How is Black Clover anime? Show it will be in a few weeks on my family Netflix, I think I remember some people here saying it was underappreciated.
Adding on to what others have said, it's rather entertaining, especially for someone like me who's generally tired of the battle shonen genre. It doesn't reinvent the wheel or anything, but it sticks to its strengths and keeps a consistent level of quality throughout.
One of those strengths is in its massive cast of characters, none of which I outright hate, and that's a
damn rarity. A lot of shonen series, you'll have your favorites, ones you can't stand, and then a bunch of one-note nobodies that are just there to take up space. Characters that seemed like they might have been important at the start are forgotten as the story revolves around the MC and his rival. Tabata, meanwhile, somehow manages to give time to just about everybody, and characters you haven't seen in a while will come back and get more development. The Black Bulls are given the most, of course, but everyone gets a chance to shine.
Asta is also one of the most likable shonen protagonists I can think of. At first he seems pretty basic, always training his body to make up for his utter lack of magic, his only volume setting being
loud, and going on and on about how he's going to be the Wizard King somehow. But he's also unfailingly optimistic, trying to befriend everyone he meets (including villains, and often succeeding), and wanting to talk through problems instead of immediately resorting to a punch to the face. Granted, when push comes to shove, he
will give it his all in a fight and then some, refusing to give up even when all the odds are stacked against him (leading to one of my unironic favorite lines in the series). And despite the fact that a ridiculous amount of women characters are openly lusting after him, he remains oblivious to their advances because he only has eyes for his one true love, the nun who he can't marry. He's definitely a protagonist you love to root for.
I think the biggest issue with why it didn't become such a big hit with audiences is down to timing. BC started in February 2015, coming just after Naruto ended in November 2014, and due to its similar premise (in a magical fantasy world, orphan boy that nobody expects anything of has ambitions to become the ruler, insert plot device to give him powers), a lot of people wrote it off as just a Naruto copycat and ignored it. It didn't help that MHA had been running for a few months at that point, and its seemingly fresh premise and the capeshit boom drew readers towards it as a superior option. It took a while for people to reevaluate their initial takes and find that BC was actually pretty good, but I think it's doing well enough for itself now.
(I thought MHA was intriguing at the start, but despite a fresh setting, I find that it's even
more standard tropey shonen than BC, and a lot less fun. I didn't like most of the cast, Deku is a garbage protagonist, and the plots were boring and predictable. But that's my opinion.)
I have yet to read the manga, been meaning to get around to it ever since the anime finished its run on Toonami. I wonder if they'll keep the old model of doing weekly episodes until they run out of material, or shift to a seasonal model instead to avoid needing more filler.
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