99 Fun Facts About Black Clover

Which mangaka wrote and illustrated Black Clover?

Yūki Tabata says Dragon Ball made him want to draw manga; he started at 20 and spent seven years as an assistant before getting a series of his own.

Which woman keeps refusing Asta's marriage proposals?

Sister Lily, a nun at the church that raised him, refuses every proposal, sometimes flattening him with a spell, and he still asks again the moment he comes home as a Magic Knight.

Born without any magic, Asta receives what kind of spellbook?

A five-leaf grimoire picks the boy with no magic: a devil lives inside it, and it grants anti-magic, the power to cancel any other mage's spells.

What is the name of the anti-magic devil living in Asta's grimoire?

Liebe, a devil born without magic, was adopted by Asta's mother Licita, who gave her life sealing him inside the grimoire; he and Asta later fight as one in Devil Union.

Asta and Yuno grow up as orphans in a church in which village?

Hage is a rural village beside the skeleton of a giant demon; both babies were left at its church on the same day, and both grew up vowing to become Wizard King.

Which type of magic does Yuno wield?

Wind magic makes Yuno the village prodigy while Asta has no magic at all, yet the two orphans swear to race each other to the title of Wizard King.

Which Magic Knight squad does Yuno join?

Golden Dawn usually takes only royals and nobles, yet all nine captains raised a hand for the orphan Yuno, which was unheard of, and he chose the Dawn.

Who is the captain of the Black Bulls?

Yami Sukehiro washed up in the Clover Kingdom after a shipwreck; nicknamed the Lord of Destruction, he tells his squad to surpass their limits and was the only captain to accept Asta.

Noelle Silva struggles at first to control which kind of magic, despite huge mana?

Water magic ran wild for Noelle, so her royal siblings mocked her and her family's squad turned her away; the Black Bulls took her in, and she slowly tamed it.

Which Black Bull creates sheep out of Cotton Magic and cooks food that restores mana?

Charmy Pappitson looks like a child but is half dwarf, and her Food Magic summons a giant wolf that eats enemy spells; the author calls her his favourite to draw.

Which battle-obsessed Black Bull is known for smiling constantly in combat?

Luck Voltia equates winning with affection, a habit traced to a promise he made his late mother; his best friend Magna later helps free him from elf possession.

Gauche Adlai's Mirror Magic is channelled through what?

His artificial left eye is a small magic mirror, which he once used to multiply Asta into a squad of sword-swinging copies; he turned to crime to support his little sister Marie.

Which Black Bull's Spatial Magic is the squad's main means of transport?

Finral Roulacase opens portals for the whole squad; overshadowed by his younger brother Langris, he walked away from noble House Vaude and took his late mother's surname.

The timid Black Bull Grey initially hides her true form by appearing as what?

A shadowy man is the disguise Grey hides in because she is painfully shy; her power is later identified as Transmutation Magic, able to alter matter and even other mages' spells.

Black Clover's Nero, really Secre Swallowtail, was a servant to which figure 500 years earlier?

The first Wizard King, Lumiere, was her prince; she sealed him inside a statue to keep him alive, and the forbidden magic left her horned and turned into a small bird.

What rare power does Julius, the 28th Wizard King, wield?

Time Magic lets Julius store up time, and he once used that hoard to revive himself in the body of a 13-year-old; he is known for skipping his duties to hunt for unusual magic.

Nozel Silva, captain of the Silver Eagles, controls what?

Mercury is Nozel's element; Noelle's eldest brother knew a devil's curse had killed their mother, but the same curse stopped him from ever saying so.

Which squad does Fuegoleon Vermillion captain?

Crimson Lion Kings go without Fuegoleon while he lies in a coma after losing his right arm; he returns with an arm made of flame, chosen by the spirit of fire.

What does Charlotte Roselei, captain of the Blue Rose Knights, control with her spells?

Thorny briars once ran out of her control under a childhood curse; it broke when she fell for a fellow captain, and she has hidden the crush ever since.

What does Rill Boismortier, the 19-year-old captain of the Aqua Deer, bring to life with his spells?

Paintings leap off Rill's canvas as living spells; he used to lash out with his art until his butler Walter told him to understand other people first, then pointed him to the Magic Knights.

Green Mantis captain Jack the Ripper fights with mana blades created by which magic?

Severing Magic gives Jack blades that adapt to whatever magic they meet, so the longer a fight runs, the more they can cut.

Which Magic Knight captain hides a scarred face behind an ornate mask?

William Vangeance was abused by his foster mother over the mark across the top half of his face, until the Wizard King made him the mask and urged him to join the Magic Knights.

