#bc even though they’re very different shows they deconstruct similar concepts and both heavily center a mentor-student relationship

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mob does indeed have powers!

reigen as a gay furry uncle is such a beautiful image. i don’t think he would know what a furry is but tome (a strange and intense girl + friend of mob’s who ends up working for reigen post-canon) would probably design him a fursona.

mob psycho 100 is a show about a 14 year old middle schooler named shigeo kageyama, who people call mob because he looks like a background character. he’s kind of a loser- he doesn’t have friends, his grades are bad, and he sucks at sports. he doesn’t stand out to the point that his little brother is The Most Popular Guy In School and most ppl still don’t know he exists. pretty much the only thing this kid has going for him is the Incredible Godlike Psychic Powers. he could disassemble a building like it’s made of legos without breaking a sweat. he’s most likely the most powerful psychic on earth. however, he doesn’t really use his powers, and mostly just lives a normal life.

that is, except for his part-time job at local exorcist conman Reigen Arataka’s business Spirits and Such, where he uses his powers to identify and exorcise any real spirits that come their way. bc reigen is a conman with zero powers, lying about being The 21st Century’s Greatest Psychic. (reigen pays mob less than $3 an hour btw good thing for him this kid doesn’t know what a union is)

the main struggle of mob psycho 100 is with mob’s emotions. on the surface, he doesn’t seem to have any! this is because in mp100, psychic powers are fueled by emotion, and mob is so afraid of his own power that he represses 100% of his emotions 99% of the time. there’s a meter in the show, that ticks from 0 to 100 as things push mob closer to his breaking point- and when they do, he has an autistic meltdown and shit goes Down.

the story itself is a coming of age type thing, where mob grows as a person, comes to terms with himself, makes friends, and of course undergoes extremely traumatic events. it’s also really really good and if you watch it you are unlikely to emerge the same person as when you started. 100/10 show

I think you have given me a very skewed perception of what mob psycho is about, and I don't know if I want a correction or not

(this is a request for an infodump of whatever flavor you're up to)

i could infodump to you for days but now i’m so so curious. what impression have i given you of mob psycho 100. what do you think the shows about from how i’ve been posting about it