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Mar 6, 2018 3:51 AM
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Pretty much the follow up episode dealing with Rades’s zombies and the attack on the city.

What a creepy bastard though seriously. He has a matching personality too. This could get ugly....for Asta. Maybe he should of waited for everyone to come together to deal with that guy.
Mar 6, 2018 4:30 AM
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Alfred might be a bit stronger than Jimmy,but I guess Nr. 1 is going to be the real deal.

I like this arc already,Asta could show off a bit and I'm expecting Noelle to do the same,so she can redeem herself a bit.

Also interested to see more of Leopold and his powers.

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Mar 6, 2018 4:49 AM
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Disappointed in this episode due to the poor animation and filler in it. This especially hurts since i was really getting into this series as I've loved the last few episodes that have aired.
Mar 6, 2018 5:38 AM
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This villain (Rades) is impossible to take seriously. Between his cliche lines and his choice of name for his summonings (seriously, Jimmy? Alfred? what will come next? Billy?), he is totally hilarious. This is not necessarily a bad thing, but, I don't know, for someone able to summon a zombie apocalypse, he sure ends being unintentionally funny.

The animation this episode was disappointing. It was too static, and that affected greatly to the intensity of the battle. Hope it gets better later. The fact that they did again the thing of repeating the part before the eye catch to make the episode longer didn't helped either.
Mar 6, 2018 6:11 AM
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Seems they are adapting more and more each episode, i think I saw up to 2.5 chapters covered this episode, which is impressive though I wanted a bit more time with some of the attacks.

Leo's save was great and Asta thanking him ^_^


Illyricus said:

The fact that they did again the thing of repeating the part before the eye catch to make the episode longer didn't helped either.


I thought that is common in media where commercials and other things happen. I guess its weird if one is watching it on streams, as the same thing happens in some live action shows and in many other anime and non japanese cartoons. Adding that as a criticism to BLack Clover just seems weird.

see: https://movies.stackexchange.com/questions/42210/when-did-shows-start-repeating-the-last-few-seconds-minutes-after-commercials
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Mar 6, 2018 6:31 AM
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Can't say that I enjoyed this episode tbh, which is sad cause I've been enjoying Black Clover a lot these past few weeks.

The animation was downright awful, the fight was un-cool which just made it even less enjoyable to watch. It wasn't a great fight in the manga either so I can't really complain to Perriot in that department, but it was just very lack luster animated
Mar 6, 2018 6:37 AM
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A nice fight.
Those numbered zombies have cool attacks.
Mar 6, 2018 7:18 AM
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Radesdes
Radesdes
Radesdes
Radesdes


Only thing I bothered remembering in this shitty episode

Mimosa should fight Rades

Mimosa vs Rades = Plants vs Zombies
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Mar 6, 2018 7:23 AM
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The animation is an ABOMINATION!
1/5.


Mar 6, 2018 7:40 AM

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this episode was alright, but the animation was seriously bad at time; in general, the zombies, and when asta went for that spinning attack... other than that, it was nice to see the characters be able to go all out.


my inner voice shouted rasengan at this attack, i dunno why. probably 'cause spiral was in its name and that guy said.
i dont know his name, but we he is annoyingly... i mean, we have got asta who's annoyingly loud already


i'm seriously hating on these character one-liners though, they're so cringy


on the other hand, i am loving this chatracter... ther's something about his loudness that is so jokes. its probably 'cause he has a likeness to Edward and Alphonse's teacher from FMAB ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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the petit clover was irritating
Mar 6, 2018 7:40 AM

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For some reason the fight against Rades kinda reminds me of Deku & others vs Stain. Unfortunately I didn't really enjoyed this episode, I just hope next episode we don't have to see the recap in the beginning or the middle of episode.
Mar 6, 2018 7:48 AM

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so that Leo guy magic are the same as Magna.
then I was wondering why he can enter Golden Dawn while Magna can barely enter Black Bulls
Mar 6, 2018 8:05 AM

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Crimson Lions are good and Asta dont you dare to loss from Radesdes
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Mar 6, 2018 8:13 AM

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Disappointed in this episode due to the poor animation and filler in it. This especially hurts since i was really getting into this series as I've loved the last few episodes that have aired.


To what filler are you referring? This episode is all canon from the manga. In fact its almost a perfect adaptation of Chapters 26 & 27. Since it sounds like you haven't read it, you shouldn't assume its filler. If you want to see for yourself:

http://ww1.readblackclover.com/chapter/black-clover-chapter-026/

@Abyhape Yes, Leo & Magna use the same type of magic, but in varying intensities & methods based on their personalities. Leopold is one of the Vermillion family, of royalty. Which you will typically find the Golden Dawn & Silver Eagles to be composed *almost entirely of royalty (which is why it was such a big deal that Yuno got into the GD). Also why notably the SE diss on Noelle so much saying she's an 'embarrassment' to the family etc. So it comes down to blood line and actual skills/prowess regarding the reason why Leo & Magna are in diff MK Squads. If you recall from the initial battle we really got to see Magna fight in (for that small village), his MP was low enough that he wasn't able to last in battle terribly long at that point. Also - on an unrelated note - Leo is a good guy and doesn't fall prey to the common upper MK royal beliefs that 'commoners are worthless/etc'.


Mar 6, 2018 8:31 AM

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doctereleven said:
Disappointed in this episode due to the poor animation and filler in it. This especially hurts since i was really getting into this series as I've loved the last few episodes that have aired.


To what filler are you referring? This episode is all canon from the manga. In fact its almost a perfect adaptation of Chapters 26 & 27. Since it sounds like you haven't read it, you shouldn't assume its filler. If you want to see for yourself:

http://ww1.readblackclover.com/chapter/black-clover-chapter-026/

@Abyhape Yes, Leo & Magna use the same type of magic, but in varying intensities & methods based on their personalities. Leopold is one of the Vermillion family, of royalty. Which you will typically find the Golden Dawn & Silver Eagles to be composed *almost entirely of royalty (which is why it was such a big deal that Yuno got into the GD). Also why notably the SE diss on Noelle so much saying she's an 'embarrassment' to the family etc. So it comes down to blood line and actual skills/prowess regarding the reason why Leo & Magna are in diff MK Squads. If you recall from the initial battle we really got to see Magna fight in (for that small village), his MP was low enough that he wasn't able to last in battle terribly long at that point. Also - on an unrelated note - Leo is a good guy and doesn't fall prey to the common upper MK royal beliefs that 'commoners are worthless/etc'.


yea, out of those people, I like that Leo guy the most. because he never underestimate people, especially our loud MC.
Mar 6, 2018 8:39 AM

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Fuegoreon Vermillion is on another level, you can tell by his plasma beam like fire and lion.
He talks to noelle too and rades not done yet.
Mar 6, 2018 8:58 AM
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I waited a week for this useless episode, nothing of importance happend except the crimson lion captain is a cool ass dude and sees asta and noelles potential.. bs bs bs make episodes 5,10 minute longer
Mar 6, 2018 9:01 AM

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The animation was so terrible in this episode and I simply cannot take the villain seriously. He's so cringy. Leo and Fuego are great characters. Fuegoreon Vermillion talk to Noelle was needed.
Mar 6, 2018 9:14 AM
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doctereleven said:
Disappointed in this episode due to the poor animation and filler in it. This especially hurts since i was really getting into this series as I've loved the last few episodes that have aired.


To what filler are you referring? This episode is all canon from the manga. In fact its almost a perfect adaptation of Chapters 26 & 27. Since it sounds like you haven't read it, you shouldn't assume its filler. If you want to see for yourself:

http://ww1.readblackclover.com/chapter/black-clover-chapter-026/

Sorry filler would be the wrong word, what i meant was I didn't appreciate the long recap in the beginning and another one in the middle of the episode and the many still shots which felt like were just filling in time in this episode (i know this isn't the first time Black Clover has done this or the first anime to do this). From going through the chapters you linked of this episode I can somewhat understand why the studio decided to do this but I just feel like the studio could have done a better job on the pacing and the animation as the story is getting more interesting with each episode but the quality seems to be dropping.
Mar 6, 2018 9:41 AM

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i like how the crowd got louder when the magic knights arrived and not while being attacked by zombies

the animation was always shit in this show, so i don't understand why people complain. just a normal episode, no fillers, long-ass recap as usual, nothing to be whining aboit
Mar 6, 2018 9:46 AM
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I like the episode but it is only 15 minutes.Almost nothing hapend and Asta's fight wasn't very good.
Mar 6, 2018 10:05 AM

