After reading the story of Sun Wukong and the Buddha, I must say that Enlightened Baldies are anticlimactically powerful.

Nope. You just say it, and move on like a boss.

I watched a little of the season 2 material.

It was…not half bad, honestly. Then again, I grew up in the era before high definition display, and had to wait twenty-five years for a proper English translation of the Nausicaa anime. Long-suffering is a coping mechanism that helps immensely in life.

I thought everyone knew that goblins spawn abiogenetically from any sufficiently smelly shrubbery. Thus, the Knights of Ni's request for a shrubbery was merely a ploy to lure brave heroes into granting them a goblin horde to command.

So, is this still on? I might buy a headset with a mic if it is…

Zoro will trade in his swords for naginatas.

The one thing that keeps King from being able to recant all of the monster kills attributed to him (as referenced by Seafarer33) is the very thing that caused all of those kills to be attributed to him in the first place: self-delusion. Eyewitness accounts placed King at the scene when powerful monsters were killed, not once, but on FIVE separate occasions. No one else on the scene took credit or looked "intimidating" enough to be considered the responsible party, so the Hero Association pretty much declared King to be the hero responsible. Since the Association is involved in demagoguery, they must practice some degree of cognitive dissonance in order to function. Furthermore the public by and large agrees to the Association's protection fees, meaning that they must justify the cost to themselves through some amount of cognitive dissonance. Facing the reality that they've been duped and defrauded by the Hero Association doesn't sit well as a result: look how angry people became with Neet when he suggested that the heroes weren't strong enough to protect them from the Deep Sea King.

Discrediting King for Saitama's activities requires more than just King's disavowal; everyone who has chosen to believe in King's strength up to this point must admit to being made a fool of. That is something their pride will not allow, even in the face of clear evidence presented rationally. It sort of goes back to the Anime Laws of Physics, where the villain can survive massive blood and organ loss without dying because the Reality Lobe of their brains have been damaged by Evil. If pride is seen as sinful, and sin is seen as something evil, then pride is logically capable of eroding the Reality Lobe of an (animated) individual's brain.

King is a wonderful example of the infectiousness of insecurity. Deep down he knows he couldn't fight any of those monsters for 5 seconds, let alone all night. But since his face doesn't register that insecurity, all the emotion gets conveyed outward by the King Engine- that great empathic transmitter, King's very own Tell-Tale Heart. Thus, everyone around him that hasn't removed all limitation from their existence feels the insecurity that King feels.

Just a theory.

Can't stand the current direction of the series? (Forgive the pun)

If his disciples became Yatagarasu, does that mean that Gouketsu is supposed to be SusanoO?