Another thing I've heard some people mention is the differences between Mob and Ritsu's bedrooms.
Ritsu has a bed, vast bookshelves and things on his walls, while Mob has a futon, a singular bookshelf and nothing on his walls. And this isn't a design flaw, it's a silent character story.
As Mob grew up with psychic powers that he struggled to control, it was likely that both he and his parents thought it would be safer for him to have the bare minimum of things in his room so that nothing gets broken and/or wouldn't put Mob or those around him in danger. Ritsu didn't have powers growing up, which meant he could decorate his room.
This is only a small theory/headcanon that I've seen floating around, but I think it's pretty interesting and says a lot about Mob and Ritsu's childhoods.
A mob psycho 100 and one punch man theory I have is that are they connected? I've seen many people joke about how mob looks like saitama's kid, but what if it was the other way around.
Specifically, what if Tatsumaki and Fubuki are descendants of Tome?
In the one punch man series, we see various people with different powers, but it's never explained how these people got their powers. But in the MP100 series, Ritsu and Shigeo both have psychic powers, but their parents don't show any signs. Which could give the possibility for someone powerless like Tome to have psychic descendants.
Another reason for this theory is how similar these sisters ate to tome.
Personality wise, they all act prestigious and cocky. They also have a bit of an ego.
They also psychically look similar, although the mp100 characters don't have eye colours, theres a chance of tome's being green.
Although I agree with the head cannon that tome's a lesbian (I'm just thinking from a different point of view) there's a chance they got the green hair from this guy (I can't remember his name)
Also, Yusuke Maruta's drawing of Tome's looks very similar to Fubuki.
Don't mind me, just thinking about this conversation I had with @limebitchesagain and just wanted to word it a bit better and fully write out our thoughts and theory for this because it haunts me every night. But fair warning this got a bit very long
TW: blood, head injuries, trauma, implied death, murder mention
A lot about the traumatic event from everyone involved is very hazy, the details are all scattered and a lot of it is up for interpretation the most concrete thing we know is that the fear Mob had experienced resulted in the first ever emergence of ???% but we don't know about the other kids, we know Ritsu survived obviously and more than likely so did Shimazaki but how considering the immense powers ???% holds? Well that’s what I’m gonna analyze! that would impact them with each other.
Considering Shimazaki got his eyes burned out what the hell happened to the punk closest to Mob? I can only imagine how traumatic it was all for all of them to witness this, and how that probably impacted Shimazaki as a kid and how he ended up growing up. Those other kids were his friends, and you can say they were delinquents and probably didn't care about each other but the way I see Shima he probably was a lot like Onigawara:
Yeah they are punks and trouble makers but they seemed to at least get along to an extent, they knew each other well enough where they kind of joked around and teased each other even though in the end they drifted apart but they were still friends.
And the last think Shimazaki saw was his friends getting hurt and possibly the first one dying by the hands this powerful being . We don't fully know what happened to them, we see Ritsu in the bandaged up after the events
But what about the other kids? There is no indication besides the implications of Shamazaki being one of the kids involved.
However let's move on from that and go onto what happened with Ritsu. There are a lot of implications that Shimazaki was the one who kicked Ritsu out of the way that day when everything went down.
You can argue and say ‘why would Shimazaki try to protect a kid he was bullying?’ but consider the line that Pre-Mob Teru said
“Of course, I have no intention of killing him”
Then look at the scene with all the delinquents in Seasoning City when Koyama was beating up Mob so bad he couldn't breath
They are horrified, some crying some closing their eyes because its too much to see and some just panicking. Yeah they are delinquents but they are kids. Kids who mostly have a normal life, Onigarawa has a nice mom he doesn't want to disappoint, all the other kids also seemed to have decent families and a good home life. They dont want to murder. They just wanted to have fun. Fun.
Where have we heard that?
That’s right. We have to remember, during the time of these events Shimazaki was a kid. A delinquent yes but a kid at his core, he probably didn't want to murder or to seriously hurt these kids, they were just punks bullying for some money yeah its a bad way of having fun but he didn't want to spill blood, especially on some elementary kids.
Again you could argue that Ritsu lied about being kicked away but let's look at the position of the bodies again shall we?
In the first picture we don't see Ritsu’s body anywhere, not even a small shoe or a glimpse, then we see Ritsu in the next frame, to the left of the rest of them (from Mob’s perspective), and coincidentally Shimazaki was also the furthest most left. If he had hypothetically kicked Ritsu out of the way, he definitely would have ended up there.
