The description of this anime had me a little skeptical whether I'd be able to enjoy it, but the above average score and the numerous comments about how cute it was convinced me to give it a try. Two episodes in, I was finding it very discomforting, even cringy, leaving me doubting whether to continue watching. Where is this story headed? There was still plenty of room at that point for the main characters and their relationship to develop in a way that would make it a worthwhile journey. But my efforts to get a feel for what lie ahead suggested that it was largely more of the same. Still, for whatever reason, I watched some more. Episode 3 was actually somewhat enjoyable. The fourth was a return to the unpleasantness of the first two. And then came episode 5.
What's the problem? Without mincing any words, I cannot help but see Takagi as a horrible person for the way she bullies Nishikata. No matter how cute she is, treating another person like that isn't cute or funny, it's just mean. As the saying goes, it takes two to tango, and quite frankly Nishikata is an idiot in how he handles her treatment. Too often he tries overthinking things when he could just end it by saying 'I don't care', 'No thanks', or by ignoring her and walking away if possible. But every time he falls into her trap, even when he knows it's a trap and could easily avoid it.
Is it teasing or bullying? My take on it is that teasing means keeping it within the bounds of the parties' sense of humor, limiting it to stuff they'd be able to laugh about after the fact. I don't see Takagi exercising any such restraint. She has little sense of when enough's enough. Furthermore, her actions have tangible consequences for Nishikata, such as getting extra cleaning duty as punishment, or failing a math test, and when things like that are the result, it's over the line from teasing into bullying. Some have compared their antics to Road Runner and Coyote, but that comparison fails when you consider that Coyote is usually the perpetrator, the one who starts it, and that's generally not the case for Nishikata. As a general rule, bullying scenes are uncomfortable for me to watch, even when the bully is the antagonist and the victim is the protagonist. That they're trying to unapologetically make it out to be cute and funny just makes it worse.
In other respects, the show gets better marks. The OP and ED animations are impressive and well done, and I enjoyed the setting and give the background artists high marks. The scenes that feature the three girls, Mina, Sanae, and Yukari, were enjoyable in a CGDCT kind of way. In a lot other anime I might complain that they're filler that only takes time away from the main story, but in this case they're welcome relief from it. Character design is average. Takagi is actually very cute, but then so are the characters in Happy Tree Friends. On the balance, I'll give the show a 3/10 rating.
Full disclosure: I couldn't finish the series. I tend to be a 'completist' and with over 250 anime completed at this writing I had never dropped one before. The closest I've come before was a few that had me pondering whether watching something else would be a better use of my time. But with this one, after the math test scene in episode 5 it was too painful to go on. The streak is broken as "Teasing Master Takagi-san" becomes my first ever drop, as well as only the second to score below a 4. Now I hear there's going to be a second season, which makes me think about how many other shows I would like to see get another season that probably never will. One thing that might make me decide to resume watching is if Takagi does a turnabout ala Shouya Ishida in season 2, but I'm not holding my breath.
Like you, I was waiting for the unknown entity seen in the "????!!!%" state in Season 1 to somehow be expatiated upon and it wasn't. This season was incredibly unsatisfying and lost it's reputation of breaking tropes and instead made the decision to follow every single Shounen trope. No ground breaking themes or events in this season, sadly.
Every single villain in Mob Psycho's universe starts out with certain convictions and beliefs. Maybe this is a disadvantage the Shounen format has, but I feel the writers really took the worst of the format's issues and exacerbated it beyond belief. Every time a villain shows up, you know for a fact that they are going to end up having a change of heart, or start having immense respect for Mob, specially when Mod reks them. Somehow losing makes the villain realize that he had been wrong about every single thing, and a little schoolboy (whose struggles are incredibly generic with loneliness and social awkwardness being the main themes) knows what the real way is to live in this world and enjoy it. The writers fail to understand that everything that bad happens in the world, isn't always going to be related to psychic powers. And not all issues can be explained away by saying, "You don't have the right attitude". Mob is never faced with an opponent that cannot be defeated with powers, or faces issues that actually make him rethink this beliefs or question them.
