Crunchyroll has announced they will stream the Mashle: Magic and Muscles anime as it airs in Japan. April is the scheduled air date for the anime. With this announcement, the official Twitter account also shared five character profiles for the main characters Mash, Finn, Lance, Dot, and Lemon.
A-1 pictures (Black Butler, Sword Art Online) is animating the Mashle: Magic and Muscles anime. Tomonari Tanaka (Hunter x Hunter) will direct the series, with Yosuke Kuroda (My Hero Academia) handling the series composition.
Mashle: Magic and Muscles: Comedic Approach to the Fantasy Genre
Author Hajime Komoto serializes the manga in Weekly Shonen Jump starting in January 2020. Currently, there are 15 volumes. Viz Media is in charge of distributing the manga in English, with Volume 11 scheduled to release on March 14th. Mashle: Magic and Muscles is described as;
This is a world of magic. This is a world in which magic is casually used by everyone. In a deep, dark forest in this world of magic, there is a boy who is singlemindedly working out. His name is Mash Burnedead, and he has a secret. He can’t use magic. All he wanted was to live a quiet life with his family, but people suddenly start trying to kill him one day and he somehow finds himself enrolled in Magic School. There, he sets his sights on becoming a “Divine Visionary,” the elite of the elite. Will his ripped muscles work against the best and brightest of the wizarding world? The curtain rises on this off-kilter magical fantasy in which the power of being jacked crushes any spell!
At the time of this posting, it is unknown if Mashle: Magic and Muscles has a scheduled English dub. It is also unknown if Crunchyroll will dub and run a simulcast to the Japanese version of Mashle: Magic and Muscles.