Mashle: Magic and Muscles, Vol. 1

Mash Burnedead lives in a world where magic decides social standing and he has none of it, so he compensates with physical strength that no spell has yet managed to match. Hajime Komoto's opening volume sets up the magic academy premise and the joke underneath it, sending a boy who cannot cast anything into an institution built entirely around casting. The comedy comes from deadpan reaction and the action from absurdly literal solutions, while this first volume introduces the school, its rules and the secret Mash has to keep. A closer look: • First volume of the fantasy comedy series • A magic-school setting with its conventions inverted • Gag-driven humour alongside full action sequences • English edition for readers starting the series Suits manga readers who like comedy with their fantasy and anyone beginning a new series, available from Boipoka.