Episode 19

"Cornered ~True Identity~" is the 29th of the Mob Psycho 100 anime adaptation, and the seventh episode of the second season.

Synopsis
After splitting up with Mob, Reigen starts doing a lot of the jobs on his own. He then gets an offer to appear on a TV program. Reigen is ecstatic and accepts the offer, but this was all a trap set by Kirin Jodo, the president of the Rising Sun Spiritual Union. Jodo confronts him during the live filming of the show and the fact that Reigen is a fraud comes to light. Reigen gets bashed from all sides and ends up having to hold a press conference...

Plot
Due to the hoax, Reigen is revealed to be fraudulent and is completely humiliated. Rumours about him being a fraudster increase and his old customers even create a group of Reigen's "victims". Mob eventually hears the news but doesn't get worried. He believes it was all his master's plan to get even more famous. Eventually, Reigen is hunted down by reporters and detectives hired by TV and magazines, and he is forced to explain himself at a press conference. The night before the conference he tries to build up a plan to confront the media. Even so, when the conference finally gets underway, he finds himself backed into a corner and begins to mock the media, claiming that they have no proof that he was not a psychic. After a while he is asked the question of why he entered the supernatural business at all. Reigen thinks back three years to when he first met Mob, realising that it was Mob's psychic powers that inspired him. Regretting that he had only used Mob he smiles at the camera and says "You have grown up" whereupon the whole conference building starts to shake and cameras begin to hover. The media is freaked out, believing that it was Reigen's doing, and accuses him. Afterwards Reigen meets up with Mob and Dimple, asking why they came. Mob answers that there was no particular reason, but Reigen still asks him if he now knows his true identity, after what the media discovered. Mob simply answers that he knew Reigen's true identity all along, that he was a "good person".

Anime and Manga Differences

 * The short conversation between Reigen and the paparazzi is omitted.
 * The scene where Mob asks Mameta Inukawa about more details on Reigen's situation is omitted.

Notes and Trivia

 * The episode doesn't have the usual ending, there are normal scenes with music in the background.