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Aniplex chose 11 November, Mash Burnedead’s birthday, to unveil the first full trailer and a new key visual for Mashle: Magic and Muscles season three, which is the sort of attention to detail one usually only gets from anime marketing departments and very organised aunts. The third season, officially The Tri-Magicathlon Divine Visionary Final Exam Arc, starts on 9 January 2027 at midnight Japanese time on Tokyo MX, BS11 and other channels, and will stream on Crunchyroll. A-1 Pictures is back at the animation desk.
For anyone who missed the first two seasons, the joke is simple and has proved remarkably durable. Mash lives in a world where magic determines your worth and he has none at all, so he enrols at a wizarding school and solves every problem by being absurdly, physically strong. Wands are snapped, curses are punched, and the laws of physics are treated as a mild suggestion. It’s essentially Harry Potter if Hogwarts had admitted a Saturday-night bouncer, and it has no business being as charming as it is.
Season two wrapped up in March 2024, leaving the world with Creepy Nuts’ “Bling-Bang-Bang-Born” lodged permanently in its head. The new season picks up after Mash and his friends have seen off Innocent Zero, and sends them into the Divine Visionary Final Exam, a contest between the top students of the elite magic schools, while assassins start moving in the shadows. As exam conditions go, that’s marginally worse than a broken radiator in the sports hall.
The trailer introduces two new villains from the Walkis school: Soma Saito voices Domina Blowelive, who already had a teaser visual to himself, and Ryota Suzuki voices Lévis Rosequartz. The returning cast includes Chiaki Kobayashi as Mash, Kaito Ishikawa as Lance Crown, Reiji Kawashima as Finn Ames, Takuya Eguchi as Dot Barrett and Reina Ueda as Lemon Irvine. Behind the camera, director Tomonari Tanaka and series composer Yosuke Kuroda return, and Chiaki Furuzumi, who worked on Solo Leveling, takes over character design, so the biceps should be in safe hands.
It’s a busy time to be Mash. A live-action film is also due in March 2027, as we reported earlier this month, so January brings the cartoon and spring brings a real human being attempting to look like he has a fridge for a torso. One of those is going to be easier to pull off than the other.
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