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マッシュル-MASHLE- #12
Mashle: Magic and Muscles 12: Witzige und verrückte Fantasy-Action für Fans von Magie und gestählten Muskeln!
Zauberlehrling meets Jean-Claude Van Damme!Dieser verrückte Action-Comedy-Manga vereint das Beste aus beiden Welten und entführt die Leser*innen in ein spektakuläres Abenteuer, das man so noch nie gesehen hat!Muskeln sind besser als Magie, oder?Im Reich der Magie wird der soziale Status eines Menschen durch seine magischen Fähigkeiten bestimmt. Doch tief im Wald lebt Mash Burnedead, ein junger Mann, der seine gesamte Zeit damit verbringt, seinen Körper zu trainieren. Er kann keine Magie benutzen, genießt jedoch ein friedliches Leben mit seinem Vater. Als das herauskommt, geraten beide in Gefahr. Die einzige Lö Mash wird in der Zauberschule eingeschrieben, wo er die magische Konkurrenz schlagen muss!Wird sich Mash ohne einen Funken Magie und durch reine Muskelkraft einen Weg an die Spitze bahnen können?Für Fans von One Punch Man, Mob Psycho 100, My Hero Academia und Dragon Ball!
191 pages, Kindle Edition
First published July 4, 2022
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January 18, 2024
3.5 stars.
MASHLE: Magic and Muscles is a popular manga series published in Shonen Jump that follows the story of Mash Burnedead, a magicless protagonist in a world full of magic. The manga is a comedy with a vibe akin to a mashup of One Punch Man and Harry Potter. The story is set in a world where magic is everything, and those who don’t possess it are considered weak. Mash, however, is an exception to this rule. He has no magical abilities but makes up for it with his incredible physical strength. The series is known for its unique blend of humor, action, and fantasy elements, making it a must-read for fans of the genre. The series has been praised for its engaging storyline, well-developed characters, and stunning artwork. It has also been adapted into an anime series, which has been well-received by fans.
Mash and his friends face their toughest challenge yet, which means that they have to prepare for it. Enter, the shonen manga staple, the training arc.
MASHLE: Magic and Muscles is a hilarious and action-packed manga that is sure to delight fans of shonen manga. The series features a lovable cast of characters, epic battles, and plenty of humor. If you're looking for fun and entertaining read, MASHLE is worth checking out!
MASHLE: Magic and Muscles is a popular manga series published in Shonen Jump that follows the story of Mash Burnedead, a magicless protagonist in a world full of magic. The manga is a comedy with a vibe akin to a mashup of One Punch Man and Harry Potter. The story is set in a world where magic is everything, and those who don’t possess it are considered weak. Mash, however, is an exception to this rule. He has no magical abilities but makes up for it with his incredible physical strength. The series is known for its unique blend of humor, action, and fantasy elements, making it a must-read for fans of the genre. The series has been praised for its engaging storyline, well-developed characters, and stunning artwork. It has also been adapted into an anime series, which has been well-received by fans.
Mash and his friends face their toughest challenge yet, which means that they have to prepare for it. Enter, the shonen manga staple, the training arc.
MASHLE: Magic and Muscles is a hilarious and action-packed manga that is sure to delight fans of shonen manga. The series features a lovable cast of characters, epic battles, and plenty of humor. If you're looking for fun and entertaining read, MASHLE is worth checking out!
June 27, 2023
Yeh. I don't want to read it but I want to read it.😂🤦♀️
November 9, 2023
Tiene la mejor escena sobre el consentimiento, ever.
January 13, 2025
El clásico arco del entrenamiento. Dónde el protagonista, por ser el protagonista supera unas pruebas que según el maestro tardarían décadas en completar, pero el protagonista lo hace en días, justo a tiempo para enfrentarse al jefe final. Nada nuevo.
January 19, 2024
Its genuinly Harry Potter, but Harry is lifting and not a coward
May 19, 2024
Is this Attack on Titan???
January 9, 2025
wehe domina ist wirklich tot. grr.
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November 9, 2023
Continua a essere divertente, anche se in questo volume non succede molto.
July 27, 2025
The Divine Visionary exam is over, and with the Wand of Beginnings in Innocent Zero's posession the decision has been called off. While Innocent Zero and his allies focus on preparing an attack, Mash and his friends work to strengthen themselves to fight against them. This volume is very much a transitional period between the Divine Visionary exam and the final act of the series, which will no doubtedly be where they face off against each villain one by one until Innocent Zero and his forces are gone. I thought this volume was pretty fun and cheeky compared to the rest, and I can't help but wonder if the kids are supposed to be on a break or something because they just casually have been training over the span of a month.
