#ANYWAY IF YOUVE SEEN MOB PSYCHO

[asuka--langley--soryu]

Hey! With 3.0 + 1.0 coming out in 24 hours do you have any last minute hopes or wishes? Are you excited or keeping expectations low? Personally I can’t help but be excited but I’ve also seen my fair share of disappointing spoilers so.. idk how to feel lol

oh man I’m sorry anon but I’m probably not a good person to come to regarding the rebuilds lol. I’m 1) a longtime Rebuilds Hater 2) fully spoiled for the movie and 3) not gonna watch it anytime soon unless my friends wanna see me get very riled up at a film someday. I’m just not invested in the rebuilds overall (to put it mildly) and my expectations have always been that they will be overall disappointing with a few completely fucking heinous scenes sprinkled in for flavour. But like I said, I’m a hater and I know and recognise that as my truth, so I don’t want to talk about my feelings too much and colour your viewing or anything. I would say maybe just go in with uhhh measured expectations? Or maybe just rewatch the series again idk

#or mob psycho. have you seen mob psycho?? go watch mob psycho. go rewatch it if youve seen it. #this is all. as always. just my personal onion. #asks #nge #i dont have a working computer rn anyways soo i couldnt watch it even if i wanted to but maybe thats a mercy #im sorry if ur a rebuild fan i just. am not. #mine

[ocdhuacheng]

I see you posting a lot about mp100 and I honestly wanna check it out! But I just wanted to ask what about the show you like, it's kinda easier to get into things when I get it from a personal perspective. I'm also afraid of getting spoiled if i look it up lmao

god im about to kill i had a whole essay written out and tumblr ate it. anyways im happy that my lovepostingis making someone interested :DDD!! there are so many things that i loveabout mp100 I dont think I can put them all into words but ill try(and this is going to be somewhat long and incoherent probably, because Iwrite like a third grader)

First I think you probably know thegist? But just to be safe and since you said you didnt want to lookanything up online; non spoilery, kind of vague gist: it was written by ONE and isabout shigeo kageyama aka mob (aka my son,) who’s a 14 year old esper and isSUPER op but is also just pretty average-at-best/unnoticeable inbasically every other aspect of his life. And despite having a lotof psychic abitilities he wants to improve himself in other ways. Anyway, some reasons why i love this show:

1. the characters/character development: mob is actually my favorite character in any media ever (ultimate comfort character) and has a lot of really interesting character development. Hes cute and super relatable and just always tries his best in everything. (also hes over powered but hes an op character done RIGHT, not like bakugou or kirito who are op but super annoying about it)

All the other characters are lovable (i mean except for some villains but thats the point) and interesting and even side characters get some of their own character development thats more than in many other mainstream stories. The relationships between the characters is written very naturally and with alot of nuance. especially the relationship between mob and reigen, and between mob and ritsu. Anyway, ONE is amazing at character/relationship development.

2. animation/art style: THE best and most interesting animation I’ve ever seen inany anime ever. (side note: animation-wise I think my second favoriteis madoka magica) you can tell the animators put a lot of love andeffort into mob psycho. everything is so fluid and the animation isused very creatively. And body language is animated really well. I’msure youve seen gifs, but in addition to the traditional 2danimation, they have paint on glass (which is SO COOL), and a wholebunch of other different mediums/style changes which are used interestinglyor to make a different feeling and its really cool. 

also i like howthey kept ONE’s art style, albeit cleaned up (thoughthere is one scene in the end of season 1 that was animated by ONEhimself which was really cute!). like if you know ONE his artstyleisnt traditionally “pretty” or “good” and may drawanatomy stiffly or awkwardly, but he is amazing at expressingemotions and composition and drawing monsters/spirits and complicatedscenes. Like one punch man (ONE’s other work) wasadapted as an anime in a largely conventional anime style, and eventhough it was still great, it just wasnt nearly as interesting as mobpsycho. 

(Also in addition to watchingthe anime, I highly recommend reading the manga too!!) 

3. treatment of mentalillness/neurodivergence: mob is heavily autistic coded and its animportant part of the story. because it shows both the positive andnegative effects of being nd, but never narratively makes fun of mobfor being different. (i mean some characters make fun of him for that but thestory never does.) And mob is a well rounded character and learns and grows and many people look up to him and thats not somethingyou usually get with many purposefully autistic coded characters. itsreally nice to see.

4. its the funniest fuckingthing ever: ONE........ dare i say, . king of comedy? The humor inmp100 is so good, feels natural feels organic. also the tone changesare very weird, but i dont mean that in a bad way, just sometimes getready to be laughing one second and then in shock or on the verge oftears the next and so on.. its a ride. (I made the mistake ofwatching mob psycho for the first time the dayafter getting my wisdom teeth out and that was a DUMB thing to dobecause i was laughing so much and it hurt my face :p )

5. The soundtrack slaps:banger. thats all i have to say about that. with lots of jams andsads.

6. themessages/themes/writing: just know the writing is very good. There are many parts that can beinterpreted in different ways and many things that while you weremade to think of them one way early on in the manga, towards the endyou realize that you are actually supposed to see them in a differentway, its_good_writing.gif . 

And theentire message of the show is smart and deep and pretty sweet actually. Itsall about mob’s growth as a person and his relationships with otherpeople. Despite the fact that mob psycho can be dark and can get veryviolent and disturbing (especially if you read the manga or continueon to season 2), its a very feel-good and moving show, thematically. 

Also thereare so many ways mob psycho could have just been a usual, tropeyanime, but it avoids a lot of annoying tropes which is really refreshing to see. wont say anymore because spoilers

Anyway sorry that was long and poorly written, but I hope you watch/read it! and if you do id love to talk about it more because i quite literally cant shut up about it lmfao

#.txt #long post #mp100 #(tho i'll warn in the tags bc the post is long and this is kind of a tangent #there is a trans-misogynist man-in-a-dress joke somewhere in there #but its definitely not enough to make me not recommend it #its pretty small just thought you should be aware) #if you need other content warnings hmu thats just the only thing i found actually /offensive/ like problematic i think #tho there could always be more girls like in everything lol #but really low bar here but none of the girls/kids are sexualized so thats good! #but yeah there are other warnings if you need it but heavy stuff is always handled respectfully #Anonymous