English Dub Review: Black Clover “Awakening Powers”

Overview

Asta Yami later learns some new tricks of their own so when the Guardians report their progress to The Heart Queen Loropechika, Rill and Charmy are naturals at Mana Words but Noelle and Secre have made the most progress while Leopold and Finral have self-doubt which holds them back…

Our Take

Asta and the chosen members of the Black Bulls progressively continue on their training with the 5 Spirit Guardians, which is going more relentless, and this is no child’s play for the Spade Kingdom they’re going to face against soon with their next-level pedestal of magic powers. Asta and Yami’s training with Gaja and Mereleona was intense.

I also assumed that the animation would be up in quality for this new season given how intense and action-packed this episode was with Asta and Yami’s training sequences. But this wasn’t the case here, which is further exemplified with a scene where Asta strafes when he’s training, but it is what it is…

Overall, a decent filler episode that actually works in terms of character progression. It also excelled with a small in-depth look of the Spade Kingdom, which is quite interesting and gives off some sinister vibes which I’m not surprised about given that this villain they’re supposedly up against is of a similar “Devil” species as Asta’s powers and has been built up as the “Big Bad” for quite some time.