Mashle

In a way, this volume is peak Mashle: solid shonen battle scenes, garbage people suddenly finding redemption, and Mash doing dumb nonsense that has me laughing. The door scenes will never not be funny to me, just absolutely has me rolling.

I quite like this finale. Bits of the fight with Innocent Zero don't seem to make perfect sense (like, as much as is possible) but generally it has the awesome impact of Mashle's fight scenes along with the absurd, hilarious feats mixed in when needed to lighten the mood. It's nice to see a couple of chapters of a denouement at the end for some extra goofiness, as well.

Mashle is a fun series. Sometimes it takes itself too seriously for too long, sometimes it gets a bit too deep into the power of friendship stuff, but a dude getting so buff that he can use a continent as a flutterboard is just pure fun.

"None of this makes even the slightest bit of sense!!" - Finn Ames: Friend, Colour Commentary, Genius, Prophet

Finally, the protagonist, Ryoh Grantz, arrives. 

Also: "Take this and feel better. It's a cream puff. Only half-eaten." lmao

This last sequence of a series of shonen boss battles is a bit formulaic and the comedy only shows up every now and then. Lemon's fight is probably the best if only because immediately freeing and adopting the dogs is funny as heck. 

The bonus panels are peak in this volume, though. Absolutely killed me.

This starts the series of fights going into the final battle. This arc was tough to read weekly, but this volume is pretty good and the mix of encounters works better here than going chapter by chapter. 

We get lots of the true protagonist, Ryoh Grantz, and everyone's got some comedy sprinkled around to lighten the mood a bit. There's some great art that highlights the crazy power of Innocent Zero.

I'm a little peeved about how the new divine visionaries were treated. Mostly because Sophina seems cool.