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Easton Magic Academy
Adler House
Mash Burnedead
The protagonist. A simpleminded soul who has outstanding physical ability, and sets out to prove that his strength and speed can keep up in a world full of magic-users.
- The Ace: Besides his strength and tactical proclivities, Mash shows a powerful aptitude for various sports like baseball, volleyball, and even billiards despite having no one to play them with (besides Regro) before coming to Easton.
- Badass Normal: He can't use magic in a world of magicians, but is strong enough to match their feats in general.
- The Berserker: Blunt, awkward, but usually good-natured and helpful. When engaged in combat, he becomes outright rude and aggressive despite his range of expressions being largely the same.
- Beware the Nice Ones: Mash is a simple-minded but otherwise affable person. But if given a reason, such as threatening people he cares about, he won't hesitate to pummel people.
- Blade Catch: With his eyelids.
- Book Dumb: With no prior formal education, he struggles with the university-level academic tests doled out to him in Easton Academy.
- Charles Atlas Superpower: He's so swole, his audacious feats of strength are very easily explained away as a Status Buff-based Full-Contact Magic. Mash even refers to it as "Muscle Magic".
- Regro is astounded that even as a baby, Mash was very agile and strong. It transpires that this isn't entirely natural as he spent much of his infancy before meeting his adoptive father dodging Domina's frequent attempts to murder him.
- Chuunibyou: Admits to being one for a brief period of time in his adolescence. Even when older and more mature, he occasionally dips into a hero narrative logic, such as blandly noting what his conflict with Innocent Zero represents.
- Clark Kent Outfit: Most of his outfits make him look pretty slim and unassuming. His skintight training clothes reveal that he is positively jacked underneath.
- Combat Pragmatist: If Mash can't stampede over a problem with his muscles, then he'll find ways to use them to circumvent it. A wizard has diamond skin that is impervious to his strikes? Strangle him into unconsciousness. A hundred-strong clone army with each member being as powerful as the one superhuman that's been giving him trouble? Toss 99 of them off of the flying fortress they've been fighting on and then defeat the last one on his own so he can undo the spell before the clones find a way back up.
- Comically Missing the Point: The only concept he's able to grasp from Innocent Zero's multiple declarations about his search for immortality is that he wants to live longer, so as thanks for fixing all of the damage in the final arc, Mash gives his creator some tips for a healthier lifestyle before washing his hands of him completely.
- The Comically Serious: He delivers grand speeches with a deadpan demeanor.
- Curb-Stomp Battle: Gives a series of these to Innocent Zero, when the latter repeatedly resets the timeline in an attempt to defeat Mash. Unsurprisingly, all timelines end with Mash battering Innocent Zero.
- Death Glare: Harm anyone close to him, or anyone innocent, and you will be on the receiving end of this, first. His fists will come shortly afterwards.
- Deconstructive Parody: Of Harry Potter himself. He is similarly a young man with a lightning bolt "mark" on his face who has had gained a reputation upon enlisting into a wizarding school, even enountering a Draco Malfoy expy of a bully (who he quickly disposes of). The House sorting instrument also had trouble placing him (though this is instead because of his One-Track-Minded Hunger for cream puffs) and decides to put him into the heroic house on a whim. He then displays significant "talent" on a Flying Broomstick and its subsequent sport to also be similarly the first freshman to be recruited into playing the sport, and subsequently in the endgame the reveal of him being a Body Backup Drive for the Big Bad is similar to how Harry was a Horcrux for Voldemort. The main difference between them is that Mash is an Un-Sorcerer who is placed in Harry's position and simply uses his Charles Atlas Superpower to get by and achieve all his feats.
- Defeat Means Friendship: Downplayed. Mash is willing to bury the hatchet after a thorough clash provided his opponent swears off of villainy, but Lemon and Lance are the only people he "defeated" who he's formed close bonds with. Others either actively avoid him or come to respect him as an acquaintance.
- Did You Just Flip Off Cthulhu?: When a psychopomp forcefully tries to rumble Mash in the afterlife by throwing him into a door that will strip him of his bonds with his loved ones in exchange for resurrecting him, Mash horrifies the specter by breaking out of the place with brute strength.
- Does Not Know His Own Strength: After a while he injured Regro due to a lack of control of his strength, leading to him subconsciously limiting his full capabilities, being given a Power Limiter by his father to control it, and being told never to give massages again.
- Dumb Muscle: He’s got a physically outstanding body, but his mind isn’t very sophisticated. This was actually intentional, as he was intended to be a Soul Jar for Innocent Zero.
- Exact Words: Mash prefaces his fight with Silva by saying he's going to partake in the same "10 Hit" challenge that Dot did. It's not until Silva takes a couple of devastating blows to the face and gut that Mash clarifies that he meant that the "challenger" here is Silva, and to the older student's horror, that means he has eight strikes left to take before Mash lets him go.
- Food as Characterization: Invoked by the Sorting Unicorn in Chapter 16. While it's clearly an excuse to toss Mash into Adler because he isn't traditionally ambitious (Lang) nor interested in intellectual pursuits (Orca), its interpretation of why Mash is like a creampuff is surprisingly spot-on in terms of describing his character."A cream puff is a confection where batter is backed into a hollow shell and custard cream is packed into the empty space inside. Especially for Choux Au Craquelin, where gooey cream fills a hard-baked shell. And if one were to make an analogy with humans, it's someone harboring kindness within strength. Cream puff lovers go to Adler!"
- Happily Adopted: He loves his father very much. He started his quest to match forces with the mages of his world only so that he and his father would not be persecuted by them and can live together in peace.
- Hard Truth Aesop: It transpires that Mash doesn't really enjoy training, getting stronger, or fighting. He just does it all anyway because it keeps him healthy while giving him the capacity to protect himself and what he holds dear. To him, it's tiresome but necessary work.
- The Heart: He stands by his father and his friends, and gives them courage and faith to stand by him too. As a consequence, some of them (like Dot and Lance) have a hard time getting along when Mash isn't around.
- He's Back!: Thanks to his comrades, he's revived from his near-death state in Chapter 152 more than two days ahead of schedule.
- Horrifying the Horror: When the psychomp demands that Mash give up his memories in exchange for resurrection, the latter responds by smashing the Door of Demands, which prompts the spirit to resurrect him right away. Later, Innocent Zero begins to despair upon realising that his godhood and absolute control over time do not give him any advantage against Mash's overwhelming strength.
- Humble Goal: Despite entering Easton to become a Divine Visionary and protect his family, his actual life goal is to become a pâtissier and make cream puffs.
- Having attained the position of Divine Visionary, he bows out of the spot and the accompanying ceremony to return home. Now that he has the acceptance, he begins to work on achieving his goal of pâtissier and opening his own shop.
- Hypocritical Humor: Makes fun of Innocent Zero's title, and possible alias, while he himself has an Awesome McCoolname. Though it should be noted Mash didn't choose it himself.
- I Know Madden Kombat: When Mash uses his "magic wand" in combat, it's almost always by physically molding it into sports equipment, such as a tennis racket, a pool cue, or a baseball bat/glove. He then proceeds to treat the opponent's magical projectiles like sports balls.
- I Let Gwen Stacy Die: Parodied in the final arc where, despite Mash's otherwise impeccable track record of protecting people from Innocent Zero when he's around him, the villain manages to kill a random magician who tried to attack him. Incensed, Mash pronounces sincerely and stoically, that this murder will not go unpunished.
- Inept Mage: Mash's cover story for why he can't even make a broom fly. This gets a lot of mileage in the first act of the story, since the uppity bourgeois magicians around him just assume that someone from his humble background would be unable to use magic competently.
- Lame Last Words: When Innocent Zero rips his heart out, the only sentence that Mash can muster before passing out is an expression of regret that he didn't get to try any of the new winter menu flavors from Goblin Cream Puffs.
- Last of His Kind: Supposedly the only outright human left in the setting, and the truth of his creation suggests that this is entirely the case.
- Magic Wand: An interesting example: his wand was actually a heavy iron bar that covered a spring of elf water. Not only is he able to lift it, but he can mold it into various different shapes for attacks.
- Mr. Fanservice: He has a perfectly shaped and toned body, though Lemon is the only one to go wild about it.
- Muggles Do It Better: If wizards are like elaborately decorated wands, then Mash is an iron bar. Mash has no magic of his own, but his physical strength and reflexes are so overpowered that it makes up the difference a dozen times over, whether it means dodging undodgeable attacks, snatching and returning projectiles, tanking hits or running right up to the caster and knocking them out cold before they even call their attacks.
- My God, What Have I Done?: Parodied when it appears that Mash has outright killed Innocent Zero instead of knocking him out like he usually does with his opponents. He meekly mutters that he didn't mean to murder him before attempting hide his body underground so he won't get arrested for doing so.
- Not Cheating Unless You Get Caught: How Mash overcomes the technique-based entry tests for Easton. For example, in a test where he needs to show the ability that he can levitate a rock, he slyly plunges his thumb into the back of it and lifts it up in conjunction with his wand while showing off the other four fingers of his hand.
- One-Note Cook: He can only make cream puffs. Even when attempting to make other concoctions (including potions) what comes out at the end will somehow always be a cream puff as well, a supernatural feat beyond even the mages' knowledge of magic.
- Perpetual Frowner: He never smiles, even in the moments when he absolutely should. However, unlike other examples of this trope, Mash is a very kind person.
- Power Limiter: All the feats he'd done until his battle with Domina were done with using enchanted weighted bracelets. He takes them off to battle Domina, raising his already superhuman strength and speed to even higher levels.
- Rapid-Fire Fisticuffs: His Unlimited Biceps Magic: Punch Squared. It’s just a bunch of normal punches, but if his opponent survives one barrage, the next barrage of punches is squared. So two punches becomes four punches, four becomes sixteen, sixteen becomes two hundred fifty-six, and so on until the opponent is defeated.
- Ripple-Effect-Proof Memory: There's some dialogue that implies that Mash can sense that Innocent Zero is reversing time over and over again in hopes of creating a situation where he can win, but he just chalks it up to deja vu.
- Smarter Than You Look: True, Mash doesn't have much in the way of traditional intelligence and critical thinking, but he can think on his feet and be creative when necessary, which allows him to find ways to counter the various types of magic thrown at him.
- Status Buff: What he claims his specialty is to hide his lack of magic behind his Super-Strength.
- Story-Breaker Power: Mash is so outrageously strong that he can move an entire continent and stop tsunamis with his bare hands. Even Innocent Zero is utterly flabbergasted by Mash's strength.
- Strong and Skilled: He’s got excellent strength and speed bordering on Super-Reflexes, enough that he can hold his own against most magic users. He even calls it Muscle Magic.
