#and a reference to the reigen manga

[waitineedaname]

okay I've finished making my big spreadsheet of how mp100 characters refer to each other! some thoughts on this under the cut because it got long

the Kageyama brothers are very polite in how they refer to people. their parents must have really instilled etiquette into them bc no one else is as consistent about using polite honorifics/titles as they are. the only people Mob doesn't give an honorific/title are his brother and Dimple, and the only people Ritsu doesn't give an honorific are Dimple and Shou, who he just calls "Suzuki"

Reigen, on the other hand, is pretty inconsistent and casual with his use of honorifics. he says "Mob-kun" a couple times and "Ritsu-kun" once, but usually they're just Mob and Ritsu (or "Mob's brother" lmao). the only honorific he consistently uses is "Tome-chan"

it's infrequent, but both Reigen and Dimple refer to Mob as "my boy" at some point :') he's their boy!

Ritsu doesn't refer to the Awakening Lab kids at all until he asks their names after being kidnapped lmao the only exception is when he calls out to the older Shiratori brother after the younger one is taken away and he calls him "Shiratori-kun." considering the fact that after asking their names, he refers to both of them as Daichi-kun and Kaito-kun, I think there was absolutely a moment when everyone was freaking out about the Shiratori brothers where he was like "ohhhhh that's his name"

also he switches from "Onigawara-san" to "Onigawara-senpai" when he realizes he's friends with his brother lmao fakeass

even though Mob starts calling Teru "Hanazawa-kun" as soon as they exchange names, Teru doesn't give him the honorific until they decide to raid Claw together. I guess that's the point when he decides they're friendly enough for it? he calls Ritsu "brother-kun" as soon as he realizes they're related and never refers to him by his actual name

everyone calls Teru some variation on his nickname EXCEPT Mob and Dimple. Dimple actually only calls him "brat" and "that guy" for a while until he managed to track him down again during the alleyway incident, which I realized is because he was exorcised before learning Teru's name lskdjflkdsf from the Seventh Division arc onwards, he just calls him "Hanazawa"

I love that Dimple tries to refer to the brothers with cutesy nicknames and both of them are like "if you do that again I'm killing you all the way dead" and he's like "understood." and then refers to them by given name from then on lmao

Teru refers to Dimple as "Dimple-kun" and Tome calls him "Dimple-chan," both of which are SO funny to me because he's way older than them. rude as hell, this evil spirit deserves no respect

Shou doesn't use honorifics or titles for ANYONE. Ritsu is just Ritsu, the Ultimate 5 are all their last names, his dad is just Pops. he also exclusively refers to Mob as "Ritsu's brother" dkfjldskfj

Serizawa alternates between "Shigeo-kun" and "Kageyama-kun" with no real rhyme or reason to it. just seems to depend on his mood I guess

[corruptimles]

Thank you for all the comments and tags on Ibogamitrain! I’m eating the feedback as we speak.

In exchange, here’s a friend’s suggestion for the people that wanted me to give Reigen a break

more accurate depiction of me with your feedback:

[dragonciphering]

Just had a dream where Reigen (ego crushing extraordinaire) Arataka from Mob Psycho 100 somehow met the people form Blue lock and looked at all of them and went: “wow, look at all these egoists.”

And then preceded to give life advice….

[doopn00p]

30 day ekurei challenge

Day 6: Date Night

[woomiethehyperactivething]

my greatest work

[the-obnoxious-sibling]

reigen spin-off thoughts, pt 2: 〜the man with a MAX spirituality level of 131〜

…so, i did not expect to find the reigen spin-off’s titular spiritual levels as hysterical as i do. i think it’s mostly how gullible every psychic reigen’s ever met turns out to be? roshuto buys into it immediately. jodo even thinks it must be real, when he sees that roshuto and reigen are both familiar with the term.

(serizawa makes no comment on the matter.)

by summer 2014 every other psychic working in ajitama prefecture is gonna introduce themselves to clients by name and spiritual level, and reigen will have no one to blame for this but himself.

[eudikot]

Okay I've been brewing this for a while and gotta know

[hasthereigenmangabeenanimatedyet]

✨🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 June 30, 2023 | Day 82 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️✨

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[doctorsiren]

Okay, doodle request:

Reigen meeting Serizawa before Claw got to him. Maybe helping him start leaving his room?

