#bofoi opm

[ciaossu-imagines]

Do they collect anything?

Blast, of course, collects the mysterious cubes. It’s a hobby and interest of his, as established in canon. However, I think Blast has a very strong interest in finding and collecting anything else mysterious, weird, or unknown. He likes the things that are unknown, but he also understands that they might be dangerous, which is another big reason for him to want to ‘collect’ them. He doesn’t want them to hurt innocent civilians but at the same time, he’s also interested in them because of his own curiosity. They’re puzzles to him and Blast enjoys a good puzzle. On top of that hobby of his and ‘collection’ of his, Blast seems to ‘collect’ the strong. His presence seems to draw the strong to him, which Blast has no problem with!

Tatsumaki can be a proud one. Nowhere else is her vanity more shown than her little collection, though it’s not a collection that is well-known to almost everyone. There aren’t many people who get close enough to Tatsumaki to be allowed to see within her personal spaces, which is where she stores her collection. She collects her own merchandise. It reminds her how proud she deserves to be and she loves the visible proof of how strong, terrifying, and adored as a hero she is. Given how important her sister is to Tatsumaki and how much Tatsumaki does love Fubuki, she also collects each and every piece of merchandise for her sister that she can get her hands on.

Kamikaze collects the usual thing that most would expect him to collect. That is, of course, that he collects swords. He doesn’t just collect any old sword, of course. That would defeat the purpose and he sees no point in just picking up any old hunk of metal in a sword shape. He collects any swords that are unique in nature, shape, structure, etc. The really beautiful ones he displays as one might display a spectacular piece of art because that is indeed what they are to him. During his younger and cockier (if that’s even a possibility) days, Kamikaze would also have a tendency to collect the swords of his defeated opponents, as one might collect spoils of war. However, he also has a more mundane, everyday kind of collection. Kamikaze is the type who just kind of collects wet wipes, the ones that restaurants give out with meals, the little prepackaged ones. It wasn’t even meant to be a collection. He just always takes a couple, more than he uses, and he never throws them out because he feels like they’ll come in useful. It’s at the point where he’s got enough to last him for a couple years, using one several times a day, but he still can’t bring himself to throw them out.

Bofoi collects technology. He’s been doing so for ages. He’s always collecting the newest technology and gets especially excited over technology that he isn’t fluent with or things that he hasn’t ever seen before. They become obsessions for him and, once he has them in his grasp, he can’t stop himself. He pushes past his limits; he stays up for days at a time. He stops remembering to eat, doesn’t think about his hygiene. Everything, and I do mean everything for Bofoi is now contained in this new and unknown piece of technology, until he has it figured out and mastered. It’s obsession to a complete and unhealthy level. He doesn’t throw out any of his collection once he does figure them out though, not only because they can be very useful, but because he likes looking at them. He likes remembering them, how he discovered or came across them, the long hours he enjoyed with them as he cracked the secrets behind them. Just looking at or holding them brings him back to moments in his life that were precious to him and to discard any of his collection would impact him emotionally, quite an unusual thing for Bofoi, who typically doesn’t get that emotionally attached to ‘things’.

King collects video games. While he definitely collects specific games because he’s really in love with them or the franchise they’re a part of, he also collects video games he’s never heard of or ones from varying genres that he finds for a good price. He picks up a lot of games from pawn shops, thrift stores, and yard sales because he can find them for amazing prices and he’ll grab what looks good to him, and then he just picks five at random that he’s never heard of and knows nothing about. He finds it’s a good way to diversify his gaming experience, for one, and helps him become a better-rounded gamer. Because of this collection of his, King also tends to collect video game consoles. He has his mainstays that he uses all the time, but he also has an impressive collection of retro gaming consoles, like the Atari, Nintendo, Nintendo 64, Sega Genesis, as well as discontinued consoles like the Nintendo Wii and PS Vita.

