List of Mashle episodes
Mashle: Magic and Muscles is an anime television series based on the manga series of the same title by Hajime Kōmoto. The series was announced in July 2022. It is produced by A-1 Pictures and directed by Tomoya Tanaka, with scripts written by Yōsuke Kuroda, character designs by Hisashi Toshima, and music composed by Masaru Yokoyama.[1] It aired from April 8 to July 1, 2023, on Tokyo MX and other networks.[2][3][lower-alpha 1] The opening theme song is "Knock Out" by Taiiku Okazaki, while the ending theme song is "Shū Cream Funk" (シュークリーム・ファンク, "Cream Puff Funk") by Philosophy no Dance.[3] According to the official website of the series, it will be a "complete" anime adaptation.[4]
Key visual of the series
A second season was announced after the airing of the twelfth episode. It is set to premiere in January 2024.[5]
Aniplex of America revealed an English version of the announcement video at their Anime Expo panel on July 3, 2022.[6] On February 21, 2023, Crunchyroll announced that they would stream the series;[7] an English dub premiered on May 26 of the same year.[8] Medialink licensed the series in Asia-Pacific and streamed on Amazon Prime Video.[9]
Series overview
Episode list
Season 1 (2023)
| No. | Title | Directed by [lower-alpha 2] | Written by [lower-alpha 2] | Storyboarded by [lower-alpha 2] | Original air date [10][lower-alpha 1] | |
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| 1 | "Mash Burnedead and the Body of the Gods" Transcription: "Masshu Bāndeddo to Kitae Nukareta Kin'niku" (Japanese: マッシュ・バーンデッドと鍛えぬかれた筋肉) | Aika Ikeda | Yōsuke Kuroda | Tomoya Tanaka | April 8, 2023 | |
| In the Magic Realm all humans can use magic, possessing black marks on their faces as proof of God’s gift. Regro Burnedead lives in a forest with his airheaded, magic-less teenage son Mash. Regro raises Mash in isolation because Mash would be hated if people knew, so instead he trained Mash’s physical abilities, giving him superhuman strength and athleticism. Against Regro’s instructions Mash visits the city to buy cream puffs, causing many to notice he is Unmarked. Due to his unfamiliarity with people Mash insults police-officers Terry and his boss Brad, who try to arrest Mash since the Unmarked are hated by God and should be executed as threats to magical society. Regro, who found Mash abandoned as a baby, refuses to give him up. Mash defeats Brad, using his ridiculous strength to simply slap away spells cast at him. Brad offers Mash a deal; enter magic academy and graduate as the top ranked student, earning the title Divine Visionary, to prove God accepts him, or Brad will report Mash to the government who will hunt them their entire lives. To keep Regro safe Mash agrees to attend the academy. | ||||||
| 2 | "Mash Burnedead and the Mysterious Maze" Transcription: "Masshu Bāndeddo to Fushigina Meiro" (Japanese: マッシュ・バーンデッドと不思議な迷路) | Masakazu Obara | Yōsuke Kuroda | Masakazu Obara | April 15, 2023 | |
| Brad provides Mash a fake Mark so he can attend Easton Academy’s entrance exam. Examiner Claude dislikes Mash, mistaking his airheadedness for laziness. Mash passes the magical demonstrations, confusing Claude that Mash can somehow lift boulders and run on water without using spells. For the last test the applicants must escape a trap filled maze. Mash encounters Lemon, a shy girl who sabotages Mash on purpose. Lemon is confronted by a monster but Mash saves her, reassures her, then escapes the maze by simply smashing through the walls. Lemon, having mistaken Mash’s reassurance and kindness as a marriage proposal, reveals Claude took advantage of her poverty to force her to sabotage Mash. Claude is disciplined by Headmaster Wahlberg who gives Mash a test of resolve; falsely suggesting Regro would die if he failed. Mash allows himself to be injured to save Regro, passing the exam. Mash meets his roommate Finn, who is wary of someone as odd as Mash, but does helpfully explain that to become a Divine Visionary Mash must collect the most reward coins among their year group by consistently scoring the highest on exams, research projects, club activities and even popularity with classmates. | ||||||
| 3 | "Mash Burnedead and the Baleful Bully" Transcription: "Masshu Bāndeddo to Okorase Chaikenai Hito" (Japanese: マッシュ・バーンデッドと怒らせちゃいけない人) | Tsuyoshi Tobita | Yōsuke Kuroda | Tsuyoshi Tobita | April 22, 2023 | |
