1ページ目だけで何が起こったかなんて誰でも分かるのに、視点を変えただけの2ページ目と3ページ目を描く意味が分からんって話だ（…）

    — @前だけ弄ろうとしますな18 likes

  • Nah, if you can't get this, that's on you lol. Don't put your own lack of comprehension aside and turn it into an art critique.

    これはわからないほうがダメだろww自分の理解力の無さを棚に上げて作画批判なんてすんなや

    — @a.showma2 likes

  • Genuinely if you can't understand this, your head is... I bet someone who can't follow this would read Dragon Ball and go "I don't really get it" too.

    これが理解出来ないのは流石に頭が… 多分これ分からない奴はドラゴンボール読んでも「よくわからん」って言いそう

    — @kurumai252 likes

  • That's going a bit far, I think. The original Dragon Ball is at least 10x clearer than this. That said, anyone who can't understand the art in the video is the weird one, yeah.

    それはさすがに言い過ぎかなと思うね。原作のドラゴンボールは少なくともこれの10倍わかりやすい。 まあ、動画内の絵も理解できない奴のほうがおかしいとは思う

    — @starLight-e8q20 likes

  • The original Dragon Ball isn't even on the same plane of "clear" — even an idiot gets it. It's textbook manga storytelling. Either way, not getting the art in the video is concerning.

    原作のドラゴンボールはマジで分かりやすいとかいう次元じゃないから馬鹿でも流石にわかる 漫画のお手本みたいな作画 動画の絵が理解できないのはどっちみちヤバい

    — @犬だけど質問あるかい28 likes

  • Dragon Ball (well, Akira Toriyama) is top-tier all-time at panel layout and guiding your eye, so you really can't compare it to this scene.

    ドラゴンボール（というか鳥山明）はコマ割りと視線誘導が歴代でもトップレベルで上手いから流石にこのシーンと比較出来るものではない

    — @みだれうち12 likes

  • Criticizing the story changes I get, but criticizing the artwork? Lost me. It's straight-up good.

    ストーリー改変を叩くのは分かるけど描写を叩くのは分からん、普通に上手いじゃん

    — @乙女は花盛り193 likes

  • As pure drawing it's good, sure, but as visual storytelling it's kinda meh, no? Honestly is it really at the "this is great" level?

    絵としては上手いと思うけど,描写として見るなら微妙じゃね。正直上手いってなるレベルか?

    — @みだれうち6 likes

  • Ah, one of the critics? Saw the comments weren't what you expected and now you wanna pull at least one person to your side? Tough luck.

    @みだれうち あー、非難してる連中の一人？ コメント見たら思ってたのと違って一人でもこっちに引き込みたい感じ？残念だったね

    — @JACK-zl8dm19 likes

  • I can tell WHAT he's doing, but WHY he drew it this way is a mystery.

    何やってるかは分かるけど、なんでこれを描いたのかは謎

    — @05oputatesike45 likes

  • I can tell what's going on, but I did go "you went with THIS composition?"

    何やってるかは分かるんだけどこの構図にするの？ってはなった

    — @kagakusha-3kr1 likes

  • I get that the panel layout as manga is a little iffy. But yeah, it's true — it's not outstandingly bad either.

    漫画のコマ割りとしてちょっと微妙なのは解る でも確かにそうよね、飛び抜けて悪くはない

    — @あくちょむリベイクフルシティ14 likes

  • The art is obviously good, so the people bashing it just come off as flopping — that's the saving grace.

    流石に絵は上手いから叩いてる方がすべってる感じになってるのが救い

    — @Ozil2345644 likes

  • Hasn't declined at all lol.

    全然劣化してなくて草

    — @ゆう-d5k6v4 likes

  • The more you look, the more it grows on you. It's a good drawing.

    見れば見るほど味が出てくる いい絵やん

    — @すごい-x8k6z0 likes

  • There aren't many artists out there as insane as Murata.

    村田さんほどすごい人そうそうおらんだろ

    — @まるっち-z9m9c2 likes

  • He's getting crushed in there, so it definitely came across as looking really painful.

    挟んでるからとても痛そうなのは伝わった

    — @果汁石斎0 likes

  • There's no "nuance" here however you look at it — it reads exactly as it says.

    @ああ-n4q8oどう見てもニュアンスなんてないそのままの意味としか思えないんだが。

    — @夢路-v8d58 likes

  • Getting popular is the same thing as getting found by idiots.

    人気になるってことは馬鹿に見つかるってことと同じ

    — @NAN-db2cs9 likes

  • [Sad news] The bash-Murata Short nobody understands: its comment section is ice-cold lol.

    【悲報】意味が分からない人叩きショート動画、コメント欄が冷え冷えｗｗｗ

    — @寒天-o6k27 likes

  • Checked the comments and was relieved that the only one who doesn't get it is the uploader.

    コメ欄みて意味がわかってないのはうｐ主だけで安心したわ

    — @sorisori53872 likes
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