Chapter Summaries

Son Goku and Vegeta continued their evenly matched fight until Vegeta created an Artificial Full Moon to transform into a Great Ape. Josen cut off Raditz and Son Gohan’s tails before they could transform, while Vegeta’s own transformation remained underway.

• Son Goku woke up and interrupted Vegeta’s attack with a headbutt, then Vegeta’s Full-Map Explosive Ki Blast forced Goku out of hiding and threatened the spectators until Josen shielded the Z Fighters.
• Vegeta injured Son Goku’s shoulder, but Goku struck back, and the two exchanged blows before separating badly hurt.
• Vegeta created an Artificial Full Moon and explained that he planned to transform into a Great Ape with ten times his normal power.
• The Artificial Full Moon triggered transformations in Vegeta, Raditz, and Son Gohan, so Josen used Heat Vision to cut off Raditz and Son Gohan’s tails and magic to heal the wounds.

Josen took over the fight against Great Ape Vegeta after healing Son Goku, then turned Vegeta’s planet-destroying attack back on him. The battered prince remained transformed as Josen seized him by the tail and slammed him into the ground.

• Josen caught the unconscious Son Gohan and handed him to Krillin while Raditz recovered from nearly transforming into a Great Ape.
• Vegeta transformed into a Great Ape, retained his reason, and claimed his power had reached the level of a Super Saiyan.
• Josen healed Son Goku and persuaded him to leave the fight, then sent him to check on Son Gohan.
• Vegeta fired a Great Ape Cannon at Josen, who caught it and redirected it into Vegeta’s back while shielding Earth and the spectators.
• Josen grabbed Vegeta by the tail and slammed the badly wounded Great Ape into the ground.

Josen defeated Vegeta’s Great Ape form, revealed that he was a Super Saiyan, and showed Vegeta a vision of Frieza’s future destruction of the Saiyans. Vegeta agreed to stay on Earth and train with Son Goku, then recovered and received a Turtle School uniform bearing the character “乔.”

• Josen tore off Vegeta’s tail, ending his Great Ape transformation and leaving him gravely injured.
• Josen told Vegeta he was a Super Saiyan and showed him visions of Frieza’s power, the destruction of Planet Vegeta, and a future Super Saiyan resembling Josen.
• Josen urged Vegeta to stay on Earth, train alongside Son Goku, and pursue Super Saiyan power by defeating him.
• Vegeta agreed to stay and train rather than die on the battlefield.
• Josen healed Vegeta, whose near-death power-up brought his energy close to Son Goku’s level, and gave him a Turtle School uniform marked with “乔.”

Josen prepared to leave Earth and used Shenron to locate Frieza, the emperor of the universe. After sensing Frieza’s ki, Josen vanished to confront him.

• Josen fitted Vegeta with a hidden device that could help him train, and the Z Fighters reluctantly accepted Vegeta as an ally.
• After the others left the battlefield, tiny robots gathered traces from the site and drifted north, while an azure sheen flickered behind them.
• A month later, Josen told Son Goku and Vegeta that he would soon leave Earth, and Vegeta questioned him about Bulma.
• Josen revealed that he had collected Dr. Gero’s research and destroyed Cell before the android could hatch.
• Josen gathered the Dragon Balls and asked Shenron to let him sense Frieza’s ki.
• Josen located Frieza across the stars and vanished from Earth.

Josen appeared aboard Frieza’s flagship and struck Frieza, collecting his blood before vanishing. Frieza crashed onto the floor while Dodoria stood frozen in shock.

• Frieza decided to travel to the North Galaxy to check on the missing Vegeta after Dodoria suggested it.
• Josen suddenly appeared in the flagship’s control room, and Dodoria’s Scouter failed to read his power level.
• Dodoria and Frieza suspected Josen was a Saiyan, and Josen said Prince Vegeta sent his regards.
• Josen struck Frieza in the abdomen, shattered his baby-chair aircraft, and collected Frieza’s blood in a test tube.
• Josen thanked Frieza and vanished, leaving Frieza injured on the floor as Dodoria stared in shock.

