Mashle: Magic and Muscles, Vol. 2

Mash Burnedead stays inside the magic academy for a second volume, where remaining enrolled means passing as a magic user in front of people trained to spot one. Hajime Komoto widens the cast with rivals and classmates, stages competitions that Mash can only win by brute force, and lets the central joke run in new directions. The subtitle, Mash Burnedead and the Magic of Iron, signals the pattern: a premise everyone treats seriously except the boy solving it with his hands. Before it reaches the shelf: • Second volume, continuing directly from the first • New rivals introduced at the academy • Contests and trials built around magical ability • Fantasy comedy in an English paperback edition For readers who finished the opening volume and manga collectors following the series, available at Boipoka.