- Trademark Favourite Food: Cream puffs. He loves them so much that they're the only thing he could ever manage to cook for himself. He always tends to have cream puffs on him, going so far as to hide them in his robes.
- Training from Hell: Undergoes one under Meliadoul.
- Un-Sorcerer: Since the unmarked were hunted to extinction years before, he's the Token Human of the cast who has no magic at all.
- Virtuous Character Copy: Mash shares a number of traits with the Augrey, the titular antagonist of Harry Potter and the Cursed Child as they're both immensely powerful "heirs" to an evil wizard who run afoul of a bespectacled law enforcer magic user while they infiltrate the magical world through deceptive means.
- When All You Have Is a Hammer…: He has no magic, and unlike Asta, not even Anti-Magic to help compensate. What he does have is Super-Strength, Super-Reflexes and Super-Speed from his intense training, and thus, every problem he comes across is one he resolves by hitting it or using physical force against it somehow. The trick lies in the creative ways he uses his strength to bypass the problems if it's one he simply can't attack through, such as a test that featured magical writing that turned into intelligible gibberish when read. Mash simply crushed his pencil into dust and threatened the magic words to order themselves correctly, thus allowing him to read the answer.
- When He Smiles: Chapter 158 has Mash sport a genuine smile for the first time in the manga while he's letting everyone who came to help in the fight against Innocent Zero know how happy he is to have met all of them.
- The Worf Effect: Loses his first fight with Master Doom and his second one with a fully-powered Innocent Zero to show how powerful they are.
- World's Strongest Man: In a world of wizards and magic, Mash is able to stand alongside them and even surpass many using just his impossible physical strength.
- Would Hit a Girl: A heroic example. He has beaten up two girls, one being a traitor and the other being rival fighter Margarette Macaron. Though he did hold back and only hurt them enough to subdue them.
- Victory Through Intimidation: What is Mash's answer to overcoming Examiner Claude Lucci's enchanted test? He crushes his own pen into unrecognizable fragments and then politely asks the letters to stop moving. The letters become so terrified of him that they literally arrange themselves into the correct answer for him.
Lemon Irvine
Her magic allows her to create and manipulate bindings like handcuffs and legcuffs.
- A Day in the Limelight: Gets particular focus in the anime's "Creampuff Funk" ED.
- Adaptational Hairstyle Change: A downplayed example. She has a bob cut in the manga, which gradually grows longer as the series progesses, while the anime has her hair being shoulder-length from the get-go.
- Character Check: Lemon's "unhinged" aspects from Komoto's earlier drafts and appearances of the character comedically return in the last few chapters.
- Covert Pervert: She often imagines herself being ravished by Mash (and on one occasion, by him and his three friends). Her magic being control over chains can also be an indication of having some strong obsessions, as noted below.
- Cute and Psycho: A generally harmless example of this trope, but she does display behaviour that surprises people.
- Damsel in Distress: She keeps getting captured and used as bait for Mash.
- The Ditz: A slight case. She doesn't always think things out very well.
- Friend to All Living Things: She loves animals, and hates to see them maltreated, One of her spells involves removing collars from a cerberus, earning its friendship.
- Hair of Gold, Heart of Gold: She has blond hair, and treats people nicely. Even when she tries being evil and betrays Mash, she can't manage it for too long.
- Maybe Ever After: A rare one sided example. Lemon reiterates her desire to be Mash’s wife. For Mash’s part…. Erm… While he’s pretty deadpan about it as usual, he doesn’t outright say no. So hey, how’s that for a consolation prize?
- Personality Powers: Lemon's Personal Magic is Levios Cuffus, allowing her to create and unlock shackles. This symbolizes the duality of her clingy stalker nature and good heart underneath.
- Rescue Romance: She falls for Mash after he saves and forgives her.
- Secret Squatter: In the epilogue, she's taken up living in Mash's home. He had no idea she was in his home until a month after he came back.
- The Smurfette Principle: In the first collected volume's notes, Komoto explains that he only inserted Lemon into the story at the behest of his editor and had up until that point never drawn girls that much. However, he warmed up to her character over the time and gave her more to say and do in the story.
- Squee: Her reaction whenever Mash does something incredible.
- Stalker with a Crush: Played for Laughs. In the finale she's moved into Mash's house without him knowing.
- Weight Woe: She isn't fat, but doesn't like her measurements being stated outright. In her profile, her weight is listed as "equal to 3 strawberries".
Finn Ames
Voiced by: Reiji Kawashima (Japanese), Brian Timothy Anderson (English)
Live actor: Hiroi Yuto
Live actor: Hiroi Yuto
His magic, Changeas, allows him to swap places with anything. He later also learns how to heal.
- Character Development: In his fight with Carpaccio, he gains the strength to stand by Mash.
- Drama-Preserving Handicap: His injuries from the Master Doom fight prevent him from using his healing magic during the final battle against Innocent Zero.
- First Friend: For Mash.
- Hair of Gold, Heart of Gold: Downplayed. While he is entirely kindhearted, Finn has a gold streak on the left side of his hair.
- Kryptonite Is Everywhere: By the time he gets a good grasp on his swapping magic after fighting Delisaster, every subsequent foe he faces like Doom and Innocent Zero are too fast for him to use it on as he requires line-of-sight to activate it.
- The Medic: In the lead up to the final battle, he learns healing magic from one of the Visionaries, leading to him being able to use his Secondth, "Butterfly Sanitatem", a Butterfly/Saint entity that is able to heal.
- Only Sane Man: The most reasonable of Mash’s friends, and because of this the one who is frequently shocked at his antics.
Word of Saint Paul also describe him as "the tsukkomi" of the cast, acting like the one to realistically reacts at other characters' ridiculous moments. He reaches his breaking point when Mash moves the whole continent and tries to point out how absurd it is compared to his other feats of strength. - Personality Powers: Changeas' basic application lets Finn swap objects and persons in a given range for a quick escape or to bring in someone else to help him, reflecting his tendency to run away from problems and to have other people solve them for him. Its Secondth evolution is emblematic of how he's changed as a person with a new desire to be of help to those around him, even if it means that he has to put himself on the frontline to do so.
- Sibling Team: Forms one with Rayne during the final arc, teaming up with him against Delisaster. While Finn is still low on fighting power, his newly acquired healing powers even out the fight and ultimately turn the tables in Rayne's favor.
- Swap Teleportation: Though it's seen rarely, his personal magic is swapping the positions of people and objects, including himself.
Lance Crown
A powerful wizard with two lines on his face.
His magic allows him to control gravity.
- Ambiguous Situation: The manga's final chapter has Mash passing up on becoming a Divine Visionary and recommending Lance for the position instead, but it's left undefined if he or anyone else for that matter was given that year's spot.
- Baby Morph Episode: Parodied in Season 2 Episode 8. Sitter Baby transformed Lance into a baby (although it retains his intellect and masculine voice) until the former's defeat via a minimal amount of his Sectional Graviole.
- Badass Bookworm: Lance is known as the top-ranked student of the class by his peers, and as a two-liner, he is also a powerful Gravity Master.
- Big Brother Instinct: Seeing how genuinely clueless Mash is and how he'll probably flunk out of Easton on his own, Lance decides to watch out for and guide him after he wins his respect. This seeps into aiding Lemon and Finn when they need it, and he can sometimes muster up the energy to do the same for Dot.
- Dangerous Forbidden Technique: Graviole Chain Epicurus is an attack that drops a huge, layered stack of his regular Graviole technique onto a given area. While he can cast it without the energy or build-up required for his Seconds or Thirds magics, it puts an incredible strain on a body presumably too weakened to use those higher-level spells.
- Dark and Troubled Past: His parents tried to dispose of his sister because she got sick and had her magic reduced to near zero. Infuriated at this, he strove to become a Divine Visionary to protect her.
- Deus Exit Machina: Gets lost in the Lang hideout after his battle with Wirth, separating him from his companions and leaving them to fight Abel and eventually Cell War on their own without his powerful gravity magic backing them up.
- Former Teen Rebel: Spent his middle school years getting into random fights for no reason. Now that he's trying to become a Divine Visionary, he has since cleaned up his act to better his chances of attaining coins, though he's still willing to duel other students for theirs.
- Gravity Master: His personal magic involves manipulating gravity.
- Incest Subtext: He loves his little sister Anna more than a normal person should. Many people don't hesitate to comment and call him out on it.
- "Instant Death" Radius: If an opponent is close enough to Lance for him to hear them if they just slightly raise their voice, they're probably in range of his Graviole magic.
- Invincible Hero: Unlike Dot or even Mash, Lance's powerful magic and tactical savvy allowed him to cruise through much of series without a single onscreen loss until the final arc had him contend with Master Doom and Innocent Zero.
- Motive Decay: Makes a mental note towards the end that he might have been able to either find a cure for Anna or at least make more progress in protecting her rights if he hadn't tagged along with Mash's adventures, but acknowledges that his sister would likely approve of him helping people and stopping villains despite the detour.
- My Sister Is Off-Limits: After Anna awakens due to Epidem's defeat, he becomes dangerously overprotective at any contact from those he feels have lustful intentions for her. (Read: Nearly any of the guys.)
- Not So Stoic:
- He has an extreme dislike for bugs. During the penultimate arc when the party stumbles across a bug-filled flower bed, Lance foams from his mouth and begging for Dot to help him before promptly passing out from fear.
- Lance's otherwise unshakeable composure finally shatters into a ghastly snarl when he thinks that his friends are getting too close to Anna in the final chapter.
- Pocket Protector: His robe is lined all over with high-quality metal pins featuring Anna's likeness that unintentionally serve this purpose.
- Power-Up Food: Breathes from a paper bag filled with air from his sister Anna's bedroom as a pick-me-up before he and Dot battle Epidem.
- Stock Shōnen Rival: Takes this role opposite Mash, though they become allies and eventually friends once it transpires that their interests in reforming society to stop the oppression of the underprivileged align quite seamlessly.
- Suddenly Always Knew That: Parodied when he remarks on Mash pushing the continent they're all on out of the way of Innocent Zero's final attack with familiarity and identifies it as the Continental Kickboard. Finn shrieks that none of them knew Mash was capable of such a move, let alone that it had a formal name.Lance: What more do you want? It's the Continental Kickboard.
- Unrealistic Black Hole: His Graviole Thirds: Nemesis Inclination lets him litter the battlefield with small vortexes that can manipulate gravity independently.
- Worthy Opponent: Obsession with his sister aside, Lance's intelligence and might makes him very easy to respect as a magician and to fear as a foe. Mash, typically confident in his ability to win fights, is unsure which of them would win if they ever fought seriously against each other.
