Black Clover (Japanese: ブラッククローバー, Hepburn: Burakku Kurōbā) is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Yūki Tabata. It has been serialized in Shueisha’s Weekly Shōnen Jump magazine since February 16, 2015, and has been collected into 23 tankōbon volumes.Black Clover takes place in a world where everybody possesses magical abilities, except for Asta, who was abandoned by his parents at a young age and raised by the church. That doesn’t stop him from aiming to become the Magic Emperor, who is said to be the strongest of all magicians.