Review of Mob Psycho 100 II

Oh, how much have I heard about this show. First about season one, then about season two. So many people praising it, saying how good it is, that people might not like it because of the art style but it's so genius and whatever. Thanks guys, because you set me up for this immense feeling of disappointment. It's not a bad anime, per se. But it certaintly feels very overrated. I expected more, so I couldn't even fully enjoy the good parts, because I remember the bad parts more. So, am I insane or is it overrated, who knows. First of all, the artstyle is not a problem because you just get used to what you see. Though I can't say that this is my favourite. People do look very weird. Animation during fights, how powers look... that's quite good. You can express a lot more when you don't confine yourself to being pretty or always having the same look.

Sound is certaintly a plus. I like that battle soundtrack. Also, I probably didn't even skip an opening a single time while watching those two seasons. Those songs are absolutely banging. Even though the english lyrics don't make sense half the time, this is my jam. You're doing great, openings.

I also like the concept of the world, ghosts and superpowers being common, secret organizations, the characters. Most of this stuff seems really solid. My favourite parts were power-related, the last few episodes were the best imo. Went similarly to the end season one, you start slow, some fight, some school life, then go all out at the end.

But I said I was disappointed, right? And I didn't actually point anything out yet. I don't know how many people felt the same way, but this series has just so much cringe. I'm kinda sensitive to it, so I just have to pause and it's hard to continue. That's why it took me a few months to start watching it again. I skipped almost two full episodes. Watched like 3 minutes from each of them. It's kinda hard for me to rate it high when it took so much enjoyment out of it. I'm watching and asking myself: why do you have to add so much cringe, can't you really do without it? When there wasn't this problem, it was good. So many people spam the word "cringe" on the internet, so I thought that it's strange that I haven't heard this opinion before, but I guess every emotion really is subjective, huh.

For something that disappointed me so throughly, I'm kinda disregarding my personal feelings and still giving it quite a good score, so enjoy it while it lasts. Probably the fact that I actually skipped and don't know what happened sometimes helps! But seriously, I think most of this stuff is very good so I'm starting rating from about 9/8 and then I had to subtract some because of the cringe, but 6 feels like a low score to me. I usually rate things that create their own universe higher.