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day 3: mogami arc

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SIGHHHH I miss him

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I was looking through some old files and I realized I never posted this mob psycho piece I did a few months ago... Mostly because I couldn't figure out what to do with the background, as usual

I made it cuz I wanted to celebrate Reigan's stupid running outfit from season 2

Looking back on this I think it's pretty nice

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shigeo : that man is a liar he's only using us

reigen trying to get to mob :

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16 reigen and 2 shigeo

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A good person.

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I think an underrated aspect of Separation Arc and why it works so well is that once Mob finally stands up for himself and stops going to work, we think we can expect the following to happen:

Reigen quickly flounders at work but stubbornly denies he's incapable without Mob's help

Reigen eventually runs into a client who truly needs the help of psychic powers (e.g. the client is haunted by an evil spirit who cannot be exorcised with salt)

Reigen realizes that he truly needs Mob to not be seen as a fraud and that he shouldn't have taken him for granted

Reigen seeks out Mob and apologizes, Mob accepts his apology and agrees to work for him again

Except... that's not what happens. Reigen does get upset and lonely without Mob, but his business runs fine—in fact, Reigen's own ambition and smart thinking actually allow him to find greater success as a psychic. The only reason Reigen's public downfall even happens is because he was maliciously tricked by Jodo, he'd figured out on his own that the kid wasn't possessed! This and the fact that Jodo is seeking petty revenge for Reigen "humiliating" him (when Reigen actually saved his life no less) really makes us feel like Reigen's public mockery is unfair and unjustified... even though we've always known from the beginning that Reigen is a fraud.

Isn't that a strange turn of events?

Then we get to the press conference. It's possible that even if Mob hadn't helped him at the end, Reigen could've still managed to salvage some of his public image. He was calmly answering people's questions and answering truthfully, pointing out that they had no evidence he was a fraud and that no one had ever had an issue with his work before the show. But all of that stops mattering to Reigen when he realizes that despite all his efforts from childhood, he's still just a lonely, lonely man who has never had any idea what he wants to do in life. The only reason he kept running his psychic business in the first place was because Mob showed up in his dull life and brightened it up with his vivid color.

It is finally here, after all this time we've been spending with Reigen, that we both figure out the truth: Reigen needs Mob not because of his powers, but because Mob is his friend and inspires him to be better. And this full understanding of Reigen's complex character and deep connection with Mob is what hits all of us so hard in this episode, it's so painfully human and real and we would not have gotten all of this had the story just played out as expected.

Thus culminates the genius subversions of Separation Arc: despite having the world's attention all focused on him, Reigen only makes one honest apology to one boy. This boy might not even watching this at all—if he is, he's probably watching this with spiteful bitterness—but it's still important that this boy knows...

You've grown up so much. You know that?

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I'm sorry.

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I like this cropped too...

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End of the first stage play:

End of the second stage play:

End of the third stage play:

I just love how Setsuo Itō (Mob's VA) is so emotional about the whole project you can tell how important it is to him!

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I miss my ex wife

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They're laughing at an inside joke...

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Ritsu and Gimcrack that have been laying in my wips for *checks file* exactly one month!

From "A Breach of Trust" by @phantomrose96 ^that fic is sooo so good and you should give it a read if you haven't already!

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this scene too… imprinted on my soft lil heart

A Breach of Trust by @phantomrose96

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The man turned and offered a small smile, like Shishou never did. 

Read here!

Happy birthday, Chrissy. And a biiig thank you to you and @kikaiz for makin this crazy story. i’m love it very much.

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i actually totally forgot to post this, this was the last thing i drew in 2023 :'|

anyway, misunderstood psychic teens