Mashle: Magic and Muscles Characters

A deadpan, blunt but kind young man born without magic in a world that hunts down people like him. His adoptive father, Regro, raised him in the forest and trained his body instead, and Mash grew superhumanly strong. When a trip to town for cream puffs, his favourite food, exposes him, the police officer Brad offers a deal: enrol at Easton on a fake mark and become a Divine Visionary. He gets through every test with sheer strength, which he calls "Muscle Magic", until his secret comes out at the end of season 1. In season 2 he learns that Innocent Zero is his biological father, and after saving the academy he swears before an angry crowd that he will become a Divine Visionary.

Mash's roommate in Adler house and the straight man of the group, quick to panic and the first to point out that what Mash just did is impossible. Early on a bully forces him to wreck Mash's things; when he refuses, Mash stands up for him, and they become close friends. He is the younger brother of the Divine Visionary Rayne Ames. In the selection exam he refuses to give up his team's last crystal, even against Carpaccio, because Mash's life depends on it, and after the exam he talks Mash into studying so the two can graduate together.

Mash's true rival: a cool, handsome student with two marks on his face, who came first in Easton's entrance exam and controls gravity. His younger sister, Anna, has a disease that is eating away her magic, and he has vowed to become a Divine Visionary so that the law cannot take her. He first challenges Mash for his coins, then becomes a friend, helping him with Potions and beating Magia Lupus's Wirth. He adores his sister to a fault, is terrified of bugs and ghosts, and in season 2 is still determined to reach the title before Mash does.

Mash's self-proclaimed rival, a hot-blooded, easily irritated Adler student who insists he is the main character and has a grudge against handsome boys. He falls for Lemon, who only has eyes for Mash. Under the noise he is a good person: he takes ten of Silva's Iron Magic attacks in the forest and, against Magia Lupus's Love, the cross hidden under his headband, the Ira Kreuz, unleashes a power that rises with his emotions. In season 2 he passes the exam's first two stages alongside Mash.

A soft-spoken, slightly kooky girl from a poor family who came to Easton to help them. In the entrance exam the examiner Claude pushes her to get in Mash's way, but Mash saves her from a sphinx in the maze anyway, and she mistakes his reassurance for a marriage proposal. From then on she calls herself his fiancée, makes him a cream-puff good-luck charm and is turned into one of Abel's dolls until Mash's victory over Abel frees her. In season 2 she speaks up for Mash when an angry crowd storms the academy.

The headmaster of Easton and a former Divine Visionary, who tests Mash's resolve at his entrance interview and then protects him, refusing to expel him when the Bureau of Magic demands it after Mash stands up to a bully. Long ago he and Innocent Zero were both pupils of Adam Jobs, the mage who built their magic society, and the two are equal in power. When Innocent Zero attacks the selection exam, Wahlberg takes him on alone and calls on Uranus, the god in his wand.

Finn's older brother, Adler's prefect and the newest Divine Visionary, with the title of Sword Cane. He is serious and hard to read, but he cares about Finn and Mash, has a soft spot for rabbits and can be surprisingly gullible. In season 1 he saves Dot and Finn by beating Milo Genius in an instant, and before the selection exam he stops Margarette Macaron from reaching Mash's home. Headmaster Wahlberg calls him the first mage to gain a third line at such a young age.

The prefect of Lang house and leader of Magia Lupus, a noble who carries a doll everywhere and believes the world should return to the survival of the fittest. His mother, a noblewoman who tried to help the poor, was killed by a commoner, and he came to believe that the weak deserve to be used. He turns students into living dolls to steal their coins, but Mash beats him, and Abel frees everyone he controlled. In season 2 Abyss reveals that Abel's third line was given to him by Innocent Zero, and Abel and Abyss join Mash's friends at their victory party.

Magia Lupus's masked Second Fang and Abel's most loyal friend. He was born with the Evil Eye, which cancels other people's magic, and has been feared and shunned for it all his life, which is why he is devoted to Abel, the one person who accepted him. He works out early on that Mash has no magic. After losing to Mash, who tells him the eye does not scare him and offers to be his friend, he is badly hurt shielding Abel from Cell War, and in season 2 he warns Mash that Innocent Zero is after him.

The prefect of Orca house, a double-liner whose marks are a treble clef and a musical note, who loves tartar sauce and strong opponents and believes that "boredom is death". The Divine Visionary Orter sends them to make Mash miss the selection exam, but Rayne blocks the way. In the exam's final stage they face Mash in the first duel, reveal a much smaller true form that moves faster than sound, and finally admit defeat when Mash catches them and breaks their wand. Margarette is non-binary.

The Divine Visionary known as the Desert Cane, a member of the Bureau's Magical Power Administration and the older brother of Magia Lupus's Wirth. Cold and ruthless, he will go to any length to keep the existing order, and he wants Mash gone. At Mash's hearing he rules that Mash may live as a weapon against Innocent Zero, but only if he becomes a Divine Visionary by the rules, then secretly sends Margarette Macaron to stop him. When Innocent Zero attacks the exam, he fights to protect the students.

The main villain, who usually appears as a featureless figure: the leader of a criminal organisation of dark-magic users that shares his name. Seeking to become the ultimate human being, he steals other people's magic and fathered six sons as part of his plan for an immortal body; Mash, the youngest, is one of them. He was once a pupil of Adam Jobs alongside Wahlberg. In season 2 he attacks the selection exam to claim Mash, freezes everyone in time, takes on Wahlberg and steals his magic, and retreats after a fight with Mash, when the stolen power proves too much for his body.