This anime's basic statement is beat your enemies to a pulp and suddenly their ideologies and convictions will be forgotten, and they will follow your beliefs and respect you. For a show that focuses so much on inner strength and moral platitudes, the moral of the story is always that if you defeat your enemy, they will yield to you. It's like a guy pestering a girl at a party, begging her to sleep with him. Following this anime, I bet if I use physical strength against the girl I'd be able to conquer her in mind, body and spirit. Because being beaten up made her realize that I was very empathetic or had a similar life or something. It is incredibly creepy how Mob treats his villain, instantly realizing their hopes dreams and ambitions and continuing to ignore the villain's convictions in favor of his own path, which requires that he controls his emotions in order to be a better person. The world somehow tends to literally revolve around Mob and what his most recent emotion is. Situations manifest that only serve as a teaching moment for Mob and to realize that great truth about life that you can find on a fortune cookie.
The villains have zero backbone. Even the horrible show that is My Hero Academia has respectable villains that actually touch upon the nature of evil. And how mere defeat and lectures from a school boy aren't enough to sway anyone's heart.
I swear to God if these people talked about their feelings anymore I'd feel I was watching a chick flick. Being a nice person does not have anything to do with how Mob behaves. He sets a very bad example to follow. Even though he is OP, he is hardly ever able to nip any problem in the bud. There are zero consequences to anything that happens in the story and everything works out perfectly in the end. Having empathy is a necessary part of living a full life, but not to the extent that Mob says it does. Sometimes things need to be resolved with extreme prejudice, not because we hate the sinner, but because we want to protect someone or something.
My interest in the second season was piqued by the inner "thing" that resided in Mob. The entity that was from another world. That moment was hair-raising and was amazing. I believe the most viewed videos on youtube have to do with that part of the 1st season. I was really looking forward to that this season and it is basically forgotten. I don't understand why there is a huge disconnect between the studio and the people.
I would understand if the second season was more slice of life and didn't focus too much on fights, but that isn't the case at all. There are dragonballz type fights and action galore but none of them scratch your itch. For once we had an anime that broke the tropes and showed people who were so certain and full of themselves being brought down into the ground by an awkward school kid. There was something very cathartic about that, but that never happens in this season. They literally have to remove Mob from the scene in the beginning of the final arc so that the plot can progress, therefore Mob only ever has to deal with the biggest of the villains, who is also dealt with in a very anti-climactic way.
Addition of so many espers to the show has also dampened the world-building. With every single esper that is added, the world of Mob-Pyscho becomes more removed from the fantasy we live in, therefore we end up caring a little less about the world and the consequences of living in a world with psychic powers.
People are sick and tired of anime MC's getting the ever-loving crap beaten out of them for 15 minutes out of 26 minutes and then having the fight resolved in a couple minutes with everything working out. Just how many times do we have to see Mob getting pummeled into the ground? It's sort of sadistic in the sense, it made me feel that the creators of the show hated Mob in some weird way.
I'm just very disappointed and I am happy that this season is over and I wouldn't have to see this again in my life.
Mob Psycho 100 II follows in the footsteps of its antecedent in having terrible comedy, uninteresting battles, and fatuous characters. Mob-kun is essentially a younger, non-bald version of Saitama with none of the “charming” qualities that would allow the viewer to become engrossed with his various escapades. Situational comedy typically originates from Mob’s lack of self-awareness, in conjunction with the manipulative nature of the self-proclaimed “Greatest Psychic of the 21st Century” (i.e. Arataka Reigen) who frequently employs “special moves” that are intended to be hilarious, but, more often than not, are puerile absurdities that involve copious amounts of — hypertension-inducing — sodium chloride. Nevertheless, Reigen might be the lone bright spot in an otherwise prosaic show. His unjustified confidence, matched with his unabashed approach toward solving impossible problems elicited intermittent moments of laughter. Not the type of laughter that would knock one out of their chair, but the mere fact that he had the cojones to throw a punch at Toichiro Suzuki (an immensely powerful Esper, whom Reigen had no chance of defeating) was quite entertaining. But no singular moment is entertaining enough to qualify as “LOL” material.
