Quick answer: Mashle: Magic and Muscles Season 3, the Tri-Magicathlon Divine Visionary Final Exam Arc, premieres in Japan on January 9, 2027 at 24:00 JST on Tokyo MX and BS11. That is 9 AM CT (10 AM ET, 7 AM PT) on Saturday, January 9 in the US. Crunchyroll streams it outside Japan and China, but has not given its own streaming time yet. Current as of November 12, 2026.
Mash Burnedead is about to punch his way into the final exam. Aniplex released the first full trailer and key visual for Mashle: Magic and Muscles Season 3 on November 11, which was also Mash’s birthday, and locked in a January 9, 2027 premiere for the Winter 2027 season. Crunchyroll confirmed the same day that it will stream the new season.
Premiere date and US start time
The official broadcast schedule lists Tokyo MX, BS11, Gunma TV and Tochigi TV every Saturday at 24:00 starting January 9. In Japanese TV terms, 24:00 Saturday means midnight going into Sunday, January 10 in Japan, which converts to Saturday morning in the US:
- 7 AM PT, Saturday, January 9
- 9 AM CT, Saturday, January 9
- 10 AM ET, Saturday, January 9
Those are the Japanese broadcast times. Crunchyroll’s announcement says the season streams “starting January 9,” and its October listing covers every region except Japan and China, but it has not posted an exact episode drop time. In Japan, ABEMA, d Anime Store and other services roll it out after broadcast.
What the new trailer shows
The first full PV, posted on Aniplex’s YouTube channel, uses footage from the new season rather than concept art. The key visual puts Mash up front with his Adler House friends and a crowd of new faces, and Aniplex also posted character visuals for five Adler House students. The two named newcomers are students from a rival magic school, and they are the only cast additions so far:
- Domina Blowelive: Soma Saito
- Lévis Rosequartz: Ryota Suzuki
The core cast returns: Chiaki Kobayashi as Mash, Kaito Ishikawa as Lance Crown, Reiji Kawashima as Finn Ames, Reina Ueda as Lemon Irvine and Takuya Eguchi as Dot Barrett. Tomonari Tanaka still directs at A-1 Pictures, Yosuke Kuroda handles series composition and Masaru Yokoyama scores it. The one big staff change is character design: Chiaki Kozumi, a sub-character designer on Solo Leveling, takes over from Hisashi Higashijima.
Japan gets an early look on December 13
The official site also announced a Japan premiere screening at TOHO Cinemas Roppongi Hills on December 13, with all seven of those cast members on stage. Lottery ticket applications run until November 29. No overseas screening has been announced.
Our take: how to catch up before January
Season 3 picks up right where Season 2 left off. Mash and his friends survived Innocent Zero’s attack, passed the Divine Visionary Candidate Exam, and now face the final exam against the elite students of the other magic schools. If you skipped Season 2, that is your homework, and both earlier seasons are on Crunchyroll now.
The bar is high. Aniplex says Season 2 ranked No. 1 on several streaming sites in 2024. That is the season whose opening, Creepy Nuts’ “Bling-Bang-Bang-Born,” went viral far beyond anime fans. The source manga ended in 2023 and has passed 12 million copies worldwide, so the story is finished and the anime has plenty to adapt. The character designer swap is the change to watch. Fans will judge the first episode on whether Mash still looks like Mash.
Winter 2027 is shaping up to be crowded, with Spy x Family also heading back. Mashle has one of the clearest dates so far.
Sources: Mashle official anime website (Aniplex), official Mashle X account, Crunchyroll News (November 11 and October 28, 2026), Aniplex YouTube channel. Image: official Mashle Season 3 key visual art, ©Hajime Komoto/SHUEISHA, MASHLE Committee.
