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One Punch Man: Road to Hero (OAV)

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Alternative title:
ONE PUNCH MAN ロード・トゥー・ヒーロー (Japanese)
ワンパンマン ロード・トゥー・ヒーロー (Japanese)
Objectionable content: Intense
Plot Summary: This tells the story of Saitama before he became super strong and was trying to become a hero.
User Ratings: 179 ratings have been given [details]
 Masterpiece: 14 votes (sub:12, dub:1, raw:1)
 Excellent: 20 votes (sub:16, dub:2, others:2
1 Spanish subtitled
1 Portuguese subtitled
)
 Very good: 50 votes (sub:43, dub:1, others:6
5 Spanish subtitled
1 Italian subtitled
)
 Good: 57 votes (sub:49, dub:3, raw:2, others:3
2 Spanish subtitled
1 Russian subtitled
)
 Decent: 17 votes (sub:16, raw:1)
 So-so: 11 votes (sub:9, others:2
2 Spanish subtitled
)
 Not really good: 4 votes (sub:4)
 Weak: 4 votes (sub:4)
 Bad: 1 vote (sub:1)
 Awful: 1 vote (sub:1)
 Worst ever: -
Seen in part or in whole by 321 users, rank: #2937 (of 10147)
Median rating: Good
Arithmetic mean: 7.302 (Good+), std. dev.: 1.606, rank: #2677 (of 10318)
Weighted mean: 7.254 (Good+), rank: #2675 (of 10318) (seen all: 7.25)
Bayesian estimate: 7.269 (Good+), rank: #2364 (of 7759)
Episode titles: We have 1
Vintage: 2015-12-04 (bundled with 10th manga volume)
Opening Theme:
"The Hero!! ~Ikareru Ken ni Honō o Tsukeru~" (THE HERO!! ～怒れる拳に火をつけろ～;The Hero!! Set Fire to the Furious Fist) by JAM Project
Ending Theme:
"Hoshi Yori Saki ni Mitsukete Ageru" (星より先に見つけてあげる;I'll Find It Before the Stars for You) by Hiroko Moriguchi
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Japanese staff
Japanese cast
Director: Shingo Natsume
Series Composition: Tomohiro Suzuki
Script: Tomohiro Suzuki
Storyboard:
Shin'ichirō Ushijima (ED)
Shingo Natsume (OP)
Yuzuru Tachikawa
Episode Director: Minoru Yamaoka
Unit Director:
Shin'ichirō Ushijima (ED)
Shingo Natsume (OP)
Music: Makoto Miyazaki
Original creator:
ONE
Yūsuke Murata
Character Design: Chikashi Kubota
Art Director:
Shigemi Ikeda
Yukiko Maruyama
Chief Animation Director: Chikashi Kubota
Animation Director:
Ai Ogata
Boya Liang
Chikashi Kubota (OP; ED)
Eiko Mishima
Naoko Minai
Ryōta Azuma
Sound Director: Shōji Hata
Director of Photography: Akane Fushihara
Executive producer:
Kenji Hamada
Satoki Toyoda
Satoshi Adachi
Yūichi Oshida (TV Tokyo)
Yuki Yoshida
Producer:
Ayuri Taguchi
Chinatsu Matsui
Keita Kodama
Nobuyuki Hosoya (TV Tokyo)

