Minibots
I have been super obsessed with the minibots for uhh months now, but I’m thinking… far from everyone might be familiar with where they come from, especially if you’re a newer fan? I’ll have to reblog this when s2 airs lol.
This is them:
There’s not a lot to say about their origin, but basically, Murata drew them during one of his livestreams, the way he sometimes takes a break from actual manga work to draw a random idea he might have. From what I’ve been told, at that point in the story Genos was away from the main action and Murata missed drawing him, so he drew these 8 little robots, joking that they could keep Saitama company. So, while the minibots are not part of the canon storyline, one could argue that their design is official, in that Murata designed them. In the English-speaking fandom they’ve often been referred to as the minibots or the genoslings. They’ve also (naturally) often been referred to as the Chibis, especially in the Japanese fandom.
In Murata’s drawing we can see 8 bots, several of them are saying ”sensei” and one is shooting a small flame from its fingertip, with the sound effect ”pow!”. This is all ”official” information we have on them, the rest is fan speculation (including how small exactly they’re supposed to be!).
My personal headcanon is that the minibots were developed by Kuseno and are part of an advanced AI development project. They are basically like toddlers, rapidly learning about the world around them, all of them looking alike but each with a distinct personality. They tend to feel safest in a group and love their caretakers, Genos and Sensei, and try to emulate them and do things how they do them. I personally tend to envision them as small, no bigger than a one year old.
(In my mind, as robots they are also deeply fascinated by some of the things Saitama, as the only fleshy human of the household, does, like using the toilet, sweating and snoring XD)
