mob protection squad

he doesn’t technically need one but he deserves one

[necronatural]

mogami tv show box set is $40. mogami variety show appearances free on youtube

[istralius]

I really like Reigen's personality

[dedshomas]

reigen teacher noise

[exilepurify]

the entire encompassed plot of mob psycho had to be so insane for reigen in particular. before an elementary schooler with complex PTSD wandered into his forgettable, barely afloat scam office, he was just some guy. Literally a random lonely dude with no friends and no real direction. and then three years later he’s pulling the trigger on a pistol, trying to murder a homicidal terrorist with god-like powers who’s leveled the whole city in order to save his pupil’s life. this entire story had to be such a ride for him. at what point does he sit down and be like “how the actual fuck did this happen. how did i get here. that was a premeditated murder attempt.”

[twinkle-art]

guard dog

[scribefindegil]

Every character in Mob Psycho is so lonely at the beginning of the series, but they all express it in different ways so they don’t realize they’re all dealing with the same problem!

Mob makes himself small and quiet and blends in and does his best to never make a scene and never ask for anything and never think about what he wants. Reigen makes himself big and loud boisterous and takes up as much space as possible–but it’s all show, it’s all slight-of-hand, it’s a magic trick so everyone looks where he wants them to and he doesn’t have to risk anyone seeing through him. Ritsu makes himself perfect and dutiful and studious and pours himself into the mold of A Good Son, A Good Student, A Good Brother, and thinks that if he buries himself deep enough no one can touch him. Teru makes himself sharp and brilliant and frightening and puts himself at the top of the pyramid and convinces himself that it’s a feature that no one can get close to him. Dimple does the same thing–makes himself into a god and a monster, someone who only sees humans as pawns. Never equals. Never friends.

Everyone has walled themselves off from genuine connection, convinced themselves that there’s an important reason they’re alone that isn’t just that they’re afraid, and the series is about all of those walls being torn down, bit by bit. There are a million ways to be lonely, but the solution to all of them, every time, is vulnerability and kindness.

[alciedoodles]

im late but happy vday everybody

[flanzee]

these mob drawings are pretty old (from when i used to draw with mouse 💀) but i still liking them! please have him

[portusmacketh]

💐

[vanyaliful]

something I started when the manga finished and that i wanted to post before the series did

[spaceistheplaceart]

mob tells reigen to shut up accidentally... two!!!

[nitw]

mob psycho 100 is the most autistic thing i've ever seen and every time i forget just how autistic it is the plot manages to throw something even more eerily familiar and relatable at me. like you're almost finished with season 2 and you think to yourself "damn it really can't get more autistic than this" and then they introduce serizawa

[auro-cyanide]

Mob, sprouting up like a weed

[serirei]

20,000 FRAMES? 20,000??????????

[kaleidoscopic-quiddity]

okay wait im rbing this again to emphasise how absolutely fucking insane this is.

the average modern anime episode has (not counting OPs and EDs) between 3000 to 5000 frames of animation and runs at the industry standard frame rate of 24fps. big name productions like attack on titan or my hero academia top out at 8000 to 10,000 frames for important episodes/battles. some sources (dudes on reddit) put gurren lagann at 15,000 frames for it finale, but i wasnt able to find any sources on that. the point is, 20,000 frames is absolutely buckwild for a serialized, non-blockbuster movie budget production.

the only other anime that has ever done something like this (at least, as far as i know) was one piece. specifically, one piece episode 1017, which also had 20,000 frames, including a 30 second sequence comprised of 1692 frames (thats just over 56fps btw, more than double the industry standard). google ‘luffy vs kaido’ if you wanna check it out, i know nothing about one piece but in and of itself it is some absolutely stunning animation.

now i dont know what episode of mp100 is gonna be this 20,000 frame monstrosity, i’ll make a tentative guess of mob vs ???%, but we won’t know for certain until it airs. either way i need people to appreciate the genuine insanity it is for roughly 20 minutes of animation to have 20,000 frames. its as equally amazing as it is terrifying. the anime industry is notoriously explotatative, underpaying animators and demanding the nigh impossible from them. i have to hope with this big gap between seasons 2 and 3, and the fact that all of the episodes were completed before the season even begins airing means that the animators weren’t put under ridiculous crunches to produce this 20,000 frame episode and were also paid well for their work. however, im aware that this likely isnt the case, what with us being trapped in a late stage capitalist hellscape and all.

when this episode drops, i need people to hype the shit out of the animators. not studio bones, not ONE-sensei, but the individual animators who worked on the episode, because they have achieved something absolutely unhinged, and they probably didnt even get paid a fair wage for it. mp100 stands as one of the single most amazing examples of what animation, as a medium, can achieve, and it does so because the people who work on this show love it enough to do something absolutely batshit wild like put 20,000 frames of animation in one episode.

(also, the anime industry REALLY needs to unionize already)

[watermelonkiss]

season 3 announcement!! time for a redraw

[mp100days]

026 - drawing

[saltspl4sh]

broke: kageyama parents suck so reigen adopts mob

woke: reigen is a good mentor/older brother figure in mobs life and his parents are just fine

bespoke: reigen is a spare parent they keep in the closet in case of emergencies. no I won't elaborate