Dot Barrett
A determined and confrontational delinquent spellcaster whose ambitions to be the main character and acquire a girlfriend are ever-thwarted by his social awkwardness and instinctive jealousy.
His magic allows him to cast explosions around him and opponents.
- All Love Is Unrequited: Dot has a crush on Lemon, but she does not feel the same way.
- Baby Morph Episode: Parodied. In Season 2 Episode 8, Dot was transformed into a baby by Sitter Baby (although his transformation retains his intellect and masculine voice), but he was later reverted back into his normal age after the latter was defeated by Lance.Baby Dot: BABABABABABAA?! (WHAT THE HELL?!)
- Beware the Nice Ones: He may treat any women with respect, but warns that if anyone insults his friends to an extreme degree, they will not be spared from his wrath.
- Badasses Wear Bandanas: He wears a black and white bandana and is a badass delinquent wizard with explosion magic.
- Because You Were Nice to Me: Dot's Cool Big Sis explained that a real friend is someone who gets sad or angry on your behalf. Realizing that Mash has done that for him causes Dot to finally recognize him as a pal.
- Casanova Wannabe: Dot wishes to have a girlfriend, but being the unpopular guy in the Academy, he has no luck after being rejected by girls many times, especially Lemon.
- Cross Attack: One of his facial markings is a cross, which is part of the "Ira Kreuz", a power given to only a few special magic users. His magic takes the form of crosses, and at one point he wears a suit with crosses on it.
- From his looks and constant yelling, he's one to Eijiro Kirishima.
- Did Not Get the Girl: Unfortunately for him, despite his devotion to Lemon, Dot fails to woo Lemon because she is Mash’s (self-proclaimed) fiancée.
- Facial Horror: Parodied. After his offscreen loss against Abel, he spends the rest of the Magia Lupus arc with his face comically caved in while retaining all his other ambulatory faculties.
- Fiery Redhead: He has red hair and has a hot temper.
- Flipping the Bird: Dot does this towards pretty boys, especially Lance. Averted in the anime, as it turns into a thumbs down after he defeats an unnamed Lang student; however, his flip-off hand was seen a few times, but it's censored with pixelations.
- Green-Eyed Monster: Whilst being an otherwise hardworking and surprisingly studious young man, whenever he starts thinking about how he's so unpopular with the ladies, he blames the men around him for making him look bad in preference to improving himself.
- Large Ham: He loves screaming and ranting his lines.
- Hidden Depths: Despite looking like a typical delinquent, he's one of the top students in terms of academics, can play classical instruments, and his Trademark Favourite Food being herbal tea. In the past as well, he used to be rather timid and bullied by his peers.
- Linear Warriors, Quadratic Wizards: An internal example relating to his magical power output. While his growth from Orter's training is modest, his Ira Kreuz abilities absurdly skyrocket, allowing him to create constructs and weaponry.
- Having a Blast: His personal magic involves blowing things up.
- Nosebleed: Dot lets out a nosebleed when he thinks Lemon is cute.
- Quick Draw: Vanquishes Epidem by firing his spells so fast that they collide with his opponent's before they have a chance to launch, eventually overwhelming the villain.
- Rejection Affection: Quite a lot he gets this.
- The Rival: Tries to be one to everyone in terms of combat, and in terms of romance is one to Mash for Lemon's affection, but in both cases neither works out for him.
- Schmuck Bait: His "landmine" spells are actually time bombs that have devastating attack power but really long countdowns, so he lies about what they are so his opponents will believe that they won't trigger so long as they aren't touched.
- Shonen Hair: The anime gives him spiky hair to make him stand out as a (self-declared) classic shonen protagonist.
- Small Name, Big Ego: He makes his debut believing he's the hero of the story.
- Stupid Good: Despite his craftiness in combat, Dot stands out among his friends for being traditionally honorable and proud. Whereas Mash or Lance would do something brutally cunning to save a hostage, Dot would acquiesce to the hostage takers demands in fear of hurting their captive if a straightforward solution isn't apparent. Unlike Finn who would (and does) run away from a threat, Dot would choose to stand his ground even with no hope of winning. These are not depicted as wholly unfavorable attitudes, but they do cause him problems that he could've avoided if he had been as flexible as his allies.
- When All You Have Is a Hammer…: His explosion magic is surprisingly versatile for offense and defense.
Tom Knowles
Voiced by: Wataru Komada (Japanese), Kaiji Tang (English)
One of Mash's upperclassmen. Tom is a seasoned athlete, much beloved by his fellow students for his friendly, if loud, personality and proficiency in Duelo.- Demoted to Extra: After the first few episodes, Tom is no longer a core member to Mash's group though he still sometimes accompanies.
- Hot-Blooded: A major reason he's so popular with his classmates, and why Mash can't endure being around him for very long. Unlike Dot, Tom can't seem to turn it off.
- Lovable Jock: Especially rare in a setting where half of the cast is a jerk to the main character.
- Sixth Ranger: He's usually the sixth one on The Team, despite not appearing very often after the first arc.
- Small Role, Big Impact: His persistent encouragement eventually inspires Mash to try to really use his broom when he was originally resigned to never being able to do so. The resulting manner in which he learns how to "fly" (kicking his legs fast enough that he hovers) enables him to save Wahlberg's life when Innocent Zero is poised to strike him down in the skies of Easton.
Max Land
Voiced by: Makoto Furukawa (Japanese), Clifford Chapin (English)
An affable and intelligent third-year who specializes in size-changing magic. He teams up with Mash during the key-searching round of the Divine Visionary competition.- Best Friend: And also The Confidant, to Rayne. Max's dialogue shows that Rayne tells him lots of stories that he normally doesn't share with others. They're also roommates, and he sometimes takes care of Rayne's rabbits while the latter isn't around for them.
- Nice Guy: Feels a responsibility to help and protect the ridiculously strong Mash as his senior, even going so far as to try and prevent Carpaccio Luo-Yang from assaulting him.
- Sizeshifter: His magic allows him to mildly increase or decrease the sizes of things, including himself.
Rayne Ames
His magic, Partisan, allows him to summon and control an infinite amount of swords.
- The Ace: He is able to unlock his wand’s full potential and make use of its godlike powers.
- Aloof Big Brother: He acts somewhat distant to his younger brother Finn, but he notes that Mash’s presence has improved him, and as a sign of gratefulness he gives Mash his support whenever he can. In their battle against Delisaster, Rayne is shown to have willingly distanced himself from his little brother in an attempt to keep him safe from the political enemies he was making. However, Finn ended up interpreting his distance as Rayne being disappointed in him due to his lack of potential. While it's left in an open ending, they seem to mend this raft after the battle against Delisaster.
- The Comically Serious: Keeps a straight face no matter what kind of ridiculous thing comes out of his mouth. He even buys Delisaster's joke of human having scales because they evolved from fishes.
- Inconsistent Spelling: While Word of God notes that the correct latin spelling of his name should be "Rain", however as the English copies of the manga have already been published with the "Rayne" writing at that time, the name sticks.
- Jerk with a Heart of Gold: Rayne has a very cold, serious demeanor and can be rather brutal towards his opponents. But he's also one of Walhberg's most trusted confidants because he shares his compassion towards non-magical users.
- Hidden Depths: Downplayed as he doesn't try to hide it intensively, but Rayne is a big fan of rabbits, owning 9 of which as pets, and he remembers each of their name and individual likes or dislikes, despite all of them look the same to outsiders. In a trivia (shown in the second opening) he has a habit of sprinkling rabbit food all over himself, thus his pets can have a meal and cuddle at the same time. His personal items also have a rabbit theme, and are usually associated with the color pink.
- Promotion to Parent: After the passing of his parents, Rayne is forced to take care of Finn and himself at a young age.
- Sibling Team: Forms one with Finn during the final arc, teaming up with him against Delisaster. While Finn is still low on fighting power, his newly acquired healing powers even out the fight and ultimately turn the tables in Rayne's favor.
- The Stoic: He doesn't emote much, but underneath his cold facade it's clear Rayne is a very caring and compassionate individual.
- Storm of Blades: His personal magic, Partisan, allows him to summon and telekinetically manipulate dozens of swords. Its true power is to summon Ares, the god of war, in the form of a trident.
Lang House
Abel Walker
His magic, Marioness, allows him to turn people into puppets and control them.
- Bad Guys Do the Dirty Work: The protagonists help themselves to his stash of stolen gold coins after defeating Magia Lupus. This is especially handy for Mash, as he'd have a hard time earning them academically - being on the outs with most of the school's faculty doesn't help - and he isn't comfortable shaking down other students for them like Abel did.
- Dark and Troubled Past: His mother was killed by a poor resentful person. Ever since, he has looked down on the poor and unprivileged as unworthy of life.
- Defeat Means Friendship: Averted. After Abel is beaten, he only frees the captured students because it's in line with his rules of engagement and Mash is unable to sway his classist philosophies. It's only after Abyss and Mash protect him from Cell War that he starts to come around.
- Everyone Has Standards: While he typically has no issue with tasking Abyss to do everything from recoveries to kidnappings, he finds it in poor taste to have his most trusted agent help him cheat at cards.
- Explaining Your Powers to the Enemy: Deconstructed. Abel arrogantly does this a lot during his fight with Mash, which allows his opponent to quickly find counters to all of his spells. In contrast, Mash's subsequent fight with Cell War has the criminal not do this, which makes for a trickier battle.
- Freudian Excuse: He has an understandable, sympathetic excuse for being the way he is, as his mother was murdered by someone in the very underclass that she was trying to help, dying for her troubles and strongly coloring the way Abel views the world.
- Marionette Master: His personal magic is turning people into puppets to be controlled.
- Mundane Utility: Abel and other people can actually ride atop his Marioness Secondth: Harm Puppet, which can quickly cover a lot of ground thanks to its size, speed, and multiple limbs.
- Security Blanket: He carries around a small marionette that he calls his mother and talks to regularly.
- Social Darwinist: He considers that the lower your class is, the more evil you are. A beating from Mash as well as Abyss Razor saving his life gives him incentive to change this outlook.
- Superpower Lottery: Even when he stops draining people for energy to enhance his abilities, his spells are still powerful enough that he can briefly take control of a godlike Innocent Zero's limbs from an absurd distance away.
- You Have Failed Me: Turns his vassals who underperform into puppets, reasoning that they're more useful to him that way.
Abyss Razor
- Anti-Magic: Thanks to his Magical Eye.
- Cursed with Awesome: Not only can his eye turn off most magic, but it doesn't stop him from using his versatile and very formidable personal magic himself.
