History Recap / MobPsycho100S2E5Discord

* MinorLivingAlone: Outside of Mogamiland, Mob has two loving parents and a younger brother who adores him; here he lives entirely alone and his brother... is a stranger. That this is the case, and that he literally has no one to turn to for help, [[AdaptationExplanationExtrication is far less ambiguous in the manga]]. It's a sign of just far gone Mob is--and of how incessantly cruel the torment he undergoes--that he can't even spare the headspace to question what's happening to him.

** Mob comes to realize that not only is his immense psychic power ''not'' useless, but saving others with it can point him to the self-fulfillment he seeks. This new sense of purpose, along with his gratitude for this [[MindRape harrowing experience]], gives rise to Mob's first 'positive' emotional explosion: courage. [[{{Creator/StudioBones}} Bones]] marks the occasion by drawing the child as [[{{Bishonen}} a shoujo manga-style teenage heartthrob]] with [[RedEyesTakeWarning sparkly red eyes]]; the [[ArtShift art shift]] [[PlayedForLaughs is so drastic neither Dimple nor Mogami recognizes him]].

* BreakThemByTalking: Mogami's suffocating, wall-to-wall internal monologue within the dark playground he builds to torment Mob. The spirit alludes to crowding out the boy's subconscious thoughts--[[MindRape thereby suppressing Mob's skepticism and will]]--after Dimple helps him break free.

Minori invites the entire class to a welcome party at her father's house. Everyone except Kageyama. Cut to Mob's teacher, who slaps him hard in frustration: the child doesn't know the answer to a simple algebra problem. He orders young Kageyama-kun to remain standing for extra humiliation. The class giggles in glee; Minori finds this especially amusing.

* AndIMustScream: Minori, forced by Mogami to reenact many of her previous acts of cruelty to other students upon Mob. She is confronted with just how horrible she's been to others for much of her short life.

** Minori. She spurs her friends into tormenting Mob and laughs while they do her dirty work; in the manga she is shown to join in on the fun at least once. The [[AlphaBitch majority of the abuse she visits upon the boy is psychological]]: though she doesn't lay a hand on him herself (with the exception of dousing him in milk) her bullying is every bit as brutal as if she had.
** Minori's friends, all boys, who do her bidding. They kick the snot out of Mob for 'talking back' to her, then break his head open with a brick for protesting. In the manga, they also kick to death the stray cat Mob was feeding.

* StatusQuoIsGod: Reigen refuses to collect Asagiri's reward at the end of the episode, noting that too many people were injured and that one shouldn't accept payment they don't feel they've earned.
** Left unsaid, but heavily implied: solving his money woes forever might [[AllergicToRoutine make his life dull]] ''and'' reduce his [[LivingEmotionalCrutch dependency on Mob]]...

The nearly formless ''thing'' inside Kageyama blasts Mogami's dark playground to oblivion, awakening both children and casting Mogami out. Matsuo captures what remains of the restless former medium for his collection, thanks them, and leaves. The boy thanks Minori for teaching him a valuable lesson. In tears at this, Minori apologizes for her cruelty, thanking him in turn for his kindness.

* AndIMustScream: Minori, forced by Mogami to reenact many of her previous acts of cruelty to other students on Mob. She is confronted with just how horrible she's been to others for much of her short life.
* BarbaricBully: Minori. She spurs her friends into tormenting Mob and laughs while they do her dirty work; in the manga she is shown to join in on the fun at least once. The [[AlphaBitch majority of the abuse she visits upon the boy is psychological]]: though she doesn't lay a hand on him herself (with the exception of dousing him in milk) her bullying is every bit as brutal as if she had.

* No Sense of Humor: Reconstructed. Mob pretends not to remember Dimple after his memories come flooding back to him. It's the first joke he cracks in the entire series, marking a milestone in his emotional growth.