Pig God collects menus. Not only does he collect the regular take-out menus from the places he likes to eat at, but he collects special menus as well. He prints off and makes nice menus from restaurants that he one daydreams of eating at or that are famous for some reason, from the mundane mom and pop type restaurants to the Michelin star rated restaurants that do full eleven-course meals. For restaurants that he’s been to that aren’t his normal ones, where he’s been really impressed with the chef’s food, on top of tipping exceptionally good, he requests and offers to pay for a copy of the place’s menu to add to his collection. He especially does this for places where he’s gone with people he considers his ‘friends’ or people he considers important to him, because the menus will bring up such pleasant memories of them all eating together.

Flashy Flash doesn’t put a lot of emphasis on things. He doesn’t need a lot of material things in his life to be happy and he tends to be pretty minimalistic in both his living spaces and in the way he lives his life. Because of this, he doesn’t have a particular collection. It’s just incompatible with how he likes to live. He has tried, but it just ends up with him giving away or throwing away the collection he has built up, because it’s simply become clutter to him.

Genos doesn’t have anything he currently collects. There’s not a lot of extra space in the apartment, for one thing, and there’s nothing that he’s really, really into to the point where he feels the need to find even the unused space in a corner to really collect that thing, even in a small way. There’s definitely things Genos is interested in, things he adores and wants, things he likes, but none of them are what you would call a collection. This wasn’t always the case though. When he was a kid, Genos would collect both hero merchandise of a hero he’d really liked but his biggest collection was fridge magnets. His parents fridge was absolutely covered in them. He doesn’t remember exactly why he liked them so much or why they were so important to him. There was just something about them his little four-year-old self loved and that’s when his collection started. He kept finding them and getting them for himself when one amused him or he liked the looks of it, but a lot of them were gifts from others who had learned of his little ‘collection’.

Puri-Puri collects people. To be more specific, he collects people, mostly men, that he considers to be attractive. For men he considers handsome, whether they be criminals, other prisoners, or even some heroes, if he can beat them or sway them to stay by his side by choice, he collects them to add to his personal harem, something he’s always wanted since he was young. Monogamy has never been a thing for Puri-Puri; he’s someone who needs romantic variety so that harem is something he considers to be more worthwhile than just about anything. In return for those people being added to his harem, Puri-Puri will go out of his way to protect them and take care of them, so it’s not entirely one-sided. However, as mentioned, it’s not exclusively males. I just think Puri-Puri likes to surround himself with people who are physically pleasing to him and he will have collected a few female or nonbinary individuals whose looks and aesthetics are very pleasing to him, who will be, in actuality, his friends, but in his words are part of his ‘collection.’ He’s always really enthused to add to his collection and is always on the lookout for new examples of beauty.

[losername02]

opm webcomic update 148

[no1monstersimp]

Bofoi remembering he fumbled 🥺.

[gofancyninjaworld]

OPM Webcomic Chapter 145 Review

Another Sunday, another review. At this rate, I may just about catch up on my OPM reviews by September! Anyway, it's been a while, so the summary is going to be a bit detailed.

Summary

Cast your mind back a little bit (if you're a lucky lately-come reader reading the story in one session) or a lot bit (if you've been following it chapter-by-chapter). Back then, the three Machine Gods sent to assassinate Dr Kuseno told Genos that the Plan would be happening at the breaking of dawn. Why do I bring your attention to this? Because as this chapter shows, not long has passed since.

We open to a page on which the headquarters of the Hero Association and the Neo Heroes are juxtaposed. While the Hero Association has no idea of what is happening in all the cities under attack owing to the communications going down -- and something else has come to their attentions that looks even more dire -- over at Neo Hero HQ, all is in hand. The first attack has been 'allowed', the Neo Hero teams have been deployed, and it's just a matter of time before the source of the robots is found.

McCoy is shaking with horror. He's all for stunts, but faced with such widespread catastrophe, can't the pro-heroes be given battle suits so they too can fight effectively, instead of being targets?

The answer he receives is even more chilling, as the team overseeing efforts shuts him down in no uncertain terms, asking him to focus and not feel nostalgia for the HA. They also refuse to deploy the S-Class heroes in the Neo Heroes, with Metal Bat still in custody, Super Alloy Darkshine clueless, and Child Emperor deemed too hard to control.