I had a lot of fun with this one. I wanted it to parallel the scene of Serizawa meeting Suzuki, and so pages 6-8 are directly referenced from the manga (just in a flipped format so it reads left to right like the rest of the pages) and I also referenced some shots from the anime (like the final panel of page 10). For the dialogue in those middle pages, I referenced lines from the unofficial English translation of the manga, the official English translation of the manga, and the anime. (I was picking and choosing which lines I liked better). I also had fun with the colouring, which is something I love to do in comics especially. It starts out with Reigen in a muted, paler, desaturated palette with no highlights. But when he meets Mrs. Serizawa (I gave the name “Azumi” because it means something along the lines of “safe home/harbour”), she’s much more warmer and saturated and she has highlights. Once she starts explaining her son’s situation, that’s when Reigen has the variation of colour as well as the introduction of some small highlights. Then, the colour palette changes in every panel after that point. Serizawa is done with a grayscale palette, with the only colour on him being the bright light of the TV screen (reflecting video games as his only joy and his escape from reality). As Reigen talks to him, Reigen slowly start to lose some of that variety and saturation (AKA hope) he got from Mrs. Serizawa until he goes grayscale as well when he thinks that Serizawa might know he’s a fraud. He decides to switch up his approach and actually open up, which is what causes the variations in colour to return. Serizawa stops being grayscale in the panel where Reigen reveals that he too is lonely. (He’s a gray-blue palette, but it’s not true grayscale). The next page is in bright colours as Reigen opens up and doesn’t lie, which causes Serizawa to have bright colour as well, since now there is light and hope. In the page after that, Serizawa’s colour fades until he is grayscale again because it’s him not believing fully and still having doubts, while Reigen maintains that bright colour. (Also silly Falsettos reference on that page). I have Reigen’s colours shift from yellow until he reaches pink which is the colour I just have assigned as His Colour (since his tie is pink). Serizawa gains colour again and he shifts from that muted dark blue to finally orange (which is his colour) as he finally accepts Reigen’s help. The light from the TV is no longer coloured, and is just white, because Serizawa now has a new source of colour in his life (that being a real friend.) It ends with them being in their normal palettes at a normal happy saturation, contrasting the muted colours of the start of the comic. With the umbrella, I still wanted to include it and give it a role in the story, but in a different way from how Suzuki used it. While Suzuki used it to directly manipulate and control Serizawa, Reigen used it as a way to open up a choice for Serizawa to either let Reigen stay or make him leave. He asks Serizawa if he can sit and stay for a while since it’s raining outside and he didn’t bring an umbrella, despite clearly having done so. And then I ended the comic with a shot of the umbrella to emphasize that point.

Sorry for the long and probably unnecessary explanation. I just really love explaining my intentions and symbolisms in my art. Yeah I just had a good time over the last few days doing this :) I thought it was an interesting idea and I couldn’t think of a way to reflect it better than in a comic (which was also partially inspired by this wonderful Ageswap AU comic made by @fend13th about Reigen helping Serizawa)

[bug-slappy]

sharing my opinion here about serizawas design inconsistencies over time (spoilers for mp100 ending) i feel like in each new rendition of serizawa weve seen in official art ever since the start of S3 something feels off in a different way with every new merch release

lets start here ⬇ serizawa looks like,, himself. accurate to how hes drawn since his first anime appearance

⬇⬇⬇ and then slowly,,, things start to look off. his jawline is slowly getting slimmer, his eyes look wider (same with mobs too)

AND DONT EVEN GET ME STARTED ON THESE. especially the one on the right my god. who is that

every new promo art that comes out just feels very careless. I think you could say so for all the characters (mobs giant eyes, reigens waist getting skinnier/pointier features. the PROMO art of dimple that was literally FULLY TRACED OFF OF A TEMU PIRATE HALLOWEEN COSTUME. they all look bad here)

it just feels a little depressing how little they seem to care anymore, like theyre just trying to pump out merch without bothering to use a character reference.

i notice the changes the most with serizawa. every promo art looks like theyre playing a game of telephone. each version of him is based on the last, instead of his initial design (shown below)

at the end of S2, when reigen cuts serizawas hair, he still looks like himself. they did a great job of showing "how serizawa would look underneath his moustache and big hair". In S3 it feels like they've lost that mentality completely. like he's no longer based off of his original design, but an entirely new reference of his salary man look. some comparisons between S3 vs S2 and OVA down below

I find that the line weight in S3 is much heavier and unfocused. but what bothers me most of all is that... Serizawa looks different in nearly every scene... as if they're undecided on what he should look like. the shape of his nose and jaw, his hair all change depending on the episode entirely.

