Skip to main content

Click "Archive" or "Labels" in the sidebar to browse reviews, or use the search bar to look for a specific title.


Review: モブサイコ100 1

モブサイコ100 1 モブサイコ100 1 by ONE
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

Banner

Series Review
What a legendary series. I’m so happy with this. This is the manga of The Best Anime Ever Created and I’m happy to say it lives up to the hype. It’s maybe not quite as enjoyable as the anime--since it’s lacking the beautiful animation and colours, and some of the gags are funnier in the anime with the incorporation of movement, angles, and better comedic timing--but it’s still definitely up there.

Mob Psycho 100 is about a middle school aged deadpan psychic named Shigeo (aka Mob) and his self-proclaimed psychic mentor Reigen Arataka (who is actually a con artist). With this setup and the author ONE’s amazing storytelling skills, a lot of hijinks ensue and it’s an absolutely marvelous ride that only gets more wild, entertaining, complex, hilarious, and moving as it goes on. ONE is fantastic at unobtrusively subverting tropes and reader expectations, resulting in an experience unmatched by any other series out there today.

After reading the first volume of ONE’s other manga One Punch Man and leaving bitterly disappointed, I was quite apprehensive heading into Mob Psycho 100. Now I’m wondering if all of the problems I had with that manga were due to the adaptor/artist Yusuke Murata and not ONE, because I had none of those same problems here. I also couldn’t find out through online sleuthing which of those series he wrote first to see if that reveals anything, because this manga was an absolute treat.

Warning: The art looks pretty shitty, and you should know this so that you don't get surprised by that when reading this. I personally appreciate the shitty-ness because to me it adds to the humor and underground authenticity of the manga. It reminds me how ONE was a man with a dream and great ideas who didn't let his lack of art skill hold him back from telling the stories he wanted to tell, and who instead went forward and practiced his skills and gained great success while doing so. Nothing short of absolutely inspirational.


Please consider giving this review a "Like" if you've made it this far, it helps me out a lot! And follow me if you want more!
Click to read my other Mob Psycho 100 Reviews:
Volumes: 1*, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6

*Current review


View all my reviews
Labels:

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular Posts

Review: 寄宿学校のジュリエット（３）

寄宿学校のジュリエット（３） by 金田陽介 My rating: 5 of 5 stars Brb, crying. Not actually, though. Like, I didn’t shed any actual tears or even get close to it, it’s just that this series… is so good . The romance between Romeo and Juliet is still weirdly innocent, but the actual story is so engrossing and entertaining. It also seems like almost literally every single character is complex and interesting and multi-layered. (Only the background characters like Maru’s lackeys are undeveloped, but honestly they really don’t need any development anyway.) The relationships between characters keep getting more and more complex, and the situations that the characters have to deal with are also super juicy. This is such an addicting series. My initial problem with Romeo and Juliet’s relationship was that it seemed pretty unhealthy and one-sided to me. Later, I found it very weird how sexually immature they both are, and how un-intimate their relationship is. What is interest...
Post a Comment
Read more

Review: Bitter Witness: Otto Dix and the Great War

Bitter Witness: Otto Dix and the Great War by Linda F. McGreevy My rating: 0 of 5 stars This is a very unique and interesting academic text. There are no other examinations of the German artist Otto Dix, his war experience, and his war-related art that are quite as in-depth as this one, while also covering a wide range of different aspects and angles of not only the artist's story, but also the Great War's. I used this as a source for a University research essay I wrote on the effects of Dix's war experience on the creation and effects of his painting Skat Players (1920). I was very late in starting my research so I unfortunately had to stick to only reading the information I could use for my own examination, rather than being able to devour this book in its entirety. However, the library requires this book be returned at the end of January of next year, so I have some time now to actually finish this book since the semester has finished...
Post a Comment
Read more

Review: Spells & Sleeping Bags

Spells & Sleeping Bags by Sarah Mlynowski My rating: 3 of 5 stars This book was infuriating. Miri was super annoying during book 2, but she started this book off with some funny burns toward Rachel which made me think maybe she would be better in this book. Ha. No. She wasn’t. Miri. Oh Miri Miri Miri. So dumb. And it was annoying how it seemed like she didn’t even learn anything from the last book. She’s still all about saving the world and whatnot and being a dumbass. And she talked about poofing up money to help her help people, which is extremely illogical because she knows that poofing up money means she’s stealing money from somewhere else. Way to “help” out the world you fucking idiot. For the majority of this book I reckon she was under some kind of “emotion amplifying” spell but honestly that’s no excuse since she’s still her dumbass self. (view spoiler) [Her figuring out that Fake Rachel wasn’t real Rachel was nice and all but felt a bit...
Post a Comment
Read more