2nd Key Animation:
Ai Ogata
Atsumi Sakai
Atsumi Sakasai
Kōji Ōdate
Kumiko Onaga
Naoko Minai
Animation producer: Yuichiro Fukushi
Art Board:
Hachidai Takayama (Atelier Musa)
Yukiko Maruyama (Atelier Musa)
Art Setting:
Kayoko Tomono (Atelier Musa)
Shigemi Ikeda (Atelier Musa)
Shūichi Ōkubo (Atelier Musa)
Assistant Director: Shin'ichirō Ushijima
Assistant producer: Hideyuki Murata
Background Art:
A Yeon Kim (Atelier Musa)
Ami Takasusuki (Atelier Musa; OP/ED + OVA)
En Hee Im (Atelier Musa)
Eri Kumidake (Atelier Musa)
Hea Na Lee (Atelier Musa)
Hitomi Mōri (Atelier Musa; ED + OVA)
Ji Woo Jun (Atelier Musa)
Ju Seon Cha (Atelier Musa)
Keigo Yanagida (Atelier Musa; OP/ED + OVA)
Mai Hamako (Atelier Musa)
Mao Murakami (Atelier Musa; ED + OVA)
Masami Ohta (Atelier Musa; OP; ED)
Min Hee Kim (Atelier Musa)
Seo Hee Kim (Atelier Musa)
Shizuko Kojima (Atelier Musa)
Tae Gu Yun (Atelier Musa)
Takako Saitō (Atelier Musa)
Teruko Takekoshi (Atelier Musa; OP/ED + OVA)
Yeung Sul Park (Atelier Musa)
Yoshimi Mineda (Atelier Musa; OP/ED + OVA)
Brush Design: Tomomi Umetsu (Editz)
Character Design Assistant:
Ryōta Azuma
Shinichi Kurita
Color design: Satoshi Hashimoto
Color setting:
Ayako Suenaga (ED)
Makoto Iguchi
Satoshi Hashimoto (OP)
Editing: Kashiko Kimura
Editing Assistant:
Akiho Sato
Mariko Tsukatsune
Homepage Design:
Hiroshi Fukuda (Caracole)
Junya Kakinuma
In-Between Animation:
Arisa Fujii (Chiptune)
Ayaka Satō (MADHOUSE; OP)
Chihiro Nishikawa (MADHOUSE; OP)
Daisuke Masuyama (Chiptune)
Do Young Kim (Chiptune)
Honami Takeuchi (MADHOUSE; OP)
Jie Huang (MADHOUSE; ED) 
Junko Kai (MADHOUSE; OP)
Kanako Nakano (MADHOUSE; OP)
Keiko Fujii (MADHOUSE; OP)
Natsumi Morishita (MADHOUSE; OP)
Rina Akasaka (MADHOUSE; ED)
Saori Hagita (MADHOUSE; OP)
Yukimasa Inakubo (MADHOUSE; OP)
Yuuki Igarashi (MADHOUSE; OP)
In-Between Check:
Kayo Sakazume (OP; ED)
Natsuki Yokoyama
Key Animation:
Akitsugu Hisagi (OP)
Arifumi Imai (OP)
Gōsei Oda (OP)
Hiroki Harada (OP)
Keisuke Kojima (OP)
Mai Toda (ED)
Minami Yoshida (OP)
Naoki Kobayashi (OP)
Norifumi Kugai (OP)
Norimoto Tokura (OP)
Se Jun Kim (OP)
Shin Ogasawara (OP)
Shinichi Kurita
Shōsuke Ishibashi (OP)
Shūhei Handa (OP)
Sushio (OP)
Taiki Imamura (OP)
Tomohiro Shinoda (OP)
Toshiyuki Satō (OP)
Yoshimichi Kameda (OP)
Lab Coordinator: Teru Ogawa
Music Director: Kenichiro Tsutsumi (I Will)
Music producer:
Mai Kawashima
Ryûichi Ōkubo
Yoshiyuki Ito
Yuka Sakurai
Online Editor: Kazuhiro Nii (IMAGICA)
Original Character Design Assistant:
ONE
Yūsuke Murata
Paint:
Ayako Suenaga (MADBOX; ED)
Masato Itō (MADBOX; OP)
Narumi Konno (MADBOX; OP; ED)
Yasuya Yuki (MADBOX; OP)
Yuriko Yamazaki (MADBOX; OP)
Paint Check:
Ayako Suenaga (ED)
Makoto Iguchi
Satoshi Hashimoto (OP)
Photography:
Akane Fushihara (MADBOX; OP)
Hiroshi Hamada (Chiptune)
Katsuto Ogawa (Chiptune)
Kazuya Arahata (MADBOX; OP; ED)
Sae Tamura (Chiptune)
Shinji Tonsho (Chiptune)
Takahiro Okumura (MADBOX; OP)
Tomoya Kanehara (Chiptune)
Yasuhiro Asagi (Chiptune)
Planning:
Akio Maeda
Masahiro Takahashi
Masanori Yumiya
Shunji Inoue
Takanori Aki
Takeshi Shiraishi
Yukio Haruyama
Yukio Kawasaki (TV Tokyo)
Planning Assistant:
Atsushi Nakamura (Weekly Young Jump Editorial Dept.)
Hakkō Ōkuma (Weekly Young Jump Editorial Dept.)
Tatsuro Hayashi (Shueisha)
Toshiyuki Hiraoka (TV Tokyo)
Planning Manager: Junya Ishimoto (TV Tokyo)
Production Advancement:
Kei Miura
Satoshi Nakatani (ED)
Yosuke Minato (OP)
Production Desk: Satoshi Nakatani
Program Publicity: Akihiko Oozeki (TV Tokyo)
Publicity Producer: Aya Miyamoto
Recording: Haruka Matsushita
Recording Adjustment: Shōji Hata
Recording Assistant: Naomi Fujita
Setting Production: Reihi Matsuo
Sound Effects: Toshiya Wada
Sound Production: Kanako Arima (Sound Team Don Juan)
Special Effects:
Kosuke Hiraishi (Chiptune)
Mutsuki Tsugioka (MADBOX; ED)
Theme Song Arrangement:
Kenichi Maeyamada (ED)
Makoto Miyazaki (OP)
Theme Song Composition:
Hironobu Kageyama (OP)
Kenichi Maeyamada (ED)
Theme Song Lyrics:
Aki Hata (ED)
Hironobu Kageyama (OP)
Theme Song Performance:
Hiroko Moriguchi (ED)
JAM Project (OP)
Title Logo Design: Takuya Igarashi
Kaito Ishikawa as Genos
Makoto Furukawa as Saitama