One exciting thing we got in this volume was the introduction of Mistress Meliadoul, who might be one of my favorite characters so far. I mentioned in my review of volume 8 that I was hoping that we would get to meet the third pupil of Adam Jobs's, and I was not disappointed. I think part of the reasonI like her so much is because of her very bizarre introduction with her chainsaw of rejuvination(?!), but I also like how, compared to other characters, her true power hasn't been shown yet. Of course we know she's even more powerful that Wahlberg, somehow, which is only expected for one of Adam's pupils, but we only see a glimmer of her skill. Wahlberg himself has had a similar buildup as well where we didn't get to see his might for quite a while. I also like her because she's just about the humblest character so far which is quite a relief after reading about 10,000 other characters who don't do anything BUT boast and brag. She's much more mysterious and collected than the rest, and I think her intense healing powers through unconventional means are quite interesting. It made me think of that one bit in Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure.
I'm also glad that we got a new powerful character who's female because there are almost no girls in this series. There's Lemon, who doesn't do much, and one (possibly two) of the Divine Visionaries who haven't even done anything yet are girls. And just about every other character that I think is female is just a guy who dresses femininely.
I thought Mash's section of the story was pretty fun even though we didn't get to see nearly as much of what he was doing as I would have liked. Mistress Meliadoul, Ochoa, and Ryoh are quite the team as they coach Mash, and Ryoh in particular was quite funny. He was the opposite of Meliadoul and essentially saw him as God's gift to man, which I would argue that he CLEARLY is. Obviously this isn't the first time he's been introduced, but I liked getting a bit of a light shone on him. I thought the chapter cover art that was designed to be a magazine cover was pretty funny. Safe to say that Dot wouldn't like him. Speaking of Dot, I also liked that him, Lance, and Finn got their own trainings as well. I would have loved to have spent more time seeing specificly what they had been going through. What did Dot and Lance do with Orter after their first challenge? And more importantly, how on Earth did they do it for several days straight? Did they take sleep breaks or is Orter a vampire or something? We saw even less of what Finn was doing with Kaldo, although his seemed more of a mental training because that's where his strenghts are clearly. Even though we didn't see much of what they were doing, I suppose we get the gist of it well enough.
The only major issue I had with this volume was that the pacing was extremely strange. For the most part we didn't really see exactly what they were all doing, which I can assume is a lot like we've seen from the earlier volumes, so I'm not too upset that we skipped parts of it. It was just strange that we would jump between characters while they were in between trainings and we'd be told that an entire month had passed. It just felt disjointed, and I cannot really grasp how Mash was fighting those guard things for almost an entire month. It just felt strange and made the chapters feel sporadic and disjointed, but I suppose that's to be expected considering that an entire month was compressed into one volume.
Although hands down the BEST part of this volume was that weird-ass poll, which isn't even part of the story. I don't know what floors me the most, the fact that the main villain of the of the series got FOURTY-SECOND, that Kaldo got second even though I swear he's barely done anything, or the fact that they clearly included every single entry, even the ones that aren't really "characters". Absolute tomfoolery, and I am here for it.
Here are a "few" of my personal favorite entries on the list:
- The magic user who made the 5 cm thick cage (actual icon)
- Margarette Macaron's fried shrimp
- The exclamation marks in Komoto Sensei's columns in the weekly magazine (!!!!!!!!!!!!!)
- The finger guillotine
- Moore Tomato (needs more votes bros name is literally Tomato)
- The racket Mash made out of the wand
- The door Mash broke in chapter 1
- The student who threatened to report Mash (I would have voted for this guy lol)
- All of Rayne's bunnies
- Cell War's banana hair
- The wand Mash broke on the cover of volume 1
- The walls of Easton Academy
- Jon Pierre's fork
- NOM NOM NOM NOM
- Komoto Sensei's parents
- The girl who said, "It's Tom! He was last year's Duelo MVP!"
I had a lot of fun with this volume, clearly, and I am really enjoying this series. I can't wait to keep reading this and seeing where this is going, especially now that Mash is currently out of the picture. It will be up to the other characters to keep things at bay until he can return, especially now that all of Innocent Zero's sons are joining the fight.
One exciting thing we got in this volume was the introduction of Mistress Meliadoul, who might be one of my favorite characters so far. I mentioned in my review of volume 8 that I was hoping that we would get to meet the third pupil of Adam Jobs's, and I was not disappointed. I think part of the reasonI like her so much is because of her very bizarre introduction with her chainsaw of rejuvination(?!), but I also like how, compared to other characters, her true power hasn't been shown yet. Of course we know she's even more powerful that Wahlberg, somehow, which is only expected for one of Adam's pupils, but we only see a glimmer of her skill. Wahlberg himself has had a similar buildup as well where we didn't get to see his might for quite a while. I also like her because she's just about the humblest character so far which is quite a relief after reading about 10,000 other characters who don't do anything BUT boast and brag. She's much more mysterious and collected than the rest, and I think her intense healing powers through unconventional means are quite interesting. It made me think of that one bit in Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure.
