The third season of the Mob Psycho 100 anime is set to begin airing in the fall of 2022! The show has become popular due to its interesting and intense content, which is not in keeping with the not-so-good drawings. It is a masterpiece with surreal gags and the heat of a shounen manga, and has already aired in two seasons. With the third season depicting the conclusion of the original work being aired, we would like to take a look back at what the first season was about!
Mob Psycho 100 Season 1 Episode 1 Self-proclaimed psychic Reigen Arataka ~ and Mob ~
Shigeo Kageyama (nicknamed Mob), a plain and inconspicuous boy, worked part-time under his master Reigen Arataka, who makes a living by exorcising spirits. Reigen worked as a scammer who advertised psychic sales, but when a real spirit appeared, he called Mob to exorcise it. Mob was a real psychic.
Mob Psycho 100 Season 1 Episode 2 Blue Spring Questions ~The Brain-Sensitive Electric Wave Club Appears~
Although Mob works part-time under Reigen, he lives his life without flaunting or boasting about his psychic powers, and he thinks that's fine. Mob is bad at sports and studying, and without any abilities, he has no desire to do anything. One day, when the "Brain-Sensitive Electric Wave Club" at Mob's school is in danger of being disbanded, his classmate Inukawa and club president Tome Kuroda ask him to join the club to keep it going. If he didn't do so, the Brainwave Club's clubroom would become the clubroom of the newly established Body Modification Club, but after much deliberation, Mob decides to join the Body Modification Club in order to change himself.
Mob Psycho 100 Season 1 Episode 3 Invitation to a Gathering ~ Simply put, I want to be popular ~
Mob, who wanted to be popular with the girl he liked, fell for the solicitation of a damn suspicious religious group "(laugh)". There, the cult leader, Dimples, was forcing people to smile and brainwashing them. Mob was taken there along with Mezato, who was in the same class, but the brainwashing didn't work on Mob at all. On the contrary, Ekubo wins staring contests one after another against his followers, nearly destroying their reputations, which brings up Mob's trauma. Mob understands the danger of his powers and lives his life by suppressing his emotions. However, this is merely a forced suppression of his psychic powers, and if the voltage reaches 100, Mob's powers will go out of control. Finally, Ekubo, an advanced evil spirit, reveals his true form to face the out-of-control Mob, but is easily defeated with a single fingertip.
Mob Psycho 100 Season 1 Episode 4 Idiot-Only Event ~Similar~
The boss of Shio Junior High, Onigawara Tenga, defeats the boss Edano in a fight with Kurozu Junior High, but is defeated by the subordinate, Hanazawa Teruki (nicknamed Teru). Meanwhile, Mob is approached by Ekubo, who was supposed to have been eliminated. Ekubo clings to Mob in an attempt to use his power, but has become like a guardian. Tenga plots to pit Teru against the Body Modification Club. Mob is easily caught by the delinquents of Kurosu Junior High School in Tenga's trap, and the Body Modification Club comes to Kurosu Junior High School to rescue him. The Body Modification Club easily defeats the delinquents, but Teru, who arrives late, also defeats the members of the Body Modification Club.
Mob Psycho 100 Season 1 Episode 5 OCHIMUSHA ~Psychic Powers and Me~
Teru was a powerful psychic just like Mob. Teru tries to overwhelm and defeat Mob to maintain his superiority, but Mob does not fight back. Teru continues to attack Mob to protect his pride, but the blade bounces off and takes off the top of his head, leaving him in a fallen warrior state. The battle between Mob, who knew that he would have nothing left if he took away his psychic powers, and Teru, who wanted to deny them, ended without a conclusion...or so it should have, but Mob's rampage caused Teru's clothes and the school building to collapse. After that, Teru acknowledged his weakness and defeat, and the turmoil came to an end.
Mob Psycho 100 Season 1 Episode 6 Disharmony ~To Become~
Mob works part-time at Reigen as usual. Reigen continues to use his fraudulent spiritualist tactics, and after a series of events, he convinces his client, but he also gives accurate advice to Mob, who is troubled by his own psychic powers. Mob has a complex about his own powers, but his younger brother, Kageyama Ritsu, has the opposite complex: he's good at sports, has good grades, and is popular with the kids, but he can't use his psychic powers. Ritsu is scouted by a shady research facility called the Awakening Lab. The psychics at the lab certainly have powers, but they're all just mediocre. Ritsu then leads the student council in carrying out a plan to expel the delinquent student Onigawara.