Frieza ordered a galaxy-wide hunt for Vegeta after an unknown attacker injured him, while Josen helped Bulma complete the android research on Earth. Josen returned to Saitama’s home in the One-Punch Man world with blond hair, where Saitama complained that it made him look even shorter.

• Frieza recovered with Dodoria’s help, blamed Vegeta for the attack, and ordered the army to hunt him throughout the Milky Way.
• Josen gave Bulma Frieza’s blood to complete the genetic profile for her android project.
• Bulma told Josen she had changed Lapis and Lazuli’s core code from defeating Son Goku to protecting Earth.
• Josen collected the android blueprint and a vial of genetic solution, then opened a portal and left Earth.
• Josen returned to Saitama’s home, where Saitama recognized his blond hair and complained about being shorter than him.

Josen arranged to visit Dr. Kuseno while Saitama and Genos went to take the Hero exam, then sought S-Class Heroes’ signatures on a recommendation for Saitama. He began collecting signatures from Bang and Garou after obtaining Lanny’s help at the Z City Hero Association Branch.

• Josen decided to visit Dr. Kuseno while Saitama and Genos headed to the Hero Association to take the exam.
• Josen visited the Z City Branch, where Director Lanny gave him a recommendation letter for a candidate whose strength matched his own.
• Josen told Lanny that at least five S-Class Heroes would jointly recommend Saitama and showed her an unflattering photo of him.
• Josen left the branch and went to the Flowing Water Fist Dojo, where he asked Bang to sign Saitama’s registration recommendation.

Josen used the Potential Unlocking Technique to greatly increase Bang’s strength, then sent a recommendation for Saitama signed by several S-Class Heroes to the Hero Association. After Tatsumaki declined to visit an old scientist, Josen offered to let her try his newly learned move.

• Josen activated the Potential Unlocking Technique on Bang and chose to enhance the older version of his potential, increasing Bang’s strength more than tenfold.
• Garou was stunned by Bang’s new aura, and Bang realized Josen had given him an enormous gift.
• Sitch read Josen’s recommendation for Saitama, saw the signatures of several top S-Class Heroes, and hurried to check the Hero examination surveillance feeds.
• Tatsumaki declined to accompany Josen to see an old scientist and planned to look for missions from Sitch instead.
• Josen dried Tatsumaki’s hair with ki and offered to let her try the new move he had mastered.

Josen gave Tatsumaki the Potential Unlocking Technique, greatly increasing her psychic power and awakening her Instant Transmission ability. He then traveled to City W to visit Dr. Kuseno, where Genos’s friend was recognized and admitted to the research institute.

• Josen used the Potential Unlocking Technique on Tatsumaki, whose surging psychic power shook much of A City until she steadied it.
• Tatsumaki discovered that her psychic power had increased more than tenfold and that her Psychic Power Warp had evolved into Instant Transmission.
• Josen traveled to City W, stopped a rampaging monster, and then searched the nearby forest for Dr. Kuseno’s research institute.
• Josen introduced himself to Dr. Kuseno and showed Genos’s metal ID card to confirm his identity.
• Dr. Kuseno recognized Josen as Super Police and opened the alloy doors, letting him enter the institute.

Josen visited Dr. Kuseno and shared advanced technology from the Dragon Ball World to help improve Genos’s body and future upgrades. Dr. Kuseno agreed with Josen’s plan to give Genos a biological body while preserving options for additional combat systems.

• Josen met Dr. Kuseno, and the two discussed Genos’s character and education.
• Josen showed Dr. Kuseno advanced technologies, including spatial capsules, faster-than-light engines, and biological android designs.
• Josen used Super Healing to steady Dr. Kuseno, then accessed Genos’s specifications through Mantra and argued that his current cyborg body was not enough.
• Josen explained that Genos’s willingness to destroy his own body in battle was cruel, especially since he was still a child.
• Josen proposed using the android technology to give Genos a biological body, with optional exoskeletons and other weapons, and Dr. Kuseno agreed.

