

Like One Punch Man, Mob Psycho 100 stays true to the creator's unique, rough-and-ready art style. And when he does, things get a little crazy. Mob wants nothing more than to live a normal life, but when other people with similarly immense powers start showing up, he's got no choice but to let loose. These are the most epic anime fights of the last decade.īoth the manga and its super popular anime adaptation follow a seemingly average middle school kid called Shigeo (nicknamed Mob) as he tries to suppress his psychic powers. In shonen, main characters have always been willing to throw down, and the 2010s kept that tradition up in style.

They come to see them make new friends along the way, but most of all, they come for the epic fights. They come to see them learn new skills and put them to good use. They come to see a gifted main character on a quest fraught with adversity. Shonen (manga and anime aimed at younger boys and male teens) often gets a bad rap for being too formulaic, but the majority of fans like it that way. And when it comes to shonen, that's not necessarily a bad thing. When Miyazaki came out of retirement, it felt like normal service had been resumed. Sure, there were some strides made over the last decade (the popularity of Yuri on Ice was a step forward for gay representation in the anime industry, for example), but looking back, things didn't really change all that much. At the time, the 2010s felt like a real period of change in the world of anime. Hiyao Miyazaki released his farewell film, 2013's The Wind Rises, and Makoto Shinkai broke records with 2016's Your Name, a beautifully animated romantic drama about two teens who keep inadvertently switching bodies. This passing-of-the-torch moment dominated much of the conversation around the midpoint of the decade, but, just like he's done on several occasions over the years, the Studio Ghibli co-founder changed his mind.
