Mob Psycho 100

Mob Psycho 100 (Japanese: モブサイコ100, Hepburn: Mobu Saiko Hyaku) is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by ONE. It began publication on Shogakukan's Ura Sunday website in April 2012 and concluded in December 2017. It has been also available online on Shogakukan's mobile app MangaONE since December 2014.

Mob Psycho 100
Cover for the first manga volume featuring Mob.
モブサイコ100
(Mobu Saiko Hyaku)
GenreAction, comedy, supernatural[1]
Manga
Written byOne
Published byShogakukan
English publisher
ImprintUra Sunday Comics
Magazine
  • Ura Sunday
  • MangaOne
DemographicShōnen
Original runApril 18, 2012 – December 22, 2017
Volumes16
Anime television series
Directed byYuzuru Tachikawa
Produced by
  • Akio Matsuda
  • Hirotsugu Ogisu
  • Yūki Nagano (#1–13)
  • Jun Fukuda (#1–13)
  • Yukihiro Itō (#1–13)
  • Hidetaka Kōndō (#14–25)
  • Masahiko Minami (#14–25)
  • Sōji Miyagi (#14–25)
  • Shinji Ōmori (#14–25)
Written byHiroshi Seko
Music byKenji Kawai
StudioBones
Licensed byCrunchyroll
Original networkTokyo MX, Yomiuri TV, BS Fuji, TV Asahi Channel 1
English network
Animax
Original run July 12, 2016 – April 1, 2019
Episodes25
Television drama
Directed byKōichi Sakamoto
Produced byFuminori Kobayashi
Written by
Music byGo Sakabe
StudioTV Tokyo
Licensed byNetflix
Original networkTV Tokyo, BS Japan, TV Wakayama, ABA
Original run January 18, 2018 – April 5, 2018
Episodes12
Original video animation
Mob Psycho 100 Reigen -The Miraculous Unknown Psychic-
Directed byYuzuru Tachikawa
Written byHiroshi Seko
Music byKenji Kawai
StudioBones
ReleasedMarch 18, 2018
Runtime60 minutes
Manga
REIGEN
Written byOne
Published byShogakukan
English publisher
Dark Horse Comics
ImprintUra Sunday Comics
Magazine
  • Ura Sunday
  • MangaONE
DemographicShōnen
Original runMarch 19, 2018 – February 19, 2019
Volumes1
Original video animation
Mob Psycho 100: The Spirits and Such Consultation Office's First Company Outing ~A Healing Trip that Warms the Heart~
Directed byYuzuru Tachikawa
StudioBones
ReleasedSeptember 25, 2019
Runtime24 minutes

An anime television series adaptation is currently being produced by Bones. The first season aired between July and September 2016, followed by a second season that aired between January to April 2019. A live-action adaptation aired from January to April 2018. In North America, Dark Horse Comics licensed the manga for English publication in 2018. Meanwhile, Crunchyroll licensed the anime series for streaming, with an English dub produced by Funimation in December 2016, and broadcast on Adult Swim's Toonami block in October 2018. A spin-off manga series titled REIGEN was serialized on MangaONE from March 2018 to February 2019.

Mob Psycho 100 had over 1.6 million copies in circulation as of July 2016. In 2017, the manga won the 62nd Shogakukan Manga Award in the shōnen category.

Plot
Main article: List of Mob Psycho 100 characters

Shigeo Kageyama is an average middle school boy, nicknamed Mob (モブ, Mobu, lit. "background character") for lacking a sense of presence. Although he looks like an inconspicuous person, he is in fact a powerful esper with immense psychic power. To keep from losing control of this power, he constantly lives a life under an emotional shackle. In order to help learn how to control his abilities, Mob works as an assistant to con-man Reigen Arataka, a self-proclaimed psychic. Mob wants to live a normal life just like those around him, but a barrage of trouble keeps coming after him. With his suppressed emotions growing inside Mob little by little, his power threatens to break through its limits as he eventually encounters other Espers like the Claws.

Media

Webcomic and publications

ONE's webcomic began its publication on April 18, 2012, on Ura Sunday.[2][3] It has been also available online on Shogakukan's mobile app MangaONE since December 2014.[4] Shogakukan compiled the series into individual tankōbon volumes, with the first volume being published on November 16, 2012,[5] and the sixteenth volume being published on July 19, 2018.[6] The final chapter was published on December 22, 2017.[7]

Dark Horse Comics announced on April 23, 2018, that they have licensed the series for English serialization in North America, with the first volume which was released on October 24, 2018.[8]

A spin-off manga series titled REIGEN was serialized online in Ura Sunday website and in the MangaONE mobile app from March 19, 2018 to February 19, 2019.[9][10] In March 2020, Dark Horse Comics announced the acquisition of the manga for an English-language release on October 27, 2020.[11]

