fuck all of you who decide to stay neutral. fuck all of you who decide to stay silent. fuck all of you who are not educating yourself about what is happening right now. fuck every celebrity that posted a notes app screenshot of empty words. fuck bbc and nbc and joe biden and the u.s and britain and nearly every western country and media outlet. fuck israel and zionists and privileged white liberals turning a blind eye. fuck all of you. israel bombed a hospital and hundreds if not thousands are dead and a father had to carry the PIECES of his sons in plastic bags because they were blown to bits. a resting place for journalists has now turned into a morgue. every day people are being killed and it’s being DOCUMENTED and you still wanna be silent and neutral and say this doesn’t involve you. your lack of humanity is vile and horrid and i hope you never know one moment of happiness the rest of your life.
something that I've noticed upon rewatch (and rewatch and rewatch and rewatch) of mp100 is how blood is treated like a serious injury.
A lot of shonen battles have their characters cough up blood or gush blood from every pore in their body. It does levy the drama a bit, but as an audience we know it's for dramatic effect.
Mob Psycho 100 makes sure that when the audience sees blood, we know it's serious. During the battle with Suzuki, the biggest battle of the series (in terms of the fate of the world), nobody has more than some scratches and swollen eyes. They're visibly beaten up, yes, but when compared to other shonen series, you'd think that things are just getting started.
However, in Mob's flashback to his childhood, we can see that the delinquents have a pool of blood surrounding them. This was a serious injury that Mob caused. It scarred him so much that he stopped using his powers, and by proxy, his emotions.
This is not to say that other shonen that use blood in their epic fights are bad. I would be lying if I said that I didn't like seeing blood-soaked characters keep fighting despite the odds. I just wanted to show that Mob Psycho uses its visual cues differently and deliberately, because it's a series that is very deliberate with a lot of what it does.
Aaaand if anyone’s curious, here’s the reference to Poof/Peri earlier in the episode
Hazel also says the color periwinkle earlier in the episode, but it’s in reference to hats so I don’t think it’s meant to be a reference/foreshadowing, but idk
(Also until the show looks me in the eye and says otherwise, I’m choosing to believe that Angela and Marcus now think Cosmo is a stealth trans man. Diversity Win! Your new neighbor is the world’s first trans absentee father and he and his also-absentee-mother wife are also very bad at compartmentalizing time)