How does Yusuke Murata draw One-Punch Man?
Digitally, inside the same online system that publishes it, which is why the comic can keep changing.
Murata draws the remake digitally, and the series is published online-first on Tonari no Young Jump before any paper exists. That single fact explains the redraws, the colored pages, and the motion effects readers find nowhere else in a mainstream manga: the file, not the printed page, is the master.
WHAT THE DIGITAL PIPELINE SHOWS
In the work itselfFull-color openings
Individual chapters open in full color, a thing a print-first magazine cannot do weekly. The color pages are part of the online release, not a later deluxe extra.
Animated spreads
Murata has published spreads that move: panels built as short animations, meant to be scrolled past online. Critics writing about the digital era of manga single these out as only possible in his workflow.
Revisable by design
Because the chapter is a file on a server, a fight can be re-staged after readers have seen it. The tankobon then fixes one version between covers, which is why collectors treat the print as the record.
The editor’s testimony
ONE has said more than once that he trusts Murata completely and looks forward to every delivery, describing the pages he receives as amazing. The webcomic’s rough energy survives because ONE writes scenes knowing exactly whose hands will finish them.