The extremist group Asta battles in the early arcs is called what?

The Eye of the Midnight Sun is led by elves reborn in human bodies, out to avenge the massacre of their people 500 years earlier; they learn too late that a devil staged it.

The Dark Triad, hosts of powerful devils, rule which realm?

Spade belonged to House Grinberryall until the Zogratis siblings seized the throne; its infant prince was smuggled to a Clover orphanage and grew up as Yuno.

Dante Zogratis, leader of the Dark Triad, is the host of which devil?

Lucifero is the king of the devils and lends Dante the Gravity Magic that pins enemies in place; Dante holds that evil is humanity's true nature.

Lucius Zogratis, the final antagonist, shares his body with whose soul?

Julius Novachrono's soul is the second one Lucius was born with, so the Clover Kingdom's beloved Wizard King and its final enemy turn out to share one body.

Which devil orchestrated the massacre of the elves 500 years before Black Clover begins?

Zagred struck on the wedding day of the elf leader Licht and a human princess, turning Clover's royals on their guests and framing the bride's brother for the killing.

Which studio produced the 170-episode Black Clover anime that aired from 2017 to 2021?

Pierrot animated all 170 episodes for TV Tokyo between October 2017 and March 2021, pausing only in spring 2020 when the pandemic held up episode 133.

The 2023 Black Clover film premiered on which service, the same day as Japanese theaters?

Netflix released Sword of the Wizard King worldwide on June 16, 2023, the day it opened in Japanese cinemas; it had been due on March 31 until a COVID outbreak hit production.

Who is Conrad Leto, the villain of the 2023 Black Clover film?

Julius's predecessor as Wizard King, Conrad turned on the kingdom and was sealed away by Julius; freed, he takes up the Imperial Sword to raze Clover and revive only those he deems worthy.

Black Clover's creator said he wanted to make a shōnen equivalent of which dark seinen manga?

Berserk, Kentaro Miura's brutal dark fantasy, could not run uncut in a magazine for schoolkids, so he chased its spirit instead, with The Lord of the Rings and Guillermo del Toro's films as other touchstones.

The Black Clover author's first serialised manga, cancelled after 24 chapters in 2013, was called what?

Hungry Joker was a serious science story with a quiet, dark hero nothing like its author; after it flopped, friends urged him to write a lead more like himself, and loud, sunny Asta followed.

Which trap-laying Black Bull despises nobles because fellow Magic Knights murdered his father?

Zora Ideale's father was killed by his own squadmates, so he sets Ash Magic traps that fling spells back at their casters and long refuses to wear his squad robe.

Black Clover's nine Magic Knight squads compete each year to earn the most of what?

Stars come from the Wizard King for good service, while black ones for botched missions count against a squad, which is how the Black Bulls start the series on minus 30.

The Black Bulls' base keeps rearranging its rooms because which hidden member reshapes it by magic?

Henry Legolant lives in the base unseen, under a curse that siphons mana from anyone near him; when the base is attacked he steps out and reshapes the whole building into a giant bull.

The 2018 video game Black Clover: Quartet Knights was published by which company?

Bandai Namco's game tells a story of its own: a mysterious mage attacks the Clover Kingdom and Yami is suddenly made young again.

Asta's battle cry in Black Clover insists that his real magic is what?

Never giving up is all he has, he yells in the first chapter, a boy with no mana facing a thief who has just beaten him; the line becomes his answer to every stronger enemy.

Which Black Bulls vice-captain hosts four devils and teaches Asta Devil Union?

Nacht Faust fights with Shadow Magic, slipping through other people's shadows and pinning anyone who steps into his; each of his four devils gives him a different Unite form.

Where does Asta go to train after the Dark Triad arc, before returning to defend the Clover Kingdom?

The Land of the Sun is where a beaten Asta lands after losing to Lucius; under the shogun Ryuya he trains with the Ryuzen Seven and masters Zetten, a concentrated form of ki.

Which company publishes Black Clover in English, after previewing its first three chapters digitally in 2015?

Viz Media ran those chapters online the same day they appeared in Japan, a trial it gave almost every new series, then added Black Clover to its regular lineup that April.

Black Clover spent its first eight years in Weekly Shōnen what?

Weekly Shōnen Jump carried it from February 2015 to August 2023; its creator then moved the final arc to a slower-paced magazine that he said fitted his circumstances better.

A ComicsAlliance review summed up Black Clover as which famous hero, if he were 'a knight and also kinda dumb'?

