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FLASH WARNING ⚠️

"all our food KEEPS BLOWING UP"

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really loving reigen's narrative powers of "i'm a comedic character, if it's funny i can pull it off" and "fuck genre conventions this is a fourteen year old you're beating up are you people FUCKING INSANE"

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can you imagine the weeks following mob and teru's first fight from the point of view from all teru's classmates who now have to watch him suddenly suck shit at everything

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One thing that makes the mind control in the Divine Tree arc sooooo creepy to me is how much the brainwashed characters still act like themselves. A lot of the time in fiction when characters are mind-controlled they become zombie-like or robotic, with their original personalities suppressed. Or sometimes they become actively sinister, an "evil version" of themselves.

Obviously Divine Tree doesn't do that. Dimple's telling the truth when he says he hasn't changed anyone's personality, he's just given them something new to care about. "A blessing for those who have nothing and long for a place to belong." And that's horrifying. Both because it feels like in some ways a deeper violation than simply making someone pretend to be a person they're not, and because it means that the effect it creates is basically the same as people who have been taken in by cult rhetoric in the real world. The Divine Tree doesn't use magic to create effects that can only be achieved by magic; it uses it to speedrun the radicalization process.

The Divine Tree Arc isn't the horror of having someone you know replaced by an alien consciousness. It's the horror of knowing that the person standing against you is really your friend, your classmate, your brother, your mentor--they just care about something new now. And it's the horror of knowing that when push comes to shove, they're always going to care about that new thing more than they care about you.

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Istg these bastards CANNOT make promo art where they don’t look like a family

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day 1 — spirit/ghost

i did not know what to draw even tho i had several things from canon to choose from. Anyways here have this

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happy birthday reigen!!! everyone loves you so very much my dear :')

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Made this last year and bringing it back

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HAPPY BDAY REIGEN 🎉🎉🎉 (I’m one day late but that’s fine)

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Anyway, here is my pitch to the merch makers of mob psycho 100 for an official wawa plush

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"Reigen was extorting free labor from Mob", "Mob working at spirits and such is child labor"

I mean yes kinda but also that is so not the point.

Reigen and Mob first met when Mob was ten. Mob asked if he could come back. Mob needed companionship and life advice and a safe space to hang out, all of which Reigen provided. Mob gets paid in pocket change and food and snacks at the office. In return, Reigen gets to not die a horrible and gruesome death once a week.

It's a mentoring relationship. They're friends.

Mob doesn't need money. Mob isn't at the office to get money. If Mob genuinely needed and wanted a part time job, then yeah, 300 yen an hour is bullshit and he should book it out of there. But the two just needed an excuse for Mob to hang out and Mob meeting spirits and going to excorcisms was probably helping a lot with feeling in control of his powers in the first place.

Is it always the healthiest friendship? Absolutely not. It's explicitly adressed that Reigen has come to rely on Mob a little too much sometimes and increasingly doesn't respect his boundaries. That's also what made Mob bail in five seconds flat and he only came back when Reigen apologized. Not because Mob wanted the 300 yen give or take a bowl of ramen and some plant seeds back. But because these were friends having a conflict and they talked it out and wanted to hang out again.

Do you think Mob has a work contract? Set work hours? Do you think either of them care?

They are friends, your honour, who cares about the pocket change.

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what plays in my head every moment reigen is onscreen

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shigeo when ritsu tries to destroy the bouquet: omg noooooooo 😭😭😭 stop ittttttttttt

shigeo when teru tries to destroy the bouquet:

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