BLACK CLOVER, VOL. 17
VIZ MEDIA – @VIZMedia
MANGAKA: Yuki Tabata
TRANSLATION: Taylor Engel, HC Language Solutions, Inc.
LETTERS: Annaliese Christman
EDITOR: Alexis Kirsch
ISBN: 978-1-9747-0616-7; paperback (September 2019); Rated “T” for “Teen”
192pp, B&W, $9.99 U.S., $12.99 CAN, £6.99 UK
Black Clover is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Yuki Tabata. It has been serialized in the manga magazine, Weekly Shonen Jump, since February 2015. VIZ Media has been publishing an English-language edition of the manga as a paperback graphic novel series under its “Shonen Jump” imprint since 2016.
Black Clover focuses on a hopeful boy named Asta. He and his friend, Yuno, are found abandoned in the village of Hage of the Clover Kingdom. Both Asta and Yuno dream of one day being the “Wizard King,” the greatest mage in the land. Asta has one big problem; he can't use magic. When he is 15-years-old, Asta receives the rare “five-leaf-clover grimoire” (a book of magic), which gives him the power of anti-magic. Can Asta become the Wizard King without being able to use magic? Is he worthy of being in the “Magic Knights” squad, “the Black Bulls?”
As Black Clover, Vol. 17 (Chapters 151 to 160; entitled “Fall, Or Save the Kingdom”) opens, disaster has struck the Magic Knights. The souls of elves who claim to have been killed by humans have taken over the bodies of members of the Magic Knights. Now, these elves are going to use their new bodies and enhanced powers to kill humans. Asta and the Magic Knights are in trouble, but that doesn't mean that Asta is going to give up? But which side is Yuno on?
[This volume includes bonus material: “The Blank Page Brigade;” an “Afterword;” and sketches.]
THE LOWDOWN: The Black Clover manga is one of the best shonen battle manga available to English-speaking audiences. I have read seven volumes so far this year, and every time I read one it is like rediscovering how amazing this series is.
Black Clover Graphic Novel Volume 17 moves deeper into this shocking elves-possession story line. It just came out of nowhere, and truthfully, it could have turned out to be a disaster. Elvish ghosts; elvish genocide; possession; revenge: yeah, that could have been a disaster. Instead, Vol. 17 is the latest volume in a really fun to read graphic novel series. I practically tore through this volume.
I READS YOU RECOMMENDS: Fans of the top Weekly Shonen Jump manga will definitely want to try the “Shonen Jump” series, Black Clover.
A+
10 out of 10
Reviewed by Leroy Douresseaux a.k.a. "I Reads You"
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