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Review: モブサイコ100 5

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

Artwork of Mob looking badass [Source]

Alert: Mob and Teru have entered the building. I repeat: Mob and Teru have entered the building . What building, you ask? Well I’m not in the business of spoiling people so you’ll just have to read the volume to find out. ;)

Randomness aside: This volume is full of fights at (view spoiler) headquarters, and of the whole crew being badass. “The whole crew” being inclusive of Mob, Teru, Ritsu, and even Dimple and the Awakening Lab kids to an extent. It’s so satisfying seeing Teru be powerful and not an asshole. It feels like usually when reformed baddies are added to the good-guy-squad they get disappointingly nerfed, so it felt real good to see him continue to be powerful and great and best-character-material. Same thing for Dimple, actually! It was cool seeing him have his little fight as well. All the fights between all the lads were quite satisfying during this volume, if I’m to be honest.

Shou (the ginger twerp who works with Claw who is powerful but doesn’t have a scar (that we know of)) is introduced in this volume, and I’m super excited to learn more about him! He seems really interesting, like what’s up with this random cocky kid and what’s he doing there? Where do his real loyalties lie? Where did he come from? Where did he go? (And so forth.) The anime didn’t get far enough through the manga to really explore his character in much depth at all, so I’m really excited to be able to learn more about him now that I’m reading the manga.

Also wow: We’re getting pretty close to where the anime left off!!! Exciting!! We’re really close to new content! Hype! I wonder if the next volume will be able to finish off the arc and the anime-covered-material. The reason I’m not sure is because it feels like the volumes go by so fast but that they don’t actually cover that much ground, story- and plot-wise.

Now let’s talk about that ending, shall we? (ONLY FOR PEOPLE WHO HAVE ALREADY READ VOLUME 6 OF THE MANGA OR WATCHED EPISODE 11 OF THE ANIME) (view spoiler)

I’ll end with good news: This volume had the reappearance of omake at the end! Yaay!


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