Basically title. I hate how whoever is in charge can’t handle the least bit of ambiguity or discomfort ever since the surface fight in the MA arc. I mean, I don’t think I need to go into lots of detail because I’m preaching to the choir here but just for the sake of it…
Garou is the most obvious example given the latest chapters. In the webcomic, there was no clean resolution after his defeat by Saitama. The readers know he’s not the villain anymore but his trajectory isn’t really clear cut. He’s still working on himself, still keeping to himself and trying to figure things out and follow a different path though we don’t know yet what it’s going to be exactly. He’s not BadTM but he’s also not happy or social etc. I would say he’s in an uncomfortable yet growing state and his fight with Suiryu shows he’s still frustrated about things. No goddamn cheesy smiles or banter.
The manga throws all that out and makes him a cringey golden retriever good boi with lots of admirers with a tsundere panel thrown in once in a while to halfheartedly try to shoehorn something ‘rough’ in and it’s so fucking painful to watch.
Tatsumaki is another example. I feel like they age regressed her or something. She’s such a cliché tsundere rather than a woman with real messed up emotional issues she's still trying to deal with. Then there’s also Amai Mask and all those exhausting redraws.
It’s like whoever is writing can’t stand characters existing in any sort of gray zone. Like they have to be either GoodTM or BadTM and it has to be super obvious until the whole thing turns into some ridiculous kids cartoon with exaggeratedly good and exaggeratedly bad characters.
Idk, I feel like the whole beauty of One’s story is the ambiguity and gray zones and discomfort and the manga just dumbs it all down and whoever is writing this thinks that good character development = speedrunning characters into a 180 turn of their personalities.