Volume list
No.Japanese release dateJapanese ISBNEnglish release dateEnglish ISBN
1 November 16, 2012[5]978-4-09-124102-3October 24, 2018[12]978-1-50670-987-1
2 February 18, 2013[13]978-4-09-124252-5March 20, 2019[14]978-1-50670-988-8
3 June 18, 2013[15]978-4-09-124338-6July 31, 2019[16]978-1-50670-989-5
4 July 18, 2013[17]978-4-09-124397-3March 18, 2020[18]978-1-50671-369-4
5 December 18, 2013[19]978-4-09-124543-4June 24, 2020[20]978-1-50671-370-0
6 May 16, 2014[21]978-4-09-124682-0October 7, 2020[22]978-1-50671-371-7
7 July 18, 2014[23]978-4-09-125129-9——
8 October 17, 2014[24]978-4-09-125476-4——
9 February 12, 2015[25]978-4-09-125748-2——
10 August 4, 2015[26]978-4-09-126328-5——
11 December 4, 2015[27]978-4-09-126676-7——
12 June 17, 2016[28]978-4-09-127310-9——
13 August 19, 2016[29]978-4-09-127373-4——
14 April 19, 2017[30]978-4-09-127592-9——
15 October 19, 2017[31]978-4-09-127819-7——
16 July 19, 2018[6]978-4-09-128460-0——

Anime
Main article: List of Mob Psycho 100 episodes

On December 2, 2015, it was announced in shonen magazine Ura Sunday that the webcomic would be adapted into an anime television series.[32] The anime adaptation was produced by Bones and directed by Yuzuru Tachikawa. Hiroshi Seko wrote the scripts, Yoshimichi Kameda designed the characters, and Kenji Kawai composed the music.[33] The series aired between July 12, 2016, and September 27, 2016, on Tokyo MX, later airing on ytv, BS Fuji and TV Asahi Channel 1. The opening theme song, titled "99", was performed by Mob Choir while the ending theme song, titled "Refrain Boy" (リフレインボーイ, Rifurein Bōi), was performed by ALL OFF.[34] The series was simulcast on Crunchyroll, while Funimation broadcast the show's simuldub.[35][36] The English dub was produced by Bang Zoom! Entertainment.[37] The series was simulcast on Animax in Southeast Asia.[38] The Bang Zoom!-produced dub has been released on Blu-ray + DVD Combo Pack with a limited edition on December 5, 2017, and was broadcast on Toonami on Adult Swim starting October 27, 2018.[39] Madman Entertainment imported Funimation's release in Australia and New Zealand,[40] and Manga Entertainment distributed the series in the United Kingdom and Ireland.[41]

Following a screening of three Bones films, attendees reported that Bones teased that progress was being made on a further Mob Psycho 100 anime project.[42][43] In October 2017, an event anime titled Mob Psycho 100 Reigen -The Miraculous Unknown Psychic- (モブサイコ100 REIGEN ～知られざる奇跡の霊能力者～, Mob Psycho 100 Reigen -Shirarezaru Kiseki Reinōryokusha-) was revealed.[44] It is a 60-minute compilation of the anime series and features new scenes centered on Arataka Reigen. The event anime was screened twice at the Maihama Amphitheater in Chiba on March 18, 2018, and was later released on home video.[45] At the end of the event, a second season of the anime series was announced, with the staff and cast returning to reprise their roles.[46] Mob Psycho 100 II aired from January 7 to April 1, 2019, with the series being simulcast on Crunchyroll.[47] On April 18, 2019, Funimation and Crunchyroll confirmed that season two would simuldub on April 25.[48]

Following the conclusion of the second season, a new OVA was announced to be in production, with Yuzuru Tachikawa reprising his role as director.[49] The OVA, titled Mob Psycho 100: The Spirits and Such Consultation Office's First Company Outing ~A Healing Trip that Warms the Heart~ was released on September 25, 2019.[50] The second OVA episode premiered worldwide at Crunchyroll Expo 2019 on September 1, 2019. Simulcast streaming of the OVA episode on Crunchyroll began worldwide (except Asia) on September 25, 2019.[51]

Drama

A 12-episode Japanese television drama was broadcast on TV Tokyo's MokuDora 25 timeslot from January 18 to April 5, 2018.[52][53][54]

Reception

As of July 2016, Mob Psycho 100 had over 1.2 million copies in circulation.[55] In 2017, the manga won the 62nd Shogakukan Manga Award in the shōnen category.[56]

In November 2019, Polygon named Mob Psycho 100 as one of the best anime of the 2010s,[57] and Crunchyroll listed it in their "Top 25 best anime of the 2010s".[58] IGN also listed Mob Psycho 100 among the best anime series of the 2010s.[59]

Anime News Network listed the first season of Mob Psycho 100 among the best anime series of 2016. Nick Creamer praised the series' visual style, character story and its concepts of heroism and society also presented in One's other work One-Punch Man. Lauren Orsini commended the coming-of-age story of Mob and praised the series' animation and music.[60]

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