Mob Psycho 100

Mob Psycho 100 is a Japanese webcomic created by ONE that tells the story of Mob, a middle school boy with powerful psychic abilities.
==Canon==
The original webcomic is drawn in ONE's signature simplistic, unpolished style. An anime television adaptation by Bones premiered in 2018.
Shigeo Kageyama is an average middle school boy, nicknamed Mob (モブ Mobu) (meaning "background character") for lacking a sense of presence. Although he looks like an inconspicuous person, he is in fact a powerful esper. 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.
===Characters===
* Kageyama Shigeo, commonly known as Mob
* Reigen Arataka
* Dimple
* Kageyama Ritsu
* Hanazawa Teruki
* Suzuki Sho
* Takane Tsubomi
* Kurata Tome
* Mezato Ichi
* Emi
* Mogami
* Suzuki Toichiro
* Takenaka Momozo
* Serizawa Katsuya
==Fandom==
Fanart is very popular in the fandom. Fanfiction is commonly Gen.
Redraw Reigen was a very popular hashtag and meme in that fandom, which involved fan art of Reigen mimicking a variety of awkward stock photographs, memes, or other humorous images.
===Alternate Universes and Crossovers===
AUs are common. The three which are probably most popular are Reverse Age AU, Same Age AU and Attic AU- the latter being inspired by a fanfic named A Breach of Trust (see fanworks.) There are other common Alternate Universes as well, like genderbends.
Esper!Tsubomi was a fan-theory and AU when the webcomic's final chapters were close to being published.
Crossovers with One Punch Man and My Hero Academia are fairly common.
===Pairings===
The fandom is full of shipping and anti-shipping. Most of the pairings are male/male. Common controversial pairings are Mob and Reigen, Mob and Ritsu. Other common but less controversial ships are Mob and Teru, Ritsu and Shou, Reigen and Serizawa. There are also somewhat smaller ships like Reigen and Dimple.
While Mob canonically has a crush on Tsubomi, she rarely features in any fanworks. She is sometimes headcanoned as a lesbian to give her an "acceptable" reason to be uninterested in Mob. Het works are rare, aside from selfships, probably because there are very few canon female characters.
===Controversies===
====Ship Wars====
Reimob and Ritsumob are both controversial ships in the fandoms, with large amounts of fanworks but also hate. Ekurei (Dimple/Reigen) also drew discourse for being problematic, with some stating the age gap is unhealthy or that the ship is otherwise abusive. There is some fighting between Ekurei and Serirei shippers.
====Mogami Arc Response====
The Mogami Arc was massively hyped up by manga-readers to anime-onlys. Nippoisalien made a gif the day before the episode aired. Manga readers would vaguely reference trauma, suffering and "the cat," but the anime adaptation removed the cat-killing scene and toned down the violence against Shigeo as well. Manga readers tended to think the anime was rushed and not as satisfying. Some anime-onlys then began calling dissatisfied readers "creepy" and other negative terms.
====A Breach of Trust====
A Breach of Trust is one of the most popular fanworks in the Mob Psycho 100 fandom, but the author and its fans were harassed because the fic contains child abuse.
====Asexuality====
On tumblr, it was common for characters like Mob, Reigen and Ritsu to be headcanoned as ace by ace people. Some people even interpreted Reigen as canonically ace due to a line where he asks Dimple if romance needs to be accompanied by sexual desire. When it came to Mob, ace discourse often intersected with autism discourse.
====Race====
In the fandom, it was common for white people to call Reigen a "rat" even though that word had been used as a slur against Japanese people in America's past. Many people of color spoke against this trend.“Reigen is a rat” jokes by jucked, May 2019 Reigen was also often subjected to whitewashing in the fandom. It was so common that some people were unaware that Reigen is canonically Japanese. by justMizuyuki ,May 21, 2019
Another cause of race-related discourse involved people drawing characters with darker-than-canon skin. Some argued this was racist while others saw it as anti-racist. Serirei fans were often criticized for drawing Serizawa as fat and dark-skinned with a thin white Reigen.
====Cafe Collaboration====
In 2019, a piece of official art was released to announce a collaboration between Mob Psycho 100 and a cafe. The art depicted the cast with realistic-looking toy guns. Some western fans were upset by this and criticized it for being violent or military propaganda.
===Fictionkin===
Fictionkin of Mob Psycho 100 characters were very common after the anime's first season aired. There were even a couple of tumblr blogs dedicated solely to Mob Psycho 100 kin, but they have since been deleted. Just a few posts from mp100kinfessions were archived on the Wayback Machine:
There are also some kin posts on the general fictionkin confessions blog, fictionkinfessions:
==Example Fanworks==
===Fanfiction===
* tomorrow isn't always another day by suitablyskippy (2016) – In which Mob and Reigen get stuck in a time loop.
*A Breach of Trust by PhantomRose96 (November 2016-present) - A popular fic which gained a mini-fandom and hatedom of its own.
===Fanart===
* where is the second season by saltychen (October 2016)
* just sum mp100 girls... by @Toiame
* tome and tsubomi? happy and in love by _birdpaladin (June 2019)
===Meta===
* by seasoning-city, January 2018.
* by gittetj, June 2018
===Fanvids===
*Lone Digger 100 AMV
*Self Inflicted Achromatic || Mob Psycho 100 ver.
*the apology / mp100 animation
*SCARED OF THE DARK // Mob Psycho 100 PMV [SPOILERS!]
*「₁₀₀%」Mob
*「ＡＭＶ」ᴴᴰ Mob Psycho 100 ▪ NEW DIVIDE ▪ [1st season]
*Common Sentiments
*Mob Psycho AMV - Karma
*Mob Psycho 100- //Handclap\\
*Kindness
==Archives & Fannish Links==
* Mob Psycho 100 Wikia
* Mob Psycho 100 Subreddit
* MAL, MU, AL, KIT, A-P
* Wikipedia article
==References==
Category:Mob Psycho 100