Chō as Tailor
Yoshimitsu Shimoyama as Yamikingyo

Ako Mayama as Landlady
Hiroki Gotō as Thug A
Kaede Yuasa as Onēsan
Shinya Hamazoe as Thug B
Yōji Ueda as Doctor
Japanese companies
2nd Key Animation:
DR Movie
Nakamura Production
Triple A
Animation Production: Madhouse
Art Board: Atelier Musa
Art Setting: Atelier Musa
Background Art: Atelier Musa (OP/ED + OVA)
Brush Design: EditZ
Homepage Design: Caracol
In-Between Animation:
Chiptune
DR Movie (OP + OVA)
JK.Movie (OP; ED)
Madhouse (OP; ED)
Oh! Production
Studio CL
Triple A
Music Assistance: TV Tokyo Music
Music Production: Lantis
Music Production Assistance: I Will
Online Editing: Imagica
Paint:
DR Movie (OP + OVA)
JK.Movie (OP; ED)
MADBOX (OP; ED)
R.I.C (OP)
Studio CL (OP + OVA)
Studio Elle (OP + OVA)
Triple A
Photography:
Chiptune
MADBOX (OP; ED)
Planning Assistance:
Shueisha (Weekly Young Jump Editorial Dept.)
TV Tokyo
Production:
Asatsu-DK
Bandai Visual
Banpresto
East Japan Marketing & Communications, Inc.
Good Smile Company
Lantis
Madhouse
Shueisha
TV Tokyo
Production Assistance: NUT
Publicity Assistance:
Asatsu-DK
East Japan Marketing & Communications, Inc.
Recording Studio: Studio Don Juan
Sound Production: Sound Team Don Juan
special effects:
Chiptune
MADBOX (ED)

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