Almost every aspect of Mob Psycho 100 II follows a conventional pattern that can be seen in an assortment of other anime. A short list of commonalities should aid in exemplifying this point: 1) the extravagant battle sequences evoke comparisons with the absurdities of Kill la Kill, 2) Mob is exceptionally OP with dormant powers, similar to numerous main protagonists (Naruto, Gon, Lelouch, Saitama, Kirito, the list could go on for days), 3) Mob is a “nice” guy — which, as it turns out, meant “foolish, stupid, or senseless” in the 13th century — which is why Reigen takes advantage of him, much is the same fate as other other MC’s, 4) A “monster of the week” approach is used where a new, “invincible” foe is introduced and subsequently defeated by the end of each episode, and 5) plot armor is used heavily to prevent the defeat of Mob, due to him being the requisite main character of the series. Thus, as one can plainly see, Mob Psycho 100 II is rather standard-fare, which is reminiscent of similarly themed shows.
Akira used psychic powers in the late 1980’s. Lelouch, from Code Geass, used the power of Geass (a psychic power) to willingly control his subject’s actions. The method in which the psychic powers are being utilized in Mob Psycho are certainly distinct, but it’s nothing that hasn’t been explored in the past. Furthermore, because Mob Psycho was created by ONE — the same author who wrote One Punch Man — the character designs, jokes, and overall story-telling method are nearly identical. Making the use of psychic powers a flipping of the script, in a manner of speaking; as Saitama is 100% strength-oriented with no psychic/supernatural ability, whereas Mob is 100% psychic-oriented with no strength/speed.
In either case, both assumptions are — likely! — incorrect. Mob Psycho is not enjoyable (they even botched the OP for season 2) and the probability that Mob is in fact Blast, is slim to none. If the viewer wishes to delude themselves into thinking otherwise, then that’s their prerogative. But rest assured, Mob Psycho II is bottom of the barrel, trite entertainment masquerading as an unparalleled deconstruction of the superhero genre.
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و كاتيم مصوتيم جميلون صعدة
الحق هيا دعانا ليوا
لي سهل منايا يكون حربي عايدة
فامان ما تأمينا في دان هيما
بجنتي خل الدين صياغدو عزة
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ودربل قتالي طريق الحياة
فا بينق تهامين يوبيدو توغا
و كاتيم مصوتيم جميلون صعدة
سليل الصواريم نشيد اليوبة
ودربل قتالي طريق الحياة
فا بينق تهامين يوبيدو توغا
و كاتيم مصوتيم جميلون صعدة
ودربل قتالي طريق الحياة
فا بينق تهامين يوبيدو توغا
و كاتيم مصوتيم جميلون صعدة
سليل الصواريم نشيد اليوبة
ودربل قتالي طريق الحياة
فا بينق تهامين يوبيدو توغا
و كاتيم مصوتيم جميلون صعدة
بيهي آزاديني وجلال بوغا
فايا قومي هوبو ليدربيل كومة
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ودربل قتالي طريق الحياة
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ونارفا أمجدة ونعلة جبة
