Another healthy dose of new anime episodes this week. My Hero Academia started season 2 with a new better opening theme as well as mention of a new competition for U.A heroes that will take shape in the coming weeks. Pop Team Epic was actually funny this week with scenes such as the one where the girls couldn’t catch any fish, so Popuko jumps into the water dressed as a fish so that she could be caught. And the Dragonball Super episode where Krillin was called a wimp by his wife 18 so he went to go train with Goku to get stronger was decent. But if there was a show that fired on all cylinders this week it was Black Clover FTW.
In Black Clover Epsode 34: Light Magic vs Dark Magic, as Asta and the other Magic Knights struggle against the Eye of the Midnight Sun, some needed help comes when Captain Yami and Finral breakup the cave battle. Yami tells Finral to transport Gouche and Sister Theresa out of the cave using his nifty portal spell. After some back talk from Finral, Yami gets pissed and Finral couldn’t leave fast enough for fear of angering the Black Bulls Captain. With just Asta who wanted to stay after looking at his leg wound and saying “I’m still in the fight”, Yami let him stay with him so that he may bear witness to the fight between himself and the evil leader of the Eye of the Midnight Sun named Licht.
Licht’s mage Valtos stayed behind to observe the fight as well. The Yami vs Licht started off as Licht being a light magic user shot many sword like beams of light at Yami only to have them all deflected. Yami uses dark magic which may be weak to light magic yet he explains to Asta something about QI. Which is more than just an easy 11 point score on regular tiles in Words with Friends, it means that you must concentrate and use all of your senses in order to counter a opponents attacks.
The fight continued even as Yami was schooling Asta which Valtos got peeved at and was ready to step into the fight to help his master. As Yami fought off Licht’s attacks fairly easily, he let Asta enter the fight just as Valtos was. Asta concentrated just as the Captain taught until he sensed a fast purple blast headed his way that he at once countered with his sword that deflects magic. This not only injured Valtos, but now pissed off Licht who I can tell already is going to be one of those annoying villains who is condescending and thinks of himself to be a god.
I like when Licht told a brief story of his life saying that in his homeland, there existed beings of such immense magical power that the lesser village folk saw them as godlike. But one day, the villagers decided to kill the godlike beings for fear of their own lives or something rather. And how Licht seems to be one of the godlike beings that wasn’t there at the time of the slaughter and survived. Great story, now lets hear Yami’s.
Yami explained that when he was young, he went out fishing one day when his small boat capsized and he drifted ashore. He found himself in a land of all cutthroats, thieves and all around bad ass dudes. One day when he was strong enough, he kicked all their butts and became a bad ass dude himself, the end. Yes I believe Yami’s story was the shorter, but better one of the two.
Now back to the fight, Licht was mad and started using different tactics with his light magic by using some sort of string looking magic things in an attempt to baffle the Captain and Asta both. He got the advantage as a boulder crushed the Black Bulls from all the magic flying around the cave. Valtos stood up and next to his master sounding as smog as Licht talking about these mortals disrespecting you my lord and blah, blah, blah. Just then however, Yami and Asta with swords drawn burst out of the rocks screaming and ready for round 2 which will happen in the next episode.
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