Yuki Tabata – Cannonball Read 17

The Neverending Battles Get Old

Black Clover vols. 28-31 by Yuki Tabata

February 19, 2023 by CoffeeShopReader Leave a Comment

I hadn’t realized how long I’d kind of ignored the Black Clover manga series until I was in the library and saw that I was at least 4 volumes behind; this seems to happen with shonen fighting-based series an awful lot – the pattern of lots of fights with sudden power-ups that feel preprogrammed because the user automatically knows what and how to use the newly developed ability. I’ve gotten behind/bored with quite a few series where this happens; at least Yugi-Oh! had the sense […]

It might be time for a break

Black Clover vols. 26-27 by Yuki Tabata

February 6, 2022 by CoffeeShopReader Leave a Comment

So I think I might be getting to a moment when I need to step away from the action-adventure manga. I spent most of volume 26 of Black Clover being annoyed at how cliched everything seemed. Basically the whole storyline for the whole volume was people yelling cliches like “We are absolutely going to win for the sake of our truly kind friend!” and “Unless you take me down, they’ll keep right on coming back! Are you into this now, {character name}?” “You are absolutely….GOING […]

When the annoying one of the hero/friend/rival pair is positioned to win

Black Clover vol 22 by Yuki Tabata

January 30, 2021 by CoffeeShopReader Leave a Comment

Besides comfort reading, I sometimes turn to graphic novels and manga for some brain relief or palate cleansing when also reading a book that is either much longer or more complicated; in this case, that would be an 1100+ page sci-fi/ speculative fiction novel (review to come in hopefully a week or so). I’ve been following the Black Clover series a while, and I’m about 2 or 3 volumes behind the published in English volumes, but whatever. The basic gist of the series is pretty […]

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