| Mash draws attention from Lloyd, a bully who openly tortures his classmates due to his father’s position in the Bureau of Magic, and his friendship with Easton’s vice-principal Farman. Mash’s belongings are secretly vandalised while Lloyd continues bullying him, though Mash does not get upset, angering Lloyd further. Finn, forced to vandalise Mash’s belongings by Lloyd, refuses to vandalise anything else, so Lloyd beats him. Mash protects Finn by slamming Lloyd’s head into the floor and is expelled by Farman. Reasoning it cannot get worse Mash buries Farman in a hole, pointing out he can turn up any time and bury him again as often as he wants and no magic can stop him. The Bureau of Magic insist on Mash’s expulsion but he is protected by Wahlberg who is increasingly tired of people like Lloyd corrupting the government and society. Instead he offers Mash his full support in legitimately gaining the title of Divine Visionary. Mash’s defeat of Lloyd makes him popular so overbearing student Tom insists he join the Duelo team, a popular sport played on flying broomsticks that rewards coins for winning matches. Mash is unsure what to do since he cannot use magic to fly. | ||||||
| 4 | "Mash Burnedead and the Challenging Magic User" Transcription: "Masshu Bāndeddo to Tsuyome no Mahōtsukai" (Japanese: マッシュ・バーンデッドと強めの魔法使い) | Atsushi Usui | Yōsuke Kuroda | Atsushi Usui | April 29, 2023 | |
| Tom is fouled by the opposing captain. Angered, Mash fakes flight by kicking the air so fast his legs act like helicopter blades, along with the bizarre ability to throw such a powerful curve ball it returns to Mash like a boomerang, allowing him to score a record breaking 999 points. Mash is rewarded with a silver coin and quits the team. Classmate Lance Crown traps Finn, Tom and Lemon in a small bottle to force Mash to duel him, wagering silver coins on the victor. Lance possesses two Marks signifying his superior magical strength. Mash is crushed by Lance's gravity magic but smashes the ground beneath their feet, causing Lance to stumble and drop a picture of his sister Anna. Lance believes Mash is foolish for prioritizing friends over coins. Flashbacks show Anna has a disease eating her magic; once it is gone the Bureau will execute her as an Unmarked, so Lance's goal is to become divine visionary and protect her, even if he has to take other people's coins. Mash steals the bottle with super speed, causing Lance to realize Mash values friends like he values Anna. Lance admits defeat and rewards Mash a silver coin. Mash is unsure if he could have beaten Lance in a real fight. | ||||||
| 5 | "Mash Burnedead and the Unpopular Classmate" Transcription: "Masshu Bāndeddo to Motenai Dōkyūsei" (Japanese: マッシュ・バーンデッドとモテない同級生) | Yuki Watanabe | Yōsuke Kuroda | Yuki Watanabe | May 6, 2023 | |
| The academy splits students into three dormitories based on personality; Adler for bravery, Orca for intelligence, Lang for ambition. Mash, Finn and Lance are all Adler. Lance finds Mash and Finn have not done their Potions homework and, unwilling to let them embarrass Adler, decides to help. First they pacify screaming mandrake plants with sleep magic, except Mash who slaps his unconscious. Somehow Mash’s potions always produce cream puffs. Lang dormitory decide to steal Adler members coins during off-campus forest class. Dot, a powerful but idiotic Adler student, is jealous when Lemon ignores him for Mash. Students are asked to exterminate forest scorpions for coins. A Lang student named Silva tries to provoke Mash. Dot saves a girl named Lauren from a boy attacking her, but she turns out to be a manipulative student who can enchant any man into her slave if he is even slightly attracted to her. She is furious when Mash is immune due to his total disinterest in her. She nonetheless sends Dot to fight Silva. Lance, who has gotten stuck with the useless Finn and Lemon, wonders how Mash is doing. Silva badly beats Dot, gloating about his victory, only to accidentally make Mash drop his precious creampuff. | ||||||
| 6 | "Mash Burnedead and the Magic of Iron" Transcription: "Masshu Bāndeddo to Tetsu no Mahō" (Japanese: マッシュ・バーンデッドと鉄の魔法) | Aya Ikeda | Yōsuke Kuroda | Aya Ikeda | May 13, 2023 | |
| Silva wagers that if Dot survives ten hits from his Iron Magic he will leave Lauren alone. Dot somehow withstands all ten but Lauren reveals she was Silva’s partner all along. Mash steps in to take on the ten hit challenge and avenge his ruined cream puff. Silva obliges but Mash crushes his iron into powder and delivers two devastating punches to Silva, then calmly informs Silva under the ten hits rule he will punch him a further eight times. Silva panics until a forest scorpion appears he hopes will kill Mash, but he simply swats it away. Silva surrenders so Lauren attempts a final seduction, but Mash gives her a bridging German suplex into the floor. Dot grudgingly thanks Mash then resumes their one-sided rivalry. Lance tells Mash about Lang’s secret leaders, Magia Lupus, seven noble students obsessed with stealing coins to prevent commoners getting government jobs or becoming Divine Visionaries. With a coin from Silva and two from the scorpion Mash’s five silvers merge into one gold, so Lance advises him to avoid Lang. Abel, leader of Magia Lupus, punishes Silva by turning him into a doll. Mash, failing to heed Lance’s warning, blunders right into Magia Lupus headquarters and bluntly asks why Abel is talking to a doll. | ||||||
