Don’t Call it a Mashle Clone – I Parry Everything is Unique
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Anime has always had overpowered characters. However, the past decade seems to have far more shows with an overpowered protagonist. The success of shows like One Punch Man has encouraged this trend. Mashle: Magic and Muscles took the idea of the overpowered main character and fused it with a Harry Potter parody to maximize the comedy potential of this idea. The current season of anime has a few shows that seem to follow the same trend, including I Parry Everything.
I Parry Everything has a lot in common with Mashle. Noor and Mash are both hard-working characters who utterly outclass most of the people around them. Both shows involve a complex magic system that gets developed as time goes on. Noor and Mash are both pivotal to important political figures and are going to have a major impact on the world. Looking past these surface level facts, I Parry Everything is telling a very different story from Mashle. Whereas Mash is forced to break convention to earn the right to live, Noor is unaware of just how easy success is to him. In spite the similarities, these two anime go in very different directions.
Mash is the only person in Mashle who doesn’t have magic. He still manages to win his fights through muscles alone. Very few characters pose any sort of threat to him, and Mash’s own abilities are governed by how funny they are. Mash operates outside the magic system in his world, so he can do impossible things. Noor doesn’t have the same luxury. Noor does have access to very rudimentary magic that he has perfected. In using these limited skills, he’s yet to lose a battle. However, Noor has come close to losing in a way Mash never has.
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