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I've thought about Mob Psycho 100 some more. It's themes also don't work within the context of it's own universe. The way it hides this is by ignoring large parts of reality. One of the main themes is that nobody is more special or important because of their natural abilities and you shouldn't use your abilities to get what you want from others. Now, this is pretty ridiculous when you really think about it.
At the beginning of the anime, part of Mob's "problem" is shown to be his personality. He doesn't live a satisfying life because his personality prevents him from doing so. Teruki is the opposite. He enjoys his life by "using" his powers on others in various ways. He's also confident and proactive and presumably has good social skills. Yet the show then tries to assert that he's the same as Mob despite that. Why? Because he's reliant on his powers. Without those he's "nothing", and that's bad. That could be said about pretty much anything else people are born with though. What's a pretty girl without their looks? What's an athlete without their athletic ability? People take advantage of these things all the time. It would be one thing if this was demonstrated with other things, but it only shows it with psychic powers for some reason.
Ahleticism is positioned as the opposite of psychic powers. People are born with psychic abilities, people have to work to build muscle. Nervermind that physic abilities can also be trained and improved. Mob is a saint like figure because despite being born with unlimited psychic potential, he does not get anything from it, or at least even a fraction of what he could be getting. Instead he diligently tries to improve his physcial strength without ever really improving significantly, which is good. While some people are more naturally gifted at athletics, some are far less, with mob being close to the bottom. The show never shows people taking advantage of this though. The body building club is comprised of sage-like, no-earthly desires, middle schoolers. Mob wants to improve his body to impress a girl(not for his health), but this girl has never been shown to be attracted to the training itself, just the results. So the message of doing something you're really bad at because it takes more hard work is better than doing something you're really naturally good at, makes no sense.
During one scene, there's a random side character with physic healing powers. Mob has been shown to learn new abilities instantly before, and there's no reason to think he wouldn't be able to learn how to heal people. There's no reason given as to why he couldn't go from hospital to hospital, curing everybody's cancer and whatever else. This would both be a very "moral" thing to do with his powers, something only he could do just because of his natural ability, and would get him heaps upon heaps of praise and whatever else he wanted. This never happens though because it would completely shatter the already fragile themes.
Post edited on 12th Jul 2020, 8:42pm
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