#Ikemen Kamen Amai Mask

[kaitofigure]

Of course you have BLUE HAIR and PRONOUNS

[chococake18]

Just found Amai Mask's character song, BEAUTIFUL HERO

And duude, I would honestly go to one of his shows if all the songs are like that XD

I'm listening to this for a while now, trying to figure out what the lyrics mean.

Weird to think that this guy has also voiced Light Yagami and Osamu Dazai...

(Here's the link to where I found the video)

https://m.bilibili.com/video/av79612089

And here's a better quality audio

[playstvtion]

[moved-accounts-lunamaria]

Stop patronizing your friend, Stinger

HE’S IN CHARGE OF D-CITY, STINGER

Another old sketch that I finished! Just a lil cute thing that I started when Saitama got promoted to A-Class. I always loved the Lightning Trio and I meant to put more characters there (Kama & Snek specially) but WELP.

[fauzhee10069]

I’m going to start saying, there isn’t much of literal “Amai hate” on Tumblr from what I’ve experienced (I wouldn’t know about other social media).

I’d like to say that those Amai-haters might have come from reddit.

Anyway, I couldn’t agree more with what you said about him, pretty based. Some readers wasting their energy so much in hating Amai.

Not an ask but what a rare find to see a blog that is Amai Friendly.

I'm also kind of confused why hate on Amai in the first place tbrh

Thanks for sending a lil message! I’m going to take this chance to talk some more about him, then, haha.

I’m going to start saying, there isn’t much of literal “Amai hate” on Tumblr from what I’ve experienced (I wouldn’t know about other social media). But it’s also true most posts that mention him is almost always to criticize all the bad things he does or his loonier moments, so if you are a fan of him and go through his tag only to find that, it’s a big bummer to say the least. I can think of many reasons why Amai would be disliked, though (and more among western fans than Asian ones). It’s ok to dislike him, of course.

But objectively speaking, most OPM characters had the same development Amai is having in the manga and webcomic, starting as apparently only a jerkass but showing there is a lot more to him, yet none of us feel the need to say “I know Tatsumaki is an abuser and violent” on every post about her just to make sure the audience knows we acknowledge all the terrible things she did. We can talk about Tatsu being cool, badass, beautiful, without having to mention her negative side. Same with Sonic, Flash, Garou, etc. But it doesn’t feel like we can say anything good about Amai without having to add “yes, I didn’t forget he’s a lil bitch”. I get that feeling when I read the tags here, when I have conversations on discord.

Another example comparing the two: Tatsumaki acting bratty is seen as funny and cute by many (I personally find it quite annoying most times) but Amai in the last bonus chapter acts in a similar fashion and people find it a lot less endearing.

It’s almost as if the fact he’s a MALE idol, pretty, all about beauty and grace and putting your best face and having power derived from that, is seen as “uncool and unsettling” by certain demographics, and girls liking him is something to shame them for; while on the other side of the coin, there is Webigaza who kind of became an instant fan-faourite among the webcomic readers, who is the same kind of character as Amai, with very similar backstory and development, the only difference being she’s a female teen idol, and fanboys like that much better than when it’s a pretty guy, what a surprise to absolutely none of us ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

It’s as if people shitting on Amai so much and indirectly acting like liking him is shameful and shallow even though he’s not much better or worse than most of the other OPM characters, really makes those awful internalized bias show. So, it’s not so much as literal hate posts around... it’s the actitute of people. You can feel these things in the air.

The other things is that a lot of people don’t read the webcomic so they are lightyears behind with lots of character development. A lot of what’s going on with Amai in the manga at the moment is going to be misinterpreted unless you are reading the webcomic too.

AND YET AGAIN, no one needs reasons, let alone GOOD REASONS to find a character entertaining. Characters are not them alone in the void, but part of a context... the context of OPM is what allows a bunch of assholes to be so fucking funny and relatable.

[fauzhee10069]

I've just been idly looking fics from One-Punch Man fandom in Archive of Our Own site. Initially inside the tags of SaiGenos pairing, unintentionally I found many amusing tags about Amai Mask, and this was only from the first page. So I decided to click Amai Mask tag and I search every amusing tags about him.

