Mob Psycho 100 Anime Thread - The World's Greatest Anime

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Rody One Half: Feb 18, 2011

Schwarzwald posted:

Mob is a middle schooler while Saitama is a grown rear end adult, and the differences in each series are mostly derived from that one distinction.

So while Mob is concerned with getting the cute red headed girl to notice him, Saitama is concerned with getting to the grocery store before the sale ends so he can stretch his budget that much farther. And while Mob is continuing to develop himself through his interactions with his friends/enemies and family, Saitama is more fully self confident and self-actualized--which, given how mature most of the other heroes are, leads to them learning from him.

This is might explain why there isn't an obvious Reigan equivalent in OPM.

Well there is one, it's just that it's Saitama himself.

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Nitrousoxide: May 30, 2011; do not buy a oneplus phone

Schwarzwald posted:

Mob is a middle schooler while Saitama is a grown rear end adult, and the differences in each series are mostly derived from that one distinction.

So while Mob is concerned with getting the cute red headed girl to notice him, Saitama is concerned with getting to the grocery store before the sale ends so he can stretch his budget that much farther. And while Mob is continuing to develop himself through his interactions with his friends/enemies and family, Saitama is more fully self confident and self-actualized--which, given how mature most of the other heroes are, leads to them learning from him.

This is might explain why there isn't an obvious Reigan equivalent in OPM.

Genos is much more of a mob equivalent.

Saitama is much closer to Reigan, someone who the student is looking up to, but who actually has nothing to teach them.

In Reigan's case it's because he actually lacks powers like mob's while in Saitama's case it's because he is immensely lazy and won the power lottery.

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chiasaur11: Oct 22, 2012

Nitrousoxide posted:

Genos is much more of a mob equivalent.

Saitama is much closer to Reigan, someone who the student is looking up to, but who actually has nothing to teach them.

In Reigan's case it's because he actually lacks powers like mob's while in Saitama's case it's because he is immensely lazy and won the power lottery.

Wrong on all counts.

Saitama worked his rear end off to get his powers, Reigen is the world's greatest psychic, and, you know. They're both excellent teachers.

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Sam Faust: Feb 20, 2015

chiasaur11 posted:

Wrong on all counts.

Saitama worked his rear end off to get his powers, Reigen is the world's greatest psychic, and, you know. They're both excellent teachers.

No, Reigen is the world's strongest exorcist. See, his powers are spiritual not psychic.

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JuniperCake: Jan 26, 2013

chiasaur11 posted:

Wrong on all counts.

Saitama worked his rear end off to get his powers, Reigen is the world's greatest psychic, and, you know. They're both excellent teachers.

Yeah, Reigen actually gives Mob great advice and is always there to help him out when he is in a difficult situation.

He's the best mentor Mob (or anyone) could ever have.

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Raenir Salazar: Nov 5, 2010; College Slice

That Reigan doesn't owe the Mafia millions of yen is crazy to me, usually his sort of character archetype can't avoid having debts with the wrong people. Like the Fox from Zootopia.

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Mulva: Sep 13, 2011; It's about time for my once per decade ban for being a consistently terrible poster.

Raenir Salazar posted:

That Reigan doesn't owe the Mafia millions of yen is crazy to me, usually his sort of character archetype can't avoid having debts with the wrong people. Like the Fox from Zootopia.

He's profoundly competent at running his business, what would make you think he has money problems? He's profoundly competent at everything but, you know, having a life.

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chiasaur11: Oct 22, 2012

Raenir Salazar posted:

That Reigan doesn't owe the Mafia millions of yen is crazy to me, usually his sort of character archetype can't avoid having debts with the wrong people. Like the Fox from Zootopia.

Obviously, that's why he

Took over CLAW with his massive psychic powers. Can't owe money to a world domination organization you run yourself!

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Josuke Higashikata: Mar 7, 2013

Do not poo poo talk the world's greatest human, Arataka Reigen

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Dias: Feb 20, 2011; by sebmojo

Just watched this week's episode.

I should've known that such a powerful esper teacher figure would HAVE to betray Mob, it's the biggest cliche ever!

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EmmyOk: Aug 11, 2013

Josuke Higashikata posted:

Do not poo poo talk the world's greatest human, Arataka Reigen

Some people always turn from the light of god, shameful.

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Mraagvpeine: Nov 4, 2014; I won this avatar on a technicality this thick.

I'm just going to post this again.

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Jackard: Oct 28, 2007; We Have A Bow And We Wish To Use It

I don't think the King costume is appropriate,

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ninjewtsu: Oct 9, 2012

why?

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Raserys: Aug 22, 2011; IT'S YA BOY

They are both very powerful

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Futaba Anzu: May 6, 2011; GROSS BOY

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Dr Subterfuge: Aug 31, 2005; TIME TO ROC N' ROLL

oh god those hands :stonk:

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GhostofJohnMuir: Aug 14, 2014; anime is not good

Dr Subterfuge posted:

oh god those hands

drawing hands is hard

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Dr Subterfuge: Aug 31, 2005; TIME TO ROC N' ROLL

GhostofJohnMuir posted:

drawing hands is hard

For sure. But those make me go YIKES.

