One-Punch Man season 3
The third season of the One-Punch Man anime television series is based on the webcomic of the same name written by One and its subsequent manga remake illustrated by Yusuke Murata. A third season was announced in August 2022. Most of the main cast and staff from the second season are reprising their roles. The season is produced by J.C.Staff, with replacing Chikara Sakurai as director, Sakura Murakami replacing both and Yukiko Maruyama as art director, and Yuki Hirose replacing Yoshio Ōkouchi as director of photography. The season's first cours aired from October 12 to December 29, 2025, with a recap special covering the second season airing a week before broadcast on October 5. A second cours was announced immediately following the conclusion of the first and is set to premiere in 2027. The season is streaming on Hulu in the United States and Disney+ in Canada, and on Crunchyroll in Europe and Middle East.
The opening theme song is "Get No Satisfied!", performed by JAM Project featuring Babymetal, while the ending theme song is "Soko ni Aru Akari", performed by Makoto Furukawa.
Episodes
Note: All episodes that have aired thus far from this season have been written by.Reception
The third season premiere received largely negative reviews from critics, describing it as a dialogue-heavy recap of the story thus far. Subsequent episodes have faced significant backlash from audiences due to what has been described as low-quality animation, with some even mockingly referring to the season as "One-Frame Man". In particular, the season has been criticized for using an abundance of panning static shots. For instance, the sixth episode featured a 20-second static image of a building's exterior accompanied only by voice-over.The intense criticism caused the season's director, Shinpei Nagai, to deactivate his social media accounts over online harassment. On IMDb, the sixth episode of the season, "Motley Heroes", received the worst user score for any anime in the site's history, sitting at a 1.5 rating scored by over 23,000 users as of January 2026.