Kodoani.com – Episode 12 in the anime adaptation of the manga Mashle: Magic and Muscles Hajime Kōmoto’s anime ended Saturday with the announcement that the second season will premiere next January. The new season will include Shinkakusha Kōho Senbatsu Shiken-Hen (Divine Eye Selection Exam Arc).
The anime premiered in Japan on April 7.
Tomonari Tanaka directed the anime at A-1 Pictures. Yousuke Kuroda is in charge of the series’ scripts, and Higashijima Hisashi is designing the characters. Masaru Yokoyama composed the music. Taiiku Okazaki will perform the opening theme song “Knock Out” and the group Philosophy no Dance will perform the ending theme song “Shū Cream Funk” (Cream Puff Funk).
The anime is listed as a “complete” anime adaptation.
The manga entered its final arc with its 12th compiled book volume, published in July 2022. Shueisha published the manga’s 16th volume on April 4.
This is a world of magic. This is a world where everyone is proficient at using magic. In a deep, dark forest in this magical world, there lived a boy who was dedicated to training. His name is Mash Burnedead, and he has a secret. He cannot use magic.
All he wants is to live a peaceful life with his family, but one day people suddenly start trying to kill him and somehow he finds himself enrolled in the Magic School. art. There, he aims to become a “Divine Visionary”, the elite of the elite. Will his ripped muscles stand up to the best and brightest of the wizarding world?
The curtain opens to this strange magical fantasy in which the power of being activated will crush any spell.
The series launched in Weekly Shonen Jump in Japan in January 2020. The series also includes two novels and a stage play adaptation.