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EP. REVIEW: Mob Psycho 100 II

Mob Psycho 100 has spoiled us so royally that I can't even be surprised at how good this finale looks. What Yuzuru Tachikawa and his team have accomplished should not be taken for granted, and it's absurd to expect any TV anime to look so good this consistently.

I wouldn't say it was that rushed, but I did miss the two instances of 100% [emotion] title cards previous to Suzuki calling him unstable. As it is it kinda looked like Mob just rapidly dialed it back instead of hitting the limit multiple times.
And that final scene lost some of the impact without the "100% Kindness" as he sits down with a defeated Suzuki. It was an odd decision to drop those title cards on the finale, especially since you can just place them anywhere on screen during dialogue.

I feel there were at least 1-3min of stuff that could've been cut to make space for that, but oh well what can you do.

we love lain wrote:

Jeff Bauersfeld wrote: I feel it skipped some moments in the final fight that drove home MP100's themes better than the anime did. But the vast majority of the material it has covered was included. Except it didn't actually skip any moments in the fight that was thematically relevant from the manga. I'm actually surprised as to how much of the fight was adapted faithfully within the allotted time the episode had. Only about 3 scenes from the manga version of the fight were put on the chopping block and they were ultimately inconsequential. Besides that, everything thematically was left in place.

I have to disagree. The battle was way too rushed - these instantaneous mood swings of Mob felt incredibly forced by leaving out an actual transition between them. That fight should've had an entire episode for itself at least, but we got 150 pages chopped and squeezed into 8 minutes.

ChestPains wrote:

I wouldn't say it was that rushed, but I did miss the two instances of 100% [emotion] title cards previous to Suzuki calling him unstable. As it is it kinda looked like Mob just rapidly dialed it back instead of hitting the limit multiple times. And that final scene lost some of the impact without the "100% Kindness" as he sits down with a defeated Suzuki. It was an odd decision to drop those title cards on the finale, especially since you can just place them anywhere on screen during dialogue. I feel there were at least 1-3min of stuff that could've been cut to make space for that, but oh well what can you do.

As someone who has only seen the anime, I feel like this could be a case of feeling like it didn't impact as hard because you knew what was cut. I - and everyone I know that also saw it, as I don't know any manga readers personally - felt the swift change in emotions was handled great, with Bones going out of their way to make the mood swings as obvious and sudden as possible. Rather than text, which would break up the action and could ruin the pacing, they used facial/body expression, voice acting, and camera angles to show that each emotion he was hitting was an extreme.

I'm not saying you or anyone else that disagrees with me is wrong to feel that way, of course! I am usually one of those that has read the manga first and can therefore find myself missing details that an anime chose to leave out as well. But being someone who saw it with fresh eyes and didn't know anything was "missing", I still felt it was very easy to understand what was going on, and it definitely left an impact!

Jeff Bauersfeld wrote:

I feel it skipped some moments in the final fight that drove home MP100's themes better than the anime did. But the vast majority of the material it has covered was included.

Except it didn't actually skip any moments in the fight that was thematically relevant from the manga. I'm actually surprised as to how much of the fight was adapted faithfully within the allotted time the episode had. Only about 3 scenes from the manga version of the fight were put on the chopping block and they were ultimately inconsequential. Besides that, everything thematically was left in place.