Welcome to Manga Unmasked! In this series, we'll be taking a deep dive into the various manga series available in our collection. So, whether you're already a fan of manga or just a curious reader, we hope you might learn a little about your next potential reading obsession. In this edition, the world is filled with supernatural phenomena. Fortunately, the Greatest Psychic of the 21st Century—and definitely not a conman—Arataka Reigen and his student assistant, Mob, are available to bust ghosts for an affordable fee.
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A Bit of Background
Mob Psycho 100 is a shounen supernatural manga series written and illustrated by ONE. It was originally a web manga series and was serialized on Shogakukan's Ura Sunday website from April 2012 to December 2017—and available on the MangaONE app since 2014. As of July 2018, the chapters have been compiled into 16 tankōbon volumes.
In addition to Mob Psycho 100, ONE is also well known for his other manga series One-Punch Man which he wrote and illustrated originally in 2009 as a webcomic. It went viral and was picked up for a digital remake illustrated by Yusuke Murata and published on Shueisha's Tonari no Young Jump website in 2012. ONE's self-published works are One-Punch Man (the 2009 original webcomic) and Monster of Earth (2013). He has worked with multiple publishers to release Angry Warriors (2012), Makai no Ossan (2012-2013), Cockroaches Buster (2015), Reigen (a 2018-2019 spin-off of Mob Psycho 100), and Versus (2022-present day).
Mob Psycho 100 hit the small screen with its anime debut on July 12, 2016. The series expanded to have three seasons with 12, 13, and 12 episodes respectively. Two Original Video Animations (OVAs) were created as well as a 12-episode live-action drama, three stage-play adaptations, and a drama CD.
The manga was listed as one of the "Most Wanted Manga" by comic book writers at the San Diego Comic-Con in 2016. It won the 62nd Shogakukan Manga Award in the shounen category in 2017 and was nominated for a Harvey Award in the Best Manga category in 2019.
Spirit Consultation
Have an evil spirit problem? Need the services of a pro for an exorcism or seance? Look no further than the Spirits and Such Consultation Office. Arataka Reigen can use his special techniques to remove (photoshop) spirits from your photographs and cure (massage) your sore back and muscles. And if you do need an exorcism, Reigen's psychically gifted assistant Mob will have it taken care of in a jiffy.
Office Staff
Shigeo Kageyama a.k.a. Mob
(Left)
Mob is a middle-school student with remarkable psychic powers and the series' protagonist. His powers require total emotional suppression to keep it from lashing out, causing Mob to appear extremely passive and emotionless. In actuality, Mob is an empathetic and reserved boy who has difficulty making friends—something he wants to change about himself.
Arataka Reigen
(Right)
Self-proclaimed "Greatest Psychic of the 21st Century" and owner of the Spirits and Such Consultation Office, Reigen is the series' deuteragonist and—occasionally questionable—mentor to Mob. While he has zero psychic abilities, his gift of gab and general composure helps him get out of tricky situations.
- Mob Psycho 100 Volumes
**This list includes a brief summary of the events in each book. Here there be spoilers, so read the later summaries at your own risk.
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!
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Mob Psycho 100: Volume 2 by ONE
A cult is starting to form... around Mob! While Mezato tries to dig up info on the shy but powerful psychic for the school paper, Mob gets tricked into an abduction plot designed to force the Body Building Club into a fight with the delinquents from their rival school. But when the other school's "secret leader" Teru turns out to be a fellow superhuman, it's going to be a massive but one-sided fight... because super or not, Mob refuses to use his ghost-busting powers against a fellow human!
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Mob Psycho 100: Volume 3 by ONE
In a showdown with Black Vinegar Middle School's shadow gang leader, Teru, Mob sticks to his policy of nonviolence and refrains from using his powers—and gets knocked out! The fight seems over for Mob... but something then awakens in Mob, beyond the confines of his conscious mind! And in the aftermath, a new story develops with Ritsu, Mob's conflicted younger brother who enjoys the social success Mob desires... yet still longs for what Mob has that Ritsu lacks—psychic power!
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Mob Psycho 100: Volume 4 by ONE
Nothing's stronger than the bond—or the rivalry—between brothers!
Mild-mannered Mob has never realized that his younger brother Ritsu, who enjoys all the social success that Mob lacks, nurtures a hidden, desperate envy for the thing Mob possesses that he doesn't—Mob's psychic superpowers. But when Ritsu's own powers awaken at long last, the story turns towards a shocking new direction!
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Mob Psycho 100: Volume 5 by ONE
Mob's younger brother Ritsu has been abducted by the sinister superpowered cabal, Claw!
In order to save him, Mob and Teru team up with Dimple to infiltrate the mysterious organization... in a psychic battle that will pit middle school kids up against adults with money, resources... and powers of their own!
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Mob Psycho 100: Volume 6 by ONE
Mob and the others have made their way deep into Claw's hideout, only to be captured.
Unexpectedly, they find that someone without any power at all (but plenty of chutzpah), Reigen, has followed them into this dangerous situation. Mob would prefer to run, but must to fight to protect his friends. Under all this stress, Mob finally explodes... in front of his master!
