Getting "The Power of Friendship" Right | Mob Psycho 100 Analysis 

This is a great analysis, I just felt like adding. I personally think the Mogami arch is even more powerful if you consider that Mob's ideology didn't win. They were both right. Mogami suggested that in a world with all the wrong people, circumstances can make a person lash out. And he was right. Mob did lash out. And the subsequent saving of Mob's very own bully was based off of Mob taking Mogami's ideology, and not adopting it but merging it with his own. Instead of "The wrong circumstances bring about evil" VS "people are good and kindness breeds more kindness" Mob suggests that wrong circumstances do bring about evil, Mogami is right, so Mob will be the protagonist in his life, and bring good circumstances to others. I think the most direct example of Mob acknowledging Mogami's beliefs in his ideology is when Mogami tells him to be harsher with people. And Mob interprets this as telling his friends they aren't strong enough to fight with him, even if they don't want to hear it. I just adore how Mob takes Mogami's ideas into consideration but never abandons the love his character is built on.

I like how it's also not as plain as "friendship saves the day," his friends give Mob courage but doesn't make his trials any less daunting. One of the things that makes the positive message really stick is that it's not overly saccharin and the show isn't afraid to touch into some deep darkness now and again. Sometimes people can be so difficult to reach that it becomes overly tempting to cast them out entirely. Mob isn't some Christ figure, he's a regular person, even he's not above the darkness that resides in us all. One of the most impactful of these dark moments is when Mob simply proclaims, "I give up" in the middle of fighting Suzuki. He dips into that darkness and is ready to accept that for some people empathy isn't enough; that some people just need to be purged. Of course it doesn't end up that way, but regardless of the support of all his friends, and how much he's grown as a person, he is not faultless. Even for just a moment, he's given up on his ideals, his philosophy; he's given up on humanity. While the show emphasizes the importance of empathy and the strength it endows us with, it doesn't pretend it's easy. Violence is the easy path. It's so much easier to crush your enemies with insurmountable power than it is to reach them.

That parallel between Mob & Reigen and Serizawa & Toichiro was perfectly shown in that one shot where our two protagonists are standing together under an umbrella (the umbrella being an obvious callback to Serizawa)

Thanks for the great analysis. Another overused trope is the "be true to yourself" line that gets subverted in MP100. While every single character on MP100 ends up wanting to improve themselves/ aspire for popularity, they are all deeply uncomfortable with their true selves (except the body Improvement club aka best anime bros) Without diving into spoiler territory, ONE manages to show the real fears of revealing your true self to people you trust and how it's a daily struggle in self acceptance. I really hope season 3 gets greenlit soon !

understanding one's pain, kindness and growing by helping other is also the core theme of SKET DANCE, a school life gintama version. its also very very good series with "friendship" theme that goes beyond other anime from its time. summary : a club called sket-dan helping people in need. its amazing how absurd comedy animes like mob and sket dance (and others ) bring out and show the deepest idea and philosophical question

Now, this is an anime that deserves a great reward, such as the 'Anime of the Year'. The anime is visually satisfying and it also teaches life-long lessons, such as 'people need other people' which helped Mob's growth as a 14-year old Esper who just needs friends. He didn't use brute strength as a solution, he used friendship. If it helped him, It can help others.

Thank you SO much for this. For risk of sounding elitist, I've always felt like people rarely "get" this show. The messages of this show really resonated with me, and to me they were really obvious (without feeling preachy) but a lot of people seem to just.. miss them. I've seen people disregard the first episode of season 2 as "filler", but to me that's one of the most important episodes of the entire show, because mob decides to show his emotions, which is a HUGE change in his character. If you want to watch MP100 just for explosions and fight scenes, go ahead but I think you'll be missing out on 90% of what makes the show enjoyable to me. Don't get me wrong the fights are great but they are more impactful when you understand the characters. TL;DR I'm incredibly relieved someone feels the same way about this show I do.

Fight! On!

Mob psycho is just flawless, it does everything the generic anime tries to do right. The only animes I like more than MP100 defy expectations, like Eva and Jojo's

I like how soul eater just gets a single friendship line, when they were making fun of it.

Mob psycho - friendship is -magic- telepathic powers

Look man this gotta be one of the most underrated vids I’ve ever seen. You’ve perfectly nailed this analysis. That’s what make MP100 different. The protagonist has the strength to reach out to people because of the people who reached out to him. And that’s where another theme comes in: people can change with the help of others. With these two themes, we see mob develop as a character throughout the masterpiece that is called MP100 II (haha hope I’m not praising it too much). Either ways, mob psycho is a genuine show/manga about friendship in its truest sense, as well as the desire to change oneself; without other people, changing yourself is quite hard to do. Teru would be the perfect example of that. Also when u played gray my heart died

i oughta watch this thing sometime

This is such a perfect analysis of both this show and the whole "power of friendship" ideal. Awesome video!

