Mob Psycho 100 II Episode 10 Discussion

xZabuzax said:
Is episodes like these that makes me dislike this anime, while the episode wasn't bad I was cringing in some parts, for example how the fitness trainer guy was protecting Shigeo from getting stomped by that esper guy, I don't care how strong that fitness trainer body is but there's no fucking way in hell his body would have handled that stomp without being turned to pieces because that esper guy can destroy rocks and boulders easily and a rock is plenty times stronger than a human body so yeah, that part was fucking stupid. With that stomp the fitness trainer guy should have died or at least have his spinal cord broken for fucks sake.

I can understand the part where Dimple possessed the fitness trainer guy to gain super powers and by that point being able to resist the stomp or whatever but not when he was a normal human being.

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

Nurguburu said:
The show is getting better.

Reigen defeating all of them with a spray is hilarious.

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

Stark700 said:
Dimple's fight this episode was dope.

Germs_N_Spices said:


Isn't it rather petty to find fault regarding realism in a minor transition scene of a supernatural anime show that constantly plays with abstract art? You might as well argue that fire doesn't flicker the way it is drawn or that the amount Reigen sweats on a daily basis isn't healthy for an adult human. Not to mention Captain's resilience could easily be explained away by the ambiguity of the exact moment Dimple possessed him.

xZabuzax said:


Yeah it is indeed rather petty to find fault on these type of scenes because this is a shounen anime and these type of animes are supposed to be full of crap like these that makes no sense but I just can't help it when I see it. Sure, Dimple possessing him can be explained on why he resisted the stomp but we all know that wasn't the case, he didn't had Dimple before the stomp, he resisted the stomp with his human body for a while and THEN Dimple possessed him. Extremely cringy for my taste and this is just another plot armor which allowed him to not get smashed into pieces.

That's like having a normal human being in Dragon Ball Z or Dragon Ball Super resisting a Kamehameha from Goku. If the normal human stays alive after the Kamehameha then that would be absurd and would also be cringy for my taste, well... that same shit happened here with the stomp. I can understand a superhuman resisting these type of things but not normal humans because that's simply a stupid plot armor and Reigen sweating a lot exist, that's called Hyperhidrosis so there's nothing wrong with it, I have palmar Hyperhidrosis myself so I also sweat a lot from my hands.

hornetsentinel said:

It’s not really the same thing. Dragon Ball’s writing has always been based on a tangible scale to determine who can or can’t do something. The writing is considered poor when that scale is undermined, as is the case for multiple other shounen.

hornetsentinel said:

Using the logic you’ve applied, Dimple possessing Musashi to overpower Shibata should be your primary complaint. Dimple didn’t enhance his muscle through psychic powers. He brought out its latent potential, which is entirely natural and man made.

hornetsentinel said:

The themes present in these scenarios is what you’re meant to pay attention to. Looking back on S1, Dimple would always tell Mob to stop working out like regular humans and focus on his physic abilities. Using that to foreshadow Dimple’s character development this arc is what made the writing rich. ".

xZabuzax said:

For me is the same thing dude, the same also happens in Dragon Ball Super which also has crappy writing like this, for example seeing someone weak like Master Roshi competing in the tournament of power and having his way against those super powered guys that are most likely above 1 million power level is absurd but at least I can forgive this somewhat by thinking that Master Roshi is not a normal human being, he's someone that destroyed the moon after all in Dragon Ball so he's clearly stronger than most humans, the only ones stronger than him are the Z warriors. The Dragon Ball Franchise is not consistent with the power level thing and I expected a short anime like Mob Psycho to avoid these type of issues.

I'm sorry but I have to respectfully disagree, Dimple clearly enhanced his latent potential and also gave him additional power because there's no way in hell that a normal human being would be able to throw another human that high into the sky without superpowers, he thrown him so high that the bad guy reached a third floor of a building, you can only achieve this with superpowers so I can easily forgive this by saying that Dimple enhanced his muscles and gave him additional powers.

I'm not saying the anime is bad, what I'm saying is that little details like these which is not consistent at all with realism makes these type of anime lose potential. This anime has character development and that's good but the thing that is not good is having a super powered guy that can destroy buildings easily try to stomp a normal human and suddenly that normal human resist the stomp with his back for a while without getting smashed like a potato, crap like these is what I find hard to forget.

On an unrelated note, this forum needs to be updated, the quoting mechanic of this forum is complete crap compared to other forums.

hornetsentinel said:

You say his muscles were enhanced because its not possible for him do what he did without enhancements, yet that's immediately following your complaint of it being impossible to do what he did prior to Dimple taking over. If you feel the latter is bad writing, then I fail to see why that wouldn't extend to the sequence of events that followed right after it. To imply that the same established logic, or lack thereof, isn't being applied to two subsequent events would be the worst instance of writing here. Its borderline schizophrenic. I'm not sure why you'd forgive that.

Beyond that, when you mention realism and consistency, you're still overlooking the logic that's been showcased throughout the entire series. For instance, take two scenes from episode 4:

Realistically, Reigen covering his head is irrelevant when put beside the fact that he was brutally slammed against concrete to the point where the concrete itself broke. I'm not a doctor or anything, so if I'm wrong in assuming that an adult male would likely be killed by this, its safe to say that he'd AT LEAST be crippled for the remainder of the events occurring this season.

He has a massive gaping hole through his chest with no medical assistance for what was apparently hours. I don't think I have to say the rest.