| 6.5 | "Mash Burnedead and the Mysterious Letter" Transcription: "Masshu Bāndeddo to Fushigi na Tegami" (Japanese: マッシュ・バーンデッドと不思議な手紙) | Unknown | Unknown | TBA | May 20, 2023 | |
| Mash sends a letter home to his father narrating his experiences at the academy so far, serving as a recap of episodes 1 to 6. | ||||||
| 7 | "Mash Burnedead and the Puppet Master" Transcription: "Masshu Bāndeddo to Ningyō no Mahōtsukai" (Japanese: マッシュ・バーンデッドと人形の魔法使い) | Naoaki Shibuta | Yōsuke Kuroda | Jōji Furuta | May 27, 2023 | |
| Abel wants to return the world to a “survival of the fittest” mentality, as “equality for all” means no opportunity for strong people to advance. He uses his dolls to steal Mash’s gold coin. Mash discovers cutting their strings returns the dolls to humans, freeing Silva. Abel realises Mash used super fast sleight of hand to swap the coin he stole with a button, surprising him. Silva is confused that Mash saved him just because it was the right thing to do. Lemon reveals Mash has Adler’s only gold coin, but Lang has fifteen. Mash and Lance are later attacked by Magia Lupus members Sixth Magic Fang Olore, who transforms into a shark, and Seventh Magic Fang Anser, who controls a magical shuriken, wagering gold coins on who wins. Mash is sent to Olore’s underwater pocket dimension to fight Olore. Lance crushes Anser and his shuriken with gravity magic. Mash swims at over 10 kilometres an hour and knocks Olore unconscious. Lance claims their gold coin before they are retrieved by Second Magic Fang Abyss, a masked Magia Lupus who can negate people’s spells and moves faster than Mash can punch. After leaving he realizes Mash did manage to crack his mask and wonders if Mash is as unique as him. | ||||||
| 8 | "Mash Burnedead and the Wolves of Magic" Transcription: "Masshu Bāndeddo to Ōkami no Mahōtsukai" (Japanese: マッシュ・バーンデッドと狼の魔法使い) | Ryō Nakano | Yōsuke Kuroda | Ryō Nakano | June 3, 2023 | |
| Lance decides they should attack Lang at their dorm, even though dorm locations are strict secrets. Tom and a dozen other students experience a nightmare of being trapped and awaken almost totally drained of magic. Lemon gives Mash a cream puff plush toy she made as a lucky charm. Lance is certain Magia Lupus are responsible so he, Mash, Finn and Dot patrol the school overnight and discover Lemon turned into one of Abel’s dolls. They follow her to a concealed door and, after Lance and Dot fail to open it magically, Mash simply tears it off its hinges. They find an underground arena where a Lang student, Shuen Getsuku, offers to duel them on the orders of Magia’s Third Fang. Dot decides to duel. Headmaster Wahlberg is warned by the Bureau of Magic six death row prisoners recently escaped, assisted by Innocent-Zero, Dot defeats his opponent but a spell separates the four to make them easier to defeat. Lance faces Third Fang Wirth. Finn and Dot jointly face Fifth Fang Love and Fourth Fang Milo. Mash faces Abyss who has realised Mash is magic-less but sympathises with him as his power to negate spells is similarly despised by magic society. | ||||||
| 9 | "Mash Burnedead and the Accelerated Battle" Transcription: "Masshu Bāndeddo to Kasoku Suru Tatakai" (Japanese: マッシュ・バーンデッドと加速する戦い) | Keisuke Watanabe | Yōsuke Kuroda | Tomoya Tanaka | June 10, 2023 | |
| Mud Magic user Wirth invites Lance to join Magia Lupus, claiming it will make Lance stronger than Adler could. Lance refuses, believing Wirth is weak for relying on others for strength. Wirth summons mud demon Mudero. Lance, having figured out the damage absorbing properties of Wirth’s mud, manipulates gravity to pull Mudero apart. Wirth is defeated but Lance sympathises with him and respects the effort he put into training. Abyss cuts Mash several times and reveals a relic is draining Lemon’s magic; in 30 minutes she will become magicless permanently. Abyss impales Mash, but by tensing his stomach muscles he prevents the sword being pulled out and head-butts Abyss, breaking his mask, revealing his Evil-Eye which is despised by magic society for its magic nullifying power. Abyss casts a spell that makes Mash move slower. Mash smashes the ground, limiting the places Abyss can move, and defeats him with a German Suplex. Abyss despises his Evil-Eye which his parents tried to kill him for, and now all he has is his loyalty to Abel. Mash offers to be his friend since to him the Evil-eye isn’t scary so there is no possibility he would ever hate him. Abyss is certain even Mash would come to hate him one day but warns Mash he hasn’t seen Abel’s true power yet. Mash decides to beat up Abel anyway then get cream puffs with Abyss. | ||||||