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ودربل قتالي طريق الحياة
فا بينق تهامين يوبيدو توغا
و كاتيم مصوتيم جميلون صعدة
الحق هيا دعانا ليوا
لي سهل منايا يكون حربي عايدة
فامان ما تأمينا في دان هيما
بجنتي خل الدين صياغدو عزة
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ودربل قتالي طريق الحياة
فا بينق تهامين يوبيدو توغا
و كاتيم مصوتيم جميلون صعدة
سليل الصواريم نشيد اليوبة
ودربل قتالي طريق الحياة
فا بينق تهامين يوبيدو توغا
و كاتيم مصوتيم جميلون صعدة
ودربل قتالي طريق الحياة
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و كاتيم مصوتيم جميلون صعدة
سليل الصواريم نشيد اليوبة
ودربل قتالي طريق الحياة
فا بينق تهامين يوبيدو توغا
و كاتيم مصوتيم جميلون صعدة
بيهي آزاديني وجلال بوغا
فايا قومي هوبو ليدربيل كومة
fa ima hayatun tasurul hudah
وما مأمون يوغيغول عودة
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سليل الصواريم نشيد اليوبة
ودربل قتالي طريق الحياة
فا بينق تهامين يوبيدو توغا
و كاتيم مصوتيم جميلون صعدة
فقم ياوعا ليداربين نجا
lilamdi Saweeya Nasudul Gوزي
ونارفا أمجدة ونعلة جبة
abat antadila be ghairil ilah
abat antadila le ghairil ilah
سليل الصواريم نشيد اليوبة
ودربل قتالي طريق الحياة
فا بينق تهامين يوبيدو توغا
و كاتيم مصوتيم جميلون صعدة
الحق هيا دعانا ليوا
لي سهل منايا يكون حربي عايدة
فامان ما تأمينا في دان هيما
بجنتي خل الدين صياغدو عزة
بجنتي خل الدين صياغدو عزة
سليل الصواريم نشيد اليوبة
ودربل قتالي طريق الحياة
فا بينق تهامين يوبيدو توغا
و كاتيم مصوتيم جميلون صعدة
سليل الصواريم نشيد اليوبة
ودربل قتالي طريق الحياة
فا بينق تهامين يوبيدو توغا
و كاتيم مصوتيم جميلون صعدة
ودربل قتالي طريق الحياة
فا بينق تهامين يوبيدو توغا
و كاتيم مصوتيم جميلون صعدة
سليل الصواريم نشيد اليوبة
ودربل قتالي طريق الحياة
فا بينق تهامين يوبيدو توغا
و كاتيم مصوتيم جميلون صعدة
بيهي آزاديني وجلال بوغا
فايا قومي هوبو ليدربيل كومة
fa ima hayatun tasurul hudah
وما مأمون يوغيغول عودة
وما مأمون يوغيغول عودة
سليل الصواريم نشيد اليوبة
ودربل قتالي طريق الحياة
فا بينق تهامين يوبيدو توغا
و كاتيم مصوتيم جميلون صعدة
فقم ياوعا ليداربين نجا
lilamdi Saweeya Nasudul Gوزي
ونارفا أمجدة ونعلة جبة
abat antadila be ghairil ilah
abat antadila le ghairil ilah
سليل الصواريم نشيد اليوبة
ودربل قتالي طريق الحياة
فا بينق تهامين يوبيدو توغا
و كاتيم مصوتيم جميلون صعدة
الحق هيا دعانا ليوا
لي سهل منايا يكون حربي عايدة
فامان ما تأمينا في دان هيما
بجنتي خل الدين صياغدو عزة
بجنتي خل الدين صياغدو عزة
سليل الصواريم نشيد اليوبة
ودربل قتالي طريق الحياة
فا بينق تهامين يوبيدو توغا
و كاتيم مصوتيم جميلون صعدة
سليل الصواريم نشيد اليوبة
ودربل قتالي طريق الحياة
فا بينق تهامين يوبيدو توغا
و كاتيم مصوتيم جميلون صعدة
ودربل قتالي طريق الحياة
فا بينق تهامين يوبيدو توغا
و كاتيم مصوتيم جميلون صعدة
سليل الصواريم نشيد اليوبة
ودربل قتالي طريق الحياة
فا بينق تهامين يوبيدو توغا
و كاتيم مصوتيم جميلون صعدة
بيهي آزاديني وجلال بوغا
فايا قومي هوبو ليدربيل كومة
fa ima hayatun tasurul hudah
وما مأمون يوغيغول عودة
وما مأمون يوغيغول عودة
سليل الصواريم نشيد اليوبة
ودربل قتالي طريق الحياة
فا بينق تهامين يوبيدو توغا
و كاتيم مصوتيم جميلون صعدة
فقم ياوعا ليداربين نجا
lilamdi Saweeya Nasudul Gوزي
ونارفا أمجدة ونعلة جبة
abat antadila be ghairil ilah
