NOTE: Skipped the last episode.
Series in one sentence:
Another story about an impossibly sweet, normal boy getting an annoying harem of supernatural girls forced upon him.
Series in more sentences:
An incompetent
angel is given the task to play Earth's Cupid, even though she's never experienced love herself and has adapted a lazy practice of forcing people together she personally deems a cute couple. One day a target misinterprets her visit
and kisses her, which manages to warm her up to the concept of love. She writes her name next
to his in her Death Note rip-off (confirmed) and binds their fates together by doing so, but because she still doesn't understand the rules, she joyfully adds 2 other
girls to the relationship as well.
What
a disgusting anime. If you've watched it already, you might think this
is an exaggerated description to give to a bouncy series like Love Tyrant, but
this is how the show tries to hide the fact it's disgusting.
I don't like incest, it's not romantic.
I don't like student and teacher relationships, it's not charming.
I
don't like obsessed yaoi fangirls, it's disrespectful towards.. well,
in this case everybody, really. Please, let us never give the power of
matchmaking to a yaoi fangirl.
I'll be fair and say that these topics
can be done well, but it needs to be done with seriousness. Being madly
in love with your sibling is a serious problem and an emotional ride for the people involved,
if anything else. A teacher being obsessed over his student is also
something no outsider should or would root for. And no teacher should confess to.
When people with these socially unacceptable issues are surrounded by dimwits who act casual about it, or treat it like a funny gag, it loses the value it already didn't have. I doubt
it that anybody ever laughed at incest, so why did the writers even add an incestuous character? A girl
peeking on
her sister while changing clothes is not funny or charming. In fact, later they add another girl hungry for her sibling. They really felt the need to show us two examples for some reason.
These
romances should be considered a problem, or at least kept a secret, but
the series presents it as something cute. This'll never be cute, you insane warped minds.
Still, the angel is the worst
character. She's this childish bother who already had no reason
getting involved with this boy's life, and then pretty much turns into a
background character the moment the plot makes its start. She's all
about making stupid faces and quirky remarks, while the other characters attempt to continue the story. She's a shameless waste of
space. In any show worth checking out she and the boy would be the only main characters and there'd be an actual focus on their growing love.
One of the girls she added to the "relationship" is this yandere character who attempts to kill the boy pretty much every episode. Would've been funny if she was in any other anime but this. She and her 2 relatives feel out of place; they are insane and have unexplained superpowers. They'd be locked up behind bars in any normal world. I bet you have to read the manga to know what is going on, but I don't wish to know what's going on, Love Tyrant is not worth it.
This anime is a bad trailer with some dubious choices. The yandere girl's incestuous sister makes me
barf, but for some reason the show decided to only give her a backstory and
the most healthy relationship with the main character. It's sad that their rushed story arch is the most interesting thing the show has to offer.
Love Tyrant just reminded me of Monster Musume;
this horrible anime about a boy that has to take in and care for a
growing group of monster girls who all want to marry him, and all are
incredibly annoying. I still wonder how I let myself give that an
average rating. Love Tyrant isn't getting one.
Series in one sentence:
A less funny and less self-aware One Punch Man.
Series in more sentences:
A
young teenager is gifted with immense psychic powers, but prefers to
not use them and wishes to live a normal life. As these powers tend to
take over his body when he becomes too emotional, the unpopular high
school student suppresses his feelings and swallows the comments thrown
at him daily.
While seemingly absent-minded and unimpressed by his
surroundings, he has his heart at the right place and always wishes the
best for everyone.
It
took me 2 episodes to get into it, but I can't say I didn't enjoy the
whole deal. It reminded me of One Punch Man, which makes sense, as it
appears to have been made by the same gentleman.
The similarities
urged me to compare the two shows, and while Mob Psycho is definitely
enjoyable, I still find One Punch Man to be the better One Punch Man.
Lewl.
I would've liked it if Mob Psycho 100 had a better title
was slightly more casual about the dangers presented. It had its funny
moments, but I've seen enough animes with the same types of jokes and
imagery; it's not an overdramatic/comedic masterpiece like its
predecessor. I don't think I can pinpoint what differentiates these shows
from each other exactly, but maybe it's that Mob Psycho's story wants to take its
characters more seriously than One Punch Man bothered to. There's a noticeable conflict within the psychic community about what they should do or feel towards normal humans.
Nearing the end of the season you can see
more of that One Punch Man-silliness bleed into the fighting scenes, but
the rest feels like an actual story with the occasional misplaced joke.
It
wasn't my intention to compare the two shows to each other like this, though,
it's not the kind of review Mob Psycho deserves, but when you watch the
show, it's hard to ignore that its main character is almost a copy of
One Punch Man himself. Just without the urge to become anything other
than normal, and being surprisingly fragile still. I think it looks weird when we see our stone-faced main character in need, often for no
reason but to further the story. He's described to be unusually powerful and when he chooses to engage in battle at the end, he fights his opponents with ease, but then suddenly fails. As if the series told him to "slow down, bitch", so there's still a conflict to carry over to season 2.
The main excuse the series gives for Mob's reluctance to fight is that he wants to protect people from himself by reinacting Ghandi. Even when the people he wants to protect are in lethal danger caused by someone else. Which is just a weird way of doing
things, but alright.
It
would be a shame to pass this one by, though. It really doesn't matter
if you've seen One Punch Man or not, I think it'll please both groups just fine. There aren't that many episodes, so you can watch
it all in a day and reach a fairly quick conclusion, without feeling your time has been wasted.
Besides, it's still the product of a mad genius that the manga and anime industry is lucky to have, there's no such thing as regrets.
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09-01-2023 UPDATE:
A while ago I finished the 3rd season, which, by the looks of it, concludes the series.
It started alright, but was ruined by two boring filler episodes that came right after an emotional death, and this same emotional death was further ruined by a total cop-out at the end of the season.
Speaking of the ending, what a rushed experience. Mob just suddenly loses his mind and enters an internal battle that could've used way more (or actual) foreshadowing throughout the series, and his careless destruction draws in all the other prominent characters, who use the moment to conclude their own story arcs.
Reigen showing up to confess his uselessness was the weirdest decision. What urged him to do this and why did it snap Mob back into reality? It was so random and dissatisfying.
Mob apparently suffered no repercussions for his murderous rampage, either, and people continue to act overly happy around him. Implausible, did not like the sappy ending.
Season 3 was a season I had high hopes for as it began, but it looked like the creators were in a hurry this time.
