Mashle: Magic and Muscles Season 3 Trailer Reveals January 2027 Premiere
The third season will adapt the manga's final arc, marking the end of the anime adaptation for a series that has been positioned as a complete adaptation from the start.
Reporting from 2 sources: Anime News Network, Anime Corner.
Aniplex unveiled the first trailer for Mashle: Magic and Muscles Season 3 during its industry panel at Anime Expo on Thursday, confirming a January 2027 premiere. The season, subtitled Tri-Magicathalon Divine Visionary Final Exam Arc, adapts the final arc of Hajime Komoto's manga. Returning cast members include Chiaki Kobayashi as Mash Burnedead, Kaito Ishikawa as Lance Crown, Reiji Kawashima as Finn Ames, Reina Ueda as Lemon Irvine, and Takuya Eguchi as Dot Barrett. Director Tomoya Tanaka returns at A-1 Pictures, alongside scriptwriter Yosuke Kuroda and composer Masaru Yokoyama. Chiaki Furuzumi, who served as chief animation director and sub-character designer on both seasons of Solo Leveling, replaces Hisashi Higashijima as character designer. The first two seasons each ran for 12 episodes, premiering in April 2023 and January 2024 respectively. The manga concluded in July 2023 with 18 compiled volumes. The anime project is described as a complete adaptation of the source material.
Aniplex showed the first trailer for Mashle: Magic and Muscles Season 3 at Anime Expo 2026, confirming the January 2027 release window that had been speculated since the sequel project was announced at Jump Festa the previous year. The season carries the subtitle Tri-Magicathalon Divine Visionary Final Exam Arc, which covers the manga's concluding storyline.
Staff changes include Chiaki Furuzumi taking over character design duties from Hisashi Higashijima. Furuzumi previously worked as chief animation director and sub-character designer on both seasons of Solo Leveling. The rest of the core production team remains intact, with Tomoya Tanaka directing at A-1 Pictures, Yosuke Kuroda handling series composition, and Masaru Yokoyama composing the score.
The manga ran in Weekly Shonen Jump from January 2020 to July 2023, totaling 18 volumes. Viz Media publishes the English print edition, while both Viz's Shonen Jump app and Shueisha's MANGA Plus service carry the digital version. The franchise also includes two stage play adaptations, several novels, and a smartphone puzzle game that launched in April 2025.
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