Josen watched Saitama and Genos take the hero certification exam at Z City's Special Venue No. 6, where Saitama's seemingly effortless feats astonished the observers. At Hero Association Headquarters, executives also examined the footage and recognized that Saitama, Genos, and Garou were all exceptional candidates.

• Josen left Dr. Kuseno's laboratory and went to the Z City hero exam site, where Saitama and Genos were taking the test.
• Josen and Lanny watched the crowded exam through surveillance feeds as Saitama began the physical events.
• Saitama's rapid side jumps stunned the judges and spectators, while Josen praised his performance to Lanny.
• At Headquarters, Sitch and the executives reviewed footage of Saitama, Genos, and Garou, who had joined the exam accompanied by Bang.
• The executives saw Saitama break records across the physical tests and struggled to understand the scale of his strength.

Sitch defended Saitama’s extraordinary exam footage against a skeptical Hero Association official, while Josen met Bang at the Z City Branch and explained his Potential Unlocking Technique. The exam scores were tallied, leaving Sitch with a headache over three candidates who had earned perfect physical test scores at Venue Six.

• A young official accused Saitama of cheating and called for an investigation, but Sitch ordered him to report to the technical department and reminded him that Saitama had been recommended by powerful heroes.
• Bang thanked Josen for helping him unlock his potential, and Josen explained the technique before Bang excitedly decided to invite his onii-chan to Z City.
• Lanny nearly dropped a teacup when Bang mentioned his onii-chan, but Josen used an azure light to catch it and set it back on the tray.
• Josen and Bang shared a large staff meal, leading a logistics worker to mistake them for Pig God when faced with more than fifty empty plates.
• The exam staff tallied the scores, and Sitch worried over the three candidates who had earned perfect physical test scores at Exam Venue Six.

Sitch reviewed the unusual Hero assessment results, especially the perfect physical scores of Saitama, Genos, and Garou, before chairing a senior management meeting. The meeting ended with McCoy challenging whether the Association should accept the S-Class Heroes’ recommendation for Saitama.

• Sitch found that Genos had qualified for S-Class, while Saitama and Garou had barely passed after earning low written exam scores.
• Sitch learned that Garou was Silver Fang’s disciple and that several top S-Class Heroes had recommended Saitama for S-Class.
• Sitch attended the senior officers’ meeting, where the officers confirmed that the Z City test results were authentic.
• Sitch raised the recommendation letter signed by five S-Class Heroes and asked the officers to consider Saitama’s entry into the S-Class ranks.
• McCoy argued that the Association should consider public acceptance rather than automatically accepting the Heroes’ recommendation, and other officers agreed.

Sitch confronted executives opposing Saitama’s S-Class recommendation by arranging a video call with Josen and Silver Fang at the Z City Branch. When Josen asked McCoy to explain his objections, McCoy backed down and denied having any.

• Sitch noted that many executives opposed Saitama’s recommendation and invited the Z City Branch to discuss the matter by video call.
• At the Z City Branch, Saitama asked Lanny about the delay in his assessment results while Genos kept his soda topped up.
• The branch received Sitch’s call requesting to speak with its two S-Class Heroes, and Josen ordered the staff to connect it.
• Sitch told Josen that McCoy and other executives questioned whether Saitama qualified for S-Class, and Josen prepared to confront them.
• McCoy denied opposing the recommendation when Josen asked him to state his objections.

Josen intervened in the Hero Association’s meeting and forced the officials to approve Saitama’s promotion to S-Class. After arranging for a corrupt finance deputy to be handed over to police, Josen left Saitama with his new Hero Qualification Certificate and news that his allowance would begin that month.

• McCoy backed down when Josen challenged the officials, but the deputy head of Headquarters’ finance department objected to Josen’s involvement in personnel matters.
• Josen used his Sharingan to make the deputy head confess to embezzling Association funds and giving expensive gifts and property to women.
• Josen called the police and arranged to hand over the deputy head, then asked the officials to vote on Saitama’s S-Class promotion.
• Sitch, McCoy, and the other officials voted in favor, and the Hero Association completed Saitama’s promotion paperwork.
• Lanny gave Saitama his S-Class Hero Qualification Certificate, and Josen told him he could collect his allowance that month.