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EmmyOk: Aug 11, 2013

So what way are people going on the Reigen matter? Is legitimately the leader of claw and actually strong, is not strong and conned the rest of Claw, is not strong and has conned Section 7 into thinking he is the leader.

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Xinder: Apr 27, 2013; i want to be a prince

Having not read it, my prediction is (spoiling in the very unlikely case that i am correct) that they were expecting the leader for some reason and that nobody there has actually seen the leader. So when Reigen shows up at the perfect time, they all just assumed he's the leader and he rolls with it.

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EmmyOk: Aug 11, 2013

Yeah at the moment I feel that something like that is eminently plausible but so is him being legitimately the leader. That's what's so great about the cliffhanger, it really is effective at making you totally unsure what to think. If you are correct then that means Reigen came to save his dear student despite being weak :3:

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Nitrousoxide: May 30, 2011; do not buy a oneplus phone

EmmyOk posted:

Yeah at the moment I feel that something like that is eminently plausible but so is him being legitimately the leader. That's what's so great about the cliffhanger, it really is effective at making you totally unsure what to think. If you are correct then that means Reigen came to save his dear student despite being weak

Or he's there to pull a completely different con and happened upon him.

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EmmyOk: Aug 11, 2013

Nitrousoxide posted:

Or he's there to pull a completely different con and happened upon him.

"Any of you guys interested in this vase I'm selling?"

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Arsonist Daria: Feb 27, 2011; ^{Requiescat in pace.}

EmmyOk posted:

So what way are people going on the Reigen matter? Is legitimately the leader of claw and actually strong, is not strong and conned the rest of Claw, is not strong and has conned Section 7 into thinking he is the leader.

I'm guessing that the conman is, in fact, a conman

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Raserys: Aug 22, 2011; IT'S YA BOY

Why is being a conman and being the powerful leader of claw a mutually exclusive thing

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EGSunBro: Nov 1, 2012; PEPSI FOR TV-GAME

I think people should stop calling my boy Reigan a conman. He always solves his customers problems, always! It's just most of the time the answer isn't ghosts it's something mundane that Reigan doesn't even need to use his masterful psychic powers for.

On top of that he's an excellent teacher for Mob, giving him values, life lessons, and an open ear which Mob needs. Reigan is perfect and he deserves to be treated as such.

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HelloWinter: May 27, 2012; "Hey, Nagito, what'cha
thinkin' about?"

"Oh, y'know. Murder stuff."

Reigen "Conman" Arataka.

Here's a quick sketch I did of Mob because he is a precious boy who correctly chose to be in the Body Improvement Club.

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Terror Sweat: Mar 15, 2009

HelloWinter posted:

Reigen "Conman" Arataka.

Here's a quick sketch I did of Mob because he is a precious boy who correctly chose to be in the Body Improvement Club.

mob would never use his powers to lift up weights for no reason

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Mordaedil: Oct 25, 2007; Oh wow, cool. Good job.
So?; Grimey Drawer

Xinder posted:

Having not read it, my prediction is (spoiling in the very unlikely case that i am correct) that they were expecting the leader for some reason and that nobody there has actually seen the leader. So when Reigen shows up at the perfect time, they all just assumed he's the leader and he rolls with it.

There was a mention earlier in the episode that they were expecting the boss to come by in a month.

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Buzzsaw Roomba: Feb 14, 2012; Christ, what an asshole.

HelloWinter posted:

Here's a quick sketch I did of Mob because he is a precious boy who correctly chose to be in the Body Improvement Club.

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Mr. Lobe: Feb 23, 2007; ... Dry bones...

Terror Sweat posted:

mob would never use his powers to lift up weights for no reason

it's a side effect of being 100% Pumped

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EmmyOk: Aug 11, 2013

The head of the Body Improvement Club told Mob to work out his mind as well as his muscles but Mob misunderstood.

Lumberjack Bonanza posted:

I'm guessing that the conman is, in fact, a conman

Sure but whether he's lying to Mob or to Claw it's still a con. I don't think it'll end up being that Reigen is the leader of Claw but still secretly a normal human because the leader of Claw fought and scarred all of the Scars. So either Reigen is scamming them into thinking he's the real leader or he's been scamming Mob all this time. I think both are equally likely to be honest and there's plenty of reasons he may have been lying to Mob all this time plus pretending to be a lovely psychic is the perfect disguise for an insanely powerful psychic.

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Thor-Stryker: Nov 11, 2005

The whole Reigen is a psychic doesn't sit-well with the first few episodes where he isn't reading Mob's mind and keeps having to lie to mob to hide his non-spirit powers while also being super-impressed with Mob's powers.

Unless he's sealed away his psychic abilities for some reason.

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Nitrousoxide: May 30, 2011; do not buy a oneplus phone

Thor-Stryker posted:

The whole Reigen is a psychic doesn't sit-well with the first few episodes where he isn't reading Mob's mind and keeps having to lie to mob to hide his non-spirit powers while also being super-impressed with Mob's powers.

Unless he's sealed away his psychic abilities for some reason.

We also see him looking at Dimple from his perspective and we can confirm he can't see him.

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