Review | Mob Psycho 100 II - Chapter 5

Chapter 5: Discord - Choice

Mob begins to live a new reality inhabiting the interior of Minori, but

controlled by Keiji. Everything good that happened to Mob is gone, now it's

Extremely abused and has no one to cling to. Meanwhile, abroad, Reigen

continues conando in Mob and Hoyuelo decides to help him, for which he enters the place

where are Mob and Keiji. Hoyuelo brings reason to Mob after a

briefly, knowing this Keiji unleashes his powers and faces in a combat

To Mob, he manages to win the fight after finding himself and making sure

who he really is The demons and Mob leave the body of Minori, who

he regains consciousness and sees the scene around and in tears apologizes

sincere to Mob

Chapter view

A very good chapter that he knew how to combine, although in two different parts

(before and after the opening), the psychological action and the battle action.

To start I want to highlight the image of the animals that appeared

in this chapter and at the end of the previous chapter. In the previous chapter (scene

nal) it can be seen that a crow stares at Mob, in this chapter

a butterfly rests on a tree near Mob and a spider also appears

and a fly, among others. The funny thing is that these animals (insects in their

most) have a very notorious shot, which is not accidental. The crow is a

divine animal in Japanese mythology, it is a messenger animal of the gods and

that, according to the text that is read, is associated with relevant characters, such as

the divine Amaterasu and the legendary first emperor Jinmu. The butterfly,

associated with death, which is interpreted as the reincarnation of a new

deceased who decided to stay to take care of and / or watch over his family. The fact that

Keiji becomes one of those animals indicates that he is watching, because

in a certain way he wants to make Mob his own work, and as if he were a

messenger of the gods or a god himself, intercedes in the life of Mob with the

whispers that stick in your thinking

"What have I done to them? […] But it does not matter. Do not

it matters nothing "

The reality that is presented to Mob is the most adverse possible for him, a

where nobody supports him, where he is totally rejected. Keiji's intention is

Mob understand it and be like him, because he is the one who can best understand it,

so he put him in that world. Within that plane for Mob passed as

six months, while in reality only a few minutes passed. And that

leads us to think that we are not owners of time or external to us, but

with the nal message gives us the idea that, although we can not be owners of

everything external, yes we can inuir in it as it inuye in us. On Mob

Reigen, as well as his brother, including Hoyuelo, came to appreciate

each one of them and thanks to that he managed to take care of that evil that was taking over

the. In addition, Keiji could not understand that existence is not one-dimensional,

there is only pain, there can also be joys, and both depend on what the

people have made you one. Mob understood.

In Crime and Punishment, which if I remember correctly I mentioned it in a last review,

Raskolnikov murders a usurer because he thinks the world would be better without

people like that, besides wanting to demonstrate a theory about their moral superiority.

Under Keiji's explanation, he would do bad things in bad people so that

I ended up paying, I wanted to rid the world of the scum, just like a certain Yagami, and

that's why he allowed himself to be corrupted. The n justicaba the means, but for Keiji it was more

That, I wanted to show that everyone is scum. In Chinese culture there is a

basic principle of yin-yang, which is the round image where there is a

black and white surface with a black point in the white and a white point on the

black, which implies the duality of this world. In very simple terms,

yes; Keiji is right and can assure that we are all scum, but also

we are more than that, we also have goodness in our hearts. Mob

he understood that duality of his powers and that duality of people, which

he can see in himself, and he understood that things do matter, because those things

they inuyen in him and he in them (and I think that the silhouettes of Mob imply that,

then its black silhouette appears followed by the white one)

"If you're not strong, they use you, they exploit you and they

take advantage of you "

Maybe it's a very cliché subject in the Shonen animes, like Naruto, Saint Seiya or

Even Gintama, talk about the value of friendship and sacrifice for the other.

And I also sometimes get tired, but I understood that that is part of the

same Japanese culture, even from China, where the individual does not predominate

but the community, where you do not owe it to yourself, because you are not a product

external to the rest, but you are part of the collective. And Mob does not escape that theme.

It is also true that if you are not strong you can take advantage of yourself, but with

Mob is understood that true strength is achieved thanks to others. In

Buddhism a good person can achieve 'enlightenment' thanks a

bad person, and therefore the bad person can accumulate good karma.

Translating, Mob became better aware of things and was able to "wake up" from the

reality in which he was locked up thanks to Keiji, because Mob could not see what

really bad of life, he had a bad time, yes, but he did not have serious problems because of his

powers, it is more, thanks to his powers things went well for him, but with

Keiji discovered the really bad side, but now he has a more

complete of himself and others.

But even strong and powerful people can take advantage, because

not only do you need to be strong, but also be smart. In one part the

Narrator says that:

"The human mind has two faces. Happiness exists against the position of

sadness and courage arises to counteract fear ".

This is associated with what I pointed out earlier, the inherent duality of things, but

it also refers to the heart. When the narrator says this, use the word

kokoro (心), which as I said in the last review has several meanings, and there

includes the one of mind. Here you could appreciate that reason and feelings for

the Japanese do not separate, they are together because one inuye in the other. That's why the

Mob's actions are actions of the heart, actions of his mind, actions

thought, they are not things lightly. So the final message says Mob

We can all change. We can be strong despite our weaknesses, and

using is not as bad as it is painted, but that would be better addressed in the

Mob's relationship with Reigen. At the moment this wonderful chapter arrived

up here and in the next it looks like it will be a break after several

emotions, which makes me happy, because my brain will rest. I will finish

saying: Waooo, Mob passed his limits and managed to control himself! I hope it is not

only for this moment, because while the river uya will always be the surprise

of encountering a much larger stone than previously thought