Eventually the kids are beamed up, and even Reigen lets himself be drawn in. There is a language barrier but Takenaka’s juju seems to work on them too. There are aliens – they’re pink and translucent with huge hypnotic eyes – and they have a spaceship with a tractor beam. Which, you know, I kind of suspected it might, even if I did call this a surprising turn. It’s all very “the friends we made along the way”, with Reigen playing the role of wise but respectfully detached adult mentor to a T.Įxcept the spell works. Even after Takenaka (who was late because he stayed up late researching) admits that the author of the book with the alien-summoning spell went to jail for fraud.
Eventually he convinces her the obvious way – by reading her thoughts – and things turn in a heartwarming direction. Which, of course, couldn’t be further from the truth.
Tome still doesn’t believe Takenaka is a telepath, and has a bug up her butt about the boys basically doing all this as a lark at her expense. Eventually everyone gets lost on the mountain after Kijibayashi and Mob go off to take a piss, and Reigen only manages to find the trail after considable time-wasting meandering in the woods. The drive up Mud Boat Mountain was eventful for the most mundane of reasons – Mob getting carsick, nervous driver Reeigen missing the turnoff for the hiking trail, Tome being increasingly sullen and difficult. The first half of this week was building on that theme, presenting this is the most grounded of Mob Psycho plotlines, a straight-ahead tale of adolescent imagination indulged.
This whole alien thing, starting from the cliffhanger last week, had the feeling of a narrative Trojan horse. It actually reminded me of an episode of Space Dandy, another Bones series where experimentation rules the day. It was dreamlike, and I’m pretty sure that’s exactly what it was supposed to feel like. I believe that part was quite intentional, which would take me in the “brilliant” direction. At times a staggering avalanche of huge frame rates and movement, at times hazy and indistinct. Now, looking back on it, I’m still not sure whether this episode was incredibly brilliant or just incredibly weird. Though not exactly the sober and drily intellectual kind. This – this was just out there, straight sci-fi. They’re not real but they’re grounded in reality, and they exist as a means to further develop the cast. I mean, in a setting where telekinesis and telepathy and giant gestalt broccoli are real, well – why not space aliens? I guess for me those things aren’t as outlandish as this was. Unexpected, too – though perhaps it shouldn’t have been. I gotta say, that was the strangest episode of Mob Psycho 100 in three seasons AFAIC.
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