What up Binge Fam 👋. Okay so we all saw the ratings drop for One-Punch Man Season 3. It’s like a running joke now right. The animation disaster is a whole mood and honestly it feels like a massive punchline for a show about one massive punch. The drop was brutal. It’s wild that a series with Season 1’s legacy ended up like this. It’s insane how fast the score plummeted. We’re talking “lowest-rated of all time” territory which feels impossible for OPM. Let’s talk about the absolute production issues and why the OPM S3 disaster happened. It was a masterclass in how to ruin hype tho. This is the breakdown of how the studio fumbled the biggest anime comeback of the decade.

The Production Pain

This is the real tea fam. It all comes down to the studio moves and zero chill scheduling. The core problem wasn’t the manga it was the vibes.

1. Madhouse Left the Chat: Season 1 was peak animation. Like actual cinematic art. When the OG director and studio bounced everything felt doomed immediately. The original team understood the kinetic energy needed for every punch and dodge.
2. The Studio Shuffle Was Rough: It wasn’t just the studio changing again. It was the whole production team shift including the key animators and supervisors. It felt like nobody knew the OPM assignment anymore or how to replicate that signature fluid style. That consistency was lost forever.
3. Rushed Schedule Syndrome: Lowkey everyone knows the studio was under major time pressure. They had to crank out this massive arc way too fast. You can’t rush the Monster Association Arc it’s too epic it needs months of careful work and a huge dedicated staff. They tried to speedrun greatness and it just backfired hard.
4. No More Impact Frames: Remember the Genos vs Saitama fight from S1? Every hit felt massive. The debris the smoke the sound effects the feel of the impact frames was god-tier. In S3 the punches felt soft. Like they were animated with sponges not fists. It lost all its weight.
5. Budgeting Looked Sketchy: The fights were visually busy but sometimes felt cheap. Lots of still shots and speed lines instead of actual smooth movement. This is the kind of corner-cutting you see on lower-tier projects not a flagship title like OPM. Lazy vibes tbh.

The Fan Backlash

High expectations lead to high rage. When you wait years for something this big the disappointment hits different. The fans went nuclear.

6. The Hype Was Unfairly High: Everyone expected a return to the Season 1 gold standard. That Madhouse level quality was the floor not the ceiling for our expectations. When we got something closer to Season 2 quality—or honestly even lower in some spots—the disappointment was magnified by 1000. It was a complete letdown after years of waiting and hoping for redemption.
7. Betrayal of the Manga: The Monster Association Arc in the manga is insane. The detail the action the pure hype energy is off the charts. When the anime couldn’t match the kinetic energy of the source material, people felt straight-up betrayed. It just didn’t live up to the panels we were waiting to see animated.
8. The Blurry Mess: Some of the mid-tier hero fights were just blurry effects and fast cuts. You couldn’t even tell what was happening. It became visual noise not choreography. Trying to hide mediocre animation with excessive motion blur is just not the flex we needed. Just a mess.
9. The Review-Bombing Went Viral: Once the first few low reviews hit the internet everyone piled on. It became a meme to give it a 1/10 even if they hadn’t finished it. Community drama 🍿. People were just so mad they wanted to send a message to the studio that this level of quality wasn’t acceptable for OPM.
10. The Dialogue Felt Flat: The animation failed to carry the weight of serious moments and awesome one-liners. When Saitama’s face doesn’t hit right the joke doesn’t hit right. His expressions, which are key to the comedy and the drama, were often stiff or poorly drawn, taking all the punch out of the script.

So yeah it’s the ultimate anime tragedy. The quality drop was so sharp it broke the rating scale. The legacy is tarnished but the meme potential is huge.

But let me know fam: What was the biggest disappointment in OPM S3 for you? Was it the Garou fights or the S-Class hero lack of flair? Drop your hot take below 👇.