abat antadila le ghairil ilah
سليل الصواريم نشيد اليوبة
ودربل قتالي طريق الحياة
فا بينق تهامين يوبيدو توغا
و كاتيم مصوتيم جميلون صعدة
الحق هيا دعانا ليوا
لي سهل منايا يكون حربي عايدة
فامان ما تأمينا في دان هيما
بجنتي خل الدين صياغدو عزة
بجنتي خل الدين صياغدو عزة
سليل الصواريم نشيد اليوبة
ودربل قتالي طريق الحياة
فا بينق تهامين يوبيدو توغا
و كاتيم مصوتيم جميلون صعدة
سليل الصواريم نشيد اليوبة
ودربل قتالي طريق الحياة
فا بينق تهامين يوبيدو توغا
و كاتيم مصوتيم جميلون صعدة
ودربل قتالي طريق الحياة
فا بينق تهامين يوبيدو توغا
و كاتيم مصوتيم جميلون صعدة
سليل الصواريم نشيد اليوبة
ودربل قتالي طريق الحياة
فا بينق تهامين يوبيدو توغا
و كاتيم مصوتيم جميلون صعدة
بيهي آزاديني وجلال بوغا
فايا قومي هوبو ليدربيل كومة
fa ima hayatun tasurul hudah
وما مأمون يوغيغول عودة
وما مأمون يوغيغول عودة
سليل الصواريم نشيد اليوبة
ودربل قتالي طريق الحياة
فا بينق تهامين يوبيدو توغا
و كاتيم مصوتيم جميلون صعدة
فقم ياوعا ليداربين نجا
lilamdi Saweeya Nasudul Gوزي
ونارفا أمجدة ونعلة جبة
abat antadila be ghairil ilah
abat antadila le ghairil ilah
سليل الصواريم نشيد اليوبة
ودربل قتالي طريق الحياة
فا بينق تهامين يوبيدو توغا
و كاتيم مصوتيم جميلون صعدة
الحق هيا دعانا ليوا
لي سهل منايا يكون حربي عايدة
فامان ما تأمينا في دان هيما
بجنتي خل الدين صياغدو عزة
بجنتي خل الدين صياغدو عزة
سليل الصواريم نشيد اليوبة
ودربل قتالي طريق الحياة
فا بينق تهامين يوبيدو توغا
و كاتيم مصوتيم جميلون صعدة
سليل الصواريم نشيد اليوبة
ودربل قتالي طريق الحياة
فا بينق تهامين يوبيدو توغا
و كاتيم مصوتيم جميلون صعدة
ودربل قتالي طريق الحياة
فا بينق تهامين يوبيدو توغا
و كاتيم مصوتيم جميلون صعدة
سليل الصواريم نشيد اليوبة
ودربل قتالي طريق الحياة
فا بينق تهامين يوبيدو توغا
و كاتيم مصوتيم جميلون صعدة
بيهي آزاديني وجلال بوغا
فايا قومي هوبو ليدربيل كومة
fa ima hayatun tasurul hudah
وما مأمون يوغيغول عودة
وما مأمون يوغيغول عودة
سليل الصواريم نشيد اليوبة
ودربل قتالي طريق الحياة
فا بينق تهامين يوبيدو توغا
و كاتيم مصوتيم جميلون صعدة
فقم ياوعا ليداربين نجا
lilamdi Saweeya Nasudul Gوزي
ونارفا أمجدة ونعلة جبة
abat antadila be ghairil ilah
abat antadila le ghairil ilah
سليل الصواريم نشيد اليوبة
ودربل قتالي طريق الحياة
فا بينق تهامين يوبيدو توغا
و كاتيم مصوتيم جميلون صعدة
الحق هيا دعانا ليوا
لي سهل منايا يكون حربي عايدة
فامان ما تأمينا في دان هيما
بجنتي خل الدين صياغدو عزة
بجنتي خل الدين صياغدو عزة
سليل الصواريم نشيد اليوبة
ودربل قتالي طريق الحياة
فا بينق تهامين يوبيدو توغا
و كاتيم مصوتيم جميلون صعدة
سليل الصواريم نشيد اليوبة
ودربل قتالي طريق الحياة
فا بينق تهامين يوبيدو توغا
و كاتيم مصوتيم جميلون صعدة
ودربل قتالي طريق الحياة
فا بينق تهامين يوبيدو توغا
و كاتيم مصوتيم جميلون صعدة
سليل الصواريم نشيد اليوبة
ودربل قتالي طريق الحياة
فا بينق تهامين يوبيدو توغا
و كاتيم مصوتيم جميلون صعدة
بيهي آزاديني وجلال بوغا
فايا قومي هوبو ليدربيل كومة
fa ima hayatun tasurul hudah
وما مأمون يوغيغول عودة
وما مأمون يوغيغول عودة
سليل الصواريم نشيد اليوبة
ودربل قتالي طريق الحياة
فا بينق تهامين يوبيدو توغا
و كاتيم مصوتيم جميلون صعدة
فقم ياوعا ليداربين نجا
lilamdi Saweeya Nasudul Gوزي
ونارفا أمجدة ونعلة جبة
abat antadila be ghairil ilah
abat antadila le ghairil ilah