| 10 | "Mash Burndead and the Divine Visionary" Transcription: "Masshu Bāndeddo to Kami No Senkensha" (Japanese: マッシュ・バーンデッドと神の先見者) | Masakazu Obara | Yōsuke Kuroda | Masakazu Obara | June 17, 2023 | |
| An Adler dorm prefect follows directions on a note and finds the concealed door. Love, an emotionally unstable Tornado magic user, decides to kill Dot from jealousy when he claims to be engaged to Lemon. Dot creates a smokescreen to try steal her wand but is trapped inside a tornado. Love reveals Milo set a trap on the concealed door; unless they defeat Milo in 30 minutes Mash will turn to stone. Dot remembers his sister telling him it’s ok to fight back, especially to protect a friend. He breaks free of the tornado, revealing under his headband is the warding cross Ira Kreuz, meaning he has the innate ability to increase his magic power based on his emotional state. Love is so scared of his raging power she surrenders. Milo, a Stone magic prodigy, is instantly defeated by the Adler prefect, Divine Visionary Rayne Ames, a Sword magic user and Finn’s older brother. Love escapes while Rayne encounters Mash and realises he is the student Wahlberg told him he could trust. He too warns Mash about Abel but also informs him if he defeats Abel and wins all his stolen coins Mash will instantly be a candidate to be the newest Divine Visionary. Rayne continues with his own mission while Mash finally reaches Abel. | ||||||
| 11 | "Mash Burndead and the Survival of the Fittest" Transcription: "Masshu Bāndeddo to Jakuniku Kyōshoku" (Japanese: マッシュ・バーン デッドと弱肉強食) | Unknown | Unknown | TBA | June 24, 2023 | |
| Abel takes control of Mash to make him kill himself, but he just snaps the magic strings. Abel instead summons doll-Finn, reasoning Mash won’t hurt a friend, but Mash snaps his strings by throwing his gold coin at them using his curveball technique. Mash succeeds in kicking Abel in the face, but Abel manages to fully turn Mash into a doll. He tries to take his coin but finds only a cream-puff, followed by doll-Mash punching him from self-preservation instinct overriding the magic, returning him to normal. Infuriated Abel summons Harm-Puppet, his strongest doll, but again Mash smashes the doll, destroys its strings and smashes Abel’s head into the floor. Abel recalls his mother was a kind woman who tried to help the less fortunate, until a commoner killed her just for being a noble, leading to Abel’s absolute belief that the weak deserve to be used. He nonetheless admits Mash defeated him, surrenders his coins and frees every student he turned into dolls including Finn, Lemon and Dot but Lance remains missing. Elsewhere, Rayne finds Lance is actually a disguised member of Innocent Zero searching the school for something, but since Abel has failed to find it he rushes off to kill Abel, leaving Rayne to fight cannibalistic serial killer Jon Pierre. | ||||||
| 12 | "Mash Burndead and the Magic Mirror" Transcription: "Masshu Bāndeddo to Mahō no Kagami" (Japanese: マッシュ・バーンデッドと魔法の鏡) | Unknown | Unknown | TBA | July 1, 2023 | |
| The Innocent Zero mage arrives to kill Abel. Mash obliviously covers him in cream due to a poorly timed sneeze, bewildering everybody. The mage realises with some disgust that Mash is who he is looking for. Abyss is almost killed saving Abel, with the mage realising he only missed a fatal blow with his Carbon magic because Mash threw a perfectly aimed rock at his wand. Abel is confused why Abyss tried to save him. Mash points out Abyss was probably grateful Abel accepted him when nobody else did. Abel remembers his mother telling him the importance of empathy and distracts the mage, allowing Mash to punch him only to find his skin protected by indestructible carbon. Refusing to believe Mash is using physical strength only the mage gloatingly uses a Spell-flection Mirror to reflect Mash’ spells back at him, but Mash simply smashes it. This unintentionally reveals to everyone that Mash has only used physical strength since joining the academy because he is Magic-less. The mage reveals he is Cell War before teleporting away. Abel takes Abyss to the infirmary. Mash’s friends decide to keep his secret, until they remember Abel’s 100 freed dolls are human again and heard everything, meaning Mash’ secret is exposed. Cell reports to his father he has finally located Mash. | ||||||
Notes
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