Something about Mob Psycho 100 I truly adore is how beautiful and real the platonic love is. I know this has been said again and again but as a younger brother it just slaps me in the face sometimes. I feel like casual platonic intimacy between people who care about each other is so undervalued in media in general, and the way Mob loves people unabashedly and with open tenderness is so important to me.

His open adoration for Ritsu, despite the hurt underneath. My sister and I have hurt each other like breathing over the years, but there is no one on this Earth I would give my life to protect like her. No one else knows me like her. And I see that in Mob and Ritsu.

Mob’s deep love and appreciation for Reigen. The way Mob sees his own loneliness reflected back in Reigen. The way Reigen is the only person who can tell Mob it’s going to be okay and make him believe it. The way Mob collapsed into his arms when he said his family was okay, even when Reigen was lying through his teeth. Not even Dimple’s word was enough. He finally felt safe enough to sleep. How Mob disrupted and terrified an entire room of reporters on purpose, when he’s already scared of his powers, so Reigen wouldn’t have to look so sad and cornered and alone anymore. Remembering his birthday, even when they’d been apart for a long time. Reigen always crouching down, hand on his shoulder, eye-to-eye; mutual saviors. They both entered each other’s lives at the perfect time to say, “You’re going to be okay.”

Even Mob’s love for the ones who have hurt him. His unwavering resolve to help Toichiro Suzuki apologize to his wife and his son—to see them again, to make amends, to build a better life than the one that saw him wandering the world for years and years alone, looking for something more. To channel his vision and his drive into a future that Shou deserves. The way he embraced Serizawa when he felt his fear and his pain and welcomed him into a better life without a shadow looming over his shoulder, accepted him as a peer and a friend that he never had. How Shou burned down his house and nearly made him destroy the world in horrible grief for his family, but still he was roused with anger to defend him from his father’s hand. “I’m sure you have a lot going on. I mean, look at what your own father has done to you.” Look at what the pain has done to all of you. What has it done to me?

Mob and his heart full of love, and the story of how, eventually, that loving heart learns to love itself. God. Shit.

Teru’s desperate “Kageyama! Don’t leave me behind!” after Mob passed out in s1e5 is such a quick moment, but it’s easily one of the saddest in the series for me. Subscribing to the well-supported subtext that Teru’s parents aren’t a part of his life anymore, Mob’s probably the first person he’s met in god knows how long who he’s shared a real connection with, even if that connection is just having innate powers like him. Or maybe it’s finding someone who could see through him and who understand what it’s like to be alone and rejected. Teru just wasn’t able to handle that level of being seen and known after living a life where his true self is fiercely hidden beneath a façade, which was the only thing keeping the loneliness from digging its teeth in. In this scene, he lashes out at Mob in pure desperation, afraid of the vulnerability that comes with demolishing this barrier between him and his pain, and then when he goes too far and chokes Mob out, he irrationally panics when it seems like Mob is gonna leave him, too.

It’s honestly heartbreaking to think about. I love Teru. I’m rotating him in my mind.

flightless birds / 飛びない鳥達

a terumob thing i’d been thinking about for a while, now with Japanese and English subs. (I’m not a native JPNS speaker, just a student, so forgive any mistakes)

英語も日本語もに歌詞をふぞくしています。翻訳の間違いがあれば、ごめんなさい🙇

ha ha ha what if we were narrative foils and we were both boys ha ha ha

my main blog is @luciferstit (posting here bc shadowbanned)

He’s just like me…

I thought you were a goner for sure.

Reigen same face moments that make you die

loving the mp100 s3 outfit prisons. teru stuck in perpetual “i’m going to see kageyama-kun today” red button-up shirt and takenaka in the “i’m never doing anything but tennis” 90s paper cup tracksuit

I kinda love how Ritsu and Dimple are the only people Shigeo didn’t show open intent to maim to. Obviously bc Shigeo loves Ritsu but also because Ritsu didn’t want Shigeo to change which endeared him to ???, and because Dimple’s wanted Shigeo to cut lose and use his power for himself from the beginning. Reigen really is so lucky that Dimple fought back tooth and nail to revive himself bc he was the only guy that could tell ?? to listen to Reigen and have him obey.

Mob Psycho 100 III Episode 12 manga vs anime scene comparisons (part 2)

Mob Psycho 100 III Episode 12 anime vs manga scene comparisons (part 1)