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thisworld posted...

I agree that Saitama is a gag character. However if you remove him and arguably King&WDM from the series, you'll find that other characters are unsurprisingly shonen-esque. Genos wants to become stronger, Sonic wants to become stronger, PuriPuri undergoes power evolution, etc.

Imho OPM's biggest mistake in this regard was introducing the graph comparing Saitama and Garou. That alone provides justification to quantify Saitama. Just like that power measuring mask from CE (heh), it should've gone like this with the graph:
"Graph depicted Garou's progress only. Saitama was nowhere to be found because he's off the chart."

Pretty much everything to do with Garou actually managing to kill everyone there (including King) and Saitama's best friend and causing Saitama to become enraged with grief and explicitly "go all out" was OPM's biggest mistake. They put final battle stakes in the middle of the series. They should've just followed the webcomic.