Mob Psycho 100(Japanese: モブサイコ100,Hepburn: Mobu Saiko Hyaku) is a Japanese webcomic created by ONE, which began publication on Ura Sunday on April 18, 2012. A Chinese translation started publication in Taiwan on April 16, 2014. It is also available online on Shogakukan's mobile app MangaONE, beginning in December 2014. A television anime adaptation by Bones aired between July and September 2016. The English dub of the series was released by Funimation in December 2016.
Shigeo Kageyama is an average middle school boy, nicknamed Mob (モブ means background character) for lacking a sense of presence. Although he looks like an inconspicuous person, he is in fact a powerful Esper. As he grows older, Mob realizes that his psychic powers are getting dangerous by the minute. To avoid his power getting out of control, he constantly lives a life under an emotional shackle. Mob wants to live a normal life just like the others, but a barrage of trouble keeps coming after him. With the suppressed emotions growing inside Mob little by little, his power threatens to break through its limits.
Voiced by: Setsuo Ito (Japanese); Kyle McCarley (English)The main protagonist, is an eighth grade Esper with powerful psychic abilities. His helmet hairstyle is his defining physical feature. He is not good at reading the atmosphere, and since childhood, has rarely felt or displayed intense emotion. He thinks his power is not necessary in his life, so he avoids using it. He suppresses his emotions to keep his power in control, but when the percentage of his accumulated feelings reaches 100, he is overcome by the strongest emotion he is feeling at the time and unleashes the full extent of his powers. He works at Reigen's spirit counsel for 300 yen an hour. When he was asked to join the Telepathy Club so they wouldn't be disbanded, he was introduced to the Body Improvement Club, which he then joined to become popular, in order to impress his secret love. He is also credited as Salt Middle School's urabanchō (裏番長 is roughly translated as "secret school gang leader") known as White T Poison but this fact remains unknown to many including himself. Shigeo also possesses an unknown power as explained by the narrator during his battle with Teruki which far surpasses even the height of his abilities, but is uncontrollable and only awakens when unconscious.
Arataka Reigen (霊幻 新隆,Reigen Arataka)
Voiced by: Takahiro Sakurai (Japanese); Chris Niosi (English)Mob's master, a self-proclaimed psychic who has his own spirit counsel (the "Talk About Spirits Agency"), which is cheap compared to competitors. He wasn't getting much business, but after setting up a homepage on the internet, the amount of assignments has increased. He is essentially a con artist and excels in persuasion, speech, and perception, as well as massage and whack-a-mole. He is clever and agile, claiming to have a greenbelt of Shaolin boxing. He is very afraid of cockroaches and likes dogs. Reigen solves his clients' problems with a variety of skills (including Reigen's "secret technique"); if that doesn't work, he'll call in Mob to deal with it. Even though he is a fraud, he treats Mob's inner turmoil very seriously, and gives him pertinent suggestions. For better or worse, he is Mob's mentor.
Dimple (エクボ,Ekubo)
Voiced by: Akio Ōtsuka (Japanese); Michael Sorich (English)An upper class evil spirit, devious and sly, characterized by the circular blush on his cheeks. In order to become a god worshiped by people, he established a religion/cult called (LOL), which was dissolved by Mob. After his defeat, his power fell off remarkably, and Mob came to regard him as reasonably harmless. Dimple thinks Mob might be a great springboard to godhood, so he stayed with Mob in order to exploit him, however this plan failed. Later in the series, he attempts the same thing with Mob's brother, Ritsu. Dimple claims to be Mob's partner. He can possess the bodies of others and release the full potential of his host, but he tries to avoid breaking the host's body.
Ritsu Kageyama (影山 律,Kageyama Ritsu)
Voiced by: Miyu Irino (Japanese); Max Mittelman (English)Mob's younger brother, grade 7. He is clever and competent, excelling at both academic and athletic performance. Having a handsome face, he is popular among girls. He is also a member of the Student Council. The only thing he's lacking is psychic power. Because Mob is a strong Esper, Ritsu has always had an inferiority complex and an obsessive longing for psychic power of his own. He eventually developed his own psychic powers and became a fairly powerful esper but not as powerful as his big brother, as the strength of Ritsu's psychic abilities are tied to his feelings of grief and guilt.
Teruki Hanazawa (花沢 輝気,Hanazawa Teruki)
Voiced by: Yoshitsugu Matsuoka (Japanese); Erik Scott Kimerer (English)Black Vinegar Middle School's "ura banchou" ("hidden boss"), known to most as Teru. Also a strong Esper, he originally held scorn for people without psychic power, calling them "commoners." Accustomed to using his power freely in daily life, be it exams or sports, he excels at it all. Coupled with his handsome looks, he is very popular. He'll do a pigeon-toed pose when he fights seriously. After he is lectured and defeated by Mob, his perspective on psychic power changes, and he becomes more friendly to others. Teru later becomes the mentor for several low-leveled psychics that were captured by Claw.
Salt Middle School
Tsubomi Takane (高嶺 ツボミ,Takane Tsubomi)
Voiced by: Uki Satake (Japanese); Ryan Bartley (English)Mob's childhood friend and crush.
