Mob Psycho 100 (モブサイコ100) is a 12 episode super natural action series based on the manga of the same name by One. The series aired in Japan during the Summer of 2016.
Kageyama Shigeo, known as Mob, is an unassuming and timid middle school student who does everything he can to contain his latent psychic powers. He found tutelage and support through a psychic named Reigen Arataka. Reigen, while actually only a con-artist, has instilled in Mob a high sense of duty and self control. He ingrained in him that he should never use his abilities to harm anyone. Mob, being quite innocent has taken this command to heart and does everything he can to obey it. Reigen, while knowingly conning people for a living as a fake medium and exorcist, has a strong sense of justice and compassion. Though he eagerly uses Mob for his real powers and does little to repay him for his services.
Mob's ability to control his powers weakens as he comes under great mental duress. While he just wants to live a normal, fulfilling life, events begin to unfold around him that threaten his dreams. Previously having never interacted with anyone else with supernatural abilities a series of events out of his control leads him to run into stronger and stronger psychics. All of whom wish to test their own strength with the latent powers they sense in Mob. Not wanting to disobey his teachers coda, Mob struggles to keep from engaging these rival psychics with his own abilities. What will it take for Mob to hit 100 on his stress meter and he releases his power uncontrolled?
I was pretty excited for this one, since its by the same weirdo behind One Punch Man. This show is more faithful to the horrible and now iconic character designs of One's original web manga. One himself admits hes a horrible artist but his style has become part of the charm of his quirky stories so it was more than welcomed. As with other similar feeling series, the character designs are a big part of the humor in this series, more so even than One Punch Man. One's love of butt/testicle chinned characters runs rampant through Mob Psycho and always makes me crack a smile.
Where One Punch Man was a direct attack on the styling of the shonen battle format, also unfortunately falling prey to its trappings. Mob is a similar attack on the super natural battle stories. It too follows the formula pretty closely and as the final arc kicks in it starts to become less of a comedy and more of an action series. But I won't ruin how the series ended, because it was pretty good. The shift wasn't as disappointing as when it happened in One Punch Man but still let me down a little. All in all it was a pretty satisfying series. It does set it self up more solidly than One Punch Man for another series at some point. When that happens hopefully it can keep up its comedy to action ratio.
The anime streamed on Crunchyroll. There is no word on a video distributor as of yet nor is the manga commercially available in English, though I think that may change in the near future.
Kageyama Shigeo, known as Mob, is an unassuming and timid middle school student who does everything he can to contain his latent psychic powers. He found tutelage and support through a psychic named Reigen Arataka. Reigen, while actually only a con-artist, has instilled in Mob a high sense of duty and self control. He ingrained in him that he should never use his abilities to harm anyone. Mob, being quite innocent has taken this command to heart and does everything he can to obey it. Reigen, while knowingly conning people for a living as a fake medium and exorcist, has a strong sense of justice and compassion. Though he eagerly uses Mob for his real powers and does little to repay him for his services.
Mob's ability to control his powers weakens as he comes under great mental duress. While he just wants to live a normal, fulfilling life, events begin to unfold around him that threaten his dreams. Previously having never interacted with anyone else with supernatural abilities a series of events out of his control leads him to run into stronger and stronger psychics. All of whom wish to test their own strength with the latent powers they sense in Mob. Not wanting to disobey his teachers coda, Mob struggles to keep from engaging these rival psychics with his own abilities. What will it take for Mob to hit 100 on his stress meter and he releases his power uncontrolled?
I was pretty excited for this one, since its by the same weirdo behind One Punch Man. This show is more faithful to the horrible and now iconic character designs of One's original web manga. One himself admits hes a horrible artist but his style has become part of the charm of his quirky stories so it was more than welcomed. As with other similar feeling series, the character designs are a big part of the humor in this series, more so even than One Punch Man. One's love of butt/testicle chinned characters runs rampant through Mob Psycho and always makes me crack a smile.
Where One Punch Man was a direct attack on the styling of the shonen battle format, also unfortunately falling prey to its trappings. Mob is a similar attack on the super natural battle stories. It too follows the formula pretty closely and as the final arc kicks in it starts to become less of a comedy and more of an action series. But I won't ruin how the series ended, because it was pretty good. The shift wasn't as disappointing as when it happened in One Punch Man but still let me down a little. All in all it was a pretty satisfying series. It does set it self up more solidly than One Punch Man for another series at some point. When that happens hopefully it can keep up its comedy to action ratio.
The anime streamed on Crunchyroll. There is no word on a video distributor as of yet nor is the manga commercially available in English, though I think that may change in the near future.
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