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Review: モブサイコ100 2

モブサイコ100 2 モブサイコ100 2 by ONE
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

Artwork of Mob during the fight in this volume
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The end of the first volume very briefly introduced the best character Teruki Hanazawa, and the entirety of this second volume is comprised of the conflict that arises between him, Mob, the punks, and the Body Improvement Club. These episodes were super hype in the anime, and it’s just as hype here in its original manga form.

ONE is absolutely fantastic at drawing fights and portraying movement to the point where he puts lots of trained and seasoned manga artists to shame. The art is actually really good: The hatching, the backgrounds, the use of perspective, the layout of the panels, the movement, the emotion, the faces, everything is actually SO well done. ONE’s art style just has this shitty kind of sheen that obscures all of that which is what gives the impression that the art isn’t good (when it actually is).

The only complaint I have is that it felt like the, ahem, “power struggle” (I’m trying to avoid spoilers here) between Teruki and Mob went on waaaay too long here in the manga. It just felt like too much of the same back-and-forth over and over again, and it ended up feeling boring and unimersed me from the story which—from the perspective of a storyteller—is one of the last things you want to happen to your reader. But all that build-up led to a super duper hype ending to this volume, so in the end it was almost worth it.

The punchline to the gag that was spread out between the last three chapters was the cherry on top of the ending of this volume. All of the little extras between chapters, the mini gags, and the omake (bonus comics at the end of volumes) in this series are an absolute treat and often succeed in making me laugh out loud.


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