English Dub Review: Black Clover “A New Resolve”

Overview (Spoilers Below)

Asta visits the orphanage with Noelle, Secre, and Yuno, and is relieved to find out that no one in the village blindly believes he is in league with a devil. Father Orsi reveals their village finally has its own magic school. Secre visits the demon skull to pay her respects to Lumiere and like the stubborn idiot that he endlessly tends to be, Asta instantly proposes marriage to Sister Lily, only to be crushed into the ground by her magic, and then Noelle being a total tsundere bitch overhearing it all. Lily asks Asta and Yuno to teach a class for the youngest children, believing learning from actual magic knights will be a great inspiration…



Our Take

Predictably being that Asta obliviously can’t tell if any other woman is actually into him, the moment he sees sister Lily he just has to propose and yet this dopey fucker still doesn’t get the memo. Also, Noelle mistook the situation to boot which made everything feel even more cringe-worthy. If they reduce Noel’s attitude just a bit, her character would be tolerable to some degree when it comes to this cliche “will they?/won’t they?” bullshit the Manga’s creator Yūki Tabata tends to dangle over his rabid fanbase.

Overall while this felt like another filler episode, it at least managed to cement everything that’s happened in preparation for a new arc, and It’s great to see how Asta has become the local hero of the village after being belittled all those years. They didn’t even believe the accusations and never stopped supporting him. It was also nice to be back where everything started and felt like a true ending to elf arc while making you ready for the new one.