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Paint-on-glass animation is a technique for making animated films by manipulating slow-drying oil-paints on sheets of glass as the animator gradually alters the shapes they create, and during this process, a camera records each finished ‘frame’.
When adapting ONE’s Mob Psycho 100, director Yuzuru Tachikawa wanted to adapt the source material in fantastic ways. And so, by combining the talents of a skilled staff, an anime with an incredible mix of animation techniques was born.
Mob Psycho’s ending, and a good portion of the paranormal scenes are a complex product of paint-on-glass animation, done by Miyo Sato, a Tokyo University of Arts graduate and animator who has had her work nominated for multiple international animation awards.
“I wanted it to be something that feels kind. When I came up with the concept, I was thinking something along the lines of ‘kindness’ or ‘the connections between people’. It ended up being an action manga, but my original idea was a slice-of-life that happened to include superpowers.”
-ONE, creator of Mob Psycho 100
taught my little brother to replace "im gonna kill myself" with "im killing a hostage" and it was a success #oldestsiblingwisdom
strong contender for funniest mp100 panel
made some ritsu as text posts. mp100 spoilers ahead
plus a bonus teru
if i had the energy and attention span to make serious animatics it'd be OVER for all of you
End of the first stage play:
End of the second stage play:
End of the third stage play:
I just love how Setsuo Itō (Mob's VA) is so emotional about the whole project you can tell how important it is to him!
it's another mob psycho book debinded & scanned! the official picture collection is a 100-page book of penciled keyframes from the first season of the show. the book is out of print now and only available via the secondary market, so i wanted to let people who missed out be able to enjoy it. season 2 is in the same boat, and i'm gonna work on getting it scanned as well. season 3's book is currently available to purchase officially at studio bones' online store.
drive here!
the book is entirely images, the only text present is a couple notes on some of the pictures, so it's entirely enjoyable without being able to read japanese. also, the parapara opening bits on the corners are flipbooks of the frames from the opening! they don't.. really work in digital format, though
as before, feel free to take these scans and do whatever you'd like, i don't claim any ownership over these images. have fun!
He is Kageyama Shigeo, also known as Mob. He’s an actual psychic, Reigen Arataka’s student, and the protagonist of this story.
"Mob Psycho 100 - Archives" artbook is coming in August. 270 pages of artworks from the 3 seasons (& OVA). International pre-orders >> https://amzn.to/3YqsYy3
— The truth is... I don't know a damn thing about psychic powers. This is the real me. I'm sorry that I acted like your master the whole time. But let me just say one last thing! This doesn't make you different or special. Everyone has another side to them. Even me! So you don't need to worry so much. You're fine... just the way you are. You don't need me anymore. You'll be fine. Just go ahead and accept yourself already. You'll be able to do that because you're you, Mob. I know you can!
I adore the fact that in so many other stories, Mob Psycho would’ve concluded with the World Domination Arc. After all, it has the big, climatic battle with the ensemble cast versus the overarching villain. They win, and everyone goes home, all’s well that ends well, right?
Except the story doesn’t end there. Because Mob has yet to reckon with this internal, antagonist force that has haunted the narrative since the very beginning: Himself.
When Mob comes face-to-face with ???% at long last, he says: I am Kageyama Shigeo.
This isn’t a conflict with a villain, or another esper, or even a separate entity that resides inside Mob’s body. It is something far more personal, and far more relatable.
???% is the culmination of everything Mob’s held back. Not just emotions like anger or fear. Even his desires, like his crush on Tsubomi. All muted by his efforts not to hurt anybody with his powers. Mob has come such a long way, but he’s still restraining his feelings so tightly that the moment his control wavered, ???% took over.
But the conflict isn’t the destruction ???% is wreaking just by walking through the city. The conflict is Mob refusing to accept this part of himself he’s suppressed for so long.
And ???% is right! Every attempt to stop him thus far has failed. Because he isn’t meant to be stopped. Mob has to reconcile with the parts of himself that he won’t acknowledge.