- Dark and Troubled Past: He was born to magic-wielding parents, but as someone who could nullify their powers, he was seen as an abomination and they tried to kill him.
- Drama-Preserving Handicap: While his eye can suppress the magic of the average magician, and even that of strong ones like Lance, extremely powerful practitioners like Cell War are unaffected by it. Tellingly, Abyss doesn't even try to use it against Innocent Zero in the final battle, and opts to just use his personal magic to help Mash.
- Evil Counterpart: To Mash. Both were given the same ability of operating as non-magic users, but while Mash was treated with respect and love, Abyss was treated with shame and murderous intent.
- Honor Before Reason: Even Mash can tell that Abyss would have had an easier time fighting any of his friends who came with him instead of the guy who doesn't even use magic to the point that he timidly apologizes for being a bad match-up. Abyss assures him that it was his choice alone as he wanted to confront a kindred outcast from magical society to see how similar or different he is from them.
- Magical Eye: An inverse case of this. His eye nulls magic, which makes it a legitimate weapon in a world of magic users.
- Malevolent Masked Man: He wears a mask to hide his identity. The malevolent part is downplayed; while he’s a rival to Mash it doesn’t last long.
- Red Eyes, Take Warning: Well, one eye, and he’s less actually evil than seen by society as evil.
- Story-Breaker Power: His Anti-Magic can potentially counter any character in the story except for Mash, but is never used.
- Super-Speed: His personal magic is acceleration.
- Undying Loyalty: To Abel, who took him in despite his ostracizing by society. When Cell War attacks Abel, he takes a lethal blow for him.
- The Worf Effect: Despite his skills, spells, and eye, he's beaten offscreen by Domina and forced into fighting Mash again.
Wirth Madl
- Dishing Out Dirt: His personal magic is creating mud.
- Elemental Shapeshifter: Subverted. Wirth pretends to be one by softening the surfaces around the battlefield into mud so that it looks like he disperses whenever he's thrown into them when he's really just sinking below, cushioned from most of the impact. Lance calls his bluff, launching debris into the mud to flush Wirth back out.
- Freudian Excuse: His brother is Orter Madl the Divine Visionary, whose shadow he is seeking to escape.
- Me's a Crowd: Can create duplicates of himself out of mud.
Milo Genius
Voiced by: Shuichiro Umeda (Japanese), Caleb Yen (English)
A student in a more classic wizard get-up who uses earth-based magic. He has the misfortune of having to deal with the unexpected intervention of Rayne Ames after trying to attack his brother Finn.- Named by the Adaptation: Milo was unnamed in the manga, but in the anime, he is given the name, Milo Genius.
- This Cannot Be!: As he falls, he expresses bewilderment at Rayne'a abilities as a Divine Visionary despite him still being a student.
- We Hardly Knew Ye: Is dealt with so quickly that he doesn't even get a chance to give out his name.
Love Cute
Live actress: Mio Hanana
- Abhorrent Admirer: Becomes one to Dot.
- Attention Whore: She demands love, or she’ll kill you. Part of her going after Dot is because he already has Lemon in mind.
- Blow You Away: Her personal magic is conjuring tornadoes.
- Cute and Psycho: Petite and ever-cheerful, yet she wouldn't hesitate to summon gale-force winds on you if you don't give her your affection.
- Magic Staff: Interestingly, unlike most of the other characters, she wields a tall, heart-topped staff in place of a wand.
Olore Andrew
Voiced by: Kenji Nomura (Japanese), Bill Butts (English)
- Making a Splash: His personal magic involves the ocean. He can transport himself and anyone he wishes to a special ocean dimension.
- Shark Man: He can transform himself into a shark in the ocean dimension.
Shinri Anser
Voiced by: Kengo Kawanishi (Japanese), Lucien Dodge (English)
- Captain Obvious: Has a habit of talking exclusively in trite, pseudo-philosophical statements.
- Fuuma Shuriken: His personal magic allows him to manifest and easily throw large shurikens that can split into multiple projectiles or grow in size.
Silva Iron
Voiced by: Toshiki Masuda (Japanese), Alejandro Saab (English)
The first double-liner that Dot, and later Mash, fight. A cruel and arrogant young man who uses iron-based magic.
- Asshole Victim: Gets turned into a puppet as punishment for his failure. As he spent the last few chapters being an arrogant jerk who beat Dot to a bloody pulp, we don't exactly feel sorry for him — but Mash rescues him anyway.
- Bystander Syndrome: During Innocent Zero's attack during the final arc, Silva tries to hide in the chaos rather than try to fight the invading army. He's even content to let a child fend for himself, only for the kid to spot and hide behind Silva, luring monsters to his position.
- Extra-ore-dinary: His personal magic allows him to summon large iron pillars from the ground.
- Forced Transformation: After getting beat and losing his coins to Mash, Abel turns Silva into one of his puppets to punish him for his failure. Fortunately, it doesn't last long — by the next chapter, Mash has turned him back to normal by, erm, smashing his head against the floor.
- Heel–Face Turn: In the final arc he's one of the many magicians holding back Innocent Zero's ultimate attack so Mash can defeat him once and for all.
- Hypocrite: Says how he hates hypocrites who act tougher then they really are, mentally putting themselves above others — as he picks on those weaker then him while boasting about how tough he is.
- Laser-Guided Karma: As he's beating down Dot, he keeps talking about how much he loves seeing the despairing face of his victims after he's messed them up and broken their pride. Five minutes later, he's the one who's broken and despairing after Mash effortlessly beats him down.
- Oh, Crap!: Talks about how he loves seeing this expression on his victims when they realize they stand no chance against him — the kind of expression he has a few minutes later when he realizes he stands no chance against Mash.
- Pet the Dog: Seeing as how he's about to get crushed to death by a giant anyway, Silva uses what few seconds of life he has left to try and push a child he was with clear of the descending foot during the final arc.
- Save the Villain: Is saved from turning into a puppet by Mash, who takes him to the nurse's office. When a bewildered Silva asks why, Mash starts saying how we're all in this together... before accidentally biting his own tongue.
- Smarter Than They Look: Silva is a crude and boastful bully, but his plan with another student to lure people with medals into a position where he could attack and steal them wasn't entirely without thought or merit.
Orca House
Margarette Macaron
Voiced by: Takehito Koyasu (Japanese), Kayleigh McKee (English)
The head prefect of Orca House.- Agent Peacock: They act in a flamboyant manner, but they are a prodigy who participated and won a tournament that they were qualified underage for, and currently possess power and skill comparable to a triple-liner while only having two lines.
- Alliterative Name: Margarette Macaron.
- Arc Villain: They served as the primary antagonist of the Divine Visionary Selection Exam, right up until Innocent Zero crashed the event.
- Badass Finger Snap: Deconstructed. It would be easy to wave this action off as another one of Macaron's exhaustive theatrics, but Mash notices that it prefaces every instance of Super-Speed Margarette initiates. Rather than something done for the sake of putting on the good show, it's actually completely necessary to use this particular ability, masked as it is by Macaron's other excesses.
- Busman's Vocabulary: If the shape of Macaron's lines don't tip you off, then the music-themed terminology they blitz their sentences with during conversation is a pretty good indicator as to what their magic is.
- Logical Weakness: Their Super-Speed is based on snapping their fingers. Mash defeats them by covering their fingers in tartar sauce so they can't snap, thus immobilizing them long enough to get a strong hit in.
- Make Some Noise: When they step up their musical power by transforming younger, it gives them the ability to utilize sound as a weapon and zip around with Super-Speed at the speed of sound.
- Musical Assassin: Margarette's personal magic utilizes music to fight.
- Samus Is a Girl: For most of their screentime, Margarette is tall, broad, has a strong jaw and a buzzcut and is referred to with male pronouns, despite their make-up. While fighting Mash, they use magic to transform into a younger state, and in that form they look much more feminine. After the fight, Margarette mentions that they have "woman's intuition", which makes Dot conclude that they're a girl, which he was wondering about. Per Word of God, Margarette is nonbinary, both male and female.
- Thrill Seeker: They have little ambition beyond finding a fight that will excite them.
- Trademark Favourite Food: Tartar sauce. Before fighting Mash, they absolutely drench a shrimp in tartar sauce and claim that they're putting shrimp on their tartar sauce. Mash is disturbed and Dot is intimidated by this display of madness.
- Villainous Crush: They end up getting a crush on Mash after he defeated them and later claim to be Mash's "fam", which he denies adamantly.
- Wake-Up Call Boss: The first person of Mash' age to force him to fight seriously and legitimately inflict damage on him
Carpaccio Luo-Yang
Voiced by: Kōki Uchiyama (Japanese), Griffin Puatu (English)
- Achilles' Heel: The goddess statue he has to summon to use his wand can be freely attacked without any of the damage being reflected. Destroying it, while difficult, would leave Carpaccio almost powerless.
- Kick the Dog: Tried to attack Mash and Max during the Deadervant's Haunt round of the Divine Visionary contest despite already having a key of his own to escape.
- Lack of Empathy: He has no respect for people as a result of his power. Mash beats him to the point where he feels pain for the first time, giving him understanding and empathy of people's perseverance against odds.
- Liquid Assets: His personal magic is transferring any pain/damage he takes to someone else. This has resulted in him feeling nothing for people.
- Normal Fish in a Tiny Pond: Carpaccio's magic is obnoxious and capable of inflicting great agony, but by the time he shows up, the protagonists have already contended with spells that would trivialize (such as Abel's) or negate (see: Razor's eye) it. Mash, who could've just buried him alive as he'd done to previous enemies, only draws out the fight for as long as he does because he wants to make Carpaccio feel pain.
- Even when he returns in the finale to help fight Innocent Zero, the wounds he makes on the villain just distract and confuse him for a moment.
- Playing with Syringes: His wand can manifest as a statue of a nurse wielding a syringe.
Staff
Wahlberg Baigan
The Headmaster of Easton Academy. He used to be one of Adam Jobs's three pupils, along with Innocent Zero and Mistress Meliadoul.
- An Arm and a Leg: He loses his left arm after his last battle against Innocent Zero.
- Death Glare: When Gail tries to do a sneak attack on him, Wahlberg shoots him a look full of Killing Intent (visualized by a massive axe cleaving into his skull), leaving Gail paralyzed with fear.
- Putting the "Pal" in Principal: He's the first person at Easton who recognizes Mash as an Un-Sorcerer, but he allows him to attend school anyway, having an Egalitarian worldview that makes him stand out in the dog-eat-dog setting.