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Mob Psycho 100: Volume 7 by ONE
It’s back to business at Spirits & Such… but since it seems all the ghosts are resting in peace recently, business is dead, too! But if jobs won’t come to them, they’ll just have to go out and meet trouble halfway… which is why Reigen’s taking Mob to a town filled with urban legends, and why Reigen and Mob make a clandestine trip to meet up with clients at an exclusive but haunted girls’ school—in disguise, dressed in ponytails and sailor skirts!
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Mob Psycho 100: Volume 8 by ONE
The exorcism gone wrong last volume now threatens Mob and Reigen with the most dangerous evil spirit yet!
It seemed like it could be a lucrative job freeing a multimillionaire’s daughter from her possession. But it turns out the entity haunting her was once itself a spiritualist—its life gone, its power and grudge remaining. To defeat a ghost that can control a body… Mob must leave his own!
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Mob Psycho 100: Volume 9 by ONE
Even Mob has a social life… but Reigen’s constant demands on his time are starting to seriously interfere with his friends and school. When Reigen carelessly suggests only he truly understands Mob, his disciple walks out on him!
Now Reigen has to take a hard look at his own career, and decides the only way forward is to make his business legitimate—but that’s going to be put to a tough test when the con artist exorcist is asked to cast out a spirit on national TV!
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Mob Psycho 100: Volume 10 by ONE
Mob struggles hard through his first marathon, nearly making it all the way before passing out! He doesn’t feel too bad headed back home… but finds while he was gone, something terrible has happened there.
If Mob believed he was through with the shadowy organization Claw, he was wrong… and with Mob’s emotions and strength at max, it’s superhuman war in the streets as Claw plans a terrorist attack the authorities can’t stop—because it’ll be carried out by psychic power!
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Mob Psycho 100: Volume 11 by ONE
A tower looms above the ravaged city… left standing by its ravagers, the psychic terrorist organization Claw, bent on nothing less than world domination!
Reigen, Mob, and their friends haven’t lost their courage to resist, and fight their way through the rubble in a counterattack. They’ve battled Claw’s elite “Scars” before… but behind them are an inner circle of five ultimate espers, the personal lieutenants of the man at the center of it all—Claw’s leader, Toichiro Suzuki!
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Mob Psycho 100: Volume 12 by ONE
Mob knows what it means to be withdrawn and afraid of his own powers, yet he overcame that to make real friends. Can he convince Serizawa the same is possible for him, or will their standoff end only in destruction?
Meanwhile, Claw’s leader has Sho, the son who turned against him, at his mercy, and reveals the secret of his ability as an esper that can turn anyone into one of his psychokinetic soldiers… and him into their unbeatable commander!
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Mob Psycho 100: Volume 13 by ONE
The battle for the city is over, with Claw vanquished, and nothing to mark the struggle but the gigantic broccoli sprouting from the rubble. That’s not a misprint, but it’s also the beginning of still more trouble as this “divine tree” begins to attract spiritual devotees to Seasoning City in search of the psychic power at its root! Regardless of his incredible heroism and esper skills, Mob still needs to find a way forward in search of a normal life… but will the cult stalking him permit it…?
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Mob Psycho 100: Volume 14 by ONE
Teru journeys deep into the branches of the Divine Tree in search of the force attempting to control Seasoning City, only to be overcome by a strange mannequin of Mob.
Meanwhile back in town, the real Mob gradually realizes that no one, not even his master Reigen, may prove immune to the brainwashing of Psychohelmetism—so it’s up to Mob personally to confront the dummy of himself inside the Divine Tree…and the all-too-familiar spirit pulling its strings!
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Mob Psycho 100: Volume 15 by ONE
Eighth grade is the time to have delusions… but Tome Kurata, president of the Telepathy Club, is now in the ninth, and she still hasn’t managed to make mental contact with aliens!
With graduation from middle school coming fast, can the rest of the club put aside their goofing off long enough to help Tome achieve her dream? Maybe with the help of Reigen, Mob, and a mountain pilgrimage, they can!
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Mob Psycho 100: Volume 16 by ONE
Ever since he was a little boy, Shigeo “Mob” Kageyama has been in love with Tsubomi Takane, yet with all he’s grown over the course of the story, it wasn’t until Tsubomi planned to transfer schools he found the courage to confess his feelings.
But a terrible accident on the way has crossed his path, and now Seasoning City, his friends, his former enemies, and Shigeo himself must stand against the mystery that lies deep within Mob—beyond even 100%, his secret, all-destructive state of ???%...!
Anime
The Mob Psycho 100 anime was produced by Bones and directed by Yuzuru Tachikawa. Season One aired between July 12 and September 27, 2016. Season Two aired between January 7 and April 1, 2019. Season Three aired between October 6 and December 22, 2022.
Check out Season One, Episode One available in full on Crunchyroll's YouTube page and linked below.
Spinoff
In a world haunted by dangerous supernatural forces, there are still some problems you can't solve no matter how much spiritual power you have. And a good thing too—because phony exorcist Reigen Arataka doesn't have any!
But that's never stopped Reigen from running a ghostbusting business... and his new part-time office assistant is none other than Tome Kurata, a girl obsessed with the strange and unexplained-and the schoolmate of Reigen's protégé, Shigeo "Mob" Kageyama. Yet whereas Mob's incredible psychic strength resolved many a case for Reigen, Tome is as powerless as her boss! Or so she may think at first...but if there's one thing a master scam artist knows how to teach, it's the power of confidence and belief!