![]() They were always a shadow of the Body Improvement Club's members and served as comic relief aspects. However, when you look behind the production values you see this whole arc has no weight since we didn't get a chance to know the characters in the club. The whole sequence feels like a dream, so we are not sure whether these events happened or not, and the production staff accomplished this feature by creating a bizarre atmosphere through the different usage of animations and sounds. The story of the arc keeps getting move forward with the addition of a new character who was an old member of the telepathy club and getting concluded by club members encountering aliens and spending time with them. She is in her final year, and the entrance exams are getting closer, so there isn't much time left for her in this school. This arc revolves around the telepathy club's president Tome's final shot at meeting with aliens together with her club. This season tries to bring conclusions without developments, and the telepathy club is one of the victims of this attempt. ![]() This mini-arc with two episodes contains a grim mistake, unfortunately. I even would nominate this arc as the best of the series if it wasn't for the utterly boring second episode. It encapsulates the characters of Mob and Ekubo which are carefully developed through three seasons in a near-perfect fashion and gives us an excellent climax. The second season also had its high moments, but I think this one is the peak of Mob Psycho 100 in terms of character writing. His dialogues with Mob in episode 6 and the events that happened afterward were one of the best moments in the whole series thanks to the emotional pay-off. We saw the interactions between him and Mob in almost every episode since the first season and watched how his character shifted from "just a bad spirit who wants to control Mob to fulfill his own dreams" to "a familiar-like spirit who protects Mob and acts like a secondary mentor for him" So, the events in the later parts of this arc was very touching. On the other hand, Ekubo doesn't have any of these problems. Nonetheless, I still would like to see them more because the eerie atmosphere during episode 5 that was established through this cult was startling. But on the other side, it would look weird if they suddenly became a major driving force of a big arc since the idea behind this cult never got developed properly. On the one side, not giving this cult a greater role in the arc after teasing it for almost twenty episodes feels like wasting a nice potential. Psycho Helmet Cult is used only as a tool that helps Ekubo to try to make Mob join the dark side, and I can't decide whether this is a good thing or not. This arc starts with showing us Mob's daily life and his goals for the future and evolves into a more serious event with Ekubo finally putting his plan into action. The whole first half of the season was reserved for bringing a conclusion to Psycho Helmet Cult sub-plot and Ekubo's goals that were revealed way back in the first season. And a conclusion without development is nothing but an empty shell. The only thing we have here is conclusions. There are no developments for these three subjects in Mob Psycho III. So, how does Mob Psycho 100 III solve this problem? It doesn't. We naturally need developments to conclude these, but there isn't enough time. Mob's feelings for Tsubomi always have been a driving force for Mob, but he and Tsubomi never got a meaningful interaction. The telepathy club was just a comic relief aspect, and none of its characters got enough time to shine. Psycho Helmet Cult had its moments here and there, but it never got any new elements other than being a joke cult. However, the others didn't receive any development. ![]() all! Concluding Ekubo's character arc is the easiest one to deal with because his character already received enough care in the first two seasons through his interactions with Mob. But how will we handle all of these in the final season? There are only 12 episodes, and we need developments and conclusions for We still need to deal with the Psycho Helmet Cult, the telepathy club, Ekubo himself, and Mob's feelings for Tsubomi. Although the first two are correct in one way or another, there are still jobs to do with Mob's daily life. Mob almost completed his character development, the great evil has beaten, and everyone went back to their daily lives, right? Not so much. After the events of the second season's last arc, Mob Psycho 100 seemed to reach its conclusion.
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