Harry Potter as a dim knight was reviewer Tom Speelman's logline in 2016; he called the series an action romp that doubles down on boys'-manga tropes and still sucks you in.

Mereoleona Vermillion, elder sister of Fuegoleon, is nicknamed the 'Uncrowned, Undefeated' what?

She commands the Royal Knights, mentors Asta, and judges people purely by strength. She later holds off the resurrected Acier Silva so Noelle's family can escape.

Yuno is the chosen partner of which elemental spirit?

Sylph answers to Bell, the nickname Yuno gives her; when the two merge in Spirit Dive he sprouts a fairy wing and half a floating crown.

Mimosa Vermillion, Noelle's royal cousin, wields a healing-focused form of which magic?

Plant Magic lets Mimosa heal allies and also fire a flower cannon; unlike most royals she rates people by merit, not birth, respecting Noelle for working hard while Noelle's own siblings mock her.

After leaving its original weekly magazine in August 2023, Black Clover finished its run where?

Jump Giga appears only four times a year, a pace its creator said suited his situation better; the last three chapters ran there together in May 2026.

Vanessa Enoteca's fate-altering Thread Magic takes the form of a cat named what?

Rouge first appears when Vanessa defies her mother, the Witch Queen; the cat shields only the people she counts as family, which is why the Queen could not turn its power to her own ends.

Which low-mana Black Bull knocks out Dark Triad leader Dante with a chain spell that splits their magic power evenly?

Magna Swing built the rune spell with Zora's help after feeling outpaced by his squadmates; with both fighters' power pooled and halved, he settles the rest with his fists.

Late in Black Clover, Yami gains Light Magic by becoming the host of which Supreme Devil?

Adrammelech, a bored devil who once refused to fight for his own king, offers the pact because desperate humans are more fun to watch; Yami pairs the new power with his own Dark Magic to win.

Which rapper told the interview show Hot Ones that Asta from Black Clover is relatable for beating the odds?

Megan Thee Stallion said she relates to Asta because people try to count you out, yet you train, fight and keep proving them wrong.

Which manga legend, whose hit series inspired Black Clover's creator to draw, praised Asta as very charismatic?

Akira Toriyama, the creator of Dragon Ball, said he really liked what he saw in Black Clover and credited its author with a great sense of impact.

Several devils in Black Clover are shown as animal masks, including a cat and a rooster, echoing which folk tale?

Town Musicians of Bremen supplies every mask: a dog, a donkey, a cat and a rooster, one for each devil that the Black Bulls' vice-captain commands through shadows.

What forced the Black Clover anime off the air after episode 132, with a rerun of episode one filling its slot?

The COVID-19 pandemic delayed production at the studio in April 2020, so new episodes stopped until July. The same crisis later pushed the film from March to June 2023.

Which Dragon Ball veteran, the English voice of Vegeta, also voices the Black Bulls' captain in Black Clover's dub?

Christopher Sabat is the gruff captain's English voice, having also played Piccolo in Dragon Ball, Zoro in One Piece and All Might in My Hero Academia.

Which programming block carried the English dub of Black Clover's first 170 episodes to American television?

Toonami began airing the dub on December 2, 2017, only two months after the Japanese premiere, and kept it on the schedule until October 2021.

How did the Black Bulls' foreign-born captain first reach the Clover Kingdom as a teenager in Black Clover?

By shipwreck: he had fled his homeland by boat, was shunned on arrival as a foreigner, and was later recruited by a future Wizard King who taught him the language.

Gauche Adlai of Black Clover's Black Bulls turned to crime to support which relative, whom he obsessively protects?

His younger sister Marie is the reason: after the pair were thrown out of the family estate he stole to provide for her, and a nun now limits his visits because he dotes so fiercely.

Which company produced Black Clover's English dub through its SimulDub program while the show was still airing?

Funimation recorded the dub close behind the Japanese broadcast and, with Sony Pictures UK, also released the first part on home video in the United Kingdom and Ireland.

Which Japanese network broadcast the first 170 episodes of the Black Clover anime, starting in October 2017?

TV Tokyo aired the series from October 2017 to March 2021, with Tatsuya Yoshihara directing and Minako Seki composing the score.

Which elite Black Clover squad is picked by a team tournament and led by Mereoleona Vermillion against the elves?

Royal Knights hopefuls fight a crystal-smashing tournament for a place, and Asta earns his after a semi-final that ends in a draw when both sides' crystals break at once.

Where do Black Clover's Black Bulls play a magical game to win a magic stone before Vetto of the Third Eye attacks?

The Underwater Temple lies beneath currents so strong that even upper-class mages cannot get in, and its people can take the form of sea creatures.

