Story 1/10: This story is basically every popular shounen manga regurgitated to form a very bland, annoying and very repetitive mess! The plot has been receiving a quite abundant amount of flack because of it's similarities to these other manga, which completely is lacking in originality and could be considered as 'straight up' plagiarism in a sense, and since Black Clover completely pales in example to manga such as Naruto and Fairy Tail. Naruto especially as the protagonist of Black Clover as very similar characteristics to Naruto some examples include; the fact that they refuse to give up, they are aiming to become the leader of their nations. Perhaps this is a common trait for "Shounen Manga MC", but my only problem is that Naruto excellent writing does this attributes right whilst Black Clover doesn't. Another problem with Black Clover's Story is how rushed it is and how annoying it becomes, the main protagonist has NEVER lost a fight, forming a very predictable outcome for every arc making it very repetitive.
Art 9/10: I am not even going to beat around the bush and be up front the art is truly spectacular with some draw dropping pieces of art intertwined into this manga.
Which makes me ever so frustrated of how good Black Clover could have been.
Character 1/10: The main protagonists very nature is clearly derivative of Naruto as mentioned earlier, it becomes very annoying to me as a reader to always see the same thing happen throughout the continuing 188 chapters, a normal arc consists of Asta (the protagonist) getting beaten easily and being told to give up, later he states he will not give up, then beats the villian.
Enjoyment 1/10: The formula above makes my blood boil leaving all of the enjoyment I must have had in the early chapters, Its Bland, Annoying and Repitive story all eventually leaves for a very low enjoyment.
Overall 3/10: I see Black Clover as a manga that was made to exploit the very prominent shounen genre by infesting it with cliche and ideas from other works. I see Black Clover as not something made by its author Yuki Tabata as a way to make money not a form of entertainment or art. But for some reason I keep coming back for the new chapter with hope that something will change.
This manga to me seems to be a waste of potential.but may be found interesting by people just getting into manga.
