Mob Psycho 100: Season II - "Your Life Is Your Own"

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ninjewtsu: Oct 9, 2012

Dangerous Person posted:

I was not bummed by the fakeout

i'm pretty mellow on it. i was interested in seeing where mob was going to go from there, and the developments that took its place i can't say are as intriguing.

i liked the claw stuff last season but something about the shounen stuff introduced this episode just wasn't particularly gripping for me. i'm excited for next episode to change my mind on it tho

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ninjewtsu: Oct 9, 2012

thinking on it, it's been a pretty constant theme this season of "lovely stuff happens to mob, is this latest awful thing the straw that breaks the camel's back?" between the girl who asked him out on a dare and whose friends made fun of him, to the psychic social bullying torture sequence, to his trusted mentor figure finally going over the line. in all of these, there was a pretty clear and wholesome way out, which was ultimately what mob took instead of snapping, but there's been a frequent tension of "will this set mob on the wrong path?" however, there really isn't any terribly wholesome or even terribly healthy way i can see anyone reacting to "your house just got burned down with your loving family trapped inside it." and of course, mob instantly goes into ???%, signifying that this is indeed the straw that breaks the camel's back, and not a tragedy that mob is going to be able to just bounce back from or find some healthy way to develop as a person from, just before dimple pulls mob out of it with a poorly thought out alternate explanation (that luckily ends up being true).

i'm assuming the overall thematic significance of this is that mob is being given a chance to see the kind of situation that would push him over the edge, and have the opportunity to ruminate over its ramifications without being forced to actually live through it. mogami touched on this earlier, ultiamtely pushing mob to a point of being willing to hurt someone else, but there mob was able to develop as a person who is consciously appreciative of his support group, while this is a situation without that kind of takeaway that i can forsee, and thus deserving of a more prolonged exploration than "here's the answer in the second half of the episode."

# ? Mar 5, 2019 10:14

track day bro!: Feb 17, 2005; #essereFerrari; Grimey Drawer

Expect My Mom posted:

episode 13 will be the last episode and yeah there's no way

I wonder how they'll do the rest of the Manga, will they have enough stuff to do another 13 episodes? Maybe season 3 will be mostly a slice of life anime cribbed from the omake bits haha.

Still getting massive Patlabor vibes from the soundtrack though, which is annoying because I want a new Patlabor damnit.

# ? Mar 5, 2019 15:58

Elfface: Nov 14, 2010; Da-na-na-na-na-na-na
IRON JONAH

I'd say there's absolutely enough for a third season, though a fourth would mean stretching what's left very thin.

As for Dimple's quick bluff, I think in the manga he also spoke about how Mob's family's spirits weren't around and there hadn't been any exorcism.

# ? Mar 5, 2019 16:18

M_Gargantua: Oct 16, 2006; STOMP'N ON INTO THE POWERLINES; Exciting Lemon

ninjewtsu posted:

mogami touched on this earlier, ultiamtely pushing mob to a point of being willing to hurt someone else

He did just throw a guy across the city. Is it not-quite hurting someone else if you know they'll be fine?

# ? Mar 5, 2019 16:24

Schwarzwald: Jul 27, 2004; Don't Blink

It's nice to see Pat from Achewood is still getting work.

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# ? Mar 5, 2019 17:10

Kild: Apr 24, 2010

Elfface posted:

I'd say there's absolutely enough for a third season, though a fourth would mean stretching what's left very thin.

As for Dimple's quick bluff, I think in the manga he also spoke about how Mob's family's spirits weren't around and there hadn't been any exorcism.

Theres only 10 chapters left after the presumed ending of S2. Theres not more than 6 or 7 episodes of material even if you include some omake stuff.

# ? Mar 5, 2019 20:34

Spiritus Nox: Sep 2, 2011

Kild posted:

Theres only 10 chapters left after the presumed ending of S2. Theres not more than 6 or 7 episodes of material even if you include some omake stuff.

Could do a movie?

# ? Mar 5, 2019 20:41

somepartsareme: Mar 10, 2012; Diggle Hell is a Real
(Swingin') Place

aren't those chapters gigantic because they got published as like 90.1, 90.2 and so on

# ? Mar 5, 2019 20:43

Schwarzwald: Jul 27, 2004; Don't Blink

somepartsareme posted:

aren't those chapters gigantic because they got published as like 90.1, 90.2 and so on

Yeah, but they're not that gigantic.

# ? Mar 5, 2019 20:47

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

I thought I heard that 2 "chapters" are each a volume long.

# ? Mar 5, 2019 21:04

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

There's roughly four more volumes. It's hard to know where this season will end, but it'll definitely be at some point at the beginning of volume 13. Which leaves the rest of 13-16. The last 3 volumes are all 2 chapters, as is volume 12. 12 is a good example of how weird it is to talk about how much is left. Volume 12 is just chapter 89 and 90, but chapter 90 alone is 151 pages. Or like 18 less without omake or some such. Just that single chapter is a dozen weeks. There's two major arcs to bookend the material that is left, and some slice of life and character pieces in-between. I don't know if it's quite enough for the same size season we have, but it's not nothing either.