Vanessa Enoteca of Black Clover's Black Bulls escaped which homeland, ruled by her blood-magic mother?

The Forest of Witches is a neutral zone on the Diamond Kingdom's border, and its law lets residents visit other realms but brands any who settle elsewhere as criminals.

Where does Mereoleona Vermillion take Asta and Noelle to train in Black Clover, helping Asta control his Black form?

On a volcano, Asta learns to keep his Black form under control, while Noelle is urged to surpass her late mother through her own strength.

Which smug Black Clover knight, beaten by Asta at the entrance exam, becomes the king's attendant by faking a rescue?

Sekke Bronzazza tried to use Asta to look good at the exam and was humiliated instead. His reward for a rescue he only pretended to perform is a post beside a monarch as vain as he is.

Gordon Agrippa, the soft-spoken Black Bull who craves friendship in Black Clover, pairs curses with which kind of magic?

Poison is his own attribute, while the Agrippas are a long line of curse users; his father turned that knowledge to healing, and he later learns to make medicine from curses.

Which Black Clover captain is almost always asleep, yet turns playful inside the dream worlds her magic creates?

Dorothy Unsworth leads the Coral Peacocks while dozing and leaves the squad's daily affairs to her vice-captain. Inside her Dream Magic she is wide awake and cheerful.

Which spell does Noelle Silva unlock in Black Clover to beat an elf threatening her family, clothing herself in mana?

Valkyrie Armor is a suit of water with a spiralling lance that lets her glide through the air, and later variants include a Mermaid Form for fighting beneath the sea.

Asta's grimoire in Black Clover first belonged to which leader of the elves, a wielder of Sword Magic?

Licht owned the grimoire and its swords 500 years before Asta, when he argued that elves and humans could live side by side.

Which devil of curses killed Noelle Silva's mother in Black Clover and later cursed the Heart Kingdom's queen?

Megicula is hosted by Vanica Zogratis, and even speaking the devil's name spreads the curse, which is why Noelle's eldest brother hid the truth from her for years.

Which spirit bonds with Fuegoleon Vermillion in Black Clover after he wakes from a coma with a flame arm?

Salamander first sides with the elf-possessed Fana, and chooses him only once he returns from his coma with a prosthetic of flame in place of his lost right arm.

Which elf, reborn inside a masked captain's body, leads the extremists who hunt magic stones in Black Clover?

Patry believes humans slaughtered his people, and once he learns a devil arranged the massacre he turns into a Dark Elf before Asta brings him back.

Which artist performed two of the Black Clover anime's opening themes, Black Rover and Black Catcher?

Vickeblanka sang Black Rover for episodes 28 to 39 and came back with Black Catcher for episodes 116 to 128.

Which of Asta's anti-magic swords in Black Clover fires flying slashes and absorbs spells to release as beams?

Demon-Dweller is the second blade he acquires, found in a dungeon. His first enlarges and reflects spells back, while a third undoes magic already cast on an object.

Which actor, nominated for a BTVA Anime Dub Award for the role, voices Asta in Black Clover's English dub?

Dallas Reid won over an Anime News Network reviewer, who found his take on the loud-mouthed hero more tolerable than the original Japanese performance.

Which director's fantasy films did Black Clover's creator cite as an influence, alongside The Lord of the Rings?

Guillermo del Toro's films fed a series whose author says he is no great fan of fantasy role-playing games and studied photo books to give its world a European look.

Which Diamond Kingdom general do Asta and Yuno beat in a dungeon in Black Clover before he reforms his homeland?

Mars was raised through brutal experiments on children, and it is the fight with Asta that shifts his outlook and turns him against the scholar who ran them.

What do Black Clover's Dark Triad create from two captured captains' magic to link the underworld and the human world?

The Tree of Qliphoth needs World Tree Magic and Dark Magic, which is why the Triad abduct the two captains who wield them and seal both in coffins for the ritual.

Zenon Zogratis, youngest of Black Clover's Dark Triad, draws his Spatial Magic from which devil he hosts?

Beelzebub lets Zenon open portals and dimensional spaces, and after Yuno runs him through, Zenon merges with the devil completely and gains a devil heart.

Which airheaded queen of Black Clover's Heart Kingdom trains Noelle after a devil curses her with one year to live?

Lolopechka is bonded to the spirit Undine and, for all her clumsiness, senses nearly everything in her realm, so she allies with the Clover Kingdom to get ready for war.

Secre Swallowtail of Black Clover gained horns and a bird form as the price of using which magic on a devil?

