mp100 season two really said what if there was the most emotionally nuanced and devastating story arc of all time and it was about learning to assert your autonomy (especially as a neurodivergent person) even though it’s sometimes the hardest thing of all. and it was about being a young adult and realizing that there are times you wouldn’t know what a friend looks like if it came up and started talking to you. and about how sometimes you will be sitting in the dark all alone with only the white noise of your apartment around you and you will read a message from your mother and it will send a stake directly through the most vulnerable and shameful and hidden part of your heart. and about how sometimes we aren’t healthy influences on the people we love most but we keep them around because without others we are nothing. and about how even in the face of our own deeply entrenched flaws and worldviews and perspectives, even if sometimes we and everyone around us feel like giving up forever, that the only thing we can do is just be. be around people, be within ourselves, and simply recognize life for the irreplaceable horrible and wonderful experience it is. and all of this is expressed through the vehicle of a 5’2” middle schooler with a bowl cut and psychic powers and a sweaty 28-year-old con man who owns five outfits at best
Anyway I finished Season 2 of Mob Psycho 100! I'm surprised to find out that it has a higher rating (though both are very well rated) than the first season on MyAnimeList? I personally liked Season 1 *way* more. Anyway, I keep seeing Serizawa on my feed so I'm hoping he'll be an engaging character in the next season. The highlight of Season 2 was by far the Body Improvement Club. I am tolerating Ritsu (I'm just continuing on with the joke of pretending I hate him) because I find it funny that Sho literally just. Liked him. And also because I have a theory that he and Marge... I mean Naruto... I mean Hanazawa swapped personalities.
I'm on episode 7 of Mob Psycho 100 II and like if Reigen just said "I was told that this show is staged and the boy is an actor, so I did a fake exorcism. I mean the network wouldn't REALLY allow a person possesed by an evil spirit to be on set, right? However turns out it was all an attempt to humiliate me, because I'm from a new generation of psychics and my methods are unconventional." it could work and I'm so pissed I hate seeing my wife like this...