Mob Psycho 100 II Episode 10 Discussion

MonkeyDHunter said:
Lol Reigen's cologne is quite something. It was hard to see the body improvement club members getting beaten by Sibata after showing how much they care about Mob but I was glad that Musashi managed to subdue him even if he needed Ekubo's help. I liked the boss' atitude that he doesn't let anything affect his positiveness because of his own ego. He's quite the opposite of Mob who is finally awake too.

Germs_N_Spices said:


It's quite apparent but each antagonist in the series acts as a foil to Mob and a possibility of what Mob might've become. Teru was Mob if Mob never met Tsubomi (and therefore never developed an inferiority complex), and the Claw Boss is what Teru would've become if he had grown up never having met Mob.

MonkeyDHunter said:


That is indeed true too which makes me wonder how Teru would possibly end up if he didn't get a reality check from Mob whose policy is to not abuse his psychic powers on other people, something that he also embraced afterwards but instead lose for the first time against someone like Shimazaki.

bitchassdarius said:

in which these literal who characters give an unsolicited explanation of how they might have a chance against Minegishi's powers because of basically pokemon rules. this is the type of handholding baby writing that's a staple on yu-gi-oh, except it makes sense in yu-gi-oh because they're playing a card game that has rules. mob psycho is just really good art with really bad writing, and it's frustrating because it doesn't need to be this way.

bitchassdarius said:
the first scene with Minegishi encapsulates everything that's so frustrating about this show.



here you have a really top-notch cut. the composition is great, it's balanced and your eyes are directed where it needs to be for the focus of the scene to work. on top of that, the colour palette is really something else, with the colour of clothes reflected proportionally in Minegishi's plants backed by the grey derelict rubble, allowing the key figures to pop. the cut right after this is


in which these literal who characters give an unsolicited explanation of how they might have a chance against Minegishi's powers because of basically pokemon rules. this is the type of handholding baby writing that's a staple on yu-gi-oh, except it makes sense in yu-gi-oh because they're playing a card game that has rules. mob psycho is just really good art with really bad writing, and it's frustrating because it doesn't need to be this way.

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?

JizzyHitler said:
The animation this episode was off the charts

Venumidas said:
I don't understand this show sometimes, for some reason it felt like a lot of Animation aspects have been lacking and I say that full well knowing how many great things this episode showed off.

So what I'm trying to say here is, that even tho I feel like this Episodes animation kinda felt worse then the usual and even full well knowing that some animation in there is still outstanding, I feel like they are holding back a bit before the storm (Looking at the Preview, yeah seems about right).

So even when Mob is at it's lowest, it still realistically is way too high, damn this show is just amazing.

If you felt like I tried to explain what I meant poorly, then you are not alone, I also don't really get why I have this feeling.

After rewatching some scenes I have even less of a clue why I felt this episode felt like a small downgrade from the usual stuff, wtf am I saying.