(Just a placeholder here for now - captioning might take a while and it’s 2am. But I’ve split the built in captions into sections to make that easier later!)
Okay there’s a lot to this so context!!
To start - Reigen’s still on the dizzy side, so when Ekubo, Mob & Reigen find Serizawa he’s possessed again for a bit of stability. Lil bit of genuine talk ensues. Serizawa’s a bit dazed by everything. And just happy to see Reigen and Mob safe, so he doesn’t think much about the reappearance of Ekubo. Buuut, in the few days where Reigen is resting (and Serizawa’s keeping his eye on him) he has a lot of time to dwell on that. They don’t see Ekubo again during those days since he’s not keen to leave Mob alone/disappear again. By the time he reappears, he actually finds that Reigen and Serizawa are helping with some clean up near Reigen’s apartment (Serizawa’s only letting him out so he doesn’t eat the furniture with restlessness). And… yeah the conversation continues before and after what’s shown - Reigen’s happy to see Ekubo again, Serizawa doesn’t trust him & has a vague theory on what happened with the Broccoli thing that no one seems to remember so… for good reason.
[ID: A four panel comic for Mob Psycho 100. The first panel shows Tsubomi (who has large shoujo styled eyes) laying in a bed, with Inukawa standing near her saying “Good luck, Tsubomi!”. Tsubomi replies “Thanks”.
The next panel, labeled “Later”, shows Tsubomi (now with her manga styled eyes) checking her face in a handheld mirror. She says, “Wow, my shoujo eye reduction went really well”. One of the aliens from the manga is smiling and standing by her. The next panel shows the alien leading Tsubomi somewhere as Tsubomi asks, “Where’s Inukawa?”
The last panel shows Inukawa laying down in a bed, now with large shoujo eyes. He starts saying, “Hey-”, but gets cutoff by Tsubomi crying and yelling, “Nooooo!!!”. End ID]
Happy manga!tsubomi in season 3 everybody :) (Also this is completely based off of this)
Just realized that people dont talk about terus character development enough. Like yeah gay boy fashion disaster with a huge ego even after he gets destroyed, but when you think about his first battle with mob and
(Mp100 manga Spoiler warning)
-his last fight with mob, one made that parallel on purpose (well yeah obviously). His first battle with mob was because he was afraid of how people would see him if he wasnt strong anymore, if he didnt have powers anymore what would be left of him? He fought mob because he wanted mob to rise over others with his strength. He looked down on him and saw himself in him. He thought if he didnt show off his skills, he would be a lonely loser. But in reality, teru had more trouble making true friends compared to mob because of the persona he created. But at the end of the manga the battle plays out the same way except this time, teru is trying to stop mob from hurting others instead of encouraging him. Reigen wasnt the only one risking his life, dignity and facade during the final arc. Teru once again lost his clothes, his hair, he wasnt able to stop him, he wasnt able to fight anymore, he was putting his life on the line too. In this frame mob says “and hanazawa kun… I did this to him. He went that far… trying to stop me?”
I dont think people realized how big of a deal it was that teru did this for mob. I kind of brushed it aside too because I was focusing of mobs mental state but it shows how much teru grew, how much he cared for mob, how much he cared for other people now. He may still think ‘oh yeah I’m so much stronger than everyone’ (which is true lol) but now instead of wanting to use his strength to put fear into others, he uses it to save them. I’m not very good at this analysis stuff,,, honestly I feel like most of this was just brainrot ranting but hes such a good boy!!!! Wish I couldve explained it better…..
