Mob Psycho 100 II Episode 9 Discussion

MarioAk_ said:
Imo it was a shame what Mob Psycho did to us.
I mean, I expected more than a cheap trick from this series.
Giving us a giant plot twist killing Mob's family, forcing us to wait one week and then saying "nah fam it was a joke everyone's ok and Mob is no longer out of control" is fucking low, dude.

nerojeko said:
Honestly, I expected them to be actually dead, after all they actually were dummies, damn. World domination huh? That seems interesting, seems like this is the ultimate arc of this season. The espers actually are powerful, those guys are genuinely strong, though Mob could probably easily beat all of them up in an instant. Good episode regardless.

Tralegy said:


Perhaps you missed the part where the Series is listed under “Drama, Action, COMEDY”?

MarioAk_ said:
Yeah I find it way too lame. I would expect that from some shonen or isekai, but Mob Psycho is one of my fav anime from the recent years and I was pretty dissappointed seeing that bait here. Dororo made the same thing last week, so I'm losing interest in those two shows if they're gonna treat me like a retard with no critical view.

MarioAk_ said:
Yeah I find it way too lame. I would expect that from some shonen or isekai, but Mob Psycho is one of my fav anime from the recent years and I was pretty dissappointed seeing that bait here. Dororo made the same thing last week, so I'm losing interest in those two shows if they're gonna treat me like a retard with no critical view.

bitchassdarius said:
3 different characters explain their powers unprompted. for how good the art is, the scripts are frustratingly amateur, and i mean legitimately amateur, as if written by a college student in a scriptwriting 101 class. every character has to explain every little detail that doesn't matter, like how hanazawa tells the guy from claw how he ended up sensing him in the park.

bitchassdarius said:
there's so much dumb shit that the audience doesn't really need to know that is spoonfed to them for no real reason, sometimes to the point of actually hurting the show. the uneasiness surrounding the veracity of dimple's attempt to calm mob down would have actually been materialized if they didn't spell it out for the audience by having reigen ask dimple if he was lying or not. they didn't need to do this, especially since 5 minutes later it's confirmed his family is unharmed anyway. this is just redundant, useless writing and it's actively bad.

Steppenfuchs said:

I'm not saying this series has stellar writing all the time but it was mentioned that most of the Claw members are childish and had basically no real life social interaction.

And a lot of main characters are literally 13 year old. of course Teru may be irresponsible, he's a kid

Nidhi_Manju said:

i think you kind of missed the point of that dialogue with dimple and reigen. it's more for the sake of showing their character development rather than creating suspense regarding whether mob's family is okay. dimple specifically is a character who previously only lied to mob for the sake of using him. instead, him and reigen both decide to lie to mob for the sake of protecting him, even though they both know he would hate both of them for it if he found out.

bitchassdarius said:

not really, your logic doesn't really even follow. even if it's "about character development" that doesn't take away from the fact that the whole scene was cut into a cliffhanger in the last episode, i.e. it was directed completely for suspense for the next episode. i'm told it's not separate chapters in the manga and that the ambiguity of dimple's lie to mob is more evident than in the anime. how it's cut in the anime is completely for suspense, the viewer can't stop thinking "is mob's parents dead or not" because of how the scene was cut, so any consideration for "character development" plays a back seat. my observation isn't a criticism on what it should be, more so it's based on what was actually intended.
also what makes you think dimple lied solely "for the sake of protecting him?" mob goes out to antagonize claw anyway, so that idea falls flat. it's a little more obvious that dimple lied to mob so mob wouldn't go ballistic and hurt everyone and everything around him, i think your reading is a bit nebulous.

Nidhi_Manju said:

my point was that the scene with reigen and dimple wasn't actually redundant, as you stated before. it was highlighting their desire to protect mob emotionally, and FROM HIMSELF, not from claw. that's why mob thanks dimple for stopping him from going on a total rampage. of course, you can have whatever interpretation you like. :)