This video made me tear up, I love that you discussed everything I love about this series on point! Mob Psycho 100 is what made me evaluate myself as a person right now and what I learned from it is that I want to be true to my feelings and that I truly want to be able to change the people around me for the better just like Mob. I can definitely imagine what kind of person I'd be right now had I not met the people I cherish today and had my circumstances been different and well...it's not going to be any good. "I'm truly blessed, I need to be thankful for the people around me. Because of everyone, I was able to change." What a truly down-to-earth series this is. Really, MP100 is seriously in-depth and there's a lot of reality lessons we can take away from it.

08:05 Oh! I didn't even notice Mob's hoodie

Incredible analysis. I really enjoyed watching this from start to end. Mob Psycho 100 will forever stay in my heart as the best anime of all time for everything it is about.

I am really in love with literally every single analysis video i find about Mob Psycho 100. Yours is one of my favorite. For the love of God I cant express just how much this series is special to me, and videos like yours really help me figure it out better. Thank you!

omg you are absolutely right! just finished watching S1- S3. Mob Psycho 100 is officially my all-time-favourite anime

I love this, so good and wholesome.

Thank you very much. I really enjoyed your video.

Brilliant, brilliant video. This will definitely blow up one day, just wait. Your commentary and the shots you used were absolutely great.

do an analysis on how Fairy Tail is the worst example of "power of friendship" in anime

So reach out to people and treat people with support and hope for their benefit

God damn what a good video, you are really good at analysing the anime, got me interested the whole way

This video made me cry, I'm really touched by the way you put it into words! I'm at a point where I'm finally realizing how much i needed people to live and mob psycho has really taught me that. Thank you for your analysis!

You pointed out and explored new themes and ideas that I never noticed before in Mop Psycho, even when other RU-vidrs did reviews on it!!!! Dang!!! I’m really impressed, thank you!

This is such a great yet underrated analysis. I have noticed the theme of "friendship" and "empathy" throughout the series, but you explored it in a light that I have not realised before. Its such an eye opener, hope your channel grows! 💓💓💓

What a fucking excellent analysis! (Pardon my language but it's true) Loved the way you so perfectly articulated everything that makes this show great and even though I already had noticed some of these themes and ideas before myself and through other sources. I think this is by the far the best video that I've ever seen that puts it in the best way possible. So thanks a lot for that and I absolutely loved the way you used show's ost perfectly in the background to emphasise on your points. Great narration, Great editing and just a Great fucking video about a Great Show. Thank You for this. I hope that this video and your channel gets the attention that it deserves.

not a single dislike "im so proud of this comunity..."

One of the best Mob Psycho 100 vids I’ve seen! *ribbit*

Bloody fantastic video, needs more views

Re-watching this for the 5th-6th time since last year (when I saw it for the first time) and every time I watch this it helps me appreciate the show even more. This has easily become one of my favourite videos on RU-vid because it's well written, narrated and edited and utilises every single minute of its length to the fullest while giving insight to One of my all-time favourite anime. 🙌 Update: 27/05/21 - Re-watched again and love it just as much. 05/12/21 - I was thinking about the show, so just felt re-watching this video again. I still can't thank you enough for making this. It's just perfect! ❤️

Every friendship power in anime is bullshit. Except for mob psycho

"In order to become Truly Special one must embrace kindness. To be good and to do right by others that's what makes you a better person. By helping instead of hurting you can gain the respect of those around you and in turn you will receive the same kindness in time." Word! 🙌

Awesome analysis! I love ur editing, it made it more amusing to watch!

If you guys keep up these type of videos I assure you your channel will skyrocket and will gain a supportive audience , amazingly structured video and great analysis, keep it up

6:27 Dimple is a true homie

Thank you RU-vid algorithm. This video was well put together and well thought out. Amazing analysis of my favorite anime of all time bundled into a top tier presenting with a great script. I loved Mob so much but couldn’t really explain why and I will be using the topics shown here for reference. Catch this subscription and you guys deserve millions of subscribers

THANK YOU FOR THIS. So articulate.

Take notes *Fairy Tail*

I need this for my Shonen anime

thank you for this video. this was a really great analysis! mp100 is one of the few shows where i actually really like the 'power of friendship' element since it doesn't feel childish or in your face. it just feels.. natural. and i like that

You know what series also does this brilliantly? Gurren Lagann.

This video deserves more views! He did a very good job

In season 3 all of mobs friends beat him up out of friendship. Full circle really

You can see both in OPM and in Mob Pshycho on he got inspired so much from Naruto and improved so much on some of the themes Naruto does in incredibly creative ways

I freaking love this video, you really tied in everything I love about my favorite anime into words

Where did you got the clips of the anime in such high quality?

Haha 69 u know what that means oh i ruined it

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