Saitama Sutora

**Saitama Sutora** (さいたま すとら, *Sutora Saitama*) is the protagonist of *OnePunch-Man: A Hero Rising*.

Considered to be the most powerful hero alive, Saitama has dealt with many crises, ranging from minor to world-in-catastrophe, and is so powerful he can defeat any foe with a single punch. Despite being powerful, he looks forward to the day when he fights a powerful opponent.

At Genos' suggestion, Saitama registered to the Hero Association, initially beginning as a C-Class, but eventually became B-Class. He currently lives in City Z with his disciple, and under the Hero Association, he is appropriately known as **One-Punch Man**.

## Appearance

Unlike his canon counterpart, who is bald, Saitama Sutora has spiky black hair and brown eyes, usually represented by dots. He is normally found wearing a white dress shirt with a red tie and black jacket and slacks, which is his business attire, but he eventually changes out for his counterpart's iconic outfit; a plain yellow jumpsuit with a short zipper at the collar and a belt. The costume is finished out by a red ensemble of boots, gloves and a white cape.

## Personality

Saitama is a very eccentric and upbeat person, despite his apparent mundane life. He faces every challenge with a grin, and doesn't hesitate to jump into the line of fire. Reckless and hotheaded, he will face any threat head-first, but he usually demonstrates an aloof or deadpan nature when he delivers the infamous 'one-hit kill' to his enemies, muttering that it was disappointing or the like. Though his strength provides little to no challenge for him, Saitama helps people because he believes he is fulfilling his childhood dream of defeating any foe he meets with a single punch, and becoming a hero. Whenever he sees someone in danger, he will not hesitate to save them, evident by how he saw a girl about to be killed by Vaccine Man.

Though he seeks a challenge, and is normally very cheerful, Saitama is also a dangerous person to anger. The primary examples are when Genos and other heroes have been brutally beaten down by the Deep Sea King and Carnage Kabuto after he openly talks about killing everyone in the House of Evolution facility in front of him. Though angering him is a rare reaction, it is a sign of one's impending death, as noted by Genos. When enraged, Saitama's face becomes serious, eyes narrowed, and one can see a dark aura surround his body, as well as a murderous air around him. He doesn't stop with just a single hit, he proceeds to utterly annihilate his opponents until there is virtually nothing left of them. Furthermore, Saitama holds a deep level of respect to heroes who face impossible odds. When Mumen Rider fought against the Deep Sea King, despite knowing being vastly outclassed by the Mysterious Being, Saitama called him a "true hero," as well as the others who were defeated by the enemy.

One odd thing to note is that Saitama apparently takes the conditioning of his hair very seriously. He once told Genos that his greatest fear was going bald, though himself did not know the exact reason for such a fear.

## History

Little is known about Saitama's past, but it is known that he lives in his apartment by himself. As a child, according to Saitama, he used to watch superhero shows many times, and wishes that he wants to be like those heroes too someday. During his middle school years, Saitama is seen reading a health and PE manual, but did not hear from the other students about what happened to the freshman who called himself "The Bicycle Commuter" yesterday, after two third-year bullies beat him up pretty badly.

After school on a rainy day at 4 o'clock, Saitama is watching a
news about the ongoing monster incident in Z-City, news of which
happened nine months ago. Saitama drifted off to sleep but forgot to do
his homework. As a result, he is called by his homeroom teacher to the
teacher's room, despite suggesting that he could do both days' homework
that night.

While going to the teacher's room, he is interrupted by the same
two third year bullies from yesterday, and threatened to hand over his
wallet, but Saitama told them he doesn't have one and prepares to fight
them instead. However, Saitama is still too weak to defend himself from
the bullies and his 200 yen was stolen by them. Shortly after, Piggy Bancon
 attacks the bullies and takes Saitama's stolen money from them, Saitama
 soon heard that one bully's reason in threatening the freshmen to steal
 their money was to feed his little brother his lunches and Saitama goes
 chasing after the pig monster to get his money back, but due to his
lack of strength, is unable to retrieve his 200 yen. After the monster
is destroyed by the police and special unit forces, Saitama decides to
return to school and see his homeroom teacher.
Saitama is then scolded by his homeroom teacher, while trying to
tell what happened to himself back before going to the teacher's room,
though the teacher thinks Saitama is bluffing. While going home, Saitama
 becomes very disappointed in himself for being weak and losing many
times, and starts to think about himself and his future.

