MASHLE Season 3 locks in January 9 with a new trailer, key visual and two Valkis rivals

Mash picked a fitting day to flex: on his in-universe birthday, the MASHLE anime team dropped the first full trailer and a new key visual for Season 3, officially titled The Tri-Magicathlon Divine Visionary Final Exam Arc. Even better, we finally have a firm date. The new season starts on January 9, 2027 (late night, 24:00 JST on Tokyo MX, BS11 and more), and Crunchyroll will stream it outside Japan, right alongside the first two seasons that are already on the service.

New faces from a rival school

The final exam brings elite students from other academies into the picture, and the first two newcomers now have voices:

• Soma Saito as Domina Blowelive
• Ryota Suzuki as Lévis Rosequartz

The key visual leans hard into that rivalry. Mash and the Adler Dorm crew hold one side of the frame while a wall of wand-wielding opponents fills the other, with Domina smirking up top like he already owns the place. Chiaki Kobayashi (Mash), Kaito Ishikawa (Lance), Reiji Kawashima (Finn), Takuya Eguchi (Dot) and Reina Ueda (Lemon) all return.

Who is making it

A-1 Pictures is back on production with the same core leadership, and Yosuke Kuroda keeps writing the series. The biggest change is on the art side: Chiaki Furuzumi, known for character work on Solo Leveling, takes over character designs from Hisashi Higashijima. Masaru Yokoyama returns for the music.

My take

The Tri-Magicathlon is where the manga throws its biggest set pieces at Mash, so a January slot feels like the right showcase for it. Saito playing a smug, untouchable rival is perfect casting, and I am curious how the new character designer handles the much larger cast. If you have not caught up yet, there is still time to binge both seasons before January 9.

Details come from Crunchyroll's announcement and the official MASHLE site. You can also find the series on anime.day.