As part of its Overwatch 2 Season 3 trailer and rundown, Blizzard revealed that the free-to-play hero shooter will have a collaboration with the One-Punch Man anime that will run from March 7 to April 6.
Most of the collaboration skins and cosmetics will be previewed later, but the trailer provides a look at a Saitama skin that is, fittingly, available for the punchy Doomfist. Blizzard also wrote in its post that there will be a Legendary skin that can be obtained through completing themed challenges.
While the One-Punch Man collaboration, which Blizzard notes to be the first major IP collaboration for the game, only kicks off in March, the season itself is set to begin on February 7.
The One-Punch Man action-comedy anime began in 2015 with a Madhouse-produced and Shingo Natsume-directed 12-episode series. A second season followed in 2019 with J.C.Staff as the animation production company and Chikara Sakurai as director. A third season has been announced.
Hulu describes the show as:
Saitama only became a hero for fun, but after three years of “special” training, he finds that he can beat even the mightiest opponents with a single punch. Though he faces new enemies every day, it turns out being devastatingly powerful is actually kind of a bore. Can a hero be too strong?
The anime is based on the Shueisha-published manga by Yuusuke Murata, which began in 2012 and has 27 tankoubon volumes as of November 2022. The manga itself is inspired by a self-published web comic by ONE that began in 2009.
Source: Overwatch website
