One-Punch Man Watch Order: Seasons, OVAs and Where Season 3 Part 2 Starts

Quick answer: Watch One-Punch Man in release order: Season 1 (12 episodes, 2015), Season 2 (12 episodes, 2019), then Season 3 Part 1 (12 episodes, 2025). The OVAs are optional extras. Season 3 Part 2 is set for January 2027; the exact day has not been announced. Details are current as of November 14, 2026.

One-Punch Man has three anime seasons, a batch of OVA specials and a studio change halfway through, which makes the order look more complicated than it is. This One-Punch Man watch order guide lists every part in the order it was released, what the optional OVAs are, where to stream the series in the US, and what you need to have seen before Season 3 Part 2 arrives in January 2027. Everything below is current as of November 14, 2026.

One-Punch Man watch order: the short version

Release order is the right order. There is no timeline trick and no film to fit in between seasons:

1. Season 1 (2015, Madhouse): 12 episodes.
2. Season 2 (2019, J.C.Staff): 12 episodes.
3. Season 3 Part 1 (2025, J.C.Staff): 12 episodes.
4. Season 3 Part 2: January 2027, exact day not announced.

The OVAs are side stories sold with the home-video releases. You can skip them without losing the main plot.

Full One-Punch Man anime order (release order)

Dates and episode counts follow Wikipedia’s One-Punch Man and episode-list pages; the Season 3 studio and the Part 2 window are confirmed by Anime News Network’s October 10, 2026 report. Wikipedia’s pages disagree on the number of Season 2 OVAs (five on one page, six on another), so we do not state a count. The exact end date of Part 1 also varies by a day between pages, so we only say late December 2025.

Do you have to watch the OVAs?

No. The OVAs are short extras that were bundled with Blu-ray and DVD volumes in Japan. The first Season 1 extra, Road to Hero, shipped with a manga volume in December 2015, and the numbered OVA episodes followed with home media in 2015 and 2016 (per Wikipedia). The Season 2 OVAs were bundled with home-video releases from late 2019. Because these are side stories, nothing in the TV seasons depends on them. If you want the full experience, watch each set after the season it belongs to. If you only want the main story, skip them.

What changed between the seasons?

The series has changed hands twice, and it is the most common reason viewers ask about the order:

• Season 1 was produced by Madhouse and directed by Shingo Natsume.
• Season 2 moved to J.C.Staff with Chikara Sakurai directing.
• Season 3 stays with J.C.Staff. Anime News Network lists Shinpei Nagai as director and says J.C.Staff is “returning from the second season”.

The source is the same throughout: the manga by ONE, redrawn by Yusuke Murata, with the English edition published by VIZ Media. The visual style differs from season to season because the studios differ, but the story continues without a reset.

Where to watch One-Punch Man in the US

Anime News Network reports (October 10, 2026) that Season 3 Part 1 streamed on Hulu in the US, Disney+ in Canada, and Netflix in Latin America, Australia and New Zealand. Wikipedia’s pages note that Hulu simulcast Season 2 in 2019 and that Viz Media licensed the series in North America, but streaming libraries change, and we have not confirmed where each older season sits today. Search the title on your service before you plan a marathon. The English dub aired on Adult Swim’s Toonami for Season 1 (2016) and Season 2 (October 2019 to January 2020).

Streaming partners for Part 2 have not been announced, so do not assume it will stay on the same service everywhere.

What does Season 3 cover, and where does Part 2 pick up?

Season 3 is reported to adapt the Monster Association saga from the manga (see our Season 3 Part 2 release date page). Part 1 ran for 12 episodes and Part 2 is the second cour of the same season, so there is no new season number to wait for. The official sources we found do not say which manga chapter Part 1 stops at or which chapters Part 2 will cover. Some fan sites give chapter ranges, but none of them are official, so we do not list one. If you want to read ahead, the English manga is published by VIZ Media.

How long does it take to catch up?

Before Part 2, you have 36 TV episodes to watch across the three blocks above (12 + 12 + 12). At roughly 24 minutes an episode, that is about 14 hours with no OVAs. The OVAs add a few hours at most. Starting today, you can finish by the end of the year at about one season a week, with plenty of time before January 2027.

Is One-Punch Man finished?

The anime is not finished: Part 2 is still ahead, and the manga is ongoing as far as we have confirmed. We have not checked the current manga chapter count against a publisher page, so we do not give one. For fresh schedule news, see the Anime News hub and our Fall 2026 anime season guide. We will update this page when the exact Part 2 date and streaming partners are announced.

Quick FAQ

Where do I start? Season 1, episode 1. Do I need the OVAs? No. How many episodes before Part 2? 36 TV episodes. When is Part 2? January 2027.

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Sources: Wikipedia: One-Punch Man, Wikipedia: List of One-Punch Man episodes, Anime News Network, GamesRadar (Season 3 schedule, 12 episodes), Anime Corner.