OPM continues to drag the fuck on like a normal fighting anime. Which is tiring. Half the episode of Garo fucking around with Metal Bat then fucking off and an entire 3 episode or more build up of Saitama going to a retarded fighting tournament.
I must be watching a different OPM than you guys. The buildup here is exactly how the buildup to the "real" fighting worked in season 1. The beginning of OPM S1 was kind boring if you were only interested in the fighting.
And the animation doesn't seem bad to me at all. Maybe it's not up to S1 standards but it's not bad and certainly not "atrocious"
There was character buildup and introduction in season 1. Now that we know the players and what they can do, the tournament is pretty useless filler at this. There isn't even any comedy in it since they keep showing scrubs fight and not OPM.
Except it's not filler. It's LITERALLY following the manga. The point of OPM is to fuck with the normal flow. The buildup is that there isn't a buildup.