سليل الصواريم نشيد اليوبة
ودربل قتالي طريق الحياة
فا بينق تهامين يوبيدو توغا
و كاتيم مصوتيم جميلون صعدة
الحق هيا دعانا ليوا
لي سهل منايا يكون حربي عايدة
فامان ما تأمينا في دان هيما
بجنتي خل الدين صياغدو عزة
بجنتي خل الدين صياغدو عزة
سليل الصواريم نشيد اليوبة
ودربل قتالي طريق الحياة
فا بينق تهامين يوبيدو توغا
و كاتيم مصوتيم جميلون صعدة
سليل الصواريم نشيد اليوبة
ودربل قتالي طريق الحياة
فا بينق تهامين يوبيدو توغا
و كاتيم مصوتيم جميلون صعدة
ودربل قتالي طريق الحياة
فا بينق تهامين يوبيدو توغا
و كاتيم مصوتيم جميلون صعدة
سليل الصواريم نشيد اليوبة
ودربل قتالي طريق الحياة
فا بينق تهامين يوبيدو توغا
و كاتيم مصوتيم جميلون صعدة
بيهي آزاديني وجلال بوغا
فايا قومي هوبو ليدربيل كومة
fa ima hayatun tasurul hudah
وما مأمون يوغيغول عودة
وما مأمون يوغيغول عودة
سليل الصواريم نشيد اليوبة
ودربل قتالي طريق الحياة
فا بينق تهامين يوبيدو توغا
و كاتيم مصوتيم جميلون صعدة
فقم ياوعا ليداربين نجا
lilamdi Saweeya Nasudul Gوزي
ونارفا أمجدة ونعلة جبة
abat antadila be ghairil ilah
abat antadila le ghairil ilah
سليل الصواريم نشيد اليوبة
ودربل قتالي طريق الحياة
فا بينق تهامين يوبيدو توغا
و كاتيم مصوتيم جميلون صعدة
الحق هيا دعانا ليوا
لي سهل منايا يكون حربي عايدة
فامان ما تأمينا في دان هيما
بجنتي خل الدين صياغدو عزة
بجنتي خل الدين صياغدو عزة
سليل الصواريم نشيد اليوبة
ودربل قتالي طريق الحياة
فا بينق تهامين يوبيدو توغا
و كاتيم مصوتيم جميلون صعدة
سليل الصواريم نشيد اليوبة
ودربل قتالي طريق الحياة
فا بينق تهامين يوبيدو توغا
و كاتيم مصوتيم جميلون صعدة
ودربل قتالي طريق الحياة
فا بينق تهامين يوبيدو توغا
و كاتيم مصوتيم جميلون صعدة
سليل الصواريم نشيد اليوبة
ودربل قتالي طريق الحياة
فا بينق تهامين يوبيدو توغا
و كاتيم مصوتيم جميلون صعدة
بيهي آزاديني وجلال بوغا
فايا قومي هوبو ليدربيل كومة
fa ima hayatun tasurul hudah
وما مأمون يوغيغول عودة
وما مأمون يوغيغول عودة
سليل الصواريم نشيد اليوبة
ودربل قتالي طريق الحياة
فا بينق تهامين يوبيدو توغا
و كاتيم مصوتيم جميلون صعدة
فقم ياوعا ليداربين نجا
lilamdi Saweeya Nasudul Gوزي
ونارفا أمجدة ونعلة جبة
abat antadila be ghairil ilah
abat antadila le ghairil ilah
سليل الصواريم نشيد اليوبة
ودربل قتالي طريق الحياة
فا بينق تهامين يوبيدو توغا
و كاتيم مصوتيم جميلون صعدة
الحق هيا دعانا ليوا
لي سهل منايا يكون حربي عايدة
فامان ما تأمينا في دان هيما
بجنتي خل الدين صياغدو عزة
بجنتي خل الدين صياغدو عزة
سليل الصواريم نشيد اليوبة
ودربل قتالي طريق الحياة
فا بينق تهامين يوبيدو توغا
و كاتيم مصوتيم جميلون صعدة
سليل الصواريم نشيد اليوبة
ودربل قتالي طريق الحياة
فا بينق تهامين يوبيدو توغا
و كاتيم مصوتيم جميلون صعدة
What's the problem? Without mincing any words, I cannot help but see Takagi as a horrible person for the way she bullies Nishikata. No matter how cute she is, treating another person like that isn't cute or funny, it's just mean. As the saying goes, it takes two to tango, and quite frankly Nishikata is an idiot in how he handles her treatment. Too often he tries overthinking things when he could just end it by saying 'I don't care', 'No thanks', or by ignoring her and walking away if possible. But every time he falls into her trap, even when he knows it's a trap and could easily avoid it.
