>>280242437Yeah, Murata does not seem able to acknowledge any shades of gray in his writing. But I'm not sure if it's just black and white thinking, or if it's part of a larger inability to show characters as ever *progressing*, in the sense that he seemingly feels the need to have them at their endgame characterization instead of allowing them to be wrong and grow and develop gradually.
It's like with Child Emperor's robot; a normal artist who thinks the robot was a little too plain would've considered it an opportunity to introduce a better, cooler, robot at the next opportunity, he needs to redraw it NOWNOWNOWNOWNOW, kickstarting the mess that was Phoenix Man.
He can't hold off and wait until he can do a payoff, or just live with his decisions, he needs it to be "perfect" right away, no matter how much of a clusterfuck it turns the manga into.
It's a bizarre sense of perfectionism for the least important parts mixed with a total disregard for flow and timing, alongside an increasing disregard for the original work (while still following it on key events that no longer have the context required to work) and him just not being a good writer, period.
He also seems to be doubling down more and more on his changes, and I can't help but think there's some tension between Murata and ONE behind the scenes where Murata convinced himself he's the "real" creator of One Punch Man.
I'm grasping at straws here, but I genuinely cannot wrap my head around how this manga ended up. It's completely baffling what a shitshow it became.