
a review by Nadav

a review by Nadav

Compounding this, Mob Psycho also doesn't tie itself down to any one style. There is a baseline art style, that being ONE's original art, but Bones never feels constrained by it. Often throughout the series, they will change it or even jump to completely different mediums if it fits the scene. Multiple times throughout the season we see unique mediums such as paint on glass, sand, watercolor or sketches, that really make the scene stand out. This helps break up what little monotony Mob Psycho has. And once you start taking color into consideration, the entire series just pops. It really felt like Bones just let their animators and artists do what they wanted, trusting them. And what results is a series that, visually, is wholly unique.


You see, Mob Psycho's finale is nothing short of a disappointment. For most anime, this is horrendous, but for Mob Psycho its worst arc is still good. Simply not as good as the others. In my opinion, this final arc has all the hallmarks of a good Mob Psycho story. Its issue however is that it doesn't do anything new or unique this time around. All of the major plot points or set pieces can be found in previous arcs, even ones in this same cour. For example, Suzuki, the villain, is just a poor man's Mogami, while the arc itself in Season 1's Claw Arc on a larger scale.

You see, for as colorful as Mob Psycho's cast may-be, I could only tell you the names of maybe... 7 of them. A large portion of the cast is just dead weight. Nice enough in their individual episodes, but not needed most of the time. Now, this isn't actually a problem until the final arc. Until then, Mob Psycho never has any of them overstay their welcome. However once the final arc comes along, in its desire for a big Shounen set-piece, Mob Psycho focuses to much on them and reveals their problems. Take Sho and his posse for example. I don't care about any of them but Ritsu and none of them were introduced until the end. Yet here they are having a fight with one of the big Ultimate 5. These characters take away from our leads, instead of playing off them, and it's sad.

Lastly, I have to talk about the ending, as I have lambasted up till now. The final arc of Mob Psycho Season 2 is... unfocused. Prior arcs had an emotional throughline, hit on a single section of Mob's personality. Where as this finale just feels like a standard Shounen arc for the sake of having a big fight. Suzuki the villain is a weaker version of Mogami, the fights are fantastic but often devoid of any emotional weight, and the plot itself is just dull. This is a fight to save the world from domination, yet Mob Psycho's strong suit until now has been the deeply personal connections of its stories. Simply put, the arc is to grand in scale to fit with the rest of the series.
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