Audience reviews
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xZabuzax
Mashle ended up being a huge disappointment. The characters are incredibly bland, offering almost nothing in terms of personality or development. They feel like generic templates dragged through each episode with no real purpose. The music doesn’t help either; it’s forgettable at best and downright annoying at worst, adding no energy or atmosphere to the scenes.
But the worst offender is the comedy. It’s repetitive, predictable, and painfully unfunny. The show keeps recycling the same jokes, hoping they’ll land, but they never do. Instead of feeling like a clever parody, it just comes across as lazy and uninspired.
Overall, Mashle is a boring, poorly executed anime that fails in almost every area it tries to shine in. Not worth the time.
2/10
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I actually don't understand how this series became as popular as it is. Is it bad? NO. Is it Great? NO. It is barely above mediocre?
The main protagonist doesn't really have any personality, his character traits are that he is strong and he likes cream puffs. The side characters are diverse in personality, but overall kind of generic. There are some giggle worthy moments between them, but nothing that had me dying of laughter or anything.
The story is just so uninteresting, the main protagonist is just OP, and he needs to pass magic school as the Valedictorian to prove to the world he is OP. If you think well one punch man is op and does the same thing... this is not One Punch Man, in one punch man there are character moments that make you cry and feel like the fight between the sea kin…
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Mashle: Magic and Muscles is a combination of deriving concepts from various media while attempting to capitalize on action and parody. Unfortunately, ideas explored beyond the initial premise are only surface-level. Some areas do succeed, such as the quick pacing and the amazingly ambitious soundtrack. However, cracks in the foundation start to form with generic character archetypes and formulaic backstories, uninteresting and repetitive conflict resolutions, and the commitment to questionable traits simply to be used as a gag. Moreover, the female cast is written one-dimensionally to fit a role rather than as unique individuals. The overall production quality is fine, but the writing feels uninspired.
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Overall a really mid series. Pretty much every single character is one dimensional and it gets pretty old when most of the significant characters are the same stoic type. This series feels like a magic/fantasy version of Saiki K but Saiki K does it's characters and humor better. It also feels like this series can't decide if it wants to commit to being a gag anime or being serious so I was left not knowing how to approach it.
The female characters are a joke, I don't even know why they're present in the series. Each character has their own "personal magic" and the only female character we have on the mc side is so insignificant we never even know what her personal magic is. Even the mc's roommate/friend who is just one step above insignificance to the female character gets his personal m…
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Spoiler-free review
So... Mashle isn't the worst comedy-focused shonen I've seen. That's the highest praise I can give it honestly. The anime is fine... the humor is OK for the most part (many jokes miss though). It's the same repetitive gag over and over and over though about how ridiculously strong he is and about how he shocks everyone constantly. Which makes the show kinda one-note in my opinion. Nothing is shocking or surprising or keeps me guessing, which is why this show felt kind of dull for me. The qualities that had the potential to save this show for me are the pacing (it's very fast paced... thank god for that) and the memeability of the protagonist, Mash. He makes many faces that can be used as reaction images, and that's honestly the main draw for me. Which isn't great for a…
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To start this madness, we are introduced to a world where all human beings are born with the gift of magic, but this changes when a child without this ability emerges, Mash Burnedead, a teenager full of muscles but devoid of magic. Considered an aberration, Mash takes refuge in the forest until one day he is caught and forced to attend a magic school a la Hogwarts.
"Mashle" combines references to Western works with situations and key concepts seen in other successful anime, many of them like One Punch Man. Similar to the protagonist Saitama, Mash was born without any special ability and achieves strength that surpasses any magic through training. What limits him is his nonchalance, another established element that "Mashle" adapts in its pastiche; Mash's monumental disinterest makes everyt…
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I usually don't watch such pieces from start to the end but I wanted to make my own opinion. And I have to say that I usually don't use word "overrated" but this anime is precisely that. But hey, maybe somebody can have some fun with it, it's a question of taste, right?
Let's start with what this anime even is. It's supposed to be obviously parody on Harry Potter and One Punch Man. Within labels it has parts as "comedy" or "gag humor". I really liked the concept and wanted to try it, well, anime didn't deliver some good quality entertainment...
