there's moments where it shines in humour. then the plot catches on and it's a runaway train that stops being entertaining.

Its a great manga. Do not get me wrong, however from chapter 100 i started to feel a bit burned out. It had grat pacing, but now it feels like its somewhat overstayed its welcome aar rhis point

This manga is fairly funny at the start, but I honestly don't think it's more than a 3/10, good enough for a quick read but nothing memorable and it starts becoming boring after a while.

The author isn't that good. No surprise, really. It's made abundantly clear that while he's clearly trying hard, and I respect that, he's clearly failed a lot of times with his ideas and just lucked out with a concept that was fun and easy to get into. But here comes the problem, he's not trying to shuffle it up, it's the very definition of beating a dead horse, a one trick pony, the same thing over and over again. While some authors do the same joke every now and then, he rapid fires them. This is even worse because the plot is also the same over and over again in a bad way.

After a few dozen chapters, you start to notice extremely clear patterns and 80-100 chapters in, you realize that that's just how it's going to go the entire serialization. I agree with the author's own words that it's weird this has been allowed more than a few volumes.

At the start of the manga, it leans almost solely towards comedy with very little serious parts, he solves everything almost instantly with his muscles. At that point it's just a gag manga. Then he suddenly starts going into the shounen action / battle manga territory, which is ever so overdone, cliché and stupid.

The gag is always that he solves things quickly with his muscles, but honestly he's not very likable in the first place. It's a repetition of him being extremely stupid yet kind and ridiculously strong. So, after getting hit a few times, he always wins in a ridiculous way. So, pardon me for not finding the "Hahaha, he's so stupid and solves everything with muscle power" gag to be funny after the first 50-100 times, because it never changes. Some dude comes in overconfident and the peanut gallery/opponent does the typical straight man crap while being dumbfounded and having silly faces. It's enough for 2-3 volumes, but not over a dozen...

Even though that's boring, worse is that the author fails focusing at a particular kind of story. At the start, it was gag-like, but then suddenly it's a shounen battle story where he meets foe after foe and battles overpowered and overconfident people, as soon as he finishes, it's pretty much time for the next battle, but it's always solved anticlimactically with him acting stupid and doing something ridiculous, which doesn't make much sense if you build up drama and show various serious battles only for him to pop in and suddenly do gags to ruin the flow all while he's eating cream puffs and being so stupid he doesn't even understand what's happening. The jokes become even less fun as they are packed into typical shounen garbage, only really bad shounen garbage battles.

Now for the worst part... The main cast and enemies are all so god damn unimaginative, lifeless, artificial, dull and overall garbage. I really feel like the author has little talent at writing a story, I say this as a novel author myself, he'd probably do better as a manga artist adapting someone's novel. He's not considering how to make them believable or fun to read about, they're terribly one dimensional. While the main cast is really boring, at least they have some slight thought into them, though they have so few facets to their personalities all of them seem like an extreme. But the enemies... Did he copy-paste them all? Pretty much every single one is the same. He's going faaar in the wrong direction, trying to make them interesting by making them "unique" or "messed up" in appearance, with jagged teeth, weird hair, random expressions. Then the crazy personalities, every single one of them has a similar background story. it seems that "personality" and "depth" for the author is to make them all have traumas and by cheap reasoning they're batsh*t insane because of their "harsh childhoods". Every single character has some weird backstory and is extremely fixated on a single concept because they've "been abused" or "had bad luck" in some way. I'm serious, every single one, except maybe mash himself. Often mash would "heal them" quickly by being "nice and kind" because a single nice action sure can overturn an entire life of suffering, yeah. But all of their reasons are so god damn juvenile and single minded. There's only one single facet to their current insanity and they're ridiculously fixated on it, repeating themselves over and over again.

It's pretty difficult to explain, let's give a few examples. One dude had his mother killed while helping the less fortunate by those very same less fortunate (a single dude did it), after that, despite being told to be kind and help people by his mother, he becomes some kind of gene fixated freak that feels like only those who have good genes and are "lucky to be highborn" are worth jack shit, so he rambles about this 24/7 with zero logical reasoning. Another dude, not sure what his issue is, but he only rambles about laws and is so constipatedly stubborn in his views of that laws can't be bent at all in any way that you really question if he's a robot at that point, though a criminally insane one. And these people, all with simply one single fixation and one single reason for their actions, are all over the place playing "who can be the most batsh*t insane" and trying to make the world fit their ideas of what is right. Would it kill him to make some villains without traumas or that aren't insane and over the top because of it? More realistic people with stories to tell and some logic to them? People who aren't there to be evil just for the sake of being evil. At least make the background stories believable. I didn't find a single background story that was good enough to justify their personality disorders and over the top insanity along with fixation on one single thing, weird how the entire magic world is filled with these kinds of people.

