Mob Psycho 100 II Episode 10 Discussion

Modernoir said:

Are you serious? You're still trying to be a contrarian by forcing your unsubstantiated "critique" that a show's animation is lacking or bad even with this show too? You've either only ever seen absolute masterpieces in the medium to have such vague critiques all the time or you're simply trying far too hard to try and see negative points in a show. Does it not affect your enjoyment always looking so hard to criticise something? I'm not even trying to blindly defend, it's just that you always make these sorts of comments that just seem like random attacks on a show's quality just for the sake of doing so.

Venumidas said:


You did not seem to read my comment, you absolute 0 IQ idiot.

This is my personal highest rates show (I know I have a few 10's but this show is simply better)

-Stray said:
The only word I can think of to sum this episode
MUSCLE
I liked how Musashi was talking about Mob always being there behind them which then pushes them beyond their limits cause y'know, having someone follow you just pushes you to go even further.
Dimple kicking ass this episode, I wonder if everything will fit in with the remaining 3 eps.. damn only 3 more eps... monday's are gonna be boring again after Mob ends.
There better be a damn S3 Bones!
NEP Mob enters the war! this gonna be good!

HereticHunter said:
Great episode. Dimple releasing his inner JoJo with 100% Muscle was great. And seems like shit just got real, I wonder what happened to the guys in the sewer as Shimazaki went there by himself.

Ayyyy, Mob is finally awake! Insert AYYAYYAYYAYY Theme here





I'm sorry to break it for ya but... You missed the Ritsu's scene on your rant, which completes this scene as a joke and crumbles your rant. It seems that you forgot for a second that there is a comedy tag for this show...

lunarxlunar said:

It's a pretty common trope and not inherently problematic. It's simply adds some nuance to the fight where different abilities take advantages in their environement.
Plus that's besides the point of mob psycho. It's more about characters who are grounded in reality, even though they have psychic abilities, trying to have a normal life and growing up from entitlement and narcissim.
If you want to see nuanced/creative mechanics in supernatural abiilities you watch hunter x hunter, or jojo.

I could say this arc contains the weakest parts of the story since the slice of life aspects of this show is much more interesting and there are so many fights and fodder characters in this arc but can you really ask for more from such a great show/manga?

I dont know. For a story that has never been all that about fights (only writing wise, ofc anime creates a lot of spectacles), at this point of the story, could it suddenly make fights entertaining when there were no settings to back it up at all? And both sides are fodder characters. Do we want to see these fights dragged out more or do we want to see interesting characters to grow?

bitchassdarius said:
the scriptwriting just fucking sucks.

bitchassdarius said:

i don't think you know what you're talking about. your defense is laughably bad because then i could just throw all the character development under the bus as just "comedy." you seem to be conflating the concept of "parodying shounen tropes" which this is clearly not with "comedy."


try to convince me this is parodying a shounen trope when every single character does this. remember that guy that makes smoke explaining his power to the head of claw for no reason in the last episode? remember in this episode when the muscle dude attempted to explain how he uses psychic to increase his muscle mass WHEN THIS SAME POWER WAS EXPLAINED BY SOME OTHER LITERAL WHO IN THE LAST EPISODE? it's redundant, it's lazy, and it's bad writing. "inherently problematic" my ass.

i don't even understand your argument. you claim mob isn't about the fights, but then doing this dumb shit "adds nuance." so what is it? either the fights are important or they're not. here's occam's razor: neither of that matters, the scriptwriting just fucking sucks.

L0ken said:
Fuck this episode was great,Sibata was fucking monsterous looking,Musashi moment hit me in my kokoro.

uninstallthegame said:
holy shit, i can't believe he did it. the madman did it. what a champ

Death-Shadow said:
the pacing is very bad

Ataccot said:
Body Improvement Club being best bros yet again. 100% Muscle Usage Musashi was badass!