Speaking of Child Emperor, shall we check in on our boy hero? We find him giving a resume of what's happened to date. He's reprising his role in the MA arc, only with a key difference: his chilling notes on what is happening are addressed to himself as an aide to his understanding. He no longer looks to Bofoi, nor indeed to any adult, for help. From him, we understand that the attack started at 05:41 and that the robots would systematically eliminate any sources of local resistance before moving to destroy the cities they were deployed to. He continues his narration as he finally manages to gain access to the data table of one of the captured robots and care it to the database of industrial robots he'd built earlier.

Then he goes white as he bites through his lollipop in horror. Almost at the same time, one of the Neo Hero functionaries comes to summon him, which seems to engender further horror. However, when he swivels around to face the visitor, he is the picture of calm. He shoulders his backpack, sans body armour and declares himself ready to act.

Elsewhere, Suiryu's team is making short work of the robots. Suiryu pays scant attention to them as he thinks of his sister with concern. It looks like he may be paying the Hero Association another visit. This time to tell the heroes there not to come.

Speaking of the Hero Association, we see that Suiko is indeed living up to her brother's prediction and oversleeping. She barely stirs when her 7 am alarm goes off and is only roused by the All Hands emergency summons. She gets ready and dashes to where the rest of the heroes are gathered. She asks where to deploy, only to learn that things are well beyond deploying. With only about 40 heroes on site, none of them Class S, they're all that's left to hold out against the r4 million-- and counting -- robots battering at the gates. Metal Knight's defence robots do their best, but it's not long before they're brought down. The mood is bleak indeed.

In the midst of the gloom, Forte walks off. To feed the dog. He pours the usual ration of food for Rover and Black Sperm and bids them eat slowly. He hopes that Saitama will somehow link up with Blue and come through.

As he eats, Black Sperm reflects on what's going on. He can afford to be analytical: as little monsters, he and Rover are very likely to survive. This is a deliberate push to eliminate the poorly-performing heroes and leave only a predictable group. A group Black Sperm doesn't fear. With Saitama away, the Hero Association is finally out of luck, brought down by an enemy who has prepared very carefully. Works for him.

Speaking of devastation, Blue is coming to a realisation similar to that of Webigaza's last chapter: that 'winning' is hollow indeed in the face of the destruction wrought by the robots. Despite having expended a lot of energy, he calls HQ, asking them to hurry up and locate the source of the robots. He can't save people, restore lives, or repair livelihoods. But he can at least fight.

And finally, speaking of sources of evil, we close the chapter with Genos having arrived at the first of the installations that Bofoi has. As he walks forward, alarms go off an an armed defence boots up. The chapter ends with Genos walking into the howling dark.

Meta: True Enemies

Nothing is as scary as a human being

I'm going to ask you to look at the expressions on McCoy's and Child Emperor's faces. McCoy is looking at the executives of the Neo Heroes as if he's truly seeing them for the first time, while Child Emperor is frozen as if the person who has appeared behind him is an enemy. They've just put it together -- the true enemy is paying their wages.

Not all cyborgs advertise their non-human side. I may not be a betting person, but the entirety of Neo Hero brass is almost certainly cyborgs. There's a reason Erimin and Destro had to take out Koko stat before he rumbled them. Nothing can be allowed to get in the way of The Plan.

That said, it's not the mechanical side of cyborgs that came up with The Plan. It's the greedy, cruel, and entirely human side that came up with an ambition to control the world and worked out how to make it happen. Their being cyborgs is an identity that separates them from the rest of humanity, affording them a vantage point from which they look down on people, and also, as we've learned, you cannot become a cyborg without an extraordinary amount of willpower and self-discipline. This is a plan not only dreamed up by cruel, greedy people (who are common) but by people possessed of extraordinary self-discipline and determination... and money. It's not cheap to be a cyborg. What a terrible combination that is!

Remember way back when Genos was talking about a rampaging cyborg and how hard it had proved to find in the four years since? It starts to make perfect sense now.