Out of 87 Works (and probably more) in Amai Mask | Sweet Mask tag, these are the tags I found:

#Amai Mask is a dick or amai is a dick

#Amai Mask is a jackass

#Amai Mask is rich and a bully

#Amai Mask is a little shit (twice)

#arrogant Amai (OK, this is right sometimes but not always)

#Sweet Mask & Tornado are the worst customers (they probably would, but I don’t think they would be rude without reason, for example Tatsumaki: probably she would be rude and pissed out if she gets poor service or feels belittled)

#Amai Mask is a creeper and I stand by that

#Sweet Mask is awful

#Sweet Mask is a douche bag

Wow, so many hate tags about him. Okay well, Amai first appearance both in manga and in anime was not bad at all, just a normal high rank hero and probably also serves as Public Relation in Hero Association. In Anime, Amai calmly congratulated Genos for became an S-Class Hero (he wasn’t even provoked by Genos’ cold nature when the later thought that Amai intended to bully him) and in manga, he accepted Saitama’s promotion to B-Class. Amai ‘s bad impression began to show during Chapter 36 (Punch 36) “Crash” right after Saitama defeated Boros and the S-Class Heroes defeated his minions. Amai came late yet he berates the S-Class heroes for not preventing City A's destruction, even though there was nothing they could have done to prevent it, Atomic Samurai was even pointing out that they only knew of the threat after they got out of the Hero Association HQ and found the city already in shambles. Amai’s attitude not only infuriated the S-Class Heroes but also the readers as well ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°). Later Amai mercilessly executed some Boros’ remaining minions (who were weak and ready to surrender) and Genos commented that Amai is similar to himself, except that Amai has absolutely no compassion or empathy for the monsters, not even the ones that have surrendered. Some chapters later, Amai was shown defeating a monster (Suppon) mercilessly and got cheered by his fans.

Besides AO3’s hate tags about him, previous reddit survey from OPM section granted him the “Worst Girl” title (based on the poll): 10k Hero Special Survey - RESULTS!!!

And look how TV Tropes describes him, even though the description straightly follows the canon story without any fabrication, the words they used are heavily hinted their dislike to his character XD.

I wonder, just a scene of him being an asshole in the redrawn manga, many people already deem him as unredeemable character, despite other chapters didn’t show him as douchebag. Some fics portrayed him as being normally rude to everyone, cocky and thinking like he is above/better than everyone. I think, Amai is one of many characters that many people misunderstand about him. This doesn’t mean that I’m okay or support what he said in Chapter 36 (when he berated about the S-Class Heroes’ failure), but instead of him just being unreasonable asshole or narcissist, I think what makes him said that is because he is such perfectionist person (his profile in databook also mentioned this). Amai is workaholic, perfectionist and professional to his jobs; FYI that he is a professional hero, a recording artist, a model, and a TV star.  In his drama CD “Amai Mask’s Super Sweet Anguish”, it told the story during his early career, when he was having the first concert of his dome tour, despite his perfect appearance, he has an internal struggle due to the pressure he experiences every time before his live concerts. He has his usual ritual by going to the toilet to give himself a mental pep talk. One day, Amai had a problem and somewhat lost an idea to give the title of his new released song, Saitama accidentally entered the same toilet with Amai who the former thought that he was taking forever with his business. Long story short, Saitama calmed him down and (again) accidentally gave him great idea and finally Amai dropped the title of his new song. Amai who probably thought Saitama as a random crew greatly thanked him for it. So, while being perfectionist and has very high standard to his career, Amai is still a human who might have a moment of weakness sometimes. While normally being arrogant and rude, he doesn’t always behave that way to everyone (perhaps to certain people who he thinks annoying), also he could still feel grateful and thank to the person who helped him. Recent Special Chapter “Star” showed him being professional and perfectionist, Amai was performing a concert with a band in a concert stadium but was interrupted by the arrival of mysterious beings. Not wanting to ruin his concert, Amai continued his show (singing & dancing) while toying with the mysterious beings before eliminating them with a swift slice and uppercut, the audiences believed that it was part of the show. Amai was working well as a performer and as a hero, no one got hurt or scared and the concert was incredible success. The special chapter also showed what he was thought that he loves and appreciates his fans and the crews who helped him, this means that he won’t randomly rude to every person.

