With "One Punch Man' Season 2 release date swiftly approaching, debates and commentaries on Saitama's strength have once more surfaced online. Above anime fans' discussion and analyses, the voice of science tries to offers a more plausible explanation concerning Saitama's ability and limitation.
There have been many attempts to measure the strength of Saitama since he was first introduced in the anime world. However, such task has proven to be quite difficult, for many have tried to analyze Saitama's strength mistaking energy for force and the other way around, according to the Nerdist. However, Kyle Hill of Because Science YouTube channel managed to simplify things on his video presentation.
Hill, on his presentation, opined that he knows how strong Saitama is. He also suggested he probably knows how strong Saitama could be or his limitation. Rather than using only the anime intro as the sole basis for explaining Saitama's strength as it is commonly done, Hill departed from it and instead examine what viewers can actually see in the anime.
In terms of direct speed comparison, he used the fight of Saitama and Boros to calculate Saitama's speed. Hill then suggested that Saitama's speed is within 14 percent of the speed of light, or roughly around 43,000 kilometers per second.
Furthermore, the presentation also examined the strength of Saitama by examining the scene where Saitama stopped a meteor by just a single punch. After the mind-numbing calculation, Hill explained that Saitama's one punch could be three quintillion Newtons or even more.
Such force may be easily understood as something comparable to 305,914,863 megatons of force, which means that air blast alone could kill anyone within a 1,727.45 km radius, according to Comic Vine. Thus, suggesting that his basic punch could already be a continent buster. With the help of Hill's analogy, such punch may be viewed as though "90 billion Saturn V rockets" simultaneously taking off from your face.
However, despite having such computations, the limitation of Saitama's ability is yet to be revealed. Hill suggested that Saitama may still have a punch that so severe it could reset the universe.
Watch here below "One Punch Man" inspired video presentation: