Hello Everyone!

On a beautiful, warm Sunday, you may be relaxing, chilling with your family and friends, eating Sunday dinner. Or you may be working. You could even be on the grind doing homework. If you are, take a break, rest your mind and focus on this blog for a moment.

This blog is usually reserved for book reviews, but let’s take a detour. Let’s talk about anime. Anime, for the uninformed, is a Japanese form of animation, or cartoon, most often based off Japanese comics called manga. There will not be history lessons and facts about the origin of anime, this isn’t that type of blog. Instead, the topic is about watching not learning about anime, and one anime in particular. Introducing one of the popular anime of 2019, Black Clover.

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Black Clover is a fantasy show that tells the story of two boys, abandoned as babies, to a church in a tiny, poor village. Being it’s based in the fantasy genre, there is magic involved. One of the boys has it and the other doesn’t.

Asta and Yuno grew up in Hage village. Yuno has amazing power at the young age of 15 and is the hope of the village. Asta, also 15 doesn’t have a lick of magic, but that doesn’t stop him from training hard in the hopes of developing magic. Both boys are close and considers each other rivals in the bid of becoming the next Wizard King, the most powerful magic user and protector in the Clover Kingdom.

The boys leave Hage to travel to Clover Kingdom, to test to become magic knights, the first step towards becoming the Wizard King. What follows are the trials and triumphs during their time in Clover Kingdom, with most of the focus on Asta, the hero in the black cape.

Black Clover is an anime with a lot of feel good messages, namely ‘never giving up’, Asta’s catch phrase. The plots are immersive and entertaining, containing plenty of action, increasingly developed characters and lots of comedic moments, thanks, in particular, to one of the magic knight squads. Social discrimination is also rampant in the Clover Kingdom, which both Asta and Yuno are slowly overcoming with their incredible power and determination.

If you have never watched an anime or if you are well versed in anime but have never seen Black Clover, now is the time to give it a try. But a word of warning, be careful watching this anime, you may find yourself hooked after the first episode and tempted to neglect your studies, work or even loved ones. Black Clover is effective escapism!

Happy Watching,

The Book Diva