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It was nice to see most of the other Magic Knights showcase their abilities, but for an episode that was mostly action the animation sure was bad. It didn't really have the impact that I would have liked it to have. Oh well, hopefully that improves sooner rather than later.
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Mar 6, 2018 10:40 AM

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It wouldn't be studio clown without bad animation.
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Mar 6, 2018 11:17 AM

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I love the story and the Crimson Lions are awesome. Felt a bit slow though with the long recap, still frames and the ridiculously long magic-attack names: "Earth Elemental blah blah blah..."
Mar 6, 2018 11:57 AM
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Too much time for nothing to happen, allways boring to see top tier characters fighting mobs.

Best part was " Watashi wa Radesdesu "
Mar 6, 2018 12:08 PM

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This series keeps getting better with every episode. Last week was phenomenal, and this week's episode stepped up to the plate too.

I'm shounen trash, and I don't care. As long as the series is enjoyable, it's quality and writing don't have to be on the levels of Shinkai and Miyazaki.

4/5
Mar 6, 2018 2:41 PM

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This episode was trash in my opinion. There may have been 8 minutes of actually new content this episode and it is just Asta swinging his sword to protect a girl who "couldnt run away" and the side characters reinforcing their personalities while killing hordes of useless zombies.

Animation left a little to be desired as well.

This show was on a good streak, but it ended here and these 5 minute recaps at the beginning of the each episode and the 2 minute halftime recap need to stop.
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Mar 6, 2018 3:19 PM

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This episode was weak. Half of the time the caracters didn't look like them selfs and the most of the movements were like 3 frames per second. This show looks like it was made in the early 2000's and it was cheaply made.
Mar 6, 2018 3:35 PM
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So guys. Is the anime following the manga, story wise?
Mar 6, 2018 3:45 PM

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Can Asta figure out how to absorb the magic with the sword....
Like we know that’s the power up :/

Okay episode .... I don’t think Rades is the best character but I’ll see soon enough
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Mar 6, 2018 4:06 PM

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Outsourced episode (by the credits it was done by studio drop)
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Mar 6, 2018 4:21 PM

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uninstallthegame said:
the animation was always shit in this show, so i don't understand why people complain. just a normal episode, no fillers, long-ass recap as usual, nothing to be whining aboit


+1, the animation dropped for weeks now, people didn't complain about it last few weeks, idk why they complain now.
Mar 6, 2018 4:25 PM

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Last episode was good, this one was bad again :/ So many useless scenes that should have been skipped, especially since they were mostly still frames with camera movement to fake something being animated


Mar 6, 2018 4:43 PM

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That spinning by Bakasta was superb in defeating that Jimmy monster. Noelle showed courage thanks to that fire guy, next she should beat up her siblings. What I liked about this ep was that everyone good or bad, did their best to protect the Kingdom and its people as magic knights.

That number two Alfred monster looks to be a real pain to deal with, can't wait for the next.
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Mar 6, 2018 4:44 PM
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This episode was OK content wise and it actually did a decent job of following the manga. My problem is with the animation and how inconsistent it was. The parts with Fuegoleon and Leo using their flames and Yuno even using his wind looked decent, but at certain times like when Asta was destroying the flesh eating orbs with just a still shot was terrible(there's many others, but this by far was the worst and hardest one to watch). I've also noticed that the anime is staring to use more and more still shots and that's not good, because as a modern anime they should be using nice fluent and flowing animation, this even looked bad even by ealry 2000's standards and that's a shame.

Another thing that I didn't like this episode was that the anime failed to even come close to matching the manga's great artwork( the anime never really has for the entirety of the anime tbh) and it was most evident when the captians displayed their magic in this episode. In the manga we get to see beautiful panels of Nozel, Charlotte, and Fuegoleon use their respective abilities and it was badass to see, but in the anime it felt underwhelming because of poor animation, they didn't even get the angles of the characters right either, sigh.

I know that the staff for Black Clover is low and very understaffed, but they could've at least shown their pride as artist and as a fairly well known studio and at the very least by giving us decent animation, because this felt lazy and was hard to watch at times. If only Black Clover got a better studio like Madhouse, Bones, A1, Sunrise, etc, pretty much anyone of them could do animation better than what was shown today. Hopefully none of the future episodes for this series look as bad as this one did today.

