Short answers, pulled from the story.
Black Clover follows Asta, a boy born without any magical power in a world where everyone else has it. He and his orphan companion Yuno compete to become the Wizard King, the highest magical authority in the Clover Kingdom, with Asta relying on a five-leaf grimoire that grants him rare anti-magic abilities.
Black Clover was written and illustrated by Yuki Tabata. It began serialization in the shonen manga magazine Weekly Shonen Jump on the 16th of February 2015.
By September 2025, the Black Clover manga had over 24 million copies in circulation worldwide. In the United States, the manga sold over 200,000 copies each year in 2021 and 2022.
The original Black Clover anime television series ran for 170 episodes. It was produced by Pierrot and broadcast on TV Tokyo from the 3rd of October 2017 to the 30th of March 2021.
Tabata developed Black Clover after his previous manga Hungry Joker was cancelled in 2013. His friends advised him to create a more energetic, optimistic protagonist. He drew on influences including Berserk by Kentaro Miura, Dragon Ball by Akira Toriyama, Harry Potter, and the films of Guillermo del Toro.
Black Clover concluded with three final chapters published in Jump Giga on the 1st of May 2026. The series had moved to Jump Giga in December 2023 after ending its run in Weekly Shonen Jump on the 21st of August 2023.