Is it teasing or bullying? My take on it is that teasing means keeping it within the bounds of the parties' sense of humor, limiting it to stuff they'd be able to laugh about after the fact. I don't see Takagi exercising any such restraint. She has little sense of when enough's enough. Furthermore, her actions have tangible consequences for Nishikata, such as getting extra cleaning duty as punishment, or failing a math test, and when things like that are the result, it's over the line from teasing into bullying. Some have compared their antics to Road Runner and Coyote, but that comparison fails when you consider that Coyote is usually the perpetrator, the one who starts it, and that's generally not the case for Nishikata. As a general rule, bullying scenes are uncomfortable for me to watch, even when the bully is the antagonist and the victim is the protagonist. That they're trying to unapologetically make it out to be cute and funny just makes it worse.
In other respects, the show gets better marks. The OP and ED animations are impressive and well done, and I enjoyed the setting and give the background artists high marks. The scenes that feature the three girls, Mina, Sanae, and Yukari, were enjoyable in a CGDCT kind of way. In a lot other anime I might complain that they're filler that only takes time away from the main story, but in this case they're welcome relief from it. Character design is average. Takagi is actually very cute, but then so are the characters in Happy Tree Friends. On the balance, I'll give the show a 3/10 rating.
Full disclosure: I couldn't finish the series. I tend to be a 'completist' and with over 250 anime completed at this writing I had never dropped one before. The closest I've come before was a few that had me pondering whether watching something else would be a better use of my time. But with this one, after the math test scene in episode 5 it was too painful to go on. The streak is broken as "Teasing Master Takagi-san" becomes my first ever drop, as well as only the second to score below a 4. Now I hear there's going to be a second season, which makes me think about how many other shows I would like to see get another season that probably never will. One thing that might make me decide to resume watching is if Takagi does a turnabout ala Shouya Ishida in season 2, but I'm not holding my breath.
Every single villain in Mob Psycho's universe starts out with certain convictions and beliefs. Maybe this is a disadvantage the Shounen format has, but I feel the writers really took the worst of the format's issues and exacerbated it beyond belief. Every time a villain shows up, you know for a fact that they are going to end up having a change of heart, or start having immense respect for Mob, specially when Mod reks them. Somehow losing makes the villain realize that he had been wrong about every single thing, and a little schoolboy (whose struggles are incredibly generic with loneliness and social awkwardness being the main themes) knows what the real way is to live in this world and enjoy it. The writers fail to understand that everything that bad happens in the world, isn't always going to be related to psychic powers. And not all issues can be explained away by saying, "You don't have the right attitude". Mob is never faced with an opponent that cannot be defeated with powers, or faces issues that actually make him rethink this beliefs or question them.
This anime's basic statement is beat your enemies to a pulp and suddenly their ideologies and convictions will be forgotten, and they will follow your beliefs and respect you. For a show that focuses so much on inner strength and moral platitudes, the moral of the story is always that if you defeat your enemy, they will yield to you. It's like a guy pestering a girl at a party, begging her to sleep with him. Following this anime, I bet if I use physical strength against the girl I'd be able to conquer her in mind, body and spirit. Because being beaten up made her realize that I was very empathetic or had a similar life or something. It is incredibly creepy how Mob treats his villain, instantly realizing their hopes dreams and ambitions and continuing to ignore the villain's convictions in favor of his own path, which requires that he controls his emotions in order to be a better person. The world somehow tends to literally revolve around Mob and what his most recent emotion is. Situations manifest that only serve as a teaching moment for Mob and to realize that great truth about life that you can find on a fortune cookie.
