One-Punch Man has two authors. ONE writes it, and Yusuke Murata draws it. It started on July 3, 2009, as a webcomic ONE posted on his own site, drawn in loose lines with no publisher attached. Murata then redrew it, and that version began serialization on June 14, 2012, on Tonari no Young Jump, Shueishaโs web manga platform. The hero at the center, Saitama, took up hero work as a hobby and trained until he could end any fight with a single punch, which left him with nothing to feel about fighting at all. The comedy comes from a man who has already won everything and is bored by it, not from watching someone climb.
The relationship between the two versions is easy to get wrong. The redraw is not a sequel. It is the same story told again, and it splits from ONEโs original at several points, which is why some readers follow both. Murata drew Eyeshield 21 before this, and the jump from ONEโs sketchy panels to weekly-magazine density is part of what made people pay attention in the first place.
The numbers are worth stating plainly. Volume 37 came out in Japan on July 3, 2026. According to the official anime announcement, print and digital copies in circulation totaled 36 million as of March 2026. Viz Media publishes the English edition, and Daewon C.I. handles the Korean one.
On screen, the series began with a 2015 season from Madhouse. J.C.Staff took over for the second season in April 2019 and stayed on for the third. The first half of season three ran twelve episodes from October 12 to December 29, 2025, and the announcement that the second half arrives in 2027 came right after the finale. To close out the animeโs tenth anniversary, an exhibition ran from June 26 to July 20, 2026, at the Sunshine 60 observation deck in Ikebukuro, Tokyo.
Viz has the English chapters, Tonari no Young Jump has the Japanese originals, and Naver Series carries the Korean edition. With more than a year to wait for the rest of season three, this is a reasonable moment to read past where the anime stopped. If you want a battle series where the outcome is in question, this is the wrong one. If the appeal is the noise around a man who cannot lose, one volume will tell you. (As of August 21, 2026)
