

Why is Saitama, the main character of _One Punch Man_ , looking so plain,
while everything in his world is so amazingly drawn? I mean even everyday
things are so detailed to the point that we can consider it an amazingly
painted masterpiece, while his design is like being tutored on how to draw...

[![](https://i.stack.imgur.com/JnSW7l.jpg)](https://i.stack.imgur.com/JnSW7.jpg)


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Why does Saitama have such a simplistic design while others characters are so amazingly detailed?


Because that's just how it is.

Saitama is SUPPOSED to be boring and silly looking by design as part of the
comedy. Instead of a "cool" looking hero like Genos, who in any other work
would be a shoe-in for the main character, the story ultimately revolves
around Saitama.

Now...Murata's version does give Saitama his due when he's being serious or
intense, but generally he's just so bored or disinterested in the fight it's
not worth the effort to put out that kind of appearance, so the crude or low
quality drawing is simply to emphasis how little effort or attention he's
giving to the situation.

In the original verison (with art is done by author himself and is VERY
crudely and lazily drawn in most cases), his design never really changes that
much and he's always plainly drawn throughout the series, while the other
characters are generally given more detail. (the lazy-mode Saitama is a
cleaned up version of the original version Saitama).

He's not the only one though...there's another character who occasionally
shifts into their original form when Saitama finds them annoying as we see
them from his perspective.


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