English Dub Review: Black Clover “A Favor for Julius”

Overview

The Wizard King Julius has Sally temporarily released from prison to help magic item researcher Makusa North create a new magic item for the Bulls to help in their efforts against the upcoming Megicula battle. While Julius, in a later subplot is worried about a Village in the Forsaken Lands and sends out three magical knights to investigate reports of bandits…

Our Take


This episode was pretty good. The first half with Sally was a bit wacky in a fun way, but I liked seeing some of the underutilized Magic Knight squad captains get some spotlight. The Second half’s big reveal was quite surprising as it shows that even long after the “Eye of the Midnight Sun” incident with the reincarnated elf people, there are extremely negative repercussions that may have been overlooked, indicating that the clover kingdom has more work cut out for them assuming they aren’t completely run by corrupt upper-class 1-percenter douche-monkeys.

Overall this was another solid filler episode but this time with actual character progression. I also liked the world-building aspect of it. Sally’s part was funny and continued on the plot, while It’s also interesting to see that Julius was so widespread with his efforts throughout the kingdom, no wonder he’s gone so frequently as he must be spending every waking hour in all parts of the kingdom trying to bring its citizens together like the magical saint that he is.

Hopefully the actual story it’s been building up towards for so long will pick up soon…