Sealing magic let her lock away the devil behind the elves' massacre 500 years ago, and in her bird form, called Nero, she tags along with Asta before joining the Black Bulls.

Which cruel elder brother does Noelle Silva defeat in a selection-exam match in Black Clover, proving her new control?

Solid had bullied her for years as the family disgrace, and after beating him she tells him that people better than him have already acknowledged her.

Kahono, who dreams of idol stardom with her brother in Black Clover, fights and heals using which kind of magic?

Song magic also lets her put the wounded to sleep, and her voice matters so much to it that a crushed throat robs her of its full strength until she is healed.

Kirsch Vermillion, the beauty-obsessed vice-captain of Black Clover's Coral Peacocks, fights with which magic?

Cherry Blossom magic suits a noble fixated on beauty, who also happens to be Mimosa's older brother. His arrogance only cracks after Asta defeats him.

Marx Francois, the adviser who nags Black Clover's Wizard King about his duties, extracts information with which magic?

Memory magic lets him pull information straight out of people's heads, and he needs the patience: his Wizard King keeps slipping away from his duties to study rare spells.

Which K-pop group performed Here I Stand, the theme of the film Black Clover: Sword of the Wizard King?

Treasure had already sung Beautiful, the last closing theme of the show's first 170 episodes, and the film single reached number two on Oricon's weekly chart.

Which Japanese publisher released the Black Clover manga, along with its tie-in novels and gag spin-off?

Shueisha ran the series in two of its magazines and collected it in book volumes, and since 2019 it has also simulpublished the chapters in English on its Manga Plus app.

Why did the Black Clover manga take a three-month break from its weekly magazine in 2022?

To plan its last arc: the break was announced in April 2022, and that closing storyline later moved out of the weekly magazine altogether.

Grey of Black Clover's Black Bulls seems to use Transformation Magic, but which power is really hers?

Transmutation lets her change the attributes of matter and even of other mages' spells, a gift that proves vital against the leader of the Dark Triad.

Which woman abandoned baby Asta at a church in Black Clover because her cursed body drained the life of those near her?

Licita later took in a devil born without magic and died locking him inside a grimoire, which is how he came to share a spellbook with the son she gave up.

Which scarred thief becomes Black Clover's first villain when he tries to steal Yuno's new grimoire with Chain Magic?

Revchi had been thrown out of the Magic Knights after his own captain framed him, and his defeat is the moment Asta's grimoire and its giant blade first appear.

Which Black Clover necromancer, exiled from his squad for Wraith Magic, raises corpses that keep their spells?

Rades is sacrificed by his own leader, snatches a new spell at the last moment to raise himself from the dead, and then revives two allies to help him get even.

Which Magic Parliament chairman puts Asta on trial in Black Clover, wielding Scale Magic that shrinks incoming spells?

Damnatio Kira can shrink and counter almost any attack, but his scales do nothing against Anti-Magic, and the Wizard King steps in before he can pass sentence.

What name does Black Clover give the humans whom Lucius Zogratis merges with purified devils to form his army?

Paladins include Noelle's revived mother and the nun who raised Asta, transformed while still alive, each bound to a devil that Lucius has first purified.

Which technique, a magnified form of ki, does Asta master among the shogun's warriors in Black Clover?

Zetten is drilled into him by the elite fighters of a distant country, and it becomes his main weapon once he returns home for the closing battles.

Which band of elite mages serves the shogun in Black Clover and trains Asta after his defeat by Lucius Zogratis?

The Ryuzen Seven cast spells from scrolls instead of grimoires, and their ranks include a sibling the Black Bulls' captain has not seen since fleeing home.

Conrad Leto, villain of the film Black Clover: Sword of the Wizard King, opens dimensional rifts with which magic?

Key magic once made him a beloved hero, until corrupt royalists framed him for a crime that cost him his wife and comrades and turned him against the kingdom.

Which Japanese idol group performed both Stories and Grandeur, two opening themes of the Black Clover anime?

Snow Man sang Stories from episode 129 and Grandeur from episode 158, and Grandeur went on to be named Single of the Year at the Japan Gold Disc Award.

Which voice actor, the Japanese voice of Asta, also sang A Walk, a closing theme of the Black Clover anime?

Gakuto Kajiwara also recorded the theme of a spin-off short as half of a duo with the actor who plays Yuno, billed as Clover×Clover.

At which convention did a panel of writers rank Black Clover among the worst manga of 2016?

San Diego Comic-Con hosted the panel, a harsh verdict on a series that Comic Book Bin had graded an A and called one of the best new titles of the year for young readers.