First I would like to clarify that I didn't find this anime funny in any way. Basically a few jokes through entire season and best of them were average. All jokes are trying to build on top of the "One Punch Man moments" as OPM itself had. But thi…
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Approximately 5-6 years ago, some unnamed individual wrote a post on Facebook. It read thusly: “There are no buff wizards in Harry Potter, no gym in Hogwarts, no one does a push up at any point. I could crack Ron Weasley’s spine like a glowstick.” Hajime Koumoto-sensei must have read this one day and thought to himself, yo, hold my magic wand! Every fiber of my being is permeated by the conviction that this is the exact post that inspired him to write Mashle. You cannot change my mind.
Point and case, that’s literally the concept of the story – a gymbro enters a wizards’ school and beats up magic nerds with the power of muscles and bench pressing. It’s Harry Spotter: The Boy Who Lifted!
The premise is that every member of this fictional world is born with the ability to perform magic. Sa…
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PT-BR
eu nunca vi um anime tão bom em fazer umas piadas exageradas e escrachadas, eu do risada sempre com os bagulho absurdo que esses cara fazem, simplesmente muito bom, já li o mangá completo e agora só esperar a próxima season q vem por ai
A animação das lutas ficou impecável não poderiam ter feito melhor, a trilha sonora também fez o anime ficar melhor ainda.
Amei demais, recomendo super pra quem gosta de um humor parecido com one punch man, é sensacional
EN-US
I've never seen an anime so good at making exaggerated and ridiculous jokes, I always laugh at the absurd things these guys do, simply very good, I've already read the entire manga and now I'm just waiting for the next season to come.
The animation of the fights was impeccable, they couldn't have done better, th…
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I really did want to enjoy it, the initial setup for it was interesting enough, however Mashle is way to focused on giant fights and comedy to be anything but that. Its world building is pretty much non-existent, the characters are mostly one note, theres very little time to work on any establishing factors or even just the world itself. Within the first 12 episodes the power scaling has already gone above and out of the 'school' level, we've seen like 5 different ex-machina's that are meant to make a character cool and unique and the rules for the world, its magic and all the systems in place have never once been touched on. So if you want to watch Saitama goes to isekai bogwarts then this may be the show for you, however I couldnt get invested in the few dozen characters shown to me, esp…
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I dunno how this anime got so popular on release.
So basically you have a OnePunchMan protagonist but with a brain size of a pea in a Harry Potter setting (you have your typical characters of Ron, Dumbledore, Draco and Lucius Malfoy, ect... your broom flying lesson, the house selection hat, quiddich, Hogwarts and everything else that's not original).
This kind of concept already failed with Black Clover, having a protagonist being OP besides having "no magic", but somehow it fails even harder here, despite having to pass tests that require magic, the MC just breaks the laws of physics (which contradicts the challenge the anime impossed on him, which is the whole point of the anime) and passes them anyway by brute force. In the topic of the MC it's really unbearable having one being so dumb…
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!!English is not my first language so excuse my grammar!!
The first couple episodes were funny and exciting but then when later in the anime it began getting extremely boring. I dont know why i think its boring but it was kinda the same again and again and again. Nothing but these random fight scence that took way too long and them speaking nonsense? I think this anime just isnt really my taste which is also why i wouldnt personally recommend it. But i am sure that alot of other people enjoyed it alot. I also thought it was pretty annoying how there were no emotions. The only expressions he had was being mad (When something happened to his cheese puffs) or not caring. But again that is probably just me who likes animes with a bit more emotion.
Other than that i was okay.
Read at the sourcegabu_rieru
Because it is an anime that adapts a weekly Shounen Jump manga, I was very encouraged to give it a chance and watch it, after all, I am a big fan of Battle-Shounen anime, but the disappointment and disgust when watching this anime was one of the biggest I had in a long time.
It seemed to me that the author wanted to do a kind of "speedrun" of the genre and just threw stereotypes and extremely generic and well-known narratives. Nothing here is unique. This anime has nothing original.
The characters are extremely shallow and uninteresting with weak interactions and nothing stimulating in addition to non-existent motivations and backgrounds.
Action and world-building that feels like it was designed by a beginner.
And a horrible technical part. Definitely one of the worst anime from A-1 Pi…
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“Mashle: Magic and Muscles” is what happens when You want to write a parody but have no sense of comedy.
