Fans of One-Punch Man can barely contain their excitement as the biggest fight in the series has finally started. The unbeatable "hero for hobby", Saitama, is taking on the "Hero Hunter" Garou who has almost completed his transformation into a monster. Due to the original One-Punch Man webcomic, which already showed this part of the story, fans of the series know that during this battle Saitama will unleash one of his most devastating attacks, the absurd "Serious Table Flip".
One-Punch Man tells the story of Saitama, an average man who became a hero "for hobby" according to him, but actually to follow his strong sense of justice. For unexplained reasons, Saitama acquired strength that goes beyond anyone and anything else in the world, leading to the annoying (for him) situation that he ends any fight with just one punch. Saitama's ridiculous power is the foundation of the manga, which is a parody of the superhero and shonen genres. The supporting cast of characters is crucial for One-Punch Man, as they are the "regular" heroes who have to fight monsters and powerful opponents, often facing insurmountable odds, leading to a climax where Saitama shows up and ends everything with one punch, usually without anyone noticing.
During the course of the series, Saitama showed a series of attacks that are perfectly in line with the parody tone of the manga. There are divided into two groups: Normal Series and Serious Series. For the Normal Series, Saitama puts very little effort into his attacks, which look very loose in style, but due to his tremendous strength and speed they finish off opponents easily. In Serious Series, Saitama still does not put much effort into his attacks, but his face looks more serious. These moves are much more impressive than his "normal" ones: they have been shown to part the clouds on a global scale, or to split the ocean in two, but Saitama does not actually consider them anything special. Until now, the digital manga has shown Serious Punch, Serious Side Hops, and Serious Squirt Gun. A fourth technique, and without a doubt the most ludicrous one, is possibly coming soon, based on the webcomic.
The webcomic has already shown the fight between Saitama and Garou, which has just started in the digital manga. At one point, Saitama dugs his fingers into the ground and uses "Serious Table Flip", which essentially flips an entire section of the town they are fighting in thousands of meters into the sky. The movie is so powerful and so sudden that Garou's sense of gravity and balance is severely affected, making him feel like a caged insect being played with by a child. One Quora user calculated how much force that would actually require in real life, and it's beyond comprehension.
One-Punch Man does a great job of creating a weird but rewarding mix of feelings in its readers. They know that, when Saitama shows up, his ridiculous power will overwhelm any current threat, however, rather than being boring or disappointing, this creates even more expectations for the moment when he will display his strength and humiliate the villain. The Serious Table Flip move was exactly one of those epic moments, and fans keep talking about it and reference it as one of the most ludicrous, but at the same time, awesome Saitama moments.
Readers of the One-Punch Man digital manga should be excited for the moment when the Serious Table Flip will be displayed by Yusuke Murata's gorgeous art.