Tome Kurata (暗田 トメ,Kurata Tome)
Voiced by: Atsumi Tanezaki (Japanese); Cherami Leigh (English)President of the Telepathy Club, which serves as a funds for a few students to buy snacks and slack off after school. At one point, after losing a member, the club is threatened with disbandment. They try to get Mob to join, but he is more interested in the Body Improvement Club.
Shinji Kamuro (神室 真司,Kamuro Shinji)
President of the Student Council. His family abuses him and considers him a failure for not living up to their high standards, so he uses his power as student council president to relieve his stress. As part of his "big clean-up" plan, he convinces Ritsu to help him frame the school's delinquents for perverted activities like stealing classmates' underwear and licking the mouthpieces of girls' recorders, though the plan soon violently backfires on him. This leads to a change of heart where he decides to accept the consequences of his actions, no matter what the student body may think of him.
Tokugawa (德川)
Vice President of the Student Council.
Musashi Goda (郷田 武蔵,Goda Musashi)
President of the Body Improvement Club.
Ichi Mezato (米里 イチ,Mezato Ichi)
Voiced by: Ayumi Fujimura (Japanese); Abby Trott (English)Mob's classmate and a member of the Newspaper Club. A dedicated reporter who is always looking for the next scoop to publish.
Tenga Onigawara (鬼瓦 天牙,Onigawara Tenga)
Voiced by: Yoshimasa Hosoya (Japanese); Ray Chase (English)The leader of Salt Middle School's delinquents, and one of Shinji's many unfortunate victims from his "clean-up" plan. After being framed, he realizes that people hated him regardless of whether or not he was responsible for the crimes and joins the body improvement club along with Mob in an effort to change himself. He looks up to Mob greatly, still referring to him as "White T Poison".
Claw
Touichirou Suzuki (鈴木 統一郎,Suzuki Touichirou)
The leader of Claw. Touichirou is a ruthless and cunning man who founded Claw for the sole purpose of world domination and use everyone he can to achieve this goal. Being an incredibly powerful psychic on par with Mob, he seeks to put the rest of humanity under his thumb. Touichirou is not entirely without a heart, however, as he also seeks to find his ex-wife who left him many years ago.
Shou Suzuki (鈴木将,Suzuki Shō)
The son of Touichirou Suzuki. Initially thought to be some random trainer sent to the 7th division from Claw's HQ, he is revealed to have been scouting potential psychics for some unknown reason. Shou is an extremely powerful psychic, capable of easily smashing Ishiguro's gravity orbs with little effort. Shou states that he can always find a way to deal with the psychic powers of his opponents. One of Shou's most notable techniques allows him to refract light around him, rendering him invisible to the naked eye.
Koyama (誇山)
One of the Scars, an elite fighting force of Claw responsible for handling most of their missions. Koyama is tasked with kidnapping Mob after discovering he's a psychic, but mistakenly takes Ritsu instead despite realizing the former is also a psychic. Koyama's psychic technique is called "Telekinetic Helix", which allows him to drastically increase the power of his punches and smash through psychic barriers.
Terada (寺蛇)
One of the Scars, an elite fighting force of Claw responsible for handling most of their missions. Terada was originally tasked with capturing Mob after Koyama failed, but is swiftly beaten by both Mob and Teru. The duo torture him into revealing everything about the 7th division. Terada specializes in using his psychic powers to create whips out of air which he can use to freely strike targets from a distance.
Sakurai (桜威)
One of the Scars, an elite fighting force of Claw responsible for handling most of their missions. Out of all the Scars, Sakurai is the most logical and stern, often prone to scolding his associates should they fail at their tasks (i.e. Koyama). Sakurai's temperament and reason for joining Claw stems from how he was abandoned at an orphanage by his parents. He struggled through years of torment, cursing those around him. This eventually developed into his psychic power, "Curse Toy", which can give lethal properties to toy weapons such as air guns and plastic katanas.
Ishiguro (遺志黒)
Claw's 7th Division Leader, who most notably wears a large gas mask and a tight black suit. Specializes in manipulating gravity with his psychic powers. Arrogant and prideful, Ishiguro believes that he should be worshiped by birthright for his powerful psychic powers and that psychics who do not share this ambition are weak and worthless. It is revealed during his fight with Reigen that Ishiguro is actually an old, scarred, bald man with few teeth. This came as a shock to his subordinates, who assumed he was a younger girl due to his voice.
Webcomic and publications
One's webcomic began its publication on April 12, 2012 on Ura Sunday. Shogakukan began publishing the series in tankōbon volumes, with the first volume being published on November 16, 2012, and the thirteenth volume being published on August 19, 2016.
Anime
On December 2, 2015, it was announced in the Ura Sunday magazine that the webcomic series would be adapted into a television anime series. The anime adaptation was produced by Bones and directed by Yuzuru Tachikawa. Hiroshi Seko wrote the series' scripts, Yoshimichi Kameda designed the characters and Kenji Kawai composed the music. 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. The series was licensed by Funimation and simulcast through their streaming partner Crunchyroll. The series had gotten an English dub by Bang Zoom! in December 2016, with Funimation handling distribution.
