Mob Psycho 100



At a first glance, 14-year old Shigeo Kameyama looks like the ultimate Ordinary Middle High School Student, albeit one with so little presence he is nicknamed "Mob" due to his extremely ordinary looks and penchant to fade in the background. Truth is, Mob is actually an esper with an incredible amount of Psychic Powers that are feed by his emotions. The problem is that Mob himself would like to actually be an ordinary teenager, as he has realized that his powers have been steadily grown greater and more dangerous with the years, so to avoid them to become out of control he suppress his emotions as much as he can. He also has placed himself under the tutorship of famed "psychic" Arataka Reigen, whose advice actually has seemed to help.

Unfortunately for Mob, trouble keeps coming to him, and threatening every semblance or normalcy he tries to attain. Not to forget, the increasing turmoil of his suppressed emotions does feeds his powers, and when the percentage of his accumulated feelings reaches 100 percent, he is overcome by the strongest emotion he is feeling at the time and unleashes the full extent of his powers.

Mob Psycho 100 is the second manga from ONE (of One-Punch Man fame), and ran between 2012 and 2017. An animated adaptation was released in 2016 by Studio BONES, with a second season premiered in 2019. While still ostensibly comedic, it's more dramatic that its co-running title. A spin-off manga series titled Reigen, following the titular character, began in March 2018.


 * The Ace: Mob's brother, Ritsu, who despite being a year younger is taller, smarter, handsomer and more popular than Mob. Teruki Hanazawa also has this on his daily life.
 * Broken Ace: Ritsu, however, is secretly jealous of his brother's powers, and that taints their relation. Teruki has his identity as a esper-enchanced Ace so entrenched on him, that when Mob points out that, without his powers, he wouldn't have anything, Teru doesn't take it well.
 * Ambiguous Disorder: even before he began to actively suppressing his emotions, Mob had problems catching social cues and had an apparently inexpressive visage.
 * An Aesop: Just because you have special qualities doesn’t mean that you are above the rest, specially if you are using those qualities for your own gain at the expense of others.
 * Con Man: Arataka Reigen, to an extent. Strangely, he seems to have some ethic code: he actually care to bring satisfaction to his clients, and the advice he gives Mob is actually legitimate.
 * Edible Theme Naming: the Setting is "Condiment City", and all the schools and location has condiments names. Other locations mentioned have food names.
 * I Just Want to Be Special: The running gag of the series is that almost every enemy Mob confronts has this going on them. To make this funnier, most of them are either supernatural beings or powerful espers on their own, so technically they are already special, but them try to bring it to Ubermensch levels.
 * Phony Psychic: Reigen.