Don't even get me started with how lifeless the eyes and faces are of most characters in this story. That's a drawing issue, or some might call it a "style", but I really don't like it. Most of the time, none of them even have any highlights in their eyes, creating so-called "dead fish" eyes, though the author sometimes decides to add a highlight just for fun. The eyes are windows to the soul as they say, they're a huge part of expressions and emotion in manga but the characters in this manga almost never has any real expressions or their expressions are permanent plasters, like having a "crazy face with jagged teeth and your tongue sticking out". It also provides contrast to when you actually WANT to use dead fish eyes. You're missing a lot if the only emotion you show are copy-paste "surprised/constipated" less detailed "sketchy" faces when mash does something surprising.

But, yeah, read it very quickly, don't bother reading into the battles or caring about anything except when mash shows up and it becomes a 5/10 or even 6/10 experience that passes by quickly enough to not make it that boring. Please don't care about the story and certainly avoid reading the mad ramblings of the criminally insane that just seem to pop up all over the place after a while.

... Last updated on June 8th, 2023, 2:11pm

[Review up to chapter 83 in Apr 23]

The fact that this series copies several key elements from a few series and still is ongoing as of today worries me... A lot.

Other than those, I think it really is a slapstick comedy and really deep in fantasy. The story is really strange. It looks like there is a clear direction but every once in a while something totally strange is inserted, almost like a distortion in an otherwise plausible storyline.

And the main storyline does look very similar to some other series, notably Harry Potter, except that it also has some absurdity to it. The characters' premise meanwhile look dubiously similar to Black Clover, except that it is only on the surface.

Like what some people said as well, it's as if Saitama from one punch man is in the world of Harry Potter.

It was really nice though till chapter 70+, but come 80 onwards suddenly it feels very boring, because it almost feels like the villains could just one-shot the good side at this point. Seems a bit too scripted and unfortunately quite predictable what could go down from there. Enemies like to retreat one step before killing key characters without any explanation and even the good guys are like "Huh? You are retreating?" And the bad guys are like "Yea".

It's so weird, was Mashle written by ChatGPT with the prompt "Write me a story based on Harry Potter with the character from Black Clover doing stuff like Saitama from One Punch Man"?

Just imagine Saitama from one punch man goes to Hogwarts and has to make people believe he has magic.

Is not that original and is obviously more focused in comedy than a serious plot, but what is wrong with it?
We don't need only serious and dramas stories in every magazine, every genre is welcome for who likes or want to try a different taste.
If you liked Gintama, Beelzebub or Saiki Kusuo, give a try in this one too, because is just another Jump's comedy series.

... Last updated on July 6th, 2023, 5:34am

Only an idiot would think it can compete with the quality of the aformentioned titles, so please shut the fuck up. The comedy is stale, the MC is ACTUALLY dumb (not similar to Saitama and Mob who are simply indifferent/introverted) the side characters lack personality and are so forgettable (what side characters, they all look like unrealistic clones of the same two or three guys), the setting is lazy and stupid (an academy, really?), the character art style is a poor immitation of ONE's but without the same attention to detail, the storyline is shallow (no wonder since it's a fucking school-life manga with one or two real character and disposable extras) and it's progression is slow as hell due to pointless fillers.

This is a poor immitation at best, stuffed in the worst setting possible (again, a fucking school for magic), with a bunch of forgetable nobodies. Don't get fooled by the cover art, it's bullshit, just ruinning Mob's image. I'm dropping thus like it's hot, just wanted to warn others not to read it, or don't expect too much before reading it.

The so-overdone trope of all muscle no brains takes center stage in this manga. Just another cheap gag manga that's only funny if you're a moron. Just read the first chapter and you'll see what I mean. And hey, if you actually enjoy it, great! Morons need stuff to read too.

... Last updated on October 8th, 2020, 1:05pm

Imagine the world of Harry Potter now imagine there is a person that enrolees into Hogwarts without being able to use magic, his only strength is his body, his muscle mass, hes so strong that he is able to fly in mid air during quidage just by moving his legs back and forth to such a speed that they act as some form of helicopter. His well shaped abs are able to stop a sword and hold on to the tip by pressing it in between two ab muscles.

Basically it's a less strong version of Saitama in Hogwarts and that is an entertaining concept all in it self.

... Last updated on September 28th, 2020, 3:32am

It is basically the absurd humor, but with the author inserting 2D characters showing their amazed reactions which is a big bummer ,considering it is not too original. I mean if they didn't try to force the jokes on every scene it would be better, but they don't (all the chances of showing continuity and a slight development are ruined for an easy joke).

Most of the jokes wouldn't even have sense if they just left the MC alone. And the "development" is just an excuse to create the next scene. It is just a better drawn version of Mob Psycho 100 (with all the things that ruin manga mixed together). They completely ruin good fights with either, over-explanations of irrelevant and inconsistent powers or having the MC repeat the same jokes over and over.

At least it does give you some laughs and doesn't have echi...

... Last updated on August 2nd, 2021, 8:13am