REVIEW: MOB PSYCHO 100 by One

Title: Mob Psycho 100
Author: One
Series: Mob Psycho 100
Genres: Manga, Comics
Publisher: Editorial Ivrea España
Release: November, 2016
Source: Paperback
Pages: 200

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BLURB: From the creator of One-Punch Man! Do you or someone you know need an exorcist who works cheap? Reigen's your guy!

What's his secret to busting ghosts while keeping prices low? Well, first, he's a fraud, and second, he pays the guy who's got the real psychic power--his student assistant Shigeo--less than minimum wage. Shigeo is an awkward but kind boy whose urge to help others and get along with them is bound up with the mental safety locks he's placed on his own emotions. Reigen knows he needs to exploit Shigeo to stay in business, yet for better or worse he's also his mentor and counselor. And he also knows whenever the normally repressed kid's emotions reach level 100, it may unleash more psychic energy than either of them can handle!

Winner of the 2017 Shogakukan Prize for Best Shonen Manga.

EXPECTATIONS: It was my first time reading a manga so I had no expectations whatsoever.

THE WORLD: It's a fantasy world where there are spirits out in the world that torment people until they are able to go "to the other side". In order to deal with these spirits there are people with super powers called "Psychics" who use their powers to defeat the spirits and make them go away. The story takes place in modern Japan.

CHARACTERS: The main character is Shigeo Kageyama alias "Mob", a High School student who works part-time for a fraudulent Psychic called Arataka Reigen. Arataka runs a business consisting of exterminating whatever spirit is making the client's life miserable and Mob joins whenever he's out of school and receives a tiny salary for his job. There are a lot of characters but other important ones are Dimple, a spirit who considers himself Mob's companion, Ritsu who is Mob's younger brother, and the evil group called Claw. Yes, those are the antagonists.

ROMANCE: No romance that I have seen.

GOOD: It's entertaining. I think the anime makes the introduction smoother and a bit more interesting than the manga. Other than that it really doesn't have much substance to it.

BAD: I'm not used to reading mangas and it probably affected my view but I found it very shallow. There's no definition to the characters. They're pretty much empty. Obviously, more and more things are shown about the characters as you read volumes of the manga but it's a long process. You have to be patient... or you can just watch the anime which does a good job at following the story.

I don't think mangas are for me. I need good 4D characters and these ones are 2D at best. I'm sorry.

OVERALL: 3 stars. It is okay, entertaining, but nothing more. The art is okay, the characters are okay, and the story is okay. Nothing stood out in a good or bad way so it's just bland. I really think people should just watch the anime because the manga is not out of this world.

What do you think about MOB PSYCHO 100?