@sherlockwhovian No joke that’s why I’m not mad. YoI didn’t hit me as hard as it did most people, didn’t strike that perfect chord, but I saw the way it affected a lot of my friends.  It’s a great show, I have a lot of respect for it and absolutely no malice because good lord look how many people it made happy!  It’s an excellent feel-good anime.
And I understand people’s attachment because that feeling isn’t foreign to me - Mob Psycho 100 is that show, for me.  It’s a show that strikes at me and aside from hitting all my favorite notes in terms of aesthetics, plot threads, comedy, etc etc etc it just… makes me feel so much more than other shows.  One Punch Man was close, but Mob Psycho 100 has all of ONE’s best writing abilities behind it, and ONE writes the most endearing cast of characters you could ever encounter.
Most protagonists are meant to be characters you can project onto, see yourself in their shoes, etc.  And to some degree, the same can be said of Mob.  But for me, watching Mob Psycho and watching poor, socially awkward, anxious and insecure Kageyama Shigeo try his very best to change himself into the ideal person he wants to be?  It gives me hope.  It gives me happiness.  And he does become a better person, a stronger character, and all of it through extreme adversity.  There’s a lot of feel-good stuff about accepting who you are, and there’s a good handful of shows about grinding at a skill until you’re better, and I do love those… but Mob Psycho 100 captures the life of someone who’s got serious character flaws and is doing his damnedest to correct them, and who’s enduring great tragedies and surviving them and coming out of them better, stronger, smarter, and more mature.  Most anime-only MP100 fans probably haven’t gotten the full taste of it, but trust me - after Mogami arc, after Separation arc, after World Domination arc… it’s absolutely astonishing how much Mob grows, matures, and changes, doing away with so many of his personal weaknesses and surviving some utterly horrific things with the grace and kindness that have been his strength since the beginning.
So yeah. When people say “Yuri on Ice changed my life”, I 100% understand what they mean.
I know what you mean with MP100! I loved that show. I binged it all in one night because I couldn't stop watching. I'm glad some of us are being positive and respectful. I wish everyone was shared our opinion :)
