Airs sometime in 2027 · Second cour of Season 3
One-Punch Man Season 3 Part 2 restarts a raid. Start here.
Three seasons and a decade of buildup sit behind Part 2. This is the shortest honest path through them, and the parts worth slowing down for.
2027
Exact date not announced yet. The road below is ready when you are.
36 episodes ahead of you · … gets you there before the window opens.
Everything below is ahead of you. Thirty-six episodes, and the shorts are optional.
Oct – Dec 2015 · 12 episodes ≈ 4¾ h
Season 1 · The bored strongest man
A bald guy in a yellow suit trains himself into the strongest fighter alive and finds out that winning every fight in one hit is boring. He joins the Hero Association, gets ranked near the bottom, and picks up a cyborg student who takes him far more seriously than he takes himself.
Ep 5★ 8.8
Ranked by a system that missed him
The Hero Association exam decides what Saitama is worth on paper.
Ep 12★ 9.5
The finale everyone remembers
The first opponent built to survive more than a single punch.
Dec 2015 · one short
Road to Hero
A single short set before Saitama joined the Hero Association. Fun, no story weight. Watch it if you want more of him, skip it without losing a thing.
Dec 2015 – May 2016 · 6 shorts
Season 1 shorts
Six comedy shorts bundled with the Season 1 discs, all of it the hero cast off duty. Nothing here is referenced later.
Apr – Jul 2019 · 12 episodes ≈ 4¾ h
Season 2 · Two war fronts
A new studio takes over and the show shifts from monster of the week to a war being set up on two sides. A martial artist calling himself a hero hunter starts working down the rankings, and the monsters organize into something with a leadership structure.
Ep 3★ 8.8
The hunt begins
The Association works out it has a pattern on its hands, not an incident.
Ep 11★ 8.9
The top of the board moves
The strongest names finally take the field.
Oct 2019 – Mar 2020 · 6 shorts
Season 2 shorts
Six more disc-only comedy shorts, same deal as the Season 1 batch. Safe to skip entirely.
Oct – Dec 2025 · 12 episodes ≈ 4¾ h
Season 3 Part 1 · The raid opens
Six years after Season 2 the heroes finally go underground and hit Monster Association headquarters. Fights break out on every floor at once and the cour splits its time between all of them. The reception was rough and you will hear about it, but this is the stretch that puts every piece where Part 2 needs it.
2027 · the return
Season 3 Part 2 · The raid finishes
The second cour closes the Monster Association arc and delivers the matchup the teaser is built around. Same studio, a new director, new character designers, and a long runway to get it right.
What everyone's talking about
The premiere conversation, condensed. Paraphrased from public chatter.
“Everyone wanted the big fight handed to a different studio. It stays where it is, and nobody has calmed down about it.”
“Season 3 got voted into the floor on the rating sites.”
“A gap this long reads two ways: real time to fix the animation, or the same trouble with more runway.”
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