What this says is that looking for logic in human resistance against superpowers won't work because its very well established that this concept does not abide by realistic laws.

lunarxlunar said:
Guys this is the same show where mob destroyed the whole school and there were still no witnesses.
This is the type of shows which prove realism is overrated. When the story consistently doesnt take itself seriously in terms of not abiding real life rules. You shouldnt expect it to do otherwise.
What matters is the characters, themes and emotion, not some pedantic details. It's not like it suddenly changed from being logical to not. It has always been choosing style over logic in a lot of moments.
The point is those "plot holes" dont hinder the presentation of the themes and characters. They only make the show look cooler. Like the ground doesnt necessarily have to break if you want it to be realistic. But otherwise the scene would've looked dull.

lunarxlunar said:
Guys this is the same show where mob destroyed the whole school and there were still no witnesses.
This is the type of shows which prove realism is overrated. When the story consistently doesnt take itself seriously in terms of not abiding real life rules. You shouldnt expect it to do otherwise.
What matters is the characters, themes and emotion, not some pedantic details. It's not like it suddenly changed from being logical to not. It has always been choosing style over logic in a lot of moments.
The point is those "plot holes" dont hinder the presentation of the themes and characters. They only make the show look cooler. Like the ground doesnt necessarily have to break if you want it to be realistic. But otherwise the scene would've looked dull.

lunarxlunar said:
Guys this is the same show where mob destroyed the whole school and there were still no witnesses.
This is the type of shows which prove realism is overrated. When the story consistently doesnt take itself seriously in terms of not abiding real life rules. You shouldnt expect it to do otherwise.
What matters is the characters, themes and emotion, not some pedantic details. It's not like it suddenly changed from being logical to not. It has always been choosing style over logic in a lot of moments.
The point is those "plot holes" dont hinder the presentation of the themes and characters. They only make the show look cooler. Like the ground doesnt necessarily have to break if you want it to be realistic. But otherwise the scene would've looked dull.

xZabuzax said:


Point taken but it just feels weird for me when that happens. Another example would be this: imagine if Frieza from Dragon Ball Z/Super or whatever tries to kill a normal human with a stomp and then suddenly another normal human appears and stop Frieza's stomp with his back for a couple of seconds and survive, with no damage or anything, no broken bones, no broken spinal chord, etc... wouldn't that be stupid?

The manga author (ONE) of Mob Psycho can still provide a good story while leaving the example I made out of it because it just doesn't feel right.

PiggyBancon said:
lmao people are complaining about realism when in episode 4 of season 1 the Body Improvement clap was casually slapping people and sending them to the air higher than this episode. It's even funnier when the complain comes from who rate OPM a 10 when there's even more ridiculous human feats on OPM. Mumen rider for example.

lunarxlunar said:

Sorry for making things confusing.
I meant to say its a shonen, so having exposition isnt all that jarring to me. (But I assume it's actually mocking shonen. But I dont remember whether teru has explained anything abt powers after he turned. Whatever.)

But for all other things("plot holes") that arent shonen tropes,
I consider this show like Rick and Morty or South Park. Very different shows but they are all consistent on their style. R&M shares more similarities with mp100 and Id say there are some bypassed logic in R&M too just because it's a cartoon and a sitcom. I dont see much difference for mob psycho. Its less of a sitcom but also kind of is? Just because other shows("mainstream") are like that doesnt mean mob also has to take itself very seriously and explain every supernatural power or things that dont apply to rea life.


Actually one piece is like that too. People just have super strength and you can actually blow air in your bones from your thumb. No extra explanation needed because the manga has always been goofy.
So mob is not that weird I guess.

xZabuzax said:


Yeah thanks for bringing that up, those scenes were pretty stupid too because a normal human being would have died with that or be severely injured to the point of death. Reigen resisting that slam is one of those stupid plot armors which I dislike. At least the 2nd one was pretty close to the point of death, he survived but at least he was close to dying so that one gets the pass from me I guess...

I usually forgive crap like that in other type of shounen animes like Naruto because they are ninjas with superpowers, they can use chakra and all and do all type of crazy shit that no other human being could do but when I see a normal human in an anime then I expect them to act like normal humans even on shounen animes.

redcobra said:


Please ignore them.

They are SJW and don't like joke fun anime.

They want realistic and realism bullshit for political agenda.

redcobra said:


Please ignore them.

They are SJW and don't like joke fun anime.

They want realistic and realism bullshit for political agenda.

lunarxlunar said:

Ok....yes its my second language.
I was mistaken but if it's just the exposition of power, it seems even more trivial to me, not only that, but also missing the point. Villains in this series are manchildren who are obsessed with their status. They dress, talk and act like a badass just to find their own place. The show is mocking their bahavior so when a villain does that it fits.
Sometimes its not a joke? Teru might also have explained his power. I dont remember. Its just how it is for shonen. I dont want to complain fried food being fat. (Not saying shonen is fast food) It seems petty to find realism in shonen. Not everything has to be realistic. Sometimes its ok for shows to be cheesy. This isnt the that type of show where everything has to be down to earth.
If its exposition of power is the biggest thing you remember coming out of this show, I dont think the show is for you anyway. Because the best episodes( the best slice of life parts) dont have any of that.

sarath2002 said:
Ekubo and the captain were the real heroes this episode.

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



pretty nice build up episode. the next couple of episodes are gonna be massive NUT

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



pretty nice build up episode. the next couple of episodes are gonna be massive NUT