This Scene Always Felt Interesting To Me.

Bready, steady, go!

Gotta love your friendly neighborhood depressed bread gods

despite how much toichiro sucks as a person he’s arguably the funniest mp100 character to make jokes about. my personal fav are jokes where toichiro is almost completely senile and unhinged, like a ww2 grandpa. just lacking a fundamental understanding of how real people in the real world function.

this. this is toichirocore. this is the best type of toichiro. pointlessly aggressive, making no fucking sense ever, but still insisting on buying everyone a plate of the best omurice in the city 💀💀💀💀💀

Ship In A Mouthwash Bottle Song: Ship In A Bottle by Fin Argus

” you were a wonderful experience “

“ you were… everything “

Mouthwashing Post-Steam Awards Special

I'm honored to be asked again by the developers of Mouthwashing to create this video following the Steam Awards. While the game may not have won, its journey and the incredible community behind it are worth celebrating!

Please note that this video and voices are not canon to the game. It’s just a little something to show appreciation for the amazing Mouthwashing fandom!

(Btw I had to export this video at 480p to fit Tumblr's upload limits. If you'd like to watch it in glorious 1440p, you can check it out on YouTube here!)

Voice actors:

Curly: ‪@GianniMatragrano‬

Anya: ‪@VoiceQuills‬

Jimmy: ‪@SeigiVA‬

Swansea: ‪@JakVox‬

Daisuke: ‪@funnywes‬

Interviewer: ‪@ganglemanVA‬

Suit models rigged by desdarkdesigns

Song: Bad News [Official Mouthwashing OST]

that post about mob psycho having a title that makes it sound like a hyperviolent edgy anime in english got me thinking about how funny that juxtaposition is with how the show Actually Is. the resolution of a major arc in the third season literally hinges on the fact that the main character is wearing the most godawful fuck ugly shirt on earth and everyone is too polite to tell him it sucks. as a direct result, a giant broccoli flies itself to the ocean and it's a legitimate tearjerker. a bunch of the antagonists definitely think they're in an edgy organized crime show--until half of them end up giving up their life of crime because they got made fun of for beefing with middle schoolers so hard by a 27-year-old in a cheap suit that they decided they'd rather work at a grocery store.

You know what I really admire in Mob Psycho 100? Its ability to blur the distinction between what’s funny and what’s serious. And I don’t mean mood-whiplash, because that’s easy. Mood-whiplash just requires one very funny thing immediately followed by a very serious one, or vise versa. What I’m talking about with mp100 is that they take the funny thing and make it grave when you weren’t looking. Or the severe thing become funny without losing its severity. It always just leaves you hauntingly unsettled figuring out what the actual tone of the scene is and this is just so fascinating to experience.

The fight with Teru. Mob accidentally launches a knife and shaves Teru bald. That’s funny. That’s fucking hilarious. Princely Teru is suddenly an old-man-looking bald guy. But you know? The bald joke becomes Teru’s crisis about his identity. The bald joke becomes Teru going after Mob with his own hands, wrapping his fingers around Mob’s windpipe begging him to fight, to take back what Mob said about both of them being common. The actual narration in the manga is “In the end, Teru chose to act. He’s using his hands to choke Mob. A simple act of violence against a weaker person. And it is every bit common…” And Mob doesn’t fight back. He suffocates in silence, and passes out. And this…this is still the bald joke. This was just a bald joke. And it’s not the end of the joke, because when Mob’s ???% powers activate they strip Teru naked, and THAT’S still the same joke. The cold severity of watching Mob be choked to unconsciousness while Teru’s whole world shattered was inside this joke.

On a smaller note, the student count president Kamuro. Watching him lock himself in his room and literally throw himself on a pile of trash bags is funny. That’s the sort of thing you watch and go “haha me!” I’ve seen a lot of people tag him trash boy. But also its…pretty brutal for his character. His family demands perfection from him in every category that concerns family pride, but their son’s own health? Own well-being? Own living space? They let him fill his room with literal trash because it doesn’t concern them, and Kamuro is too tired to put in any effort to clean his room when it’s not demanded of him. So yeah, trash boy literally sleeps on a pile of trash, but only because of the horrifying way his family treats him. Am…am I laughing?

Then REIGEN. Oh god REIGEN. He’s pretty much the personification of everything I’m getting at here. The guy does stupid shit. Like, all the time. Always. 24/7 Reigen is doing something stupid. And yet his stupid nonsense is one of the only serious sources of support in Mob’s life, at least early on. Reigen will be doing something unarguably stupid while Mob acts as support, and when Mob expresses real worrying concern about his own powers, Reigen turns around and cites the exact stupid nonsense they’re doing as solid proof that Mob’s concerns are ill-founded. Reigen will talk Mob down from his own panic and fear by pointing out the good Mob is doing for the world, that he’s fine, he’s in control, he’s okay–by making the constant stupid nonsense into something powerful and sweet. Am I laughing? Am I crying? 

(Spoilers now for anime-only watchers) This culminates so well in the conclusion to the 7th Branch arc. Teru and Ritsu pressure Mob to go 100% and use his powers to save all of them. Reigen, and Reigen alone, tells him not to do it, because Reigen understands how much Mob suffers when his powers go out of control. He takes Mob by the face right before he 100%’s and tells him it’s okay to run and let Reigen handle it. Immediately after, with his guard dropped, Reigen takes a sword to his back.

And it has every potential to be the most traumatizing thing in the series.

But Mob goes 100% right before the attack lands, and it’s not 100% panic or fear or anxiety, it’s 100% gratitude. Which passes on Mob’s powers to Reigen to control because Mob listened to Reigen, and trusted him, and passed on the responsibility Mob was too scared to handle. But Reigen is Reigen. So he just fields all of these powerful attacks with a mixture of annoyance and confusion because “what the hell I dont have psychic powers. did Mob do this?” And it’s hilarious to see every attack bounce off Reigen while he responds with essentially “Could you not?” the whole time, until the opponents are trembling in awe of Reigen’s powers. It’s simultaneously the most hilarious and heart-felt thing I’ve seen in the series and I’m still in awe.

There are just so many little instances of this that defy all expectation and I’m so appreciative of the skill that goes into pulling this off.

why would you say this. i've been thinking about this nonstop why would you SAY THIS??? I'M LOSING MY GODDAMN MIND

this is your fault

Happy Valentines

My piece for the @mp100auzine! I decided to make something for an Ageswap AU, particularly dealing with the 7th division Scars.

This was inspired by leothedino/shigayokagayama’s ageswap fic Show Me the World Outside. One aspect of the story involves the Scars as esper kids who used their powers to rise the ranks of their middle school gangs, only to be kidnapped and brainwashed by Claw. I thought it’d be fun to explore the time period before these events, where they’re all being little shits.

Enjoy, and thanks to the zine team for putting this together!

Extra concept dev stuff below the cut:

First, some refs I designed for the Scars themselves! I used the outfits and names of the five middle school gangs featured in Big Cleanup Arc: Mayo, Soy Sauce, Bean Paste, Miso and Noodle Soup Base(pictured left to right). Not pictured here, but included in the full piece, is a hapless ageswap Kijibayashi who just wants to make it through his shift at the arcade in peace.

Next, the Arcade! For the arcade cabinets and posters, some I just parodied arcade games into Mob Psycho versions, others I also referenced other aus from the zine (Spirit Ball Run, Joust, Youkai’s Lair, etc). Same with the assorted dimple plushies and claw machine items. The missing persons posters are referencing the events of SMTWO where members of the Super Five are taken by Claw as well.