** Mob comes to realize that not only is his immense psychic power ''not'' useless, but saving others with it can point him to the self-fulfillment he seeks. This new sense of purpose, along with his gratitude for this [[MindRape harrowing experience]], gives rise to Mob's first 'positive' emotional explosion: courage. [[{{Creator/StudioBones}} Bones]] marks the occasion by drawing the child as [[{{Bishonen}} a ''shoujo'' manga-style teenage heartthrob]] with [[RedEyesTakeWarning sparkly red eyes]]; the [[ArtShift art shift]] [[PlayedForLaughs is so drastic neither Dimple nor Mogami recognizes him]].

* BarbaricBully: Minori. She spurs her friends to physical torment and laughs while they do her dirty work; in the manga she is shown to join in on the fun at least once. The [[AlphaBitch majority of the abuse she visits upon the boy is psychological]]: though she doesn't lay a hand on him herself (with the exception of dousing him in milk) her bullying is every bit as brutal as if she had.

* SupportingHarem: Subverted ''again''. Minori is shown with her father in the hospital at the end of the episode. While she appears to have developed a bit of a crush on Mob, who'd saved both of them and never claimed Asagiri's reward, the two children don't cross paths again.

* ArtShift / [[PrettyBoy Bishōnen]]: Mob, in 100% Courage form.
** Mob comes to realize that not only is his immense psychic power ''not'' useless, but saving others with it can point him to the self-fulfillment he seeks. This new sense of purpose, along with his gratitude for this [[MindRape harrowing experience]], gives rise to Mob's first 'positive' emotional explosion: courage. [[{{Creator/StudioBones}} Bones]] marks the occasion by drawing the child as a ''shoujo'' manga-style teenage heartthrob with [[RedEyesTakeWarning sparkly red eyes]]; [[PlayedForLaughs the art shift is so drastic neither Dimple nor Mogami recognizes him]].

* ArtShift / {{Bishonen}}: Mob, in 100% Courage form.
** Mob comes to realize that not only is his immense psychic power ''not'' useless, but saving others with it can point him to the self-fulfillment he seeks. This new sense of purpose, along with his gratitude for this [[MindRape harrowing experience]], gives rise to Mob's first 'positive' emotional explosion: courage. [[{{Creator/StudioBones}} BONES]] marks the occasion by drawing the child as a ''shoujo'' manga-style teenage heartthrob with [[RedEyesTakeWarning sparkly red eyes]]; [[PlayedForLaughs the art shift is so drastic neither Dimple nor Mogami recognizes him]].

Minori invites the entire class to a welcome party at her father's house. Everyone except Kageyama. Cut to Mob's teacher, who slaps him hard in frustration: the child doesn't know the answer to a simple algebra problem. He orders young Kageyama to remain standing for extra humiliation. The class giggles in glee; Minori finds this especially amusing.

After school, a pair of high school bullies we've seen before are mugging Mob for money he doesn't have. Ritsu walks past, refusing to intervene; they don't know each other here. We watch Minori dump a carton of milk on him in class while she mocks him. The other students' laughter and the teacher's indifference fill the air... Mob sits alone at night in a corner of his sparse and disheveled room, a haunted look in his eyes. He's endured months and months of this, daily.

Mogami is currently too distracted with other matters to attend to the real world. This allows Dimple to break the other psychics and Minori's gravely injured father free. He elects to go in after Mob to save him; Matsuo, an ex-member of Claw's 7th Division gone legitimate, gives him a power boost.

At this, Mogami's illusion evaporates, revealing a world teeming with furious spirits: the medium's diet before his suicide. Mob exorcises them as fast as they appear, but they eventually overpower him and consume his spiritual form, spawning ???%.

* AlphaBitch: Minori. It's implied that she repents.
* AndIMustScream: Minori, whom Mogami forced to reenact many of her previous acts of cruelty to other students on Mob. She is confronted with just how horrible she's been to others for much of her short life.

Mob sets a dish of milk out for a stray cat. A little kindness in a cruel world, but no kindness goes unpunished here. Minori and her gang arrive to kick him savagely in the ribs for this, but he has had enough. As Mogami finally restores his powers, the child ''explodes''. Just as the blood-soaked Mob moves to strangle one of Minori's friends, Dimple breaks through and helps him remember who he is...and whom he came to save.

