Mob Psycho 100 II

Shigeo "Mob" Kageyama is now maturing and understanding his role as a supernatural psychic that has the power to drastically affect the livelihood of others. He and his mentor Reigen Arataka continue to deal with supernatural requests from clients, whether it be exorcizing evil spirits or tackling urban legends that haunt the citizens.

While the workflow remains the same, Mob isn't just blindly following Reigen around anymore. With all his experiences as a ridiculously strong psychic, Mob's supernatural adventures now have more weight to them. Things take on a serious and darker tone as the dangers Mob and Reigen face are much more tangible and unsettling than ever before.

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Reigen, Arataka Main

Sakurai, Takahiro Japanese

Kageyama, Shigeo Main

Itou, Setsuo Japanese

Ekubo Main

Ootsuka, Akio Japanese

Hanazawa, Teruki Supporting

Matsuoka, Yoshitsugu Japanese

Kageyama, Ritsu Supporting

Irino, Miyu Japanese

Gouda, Musashi Supporting

Seki, Toshihiko Japanese

Kurata, Tome Supporting

Tanezaki, Atsumi Japanese

Serizawa, Katsuya Supporting

Hoshino, Takanori Japanese

Shimazaki, Ryou Supporting

Sugiyama, Noriaki Japanese

Suzuki, Shou Supporting

Kokuryu, Sachi Japanese

Bezerra, Wendel Producer

Minami, Masahiko Producer, Planning

Matsuda, Akio Producer

Oomori, Shinji Producer

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May 9, 2024

Shirogari

Recommended

The second season of Mob Psycho 100, while noticeably more serious than the first season, is still able to maintain its comedy and appeal and is an overall great second season.

The characters are still one of the best parts of Mob psycho. Lots of characters, even side characters that you'd assume were unimportant when they were first introduced, return in the second season. The cool part about this is that it's not only the main characters that get character development, even most of the side characters appear to have changed in some way when they appear again. The main characters are obviously more important ... though and particularly Mob and Reigen go through a lot in this season.

The story follows the climax of the first season with a few calmer episodes focussed more on character growth before switching to another conflict. Because of the more serious character development early on and more action later on, there is noticeably less comedy in this season. The story is still fun to watch though and I'm glad I now know why there was broccoli in the openings of the first and second seasons.

The animation is still in Mob's signature silly style but it does have some surprisingly great looking animation when it wants to and the fights look great and dynamic. The voice acting and music were good.

Overall this is a good second season and it's likely that if you liked the first season, you'll enjoy this one too.

Reviewer’s Rating: 9

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Apr 20, 2024

GranzchestaRev

Mixed Feelings

Mob Psycho 100 II is a mixed bag. While it keeps the ball rolling around the character writing coming from the first season and even elevating it in some points, it's utterly disappointing in the production qualities compared to the first season—because all the passion that went into the first season is lost here—and chooses the easiest and laziest way in its last arc.

Mob Psycho continues with the usual stuff in the second season; exorcism requests, dealing with spirits, and Mob's daily life. As in the first season, the first half focuses on Mob's everyday life & character development, and the second half revolves around ... the quarrel with Claw. However, we have heavier story arcs this time. They still have the wholeheartedness of the first season from time to time, but most of the first half deals with the more serious stuff. Mob faces conflicts that make him grow as a person even more. And his character development that carries over from the first season is written as good. All the various events and the people he encounters affect his character in one way or another—be it him meeting with the most powerful esper of the 20th century or a dilemma on whether to exorcise a spirit family. However, despite there being no major problem with Mob's character writing, Mob Psycho 100 II has a grim mistake that season one didn't have. In the first season, whenever Mob grew as a character and a person, the show didn't bring any extra effort to shove it into our eyes because it wasn't necessary. Any viewer who watched the show carefully would easily see Mob was growing. But the second season comes with one of the most unnecessary additions. In this season, there are some scenes where a side character will comment on some of Mob's actions with something like, "Wow, Mob, you really grew so much!" despite it being as clear as day, and they are trying to make his growth more extraordinary than it actually is. Yes, Mob really grew, but the amount of this growth and the reactions from the other characters don't match. It's like the author wanted to conclude Mob's character arc in these arcs but wasn't able to write a development that is enough to achieve this and tried to cover it with reactions from the other characters. And this causes a massive contrast between the themes and the narrative. This series is about Mob gaining self-confidence, yet the author's pen is full of insecurity.