# ? Mar 5, 2019 21:19

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

Do anime writers ever wrap up series with OVAs in the way that western cartoons sometimes do with TV movies? Timewise I could see MP100 wrapping up with a movie length thing after the end of this season.

# ? Mar 5, 2019 21:23

El Burbo: Oct 10, 2012

Mr. Lobe posted:

Do anime writers ever wrap up series with OVAs in the way that western cartoons sometimes do with TV movies? Timewise I could see MP100 wrapping up with a movie length thing after the end of this season.

The "last" arc of monogatari wrapped up with 3 long episodes released over two days. that's one example off the top of my head.

# ? Mar 5, 2019 21:29

Agronox: Feb 4, 2005

Mr. Lobe posted:

Do anime writers ever wrap up series with OVAs in the way that western cartoons sometimes do with TV movies? Timewise I could see MP100 wrapping up with a movie length thing after the end of this season.

Sometimes? The one I can think of off the top of my head is Re:Life.

# ? Mar 5, 2019 22:05

Clarste: Apr 15, 2013; Just how many mistakes have you suffered on the way here?

An uncountable number, to be sure.

Haruhi kinda did that with season 2, except they filled the rest of the reason with more Endless Eight.

# ? Mar 5, 2019 22:25

YggiDee: Sep 12, 2007; WASP CREW

Fill the rest with the Reigan spin off manga?

# ? Mar 5, 2019 22:41

MorningMoon: Dec 29, 2013; He's been tapping into Aunt May's bank account!
Didn't I kill him with a HELICOPTER?

TBH, I would've cut one or two chapters off of this episode, felt like too much happened.

# ? Mar 5, 2019 23:49

mabels big day: Feb 25, 2012

having to work around episode length and numbers is probably the only bad thing about this adaptation.

# ? Mar 6, 2019 01:37

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

Mogami arc deserved another episode, that's my only problem so far with this season

# ? Mar 6, 2019 03:47

Rohan Kishibe: Oct 29, 2011; Frankly, I don't like you
and I never have.

ArmyOfMidgets posted:

TBH, I would've cut one or two chapters off of this episode, felt like too much happened.

Yeah, before this episode I was sure there was no way they could finish this arc in the episodes they had left.

# ? Mar 6, 2019 11:07

skaianDestiny: Jan 13, 2017; beep boop

https://twitter.com/AniTrendz/status/1103984960883515397

I ship Mob/Emi but it's a very niche ship apparently, so seeing it reach top 10 is actually rather surprising to me.

# ? Mar 9, 2019 18:16

Gruckles: Mar 11, 2013

I like how half that list is one harem protagonist.

# ? Mar 9, 2019 18:32

Spiritus Nox: Sep 2, 2011

A single character shouldn't be allowed to be listed on more than two ships IMHO.

At least for top-ten purposes

# ? Mar 9, 2019 20:05

Electric Phantasm: Apr 7, 2011; YOSPOS

I'm just glad Kaguya beat them all.

# ? Mar 9, 2019 20:14

trucutru: Jul 9, 2003; by Fluffdaddy

Gruckles posted:

I like how half that list is one harem protagonist.

Well, if they were sextuplets he would be in 60% of the list. That's just how math works.

# ? Mar 9, 2019 20:19

mabels big day: Feb 25, 2012

nobody got faith in mob and tsubomi huh.

# ? Mar 9, 2019 20:41

Evrart Claire: Jan 11, 2008

Gruckles posted:

I like how half that list is one harem protagonist.

and number 3 is a slaver and his child slave

# ? Mar 9, 2019 20:59

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

Zerilan posted:

and number 3 is a slaver and his child slave

Which is apparently two slots lower than it was last time :psyduck:

Also:

wikipedia posted:

Naofumi Iwatani was summoned into a parallel world along with three other people to become the world's Heroes. Each of the heroes were respectively equipped with their own legendary equipment when summoned. Naofumi happened to receive the Legendary Shield, the sole defensive equipment, while the others received weapons capable of attacking. Unlike the other heroes who are fully supported by the kingdom and gain several strong allies each, Naofumi's luck turns to the worse after his single companion, later revealed to be none other than Princess Myne, betrays him, and leaves him devoid of all assistance and supplies after she falsely accuses him of sexually assaulting her.

Shunned by everyone from king to peasants, Naofumi is forced to train as a hero alone while working to make ends meet, until he buys from a slave trader a Tanuki Demi-Human little girl named Raphtalia and an egg that hatches into a bird creature whom he names "Filo", both quickly growing into adulthood and becoming powerful companions by raising them. As they little by little gain the trust and gratitude of the people with their heroic actions, Naofumi's party work hard to fight the massive hordes of monsters that attack the world in waves while dealing with the conspiracies surrounding them and their friends.