I would recommend reading it on Mangaplus. It's free (at least, first and last 3 chapters are, dunno about the rest), and if you aren't convinced to read it after that, you can safely drop it. It's fairly consistently paced, so reading a couple of chapters at any point should give you a decent idea of what it's about. Or perhaps more accurately, what it's deal is.
It's not like, say, Jojo where what part you start could have massive influence on your experience. It's fairly consistent, sometimes for the better and sometimes for the worse.
Edited by devak on Sep 1st 2020 at 7:24:09 PM
I read Black Clover recently out of the constant comparison with MHA and I wanted to understand if it was really better as it's frequently said. It does have strenghts not gonna lie but writing wise it pales in comparison with MHA. It definetly has an appeal tho.
As for the good old, "Female characters" complains I always found it a silly complain. MHA doesn't even treat badly the female cast.
I suppose one might give the old argument of "something bad done deliberately is still bad", but I don't think that applies to the story of BC.
The author simply understands that his strength lies on action and not intricate plotting and do he focuses on what he does well.
Gigguk puts it best: BC's peaks aren't as high as other WSJ series, but they come by so often you end up not noticing.
Edited by HailMuffins on Sep 1st 2020 at 2:58:32 PM
I'll tell you what, it definitely has Endeavor if he was written terribly.
Noelle basically has an abusive older brother who treated her like shit & enabled his entire family to blacksheep her since she was born but recently he went all "Oh I wasn't trying to abusive, I was protecting you from our moms curse. So I willingly allowed our entire family to make your existence a living Hell as they constantly blamed you for the death of our mother all the while acting like your life is insignificant to me."
Endeavor if his behavior was entirely excused & justified.
"I am Alpharius. This is a lie."Heh. Black Clover hasn't pissed me off quite as much of FT did near the end.
It had stuff I didn't care for (like it's main character, and at least one other side character with a joke I'm not a huge fan of), but I've stuck with it and never really had much issue.
It took until 100 Year's Quest for me to be able to completely enjoy FT again, because near the end of the original series, it was kinda a mess.
One Strip! One Strip!I can’t remember another series where I followed from start to finish when it was ongoing that’s battle oriented besides Akame ga Kill. Tbh, the manga ended about as satisfactory as it could
I lost track of Seven Deadly Sins around the time Meliodas resurrected so I missed out on everything and all indications was that it was dumb af
Also shoutout to Shokugeki fans for enduring their increasing deteriorating series
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Uhhhhh well the arts pretty good.
Not sure if the world-buildings improved for you. Like we meet the other kingdoms but both are very simple, one is a good nature kingdom & the evil is 100% flat evil demon kingdom with the former already destroyed in the same arc they were introduced by the latter.
Wow that is Shokugeki.
Huh I wonder what means for Dr Stone. The current ongoing manga by Eyeshield's writer.
Edited by slimcoder on Sep 1st 2020 at 1:08:25 AM
"I am Alpharius. This is a lie."At least Dr. Stone has some foreshadowing that things could possibly escalate past the point of reality. That, and despite the science-driven nature of the series, from the beginning it very much exaggerates human ability. The dude who killed a lion bare-handed comes to mind.
Reaction Image RepositoryI didn't say that BC was bad though. I said it was simple, and that it's deliberately so. There's literally a scene where the MC has a debilitating injury ala Deku and just goes "fuck no i won't cry over this" and shrugs it off next arc. There's no depth or introspection here, no questioning of his paths or goals. He just decides "this won't hurt me", and not a drop of angst is extracted from it. It's a choice of style.
Regarding 7 deadly sins, it was never quite as good as it's premise implied, but it dropped in quality hard sometime after Melodias' resurrection (More than i expected) to the point where we get a repeat of a fight not even an arc after we had the first version of the fight, and a random unrelated bad guy shows up afterwards to fill time.
Edited by devak on Sep 1st 2020 at 11:04:13 AM
Kenichi's last arc was rushed as all Hell (one of the final villains showed up for all of 2 chapters and had no foreshadowing whatsoever, it's Kaguya except even worse), but funnily enough I don't think the quality ever actually dropped, it just felt like the author burned out and skipped 100 potential chapters so he could end the story early.
Sorry, but whenever someone brings up Kenichi, this is all that I can think of:
Regarding Ochaco and her development, while it's undeniable he's usually a part of her of it, I don't know if it's really right to characterize it revolving around him.
It's more like by looking at at him it gets her thinking about other things and what kind of hero she wants to be.
And then, of course, you just have moments like the one with Night Eye that have nothing to do with Izuku at all.
I'm not saying it's perfect, and I can understand wanting him to be less involved in this particular aspect, but I think things are more nuanced than "her character revolves around Izuku".
Edited by LSBK on Sep 1st 2020 at 6:04:44 AM

I'm still debating if I even want to read Black Clover or not...has it gotten interesting?
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