Black Clover's Annoying Formula is Actually Saving the Series
Warning! Spoilers ahead for Black Clover chapter 322!
Yami Sukehiro just swooped in to save Nacht Faust — and by extension Asta — from certain death, reviving a trope inBlack Clover that would have annoyed fans if not for how it actually saved the series from an even more egregious sin.
Yami isn't the only character in Black Clover who has the tendency of arriving in the nick of time. Asta and Yuno subject each other to the same level of one-upmanship. But in Yami's case, the first most memorable time he participated in this now stagnant trope occurred during Asta, Gauche, and Theresa's first battle against members of the Eye of the Midnight Sun. Asta and his friends wouldn't have had a chance against the Eye's leader if Yami hadn't arrived. But in Black Clover's 322nd chapter by mangaka Yūki Tabata, Yami's ability to protect Asta and Nacht from the King of Devils Lucifero's devastating blow actually prevents Asta from becoming even more over-powered than he already is.
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Until now, Black Clover had set up Asta to undergo the stereotypical awakening of the shonen hero. Asta had attempted to defeat Lucifero but was soundly beaten to the point where other high-ranking Magic Knights had to protect him. Ironically, Yuno's contributions to the fight could have been Black Clover's way of fulfilling another popular formula, where either Yuno or Asta saves the other and then they take down the opponent together. But Tabata brushed that trope aside by making Yuno's magic ineffective against the devil. Instead, Asta rose — battered, bruised, and not in his devil union form with Liebe — to help Yuno, even though he could barely keep himself from falling
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