So when Mob started going berserk mode he didn't really want for this child to get hurt, not seriously. So he did what he thought was best and fastest, he kicked Ritsu out of the way and maybe it’s true that had hurt him however, keeping what ended up happening to Shimazaki in mind. It’s not that bad.
But this no doubt stuck with Shimazaki, we see that he’s only interested in having fun, we can also assume he’s probably obsessed with it considering how he makes everything into a game, he toys with his victims and likes to show off how much better and stronger he is than them. This is probably how he copes with the event.
To make an example; remember Ritsu when he got his powers? He told Mob he wasn't scared of him anymore because he could defend himself now, he had the power too. We know espers awaken either just naturally like Mob or with extreme stress/ traumatic events but what if the stress and emotions of these events determined what kind of power one gets?
It would make sense with Shimazaki’s powers. He felt weak and helpless in that moment, he wanted to leave he wanted to get away; teleportation. Afterwards he probably wished he knew this was going to happen, wished he knew that he’d get hurt and so would his friends; prediction of movements. No doubt he wished he could have stopped it all from hurting; near impenetrable.
All his abilities would line up in this situation and he probably felt just like Ritsu. He could never be hurt again, he can fight back, he is stronger, he won't allow anyone to hurt him ever again. Eventually leading him down the path to Claw.
But how would this information play in a redemption arc for Shimazaki? Now we know Shimazaki is most definitely not in good standing with Mob in the slightest, which is a drastic change. When Mob had first approached Shima he was pretty calm just telling Reigen to step away from him and casually talking to him while Shimazaki was sitting there having a mental crisis the whole time, but Mob became enraged when Shimazaki so carelessly said he was just doing this for ‘fun’. It sets him off instantly.
I doubt The Kageyama’s were able to walk away from that without some anger from the other parents involved, no doubt Ritsu and Mob blocked most of these events out cause obviously it was super traumatic and their parents probably did their best to shelter them from it in the first place, but it might be possible that subconsciously Mob remembers Shimazaki, his excuse of “just having fun”.
But this is where things get complicated. Mob, Ritsu, and Shimazaki all create a circle of trauma that can't really be solved. Shimazaki was the one who first made Mob lose control of his powers awakening ???% inside of him causing him to hurt not only the people around him but Ritsu as well however, Shimazaki did also save Ritsu’s life that day. But then in current time Shimazaki did also beat the crap out of and almost killed Ritsu yet the only reason why he went down that path was because of Mob.
The circle doesn't end, you can point fingers all you want but no matter what there will always be another thing to blame. Shimazaki shouldn't have been bullying kids, Ritsu shouldn't have tried to pick a fight with them, Mob shouldn't have burnt out Shimazaki’s eyes, etc.
Mob is forgiving yes but how well do you think he would take it? Knowing the man who beat up his brother and destroyed a city for ‘fun’ was also the man who saved his little brother that day but also awoken a terrible power in him that causes him daily repression and sadness? He is already pissed at Shimazaki in the first place but he also loves his brother dearly and if it hadn't been for him his brother no doubt would have died.
How this would get solved or how it would play out for a Shimazaki redemption arc? I have no idea, there are billions of possibilities. Would make for one kick ass fanfic though!
So I really enjoy @phantomrose96 ‘s ABOT theory that espers are very much influential with their powers, eg. Mob creating a powerful barrier simply because Mogami convinced him that he had one in the first place.
So let’s say this is how it is in the MP100 universe, that could potentially explain a lot about how quickly or slowly espers progress with their powers.
Mob was a natural born esper, and potentially has an unknown spirit residing in him, so there was no real barrier for Mob to learn what he could do with his powers.
Teru was also natural born, and he said he used them all the time, meaning his thought that his powers made him above others actually manifested in a way that could do that.
That can also explain why the other kids that Teru trains (I don’t know their names sorry!) are only able to do the bare minimum of powers, since they perhaps believe that those powers are already defying reality, so to advance would be impossible.
Ritsu I’m not sure of, he is a natural born esper, per say, but it didn’t manifest itself until much later in his life. I would need to know how early powers typically manifest in natural born espers in order to really know if this theory would work, but hey I think it’s worth looking into.
(TW for mentions of suicide)
I recently saw somebody say that they thought the reason that Reigen took off his shoes when he was going to face ???% was that he didn't think he was going to survive.
For context, in Japan, when a person is going to commit suicide, they take off their shoes in order to show that their death wasn't a murder.
When I thought about this theory, it just made so much painful sense that Reigen wouldn't want officials to think that Mob killed Reigen, but that Reigen was the one who killed himself by going after Mob.