I'm also glad that we got a new powerful character who's female because there are almost no girls in this series. There's Lemon, who doesn't do much, and one (possibly two) of the Divine Visionaries who haven't even done anything yet are girls. And just about every other character that I think is female is just a guy who dresses femininely.
I thought Mash's section of the story was pretty fun even though we didn't get to see nearly as much of what he was doing as I would have liked. Mistress Meliadoul, Ochoa, and Ryoh are quite the team as they coach Mash, and Ryoh in particular was quite funny. He was the opposite of Meliadoul and essentially saw him as God's gift to man, which I would argue that he CLEARLY is. Obviously this isn't the first time he's been introduced, but I liked getting a bit of a light shone on him. I thought the chapter cover art that was designed to be a magazine cover was pretty funny. Safe to say that Dot wouldn't like him. Speaking of Dot, I also liked that him, Lance, and Finn got their own trainings as well. I would have loved to have spent more time seeing specificly what they had been going through. What did Dot and Lance do with Orter after their first challenge? And more importantly, how on Earth did they do it for several days straight? Did they take sleep breaks or is Orter a vampire or something? We saw even less of what Finn was doing with Kaldo, although his seemed more of a mental training because that's where his strenghts are clearly. Even though we didn't see much of what they were doing, I suppose we get the gist of it well enough.
The only major issue I had with this volume was that the pacing was extremely strange. For the most part we didn't really see exactly what they were all doing, which I can assume is a lot like we've seen from the earlier volumes, so I'm not too upset that we skipped parts of it. It was just strange that we would jump between characters while they were in between trainings and we'd be told that an entire month had passed. It just felt disjointed, and I cannot really grasp how Mash was fighting those guard things for almost an entire month. It just felt strange and made the chapters feel sporadic and disjointed, but I suppose that's to be expected considering that an entire month was compressed into one volume.
Although hands down the BEST part of this volume was that weird-ass poll, which isn't even part of the story. I don't know what floors me the most, the fact that the main villain of the of the series got FOURTY-SECOND, that Kaldo got second even though I swear he's barely done anything, or the fact that they clearly included every single entry, even the ones that aren't really "characters". Absolute tomfoolery, and I am here for it.
Here are a "few" of my personal favorite entries on the list:
- The magic user who made the 5 cm thick cage (actual icon)
- Margarette Macaron's fried shrimp
- The exclamation marks in Komoto Sensei's columns in the weekly magazine (!!!!!!!!!!!!!)
- The finger guillotine
- Moore Tomato (needs more votes bros name is literally Tomato)
- The racket Mash made out of the wand
- The door Mash broke in chapter 1
- The student who threatened to report Mash (I would have voted for this guy lol)
- All of Rayne's bunnies
- Cell War's banana hair
- The wand Mash broke on the cover of volume 1
- The walls of Easton Academy
- Jon Pierre's fork
- NOM NOM NOM NOM
- Komoto Sensei's parents
- The girl who said, "It's Tom! He was last year's Duelo MVP!"
I had a lot of fun with this volume, clearly, and I am really enjoying this series. I can't wait to keep reading this and seeing where this is going, especially now that Mash is currently out of the picture. It will be up to the other characters to keep things at bay until he can return, especially now that all of Innocent Zero's sons are joining the fight.
August 13, 2023
Mashle: Magic and Muscles - Volume 12 - Mash Burnedead and the Five Siblings
This is basically a training arc where the fights are wrapped up and the characters prepare themselves for the impending battle ahead.
Favorite Quotes out of Contest:
- Don't go.
- What horrible guys! Like, they're really playing up the villain angle.
- What a freak... our older brother's deranged. Unlike us.
- Something's following me. I'll ignore it.
- I want to go home...
- Wow. I was sure I was a goner.
- Don't fear your power. But also never give anyone a massage again...
- What a guy!!
This is basically a training arc where the fights are wrapped up and the characters prepare themselves for the impending battle ahead.
Favorite Quotes out of Contest:
- Don't go.
- What horrible guys! Like, they're really playing up the villain angle.
- What a freak... our older brother's deranged. Unlike us.
- Something's following me. I'll ignore it.
- I want to go home...
- Wow. I was sure I was a goner.
- Don't fear your power. But also never give anyone a massage again...
- What a guy!!
November 14, 2024
This volume opens with the conclusion (though to me not definitive) between Mash and Doom. This small break serves as the point in which creator Hajime Komoto has been stating for a little while now, that the story is growing closer to its conclusion. As strong as Mash is…he knows he must get much stronger in the next 30 days! Feel free to play the Rocky soundtrack in the background as you read this volume of Mashle because that’s the grit and workout you should expect to see. He���s not the only one preparing for this climactic battle. Great art and I found myself enjoying seeing everyone training and a little less one on one battles. Another solid volume in this wildly entertaining series.