All this great buildup oml, and Mob is now awake. Cannot wait to see how things go down. It hurts so much having to wait another week ughhh.

lunarxlunar said:

No I didnt say it's parody. I think I've made my point clear enough.
Those are weaker parts of the story. But that's like just two episodes. (Actually this scene only made up a small portion of this ep. And we are already getting great character moments. ) It's far from being "frustrating", not for the whole show. The nuance is just icing on the cake trying to keep things more interesting. And fights are still entertaining thanks to Bones cutting out some of the relatively unimportant fights and keeping the consequential or character focused ones. Also, superb animation.
I keep saying those parts are weaker but I dont think they have "tainted" the show at all. This show is still an inspiring, refreshing piece which teaches young people or adults to be better people amongst all the other things that I dont bother to criticize at this point.

Kowing youre probably a troll, I respond anyway just to see what youll say. Lol

Zura_Orokamono said:
Holy shit! Was that a motherfucking Berserk reference?!

Zura_Orokamono said:
Holy shit! Was that a motherfucking Berserk reference?!

bitchassdarius said:

there really isn't one bit of good scripting here. the fact that the script takes a little time proportionally is just a matter of fact of how dialogue works. you could compress all lines spoken into less than 40% of a 21 minute episode, and that's being generous. that doesn't change the fact that the scripting is bad, and since the actual plot stuff is important to the story the show chooses to tell, this means that a very integral portion of the show's storytelling (the script) is bad. minimizing the importance of the script actually just shows how bad the script really is.
flcl is the perfect example that tells a visual story yet manages to use its script very eloquently to convey and progress its narrative. you could argue that the script isn't important in mob psycho (even though it is), but 1) when you have a show like flcl that deemphasizes the script yet maintains the same level of quality in the script and 2) the story being told relies on establishing relations between characters via dialogue, i can't say i'm impressed.

HereticHunter said:



I'm sorry to break it for ya but... You missed the Ritsu's scene on your rant, which completes this scene as a joke and crumbles your rant. It seems that you forgot for a second that there is a comedy tag for this show...

Can you elaborate on which parts of the scripting feel wrong to you? Especially for the best episodes, s2 ep7, 6 and 1.
I didnt find anything especially redundant in those.
I dont find any problems with dialogues as long as they are used well. Talking is just a part of life and how are you supposed to portray the life of a kid trying to socialize and be popular without heavy dialogues. (Probably not even that heavy)

I mean Im not a film expert but I dont think show dont tell means you shouldnt have too many dialogues. It means you dont tell the message directly. Social Network has a lot of dialogues but its still great. Oh from wiki it even won best adapted screenplay from academy award, ok.

bitchassdarius said:

you're misunderstanding what i'm saying. i'm not saying anything about "too many dialogues." is english your second language? genuinely curious, i admire greatly those that are bilingual and multilingual. however, in no way did imply that the amount of dialogues is the problem. what i did mean was that since dialogue is such an important method this show chooses to direct it's narrative progression, then the QUALITY of the dialogue should be analyzed. and by no means can this be considered good dialogue.

for instance, not even 5 minutes into the first episode of s2, you have a villain, the plant possessing spirit, tell mob that all he's doing is destroying "but a tiny portion of the plants I control." tell me, under what situation would any person in a fight reveal to the person that he is fighting his weakness? if i'm fighting you, why would i tell you that i'm right handed? this shit doesn't make any sense, and this level of dialogue is typically found in the ubiquitous shounen jump battle anime that isn't really known for quality scripting. i could go into the other episodes you listed but i dont have much time at the time i'm writing this to do so.





if you think any of the bad scripting is a joke, you either A) don't know what a joke is; or B) don't know what a parody is. there is nothing parodic about mob psycho, and it's not a joke when a bunch of characters do the same thing over and over again. mob psycho is not a parody, if you think it is the onus is on you to prove it. even if by some twisted understanding of comedy we consider this a joke, then this is a joke that has been beaten more than a dead horse, in which case what we have here is bad comedy. so if you really with to die on this absurd hill you label as "jokes," then you're just saying mob psycho does shitty comedy, which is up to you to defend that claim. but you're not going to do either, since your reading comprehensions skills are as bad as "watching" comprehensions skills,

Modernoir said:
I can't be bothered to fully devote myself in your petty argument but you should realise how subjective the crux of your argument is entirely.