In the midst of the bonus tankoban chapters, I’d totally forgotten about that Chapter 23 was coming out today. It’s a short chapter. A little more text focused, but only really because there’s not a lot of time to get the ball rolling on any action. There’s a little Genos and Saitama apartment shenanigans.
They’re talking about rankings in the Heroes Association. With my limited Japanese, I can’t tell who it is that’s in what ranks they mention. Saitama’s name comes up on the first page I think saying that he’s gone up from the 388th C Rank Hero to the 342nd. The word “cyborg” comes up after S Rank 19, so that might be where Genos is now. Oh, also, a meteor is going to hit the city, destroying it and possibly the Earth. (Edit: Since I wrote this last night, a string of new images were added to the update. After looking through them, I tried my hand at making one of those .gifs this series lends itself to.)
They don’t deal with the meteor in this chapter, but I’m not worried because there’s a new character kicking around the Association.
I love grizzled, stern, old man characters, and this guy’s got it all. Again, from my limited Japanese, I think his name is Bang and he’s the S Rank 3 Hero. By the metric of Hero Ranks, that makes him the third strongest member of the Hero’s Association just behind Tornado. That makes him probably around a hundreth of Saitama’s strength on a good day, but that’s not going to hold him back.
Because I think he’s going to kung-fu that meteor. That may not be what happens, but it will be what happens in my heart.
You can check out the whole chapter here at Tonarinoyj.
