#i do prefer the manga pacing tho. these chapters made ???% one of my favourite characters bc of how it acted from the start

[psychopathic-moves]

Why do you think Bones didn’t include those lines? 👀

This might be answered in the next episode, so I'll guess it'll be a spoiler warning until next week.

I have a feeling that Bones didn't want to reveal that ???% is a separate entity too soon. To someone who didn't read the manga so far it looks like this is still Mob, only extremely detached and under control of his powers more so than his powers being under his control. In no previous scene had ???% been given any sort of agency (both due to lack of exposure and keeping the suspense intact) to distinguish itself from Mob just losing control over himself.

I think that's the main difference between a 100% and ???%.

It was only hinted at during the Mogami arc, when he remarks at "the vessel being broken" - contrary to the anime, in the manga Mob is defeated by Mogami's spirits and ???% emerges when Shigeo's own mind/spirit has been eradicated.

It's paralleled during another scene that was omitted in the animation: when Mob lays injured on the intersection, right after the impact, his consciousness is slowly fading away.

That means ???% is presented with free real estate here. So far the only hint that anime-onlys have been given about its true nature (and the fact that it's neither a mindless manifestation of powers nor still Mob) is that it's still emotive and responsive to the actions of those around it.

Now, why wouldn't Bones want to include all that?

For one, pacing. Episode 10 has been packed with impactful moments, from the reveal of what followed the accident through Teruki's attempts at stopping Mob, to the return of Toichirou. From a planning standpoint, adding so far completely new information to so dense of an episode would've shifted focus from the main plot points. In the manga the main cliffhanger after the car crash was the emergence of ???%, who then said the omitted lines in the last pages of the chapter, whereas in the amine Mob's been left to bleed out on that street for a week; it was clear that the reader was meant to be left with a completely different information to digest than in the animation.

It also saves more tension and suspense to distribute for the next episode. My bet is that we're gonna see it interact with Mob next week, but we might not hear it speak for the rest of the series.

And two, it just makes ???% all the more terrifying. Without the cues it looks like an eldritch entity, cold and unmovable, with a little more agency but still very miles away from resembling anything human, which is much more in contrast with Mob's kind-hearted nature. Whatever image the audience has built of it on the course of last two seasons can influence the reading of ???% in this episode and I think that's also a reason why they didn't want to give it too much personality too soon.

I guess it all comes down to different ways of the storytelling. I'm sad that some of the pages didn't make the cut but I also think that Bones is doing a) a phenomenal job and b) god's work translating the manga to animation.