The mangaka known as One has had one of the funniest careers of a manga artist. Originally, he started drawingOne Punch Manwhen his art was still comedically basic, yet managed to gain success through the sheer quality of his writing and his characters.
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His second most popular series isMob Psycho 100, the story of Shigeo ‘Mob’ Kageyama, a young esper. The series is now receivinga 3rd anime seasonand has consistently been one of the funniest anime around. The animators and voice actors of course help elevate all the show’s jokes, but the unique and hilarious characters also help to keep the audience laughing.
7Tenga Onigawara
Mob Psycho 100is fundamentally a parody series. It mainly parodies shonen action stories, and to support this, a lot of its cast are parodies themselves. Tenga for one parodies Japanese delinquent characters like Josuke fromJojo’s Bizarre Adventure.
As this archetype is defined by often mindless aggression, Tenga is one to get himself into fights for no particular reason. His exaggerated emotions are often played for a laugh and are balanced well with his genuine good nature. He’s especially been entertaining after joining the body improvement club.
6The Body Improvement Club
It would be a shame to separate these 5 burly brothers into separate characters, although the club leader Musashi Goda is the most prominent of the group. While their dedication to bodybuilding makes them seem self-centered they’re actually some of the nicer characters in the show.
Their comedy tends to come from the way they play off of other characters like Mob or the telepathy club. Often, their peak physical prowess is used to show off Mob’s lack of physical ability in funny and endearing ways.
5Teruki Hanazawa
Terukihas had some of the greatest changes of anyMob Psychocharacter. Sadly, this means that he’s lost a lot of his original hilarity. Originally, he was a rival esper to Mob, who had a destructive esper supremacist ideology.
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Some of his best moments came as a result of his fight with Mob, where he had his hair shaved off, resulting in the Marge Simpson-esque wig he wears for a time afterward. This fight also emphasized his strange fighting stance that makes him look like a child with a strong need for a bathroom break.
4Dimple
Dimple has fallen far from his original position as a powerful cult leader.Since Mob defeated himand disbanded the cult, he’s simply been the generally harmless devil on Mob’s shoulder.
Small as he may be, Dimple is still undeniably an evil character. He still talks about how he wants to achieve world domination, and will likely be a threat again if he is ever allowed. But since he’s devoid of any actual power, he just ends up being a sassy, grumpy old man that’s often the butt of jokes, especially when they involve him getting hurt in some form.
3Tome Kurata
Tome was first introduced as the leader of the telepathy club at salt middle school. Her first mission in the series was to recruit Mob for her club, lest they be kicked out of their club room, which they mostly used to goof off and play video games.
While the telepathy club’s misfortune is funny on its own, Tome’s own antics set her apart as the star of the club and one of the series’ funnier characters. She approaches her love of the occult and aliens with such genuine energy that every time her dreams are dashed, it demands at least a pained giggle.
2Mob
Similar to Saitama from One’s other series,One Punch Man, Mob is a character burdened by a strong sense of apathy. While Saitama lost his emotions by becoming too powerful, Mob purposefully pushed them down in order to avoid hisridiculously strong esper powersharming others.
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Despite having a narrow range of emotions, Mob ends up being a really funny protagonist. With so many weirdos and oddballs around him, Mob’s consistently neutral reactions make everyone else feel even more insane and laughable than they already are. In a sense, he isn’t very funny himself, but he makes every scene he’s in generally funnier.
As nice as he is, Mob does sometimes scold and lose his temper with other characters, and the change in his disposition also helps make these scenes quite funny as well.
1Reigen Arataka
It couldn’t really be anyone else. Reigen Arataka is the unofficial star ofMob Psycho 100. Having been Mob’s esper master for nearly half of Mob’s life, Reigen’s hilarity begins with the fact that he hasno esper powers whatsoever. He didn’t even know espers existed until a young Mob walked into his office.
Despite his complete lack of esper powers, Reigien manages to run a somewhat successful psychic consultation business, handling everything from violent spirits to minor curses. Mostly though, he uses completely normal techniques like photoshop and back massages. The anime’s brilliant choice to over-dramatize these techniques makes them even funnier.
Reigen is also a master at outwitting his opponents, having once beaten an entire room of psychics in rock paper scissors. The constant whiplash between his competence and incompetence never seems to stop being funny, and it also helps that he’s a genuinely good father figure to Mob. Most memes of the series found online are Reigen memes for a reason.
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