The opening theme song of Mashle: Magic and Muscles Season 2, titled Bling-Bang-Bang-Born by Creepy Nuts, has hit two million views in just five days since it was uploaded on Aniplex's offiical YouTube channel. The second season, which is adapting the The Divine Visionary Candidate Exam Arc of Hajime Komoto's manga series, premiered on Saturday, January 6, 2024. Fans of the comedy fantasy anime are clearly loving the opening theme song of Mashle Season 2, which is a huge shift from Season 1's heavy metal『Knock Out』by Taiiku Okazaki.
The opening of Mashle Season 2 was storyboarded and directed by Shun Enokido, with Hisashi Higashijima as the animation director. The lyrics of the Bling-Bang-Bang-Born were written by Creepy Nuts' R-shitei, and the music was composed by DJ Matsunaga. The duo previously created the theme songs for Call of the Night anime adaptation.
A-1 Pictures is in charge of the animation of Mashle: Magic and Muscles Season 2 with Tomoya Tanaka as the director. Yosuke Kuroda worked on the series composition, and Hisashi Tojima worked on the character designs. The ending theme song, titled Tokyo's Way!, is performed by Shiritsu Ebisu Chugaku.
What is the next Mashle: Magic and Muscles episode about?
Mashle: Magic and Muscles anime is based on the manga series by Hajime Komoto, which has been serialized in Weekly Shonen Jump magazine from January 2020 to July 2023. The series already concluded with 162 manga chapters, and Season 2 of the anime is adapting the fourth arc of the manga that picks up at Chapter 44.
Mashle: Magic and Muscles Episode 14 (Season 2, Episode 2) is scheduled to premiere on Saturday, January 13. The official website of the anime already shared a preview for the upcoming episode, which is titled Mash Burnedead and His Parents' House.
The official synopsis for the next episode of Mashle: Magic and Muscles reads:
Mash is summoned to the Magic Bureau for an emergency interrogation regarding the concealment of magic malfunctions, and the enlightened people gather one after another. The diviners were about to take action, but Wahlberg, who appeared with Rain, bowed to them, and Mash was given a reprieve on the condition that he became a divine candidate. While reporting the circumstances to Dot and the others, he suddenly decides to go out for fun...?
The anime is streaming on Crunchyroll, and you can watch the first 12 episodes of Mashle Season 1 and the first episode of Season 2 now.