- Reasonable Authority Figure: He believes that power is wielded depending on the user, and sees Mash is noble enough, never mind his lack of magical status, to give him a chance at Easton.
- Space Master: His personal magic, Spaces, allows him to control space. He can summon Uranus, the sky god, to do his will.
- Wake-Up Call Boss: Briefly puts Mash in an unescapable situation to show him what he's actually against.
- Was It Really Worth It?: He wonders during his battle with Innocent Zero if it was worth defending people weaker than him.
Claude Lucci
Voiced by: Shinnosuke Tachibana (Japanese), David Vincent (English)
A famous professor of Easton Academy. He abuses his role as entry exam mediator to snub applicants from poor households, who don't show immediate promise, or who simply get on his bad side.- Summon Magic: Can do large scale summoning magic without transforming his wand to bring in pre-prepared materials and structures for tests.
Divine Visionaries
A group consisting of the most powerful mages from the major academies in the setting. It is by their hands the world and its rules are shaped. In General
Those who stand at the top of the magic world
- The Arch Mage: They are the current generation's most powerful and influential mages.
- The Chosen Many: Sort of. Magic is considered to be a gift from God, and since the Divine Visionaries are meant to be the best of the best in terms of raw magical talent, the Divine Visionaries are seen as God's chosen soldiers in fighting against evil.
- A Day in the Limelight: When Innocent Zero attacks, they step up to fight his armies and the story gives them prominence.
- Skewed Priorities: They take their job of defending the kingdom seriously, but let slide the problems with the kingdom itself (oppression, corruption).
- Worf Effect: To showcase the power of Zero's sons, Renatus, Tsurara, Sophia, and Agito are all defeated by them and shown being publicly tortured.
Ryoh Grantz
Voiced by: Jun'ichi Suwabe (Japanese), Sean Chiplock (English)
- The Ace: As Captain, he is the best fighter of the Visionaries. The fact he comes the closest to defeating Doom (Innocent Zero's strongest son) out of the Divine Visionaries backs up his claim.
- Camp Straight: Incredibly flamboyant, dandy in his fashion, and possessing long wavy locks, Ryoh actually has a wife and child who he loves very much, and often psyches up his allies with speeches about "manliness".
- Curb Stomp Cushion: Ryoh was doing exceedingly well against Master Doom, and only lost the momentum after committing a single, crucial misplay due to not knowing that his enemy was blind and thus had other ways to sense him after he darkened the area as he readied his Finishing Move.
- The Fighting Narcissist: Will greet his own reflection as he enters a house or joins a battle.
- The Heart: He has the most courage of the Visionaries, and has the most sympathy towards Mash and his efforts.
- Gathering Steam: Ryoh's basic light attack gets stronger and faster if it's used in succession.
- Light 'em Up: His personal magic involves light. He can summon Hyperion, the god of light, to do his will.
- Light Is Good: Vouches for Mash's survival and fearlessly leads the raid on Innocent Zero's citadel in the final arc.
- The Needs of the Many: He’s got no grudge with Mash, but his view is that if popular opinion dictates Mash is a villain, then he’ll treat Mash as a villain. He’d rather please the majority as a smaller and more pragmatic goal, rather than waste time trying to make underdogs and outcasts socially accepted. He has changed this view by the time of Mash's Training from Hell with Meliadoul.
- World's Strongest Man: Considered to be the most powerful of the Divine Visionaries, and ultimately the world's best wizard on the side of good after Wahlberg is forced to retire from combat.
Orter Madl
The Desert Cane
A powerful Divine Visionary, said to be capable of standing atop magic society, with an extreme personality. Opposes Mash's existence on principle.
- Ass Shove: Threatens to shove endless sand up Cell War's ass as a means of torturing information out of him.
- Blind Without 'Em: Orter has poor eyesight due to over-reading. Unusually, his eyes are seen as a pair of 3's with his glasses taken off.
- Black-and-White Morality: He refuses to let any anomalies threaten the stability of the magical world he is a part of. Thus he refuses to consider giving Mash a chance to live in the magical world.
- Brilliant, but Lazy: Despite having attained prestige as a Divine Visionary, he spent much of his career in the police force being a notorious, aloof slacker, forcing his much more passionate and less powerful friend and partner to cover most of their beat which indirectly led to his death.
- Coat Cape: Wears his rope this way. The character fanbook notes that he uses velcro to secure it onto his shoulder.
- Enemy Mine: He adopts this view to Mash, seeing him as a necessary aid against Innocent Zero.
- Fatal Flaw: Sloth. He considers his own strength enough to get him through life and to protect people. This thinking got his friend killed, and though he toughened his stance on the law from then onwards he still finds himself outmatched by Innocent Zero's stronger mages, which makes his arc a matter of accepting flexibility into the world.
- Feeling Oppressed by Their Existence: He despises Mash because his existence doesn't conform to society, but lacks any of the fervent hatred displayed by others towards non-magic users. That said, he still maintains antagonism towards Mash and is seen with a Dartboard of Hate when Dot and Lance get roped into training with him. He fully accepts Mash at the end of the series.
- Freudian Excuse: He was originally more than willing to let things slide until his friend died attempting to enforce the law to create a world with a level playing field. This resulted in him adopting and reinterpreting his friend's dream beyond its original intentions.
- I Gave My Word: He agrees to let Mash live if he can prove his worth against Innocent Zero. He keeps his word.
- Jerkass Has a Point: Though it's generally conformism, he isn't wrong to consider Mash a threat given his connection to the Big Bad Innocent Zero.
- No-Nonsense Nemesis: Whether you're hero or villain, Orter won't mince words if he's fighting you, and he fights to win as fast and completely as possible. Unlike most characters, he does not preface his spells with grand declarations, only naming his attacks a grand total of once in the series. Even when invoking a Summon with his wand, he opts not to waste any time saying what god he is benefitting from, and just starts turning the landscape around him into deadly magical quicksand.
- Order Versus Chaos: He considers himself the Order to Mash's Chaos.
- Rules Lawyer: He obeys the law, not the people who make them. So long as a rule is still in place, he will enforce it and ignore any exceptions to it.
- Sand Blaster: His personal magic allows him to conjure and manipulate sand.
- The Spock: He is flat, inflexible and rational to the point of cold-bloodedness... but he is not without a conscience, and can bend rules if things are desperate enough.
- Training from Hell: Is put up to this by Wahlberg of all people to train Dot and Lance. His version is to constantly attack them while they protect their only water in a desert.
- Well-Intentioned Extremist: All he wants is to keep society functioning by eradicating all non-conformist elements that could threaten it. This gives him enough motive to sabotage Mash's chances of becoming a Divine Visionary by any means he chooses.
Renatus Revol
Voiced by: Kishow Taniyama (Japanese), Darius Marquis Johnson (English)
The Immortal Cane
The Immortal Cane.
- God of the Dead: He is able to summon Thanatos, god of the dead, to do his bidding.
- Pragmatic Hero: He is prepared to have Mash as his ally, to help Easton Academy hold its own against its rival magical schools.
- Reasonable Authority Figure: He is quick to defend Mash and even gives him a chance to prove himself with what should be an impossible test for the average individual. He also doesn't take kindly to Orter's attempt to play Hanging Judge with Mash, drawing his wand on his colleague to prove his point.
- Resurrective Immortality: He comes back to life after getting killed.
Kaldo Gehanna
Voiced by: Nobunaga Shimazaki (Japanese), Zeno Robinson (English)
The Flame Cane
A Divine Visionary with a fondness for sweets.- Playing with Fire: His personal magic is summoning black flames that burn all away. It fits since his name refers to the Yiddish realm of hell.
- Trademark Favorite Food: Honey. Will drown anything from sashimi to coffee in the stuff similar to Margarette's tartar sauce obsession. It's even his Power-Up Food when he needs extra strength. He's hurt that others do not share the same love of honey he does.
- Training from Hell: A noteworthy aversion compared to Meliadoul and Orter's training. Finn fully expects this going in, but only ends up preparing food and healing bunnies. Despite his incredulity, Finn's Healing Magic has advanced to the point where it can outpace the regeneration given by a demon heart.
- Villain Respect: He challenges Mash to a game of three trials. Mash wins the first two, but gets distracted and loses the last one, but Kaldo forgives him, saying it doesn't count.
Tsurara Halestone
Voiced by: Tomori Kusunoki (Japanese), Lisa Reimold (English)
The Ice Cane
The Ice Cane.- Ambiguous Gender Identity: Tsurara's gender is deliberately meant to be ambiguous, and Word of God is that they are both male and female.
- An Ice Person: Their personal magic is summoning ice. It fits since they are named after icicles ("tsurara") and hailstones.
- Required Secondary Powers: Averted. Tsurara is not immune to the cold temperatures their magic creates.
Sophina Biblia
Voiced by: Saori Hayami (Japanese), Cristina Valenzuela (English)
The Knowledge Cane
The Knowledge Cane.- Accent Slip-Up: When Sophina gets mad, she speaks in an aggressive Hiroshima dialect.
- Badass Bookworm: Uses words to enchant people. This fits with her being named after wisdom ("sofia") and books ("biblia").
- Calling Your Attacks: A core part of her magic requires her to orate full sentences for maximum effect. Delisaster overcomes this by powering through her attacks to put his hand over her mouth.
Agito Tyrone
The Dragon Cane
The Dragon Cane.- Apologetic Attacker: Pleads for mercy whenever he has to use his cane, because he always kills with it.
- Combat Sadomasochist: He believes that pain is what makes us human and writhes in pleasure when he's cut up mid-battle. He wears the spiked collar to punish himself.
Walkis Magic Academy
Domina Blowelive
Master over water magic
One of the top students at Walkis Academy.- Artificial Human: He is one of Innocent Zero's children.
- Back from the Dead: Combined with Big Damn Heroes during Chapter 145 of the manga.
- The Berserker: His true nature is this. When he loses his temper, he cannot be stopped until everyone around him is massacred.
- Dark and Troubled Past: Was raised as a prisoner, weapon, and assassin by Innocent Zero.
- Defeat Means Friendship: Being defeated by Mash, then offered sympathy by him.
- Difficult, but Awesome: The water magic he uses is rather versatile, but it requires a lot of finesse and planning to be truly effective. Compare this to the simpler but more immediately useful powers of Domina's siblings.
- Driven by Envy: Turns out, he knew Mash from the time they were babies, and realized that Mash could be his true rival for favor from Innocent Zero, and so has dedicated himself to exterminating Mash forever.
- Freudian Excuse: He was twisted from a young age by Innocent Zero to have Blind Obedience towards him and to work for his bidding only. Mash calls him out on his way of thinking.