The art style change for S3 was meant to be "more accurate to the manga", but I find that it had the opposite effect. especially how serizawas and ritsus eye shapes changed. ritsus large pupils and serizawas more almond shaped eyes were more reflective of their manga designs there are plenty of inconsistences in S1 and 2, but they're clearly done with purpose to reflect on ONEs art style (my beloved). I feel like the thinner lines allow more room for detail and extreme facial expressions that truly hold a candle to ONEs insane talent for capturing emotions.

these ^^^ compared to..

erm.. this.. ⬇

just felt very underwhelming... and serizawa certainly does mellow out once he starts working at S&S, but that doesn't mean that there's less opportunity for detailed expressions !!

the yokai fight scene was beautifully made i have no qualms.. but the amount of serizawa lore and dialogue in the manga that got cut from the anime just made him look like a cardboard cut out standing behind everyone. lots of funny and interesting moments cut to make room for the moefication of serizawa katsuya..

I feel like there's a lot of important moments that were cut, (reigen "i hope i can become a partner like that" arataka, serizawa "ive had a similar experience myself" katsuya )

or sad, intense scenes that were made lighthearted (the body improvement club trying to help mob, mob and ??? dialogue being cut, reigen removing his shoes in the final arc made to be meant for better grip rather than... his passively suicidal tendencies )

i think the people at bones are very talented dont get me wrong, i just felt like S3 could have been adapted better. this keeps me up at night its like 1am :) anywhosies thank you for listening to my ted talk i love you

[bazoonga-bazinga]

He never knew what Mob meant when he said his powers go out of control

Finale Spoilers

This page is what broke me when I was reading the manga. 

Reigen never knew. He knew that Mob has lost control of his powers because Mob had told him about it when they had met

However, he never saw ??? in action. Ristu has seen ???. Teru has. Dimple has. We, the audience, have. Hell, even Touichirou can relate because he knows what it's like to have your psychic powers consume you and lose control of your body. But Reigen? This is the possibly first time he has even thought of this happening to Mob. On a surface level, he has no frame of reference for what is happening to Mob.

Despite this, in the end it was Reigen who dealt the final blow to stop Mob’s rampage. He did so the only way he knew how: by telling the truth. 

Whether or not Mob knew that Reigen was lying, before all this, doesn’t matter because the main point of Reigen saying he doesn’t have psychic powers was to help Mob realize that he isn’t alone when it comes to having a hidden side or a different identity. 

Everyone has or has had a part of himself they didn’t like. Reigen didn’t have the guts to let others see that part of himself before...

But to help Mob, he let Mob see that part of himself. He did it to push Mob to accept ??? as being a part of the rest of Kageyama Shigeo.

[cuttlefishink]

Serirei Week Day 4: Reunion/Curse

Really liking how this one came out!! :)

[Alternate versions below the cut + the page this was inspired by [WARNING FOR MAJOR SPOILERS FOR THE REIGEN SPINOFF MANGA]:

In reference to this moment from the Reigen spinoff manga:

[gofancyninjaworld]

Y'know, I'm not entirely comfortable with the way webcomic Garou has ended up

While Garou has kept a low profile since being defeated by Saitama, I think we've seen enough of him to start getting a general impression of what he's up to. I have to say, I'm not entirely happy to see how he is. Garou has become very subdued, working hard, keeping his head down, and avoiding trouble as much as he can. That sounds good on the surface, so what troubles me about it?

dutifully working away

First, he is not a twenty-something manchild who ought to know better being given a slap and told to straighten up. Reigen beating down the 7th Division of Claw and telling them off was entirely merited. Garou is eighteen[1]: he's a boy on the cusp of adulthood, and he's a kind and moral person who is really struggling to see what positive impact he can make. That's why he decided on the expansive and overly simplistic idea of unifying the world against him. For sure, he needed shutting down, but he needed building up too. I think he needed more guidance than just being told to pay for the food he stole.

He needed a bit more than that.

Second, something I know about ONE is that he doesn't have his characters change suddenly. Change, in his books, is realised through day-to-day changes. Even if a character's behaviour changes suddenly, their character hasn't changed: for example, Superalloy's behaviour may seem to have shifted suddenly, but it's grounded in the fact that he was always a fearful and insecure person... and his coping strategy has failed him, and so what we see is him flailing. When I see a dispirited Garou colouring carefully in between the lines and looking to cause no offence, I don't see a suddenly mature man. I see a child afraid to step out of line. And that saddens me.

It's not that I want him back to his hero-hunting days: that too, was an inauthentic expression of who Garou is. Honestly, the heroes have enough problems without yet another person beating them down. But I think he's a bit lost. I think he really needs someone like Bang to reach out to him and help him discover what it is he really wants to do next.

