He attracts the attention of Emi, who confesses her love to him because he did something out of his comfort zone. Mob is convinced to run for student council president to impress his childhood sweetheart and fails miserably. What works best in this episode is the plot. Moments when Mob shows his hand lean towards the surreal, with his power emanating in crystalline wafts from his body to retrieve the pieces from the wind and arrange them back in order. It’s a visual gag that invokes Pac-Man, complete with the sound effects of Mob powering up when the cherry tomato hits him.Īnother key visual moment is when Mob helps one of his classmates recover the pages of his torn up manuscript with his psychic powers. When Mob’s master, the con-man Reigen Arataka, tries to grow cherry tomatoes, only for them to taste awful, the animation switches into a style imitating 8-bit graphics. What the episode lacks in its first fight, it makes up for with other noteworthy visuals throughout. Although it sets the tone for the rest of the season, the fight scene falls flat compared to some of the early fights in season one. Yet, for however smooth this fight looked, the setting and use of dead plants make it less visually appealing. “Mob Psycho” fights are usually characterized by bright colors and erratic but beautiful animation. The episode opens with Mob exorcising an evil spirit that’s taken possession of a farmer’s field, manipulating dead vines to ensnare and suffocate its opponents.
The second season of anime show “Mob Psycho 100” premiered Saturday in select cinemas across the country, reminding viewers why protagonist Mob, or Shigeo Kageyama, grounds the otherwise whacky and fast-paced show with a bleeding heart and unadulterated desire to be kind to others.
Kageyama Shigeo, or “Mob,” is a middle-school boy who struggles to control his psychic powers.