Other than Mob's character arc, we finally get a deeper look into Reigen's character in the first half of this season. We learn how his life was before opening an office for exorcism jobs and meeting with Mob, what was his ambitions, and the people he met; we also get a chance to see how he holds himself up without the help of Mob. He gets a solid character arc for two episodes and makes us remember why he is such a lovable and charismatic character. However, this character arc ends on such a weak note. Although we watch his struggles for two straight episodes, the spotlight during the climax of this mini-arc is dedicated to Reigen praising Mob for how much he grew. Yes, as I said in my review of the first season, most of the characters serving as catalysts to Mob's character development is a good technique to use in a series like Mob Psycho. But Reigen is the second most important character in this series, and I'd like to see him shine in his character arc instead of ending up as a tool for Mob's character development.

All of the things I talked about in the last two paragraphs were about the first seven episodes. In the last five episodes, we get the continuation of the quarrel with Claw that's left from the first season, and, unfortunately, the Claw arc isn't good this time. Firstly, the shift between the previous episodes and the Claw arc isn't as smooth as the first season. In the previous season, the transition that had been done with Ritsu's character arc and Mob raiding the Claw's base was done naturally with the addition of different plot points through the episodes in the middle of the season. But this season, we got only one plot point used to establish the transition, and it's a very cheap shock value event. This is the first blunder of the "World Domination Arc" and it is also the less infuriating one. There are various blunders in this arc, and we can summarize most of them with one statement: Generic Battleshounen Tropes. All the characters, except for Serizawa and Mob, are one-dimensional space wastes. Especially the main antagonist is such a disappointment. After all the characters I saw in the first season, I expected the boss of the organization to have strong ideals and compelling personality traits. But what we got is an "I seek world domination because I'm the most powerful person in the world!" type of villain that doesn't bring any intriguing element to the table. The author tried to give him some personality in the last episode, but a 50-second flashback isn't a way to do this.

Other than the characters, the dialogues in the action scenes are also bland and generic. The action itself is still very creative and animated very well, but most of the dialogue is full of typical, "I'm stronger than you!" "No, I'm stronger than you!" type of guff and the unnecessary explanations of the things we already can see on the screen. It's very sorrowful to see a show that should've been the parody of battle shounens comes up with the most generic battle shounen tropes in its biggest arc.

Well, even though the writing has some ups and downs this season, it's still Mob Psycho 100 at the end of the day, so the production qualities should be impressive, right? Yes, it still looks and sounds way better than most of the TV anime, but it also is definitely worse than the first season and kind of a disappointment.

First and foremost, the passion is lost. The animation style in this season is way too bland compared to the first season. The unique techniques used in the previous season (fluid character actings, different types of shadings like cross-hatching and smudging, etc.) are either absent or used rarely, the character actings aren't as expressive, the shadings & highlights are worse, and the artwork is less detailed. As I said before, the action itself is still very creative and animated very well, but other than that, only episode five stands out. The animation in this season is still exceptional, but it doesn't feel like the same people who made the first season made it. Here, see some screenshots from the second season; if you think I cherry-picked these ones, you can open two random scenes that belong to two random episodes from both seasons and compare them, and you will see the difference very clearly unless they are action scenes or from episode 5 of the second season.

At least the auditory quality of the show is still somewhat the same. The voice-acting performances are still good, despite not having any striking moments. Kenji Kawai brought us new fantastic soundtracks. And since the comedy has reduced so much, the mismatch between the soundtracks and the sound effects happens way less than in the first season.

I'm aware this review was shaped negatively overall, although the season is somewhat okay. But I can't get over how big a disappointment this season was. It has very high moments like the climax scenes of episodes 5 and 7, but the downsides I talked about are overshadowing the good parts.

Reviewer’s Rating: 6

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Dec 25, 2023

ezbie

Not Recommended

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This show is, you know, bad. Not gonna spend a lot of time talking about this, I'll try to sum up why it fail in comparison to the first season:
1. Everyone is OP. A lot of the supporting cast and antagonists are as powerful or even more than mob, breaking the premise upon which the first season was built.
2. It's not fun. Season one was fun and didn't take itself seriously. This one tries to be more mature and cuts down on the amount of jokes, it didn't work well. The jokes that do show up come out of place or are too predictable, ... like reigen's foolish techniques, they overused this device in the first season and when it came up on the second I totally knew what was going to happen
3. All fights are between OP characters that destroy the whole scenario around, boring...

Nah, I wasted my time watching this.

Reviewer’s Rating: 4

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