REVIEW: ‘One Punch Man’ Season 3 Episode 6 — “Motley Heroes”

One Punch Man Season 3 Episode 6 is another frustratingly bland episode in the season, paling in comparison to the previous one. It only succeeds in being another irrelevant episode that serves to pad out the season’s events. One Punch Man Season 3 Episode 6 begins like many episodes in the season so far, by showing yet another meeting of the S-rank heroes as they discuss their strategy and plan for their upcoming raid on the Monster Association’s hideout.

They argue over who should be in charge, how many monsters they’ll likely face, and how to deal with monsterized humans. Halfway into the meeting, Amai Mask appears and is clearly bewildered and annoyed at being left out of the meeting, despite him not being an S-rank hero. The other heroes are notably annoyed at him, and a fight between him and Flash almost breaks out until King (Hiroki Yasumoto) appears and takes the room’s full attention.

The entire opening segment featuring the dialogue between the S-ranks isn’t particularly notable and essentially repeats information from previous episodes. However, the scene does provide a few laughs via Tatsumaki’s (Aoi Yûki) numerous offhand remarks and comments as she tries her best to ensure everyone knows she’s the strongest in the room.

The production quality seriously dapens the experience in One Punch Man Season 3 Episode 6.

The intensity increases when Amai Mask makes his appearance. The rapport between him and his S-class heroes is funny, especially Tatsumaki’s constant, ignored jabs at him. It shows how everyone clearly doesn’t like him. Aside from that, the episode’s production quality from J.C. Staff unfortunately dampens the viewing experience.

The entire scene, while featuring great, detailed frames of the characters, also showcases no animation. Throughout the conversation, the characters exhibit little to no movement, and there are actual frames where none of the characters move an inch.

This is especially evident during the part of the scene where Amai Mask addresses the heroes while he has his back turned toward the camera. During this scene, the heroes show no movement whatsoever, nor does Amai Mask, whose face isn’t shown. The shot is clearly a long, still frame, which is disappointing, especially for a scene that’s clearly meant to showcase an intense dialogue between the heroes.

King appears at the Hero Association headquarters with a tired running gag.

The rest of the episode sees King make an appearance in the Hero Association headquarters, and as usual, everyone overestimates his abilities. The running gag of King being a regular person, even though everyone thinks he’s the strongest, is not that funny. The bit has clearly run dry and has no creativity behind it.

King meets up with Bang and Bomb and tells them the heroes’ plan to raid the Monsters’ hideout. The group decides to bring Fubuki (Saori Hayami) and Saitama (Makoto Furukawa) along to the mission, despite neither being invited to participate, because the association does not trust them.

They make their way to Saitama’s apartment, find out he isn’t there, and decide to go on the mission without him. The episode ends showing Saitama already making his way underground, where the monsters’ hideout is located.

One Punch Man Season 3 Episode 6 is another mostly unimpressive episode.

The post-credit scene, which shows the heroes being targeted by several monsters, is noteworthy, especially the new, gigantic, and foreboding cloaked monster that approaches them. The character designs of these monsters are impressively detailed and evoke a hint of excitement for the upcoming fight.

Overall, One Punch Man Season 3 Episode 6 is another mostly unimpressive, disappointingly produced episode that, despite its few humorous moments, fails to provide much value and only nonsensically pads out the season with unimportant dialogues.

One Punch Man Season 3 Episode 6 is streaming now on Crunchyroll. 

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