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At long last,One-Punch Manseason 3 has released its first teaser trailer, something also accompanied by a confirmed release window of October 2025. Despite how contentious season 2 was, fans have been waiting years for season 3’s release, so finally getting a proper trailer after so long should have been plenty exciting.
Fans finally getting a teaser trailer forOne-Punch Manseason 3 should have been exciting, but unfortunately, that wasn’t the case. As a teaser trailer, there, naturally, wasn’t much to see, and it existed largely to confirm season 3’s October release date, but sure enough,what little was shown inOne-Punch Manseason 3’s teaser trailerwas met with nearly unanimous negativity from fans. It’s effectively killed what little faith people had in season 3’s quality, and unfortunately, it’s unknown what can be done to fix that, at this point.
Why One-Punch Man Fans Hate The Season 3 Teaser Trailer
Everything Wrong With One-Punch Man’s New Trailer
One-Punch Manseason 3’s teaser trailer was met with near-unanimous hate from the moment it dropped, and it’s easy to see why. For starters, not only did the trailer consist primarily of still images of various characters as opposed to any real animation, but the artwork was noted to be significantly worse than season 1, and it was especially a step down from the manga’s artwork, as well.One-Punch Manseason 3’s teaser trailer showed that the anime is still falling short of the manga and season 1 in terms of both artwork and animation, and that’s nothing but disappointing.
Even worse was the key visual released alongside the teaser trailer. Aside from trailers, key visuals are some of the best ways of getting fans excited about upcoming anime for how much they can convey about their stories in a single image, but forOne-Punch Manseason 3, its new key visual appears to just be a poorly-assembled collage of the character visuals for season 3. That means thatneitherOne-Punch Manseason 3’s teaser trailer, nor its key visual, do a good job of selling its visuals, which is hardly what fans wanted to see after so long.
Making everything worse is the irony of it all. A few days before the teaser trailer came out,production producer Astsushi Fujishiro spoke aboutOne-Punch Manseason 3 and said that J.C.Staff was “committed to creating a season that won’t disappoint fans”, and yet the new trailer suggests that it’s just as bad as season 2, if not worse.The poor quality ofOne-Punch Manseason 3’s teaser trailer and visual is made worse by how it comes after comments about making season 3 look good, and overall, it’s no wonder why people have been reacting so negatively.
One-Punch Man Season 3’s Story Deserves A Better Production Than What’s Been Promised
One-Punch Man’s Biggest Arc Won’t Get The Treatment It Deserves
One-Punch Manseason 3’s poor quality is especially bad with what season 3 is set to cover. Season 3 will adapt the true beginning of the manga’s take on the Monster Association arc, and anyone who’s read the manga knows that the arc features some of the manga’s best artwork and fights with an excellent sense of scale and constant escalation.A standout arc likeOne-Punch Man’s Monster Association arc deserves better production values than what’s been promised by season 3, so old and new fans alike will probably be left dissatisfied all over again.
There’s Only One Hope For One-Punch Man Season 3 After The Teaser Trailer
Is There Still A Chance One-Punch Man Season 3 Will Be Good?
There’s no denying thatOne-Punch Manseason 3’s new trailer looks bad, but there still might be hope for season 3. There are many times when a teaser trailer will be designed largely as a proof of concept of sorts, with the art and animation often taking a backseat so it’s easier to just give people a general idea of things.Bleach: Thousand-Year Blood Wardid that with its first teaser trailer, soOne-Punch Manseason 3’s teaser trailer might be structured the way it is because it’s not meant to show off the production quality.
That idea doesn’t hold much weight, unfortunately. Not only doesthe poor quality ofOne-Punch Manseason 2give little reason to think season 3 will be better, but despite its October 2025 release window, J.C.Staff still hasn’t revealed season 3’s director or any other principal staff members, sothe weird execution ofOne-Punch Manseason 3’s teaser trailer can be seen as nothing but a bad sign for season 3. It would be great ifOne-Punch Manseason 3 was a step up from season 2, but unfortunately, there’s little reason to think that at this point.
