One-Punch Man Season 3 Unveils New Hero Visuals for Superalloy Blackluster & Flashy Flash

Two new hero visualizations were presented for the coming week third season of One Punch Manhighlighting heroes Superalloy Blackluster and Flashy Flash. The third season is scheduled to air in Japan later in 2025.

These are the 11th and 12th hero visuals to be released overall, following the visuals for Saitama, King, Genos, Fubuki/Hellish Blizzard, Silver Fang, Terrible Tornado/Tatsumaki, Kamikaze, Child Emperor, Zombieman, and Pig God.

The third season’s production includes some returning staff from the second season Tomohiro Suzuki as a screenwriter, Chikashi Kubota, Shinjiro Kuroda (Tsukimichi: Moonlight Fantasy Season 2, Episodes 4 and 5, Prop Design Assistant), Ryosuke Shirakawa (Tsurune, spy x family season 1, A silent voice lead animator) as character designer and Makoto Miyazaki as a music composer. JCSTAFF will take care of animation production after working on the second season.

The first season was directed by Shingo Natsume and produced by MadhouseAired in 2015. A second season was released in 2019 and was directed by Chikara Sakurai at JCSTAFF. Crunchyroll streamed both series worldwide, outside of Japan.

The anime is based on the superhero action manga by ONE and illustrated by Yusuke Murata. It has been published on Shueisha’s Tonari no Young Jump since June 14, 2012 and has released 32 tankobon volumes as of November 2024. The manga was originally a self-published work, first published on the Japanese manga website Nitosha in 2009.

VIZ Media publishes the One Punch Man Manga series in English and describes the main summary as follows:

Every time a promising villain appears, Saitama beats them to death in one blow! Can he finally find an opponent who can take on him and give his life meaning? Or is he doomed to a life of overwhelming boredom?

source: One-Punch Man Official Anime Twitter, Official website