Mashle
Mashle: Magic and Muscles

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The new hit anime starts up, and the manga ends. Worked for Demon Slayer, why not for Mashle?

As everyone has noted, it's Harry Potter with One-Punch Man as the main character, but while Saitama in that is shaped primarily by boredom, Mash is driven by absolute simple-minded goofery. He's an absolute dumbass in a way you see from Goku or Luffy, but multiplied by 3. If you can get behind that, then you'll have a lot of fun with Mashle.

The art starts off a little rough, but the action scenes shine throughout with beautiful spreads of the incredible feats of power as Mash fights overpowered ... foe after overpowered foe. The characters are all fairly flat, but there are enough of them to keep jokes circulating! You'll not find amazing character development here, but what little there is does feel nice. It's not a particularly deep series but it made me smile throughout, and has enough imagination to elevate it juuuuuuuuuust above a cheap parody of other, more developed franchises.

Definitely worth a read for a fan of action or comedy manga!

This manga is the first manga I have read weekly from beginning to the end and although I enjoy it, it isn't that great. I love the main character mashle thoroughly but the side characters definitely leave a lot to be desired. While the main side characters are pretty cool and I do get hyped for them when they battle I don't really care as much as I would with other series. I wouldn't say the plot is bland but it definitely isn't all that great. The plot is pretty straight forward which I like but it doesn't give the chance to really explore the ... world. I like that it didn't stretch that long and that it ended at a decent high note. In the end it is a good read but don't expect a revolutionary or insanely intricate story. Just a good read for a fun time.

Take the least interesting elements of OPM and plop them into a magical world (suspiciously like Harry Potter) and you get this.

In all seriousness, I'm only about 17 chapters in and I'm still hoping there's some sort of interesting factor for me to look forward to. It tries to be tongue-in-cheek/satirical about the Harry Potter world but it's mostly surface level.

The biggest problem I have is with the main protagonist, Mash. If you're gonna write a jokey character like him, why should I care when things get serious? At least with Saitama, we get a lot of his inner thoughts and feelings. His motivation is ... force-fed to us in the early chapters and we never get anything deeper.

Otherwise, this doesn't capture the charm like OPM and just rehashes things that we've seen before.

If you want to read something that's funny and has substance, go read OPM or Mob Psycho. If you already have, just read them again, it's not like you can't have enough.