In a statement shared through the service Tonari no Young Jumpthe designer Yusuke Murata reported that the manga of “One Punch Man” will be suspended because the last eight chapters of the work will be done again. Consequently, chapters 240 to 247 are no longer available to read on the official platform, as Murata is redoing them. What changes will be included in this new edition?

The statement wrote:

• Thank you very much for your love for the Tonari no Young Jump version of One Punch Man! Regarding the new chapter, we apologize for the inconvenience, but I would like to take a break to review the chapters from 240 onwards, previously published on this site, which are now temporarily removed until corrections are available. What will change after these modifications? I hope you enjoy doing some comparisons in the future. We're working hard on this process, so please look forward to it.

ONE began publishing “One Punch Man”independently in 2009, and later Yusuke Murata It began to be published as a manga on the service Tonari no Young Jump from the publisher Shueisha in June 2012. The work inspired a twelve-episode anime adaptation produced by the studios Hospice and released in Fall 2015 (October-December)followed by a twelve-episode second season produced by the studios JCSTAFF and released in Spring-2019 (April-June)in addition to a third season in production.

And of course, the announcement of this suspension did not go unnoticed:

• «The fight between the ninjas was better in the webmanga version, so I understand why Murata wasn't satisfied.».
• «Imagine having to rework entire plot points twice, when you literally already have ONE source material to draw from. Honestly, it doesn't feel good to have such a messy work plan, especially when you're adapting something.».
• «At this point I have no idea what is true, but I heard that ONE is responsible for the story, so any changes Murata makes, or rather suggests, must have been discussed with ONE and approved by him.».
• «I don't know how this is getting downvoted, it's objectively correct. I love this guy's art and his commitment to executing whatever vision he has. But he's a perfect example of the phrase "it's faster to take the time to do it right once, rather than to do it quickly twice."».
• «So, frequently backtracking and sometimes completely changing the direction of the narrative, as if using a forceful undo button, is just plain bad. I think that’s fair to say, regardless of who is responsible for this problem. It’s a unique privilege that Murata has, and one that is greatly abused. No one else could dream of going back months of work and setting back progress as often as he does. Imagine if that happened to a show, it would be seen as tedious and wasteful. Even if the final product justifies it by being good, it’s a weird and bad precedent to set instead of getting it right the first time.».
• «If this were any other manga, except maybe Oda, they would be eaten alive for doing something like this. Can you imagine what would happen if Hiro Mashima or Nakaba said “I don’t like the beginning of this arc, forget the last 4 months of chapters, I’m going to start over”?».
• «It's pretty clear that ONE doesn't want an exact copy of the webcomic, so they're changing things up now that they have the chance.».
• «As a reminder, chapter 240 is when Saitama, Flashy Flash, and Manako/Oculette went to the Hero Association to visit Blast. Which means that everything after that, including Flash and Sonic's reunion, will be retconned.».
• «I'm not surprised. Honestly, the overall pacing and narrative cohesion of the story has been terrible since the second half of the Monster Association arc. I wish they had fleshed out the story more with smaller additions like Mob Psycho 100, or even the original webcomic.».
• «I don't even remember which chapters are real or remade. What does the Boy Emperor's mecha look like? Did that monster lady die or not? Who knows!».
• «I don't know which canon is more destroyed. The one with Genos or the One Punch Man story».
• «And now I have one more reason to believe that One and Murata are not planning anything at all and don't seem to know where the hell they want to take the story. I know that at this point they've abandoned the idea of faithfully following the webcomic, but seriously? abandoning a perfectly good and ready-made story to not know where to go? Isn't that a little pathetic?».
• «Both the art and story weren't really the best, redesigning both the art and story seems to be the norm for One Punch Man now, in fact I wonder if ONE and Murara actually know where the hell the story is going, because right now they don't. They seem to plan nothing in advance.».
• «I understand why Murata might feel like he needs to redo chapters, but it makes it really hard to feel invested in anything that comes out. How can I be excited about what happens each week if there’s a chance Murata will go back and completely change everything? Part of the fun of serialized fiction is the ups and downs of following a weekly series and seeing how the author adapts over time.».
• «It's also annoying because Murata is supposed to be working from a script. We know the webcomic is good. The series will be good if it just sticks to adapting the webcomic. Instead, it goes off on weird tangents that end up requiring these rewrites to fix problems.».
• «Eventually, the comic is published in print. You do your job to ensure that the end result is that paying customers receive the best story possible. The story basically goes through stages. The webcomic is the script, the manga is published biweekly and redrawn every few years. This allows the story to be truly polished, well thought out, coherent, and profitable.».
• «This manga is way ahead of the rest. The biweekly schedule is better for the author because the weekly schedule is tortuous. It's better for the reader because it's usually weekly or monthly and monthly mangas suck. Plus, the story is already well done when it's printed on paper and sold. For the fans who don't spend money to support the artist, writer and studio... you'll have to suck it up, bro.».
• «Fantastic. I love it when my stories go on hiatus so the author can go back and change things that have already been done (and most of the time the changes are small and meaningless), and they already have a base plot to follow anyway. I love it.».

Source: Reddit