Z City Neighbors

Information

Status

Hiatus

Year

2021

Author

Streggae

• Chapter 6
  Jul 18, 2025
• Chapter 5 [Rewrite]
  Apr 28, 2025
• Chapter 4 [Rewrite]
  Jan 16, 2025
• Chapter 3 [Rewrite]
  Nov 23, 2024
• Chapter 2 [Revised]
  Dec 7, 2021
• Chapter 1 [Revised]
  Dec 6, 2021

Reviews

Community Reviews(9)

• m@venRoyal Road

  ★★★★★ 5.0

  There is little to no grammatical mistakes. The story is interesting and fun to read and it's very easy to reach the end of the chapter(s) without realising that you've reached the end. Which is hard to do since there's just so much to read. I'm not saying this is a bad thing, and the only way it can be a bad thing is because the story is so well written that I can't help but want to read more.
  The author's characters are unique and real. They have managed to integrate and mesh so well with the story, it just seems as if they've always been in the original. The characters themselves and their interaction with other characters are fun to read. They also have their own backstories and personalities. They are the complete opposite of 2D and flat characters that seems as if they were inspired by wet cardboard.
  The author stays mostly true to canon, but has their own twists. Actions do indeed have consequences in this story. For example:
  The MC of this story, Tomoro Sazaki, had met Saitama early on and became friends with him. Because of this, the MC had recommended that Saitama join the Hero Association much much earlier than canon and had also suggested that Saitama stay around after defeating monsters to actually get the credit. Due to this, Saitama is already a S-Rank hero in the story, whereas in the original he would've still been a C-Rank. Although in a flashback it is revealed that Saitama was indeed originally a C-Rank since he bombed the writing portions of the exam, just like in canon.
  The MC also isn't a hero, but is in fact an 'ordinary' accountant.
  Although in the later chapters it is revealed that he used to be a famous martial artist. He may also be mildly immortal or just ages very, very well.
  Overall, this is a very well written story and I really enjoyed it. I highly recommend checking this story out.
• CyrisRoyal Road

  ★★★★★ 5.0

  It is an amazing adaptation of the one punch world with a very nice twist on how things unfold while not changing anything integral to the originals charm..... and the characters(from the original or newly made) are interesting enough that you will want to see how they act and interact while the originals are well made so you will want to see what changed even if you know them from the original!
• pewpewcachooRoyal Road

  ★★★★★ 5.0

  I came into this expecting a One Punch Man fan fiction. Instead what I was given is a great story with actual character development. It kinda follows the comic, but it has its own subplot and very nice dialogue. There are mistakes in the writing, missed commas and quotations. But overall it is great and I highly recommend it to any fan of One Punch Man. If you aren’t a fan, or don’t know about One Punch Man, you will still highly enjoy this story. Keep up the good work Streggae, I look forward to finishing this story whenever you finish it.
• The Captain of HellsingRoyal Road

  ★★★★★ 4.5

  This has to be one of the best fanfiction I have had the pleasure of reading  from the action to the dialouge this novel has surpassed my expecation time and time again thou if there is 1 downside to this wonderful book it's that there a bit to much superfluous dialouge but other then that small hiccup this story is good
• Alex C. ReativeRoyal Road

  ★★★★ 4.0

  I'll start this review by saying that I've read the original run before the author decided to rewrite the whole thing.
  It wasn't anything groundbreaking, it leaned on the original One Punch Man plot heavily while sprinkling the new content here and there. Not every moment hit, but when they did — they hit hard.
  The previous run ended at the start of the Raid on Monster Association, but after the clock has been turned back, here we are — with the first two chapters remaining as they were, while the rest were snapped from existence.
  What i've seen so far of the new stuff I quite enjoyed. The author making dig's at flaws of his past version, more 'alive' interactions from the mc (because believe me — in the old work he was more brick like than human), and last but not least — a LOT more organic way the original characters got introduced, and not just get dropped on your head out of nowhere with a kilometer of exposition.
  So, after all those words, I just wanted to say... I'm optimistic? Cliché, I know, but that's the truth.
• librarysmilesRoyal Road

  ★★★ 3.0

  This was one of the better fan fictions I've read, although there were spelling errors in almost every chapter.
  This one takes place in the One Punch universe. The main character acts like the mentor grandpas in cultivation novels.
  Despite being an interesting read, it felt a bit draggy at the end. It's too bad that the story arc wasn't finished before the hiatus, but maybe that was for the better.
• ardonis4321Royal Road

  ★★★ 3.0

  It's a good fanfiction, I enjoyed it, especially in the beginning, but unfortunately, it suffers from a couple of flaws. Thankfully most of them, like the many typos, could be fixed with an easy rewrite.
  First off, the writing:
  Dude, get your paragraphs and cut out their second half. They are unneserily long. You don't need to explain every thought and action of every character in a dialogue; the readers can figure it out. You can build empathy purely through body language and spoken words. As is, it only looks like a veiled attemp to artifically inflate your word count. Though this is a thing that every anime pulls as well, so at least it's thematic.
  Then there is Tomoro:
  I get that he is supposed to be some kind of martial artist god, but that part of his character is very underdeveloped. As I see it, he realized he can have superpowers if he trained, set himself a goal to beat every martial artist master, then did so. That is the extent of his backstory. Not to say it couldn't be interesting, but it would need to be written differently from the very beginning.
  First of, it needs some foreshadowing. Up until chapter 3, he's built up to be just some guy, who finds himself in his favourite anime and wants to be close to the protagonist, because he likes the guy. His power up until then is just good old fashioned common sense to impart on Saitama. Then chapter 3 rolls in, the alien ship wants to bomb the city, ony for the Average Joe of a protag to stop it with a wave of his hand. Needless to say, I needed three re-reads and a steel cable to suspend my disbelief at that chapter.
  For the story:
  It mostly follows the original's plot, for better or worse. In the beginning, It's fine, but as the manga itself slows down, so does this fiction starts to drag on. It could have used some original content with the MC, so there would have been something to write. I liked where it was going to go, but before the story could truly diverge from the original, it went on hiatus.
  Sti
• danlinRoyal Road

  ★★★ 2.5

  Not bad. Certainly was better than I first expected, but I got my hopes up and that made me drop when they weren't fulfilled.
  Story is just OPM with mc as a hangar on. Unclear if he knows the plot but it seems he does. Dropped when this new character was introduced also from earth. It felt super overdone and boring the way it happened.
• PenNameHereRoyal Road

  ★★★ 2.5

  … we’d be trying to ride every roller coaster at once. This story have one major flaw that holds it back from what I know it could be, that flaw being decisiveness. This story is like walking down a diverging road and following each path. There’s just too much trying to be crammed into too little space, it’s okay for this to happen gradually, to be spread out. There is just too much being introduced all at once. Another problem with this story is a small lack of consistency, at the start it feels that Tomoro’s status is supposed to be an open secret with the reader, which I think is a very fun choice, but then it flops over to be an expected piece of knowledge to have. Another lack of consistency would be the power reveal, we see that Tomoro’s power is supposed to be consequential so the reveal is underwhelming when the confirmation comes with no fanfare. Overall I like this story but it’s held back by the diverging plot points and lack of consistency.