Rohan Kishibe's New Work

One day in November 2011.

Rohan Kishibe, the world-renowned manga artist, was sitting alone on his sofa at home, watching television with a bored expression.

International news was being broadcast on television, and the volume was quite high.

But Rohan Kishibe didn't really listen attentively.

While driving, he was contemplating his next project:

As a prodigy manga artist who debuted as a child, Rohan Kishibe has created two long-running manga series to date:

"Pink Dark Boy," a debut original work that received widespread acclaim upon its release.

Based on the true story of Jotaro Kujo, "JoJo's Bizarre Adventure" pioneered the genre of manga featuring superpowered characters engaging in intellectual battles.

These two works solidified Rohan Kishibe's unshakeable position in the world of manga today.

Completing these two works also consumed countless efforts of Rohan Kishibe.

"Twelve years have passed without us even realizing it."

"Both of those works have officially ended, so..."

Rohan sighed softly by the shore.

Then, he looked down at the comic outline that he had prepared beforehand:

"It's time for you to be released, 'The Li Qing's Bizarre Adventure'."

This is a manga that Rohan Kishibe started preparing to create 12 years ago.

The previous two comics had such long serialization periods that this "Li Qing's Bizarre Adventure" has been waiting in line until today.

"It's time."

Rohan Kishibe picked up her paintbrush and wrote the opening title of the manga on a blank sheet of paper, "Li Qing's Bizarre Adventure".

Just as he was preparing to continue drawing the draft of the first chapter.

The news broadcast on television successfully caught his attention:

"Breaking news! Breaking news!"

A spectacular sea-parting phenomenon has appeared off the coast of Miami, USA.

"God does exist, and he is from the Dragon Kingdom!"

"Ha?"

Rohan Kishibe the canvas.

What the heck? Parting the ocean? Isn't that a myth?

Are you sure you're watching an international news channel?

He looked up in astonishment, only to see a video of the scene, filmed on a mobile phone, playing on the television:

"The incident occurred at the Greendorf Street Major Crimes Office in the United States. Please see the video taken by a witness at the scene."

After a brief introduction, a man's image appeared on the television screen.

He was a bald young man who looked very young, perhaps only in his early twenties.

He was wearing a simple training uniform, with a gray and blackened cloak trailing behind him, making him look as if he had just emerged from some deep mountain forest.

"This, this..."

Rohan Kishibe turned strange as he looked at him:

"Isn't this Li Qing?"

He had clearly seen Li Qing at a gathering of old friends just a few months ago, and Li Qing was dressed like an ascetic monk back then.

Everyone was very curious, but Li Qing only said, "When you reach a critical point in your cultivation, you need to go into the mountains for a proper retreat to break through."

He spoke with a hint of emotion in his voice:

"No one in this world can withstand a punch from me anymore, so I can only train with myself."

His words were filled with an overwhelming loneliness.

And no one even knows how strong Li Qing is now, nor can they understand this loneliness.

"Didn't Li Qing go into seclusion to cultivate?"

Rohan Kishibe in utter astonishment at his old friend on television:

"How did he suddenly end up in a US prison?"

"You were even on TV?"

He was filled with doubt when the scene on the television suddenly became fantastical.

Li Qing spoke slowly in a deep voice:

There's only one reason you failed—

"That's what angered me!"

The video only showed Li Qing, so viewers didn't know who he was talking to.

But that doesn't matter anymore, because the person who was talking to him will soon be completely wiped out, leaving not a trace, not a trace at all.

After all, Li Qing's attack strategy was as follows:

"The color of the mountain blows and the Hamon!"

Endless golden light surged from Li Qing's body.

Golden flames, shaped like torches, burned fiercely around him, while lightning and electricity shimmered on his body.

The ground instantly caved in several meters under that blazing aura, the earth trembled violently, and cracks covered the entire scene in the video.

Li Qing suddenly rose into the air and floated quietly in a golden light.

"Super Saiyan?!"

Rohan Kishibe was completely dumbfounded:

This immense power and golden aura... Back then, he gave Li Qing the original manuscript from Akira Toriyama, and Li Qing really trained himself into Super Saiyan.

The metaphor of "Rohan Kishibe" is absolutely correct.

With his level 18 Li Qing and the Ripple technique he constantly practiced and refined, aside from being bald, he really looked like Super Saiyan from the manga.

And the next moment.

"Dragon Tail Kick!"

A thunderous shout.

Li Qing moved, but his movements were so fast that the phone camera couldn't capture them.

Even with the JoPhone 4, the world's most advanced smartphone, human technology cannot keep up with superhuman speed.

Like other viewers, Rohan Kishibe was watching TV, couldn't see anything.

A Category 12 hurricane suddenly swept through the area.

The camera trembled violently in the terrible storm.

The image was completely blurry.

And once the camera finally stabilized, everyone saw it.

In front of Li Qing.

The outer walls of the prison have been destroyed.

A fan-shaped ditch, several meters deep, appeared on the ground.

The fan-shaped depression spreads forward all the way to the sea outside the prison.

The waves froze, and millions of tons of seawater were forcibly pushed aside by that divine power.

The sea was divided.

"This... this?!"

The great cartoonist's lips twitched violently.

He fell into a long silence, the air as still as death.

Finally, after a long period of stunned silence...

Rohan Kishibe silently picked up his sketchbook:

"Li Qing's Bizarre Adventure" - cross that out.

New title: "The Bald Mantle".

No, that title is too simplistic.

Rohan Kishibe shook his head in dissatisfaction.

After some revisions, only a striking new title remained on the artwork:

One-Punch Man