Measure Twice, Destroy Once

In earlier chapters, I had thought that the goal of today's attack was to discredit the Hero Association once and for all and establish the Neo Heroes as the true heroes. I thought way too small. Never mind discredit the Hero Association: The Organization is out to erase them completely. Just as they sent 10 powerful robots, at least three of them highly intelligent dragon-level threats, to ensure that one little scientist got killed without fail, they're sending millions of robots to ensure that the HA is made a bad memory.  It's clear that Bofoi isn't responsible for this: with the HA slated for elimination, the best thing for him to do as a collaborator would have been to stand down his robots and open the gates wide. It's not like there are going to be any witnesses to care about whether or not Bofoi betrayed them.

At some point, the attack will end, and at that point, only the Neo Heroes will be left to provide security. Society will be broken, and survivors will have to be grateful for whatever protection they can get.

Bofoi is probably the only source of widespread opposition they could face (where is his robot army?) but it looks like they've got a plan for that too. Unless Metal Knight is a very good talker and Genos is in a listening mood, a gross miscarriage of justice looks set to occur.

There is, of course, a wild card The Organization has kept missing, Saitama. But where is he? What is he doing? And will it be enough to make a difference to people? Who can tell? ONE, where is the next instalment?!

[pueppielein]

Old geezer, he is a voyeur!

Where are all his cameras for real

[the-nysh]

webcomic chapter!!!!111!"!

Whoa!! :O It’s been 84 years Surprise drop outta nowhere (in time for ONE’s bday it seems) but here we are:

[velmashaircut]

Bofoi leg crumbs

[scary-senpai]

John Oliver voice: that’s not how that works! that’s not how anything works!

[taki79]

OPM SPOILERS!!!

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THE TRUTH HAS BEEN REVEALED IN THE NEW WEBCOMIC CHAPTER!!! FELLOW ONE PUNCH MAN FANS RISEEE!!!!

IT WAS FRICKING NEO THE WHOLE TIME????

WAIT- OMGGGG- GENOS NOOOOO DONT BELIEVE THE ATTACK WAS ALL METAL KNIGHT’S DOING!!! NOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!! JUST TALK TO BOFOI LIKE SAITAMA SAID!!! DAMMIT GENOS!!!!! YOU RECKLESS IDIOT!!! (I still love u though pookie but rn your consumed by rage!!!)

((OMG WAIT- DRIVE KNIGHT IS 100% IN ON THIS OR SOMETHING!!! MAYBE MY OLD THEORY WASNT ANOTHER GROUP, BUT NEO HEROES THEMSELVES!! (Maybe)))

ALSOO!!! This is so sweet that they look up to Metal Bat and were able to protect his sister Zenko, that actually touched my heart, awww! 🙏

Also this down here is low-key crazy and kinda of a deeper look about hero’s and monsters. (I also really love character development and this was just super interesting reading this)

I really do wonder where this will lead too…..

I hope Ryumon, Metal Bat, and the other heroes (like dark shine cuz wdym he disappeared from the face of the earth 😭), will be okay 🙏

….But I’m also concerned for Genos well-being if he ever finds out that metal knight actually did nothing wrong and that it was neo heroes doing the whole time (and possible maybe drive knights) 😭

((I also just miss genos a lot, where is he man 😭))

[badjohnspeakeasy]

Being a Mad Scientist sure is lonely.

I think it's thematically appropriate that Mosquito Girl survived, and that Genus repaired her. Mad Scientists in OPM are lonely, dependent people.

Kuseno has Genos.

Fukegao had his brother, Marugori/Beefcake.

Genus surrounded himself in clones, now he surrounds himself in his remodeled, reformed experiments.

Psykos started out with Fubuki and her stuffed cycloptic bear, then she leveled up to Orochi, a horde of monsters, and her little flying eye critters that she used to spy on people.

And WIIIIIILD Emperor (that name is such a sad but hilarious overcorrection) has his Underdog Men, and now that he's of the opinion that he can't trust anybody now (even his homie Zombieman), he's more isolated and insecure than ever.

I hope Isamu manages to let some positive influences in his life, or he'll end up like Metal Knight, the loneliest and most paranoid guy of all.

