One-Punch Man

One-Punch Man's barcode opens bright — the gleaming surfaces of City Z, the over-lit action

choreography that Madhouse used to announce their animation ambitions — before settling into

the mid-range warmth of a show that is secretly a slice-of-life about a man who is too

powerful to feel anything. The Red-Orange palette is the hero's costume writ large across

every frame. The barcode contains, in miniature, the show's fundamental joke: it looks

exactly like an action anime, and that is the punchline.