6/10 episode
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Just another fighting episode made most of still and repeated frames and mostly boring.

2 out of 5
Mar 6, 2018 5:59 PM
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THis episode felt like it was lacking the fighting element, even though there were fights everywhere. There was no effort to make the animation look like there was even a fight there.

The part with Sol saying nee-chan is getting on my nerve at this point. Let's hope it gets better. Usually there are some good parts after bad episodes like that.
Mar 6, 2018 8:39 PM

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well that was interesting.... nice asta is still hogs...... always take the spotlight...why doesn't the nobels are so full of themselves
Mar 7, 2018 6:03 AM
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doctereleven said:
Disappointed in this episode due to the poor animation and filler in it. This especially hurts since i was really getting into this series as I've loved the last few episodes that have aired.
There was no filler in this episode tho.
Mar 7, 2018 6:44 AM

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Next episode should be over for Rades, don't think he will manage to escape.
But now i wonder how did he pass their securities? He doesn't look like that strong, he just has an army that can attack a lot of places at the same time.
The Vermillion family boss is a really nice guy.
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Mar 7, 2018 10:41 AM

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Wow, the animation is this episode was horrrrible. Really disappointed, was kinda hyped for this one, too.
Mar 7, 2018 11:31 AM
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Wait if everyone in BC has magic, even if weak, why is nobody trying to defend themselves with it even a bit? Even when cornered? Unless i'm just forgetting stuff XD
Mar 7, 2018 4:38 PM
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First of all pretty sure 99% of magic knights are psychos or sadists and second love that he names his pet zombies Jimmy and Alfred.Love this show so much!💖
Mar 7, 2018 7:18 PM

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Didn't like this episode nearly as much as the last few. Probably because it was mostly fighting with very poor animation. The flame lion captain guy continues to be pretty cool anyway.
Mar 7, 2018 9:28 PM

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no no no... NOPE, this is dumb, im done with this anime, the villain is straight up dumb with espada summoning magic, those magic knights are also dumb, and why did the half of the episode just constantly showing those magic knights yelling their FRKIN magic spell with poor animation, and did they forget about the fact that asta had a fight alone with the man villain? i mean sure he is the main character but still, and i tot it cant be worse than this, oh man how wrong i was, i mean that vermillion guy just standing there watch asta fight alone cross his arm with "thats ma boi" face, like the town is literally in chaos, help asta or something, and i was kinda hoping for noelle character improvement there, when she set herself free from her brother, but, well i guess nope, idk how good the manga is, but i bet the manga is way much better.
idk its just me or maybe i just cant take shounen anime anymore
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This is ,maybe, my favorite MANGA. I'm in love with it :)
And I expect sooo much from anime, but for now I think that animation is a bit poor.

I LOVE Fuegoleon and whole Vermillion family.
The highlight of the episode was Fuegoleon giving advices to Noelle(poor girl has such a complex).
That part with all of them flying and coming to rescue was awesome and fight with Rades was unfortunately missing something.
I think that it's background music that this anime didn't got right or something else which I can't get what. :( But anyway I enjoy it :D
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I wonder how much does an episode with this kind of animation cost. Mahoutsukai no Yome cost around $200K per episode on average, based on Google search result.

Anybody wants to do a quick guess?
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Mar 8, 2018 7:53 PM
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Abyhape said:
so that Leo guy magic are the same as Magna.
then I was wondering why he can enter Golden Dawn while Magna can barely enter Black Bulls


Leopold is a member of Crimson Lion, not Golden Dawn. There will be people have the same element type of magic but their mana level, abilities and whether the captain want you or not the one determine which squad you will get into.
Another thing, Magna is a commoner while Leopold is royalty. He is a cousin of Mimosa and his full name is Leopold Vermillion. The Crimson Lion's captain is his brother.
Mar 9, 2018 11:57 PM
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I don't know how Asta didn't get dizzy from that spinning-while-running attack. xD
Mar 10, 2018 4:41 AM
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Since these zombies are animated via magic i guess Asta's sword will also work on them. But the variety of magic that the knights used to take down the undead sure were impressive though. Noelle is still affected by what the other knights said to her huh. Still the speech by the captain sure was good though. Asta sure had the most unusual of backups for his fight though. Looks like the fight is only just getting started.
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