12 Facts About Black Clover

1.

Black Clover is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Yuki Tabata.

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2.

Weekly production process for Black Clover involved Tabata consulting with Katayama for the first few days on the thumbnails of the chapter then spending the remaining days composing the actual art.

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3.

Early in the series the artist claimed to only sleep an average of three hours per night due to stress, but after the anime adaptation of Black Clover began airing he was able to increase this to six hours per night.

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4.

Black Clover wanted to craft a shonen equivalent of Berserk while taking inspiration from other fantasy properties such as Dragon Quest: The Adventure of Dai, The Lord of the Rings, Harry Potter, and the films of Guillermo del Toro.

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5.

Black Clover stated that he was a fan of other shonen series, such as YuYu Hakusho by Yoshihiro Togashi and Bleach by Tite Kubo.

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6.

Black Clover modeled the characters Asta and Charmy Pappitson after himself and his wife respectively.

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7.

Black Clover admitted in the manga's fourth volume that Charmy was his favorite character to draw.

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8.

Black Clover chose names for characters by looking up words he found interesting in dictionaries of various languages.

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9.

Black Clover found that an important aspect of character design in Black Clover was giving them traits that make them easy to remember for the reader.

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10.

Black Clover wanted to "feel good" drawing them, would revise the characters if he was getting frustrated, and strived to improve on balancing the attention each one gets during the course of the story.

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11.

Black Clover praised the author's ability to invigorate stock characters.

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12.

In January 2021, it was revealed that Black Clover was the most-watched anime series on Crunchyroll in 2020, being watched in 87 countries and territories all over the world.

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