- Karmic Jackpot: For his help in defeating Innocent Zero, he's allowed to return to Walkis Academy after he's brought back to life in the penultimate chapter.
- Licked by the Dog: Domina is the only person who Mash has nothing bad to say about in his letter declining the Divine Visionary position.
- Liquid Assets: Literally. Domina is capable of growing stronger the more water is in his immediate area, and he can create such with his spells, making him virtually invulnerable to harm and impossible to exhaust. Mash manages to weaken him by swiftly bailing out the water he flooded their battlefield with away from Domina faster than he could bring in more, making it so that he could be physically struck again.
- Making a Splash: His personal magic is the ability to control water. He can even summon the water god Poseidon.
- Power Incontinence: Domina's massive magic reserves kept leaking out of him as a child in devastating torrents that wrecked whatever room he was in, resulting in him being put in a cage as a baby, and an underground prison cell as a toddler while his siblings had more freedom to walk around.
- Redemption Equals Death: He saves Mash from being dissolved in lava by transporting him to safety with a waterspout, and stays behind to get dissolved himself. It's ambiguous as to whether he could have saved himself too, since he was clearly broken up over Innocent Zero abandoning him.
- Redemption Equals Life: Was saved by Ryoh Grantz and given another heart by Meliadoul. Like many, despite having been killed by Innocent Zero, he's brought back when time was reversed. Is shown living a free man after his father has been stopped.
- Sadist: He takes great pleasure in hurting people.
- Unknown Rival: Has despised Mash since they were babies, but having been a more typical infant at the time, Mash has no memories of Domina at all.
- Villainous Breakdown: He gets more desperate and agitated as his fight with Mash goes on, eventually just halting and breaking down in tears. It goes on for long enough across the fight that Mash starts to get tired of his whingeing.
- Weak, but Skilled: Has the highest magical aptitude and ability of his brothers, but he's comparatively smaller and physically weaker than they are.
- "Well Done, Son" Guy: His every action is to make his father, Innocent Zero, happy, and to be his best ever son.
Levis Rosequartz
The Dual Wielding Delinquent
A former Easton student who transferred to Walkis.- Abusive Parents: He and his twin brother were abused by his father whenever either made a mistake.
- Covered in Scars: From his abusive upbringing.
- Dual Wielding: As a triple-liner, he's capable of using two wands at once for more complex spells.
- Dark and Troubled Past: His family upholds victory above all else, to the point of beating their children if the results aren't perfect. Levis' twin brother, so as to protect him from said abuse, deliberately does bad at school to take the punishments in Levis stead despite his Delicate and Sickly condition, making him bedridden. Levis did not intervene in fear of him suffering the same fate, making him feel guilty and helpless. Thus, he is determined to win no matter the cost and no matter the damage he himself takes.
- Identical Twin ID Tag: Levis and Lovie are identical twins, thus their appearance are similar, down to their magic marks. Lovie has Tareme Eyes, showing his more demure personality, while Levis has Tsurime Eyes and sharp-like teeth. Levis later awaken another magic line and wear an eyepatch over his right eye, further distinguishing the differences.
- Inferiority Superiority Complex: Under the façade of an overconfident and selfish person, Lévis is deeply insecure and believes himself to be weak - hence his need to be on top to avoid being trampled and abused.
- Jerk with a Heart of Gold: While is self-serving and doesn't hesitant to use other people for his benefit, Levis is a good friend to those he trusts, is a Graceful Loser, and gives credits where credits' due. He's also one of the first to pull a Heel–Face Turn and aid Mash's party against Innocent Zero in the Tri-Magic-Athalon Arc.
- Enfante Terrible: He was expelled from Easton because he beat up one of their gifted teachers.
- Evil Twin: He admits he's this between him and his brother. Unusually, he regrets having adopted this role since it was only how his father saw him.
- Magnetism Manipulation: His personal magic is the ability to manipulate magnetic forces, especially using metallic objects as projectiles. He can even summon Adamas, the god of magnetism, to form Elemental Armor from iron sand.
- Necessary Drawback: His Confinement Box spell creates a Prison Dimension so inescapable that not even Mash can break out of it on his own. However, once the box traps someone inside of it, two keys to open it are automatically generated, and must be guarded lest a target's allies get their hands on them.
- Obviously Evil: A sadist who sports an Eyepatchof Power and More Teeth than the Osmond Family.
- Royal Brat: He's the son of the Chief of the Bureau of Magic.
- Sibling Yin-Yang: Levis is foul-mouthed, not hesitant in dirty tricks or violent outbursts, and has a short temper. His older twin Lovie on the other hand, is kind and supportive.
- Selective Magnetism: Levis can place "N"(North) or "S"(South) marks on people or objects to pull or push them where he wants. Due to his skill and strength, he can dispel, change, or swap these marks almost instantly, and he's capable of putting them on targets that are very far away such as an airborne Innocent Zero.
- Shock and Awe: His second form of magic is lightning, which he possibly inherited from his brother's wand after the latter fell ill and unable to use magic properly.
- Shut Up, Kirk!: Despite Mash attempting to find common ground with him, Levis rebuffs him and says he's nothing compared to Domina.
Charles Contini
- Evil Counterpart: He's one to Lance, as both have relative complexes. Lance has his sister, while Contini has his mother. Both end up disgusting the other with their issues.
- Momma's Boy: He is unabashedly affectionate towards his mother and a proud Momma's boy. Charles even delays his duel with Lance due to his mother calling him, and his call with her shows him to be very obedient towards her.
- Thinking Up Portals: His personal magic allows him to create portals that grant him near-instant speed without dealing with movement, friction or lag.
Innocent Zero
General
A criminal organization that utilizes magic for tyranny.
- Healing Factor: They all have some degree of this thanks to their demon hearts.
- Hero's Evil Predecessor: All of Innocent Zero's loyal and super-powerful kids were created before Mash.
- Practically Different Generations: Doom, the eldest, is 15 years older than Mash, the youngest.
- Theme Naming: Some of their names seem to be various references to the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse. Cell War, Domina (as in, a reference to the Horseman of Conquest), Famin (to the Horseman of Famine), Epidem (a reference to the Horseman of Pestilence) and Doom (to the Horseman of Death)
- Transformation Is a Free Action: Averted in an alternate timeline where Innocent Zero had all his remaining loyal sons attack Mash at the same time. Judging from the appearance of their broken bodies, this version of Mash evidently beat them all down before they had a chance to use their higher forms of magic with only Zero himself managing to achieve his final form.
Innocent Zero
Voiced by: Shin-ichiro Miki (Japanese), Jalen K. Cassell (English)
- Achilles' Heel: His time-stopping spells cannot prevent him from taking damage from attacks he receives during them or from an attack he didn't notice before he cast it.
- Archnemesis Dad: Turns out he's the one who created Mash, and wants his body so that he can inhabit it. After years of emotionally brainwashing Domina, Innocent Zero callously abandons him when Domina fails.
- Dark and Troubled Past: Parodied. After being beaten, he tries to reminisce about his past and how he became how he is today, Mash interrupts him and refuses to show him any sympathy.
- Deconstruction: Of the action shounen manga Big Bad. Innocent Zero plays a smorgasbord of motifs and cliches associated with this trope completely straight, but the type of story he's in lampoons the excess and contrivance of all of them.
- Antagonist Abilities: Innocent Zero's core magics Timez, Darkness, and Spaces have incredibly diverse applications, but due to his arrogance, he only uses them in the most direct ways possible for attack or as lazy "cheats" to defend himself. The final chapters tacitly condemn him for being so blessed as it's shown how much good he was capable of if he hadn't chosen to be so selfish; even Mash, ignorant as he can be, has some sense of his potential.
- Invincible Villain: His expertise with time magic alone ought to make him unbeatable, but there's still a very human reservoir of willpower in his body no matter how much he mutates it. Ultimately, rather than his power running out or his body hitting its limit, his spirit is what breaks first from Mash's endless beatings across all the time resets he creates, leading to his surrender.
- Luke, I Am Your Father: He's Mash's creator, but while he's a bit shocked at the news, his technical offspring comes to not really care about this connection at all since he was raised by someone else, never knew Innocent Zero, and he doesn't feel obligated to try just because they're "family" due to all the destruction he's causing.
- Freudian Excuse: Thinks he has one, but he's abruptly interrupted from even ruminating on it by Mash, who just wants to get their final battle over with. From what little is seen of it, and for as opinionated as Innocent Zero is on the matter, it's clear that it could never possibly justify all the evil he consciously chose to commit throughout his long life.
- New Powers as the Plot Demands: Pulls out new spells and forms whenever it looks like he's about to lose only for Mash to match him in kind with comical and borderline vulgar enhancements of his own.
- We Used to Be Friends: Wahlberg and Meliadoul, his fellow apprentices and former comrades, oppose him but don't hate him (Melidoul actually considers Ochoa to be a worse person than Innocent Zero), and he in turn thinks of them favorably even as they fight. The two of them still make sure that he goes to jail for his crimes in the final chapter.
- Expy: Of Lord Voldemort from Harry Potter. He shares a lot of qualities with the Dark Lord such as...:
- Embodiment of Vice: Pride and Arrogance. He is the philosophy of this world's people taken to its natural conclusion. In a setting where magical power is everything, where those with greater power hold absolute authority over those with less, he is what happens when such a world births a person whose power is far higher than anyone else's. The lives of everyone else in the world are meaningless to him, the most powerful wizard in the world. In his mind, it is perfectly right for all people to give up their lives and their magic so that he can live forever. After all, if the lives of those with low or no magic are less than ants, and the gulf between him and the rest of the world is as vast as the gulf between the rest of the world and someone without magic, then everyone in the world is an ant and he is the only human in the world, the only existence whose wants and needs matter.
- The Faceless: His default appearance has no facial features at all. He can revert to his original appearance at will, where he looks like a Bishōnen.
- Failure Is the Only Option: To his shock, there is literally no timeline where he beats Mashle. He is always doomed to be pummeled, with some worse than others.
- Godhood Seeker: Plans to become an almighty god by fusing the 6 hearts of his sons with his own.
- Given Name Reveal: Innocent Zero, like the name of the crime organization he's leading, is an alias. His original name is revealed to be Cyril Marcus.
- Good Powers, Bad People: Even as a human, he can cast Timez Thirds: Return Force, which allows him to return time to other people without rewinding events, effectively making him capable of healing the injured and bringing back the dead for free. It's just that Innocent Zero is too selfish and murderous to ever consider using it, and only deigns to do so to upend his actions on his own terms rather than let Mash get the last word in.
