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EP. REVIEW: Black Clover

^ I have no idea what Dynamic Chord is.

Honestly, one piece's example should never be copied. stretching out a chapter to cover a whole episode ruins the pacing in so many key, exciting scenes where things are meant to happen extremely quickly and have end up getting streeeeeetched out and lose a bunch of their emotional impact. The only reason people have accepted it at this point is because the source material is great and the other option is to basically have another naruto where half the seasons are pure filler. Personally I would actually be happier I think if one piece showed every other season, the episodes would have far better quality if it did.

Just a comment on this week's review: 1) Why is Yuno's name suddenly autocorrecting into the title of an old OVA when it never did before and 2) is there a way to stop this because otherwise reading these streaming reviews every week will become a bit of a pain. I'll still keep reading them of course, but just thought I'd point this out...

^ That does not make up for subjecting us to this filler Hell.

Hope that director is happy he's gotten his precious animators back after making the anime a chore to watch.

Plots have a natural flow to them. Too fast and things will feel rushed, improperly explained, or like the characters didn't have to do enough to earn whatever they're getting. Too slow and the audience will feel bored, things will get overly explained (as in, to death), and it will feel like hardly anything is going on.

Since we're talking about a shonen action series, if you're going to err on plot speed, it's better to be a too fast than too slow, and Black Clover (and One Piece) is definitely too slow so far. I'm sure its speed has already cost the show a lot of viewers, and soured many that have stayed with it. It's not too late for Black Clover, but the difficulty in recovering from this will only grow more challenging the longer they keep this up.

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Ep 12, Havn't read the manga but they were telegraphing everything pretty obviously. Rich boy has a grudge against yuno, requested him as a bodyguard, found out where his home was, had the bandits attack him and since that failed he'll have them attack the village. Hopefully Yuno is smart enough to realize this and just hasn't given it away that he knows, I don't like it when smart characters fall for really obvious traps. They could have avoided the whole situation. The knight they had with them should have just insisted on continuing to their destination (he is a noble too after all), they were hired to protect him on a direct route, not to go sightseeing, and they could always say that the guy's safety is paramount and ignore his requests. But plot demands bad decisions so here we are.

Actually filler :v this mission wasn't even in the manga except mentioned in passing later.

That said, I actually would have been totally on board with this filler except that it's going to eat into next week's episode too, which just further delays the next mission for no discernible reason :/ if it had just lasted this half episode and let things proceed next week, it would've been great, get a quick glimpse at Yuno and some Golden Dawn wizards.

It's just really... so mysterious why they're afraid of progressing and decide to instead risk losing some of their audience this early in the show. Manga readers know it's filler and get frustrated when there's no progress, but newcomers also haven't really been shown much spectacle yet to really get into the show. It's almost like the anime production team doesn't trust that the source material is interesting on its own.