Review of Black Clover

It's pretty unusual for me to score a show before finishing it, I honestly believe that someone can't express a proper opinion on something that's still unfinished. You have to get through it all to give a reasonable point of view. I've always thought so, until I started Black Clover. This show occupied a small part of my life for the longest time (actually it was the first time for me to catch up with a long running show like this one) and it became so usual, familiar to me, that it felt wrong not to score it. It felt like ages since I started it, and that's whatmade me think of it as something I knew perfectly; so I scored it right away.

But despite having broken my "rule", I didn't regret once the score I gave it in the past. Today Black Clover is still a solid 10/10 for me, which is why I find absurd the general score it has.
Yes, I know about the critics on the animation.
Yes, I heard about how it resembles other shounen anime.

While there isn't much to say about animation, as it clearly lacks in details, I just want to say that there are aspects more valuable in a show, such as the content (by the way, animation improves a lot in the latter episodes).
Speaking about the content, let me tell you a secret: all shounen resemble each other. (Really shocking, right?)

It's only normal to find similarities between shows who belong to the same genre, plus it's not like Black Clover is the only one which seems inspired by some other work. But you know what? This is fine, since one's opinion should be objective on this: you shouldn't score a show basing your judgement on how much it looks like another show, but only on whether you enjoyed it or not, and if we are talking about enjoyment, this is THE show: it has great characters, a complex but well developed story, light and heavy themes, and the OPs and endings as just so good you are surely going to save them on Spotify later.

I won't lie, BC has its flaws, but I think that a show doesn't need to be perfect to be good, and this one is defective, but more than good.