Arrr, Matey!
I couldn't get past the first five minutes of Black Clover. I've nothing against boiler plate shonen, that stuff can be pretty enjoyable to watch as a low stress thing, but they gave the lead to some newcomer VA and botched the voice direction so that character is now The Most Annoying Thing Ever and I just couldn't take it.
Sure, it's a bit cruel to drop a series just on the earliest of impressions, but if you take the start of a story as a kind of a mission statement and then they fill it with painful screeching, unfunny jokes stretched too long and the classic "she hit him, isn't that funny" I'm just gonna nope out.
edited 3rd Oct '17 1:00:26 PM by GabrieltheThird
While I would agree that it had a terrible first episode and the main character is probably one of the most annoying shounen leads I have seen in a while, I would say that there is a glimmer of potential in Black Clover (even if it is very well hidden) as the setting seems somewhat interesting. Hopefully the MC will calm down a bit as the series progresses.
Osake wa Fuufu ni Natte Kara, episode 1… eeeeeh… eh. =[ I'm mixed. On one hand you have a female boss with a House Husband for a change, on the other… it's just Food Porn: Cocktail Edition, with a bit of Generic Cuteness thrown into the mix. Scratch that, it's rather Generic Cuteness with some cocktail thrown into the mix. Not entirely convinced. I'll probably watch a couple more at least, since they're 3 minute shorts anyway.
edited 3rd Oct '17 2:19:09 PM by Lyendith
Black Clover: I like My Hero Academia, so I'm not against recent manga and anime running familiar tropes, but I only got as far as the nun scene before I lost interest in watching this anime. I didn't think Asta's voice would annoy me but holy shit that scream is intolerable.
edited 3rd Oct '17 4:44:08 PM by VeryMelon
Damn it, now I have to check out Black Clover
...Some interesting visuals (if not animation quality), but the writing is pretty dire. And, yeah, Asta's voice is awful
Meanwhile, Juuni Taisen is pretty great. Great animation, good direction, and sharp writing. Like Fate with less spectacle and more fucked-up-ness
edited 3rd Oct '17 8:11:08 PM by Hylarn
To be honest, even without the voice, Black Clover doesn't have a lot going for it. It's every shounen cliche, being thrown at you the most uninspired way possible, not a hint of creativity running throughout. The voice makes things a lot worse, yeah, but I don't think I would watch this even without it.
That's basically all his dialogue, isn't it?
edited 3rd Oct '17 8:19:48 PM by TheLovecraftian
The crazy thing is that SJ are constantly hyping it up as the next big thing similar to what they tried with Toriko by promoting it alonside One Piece and My Hero Academia.
They really want another Big three huh.
edited 3rd Oct '17 8:30:58 PM by BlackYakuzu94
A lazy millennial who's good at what he does.It's really just One Piece that's consistently getting top ranks these days. Even My Hero Academia bounces around a bit
Black Clover is fairly popular, though and been around long enough that they can really do things with it
Surprised they're not pushing Kimetsu No Yaiba more, though
