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Name: "My Magic is Never Giving Up!" | A Movie Highlighting What We Love About Black Clover
Item: Black Clover: Sword of the Wizard King
Rating: 85
Author: AdamStar

Note: Watch Black Clover before watching this movie, also yes this movie is canon fr Minimal Spoilers

Story/Plot:
___Brief Synopsis (since the Anilist description doesn't say much)_: __
Conrad Leto, the wizard king before Julius Novachrono, is here to wreck the Clover Kingdom. He was previously sealed by Julius's time magic 10 years ago but after getting destroyed by Patri his time magic sealing broke on Conrad Leto.
Conrad now plans to reenact his previous plan that got him sealed in the first place, destroy the Clover Kingdom, and remake it anew. This time he plans to do it with the help of Elsdocia (legendary sword crafted by the 1st Wizard King) and reviving 3 former Wizard Kings.
Asta and the Clover Kingdom must now stop them to prevent the destruction of their kingdom
___Thoughts_: __

I loved the premise of this movie. It greatly expanded on the minimal lore that the Clover Kingdom had. Before this, we only knew of the most recent and the first Wizard King. We knew that the Clover Kingdom had been dealing with discrimination between classes (poor vs rich) and races (elves) but this expands on it a bit more with the conflict between the former Wizard Kings and the Clover Kingdom cast.
The pacing was a perfect balance of speeding up on fight scenes and letting emotional scenes hang
I wish they adapted more of the backstories of the 4 WKs from the novel though
I will say that the powers-up are kind of bananas but extremely unique at the same time (Pincia and Jester had the best ones) it doesn't break the BC world so I'm chilling and getting hyped about it idc.

Characters & Dynamics:

Asta & Conrad:

I grouped these two because they had an amazing dynamic and parallel throughout the movie. I love how the parallel is a callback to Asta's whole identity.
Asta also had an amazing moment post fighting the Wizards Kings in round 1. He essentially dropped an amazing motivational patriotic speech that lowkey made me want to go out for my country
Conrad mainly served as a great foil to Asta. Kind of like Obito to Naruto, Obito had a dumbass plan but was cool because of his parallel (Obito's aura farmed more tho)
Lowkey expanded on the Asta and Noelle relationship a bit more thanks to Conrad

Princia Funnybunny, Jester Garandos, Edward Avalance:

Very cool characters. Aura was unmatched to the end for these 3 especially Jester, man was on demon time
I wish they adapted their novel backstories in this movie though

https://x.com/nite_baron/status/1670392528204357634 (Thread on extra content that was left out, I recommend reading these if you want additional depth to the movie) - Side Characters - Vermillion Family: Melerona continues to prove why she's goated in this movie. Rare Leopold sighting in this movie too lmao (if you read the manga yk). - Yuno, Yami, Fuegoleon, and Nozel Silva: This team had aura - Sekke, Liebe, & Julius: Foreshadowing done in an anime original movie, very nice. Some might say Peak Clover

Visuals & Sound:

It's easily the best animation that Black Clover has ever received. There was not one memeable trashy piece of animation like the BC anime.
The fights were amazing and hype especially with the addition of the music. Hakurai Mirai playing in the background of Asta vs Conrad hit different
Legit nothing bad to say about these two aspects, if you don't like BC that much you could still enjoy this movie because of these two aspects
Voice acting was great for the 4 Wizard Kings, especially Jester

Wouldn't be a Black Clover project if there wasn't a new banger song

Overall

Big movie for Black Clover. Adding more depth to Asta and the entire Clover kingdom lore. Good characterization for a 2 hour movie, could be better. Had great fights due to the amazing matchmaking (Tabata cooked with matchmaking Princia and Jester), great magic abilities for the Wizard Kings, and the best visuals and sound you will see from a Black Clover product (imagine peak BC season 1 animation but for 2 hours).

"MY MAGIC IS NEVER GIVING UP"

Side note: I'm a big Black Clover fan so BC fans add me fr lol. Totally unbiased review though, TRUST