The story of Asta's mom is a bit weird. How did she even get a child when she kills that fast? Unless it's slower for humans. And how does she immdetiately notice that Liebe does not have magic, but didn't that Asta doesn't have it either? If it's only because of not having magic, and so far that was pretty consistent - he's not affected by Henry, and Zagreds all consuming stuff ignored Asta. Therefore, he should have been fine with whatever his mother actually does. Of course, she might not have been sure, but he survived until whenever she finally dropped him off, and she didn't hesistate the slightest with Liebe.. it's certainly possible hat she felt it's better to be safe then sorry with Asta, but was confident by the time she found Liebe, but it feels a bit forced because we barely know anything about what happend, only a few short scenes.
Her"powers" also make me wonder if Henry is related somehow, either biogically or if the source of their powers is the same, e.g. a course. Also interesting that Asta doesn't have magic, despite his mother having it. Magic power is obviously hereditary, otherwise the whole noble system thing wouldn't work, so how come?
Next thing which also feels a bit forced is that the elves showed up, especially when send by a never-mentioned before dryad, instead of simply sensing huge magic powers clashing etc. Of course, a lot might be explained as the story goes on, but for now..
They also shafted some members lately. Magna was completely absent from all that, he's not even back in the Black Bulls base. I wonder when he's gonna reappear, and if he's finally going to be stronger. Nero had a short moment when "sealing" Vanica, but that obviously failed, and has been background decoration at best lately. I think she was not even there in most scenes, not even as bird.
Grey is probably the most interesting character right now, because there are lots of unknowns, and she hasn't had a chance to really shine (besides saving Gauche) yet. Officially she uses transformation magic, which is not supposed to be able to do what she did..but why not? It's not "morphing magic" or some such, and she transforme, or transmuted e.g. poison to wool and stuff like a 100 episodes earlier. Removing the sword should be easy, by changing it from solid into a fluid or as gas the effect shown could be achieved. Healing Gauche is a bit more complicated, but when you break it down to molecule level or whatever it's really not different from what she's done before. Heck, she doesn't even need to transform it per se, just move them around and stuff. Might be there's more behind, but might also be that there's simply never been a somewhat competent mage with her powers.
Probably because of the isolationist policy the countries enforce, and the way most kingdoms are run (the heart kingdom is only natural magic, little experimentation. Clover Kingdom noble's run the show, and their magic deviates only a little from the stock with each generation, Diamond Kingdom probably dismissed everything without super obvious use in a war, and Spade Kingdom..maybe had other issues with constant winter, and then was overrun by devils. And the elfs are like the Heart Kingdom, only worse), there is actually not much magic research going on, and most knowledge is more accidental/passed on by word of mouth.
I wonder how the rest of the world is doing. E.g. Yami's home country, or where the dwarfs are at. The dwarfs are described as an ancient race, but Charmy is only about 20, so there must be some around at least..
Anways, the last couple of episodes was slightly better again then the ones before, though outside of fights it's usually not as noticable when something doesn't make sense, because it's more forgiving in general. So i'm tentatively optimistic for further animation adaptiion of Black Clover, e.g. the movie - most of the "fillers" were quite nice, so a movie with an original story could be good, too. |