More than three years prior to the start of the story line, Saitama
was an unemployed man on a job hunt. One day, after yet another failed
interview, a nihilistic-feeling Saitama was wandering the streets and
encountered Crabrante.
 Saitama's total apathy toward the situation impresses Crabrante, who
claims to share a similar outlook, prompting him to spare Saitama and
move on. Crabrante tells him that his real prey is a child with a cleft
chin anyway.
Walking on, Saitama spots the child Crabrante was talking about.
He decides that he doesn't want anything to do with the matter but after
 Crabrante suddenly arrives, Saitama impulsively saves the child from
Crabrante's attack. He urges the child to run away and demands to know
why Crabrante wants the boy dead. While Crabrante explains the prank the
 boy pulled on him, Saitama chuckles and notes aloud how the monster
resembles one from an anime Saitama watched in his youth. This enrages
Crabrante, who pummels Saitama even after the latter resolves to live
out his childhood dream of being a superhero by fighting back. As
Crabrante turns from the apparently defeated Saitama to finish the
cleft-chinned boy, Saitama lassos one of his eye stalks with the loop of
 his removed tie and tears it out. The monster is defeated and the child
 saved. Unknown to him, the child confronted his grandfather for the
creation of the Hero Association in Saitama's honor for saving his grandchild from the monster's crime.

Resolving after this encounter to become a mighty superhero, Saitama
started a daily training schedule which consisted of 100 push-ups, 100
sit-ups and 100 squats along with running 10 km every single day. He ate
 three meals a day, but only a banana as breakfast and also didn't use
the AC, to strengthen his mental resistance. These daily activities were
 extremely tough and caused his body excruciating pain; muscle aches and
 internal bleeding. However, Saitama didn't give up and continued his
training day after day.

On Saitama's 300th day of training, his body had already felt the
effect of working out too much. However But still, Saitama has shown
signs of improvement, such as wrecking a car after saving a boy from an
accident. At that time, the Personification Of A Light Pull Cord attacked the streets, looking for an opponent that would satisfy him.

The Personification punches cars and buildings as he keeps
searching. To test the fruits of his labor, Saitama challenged the
monster but was sent flying after a single punch. Filled with
determination to overcome his limits, the monster punches Saitama again
and is knocked down. However, Saitama quickly got up, spat out a tooth
that had been bothering him because of a cavity.

Saitama then defeated the monster with a single punch before moving on with his workout.

At some point in the first year and a half of Saitama's training, the Octopus Claw Man
 attacked an unspecified group of people. Saitama arrived and defeated
the Octopus Claw Man, though sustained multiple injuries from the fight.
 After the fight, he consoled one flailing civilian
 who had suffered three scratches above his left eye from the mysterious
 being. When questioned about his injuries, Saitama shrugged it off,
simply smiling at the thought that there was a special sale that day.

Some time between when Saitama started training and started to lose his hair, Z-City experienced a Mysterious Being attack by the 170,000-Year Magicicada Larva,
 prompting the citizenry to evacuate to the state-of-the-art Shelter Nr.
 7. The three low-ranking heroes sent to defeat the Magicicada were
defeated, but survived and managed to find some straggling evacuees on
their way back to the shelter, among them being Saitama.

When Saitama discovers that he has been led to a shelter, he became
upset, stating that he thought that following the heroes would lead him
to the Mysterious Being. Saitama attempts to leave so he can find the
Mysterious Being, but is restrained by the citizens, thinking he's
become suicidal. The guards attempt to explain that the doors can't be
opened while the disaster is still ongoing, but reassure the public that
 the shelter is able to withstand any sort of attack. While she praises
the structure's perfection, Saitama confronts one guard again to ask
where the bathroom is, only for her to reply that the 'perfect' shelter
was nevertheless designed and built without bathrooms.

Saitama slowly becomes more and more distressed, as he doesn't know if
his bladder can hold until the situation ends. After overhearing that
two A-Class heroes were defeated by the beast, and that it will take
three hours for a Hero Association squadron to arrive, Saitama can't
take it anymore. He walks to a wall of the shelter and breaks a hole in
it with a single punch before the stunned onlookers, and runs off
stating that he's going to the convenience store. Just as he is about to
 reach the store to use the bathroom, the 170,000 Year Magicicada Larva
appears in front of him, which he promptly kills.

## Trivia

* Unlike how he is portrayed in the anime, manga, and web comic, Saitama retained his hair rather than going bald.
* His last name, Sutora, is a shortened version of Sutoraikā (ストライカー), which means "striker."
* According to Genos, Saitama's true potential does not lie within his appearance, but in the way he did his best on training himself to become a true superhero caused him to receive his own super strength after three years of training.

* Saitama is indirectly responsible for the Heroes Association's creation, having saved the grandchild of multi-millionaire Chinner from Crabrante three years prior to the story-line; Chinner would then found the Association to protect humanity from the mysterious beings.

* Saitama's name is mostly likely derived after the city of Saitama, located in Japan, where ONE currently lives and first started drawing the series.