November 7, 2025
TRAINING ARC TRAINING ARC
1. I have a strong guess as to what's going to happen with Finn in the final arc of this manga based on the foreshadowing of this volume, so let me write it down here to lock in my guess: I'll come back once I'm done with the series and see if I was right XD
2. I'm literally obsessed with Ryoh. Like yes king you are fabulous and powerful, you go!
3. I really like Innocent Zero's son who is obsessed with pudding. Very cute.
Onwards!!!
1. I have a strong guess as to what's going to happen with Finn in the final arc of this manga based on the foreshadowing of this volume, so let me write it down here to lock in my guess: I'll come back once I'm done with the series and see if I was right XD
2. I'm literally obsessed with Ryoh. Like yes king you are fabulous and powerful, you go!
3. I really like Innocent Zero's son who is obsessed with pudding. Very cute.
Onwards!!!
April 10, 2023
4.25/5
This volume provides some more backstory for Zero as we begin to understand the series (or at least this arcs) big bad. More worldbuilding and general character building is being built out. It’s clear that the author has created an immersive and expansive world that we are getting to see more of in these recent volumes. We’re heading toward a big fight and important plot points for this series and I’m excited to see where it goes next. So far this series has done a great job of balancing the humor with series stakes and battles.
This volume provides some more backstory for Zero as we begin to understand the series (or at least this arcs) big bad. More worldbuilding and general character building is being built out. It’s clear that the author has created an immersive and expansive world that we are getting to see more of in these recent volumes. We’re heading toward a big fight and important plot points for this series and I’m excited to see where it goes next. So far this series has done a great job of balancing the humor with series stakes and battles.
February 26, 2025
With the Wand of Beginnings stolen, and Innocent Zero preparing to take over the world in a month, Mash and his friends begin rigorous training in hopes to surviving their greatest battle yet - one they can only reach if they survive the trials ahead...Komoto will keep fans riveted with this intense entry, its endearing charm and expert slapstick a delightful balance to its rising tensions. Will Mash and his pals come out of their training in time to save the Magic Realm?
June 12, 2022
So Mashle reaches it's climax. This has been an incredibly fun series. I always thought it would run longer, but in today's Shonen Jump, 100+ chapters is still impressive. I'm interested to exactly how many volumes we have left, as all that was said by Komoto was that we were in the final arc. Regardless, I'm enjoying myself.
July 24, 2023
Mash, Lance, Dot and Finn must train hard within one month before Innocent Zero opens a world of darkness alongside his sons. Mash is in the hands of Lady Melidoul while Lance and Dot are under Orter Madl. Oh, Finn is with Kaldo and not sure what happens to Lemon. This is getting better each volume so five out of five stars.
February 9, 2024
L’univers de Mash ne cesse de me surprendre ! Hajime Komoto a une imagination débordante qui ne cesse de s’amplifier. Le personnage de Mash est constamment mis à l’épreuve et continue de s’améliorer à chaque page, chaque tome. J’ai hâte de voir certaines scènes à l’écran car elles sont énorme! Ça annonce du lourd.
June 29, 2023
"Don't just assume. Always check in with the other party about their boundaries before you act."
"But the whole world over, I am universally recognized as... THE GREATEST CREATION IN ALL OF HUMANKIND!"
The Tsunade analogue is cute.
"But the whole world over, I am universally recognized as... THE GREATEST CREATION IN ALL OF HUMANKIND!"
The Tsunade analogue is cute.
April 22, 2024
Most of our heroes are getting ready for the final show down, lots of training montages. Innocent Zero is also preparing, but with tricks up their sleeve. Mostly exposition till the end, when the fighting slowly begins.
October 18, 2024
Somewhere in the middle of the volume I had a sad thought that with Madame we've been introduced to the fourth female character in the whole series... (Excluding those in the family background flashbacks 🙄)
Also wtf happened to Domina. Dude.
Also wtf happened to Domina. Dude.
December 27, 2022
Viz chapter 101 to 109
January 26, 2023
J'attends de voir la suite, j'ai trouvé ce tome un peu en dessous des autres
January 31, 2023
Bueno, acá solo tenemos preparación para la batalla que se viene!!!
July 6, 2023
Unleash your true potential Rock…. I mean Mash!! You got this!
July 13, 2023
I just really like how easy of a read this series is, it doesn't take itself seriously and I love it!
October 13, 2023
This chapter goes back to the manga's roots by showing us a lot of hilarious scenes, especially in Meliadoul's clinic.
October 19, 2023
Quality dumb entertainment.
November 3, 2023
all the siblings was so fucking cool, ESPECIALLY delisaster and doom. renatus revol i am free this friday btw
February 24, 2024
The buildups are insane
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