Review of Black Clover

Black clover started off really poorly, bad animation, voice acting was atrocious, and above all it seemed like the most generic, typical, shonen ever. Now most of that is still true, the animation isn't the best and the show is still a very typical shonen in both motivations, twists, characters, etc, however there is one underlying truth: Black Clover is good. To start, the animation, which isn't nearly as good as shows coming out now-a-days can be somewhat justified and in certain scenes it GLOWS and makes it feel so much better. I mean, the OP's are a good point of that, of course they get moreanimation budget and time but they are so damn good.

Speaking of the OP's the music, the animation, and everything about them are debatably the best thing in this show. I mean, cmon, you don't get this amount of consistently GREAT op's from an anime EVER.

Characters can be typical like Asta or Yuno but also there are some damn interesting ones that mostly end up as side characters but also a fair few who are so loveable and really crucial to the story. Like Yami.

The story and magic system are actually really good imo. There's plot holes here and there and it may seem kinda too shonen-y? shoneny? but there's a really intriguing system and the different arcs are super interesting to the point where it justifies the sometimes filler-esque episodes.

Now, in stark contrast to everything else there are parts where I simply want to skip the story, mostly the non-important lead up to battles and plot points but its really boring at times I won't lie.

Black clover is no 10, but it's damn good.