And it’s the most difficult thing Mob has ever had to do! This is the part of himself that hurt his brother; that hurt his friends and decimated so much of the city. Reconciling with it means accepting that Mob hurt those people, whether he wanted to or not. It means accepting all facets of himself, even ones he’s not proud of or wishes he could change but cannot.
Mob has grown so much in this latest season alone, he hasn’t had any explosions, and he felt confident enough in his own abilities to actually ask Tsubomi out, which was something the Mob of two seasons ago could never imagine.
But what about the advice Reigen gave him for his confession to Tsubomi?
His true self, in its totality. This is what Mob has struggled with the entire story. This is why his confession to Tsubomi is the culmination of his character arc. Expressing his feelings means exposing his true self to someone else, even with the fear of rejection.
And while we’re on that subject. Let’s talk about Reigen. Right after he gives this advice to Mob, he says this about himself:
It is the height of irony (and tragedy) that Mob and Reigen admire each other’s strengths so much, yet have no idea they struggle with the same exact fear: that if the people they cared for found out who they truly were, they would reject them. It is why Reigen relies on lies and why Mob suppresses himself.
It is also why Reigen has never actually witnessed ???% until now. It is why Mob has never heard Reigen admit the truth about himself out loud.
And that’s why the final arc feels like such a gut-punch in the best of ways. What is harder than accepting who you are, and hoping for others to accept you as you are? Even at your most deceitful, or your most destructive? Mob Psycho ends with the Confession Arc because that’s the very heart of the story.
ok now that theyve been definitively cut can i just say im really mad that we lost this conversation bc i feel like it was really, really important to understanding the shigeo/mob dichotomy
shigeo, the whole person, is convinced that if he is his “true self”, people will not want to be around him. “mob” exists as the mask he wears around people, the “fake” him, the image he puts on to make other people happy.
“shigeo” exists as true thoughts and feelings and fears and wants he has suppressed for so long to put up this performance to other people. mob wants to go on keeping his “true” self suffocated, because he’s afraid of losing people. shigeo wants to be himself, even if that means pushing people away. but they’re both wrong. people don’t like him because he’s agreeable and opinion-less and doesn’t push back or cause trouble. people like him for him. he’s saying no one will ever come near him again while all his friends and loved ones run to the epicenter of a fucking hurricane to help calm him down.
that’s why reigen’s confession is what finally gets through to him. if reigen, this person he looks up to more than anyone, someone he cares for deeply, can be masking in the same way he is, and if that doesn’t change the fact that he respects and cares for him, then cant people accept shigeo kageyama just as much as they care for mob?
how tf does mp100 manage to strike the perfect balance between “change and growth is good and we should be growing and working on ourselves” and “don’t forget who you truly are and have always been. don’t forget to be You”
Mob Psycho 100 is a beautiful coming of age series that dares to ask the thought provoking questions, such as: what if your coughing baby was also a hydrogen bomb
seeing the "if you cannot get into paradise when you die you can always stay with me" line get reposted on those like aesthetic quote accounts drives me insane because not only is it a hauntingly poetic line out of context but WITHIN its original context it is DEVASTATING. its being said by a ghost to the guardian of a child because they are trapped in a situation where it is almost certain neither of them will make it out alive and this child's guardian is trying to convince him to sneak out and get help. he knows help will not arrive soon enough, he knows that he is going to die alone in there trying to protect this kid that his actions have endangered, and this ghost is telling him that no, he's not gonna die alone, because he still has him
but the ghost looks like this
anime Mob not being as sassy as manga Mob was truly a loss
look at these
it even looks like he’s kind of grinning
mob psycho is the greatest show ever made because reigen being cancelled on twitter is one of the most important moments for his character as well as one of the most emotionally heavy episodes of the show but him being trapped in alone in a purgatory dimension slowly starving to death is treated as a gag and never mentioned again
GtN: Lesbian space necromancers play Werewolf
HtN: the 6 most uniquely fucked-up space liches you can imagine play Among Us
NtN: The cutest child you've ever met discovers the horrors of modern asymmetrical warfare.