We follow Mash (not the awesome series from 1972… unfortunately; yes I know it was M*A*S*H but cut me some slack, that is still one of the best series ever created, with one of the best writing in television history, and I won’t waste a chance to mention it) a Young boy who can’t use magic in a world where it’s everything. After being blackmailed into becoming an exceptional student in a magic school, he has no choice but to climb the ladder and get as much recognition as he can… without magic… in a magic school. On top of keeping his special circumstances a secret at all times. Yeah… it actually sounds more awesome than it is.
This type of show doesn’t rely heavily on its plot, ins…
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One Punch Man x Harry Potter, almost to the point where it could be labeled as a ripoff. That’s just about where the concept for this show ends.
The show really is just the bare minimum you’d expect from an idea like this. There’s absolutely nothing interesting going on, and no sign of anything interesting happening in the future. It’s a gag anime through and through, which is fine, but it was made abundantly clear in the first episode that I wasn’t the target audience.
If you’re actually one of the few who’ll stick around for the story and not the lackluster comedy, however, expect new concepts and pieces of world-building being introduced simply as the author pleases, non-existent character arcs, antagonists and other obstacles that’re all overcome in the same uncreative way, and a m…
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Mashle is decidedly average in every aspect. Its characters? We’ve seen them a million times. Over-exaggerated comedy? We have that too. Plagiarism disguised as parody? ALL OVER THE PLACE. But I gotta give credit where credit is due: the animation is alright.
:)
That’s it.
Really. There is nothing more to praise Mashle for.
So now, let’s talk about the bad: The character design has no distinct quality. The OST is uninspired. The characters are shallow. The jokes get saturated and are predictable. The narrative is a textbook shounen replica. And the parody… well, let’s go into details first…
Mashle plays the parody card by not taking certain story elements seriously, but without subverting any expectations or using these elements in any meaningful or intelligent way. The parody “event…
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Borrow but improvise , is the best way to describe mashle, and In my opinion most fantasy/isekai should learn from this example.
It's been a while since we got a good parody anime with a good setting which was able to distinguish itself rather than try to cash in on a particular type, we have had wannabe konosuba clones and wannabe one punch man clones but they teen to forget that even if they are able to feed off of a starved for content audience they will inevitably be forgotten since there is already something similar which is in the store.
Mashle by all means is kind of a mixed bag of knockoffs , and its quite plain to see.
We have mash who is clearly an inspiration and closely resembles saitama in his unassuming demeanor and lack of emotions. We also have a very clearly harry potte…
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In the realm of endless AniManga content that we've been consuming over the last 20 odd years or so, certain series have stood out for one reason or another. Take mangaka Tatsuki Fujimoto's Chainsaw Man for example: it's grotesque; it's full-on intense action; and above it, we all simp the hell out of Makima for the woof effects. Now we switch gears to mangaka Shuhei Miyazaki's Boku to Roboko a.k.a Me and Roboco, which is a parody manga that makes fun of all of the IPs that it can get its hands on. And have you ever posed this question in your mind: "Hmm, if there is an abridged version of the two Weekly Shonen Jump works, what will that end result end up looking like?" And boy, have I got the answer for you! It's yet another Weekly Shonen Jump work called Mashle: Magic and Muscles, made b…
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In this round of Spring, A-1 Pictures only has a single competitor against some of the hyped anime, fighting the likes of Oshi no Ko, Jigokuraku, Demon Slayer, and Production I.G's fantastic apocalyptic anime, Tengoku Daimakyou. So, when you hear that they're adapting a gag humor about a buff boi enrolling in a magic academy, your first thoughts are "This is just One Punch Man infused with Harry Potter lore." Welcome to Mashle, a magical action about a boy brute-forcing through every adversity being launched in the most absurd way possible.
Enter Mash Burnedead, the main protagonist of this 'comedy' story, as he initially was forced to enroll in an academy where he's always at risk of being exposed as a human without magic, he would later put himself on the line to fight back against the…
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Parody anime can be a hit or miss. Tropes of various settings in anime or live action settings are made fun of, but in order to stand out, it has to nail its comedy, and while comedy is always subjective, this one just didn’t nail it, all the time. It obviously is an attempt at parody of magic academies like Hogwarts, but unfortunately, it just fails to stand out at all in most ways. Perhaps you’ll think I’m “taking a parody anime too seriously”, but when most of the characters are the most stuck-up jerks with little meaningful depth, there just wasn’t much to enjoy. To be honest, this kind of feels like a generic isekai or fantasy anime in a way, with the main character having none of the powers that the people around him have, but still ends up overpowering everyone in some way or anothe…
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