Black Clover: Sword of the Wizard King (2023)

★ 8.1 1h 53m 365 votes IMDb

Action Fantasy Animated Adventure

As a lionhearted boy who can't wield magic strives for the title of Wizard King, four banished Wizard Kings of yore return to crush the Clover Kingdom.

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Gakuto Kajiwara as Asta (voice) Age 31 · Osaka, Japan Gakuto Kajiwara (梶原岳人, Kajiwara Gakuto) is a Japanese voice actor and singer from Osaka Prefecture. He is affiliated with Haikyō. He is best known for voicing Asta in Black Clover, Shinra Kusakabe in...

Nobunaga Shimazaki as Yuno (voice) Age 37 · Shiogama, Miyagi, Japan Nobunaga Shimazaki was born on December 6, 1988 in Shiogama, Miyagi, Japan. He is a voice actor at Aoni Production..

Junichi Suwabe as Yami Sukehiro (voice) Age 54 · Tokyo, Japan Junichi Suwabe is a Japanese voice actor and singer..

Kana Yuuki as Noelle Silva (voice) Age 39 · Kanagawa, Japan Kana Yuuki is a Japanese voice actress born March 10, 1987 in Kanagawa. She is affiliated with VIMS..

Toshihiko Seki as Conrad Leto (voice) Age 63 · Sendai, Miyagi, Japan Toshihiko Seki, born on June 11, 1962, in Sendai, Miyagi Prefecture, Japan, is a celebrated Japanese voice actor, actor, singer, and narrator. He has been active in the entertainment industry since 19...

Toshiyuki Morikawa as Julius Novachrono (voice) Age 59 · Shinagawa, Tokyo, Japan Toshiyuki Morikawa is a Japanese voice actor. He was formerly affiliated with Arts Vision until he co-founded his own talent agency Axl One in 2011. Because of his deep voice, he is often cast as imp...

Director Ayataka Tanemura

Cast Gakuto Kajiwara, Nobunaga Shimazaki, Junichi Suwabe, Kana Yuuki, Toshihiko Seki, Toshiyuki Morikawa, Hochu Otsuka, Miyuki Sawashiro, Fumiya Takahashi, Marie Iitoyo

eneyebe 9/10 Jun 17, 2023

🔥🔥🔥

Extremely good, felt like the show was back, except with some of the best animation I’ve seen in an anime. Choreography went crazy, hype moments made you hyped, and it gave every character their time to shine, just like the main show (except my girl Dorothy 😭😭 please she needs more screen time please)

Will very easily watch again, we’ll see if rating goes up or down on rewatch.

Also, I’m the one who made most of the edits for the letterboxd page for this movie so I’m proud of that 😎

Overall, 9/10, but that's coming from someone who loves the seriesas well.

RimasQ 6/10 Nov 24, 2023

Having watched the series before and cancelled my Crunchyroll subscription some time ago, I was pleasantly surprised to find this movie on Netflix. I wanted something to kill time with, and thought this would be perfect. Well, it was okay, but certainly not perfect.

The okay bits: got to see/hear the familiar cast, even if some supporting characters only appeared on screen for a split second. Also, the battle scenes were okay (even great, according to some reviewers).

Now onto the not-so-good stuff.

At first, I felt like the CGI fit this anime kinda awkwardly. For example, the arena where the initial tournament happens just felt out of place, because it felt too 3D-ish (or perhaps too clean/too detailed) compared to most other stuff.

Then later, I figured the story was a total cliché. The villain was that super typical "misguided" dude who has a somewhat sad backstory (which is very shortly summarized in passing) and wants to create a utopia world where "everybody respects each other and laughs with each other" at the (very miniscule) expense of killing off whoever opposes him on the way. So dumb, so shallow, so déjà vu. But I'd say even that wasn't executed very well, because in some scenes he seems to enjoy just wreaking havoc and/or inflicting pain on others a little too much (which seems rather out of character for someone so dedicated to the idea of universal love and respect).

Of course, the good guys win at the end, and the villain gets some "character development" in the form of realizing how mistaken he was at the very end. That's just... dull.

So again, I'd say this film is okay to watch, but it's far from masterpiece.