* {{Brainwashed}}: Mob, downplayed. He forgets his psychic powers and all the positive details of his life, though his identity remains otherwise intact. Mogami very nearly succeeds at brainwashing him, but Mob is still nicer (and more himself) than Mogami would like. The child demands Minori and company apologize and needs additional prodding -- a brick to the head -- to finally lay hands on his tormentors.

* ArtShift / {{Bishonen}}: Mob, in 100% Courage [[PlayedForLaughs form]].
* {{Brainwashed}}: Mob, downplayed. He forgets his psychic powers and all the positive details of his life, though his identity remains otherwise intact. Mogami very nearly succeeds at brainwashing him, but Mob is still nicer (and more himself) than Mogami would like. The child demands Minori and company apologize and needs additional prodding--a brick to the head--to finally lay hands on his tormentors.

* SupportingHarem: Subverted ''again''. Minori is shown with her father in the hospital at the end of the episode. She appears to have developed a bit of a crush on Mob, who'd saved both of them and never asked for payment in return. Asagiri donates the reward to the cult that developed around Mob as thanks instead.

Minori invites the entire class to a welcome party at her father's house. Everyone except Kageyama. Cut to Mob's teacher, who slaps him hard in frustration: the child doesn't know the answer to a simple algebra problem. He orders Kageyama to remain standing for extra humiliation. The class giggles in glee; Minori finds this especially amusing.

In the world outside, a strange calm hangs over the locked room. Most of Asagiri's other guests are out cold. Dimple in Mob's body suggests abandoning the boy to his fate: it's been almost a half hour, and the teenager should have come back victorious by now. Reigen refuses, as he has more use for Mob yet. The sleazy ghost reluctantly agrees, as he can't unlock all of the teenager's psychic strength himself.

Mogami is currently too distracted with other matters to attend to the real world. This allows Dimple to break the other psychics and Minori's gravely injured father free. He elects to go in after Mob to save him. Matsuo, an ex-member of Claw's 7th Division gone legitimate, gives him a power boost.

The nearly formless ''thing'' inside Kageyama blasts Mogami's dark playground to oblivion, awakening both children and casting Mogami out. Matsuo captures what remains of the restless former medium for his collection, thanks them, and leaves. Mob thanks Minori for teaching him a valuable lesson. Minori, in tears at this, apologizes for her cruelty, thanking him for his kindness.

* AndIMustScream: Minori, whom Mogami forced to reenact her previous acts of cruelty on Mob. She is confronted with just how horrible she's been to others for much of her short life.

* VillainHasAPoint: Downplayed. Mogami is not entirely wrong in saying that the world is fundamentally unfair, nor is he wrong in his assessment that, under different circumstances, Mob's life certainly could have gone down a much darker path. But ultimately, he's just horrifically petty and selfish--far from actually helping Mob like he claims to, all he's doing is torturing Mob just so [[TheCorrupter he can gain a powerful follower]].
* WakeUpCallBoss: Mogami--the first opponent against whom Mob uses a completely positive 100%... as well as being the only one to actually overpower said 100%. Starting with him, major villains are now dramatically harder to defeat, always requiring more than simply going 100% and blasting said opponent to hell, basically because it's no longer enough.

* MindRape: Mogami's cruel attempt to gain a sympathizer in Mob. It fails in spectacular fashion, thanks to Dimple's (and Matsuo's) intervention.

* VillainHasAPoint: Downplayed. Mogami is not entirely wrong in saying that the world is fundamentally unfair, nor is he wrong in his assessment that, under different circumstances, Mob's life certainly could have gone down a much darker path. But ultimately, he's just horrifically petty and selfish--far from actually helping Mob like he claims to, all he's doing is artificially making Mob's life terrible just so he can gain a powerful follower.

The nearly formless ''thing'' inside Kageyama blasts Mogami's dark playground to oblivion, awakening both children and casting Mogami out. Matsuo captures what remains of the restless former medium for his collection, thanks them, and leaves. Mob thanks Minori for teaching him a valuable lesson. Minori, in turn, apologizes for her cruelty, thanking him for his kindness.

* YearInsideHourOutside: Literal. Mob is only trapped in Mogami's playground for about half an hour, but he endures six months of abject hopelessness inside.