Black Clover

Asta and Yuno were abandoned at the same church on the same day. Raised together as children, they came to know of the "Wizard King"—a title given to the strongest mage in the kingdom—and promised that they would compete against each other for the position of the next Wizard King. However, as they grew up, the stark difference between them became evident. While Yuno is able to wield magic with amazing power and control, Asta cannot use magic at all and desperately tries to awaken his powers by training physically.

When they reach the age of 15, Yuno is bestowed a spectacular Grimoire with a four-leaf clover, while Asta receives nothing. However, soon after, Yuno is attacked by a person named Lebuty, whose main purpose is to obtain Yuno's Grimoire. Asta tries to fight Lebuty, but he is outmatched. Though without hope and on the brink of defeat, he finds the strength to continue when he hears Yuno's voice. Unleashing his inner emotions in a rage, Asta receives a five-leaf clover Grimoire, a "Black Clover" giving him enough power to defeat Lebuty. A few days later, the two friends head out into the world, both seeking the same goal—to become the Wizard King!

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Asta Main

Kajiwara, Gakuto Japanese

Silva, Noelle Main

Yuuki, Kana Japanese

Yuno Main

Shimazaki, Nobunaga Japanese

Sukehiro, Yami Supporting

Suwabe, Junichi Japanese

Vermillion, Mereoleona Supporting

Minagawa, Junko Japanese

Voltia, Luck Supporting

Murase, Ayumu Japanese

Nero Supporting

Sasaki, Hitomi Japanese

Novachrono, Julius Supporting

Morikawa, Toshiyuki Japanese

Pappitson, Charmy Supporting

Yasuno, Kiyono Japanese

Ideale, Zora Supporting

Midorikawa, Hikaru Japanese

Cook, Justin Producer

Herek, Samantha Assistant Producer

Yoshihara, Tatsuya Director, Episode Director, Storyboard, Key Animation, Animation Director, 2nd Key Animation, In-Between Animation

Tanemura, Ayataka Director, Episode Director, Storyboard, Assistant Director

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Apr 7, 2025

DanimeWeeb

Recommended

An amazing fantasy anime full of plot twists and action packed. Just when you think "I understand it now", you are hit in the face with yet another plot twist which makes the anime so intriguing and exciting to watch. There are lots of fight scenes all of which are exceptionally well animated. Almost every character is loveable(partly due to so many characters having episodes dedicated to their back story). Overall I recommend it. The only flaws would be that some of the filler episodes are quite boring and sometimes plot development is slow but the plot twists and fight scenes more than make up ... for it.

Reviewer’s Rating: 8

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Mar 26, 2025

Pmax339

Mixed Feelings

The series takes time. Keep your expectations low.
Initial episodes or even arcs feel like generic asf shonen anime. Poor powerless meathead wants to reach the summit of excellence. You seen it all, you know it all.
Even when the story starts getting interesting the generic tropes kinda sucks the fun out of it. It is not for everyone. It is a fun type of anime that you watch when you just want to destress after a long day at work or school.
The story does get real good around the halfway mark.
SO, If you are looking for another just another shonen anime to destress or ambient watch ... or fill the void some big shonen have left then this is the series for you.
If you're looking for a series that deals with complex issues, unique storyline then you'll have to wait for around the halfway mark of the series.

Reviewer’s Rating: 7

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Nov 22, 2024

Papitaa

Not Recommended

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Well-written

Black Clover has taken 2 years of my life. Was it worth it? Probably not, but it has yielded some interesting things to think about.

Its biggest crime is that the author can't write characters for shit. Stupid two-dimensional characterisation prevents it from being something greater. Cool moments occasionally make their way through hours of rubbish comedy and boring sequences led by paper-thin characters repeating their one personality trait over and over again. Let me share with you a drinking game I've come up with, where you take a shot everytime one of these things happen:

1. Asta is impressed by something
2. Noelle says a cartoonishly typical ... tsundere phrase
3. Noelle has family issues
4. Luck wants to fight
5. Gordon creepily talks about friendship
6. Vanessa drinks or talks about drinking
7. Charmy eats or talks about eating
8. Charmy is head over heels for Yuno
9. Yuno's fairy is head over heels for him
10. Mimosa is head over heels for Asta
11. Gauche is head over heels for his sister (...)
12. Finral hits on girls or talks about hitting on them
13. Charlotte is head over heels for Yami
14. Sol calls Charlotte "sister", which results in the latter getting annoyed
15. Sol hates men
16. Nero lands on Asta's head

With this, you can actually have some fun, as these things happen so often you can get hammered in the span of a single episode! Well, you get my point now.

While the plot itself does have some intense and fun-to-watch moments — such as the battle between Black Bulls and Vetto, Asta's special powers awakening (vague to avoid spoilers), the climax of the elves' scheme (same here), or Yami's poop jokes (funniest shit I've ever seen) — it is all incredibly infantile and lacks depth. The characters' motivations behind a plot point can be so shallow that at some point I legitimately viewed Black Clover as a collection of over-exaggerated parables, painfully mawkish to allegorically demonstrate the values beneath and make sure that no one misses them. And I almost accepted it because Black Clover's values are really positive and motivating, even if trite.

That's also why for a while I developed another theory that Black Clover's world is like a family - a family in which there are flaws you grow to accept and cherish the ensuing highs. For some time, I had somehow accepted the shitty things and started perceiving even the filler sequences as family time as a result of spending a lot of time with the characters.

But I think I got manipulated by Black Clover into refraining from criticising its repeated flaws, lmao. That's just bad writing. Good moments are placed within hours of either poor humour that oversimplifies the characters to the point of them seeming as caricatures, or tiresome fight scenes consisting of repetitive cant and a random clusterfuck of spells and attacks at which my brain turned off. You also can't accept lack of nuance as an intended measure — as is the case with the LOTR books, for example, where everything is set in stone and the story unfolds like fulfilling a destiny — just because it's long-running. I wonder if that's what the majority of shounen giants suffer from, baiting the audience into forgiving the flaws for an interspersed cool moment or two.

I also want to mention the last arc specifically because I think it needs individual treatment. The build-up to it is literally just one big filler that is justified by "training". Another thing are the plot twists. They have overall been quite random, forcing their way into a previously established landscape and flipping it on its head as a cheap solution to a problem. But the one with the emergence of a new character in the last few episodes is just taking the piss, you know what I'm talking about.

There were moments when I had fun, I can't lie. I also like the core ideas behind a lot of the stuff here. The poor writing is just inexcusable, though. It feels to me as if Black Clover was straight-up disrespectful towards its viewers, even if with good heart all throughout.

Reviewer’s Rating: 4

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