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Mashle: Magic and Muscles Season 3's New Video Unveils More Cast & Staff, January 9 Debut
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Aniplex presented the first full promotional video, a new key visual, a character visual, and a birthday visual for Mashle: Magic and Muscles - Tri-Magicathalon Divine Visionary Final Exam Arc, the third season based on Hajime Kōmoto's Mashle: Magic and Muscles manga, on Wednesday. (Wednesday is also Mash's birthday.) The video announces more cast and staff members, and the January 9 premiere for the new season.
The newly announced cast members are:
- Sōma Saitō as Domina Blowelive
- Ryōta Suzuki as Lévis Rosequartz
The newly announced staff members are:
- Assistant Director: Kazuya Ishiguri
- Sub-Character Design: Kento Toya
- Prop Design: Akane Hirose, Yutori Sugiura.
- Monster Design: Mayuko Yamamoto
- Color Key Artist: Azusa Sasaki
- Art Setting: Hideyasu Narita
- Art Director: Ayano Okamoto
- Compositing Director of Photography: Akihito Suzuki
- CG Director: Manabu Asakawa
- Editing: Masato Yoshitake
- Sound Director: Satoshi Motoyama
- Sound Effects: Yui Andō
- Sound Production: INSPION Edge
The season will premiere on the Tokyo MX, BS11, Gunma TV, and Tochigi TV channels on January 9 at 24:00 (effectively, January 10 at midnight). It will also run on 10 other channels in Japan, as well as ABEMA, d Anime Store, and other streaming platforms.
Returning cast members include:
- Chiaki Kobayashi as Mash Burnedead
- Kaito Ishikawa as Lance Crown
- Reiji Kawashima as Finn Ames
- Reina Ueda as Lemon Irvine
- Takuya Eguchi as Dot Barrett
Confirmed returning staff members include director Tomoya Tanaka at A-1 Pictures, series script supervisor and scriptwriter Yōsuke Kuroda, and composer Masaru Yokoyama. Chiaki Furuzumi (chief animation director and sub-character designer for Solo Leveling both seasons) is replacing Hisashi Higashijima as the character designer.
The anime's first season premiered in Japan in April 2023 and aired for 12 episodes. Crunchyroll streamed the anime as it aired, and it streamed an English dub. The second season premiered in January 2024 and aired for 12 episodes. Crunchyroll again streamed the series as it aired and streamed an English dub.
The overall anime project is listed as a "complete" anime adaptation. Crunchyroll will stream the third season.
Both Viz Media's Shonen Jump service and Shueisha's MANGA Plus service published the manga digitally in English. Viz Media is also releasing the manga in print. Shueisha describes the manga:
This is a world of magic where magic is used for everything. But deep in the forest exists a young man who spends his time training and bulking up. He can't use magic, but he enjoys a peaceful life with his father. But one day, his life is put in danger! Will his muscular body protect him from the magic users who are out to get him? Powerfully trained muscles crush magic as this abnormal magical fantasy begins!
The series launched in Weekly Shonen Jump magazine in Japan in January 2020, and ended in July 2023. Shueisha published the manga's 18th and final compiled book volume, as well as a fanbook, in October 2023. The franchise also includes several novels and two stage play adaptations.
Mackenyu Maeda is starring in a live-action film adaptation that will open on MArch 19, 2027.
Mashle: Muscle Puzzle, a smartphone puzzle game in the franchise, launched in April 2025.
Sources: Mashle: Magic and Muscles anime's website, Comic Natalie