When Amai held such high standard to his career, he also expects the other to fulfill his high standard. This what makes his words seem bad and wrong in Chapter 36, he should know that not everyone could reach his standard because everybody has different talent, skills and pace of progression. Also his fault was that he refused to listen and didn’t want to understand what really happened before his late arrival, he ignored Atomic Samurai’s explanation/or perhaps he listened but didn’t believe it since he was too concerned about heroes’ professionalism and public views about them than observing and understanding the situation (I understand it since he acts as PR to HA). I think his disappointment made him overreacted and belittled the heroes, saying that their failure made them unworthy of being in the S-Class. This means that what is currently being shown about him and what I take for his character is that Amai is a workaholic, love his jobs as hero and entertainer, has very high standard to his career (and expects the others to follow his standard), despite this, he is still a human who might have a moment of weakness sometimes. While normally being arrogant and rude, he doesn’t always behave that way to everyone (perhaps to certain people who he thinks annoying), also he could still feel grateful and thank to the person who helped him. Amai really despises the evil (in his views) and would eliminate it with no mercy, very concerns about public view, would be harsh to the person who fails his expectation and (what people tend to forget) loves his fans and greatly appreciates the work of the crews that helped him perform and anyone who doesn’t fail in his eyes/disappoint him, he has his dark side but won’t randomly show it to random people.

He is not so positive but also not entirely negative as a character.

Edited!! Addition from reblogged:

I just re-watched episode 12 (S1E12). When everyone agree that Amai was being an asshole, I could see why he was late and didn’t immediately went to city A to save the world. As Metal Bat responded Amai’s criticism that the later himself was very late, Amai reasoned that since many S-class heroes already gathered in A city, he assumed that they were supposedly capable to handle the threat. He likely thought that perhaps his assistance wasn’t really needed and that’s why he didn’t rush to the spot but cared enough to observe the situation afterwards. He might be not as heroic as Mumen Rider who loves to handle every monsters with any threat levels despite only being C-Class hero or Tatsumaki who loves to chase every monsters and will get bored if not fighting them, but he has reasonable mindset like most people in general. My example of similar mindset is like this: I am an English interpreter, I was on my business trip in neighboring city. Suddenly at the central office came a colleague from England when I was away. Normally, I could helped translate during the business meeting between my boss who could not speak english and that colleague. But I remembered that I am not the only interpreter in central office and there was my friend there who also worked as English interpreter. Therefore, I don’t have to return immediately, no need to cancel my business trip as I believed that my friend already handled the communication between my boss and the foreign colleague.

Amai trusted those S-Class heroes’ capability to handle the threat and that is not really wrong. What is wrong is that his ignorance to believe what the heroes said in which they couldn't prevent the casualties as the attack that happened suddenly was so powerful that it destroyed the whole city in just one attack. He thought that was just their excuse and if I am one of the heroes I would also be annoyed at him just like everyone else LOL. Seems that he is so hard on heroes. I wish he would be more open-minded and trust his fellow heroes in the future.

We will see him more when we almost reach the climax of Garō arc but (spoiler): in the webcomic, Amai mocked the rest of the S-Class heroes for failing to protect humanity, you would probably hate him more XP. Though after Garō arc finished, Amai acknowledges and starts to appreciate Saitama’s beauty of power and probably will become his new fanboy. Sure, he was rude to Sugar Pop Boys boyband newbies, probably because they could be his future rivals in the entertainment world but unworthy as heroes. Perhaps the only hope that could make his character more redeemable and be more understood is when his backstory has been revealed.

It doesn’t mean that we shouldn’t portray him bad in any fics we write, no- that’s not my point. We’re free to put any character to antagonist role and protagonist role and in OPM fandom, Amai himself often gets antagonistic roles and only one fic so far gives him a protagonist role. What intrigued me is that there are so many non-functional tags described him as being despicable being in their stories as if the writers really detest him so much, just one chapter & one episode about him being an asshole and he already earned this much hate (especially from manga-only readers) XD. Personally, I’d rather see the fics include him as antagonist with the simple tags like: #evil Amai, #antagonist Amai, #villain Amai, #Amai dislikes/hates__ etc though as a writer they’re free to express and tag their fic with anything in their minds, I just find it funny… that’s all.