After the hero examination ended, Josen arranged a barbecue to celebrate the new heroes, then went to collect King and Tatsumaki. He found King fighting a monster in K City and rescued Tatsumaki from an ambush in B City before inviting her to dinner.

• Garou received a C-Class Hero certification, and Lanny said the new heroes would be assigned public hero names in the coming days.
• Josen, Saitama, Genos, Bang, and Garou agreed to celebrate with barbecue at Saitama's place, with Genos preparing the ingredients.
• Josen sensed King fighting in K City, where King defeated a giant cyclops and the citizens cheered him as the strongest man on Earth.
• Josen appeared before King, who was bewildered by Josen's changed appearance.
• In B City, Josen split and erased a demon monster that had tried to ambush Tatsumaki, then invited her to dinner and she eagerly agreed.

Josen and Saitama responded to the Crazy Motorcycle Gang’s attack on Z City, where Genos was already fighting the motorcycle monsters. Josen and Saitama split up to deal with monsters elsewhere, leaving Saitama falling toward the street as a motorcycle monster cornered a young woman.

• Josen received a call from Armored Great Ape, who reported that the first experiments for the Human Superpower Factor Completion Project were complete.
• An explosion signaled the Crazy Motorcycle Gang’s attack, and Josen and Saitama set out to investigate.
• Genos destroyed several motorcycle monsters with his fists and Incineration Cannon, angered that they had burned the groceries meant for Saitama’s lunch.
• Josen detected other monsters nearby and left using Instant Transmission while Saitama agreed to split up and help.
• Saitama began falling toward the street as a motorcycle monster advanced on a young woman.

Josen, Saitama, and Genos wiped out the motorcycle monsters rampaging through Z City and reunited after the city center was cleared. As Genos reported that he had destroyed a reassembled flesh-and-metal monster, the chapter left the disaster’s aftermath unresolved.

• Saitama flattened a motorcycle monster, checked that a passerby was safe, and accidentally stumbled into a dumpster after she called him a balding old man.
• Josen destroyed more than twenty motorcycle monsters in a supermarket, healed the survivors, and left to clear the remaining threats.
• Josen and Saitama finished clearing their areas and met up with Genos, who apologized for failing to protect Saitama’s lunch.
• Scattered motorcycle parts gathered and fused into a huge flesh-and-metal monster, which Genos attacked with his Full power-Incineration Cannon.
• Genos declared the monster destroyed and turned toward Saitama and Josen to speak.

Saitama saved Genos from the Mad Motorcycle King, then destroyed the Dragon-level monster with a Normal Punch. He rushed home to shower, leaving Genos encouraged by Josen to keep training.

• Saitama caught the Mad Motorcycle King's first blow and pulled Genos out of danger, but the monster struck Saitama and sent him crashing into a building.
• The Mad Motorcycle King emerged from the smoke and declared that humans were its mounts.
• Saitama dodged the monster's next attack and destroyed it with a Normal Punch that shattered windows across downtown Z City.
• Saitama ran home to shower because the monster's blood smelled awful.
• Genos admired Saitama's strength, and Josen encouraged him to keep working hard.

A week after the motorcycle monster attack, Josen and Tatsumaki shared breakfast with Pig God in M City before disappearing into the crowd. In D City, Saitama rescued people from a collapsing building and faced an ungrateful gamer who demanded he protect his computer.

• Josen and Genos left the motorcycle monster disaster site, and a week later news of Josen's pajama-pants battle outfit still dominated public attention.
• Josen and Tatsumaki visited a popular Chinese restaurant, where Josen gave his freshly steamed soup dumplings to Pig God, an S-Class Hero he recognized.
• Josen and Tatsumaki left the restaurant and vanished when curious passersby began gathering around them.
• In D City, Saitama held up a damaged residential building so its frightened residents could escape.
• A blond gamer refused to leave and scolded Saitama for risking his computer, leaving Saitama visibly annoyed.