Mob Psycho 100 vol. 6
Imagine if you’re Mob at the start of this volume. You’ve just been defeated by the members of a secret organization of super-humans who are out to use their powers to take over the world. You’re currently trapped in a room with your brother and a former rival. Some of the other kids who were kidnapped by the organization are currently trying to escape, but there’s no guarantee that they’ll be able to do so. Meanwhile the leaders of this branch of the organization are trying to figure out what to do with these extremely powerful individuals they’ve managed to capture. Your only hope is that your shifty conman of a boss, whose only real superpower is his confidence, has realized that his favorite employee has gone missing and decides to track him down.
In a situation such as this, I think you’ll agree that Mob and his friends are going to be all right.
So if the idea of seeing Mob’s boss steamroll over the opposition (mostly) using the power of his unshakable belief in himself (with maybe a bit of outside interference) sounds like a good time to you, then the first three-quarters of this volume have you covered. While this means we get some quality psychic action, of the kind that this series has been consistently dealing out for a few volumes now, it’s actually more impressive to see Reigen size up the situation and impart some acutely observed moral guidance to everyone involved. Actual kids, and the adults who are actually kids as well.
It all leads to a satisfying wrap-up to this arc that also sets the stage for a bigger conflict to come down the line. As well as a couple chapters that see Mob navigating the social gauntlet of high school as he runs for student council president, and… gets a girlfriend? Yes, there’s more going on there than you’d expect, but it leads to a surprising finish that may lead to some unexpected growth for our protagonist. So you should all rush out and buy this volume in order for that to happen. Why? Because Dark Horse hasn’t solicited any volumes of this series after the “Reigen” volume that came out in November. I can’t say that this series has been put on hiatus for sure, but if you want to see this series reach its conclusion you’d best go out and start buying the volumes you need RIGHT NOW!