I am not Amai’s fangirl, I don’t really like him too but I don’t despise his character either, in fact he is one of the characters that makes me curious and want to know more about him (besides Sonic-Flash’s relationship and Blast’s mysterious identity). I wish for some writers that someday will care enough to portray him in different light, when he becomes more sympathetic but not flawless, when he will be more than just one-dimensional jerk/asshole.

[byebyedonewitheverythingbye]

Yusuke Murata has been streaming while drawing yet another One Punch Man chapter! I just had to share this 'cos seeing Amai Mask punch a monster’s head off while still singing his concert is just hilarious lmao

[gofancyninjaworld]

All the heroes: Ikemen Kamen Amai Masku (otherwise known as Amai Mask)

So bad they masked him twice

Handsomely-Masked Sweet Mask, ladies and gentlemen. January is the two-headed month and who best to kick off the month than the ultimate Jekyll and Hyde character? 

There are two Amai Masks. As far as we’ve been able to tell, Amai Mask is both sincere and serious as an entertainer.  There’s a hilarious audio chapter, set in a public toilet (ONE loves his toilet humour), where Saitama accidentally ends up advising Amai when the latter has a bad case of performance anxiety. (Link)

Ah, if only the rest of him were so sweet! 

The other Amai Mask is the previously-masked hero who drops the sweet facade to show the extremist underneath. When we meet him and are introduced to his philosophy, it’d be wonderful if it turned out that he was a hypocrite. Unfortunately, he means every word and walks his talk.  Damn.  Damn.

As an enforcer of standards amongst heroes and gatekeeper to Class S, every hero hates him.  Not even the HA executives like him.  Sharp-tongued, unreasonably demanding and even cruel, he sees himself as being on the side of ordinary people. He looks at his fellow hero almost as enemies if they don’t actually protect people.

Recently, he’s fallen in fascination with Saitama, feeling that as the most powerful hero he has ever seen, Saitama possesses the true beauty he’s been seeking.  He’s using his influence to meddle, get Saitama recognition. 

why does this project name have such an ominous ring to it?

No plan involving Saitama has survived contact intact.  This will be fun! . 

[gotojobin]

#ワンパンマン #OnePunchMan #kingdevinjoseph #キングデビンジョセフ #おたく#otaku #オタク #gotojobin #ごとじょびん #デヴィンジョセフ王 Ikemen Kamen Amai Mask cv: Mamoru Miyano Ikemen A ranked hero who boasts tremendous popularity. Beside the hero industry, I also perform talents, actors and singers https://www.instagram.com/p/BofgjkwFo_g/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=hw79mc7c1nlj

[planetbass]

since when was light yagami in one punch man

[amaimasku]

EXCUSE ME BUT UM

WHERE DID SWEET MASK’S WIKI PAGE GO

WHAT

[nikifforovs]

One Punch Man || Ikemen Kamen Amai Mask Ep.12

[gojjo]

“He reminds me of how I was before I met master. A man on edge.. too eager to eliminate evil. Just like me, he must have gone through something terrible in his past.”

[fauzhee10069]

Amai Mask portrait (One-Punch Man) by Ammelda-Aini

Ikemen Kamen Amai Mask/Handsomely Masked Sweet Mask portrait (One-Punch Man) based on chapter 36 and/or episode 12 (my favorite shoot). I'm aware he is kinda asshole, but please when his backstory is revealed, hopefully his character will redeemable. My first OPM fanart, OPM is my current obsession right now, I want to draw many fanart for this fandom in the future. There are a few things lacking in my opinion, I had difficulty in determining exact angles and proportions for his nose. Sorry if it is not really good. Originally there was my signature, but seeing it will only ruin it (somehow my writing is messy), I've decided to erase it.

[byebyedonewitheverythingbye]

Yusuke Murata is streaming

right now right here, chapter 102 of One Punch Man!

(plz be polite in the chat!)

“Talk to the hand you fish head can’t u see I’m singing here”

[byebyedonewitheverythingbye]

This have been sitting on my drafts for months... it looked too plain for a set but oh well I guess there is no harm in posting it, I’m not sure I’ll get back to it ha ha... also friendly reminder than my nicer gifsets are here :D