Saitama only used one move from the 'Serious Series' against Boros when he felt the Earth's surface was endangered. It seems that the fight lasted only that long because Saitama wanted to savor the feeling of combat from an unusually stronger opponent than the norm, even though it was still leagues beneath him in strength. To quote Boros and Saitama when Boros was seeing the pearly white gates --
[SPOILER - highlight to read]: Boros: "As the prophecy foretold, a splendid battle. We both fought to the bitter end."
Saitama: "Yeah. Yeah it was."
Boros: "Hmph. . . You liar. You were still holding back. . . It's as if you didn't bare
your fangs at all during this whole battle. . . Fufu, prophecies can't be trusted after all. . . You are way too strong."
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[SPOILER - highlight to read]: Against Garou, he ended up using two Serious series moves- 'serious table flip' - i.e. not a movie against Garou himself- and 'serious headbutt,' destroying an arm, but never punched him full-on with a Serious blow.
[SPOILER - highlight to read]: I'd like to preface the discussion of techniques used by Saitama against Garou and Boros with a thought --
Saitama knew that Garou was human prior to their duel and even called his transformation a "Cheap Monster Costume" and told him to keep it down at night and to pay for his destroyed house. (Lol) I believe that's pretty much the reason he didn't use his fist to outright slay him other then tellin' Garou that he truly wanted to be a hero but took the easier path.
In regards to techniques:
Garou never presented an attack that would completely devastate a significant amount of the Earth's surface in a fashion quite like Boros' 'Planet Buster Roar Cannon'. Garou was more of an individual that sought power through his martial insight and willpower by understanding and molding physically efficient techniques to best any foe before him. We never saw a skill from him that would severally maim the planet on a scale no bigger than one of the lettered cities. I believe the reason for that ultimately comes down to his ideology -- To become the "Absolute Evil" that unites the world in fear by defeating all of Earth's heroes. He never wanted to destroy the planet completely but unify it much like a very twisted anti-hero. There's no point in unifying a world that has no inhabitants.
Unlike Garou, Boros seemed like he was going for broke with his second trump card as an attempt to annihilate Saitama and the Planet's surface with a "Global-Scale Technique" to prove him the undisputed strongest in the Universe. He cared not for the planet's well-being and so in a very Gon like fashion, he used everything and by doing so brought about his inevitable demise with a 'Serious Punch'.
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I am so confused here how are you guys reading this stuff. I see the one punch man manga that is well drawn and another that is super sh*tty. What is the difference?
Well, I did say I was still reading the manga and I only heard about the Garou deal from another site.
The shitty version is the original webcomic done solely by ONE. The better drawn version still has ONE doing the story but with Yusuke Murata handling the art. Most talk about the Murata drawn version so stick with that one.
[SPOILER - highlight to read]: Saitama does not like to kill humans/hasn't killed any so far, and Garou, while likely in the same power level of Boros, never did anything to force Caped Baldy's hand on the matter. He wanted to beat heroes, and was a martial artist, a quite different matter.
Ok, the crappy-drawn one* is the original, and a webcomic posted online by a creator called ONE, and got such a following that one of the big manga publishers said, "Here, ONE, have our best artist! He'll help you do a high-quality manga version of it."
And that's the super well drawn version.
Same story, but the manga version has some additional bonus chapters (still written by ONE) and is much prettier, and the webcomic version goes notably farther in the story.
Most of the time, we put the webcomic version stuff in spoiler tags here, while assuming everyone's read the manga version.
*And I will say that while super sketchy, it still shows character, movement, and fighting well. Make no mistake, that still takes some skill as a comic maker and setting the scenes, I couldn't do it, even if it's not high-quality stuff.
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At any rate, I'd be pretty happy if they made it to the Boros fight. And considering the ending part of the opening theme has Saitama doing his Serious Punch, it seems likely... I hope.
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