Mob Psycho 100 Volume 1 Paperback – November 6, 2018

i kinda wish it came packaged! nothing damaged of course, but it would be safer if it came in a small bag

Great book for a great price.

Great nothing wrong with it

Always love Mob, it's such a good story and lovely characters. And the drawings make me laugh. Always down to read it again.

I gave this as a gift and from what i can tell she likes it.

I'm one of the biggest fans of this story you could meet. This comedy reliant series is best enjoyed in comic-form, since the timing can never be off. The author, ONE, uses creative panelling and speach-bubbles right from the start that add impact the cartoon is rarely able to match. Speaking in terms of artistic ability, this is the worst volume, but ONE settles into a nice style by volume three, and you will want to own the full story! (Sixteen volumes total)The questionably legal online counterpart to this is out of order, mislabled, incomplete, and uses various translation teams.This is a far better product, even explaining what a "mob" is, which no other version of this story has.

I watched the anime and decided to pick up the manga. The art style is a touch different but the overall story is still good

I was slow to pick up on this series, because ... well, "Mob Psycho" -- obviously this is going to be a bleak, noir, violent story about a crime-cartel sociopathic killer, right? Right? --Not at all! "Mob" is the nickname of middle-school student Shigeo Kageyama (although hardly anybody actually calls him that); he has psychic and psychokinetic powers -- he can see and exorcise ghosts and spirits as well as manipulate physical objects; and the "100" in the title refers to a vaguely-defined scale measuring Shigeo's emotional turmoil and frustrations -- when they build up to level 100, his control dissolves in an "explosion".The art is ... adequate, a bit amateurish in spots. Let's just say that author ONE's drawing is not the equal of his writing.Shigeo keeps a tight lid on his feelings so as not to misuse his powers, and has effectively rendered himself an introvert and nonentity. Part of the story involves his being lobbied to join a club at his school (evidently Japanese school clubs are a strictly organized and regulated affair, and this club is about to be disbanded for lacking the minimum membership). An acquaintance introduces him to the other club members as "Shigeo Kageyama. Grade 8, Class 1. He's not on any committees. He doesn't seem to have a girlfriend. No friends at all, actually. A man with time on his hands. Salt Middle School's last remaining "go-home club" student." Shigeo offers "Yes, well, that's mostly all correct."He does have an after-school part-time job working for Reigen, a con artist and phony "psychic" who calls in Shigeo whenever he comes up against a real spirit or ghost. But Shigeo doesn't realize he's being exploited, and to maintain the facade Reigen has to, to a degree, attempt to be a genuine mentor to him.Shigeo/Mob has a stressful run-in with a happiness cult, and he acquires a sort of familiar, an unscrupulous spirit with a simple, straightforward ambition: he wants to become a god, and he thinks Shigeo and his powers may just be the means to that end.One small error, translation or otherwise: page 158, panel 3, "five minutes ago" should be "five SECONDS ago".MOB PSYCHO is a fun book, and I expect it to get better. Author 'ONE' is of course the writer of the hugely entertaining ONE-PUNCH MAN (Saitama, in that series, is sort of a polar opposite of Shigeo; fully in command of his powers to the point of boredom, and socially oblivious) and it took a little while for him to get into a perfect groove in that story. I'm looking forward to the same thing happening here.