The villains have zero backbone. Even the horrible show that is My Hero Academia has respectable villains that actually touch upon the nature of evil. And how mere defeat and lectures from a school boy aren't enough to sway anyone's heart.
I swear to God if these people talked about their feelings anymore I'd feel I was watching a chick flick. Being a nice person does not have anything to do with how Mob behaves. He sets a very bad example to follow. Even though he is OP, he is hardly ever able to nip any problem in the bud. There are zero consequences to anything that happens in the story and everything works out perfectly in the end. Having empathy is a necessary part of living a full life, but not to the extent that Mob says it does. Sometimes things need to be resolved with extreme prejudice, not because we hate the sinner, but because we want to protect someone or something.
My interest in the second season was piqued by the inner "thing" that resided in Mob. The entity that was from another world. That moment was hair-raising and was amazing. I believe the most viewed videos on youtube have to do with that part of the 1st season. I was really looking forward to that this season and it is basically forgotten. I don't understand why there is a huge disconnect between the studio and the people.
I would understand if the second season was more slice of life and didn't focus too much on fights, but that isn't the case at all. There are dragonballz type fights and action galore but none of them scratch your itch. For once we had an anime that broke the tropes and showed people who were so certain and full of themselves being brought down into the ground by an awkward school kid. There was something very cathartic about that, but that never happens in this season. They literally have to remove Mob from the scene in the beginning of the final arc so that the plot can progress, therefore Mob only ever has to deal with the biggest of the villains, who is also dealt with in a very anti-climactic way.
Addition of so many espers to the show has also dampened the world-building. With every single esper that is added, the world of Mob-Pyscho becomes more removed from the fantasy we live in, therefore we end up caring a little less about the world and the consequences of living in a world with psychic powers.
People are sick and tired of anime MC's getting the ever-loving crap beaten out of them for 15 minutes out of 26 minutes and then having the fight resolved in a couple minutes with everything working out. Just how many times do we have to see Mob getting pummeled into the ground? It's sort of sadistic in the sense, it made me feel that the creators of the show hated Mob in some weird way.
I'm just very disappointed and I am happy that this season is over and I wouldn't have to see this again in my life.
Almost every aspect of Mob Psycho 100 II follows a conventional pattern that can be seen in an assortment of other anime. A short list of commonalities should aid in exemplifying this point: 1) the extravagant battle sequences evoke comparisons with the absurdities of Kill la Kill, 2) Mob is exceptionally OP with dormant powers, similar to numerous main protagonists (Naruto, Gon, Lelouch, Saitama, Kirito, the list could go on for days), 3) Mob is a “nice” guy — which, as it turns out, meant “foolish, stupid, or senseless” in the 13th century — which is why Reigen takes advantage of him, much is the same fate as other other MC’s, 4) A “monster of the week” approach is used where a new, “invincible” foe is introduced and subsequently defeated by the end of each episode, and 5) plot armor is used heavily to prevent the defeat of Mob, due to him being the requisite main character of the series. Thus, as one can plainly see, Mob Psycho 100 II is rather standard-fare, which is reminiscent of similarly themed shows.
Akira used psychic powers in the late 1980’s. Lelouch, from Code Geass, used the power of Geass (a psychic power) to willingly control his subject’s actions. The method in which the psychic powers are being utilized in Mob Psycho are certainly distinct, but it’s nothing that hasn’t been explored in the past. Furthermore, because Mob Psycho was created by ONE — the same author who wrote One Punch Man — the character designs, jokes, and overall story-telling method are nearly identical. Making the use of psychic powers a flipping of the script, in a manner of speaking; as Saitama is 100% strength-oriented with no psychic/supernatural ability, whereas Mob is 100% psychic-oriented with no strength/speed.
In either case, both assumptions are — likely! — incorrect. Mob Psycho is not enjoyable (they even botched the OP for season 2) and the probability that Mob is in fact Blast, is slim to none. If the viewer wishes to delude themselves into thinking otherwise, then that’s their prerogative. But rest assured, Mob Psycho II is bottom of the barrel, trite entertainment masquerading as an unparalleled deconstruction of the superhero genre.