- Immortal Immaturity: Mash bluntly accuses him of this, which notably phases Zero's normal arrogant mask.Mash: Don't you think you've outgrown using nicknames? I mean, someone as old as you going by "Innocent Zero"? Its a little cringe. [...] You should consider working for a living. This immortality thing isn't doing you any favors.
- In Spite of a Nail: To his surprise, he finds out that no matter how many times he turns back time and redoes his match against Mash, he always loses and sometimes even loses worse than before.
- It's All About Me: He named the organization he leads after himself.
- Narcissist: He shamelessly claims that all humans exist for his sake and only he is allowed to be an immortal. He wants to become the perfect being, free of all malady and possessing all power.
- Not So Above It All: The normally stoic and emotionless villan makes the same comically surprised and super-deformed face when Mashle does something as bizarre as swimming hard enough to move a continent.
- One-Winged Angel: His final form, utilizing his sons' hearts, is a being with demon horns and wings. This evolves even further into an Angelic Abomination once he's properly synched up with them.
- Parental Neglect: Only deigns to interact with his sons if he needs something from them, and he's so detached from them otherwise that he completely lost track of Mash who he just let wander around his hideout until he eventually got lost outside of it.
- Power Parasite: Reconfiguring his body so many times has caused Innocent Zero to manifest the ability to steal magic of other people. He has stolen the magic of Wahlberg and his old teacher Adam Jobs. However, his body has trouble handling multiple magic forms.
- Quick Draw: One of the more mundane benefits of Innocent Zero's years of study and training is that he can cast spells at the absolute minimum human reaction time of 0.1 seconds, giving him ample chances to either get the drop on an opponent or counter them easily.
- The Stoic: Like his sons Doom and Mash, his face barely emotes. However, even he is left slackjawed when Mash uses his wand to stop a tsunami.
- Time Master: His personal magic allows him to manipulate time itself. He can even summon the time god Chronos to do his will.
- Time Stands Still: Has two variants of this ability. Timez Rate which slows a target's speed down to 1/100th so they're pretty much paralyzed, and the stronger Timez Unmove which just freezes the time for everything in Innocent Zero's immediate area.
- Wrong Genre Savvy: Unleashes Darkness Thirds: Divine Punishment in the final chapters of the manga, a massive solid sphere of energy that he believes Mash will sacrifice himself to dispel since he's willfully tanked every other darkness attack he's thrown to prevent collateral damage. Mash proceeds to push the continent everyone is standing on out of its way, and deal with the ensuing tsunami rather than confront the attack directly.
Doom
Unbearable Might
Innocent Zero's first son.- The Ace: He's the strongest fighter. His personal magic allows him to mirror his movements as well as conjure mirror duplicates of himself or Caladbolg. He is also able to summon Freyja, the god of bounty that creates one hundred exact copies of himself.
- BFS: His personal weapon, known as Caladbolg, is a huge and unusually shaped sword.
- Blind Weaponmaster: Shown during his fight with Ryoh Grantz. All of his feats of strength and speed were done despite him not being able to see. This is unfortunate for Ryoh because it makes his Secondth completely useless.
- Fights Like a Normal: Generally prefers to fight foes without his magic and instead rely his boosted physical abilities (Thanks to a Master Cane), only using it when properly forced to. And to his credit it works out, as he managed to defeat a Divine Visionary without using it.
- Handicapped Badass: He has no eyes, but is Innocent Zero's strongest soldier.
- Healing Factor: Takes damage during his fights, but heals quickly due to his Demon Heart. Because it requires Magic Power to work, he stops healing once he uses up all of his Magic Power by fueling his Master Cane and casting his Thirds.
- It Only Works Once: At 100% power usage, he can use Mirage Thirds: Hundred Avatar Mirage, which lets him summon a hundred clones of himself who are just as strong as he is at 100%. However, when Mash just opts to throw them off of Innocent Zero's floating fortress, Doom can't cast it again and has to face his brother alone.
- Know When to Fold 'Em: Doom is a genuine believer in the concept that if someone is stronger than you, then it's useless to fight them. Unlike any of his other siblings who clung to their perceived superiority and fought to the bitter end to assert it, the moment it becomes clear that Mash can overcome him at 100% of his power, he just blithely gives up and stays on the ground.
- "Not So Different" Remark: Tries to invoke this twice with Mash, inferring that he shares his love for battle and attempting to find common ground with their love of cooking. This fails because Mash doesn't like fighting, and Doom's attempt to bond not only comes after he had thrashed several of Mash's acquaintances, but he loves pancakes rather than creampuffs.
- Personality Powers: Fitting for someone who fights with restraint but little honor, Doom's magic is revealed to be "Mirage" which he abuses to create decoys to confuse his opponents or to overwhelm them by making autonomous duplicates of Caladbolg or even himself.
- Power Limiter: Unleashes percentages of his true strength at a time. At higher levels he gains muscle mass and the closer to one hundred percent he gets the more his body transforms.
- Super Prototype: The first of Innocent Zero's "children" and his mightiest.
- Villain Has a Point: Straddles the line between Graceful Loser and Dirty Coward with how easily he surrenders to Mash in accordance to his philosophy towards futile struggle against one's superiors, but the narrative tacitly gives it some grounds with how a heavily beaten Ryoh could do little against Doom with his insistence on getting back up, and the way all his other brothers besides Domina outright died because they didn't know when to quit.
- Worthy Opponent:
- Holds respect for Mash after sparring with him, and wishes he could fight him with no holds barred. Also has this for Renatus to a much lesser extent, praising his foe's persistence but decrying his lack of offensive power.
- This later carries onto Ryoh Grantz as the Divine Visionary pushes him the furthest out of anyone up to that point.
Famin
The Psychotic Greedy Jester
Innocent Zero's second son.- Death Dealer: Uses playing cards to lethal effect, seemingly teleporting them directly into his opponent's body to cut their way out. Later shown to be due to his invisibility.
- Entitled Bastard: No matter what he's given, he still wants more. He's even shown trying to take things from his brother Doom, although it doesn't go well for him.
- Invisibility: His personal magic allows him to render things invisible.
- Magical Clown: Of the psychotic kind. Even the area that Orter fights him in is themed like a circus.
- Normal Fish in a Tiny Pond: Gets a lot of mileage from having a relatively subdued magic (which, even at its Thirds inclination, just makes him utterly imperceptible) thanks to his superhuman body and healing factor, but Orter sees through his tricks rather quickly and is able to weather many of his attacks before disposing of Famin without even having to use any of his higher level spells.
- The Trickster: His first appearance is pranking Cell War with a fake sword attack.
- The Un-Favourite: The least liked of Zero's children, according to Cell War, who warns that even Innocent Zero and Doom try to steer clear from him.
Epidem
The Religious Pudding Fanatic
Innocent Zero's third son. His magic is summoning Orichalcum, the world's strongest and most malleable metal. He also drains innocent people of their life and magic as a hobby. But his most notable trait is his weird obsession with pudding.- Badass in a Nice Suit: The best-dressed of all of Innocent Zero's sons.
- Beware the Silly Ones: Pudding-obsessed to the point of singing its praises and inserts it into every conversation he can. Still a immensely powerful magic user that can bring the giant race to heel and defeat a Divine Visionary with ease.
- Extra-ore-dinary: While brewing potions is his specialty, his personal magic for is Orichalcos- which lets him create and control orichalcum, the supposed strongest metal in the world that is also very malleable to use.
- Healing Factor: He heals from Lance's Thirds and various small wounds due to his Demon Heart, but Dot is able to outpace it by killing him 100 times over all at once, also paying off Dot's catchphrase in the process.
- Tampering with Food and Drink: Offers pudding to Dot as a part of the pitch for his pudding centric religion. After eating some he immediately begins to feel pain as the magic draining potion takes effect.
- Trademark Favourite Food: Pudding, even crafting a religion around it. Also weaponized as he does put magic draining potions inside of the pudding he offers others. Revealed to be the one who poisoned Lance's sister Anna.
Delisaster
Frat Bro spear wielder
Innocent Zero's fourth son.- Armor-Piercing Attack: Cell War claims there is no defense that can stand before his Ascalon, and his spears being able to destroy Partisian's head-on back that claim up.
- Cannibalism Superpower: He is first seen drinking the blood of elves.
- Fair-Play Villain: Though perhaps it's thanks to being defeated before he got a chance to actually cheat and Delisaster feeling too arrogant to bother doing so, he's the only member of Innocent Zero who doesn't do anything underhanded during his battle in the final arc such as trying to poison his enemies or locking them in a would-be death trap as Epidem and Famin did.
- Healing Factor: While all of Innocent Zero's children aside from Mash regenerate wounds due to a Demon Heart replacing their own Delisaster is especially noteworthy as he's continuously sliced up by Rayne, only to be healed no matter how much punishment he takes. Rayne and Finn have to outpace the healing to actually defeat him.
- Frat Bro: To quote Finn during his and Rayne's fight, he's every college frat boy stereotype rolled into one. From his language to his mannerisms, there is no truer statement.
- Smug Super: Every bit as powerful as one would expect, but also has the biggest mouth of the Devil's Quintuplets.
- Stationary Boss: Only bothers to move to engage in quick hit-and-run tactics before backing off to throw more polearms. This makes him an easy target for Finn's otherwise underpowered swap magic.
Cell War
Voiced by: Natsuki Hanae (Japanese), Brandon McInnis (English)
The Artificial Enforcer
One of Innocent Zero's most loyal subordinates.- Artificial Human: He's a corpse given life by his father's, Innocent Zero's, magic. Technically he is not an actual son and more a slave to Zero.
- Cain and Abel: The Cain to Mash's Abel. His having a blond bobcut in contrast to Mash's dark hair sells the contrast.
- Gemstone Assault: His personal magic allows him to conjure carbon dust and compress the carbon dust he conjures into black diamonds, which he can use as terrifyingly effective ammunition as they're both extremely durable and sharp. Its true power is to summon Hephaestus, the god of iron and strength.
- Karma Houdini: Despite having worked for Innocent Zero and having even attacked Easton, he is shown working as a milkman at the end of the series. Unlike Domina, he didn't aid the heroes at all, although it may be due to him being created to be a slave.
- Master of Disguise: His magic lets him create carbon shells around his body that perfectly resemble the appearance of whoever he is trying to impersonate. The anime adds a shortcoming to this ability in that Cell War cannot change his voice to match.
- Sissy Villain: Features purple lipstick on his lips and a somewhat effeminate voice, which only serve to make him more unsettling with how vicious he is in combat.
- Spikes of Villainy: He wears a crown of thorns, and his wand is wrapped in thorny vines.
