Mob Psycho 100 vol. 7

What’s next for Mob and Reigen after they managed to defeat a branch of the evil organization of psychics known as Claw?  Dealing with urban legends, that’s what!  They’ve been asked to exorcise some well-known Japanese urban legends around town – the Dog-Faced Man, the Red Raincoat, the Slit-Mouthed Woman – along with another psychic who may or may not be in over his head here.  This mini-arc is followed-up by stories where Mob has to exorcise a sweat ghost at an all-girl’s school, a haunted scarecrow at a farm, and some ghost-seeking college students who actually encounter one and want Mob and Reigen to do their thing.  Even if the ghosts in question are of a dead family.  All of this, however, is just the appetizer for the final storyline where our protagonists meet up with a lot of other psychics at a rich man’s mansion.  He wants them to exorcise his daughter, but they’re not sure if she’s really possessed.

I guess it would be expecting too much for this series to jump right into another extended storyline after it wrapped up one in the previous volume.  So it’s a good thing that all of the one-off and multi-part stories in this volume are uniformly strong.  They all deliver some quality humor, clever twists, and in a couple cases, actual pathos.  That last bit is down to the fact that Mob’s biggest challenge in this series is always going to be his inability to socialize normally with others.  Sometimes that can actually be an asset, but it can also prove to be more frightening than dealing with the Slit-Mouthed Woman herself.  Still, it’s always nice to see that Reigen, for all his faults, has his apprentice’s back and wants to do right by him.  Even after he gets Mob involved in what looks to be a super-sized version of “The Exorcist.”  Which I’m sure will turn out all right for Mob and Reigen.  Just… maybe not so much for everyone else in the room with them.