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smurky turkey
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No new episode this week, but a valentine special (whatever that is).
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smurky turkey
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Seems like music magic baldy won't be an easy opponent. Yeah, I am sure Mash will win, but it will probably take a semi serious workout this time. I also feel eternally bad for Finn since he is the only one who is relatively normal/sane.
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ACｘS
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I actually forgot that Margarette loves shrimp tempura and tartare sauce. I wonder if it's actually important to the show. |
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smurky turkey
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Said sauce played a part in the fight this week, so yes, the tartare was important. The fight itself was a lot of fun to see. Margarette has a lot of overpowered magic music that he can use and to counter a lot of it you need more than just brute power. Thankfully Mash is as creative as always when it comes to battle tactics.
As for the big baddy appearing, that seems like something the headmaster will handle. |
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smurky turkey
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Things are really heating up now. We had demons, sitter baby, thorny guy and the headmaster and subject zero staring each other down this week. Sitter baby had an interesting type of magic, but someone with a lot of magic can simply take him out even when a toddler. As for thorny guy....I felt bad for him, reduced to a one tricky pony with a creampuff head. As for the headmaster, I get the feeling he is gonna do a Dumbledore.
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ACｘS
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Pretty cool to see those who fought Mashle, now do the Mashle Dance in the OP. |
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smurky turkey
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Lots of powerful magic on display this week. The headmaster is a true monster (though I still think that he will lose in the end) and took care of his former master and the not necromancer rather quickly. As for Mash, he won the day with some more quick thinking and muscles (long live biceps), though Cell really has some nasty abilities.
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ACｘS
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You know... we all know that Mashle doesn't use magic, so he just uses brute strength. Even if it's just comic relief, we kinda enjoy this magic-versus-muscle (it's in the damn title, anyway). But now that it's revealed that Mashle isn't exactly human, we learned that there's a reason why Mashle has all this ungodly strength (not to mention, his Flash-like reflexes and thinking). It's fine, but it clashes against the nonsensical comic relief that we (or maybe I) have been enjoying so far. Why you gotta do this? I actually don't want logical reasoning; I just want entertainment. Leave that *logical bullsh-t out. P.S. We know that Adam Jobs (Steve Job's brother or something?) had three disciples. What's up with the third one? Storytelling-wise, having just two disciples (Wahlberg and Innocent Zero) would have been fine. There's gotta to be something going one with the third one. *oxymoron? You bet! |
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smurky turkey
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It is a bit unclear actually. Mash put in a lot of work building up his muscles, so I would not say that it is a talent that has been simply given to him. He might actually be defective and became as strong as he is purely through harsh training and the wonders of cream puffs.
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ACｘS
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Maybe so, but I don't want it. Don't explain and give (possible) reason why Mashle seems stupid-strong because of cream puffs.
Let me live with my delusions! |
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ACｘS
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Do you know that I get hyped up for every episode? GO TO SCHOOL. |
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ACｘS
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What!? Baddie retreats right at the climax? That's the mother of all clichés, c'mon now! I was expecting more action between Mash and that Titan. At least a bit more than just a tug-of-war. We will get to see who's the one putting up the magic barrier, right? Right?? |
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smurky turkey
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Episode 12 was in some ways even more dangerous to Mash than the previous ones. He had to face dreaded exams after all, plus a crowd of less than pleased parents. He withstood them all and next season will be all about the final hurdle to become a visionary. It was also nice to have a little bit of downtime for a change.
The season as a whole was more great Mashle content: fun fights, muscles, creampuffs and lots of dumb situations, there was also the best OP of the season. @ACｘS well, you did get to see magic barrier guy before he was retired. |
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ACｘS
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Final:
7/10. I have no rational way to explain the grade. It's actually pretty high for a no-brain show. But I will say one thing: it's a show that I've been looking forward to every week. It's stupid but it's fun. Moreover, it gave me more of the stuff I enjoyed in the first season. So yeah, I'll take it.
Yeah, but was it worth it? If I think about it, this guy could nullify all magic. All magic. Must have been stupid-strong. And yet, all the show did was simply show his face and well, dead by sand. Put some effort into it, c'mon now. |
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Snomaster1
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There are some shows that mix elements in from other places. From cartoons,comics,anime,and just about whatever else is handy,that's what these odd shows do. Mix a bunch of stuff together like a chef mixing in different ingredients in a bowl and voila! You got something to be watched or read. Now,sometimes stuff like this can be very good or very bad. It depends. Fortunately,"Mashle:Magic and Muscles" is one of the good ones.
Basically,this anime mixes in stuff from things like "Black Clover,""One Punch Man,"and "Harry Potter." Trust me. It's as strange and weird as it sounds. Much like "Black Clover,"this show's set in a world where magic's everything and nearly everyone has magic powers. One of the few people that don't is Mash Burnedead,who's basically a mix of Asta and Saitama. All he wants to live a peaceful life in the forest with his adopted father and just exercise. That all changes when he accidentally goes into town and runs afoul of the local authorities. They try to arrest him,but Mash basically defeats them with his strength. Then,they offer him a deal. Go to a Hogwarts-type school and graduate from it and Mash and his father'll basically be left alone. If they don't,they'll have to spend the rest of their lives on the run from the government of their world. Seeing no other choice,they both agree to this and Mash is basically the new kid in school and he's going to have to be at the top of his game if he's going to survive long enough to graduate from this place. Now,just by reading this,you'd probably think something like this wouldn't work,yet somehow it does. This show's just goofy and weird with the right amount of drama to keep things spicy. It's kinda amusing to see Mash just go through every situation with his deadpan expression. You'd think that this sort of gag would have run out of steam a long time ago,but it doesn't. Somehow,the disparate elements of this show don't go flying off in all directions and spoil the whole thing,and yet,they manage to stay together and keep things enjoyable. In some ways,it's similar to two other shows that also borrow from elsewhere. "Invincible Fight Girl" and "High Guardian Spice." So what happened? Why did "Mashle" and "Invincible Fight Girl" work and "High Guardian Spice" didn't? Simple. The first two succeeded in being their own things. "Invincible Fight Girl" basically mashes together nearly every anime genre out there to create a show about a girl who wants to be a successful wrestler and has to go on a journey to do it. The show's mix of different genres like shonen,shojo,sports,and a bunch of other things and yet,the show's creators managed to make an exciting show which felt like something original in spite of the blending of those different elements. That's something that "High Guardian Spice" didn't do. They just took stuff from more successful fantasy cartoons and anime,but never figured out how to make those elements work together. Yeah,they used the look of a kid's cartoon in an adult one,but that's all they succeeded at doing. Very little else worked. From what clips of the show I saw online,it was basically a Frankenstein's monster of a cartoon,with different elements from different shows,and the people behind it not figuring out how to make them gel together. That and other things made "High Guardian Spice" one of the biggest failures of all time. So,what does this mean for "Mashle:Magic and Muscles?" Well,it's a fun show that does well with what it has and the mix from different shows manages to make it an anime worth your time seeing. I'm not surprised it's getting a second season. What'll we see next? We'll just have to wait and see. But,I do know one thing. It's going to be one heck of a ride. I'll tell you that. |
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