Mashle: Shinkakusha Kouho Senbatsu Shiken-hen

After Mash Burnedead's clash with Magia Lupus, the secret about his powers is now out in the open. The short-lived celebration ends when the Bureau of Magic summons Mash before an audience of Divine Visionaries, who collectively decree Mash should reap the consequences and die. However, an evil shadow organization called Innocent Zero hijacks the inquiry to demand that Mash be kept alive.

Mash proves that he is capable of dealing with Innocent Zero, but the Divine Visionaries' verdict remains unchanged. Luckily, Mash finds unexpected allies in Divine Visionary Rayne Ames and Headmaster Wahlberg Baigan, and they successfully defer his execution until Innocent Zero is defeated. Mash is now allowed to live under one condition: he must be selected as the Divine Visionary candidate by the year's end.

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Burnedead, Mash Main

Kobayashi, Chiaki Japanese

Crown, Lance Main

Ishikawa, Kaito Japanese

Barrett, Dot Main

Eguchi, Takuya Japanese

Irvine, Lemon Main

Ueda, Reina Japanese

Ames, Finn Main

Kawashima, Reiji Japanese

Ames, Rayne Supporting

Kaji, Yuuki Japanese

Razor, Abyss Supporting

Nanami, Hiroki Japanese

Walker, Abel Supporting

Umehara, Yuuichirou Japanese

Mádl, Orter Supporting

Ono, Yuuki Japanese

Macaron, Margarette Supporting

Koyasu, Takehito Japanese

Lu, Xiana Producer

Tanaka, Tomoya Director

Motoyama, Satoshi Sound Director

Miyamoto, Yukihiro Episode Director

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Sep 28, 2024

MelioDasOfir

Recommended

*No spoilers in the review*

I can't understand people who don't like the series, especially season 2, season 1 has its "charm", maybe it's less action than the second season but it shows the plot perfectly and what's going to continue for the next seasons, season 2 itself is very excellent in terms of action, Presentation of characters (I really connected with the characters) The conclusion is that after the second or third episode you have to give her a chance to get into it. Personally, it's hard for me to see any downsides because I loved and enjoyed the season so much.
Overall I give the ... second season a 9.4/10 masterpiece.

Reviewer’s Rating: 10

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Aug 22, 2024

Shirogari

Mixed Feelings

In the second season of mashle the story mostly strays away from being a Harry Potter parody and starts doing its own thing. Whether this is a good or bad thing is up to you.

The main storyline in the anime is quite interesting still. The world as a whole resists Mash's existence and he has to contend with all kinds of different people, ranging from powerful to peasant, demanding his execution. The discussions that take place around whether Mash should be allowed to live are often genuinely interesting but it is also cringe when his friends stand up for him because of how little ... of a personality they have. The fights are also still neat but they are not frequent enough, don't feature mash enough and suffer from characters narrating every single action that happened, often saying the same thing in multiple different ways, which drags out fights and makes them boring. In lots of fights Mash isn't even present all that much because of the excessive narration and fights ending quickly after he appears.

The excessive narration makes it feel like the anime treats you like a recently lobotomised person, unable to understand the most simple concepts who needs to be handheld throughout the entire fight. They then further insult your intelligence by listing off some incorrect animal trivia that can be proven wrong using a quick google search and repeat the words "noblesse oblige" around 50 times like a toddler that just learned a new word. The most outlandish claim in the anime was that Mash was only able to dodge an attack at the speed of sound because he was touching a wall and sound travels through solids faster than it does through air. This would be a smart way to explain him dodging the attack were it not for the fact that Mash could literally see his opponent and since light travels around 50000x as fast as sound does through a solid, this entire explanation is nothing short of bullshit. Basically, don't think too deeply about anything that this anime says if you do watch it.

The characters are still extremely one-dimensional and the humor isn't good. A guy saying the word bamboo over and over is what I'd expect from a tv-show made for six year olds. The one-dimensional characters are also problematic when there's supposed to be emotional speeches about why Mash should be allowed to live and instead it's just the character whose only trait is being in love with Mash saying something cringy.

The animation was good and the anime looked nice. The opening a banger and the music in the anime was good too.

Overall this anime can be fun. If you enjoyed the previous season and liked the characters then you can enjoy this season too. Personally however the humor just wasn't funny to me and the story and sparse fights that did involve mash couldn't make up for the useless narration and cringe or incorrect moments.

Reviewer’s Rating: 6

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Oct 8, 2024

Resting_Bonfire

Not Recommended

Mashle: Shinkakusha Kouho Senbatsu Shiken-hen

Another example of how a good comedy doesn't need a serious or real plot.

Magic and Muscles was one of the most creative series you can find and definitely something many would have wished for. We have a world very similar to Harry Potter, a silly and super strong protagonist and perfectly spiced macabre silly humour.

That was the recipe for success, nothing more. The writer should have kept exactly what we had in the first season. The pacing was decent, the story was amusing and everything had a well-built joke at the end. Instead in the second season they had ... to build up a shounen and give 2 episodes long fights for the enemies.

Not only that, the pacing was disastrous. The scenes dragged on forever, especially the final fight. It was just mediocre, that's all there was to it. In particular, the plot and sequence was extremely clichéd and there was hardly any humour.

Magic and Muscles was an anime that I could watch 4 episodes a day. It ended with me needing 4 weeks to finish the second season, it was so disappointing and boring. And that can really break your heart after the successful first season.

My personal opinion 3

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Reviewer’s Rating: 4

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