Mashle Season 3 Sets January 9 Premiere, Adds Sōma Saitō and Ryōta Suzuki
Crunchyroll will stream the next arc, with Tomoya Tanaka returning to direct at A-1 Pictures.
Mashle: Magic and Muscles Season 3 premieres January 9 at 24:00, effectively midnight January 10. Its first full trailer reveals more cast and staff.
Mashle: Magic and Muscles returns January 9 at 24:00—effectively midnight January 10. The third season’s first full promotional video reveals additional cast and staff.
Aniplex’s announcement came Wednesday, also Mash’s birthday. It included a new key visual, a character visual and a birthday visual.
The season adapts Hajime Kōmoto’s manga under the title Mashle: Magic and Muscles - Tri-Magicathalon Divine Visionary Final Exam Arc (Mashle: Sanma Taisō Shinkakusha Saishū Shiken-hen).
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 and 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 January 9 broadcast at 24:00 will air on:
- Tokyo MX
- BS11
- Gunma TV
- Tochigi TV
The season will also air on 10 other Japanese channels. ABEMA, d Anime Store and other streaming platforms will carry it.
Crunchyroll will stream the third season. The overall anime project is billed as a “complete” adaptation.
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
- Composer: Masaru Yokoyama
Chiaki Furuzumi replaces Hisashi Higashijima as character designer. Furuzumi served as chief animation director and sub-character designer on both seasons of Solo Leveling (Ore dake Level Up na Ken).
The first season premiered in Japan in April 2023 and ran for 12 episodes. The second premiered in January 2024 and also ran for 12 episodes.
Crunchyroll streamed both seasons as they aired and provided English dubs for each.
Viz Media’s Shonen Jump service and Shueisha’s MANGA Plus service published the manga digitally in English. Viz Media also releases it in print.
Shueisha’s premise follows a young man who cannot use magic in a world that relies on it for everything. He trains his muscles deep in a forest and lives peacefully with his father until danger forces him to face magic users with physical strength.
The manga began in Japan’s Weekly Shonen Jump in January 2020 and ended in July 2023. Shueisha released its 18th and final collected volume alongside a fanbook in October 2023.
The franchise also includes several novels and two stage play adaptations. Mackenyu Maeda stars in a live-action film adaptation opening March 19, 2027.
Mashle: Muscle Puzzle, the franchise’s smartphone puzzle game, launched in April 2025.
Sources: Mashle: Magic and Muscles anime's website via ANN