Mob Psycho 100 Season 1 Episode 7 Exhilaration ~Acquiring Loss~
Ekubo, who was thought to have disappeared, revives on his own and contacts Ritsu to try to use him. With Ekubo's help, Ritsu awakens his psychic powers, but the trigger is strong stress. It was the guilt he felt after falsely accusing and expelling some delinquents together with Student Council President Kamuro. After that, Ritsu continues to expel delinquents and his powers grow, but after he meets Teru by chance and is shown the difference in their powers, Ritsu's actions escalate. As a result of his actions, the delinquents from other schools target Kamuro and knock him, who had been feeling superior, to the bottom. Ritsu uses his psychic powers to beat the delinquents who have gathered, and becomes intoxicated with power.
Mob Psycho 100 Season 1 Episode 8 Brother Peko ~Destructive Will~
With Teru's guidance, Mob heads to the scene of the fight and there he faces Ritsu, whose psychic powers have blossomed. Ritsu reveals his inferiority complex towards his brother, but a mysterious intruder appears and tries to take Ritsu away. The man overpowers Ritsu with overwhelming force and beats Mob to a pulp. However, Mob goes berserk after his brother is injured and overpowers the man. The battered man kidnaps Ritsu to complete the minimum task. By the time Ekubo brings back Teru, it is too late. Ritsu has already been taken away.
Mob Psycho 100 Season 1 Episode 9 "Claw" ~7th Branch~
The name of the organization that kidnapped Ritsu is "Claw." It is an organization that gathers people with special abilities and plans to take over the world. Mob and Teru enter the Awakening Lab to get a clue. However, the Awakening Lab is not related to the Claw, and the psychics at the Awakening Lab have also been captured by the Claw. Teru and Mob torture Terahebi, a Claw executive who attacked them, and make him give up information about the hideout. While Mob and Teru head to the rescue, the captured members of Ritsu and Awakening Sabo are making plans to escape.
Mob Psycho 100 Season 1 Episode 10 The Aura of the Great Evil ~The Mastermind~
Ritsu and the others try to escape. Mob and the others then invade the Claw's hideout. They are attacked by Claw executives known as "Scar." Teru defeats the executives and advances, but Sakurai and Murasaki are defeated. Ritsu escapes but is defeated by a boy who calls himself Shou, and Ekubo is captured by Matsoo, who controls spirits. Mob goes berserk after being attacked by Kirito, who creates hallucinations, and although he defeats Kirito, he falls unconscious and everyone is defeated. The four are gathered together with the remaining executives, but...
Mob Psycho 100 Season 1 Episode 11 Master ~Leader~
In a desperate situation, a man was heading towards the hideout. That man, Reigen Arataka, had followed Mob. Reigen was mistaken for the boss by the underlings of the Claw, and sneaked into the hideout and rescued Mob. Just when it seemed like they were going to escape, executive Ishiguro and others appeared. With no way to escape, and no espers other than Mob could match them, Reigen couldn't let children take the brunt of the attack, so he tried to talk them out of it, but they were just children who hadn't grown up! It was impossible to resolve the issue through discussion, and he ended up having to go head to head with the executives. Seeing his friends being cornered, Mob's stress level reached 100%. But Reigen told him, "If you want to run away, it's okay to run away!"
Mob Psycho 100 Season 1 Episode 12 Mob and Reigen ~The Giant Tsuchinoko Appears~
Reigen calls out to Mob, but is slashed from behind and knocked down. Just when you think Mob will go berserk, Reigen stands up without a hitch and defeats the psychics one after another. Reigen's words save the heart of Mob, who was cornered, and his enormous energy is temporarily dumped on Reigen. Reigen, who has gained overwhelming power, hits the remaining executives with reality and makes them lose their will to fight. Ishiguro, who resisted to the end, is defeated by Shou. Somehow, Dimples returns and Mob and the others return to their daily lives.
【Mob Psycho 100 III】Review of Season 1
I looked back on the first season of Mob Psycho 100. The character designs are not exactly great, but there are some hilarious gags and exciting developments where yesterday's enemies become today's friends, so it's still fun to look back on! I think it's a work that you can look forward to the third and final season! Season 3 will start airing in October, so be sure to check it out!
