History Recap / MobPsycho100S3E2TheYoukaiHunter

Three hours later, Amakusa is back and making even less sense than before. Reigen vents barely contained spleen all over this fellow, since the man isn't a client by his own admission; he needs to get to the fucking point and soon, or the phony psychic will inflict some real damage on him. The hunter relates his story at last in a format Reigen can actually parse: Amakusa needs help defeating the advancing threat of Hyakki, a group of a hundred ''yōkai'' attempting to drain the life forces of every surrounding human being in hopes of resurrecting their king. Reigen--still ready to punt the man out of his office through the window if necessary--changes tack when Amakusa sets down a hefty wad of bills in exchange for his help. Amidst all this, Mob arrives in need of some counsel. Reigen assents and bids him tag along.

After walking around the city for some time, they step inside an abandoned building--one Spirits and Such has already exorcised--that Amakusa identifies as a source of Hyakki aura. Amakusa and Reigen panic as the way out seals shut behind them. Serizawa, however, is strangely calm, while the bulk of Mob's attention lies elsewhere. Amakusa, despite being in apparent possession of some psychic ability, is outmatched when a yōkai pounces on the quartet, but Serizawa casually slices the spirit in two with a well-spun business card. More hungry ghosts, and even the Great Yōkai King's Four Generals, arise from the shadows; Serizawa's acrobatic fighting technique and the preoccupied Mob's raw strength snuff these spirits out too. The yōkai hunter watches on in awe: what kind of power is this? The Great Yōkai King himself, incensed, swells up to his full height and bears down on young Kageyama...

...Who reduces him to a pile of inert ash without even blinking. An impressed Amakusa offers employment to both psychics as yōkai hunters, but they flatly decline. Reigen can't contain his glee at his talent refusing to be poached or his disrespect for Amakusa; both cost him dearly. But the experience gives Mob ''the perfect'' costume design, and he politely takes his leave... without asking for Reigen's help, to the man's eternal surprise. The next morning, Inukawa and the other two students join Mob and pitch in on a replica of the fallen Great Yōkai King.

Mob is rightfully proud of himself for saving the day on all fronts: he came up with a good ghost concept for his class's haunted house just in time for the ''bunkasai'' ''and'' managed to convince three consummate slackers to help him build it. In the maid café, Ritsu serves two older women a pair of cutesy drinks; his misery can be heard in his voice. Against the sound of his customers' cooing over all the cute crossdressing maids, he hears Shō Suzuki's voice raised in greeting. Shō orders a soda and compliments his look in drag...

* DraggedIntoDrag: Ritsu is outraged at the prospect of wearing a dress for his class's crossdressing maid café; he feels ''everyone'' should be dressed more conservatively for the school's ''bunkasai''. At episode's end, his female customers' delight and his embarrassment in front of Shō Suzuki are PlayedForLaughs. The other boys in his class, however, seem to be thoroughly enjoying themselves in drag.

Two weeks to ''bunkasai'' day. Mob is beginning to panic at his classmates' progress; he still hasn't come up with a solution... Cut to Reigen bemoaning a decrease in traffic to Spirits and Such's gaudy website. Serizawa wants to talk about leaving work early to attend night school. Just as Reigen gives his blessing to the older psychic's request, the office door slams open. In the doorway stands a man. A man by the name of Amakusa Haruaki, proclaiming himself to be a '''yōkai'' hunter', who then commences to babble about some kind of mission he's on. Reigen is not amused. Not at this man's odd fashion sense, the real sword he's carrying, or his presumption. As he has an existing exorcism appointment on the books, he asks the strange man to wait outside.

* BodyWipe: Mob's poker face... then his right eye... then its pupil fills the screen as the gigantic, powered-up Great Yōkai King moves to crush him to pulp. The very next cut is of the King's bombed-out skull resting atop a pile of ash.

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* DissonantSerenity: Aside from Mob--who is not only more powerful than everyone else here, but quietly panicking about the upcoming ''bunkasai'' and not even fully present--Serizawa is eerily calm in the abandoned office building when the way back seals behind them. Reigen lampshades it here and lampshaded it in the second season OVA as well.
--> '''Reigen:''' You seem calm about this, Serizawa. \\

Two weeks to ''bunkasai'' day. Mob is beginning to panic at his classmates' progress; he still hasn't come up with a solution... Cut to Reigen bemoaning a decrease in traffic to Spirits and Such's gaudy website. Serizawa wants to talk about leaving work early, as he wants to attend night school. Just as Reigen gives his blessing to the older psychic's request, the office door slams open. In the doorway stands a man. A man by the name of Amakusa Haruaki, proclaiming himself to be a '''yōkai'' hunter', who then commences to babble about some kind of mission he's on. Reigen is not amused. Not at this man's odd fashion sense, the real sword he's carrying, or his presumption. As he has an existing exorcism appointment on the books, he asks the strange man to wait outside.

* AdaptationDeviation: Reigen agrees to help Amakusa for free out of self-preservation in the manga--Seasoning City has been hemorrhaging residents ever since Claw's world domination attempt; any more weirdness going down might dry up business for good. Here, Amakusa pays him a million yen for his help, but [[{{Jerkass}} Reigen shames him for throwing his weight around with money]] and is shamed himself into [[StatusQuoIsGod giving it back]].

* DraggedIntoDrag: Ritsu is outraged at the prospect of wearing a dress for his class's crossdressing maid café; he feels ''everyone'' should be dressed more conservatively for the school's ''bunkasai''. At episode's end, his female customers' delight and his embarrassment in front of Shou Suzuki are PlayedForLaughs. The other boys in his class, however, seem to be thoroughly enjoying themselves in drag.
* ImprovisedWeapon: [[ImprobableWeaponUser Serizawa's]] business card, which he clones into a sword, then later spins into a sort of lens for intensifying his attack on one of the Four Generals.

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!!!'''Japanese Title:'''

''Youkaihantaa Amakusa Haruaki Toujou! ~Hyakki no Kyoui!!~''

!!!'''Original Air Date:''' 12 October 2022

![[center:The Yōkai Hunter Amakusa Haruaki Appears! \\
~The Threat of a Hundred Demons!!~]]

(''Youkaihantaa Amakusa Haruaki Toujou! ~Hyakki no Kyoui!!~'')

Mob is rightfully proud of himself for saving the day on all fronts: he came up with a good ghost concept for his class's haunted house just in time for the ''bunkasai'' ''and'' managed to convince three consummate slackers to help him build it. In the maid café, Ritsu serves two older women a pair of cutesy drinks; his misery can be heard in his voice. Against the sound of his customers' cooing over all the ''cute'' crossdressing maids, he hears Shō Suzuki's voice raised in greeting. Shō orders a soda and compliments his look in drag...

* KabukiTheatre: Amakusa ''sings'' the tale of his quest to take down the Hyakki. The background art shifts to lushly animated ''sumi-e''[[note]]an ancient monochrome art style, painted by brush in black ink made from charcoal[[/note]] paintings, and the accompanying music evokes KabukiSounds. Reigen remarks that he can actually understand Amakusa's speech now.