And that's okay, by the by. We all need guidance sometimes. Especially at points of transition.

Cultural Note

[1] While the law has changed recently, at the time ONE wrote these chapters, the age of majority was 20, not 18. ONE is still writing OPM without reference to the recently-changed IRL law. Understanding that is necessary to understand why Garou was released to Bang's care in the manga, and why the Hero Association reached out to his parents first. You also need to understand that to appreciate why Saitama took the alcholic drink away from Tatsumaki when she tried to offer it to Genos in the OAV.

[princeson]

Can you draw Dimple wearing nerdy glasses and a red bow tie...?

woohoo, with ten minutes to spare, I'm technically not late for Dimple Friday!! and i had time to color it let's goooo!!

@baderpfulu thanks for the hilarious suggestion, i hope you enjoy this very nerdy dimple (thought i'd leave the refs i used in because they're just really funny to me lol yes i used that ugly manga reigen as reference for the expression don't judge me xD)

anyway i'm tired happy Dimple Friday everyone I'll see y'all next week *mwah*

Dimple Friday #18

[laithraihan]

Sorry for this stupid question, I haven’t read mp100 yet just binge watched the anime, but I see you say that manga and anime Reigen is different, I’ve strolled around the fandom for the past few days and have not seen any other one brought this up so I’m just curious how was the anime differs (and btw do you have a strawpage or something like that i wanna draw you something 😊)

Not a stupid question at all 👍 I havent finished watching season 3 but I completed the manga years ago, so my memory might not be very good but I dont think theres any difference between manga/anime Reigen when it comes to his personality, at least nothing very significant (like the hand gimmick he has and other small things the anime left out from the manga. I think there were more things about him that were anime-only but it doesnt affect the story). Only their palettes are very different but I think color choices matter a lot when it comes to building a character so that's why I consider them two separate characters.

I remember reading something where ONE wanted anime Reigen to have a blue tie, but the character designer convinced him to pick a pink tie instead, because blue was too formal, and an unnatural tie color (pink) would be more fitting because it makes Reigen look more like a fraud. I thought it was a poor choice, but it's small things like this that make me think he's being interpreted differently.

Thats entirely my own perspective, but Reigen is a very average guy to me. He has his own quirks, likes to have flashy websites and colorful posters to advertise his business, but appearance-wise he doesnt stand out from others, that's the impression I got when I first read the manga. Others think he's more flashy in appearance, which is fine too. I prefer coloring him with his manga palette because I mostly take ONE's art as reference whenever I draw, and coloring him with brown hair is more fitting since it was what ONE initially meant to portray him (and I think brown hair is better in general) I like his black tie too, but Ive been coloring him with a red tie more often now, sometimes dark purple. I wonder what blue would look like on him if it did end up in the final design for Reigen... I might color him with it one day.

Also I do not have a strawpage, I'm sorry 💔 At least not for the moment. Maybe eventually I'll open a page 👍 Thank you a lot for your message 🫶💜

[aiura-stan]

Onto 0-5!

I like that the format has gone back to pretty straight forward. “I’m Saiki Kusuo, and I’m an esper.” The word for esper that Saiki uses in the main manga is chyounoryokushya (超能力者) as opposed to reinouryokusha (霊能力者) used in Mob Psycho to describe Mob, which I find interesting. (Mob is called a ‘spirit medium’ by Reigen because he can exorcise ghosts, even though that’s far from where his abilities end.)

I have always liked the catch of teleportation requiring “apportation” of something in its place, and the items needing to be “worth” the same amount.

Ah! So he did explain that her phone is worth the same amount as the bowling ball. And also, I like that Ike san’s “worth” issue is explained right away. No silly, Ike san isn’t worth 500 yen… that’s just all he had on him at the time.

Not to go back to Mob Psycho again, but I am pretty sure that Chuono uses the same word for “master” to refer to Saiki as Mob uses to refer to Reigen; 師匠/‘shishou.’ I think. At least in the anime.

Also holy shit I am Chuono’s age now?! 😬

That means I have been a fan of this manga for… four years?!? oh my god.

I need to figure out the exact month I started watching so I can celebrate my saiki-versary. I believe it was some time early in 2020… or it could have been late 2019.

Here we go! Another scene left out of the anime. We have the inclusion of Janet, Chuono’s new assistant who is actually a spy sent by another magician.

Ah, Saiki’s weakness: people who are honest with themselves and feel regret for the scummy things they did

Yes, what a coincidence…

And that will do it for 0-5💫