NEXON has announced that side-scrolling MMORPG MapleStory will be collaborating with the One Punch Man anime series with a new event launching on March 18. The limited-time collaboration marks the arrival of One Punch Man protagonist Saitama in MapleStory with event missions, an original storyline, and exclusive collectible items.
One Punch Man Season 3 premiered with a recap special on October 5 at 11:45 p.m. JST on the TV Tokyo, TV Hokkaido, TV Aichi, TV Osaka, TV Setouchi, and TV Kyushu channels. The anime is streaming on Hulu in the U.S. One Punch Man Season 3 Part 2 will premiere in 2027.
JAM Project and BABYMETAL perform the opening theme song “Get No Satisfied!”. Saitama voice actor Makoto Furukawa performs the ending theme song “Soko ni Aru Akari (The Light, That’s There).”
J.C. STAFF animates the anime with Shinpei Nagai as director. Further, Chikashi Kubota, Shinjiro Kuroda, and Ryōsuke Shirakawa are the character designers. Tomohiro Suzuki is in charge of series composition, and Makoto Miyazaki is the music composer.
Additional staff members include:
- Art Director: Sakura Murakami
- Color Designer: Mayumi Tanahashi
- Director of Photography: Yuki Hirose
- Editor: Masahiro Gotō
- Sound Director: Yoshikazu Iwanami
Yūsuke Murata and ONE first launched the One Punch Man manga in 2012. VIZ Media releases the series digitally and in print in English.
The first two seasons of the One Punch Man anime series are streaming on Hulu and Netflix. Lastly, here’s an overview of the anime, via Crunchyroll:
Saitama started out being a hero just for fun. After three years of “special” training, he became so powerful that he can defeat opponents with a single punch. Now, alongside Genos, his faithful cyborg disciple, Saitama is ready to begin his official duties as a professional hero working with the Hero Association.
However, the frequency of monster appearances is surging and it increasingly appears as if the Great Seer Madame Shibabawa’s prediction about the Earth’s doom is coming true. In the midst of this crisis, the “hero hunter” Garou makes his own appearance.
