Nika Joulapour

About:

 For my final senior project, I have made a cooking visual novel inspired by the hit anime

 series Mob Psycho 100. The series revolves around the life of a middle school psychic,

 Kageyama Shigeo (also known as Mob). Mob had difficulties accepting and controlling

 his psychic powers after a spike of his emotions led him to unconsciously hurt his

 brother and others around him. Therefore Mob seeks guidance in self-proclaimed

 psychic, Reigen Arataka. Initially Reigen takes advantage of Mob solely for his powers

 and greatly underpays him with an hourly wage of ¥ 300 per hour, but later on in the

 series, he comes to have character development and greatly appreciates the boy’s

 presence in his life. MP100 follows the journey of these two tackling various exorcism

 requests, Mob learning how to reintegrate himself into a middle school social circle,

 beating a psychic terrorist organization, and eventually Reigen coming clean about his

 identity to Mob and likewise Mob accepting his powers as part of him in the final

 season. It is a shonen story about self-acceptance and acknowledging that having

 psychic powers does not make oneself “special” and better than others, that regardless

 it’s just another characteristic that makes us human at the end of the day. Despite these

 action-packed and male-oriented genres, it is a comedic anime and that is something I

 hope to “critique” rather with my visual novel. The project is called “Mob Psycho 100

 “Ramen Rush” Visual Novel”, a game that leads Mob (the player) to make ramen for

 Reigen’s birthday. As you navigate through the game with the help of main character

 Dimple, an evil spirit, you can come to 6 possible endings of how this cooking adventure

 will go. I will be incorporating a more serious take within the dialogue, critiquing the

 show through the use of comedic script, from calling out Reigen’s illegal pay to the

 underestimation of psychics (and how lethal their powers can be). Play “Ramen Rush” to see Mob   Psycho 100 in a fun and critical lens you may have never acknowledged

 before!

 The game has 6 different possible endings with multiple routes to get there. Each ending is linked to a   certain emotion (pertaining to the situation) beginning with "100%". As the series is named Mob   Psycho 100, the hundred is based on the compilation of emotions within Mob that get him to act out   with his psychic powers, each stemming from a 100% of that feeling, so I thought it would be a creative input for the game. The various endings are:

100% shame 
100% dissatisfaction 
100% pride 
100% disaster 
100% existential crisis (solved)
100% dimple