After losing Isamu as his assistant, all Bofoi has is his robot army, his action movie figurines, and a dark laboratory from which he broods and watches the outside world.

[cherryhands]

Metal knight blowing up shit

[losername02]

Repostober: Day 28

[no1monstersimp]

Guess what he told him about?

[gofancyninjaworld]

'I Don't Want To Cure Cancer' OPM Edition

With apologies to Spiderman.

Let's go round and interview a few scientists in OPM, shall we?

Us: Dr. Bofoi, we can't help but notice the extraordinary speed with which you cleared City A and erected a new headquarters, all at a small fraction of the cost that would have been expected. Beyond that, we notice that your capacity to build at scale is unparalleled. With so many people losing their homes to monster attacks and other disasters, why don't you take the next step and cure homelessness?

Dr. Bofoi: I don't want to cure homelessness. I want to bill the Hero Association for every Yen I can get. I assure you, it's going to a far more important cause. Actually, more importantly, how did you get in here?

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Us: Dr. Kuseno, your endeavours in supporting the hero Demon Cyborg are truly extraordinary. Once people thought the dream of near-infinite clean energy from nuclear power to be a pipe dream, yet you appear to have solved this problem in an incredibly compact and robust way. Why don't you use your technology to cure energy shortage and usher in a new industrial revolution?

Dr Kuseno: Lol, I fear you may have mistaken me for someone with lofty ideals. I don't aspire to anything as grand as a new industrial revolution. I don't mind doing the odd good deed, but my aims are far more simple: I want to develop a killer cyborg through whom I can pour out the fullness of my burning rage against my enemies.

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Us: Dr. Genus, you have not only understood the rules of life far better than any person but have rewritten them entirely. With your army of you, there are few fields that you do not have a purview of. Perhaps the most amazing thing you could do would be to harness your ability to clone flesh indefinitely to cure world hunger and stop the depredation of the natural world to feed humanity. How about it?

Dr. Genus: Starving is about all the unimproved mass of humanity deserves. I have no interest in curing world hunger. I just want somebody intelligent enough to talk to. Pause Which you most certainly aren't.

[pueppielein]

Extraverted - ambiviert - introverted

I am bored and tried to put opm characters into these categories.

-Saitama - strongly introverted(at the beginning of the story even pathologically introverted) -Genos - introverted, but can talk a lot -Sonic - slightly extraverted -Fubuki - ambivert -amai mask /beauto extroverted * -Tatsumaki - ambiverted or slightly extraverted, Difficult, because she's choleric -King - introverted -Bang - introverted -Blast - that's a difficult one, too. Seems more introverted -Metal bat - extraverted -Flashy - slightly introverted -Tanktop master - introverted -Pig god - introverted -Atomic samurai - slightly extraverted -Child/wild emperor - slightly extraverted -Zombieman - introverted -Puri puri prisoners - extraverted -Drive knight/zero - clearly introverted -Metal knight/Dr bofoi - difficult, but since he sits always in his lab being monitors I say introverted -Watchdog man - clearly introverted -Darkshine - seems extraverted but it looks like it's acting a lot. *since he is an actor it could be that he doesn't show his personality. Opm character are not easy to read(for me)

[the-nysh]

we got a opm webcomic update!!!!! idk what's going on but it looks super important

!!!! So far that's 3 updates this month! :D ONE's on a roll for xmas!

Aaaa OHMAN yeah, (Sonic gets a nice fight scene with his newly reclaimed ninja-leader weapons; looks like yup he's still getting targeted on their kill/harvest list just like Garou) the text-heavy lore part where Child Emperor finally confronts Bofoi directly (looks like he arrived before Genos!) about the robot invasion going on - to decide whether he's the culprit behind it all or if his tech's been stolen by the Organization, etc (what is the truth!! we're ever closer to solving this mystery...) and the longer they talk the more CE looks like he's about to snap and go full Mob Psycho on him - whoaa this is tense!

For all that vital information possibly revealed, we'll absolutely need the translation for sure!