Crunchyroll has revealed the lead voice cast and premiere date for the English-language dub of action-fantasy series Mashle: Magic and Muscles. The new version will begin streaming weekly on the platform starting Friday, May 26 at 20:30 BST / 12:30 p.m. PT. The announcement was made from the Aniplex panel at Anime Central 2023 in Chicago on Saturday, and Crunchyroll has also unveiled a fresh slate of acquisitions during the con.
The English dub cast features:
- Aleks Le (Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba; VINLAND SAGA) as Mash Burnedead, a rare young man who cannot use magic. Although he crushes all types of magic with his well-trained muscles, he lacks common sense and tends to do as he pleases. He loves cream puffs.
- Brian Anderson (Ascendance of a Bookworm) as Finn Ames, Mash’s dorm roommate. He is the straight man (tsukkomi) of their antics and Mash’s first friend.
- Stephen Fu (The Case Study of Vanitas) as Lance Crown, a good-looking young man who ranked first among the transfer exam students. He has considerable magical power, and is top of the class in academic performance.
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Ben Diskin (The Seven Deadly Sins) as Dot Barrett, an impulsive and noisy young man. He’s the unpopular type with a strong hatred for good-looking guys.
- Anjali Kunapaneni (Fena: Pirate Princess) as Lemon Irvine, has had a crush on Mash since he helped her during the transfer exams. She’s imaginative to say the least.
Synopsis: 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 single-mindedly working out. His name is Mash Burnedead, and he has a secret: He can’t use magic.
All Mash 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!
During the Crunchyroll Industry Panel on Saturday, the anime powerhouse announced a slew of title acquisitions. Several of these additions are due to join the streaming lineup this July.
Horimiya: The Missing Pieces (CloverWorks) | July 2023
When the popular Hori and the gloomy Miyamura meet, they reveal another side of themselves. Could this be the start of something new?
- Watch trailer.
- Worldwide excluding Asia.
- crunchyroll.com/horimiya
The Great Cleric (Yokohama Animation Laboratory, Cloud Hearts) | July 2023
Can a former salaryman become peerless in another world?! A salaryman was shot to death just before earning a promotion, and a god decided to reincarnate him in another world as a 15-year-old healer named Luciel. On top of all that, the country he was born into seems to hate healers. Feeling that he’s in danger, Luciel visits the adventurers’ guild in hopes of keeping himself safe. But the training is much harder than he expected, and every day he’s forced to drink a mysterious beverage called “Substance X.” Wait, this life doesn’t seem to have anything to do with being a healer… The day-to-day life of a super-masochistic, back-from-the-dead healer begins, with his very survival on the line!
- Watch trailer.
- Worldwide excluding Asia, but including India, Pakistan, Bhutan, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, Nepal, the Maldives, the Middle East and North African territories.
Rent-a-Girlfriend Season 3 (TMS Entertainment) | July 2023
Kinoshita Kazuya is a 20-year-old failure of a college student. He managed to kiss his girlfriend once, but was dumped after a month. “Ugh… Damn it. I never want to go through that again.” Completely spiteful, Kazuya uses a certain method to date a girl. He goes to their meeting place and suddenly hears, “You’re Kazuya-kun, right?” A beautiful girl brushing her long, black hair behind her ear was there, smiling at him. Her name was Mizuhara Chizuru. Something real is born after just a single rental! A reckless rom-com filled with love and excitement is about to begin!
- Watch trailer.
- Worldwide excluding Asia.
- crunchyroll.com/rent-a-
girlfriend
Am I Actually the Strongest? (Staple Entertainment) | July 2023
After being a shut-in, Haruto is reincarnated as a baby. And amazingly, that baby is a prince! However, he’s abandoned in a forest on the day he’s born because of his low magic level… What will be the fate of Haruto, who was inadvertently given 1,000 times the normal amount of magic by the goddess of reincarnation without anyone noticing?!
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- Worldwide excluding Asia, but including India.
I’m in Love with the Villainess (Platinum Vision) | October 2023
From the Seven Seas Entertainment light novel about ordinary office worker Oohashi Rae, who one day wakes up in the body of the protagonist of her favorite otome game, Revolution. To her delight, the first person to greet her is also her favorite character, Claire Francois — the main antagonist of the story! Now, Rae is determined to romance Claire instead of the game’s male leads. But how will her villainous ladylove react to this courtship?!
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- Worldwide excluding Asia.
I Shall Survive Using Potions! (Jumondo) | 2023
Nagase Kaoru, a 22-year-old office lady, suddenly finds herself reincarnated in another world. To help her survive in this new world, a being that amounts to its god gives Kaoru a younger body and… the ability to make insanely overpowered potions?! The reincarnated Kaoru must use her knowledge and cheatery to survive!
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- Worldwide excluding Asia.
MF GHOST (Felix Film) | 2023
202X A.D., a future beyond Initial D. Self-driving cars are in widespread use in Japan, and public roadways are used for auto racing. In such an era, a race called MFG has become popular around the globe. Porsche, Ferrari, Lamborghini… Participants are invited to race with their fastest cars. One such participant, a British racing school graduate, Kanata Rivington, returns to Japan to achieve his goal.
- Watch trailer.
- Worldwide excluding Asia.
