Mob Psycho 100 II

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Synonyms: Mob Psycho 100 2nd Season, Mob Psycho Hyaku, Mob Psycho One Hundred

Japanese: モブサイコ100 II

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Type: TV

Episodes: 13

Status: Finished Airing

Aired: Jan 7, 2019 to Apr 1, 2019

Premiered: Winter 2019

Broadcast: Mondays at 23:00 (JST)

Producers: Warner Bros. Japan, KlockWorx, BS Fuji, Hakuhodo DY Music & Pictures, Shogakukan

Licensors: Funimation

Studios: Bones

Source: Web manga

Genres: Action, Comedy, Supernatural

Theme: Super Power

Duration: 24 min. per ep.

Rating: PG-13 - Teens 13 or older

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Score: 8.79¹ (scored by 963,785 users)

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Ranked: #34²

² based on the top anime page. Please note that 'Not yet aired' and 'R18+' titles are excluded.

Popularity: #72

Members: 1,526,624

Favorites: 32,334

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Ranked #34Popularity #72Members 1,526,624

Episodes: /13

Synopsis

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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Adaptation:	Mob Psycho 100
Prequel:	Mob Psycho 100
Side story:	Mob Psycho 100: Dai Ikkai Rei toka Soudansho Ian Ryokou - Kokoro Mitasu Iyashi no Tabi
Sequel:	Mob Psycho 100 III

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Characters & Voice Actors

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

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Bezerra, Wendel

Producer

Minami, Masahiko

Producer, Planning

Matsuda, Akio

Producer

Kondou, Shuuhou

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Opening Theme

"99.9" by MOB CHOIR feat. sajou no hana

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Ending Theme

	1: "Gray (グレイ)" by sajou no hana (eps 1, 7)
	2: "Memosepia (メモセピア)" by sajou no hana (eps 2-4, 6, 8-12)
	3: "Mabuta no Ura (目蓋の裏)" by sajou no hana (eps 5)
	4: "Ikiru Hitobito (いきるひとびと)" by sajou no hana (eps 13)

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Jan 18, 2024

elthreedotcomma

Recommended

"Just having powers doesn't mean everything works out for you. But that's perfectly fine, as long as you make the important choices yourself. I'm the protagonist of my own life."

Building off of its previous season, Mob Psycho 100 II delivers a much-improved masterful narrative, with heightened action choreography. What it has given to the world is a masterpiece of a story about kindness and power.

Unlike its previous season, this one is anything but a lighthearted comedy. There are some comedic aspects, but the majority of it is serious. This tonal shift has been handled extremely well. Characters have been used and built up adeptly, as ...

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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.

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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, ...

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