- Villain Forgot to Level Grind: Although Cell War brings out a lot of previously unseen techniques during his rematch with Mash, he didn't reckon that his opponent had figured out how to overcome the obstacle of his densely layered carbon skin. That is choking him into unconsciousness.
Necross Mance
One of Innocent Zero's top lieutenants, his personal version of Marionette Magic enables him to perform powerful combos with his master.
- Marionette Master: Contrasting Abel's, Necross' style of Marionette Magic allows him full access to the abilities of those his strings touch rather than just control of their limbs. It does not, however, grant him the expertise of those he puppets. Additionally, unlike Abel, he has to be very close to those he casts it on.
- Punny Name: A play on the word "necromancer", although he's technically not one.
- Unskilled, but Strong: Getting his strings on the refurbished body of Adam Jobs gave him access to his magic but not his ingenuity. Wahlberg defeats Necross with little trouble because of this.
Jon Pierre
One of the criminals Innocent Zero freed from prison to help infiltrate Easton. Jon Pierre's is a remorseless serial killer whose magic allows him to summon huge cooking and eating utensils for combat.
- Chef of Iron: The oversized utensils and his obsession with eating his enemies evokes this.
- French Jerk: His name and actions evoke this image.
- Hair of Gold, Heart of Gold: Inverted in the anime in which he has blonde hair but is still a murderous cannibal.
- Monstrous Cannibalism: Known to eat his victims.
Sitter Baby
A criminal magician sprung from jail by Innocent Zero, he participates in the attack on the Divine Visionary competition. He wields Baebiez magic which can reduce people (and their magical power) to infancy.
- Achilles' Heel: Much like his inspiration's Sethan, Baebiez leaves the mental state of those it affects largely untouched. This gives Lance, a very tactical and resourceful magician, the chance to turn the tables when he focuses his drastically weakened Graviole magic into a single, concentrated strike once Sitter Baby gets close enough.
- Fountain of Youth: Baebiez transforms targets into baby versions of themselves, which also shrinks their magical power to what it was when they were that age. The only way to undo this seen is to either knock Sitter Baby out or presumably if he decides to dispel it himself.
- Psychopathic Manchild: Dresses like a toddler and even his wand is shaped like a baby rattle.
Other Characters
Adam Jobs
Voiced by: Toshihiko Seki (Japanese)
The founder of the Bureau of Magic, and the greatest magic user in history. He had three students — Wahlberg, Innocent Zero, and Meliadoul.- The Archmage: The greatest magic wielder in the story.
- Big Good: Was this when he was alive. Ironically, one of his pupils, Innocent Zero, became the Big Bad of the story.
- Bunny-Ears Lawyer: Contrary to his solemn and dignified appearance, Adam had a wacky personality and was fond of random trivia about animals.
- Cool Teacher: He was the mentor to Wahlberg, Innocent Zero and Meliadoul.
- In Wahlberg's flashbacks, it is revealed that Adam would regularly visit a socially withdrawn Wahlberg and recite ridiculous facts about animals in an attempt to invite Wahlberg to school.
- On a more personal level, he was a good friend to Wahlberg and inspired him to be a good man who respected non-magical people.
- Dark Is Not Evil: He is a master of Dark Magic and it was he who instilled Wahlberg's egalitarian worldview.
- Dude, Where's My Respect?: Had an unsightly habit of throwing mini tantrums if he felt his apprentices weren't really listening to his advice.
- Greater-Scope Paragon: Tried to be this, but while he managed to bring order to the magical world, his efforts to institute equal rights for the unmarked were swept aside by the Bureau of Magic shortly after his death. Wahlberg has been trying to continue his reforms with little success.
- One-Man Army: In the past, Adam conquered entire nations by himself and unified the magic realm for the first time.
- The Sacred Darkness: He's a good guy with the ability to control darkness. It could reduce anything to nothingness. Dark Magic was believed to be the strongest magic in history.
- World's Strongest Man: He was the strongest magic user of his time, and the first Divine Visionary who conquered entire nations and unified the magic realm.
Anna Crown
Voiced by: Riona Imaizumi (Japanese), Lisa Reimold (English)
- Morality Pet: Before becoming sick, she chided Lance to make good choices and to treat people more kindly. Even in her bedridden state, her ailment caused Lance to recognize the gross inequities in the magical world, and the memory of her tends to push him to do the right thing.
- Tragic Dream: Expressed interest in becoming a singer when she grew up. Lance fights to give her a chance to at least try to do so.
Meliadoul Amy
- Anti-Mentor: While Mash does grow stronger under tutelage, most of their tight one-month training period consisted of a screening process to prove Mash's worthiness, and the rush job Meliadoul did for the last couple of weeks they had left hobbled Mash so badly that he was completely incapacitated. His recovery took 27 chapters, causing him to miss a huge chunk of the final arc. Meliadoul whines to the reader, insisting that it's not her fault since she warned him how difficult training under would be, but she's aware that she'd ultimately be blamed for Mash's condition.
- Aw, Look! They Really Do Love Each Other: When all looks hopeless, she tries to convince Ochoa to escape Innocent Zero since at best he'll be a slave and at worst, he'll just kill Ochoa when he's done. She even reflects on when she first found him towards the end.
- Bare-Fisted Monk: While she is fully capable of using other magic, she's prominently shown fighting bare-handed.
- Chainsaw Good: Makes her first appearance wielding a magical chainsaw. Which actually heals people. Unfortunately, it still hurts just as much as a normal chainsaw.
- Hates Being Touched: Unless it's on her terms, touching her is likely to get you punched across the room, as Ryoh quickly found out.
- Healing Hands: One of the applications of her magic. Although the treatment is effective, it is very painful.
- Mad Doctor: Has shades of this. All of her contraptions to heal people are very effective, but also very painful. This is noteworthy, as we do see non-painful Healing Magic being used. She can then input that data into machines for her training. And every time she's shown using these devices, she makes it clear she's not taking no for an answer.
- Older Than They Look: She looks like a young lady when she is actually as old as Wahlberg. Unlike Innocent Zero who abandoned his humanity to forever keep his youth, Meliadoul just has a healthy lifestyle, training a lot and take care of her facial well.
- Perpetual Smiler: With Eyes Always Closed. She has a cheerful smile on her face, whatever her mood really is.
- Sink or Swim Mentor: Gives Mash impossible trials to complete under harsh conditions. She is impressed when Mash's progress is beyond her expectations.
- Slave to PR: After Mash faints and is on death's door thanks to her trials, her inner thoughts are of her being blamed for his condition.
- The Spartan Way: Meliadoul believes in the "No pain, no gain" methodology. She warns Mash that her month long training might kill him. Hilariously, Meliadoul panics when Mash faints from exhaustion after completing her month long training, and uses her magic wind up key to revive him.
- Super-Strength: One of the applications of her magic enhances her physical strength.
- Trademark Favorite Food: Cannelles.
- World's Strongest Woman: She is the strongest female character introduced so far. According to Divine Visionary Ryoh, Meliadoul was stronger than even Wahlberg in the past. At present, she is one of the few who can easily keep up with Mash's physical strength.
Regro Burnedead
Mash’s adopted father.
- Dark and Troubled Past: He was an outcast who could not do magic well enough.
- Driven to Suicide: Averted. He was about to kill himself, when he found a solitary baby (Mash) crying. Moved, he decided to take that baby in as his child.
- Good Parents: From the moment he's introduced he's shown to be an excellent parent, even when his adopted son is rather simple-minded and possesses inhuman Super-Strength.
- Heroic Sacrifice: When captured by Coleman, he yells at Mash to run away and tries to face Coleman by himself. Mash sticks around, having none of that.
- So Proud of You: Upon seeing that despite the intense discrimination, Mash has managed to make friends, allies, and even has a (self proclaimed) fiancée, he's nothing but proud over his accomplishments.
Brad Coleman
A cop who finds out about Mash’s existence.
- Bad Guys Do the Dirty Work: Reveals how far the Fantastic Racism of the magical world goes to Mash, relieving Regro of the burden of having to explain that same Awful Truth.
- Corrupt Cop: He enjoys beating up people less fortunate than him.
- The Dragonslayer: Somewhat. He's respected in Mash's city as an otherwise ordinary magician who managed to drive away a dragon with his skills.
- Foreshadowing: Notes that sorcerers have been very thorough in exterminating anyone who couldn't use magic, which begs the question of how an unmarked child such as Mash could've possibly been born. This pays off over sixty chapters later.
- Karma Houdini Warranty: He tortures Mash's adoptive father to find Mash and made a career out of being a Corrupt Cop who gives Disproportionate Retribution to people for petty crimes. His minions are the ones who take the brunt of the beating from Mash while Brad gets off with a cut across his face and being scared for a little while. Even when he's softening his tone and offering Mash a way out of being hunted for life, he hasn't so much learned any lesson as he is trying to get a promotion for himself. He goes through much of the series without much comeuppance but by the end, however, Mash declines becoming a Visionary with Brad trying to bring up their deal only to be repeatedly told of Mash’s dream of opening up a cream puff bakery. He’s forced to accept that he’s not getting any monetary reward for kickstarting the plot with his greed other than a single cream puff.
- Knight of Cerebus: The opening pages of the manga depict the quirky day-to-day activities of the Burnedeads in an idyllic setting where magic is commonplace. Then Brad is shown engaging in some Police Brutality before trying to hunt down Mash for being an unmarked.
- Out of Focus: Despite being the reason Mash ends up going to magic school, he has very little focus in the plot after that.
- Pet the Dog: He's not a good guy at all but he does offer Mash the chance to go to magic school and get the chance to make sure he and his father escape persecution for Mash not having magic, possibly indicating that while Brad may enforce the system in a brutal manner, he's not a total ideological purist about it.
- Small Role, Big Impact: He appears only in a few chapters, but in the beginning he kicks off the plot by challenging Mash to go to magic school.
- Starter Villain: Brad's the first major early villain Mash goes up against to show exactly what he's made of.
Ochoa
The diminutive braggart apprentice of Mistress Meliadou.
Ochoa uses Aligatzes magic, which transforms him into a cartoony to-scale alligator while greatly boosting his speed and strength.
- Aw, Look! They Really Do Love Each Other: While he is hesitant to serve Innocent Zero to begin with, he frequently thinks about Meliadoul all throughout the final battle.
- I Fight for the Strongest Side!: Though he prefers following orders from good people, he's willing to kowtow to villains if it means saving his own skin.
- Jerk with a Heart of Gold: How Meliadoul describes him. He is a self-serving scum that will use and betray people to ensure his own survival, but at the end of the day, there is a part of him that cannot follow through with all his evil-doing (exemplified by a time where he stole bread, only to give some to a stray dog).
