Asta (Black Clover)
Asta is a male anime and manga character who features in Black Clover.
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Biography
Origin
Asta (Japanese: アスタ, Hepburn: Asuta) was a male human born to Richita in the Forsaken Realm of the Clover Kingdom. Shortly after his birth, his mother came to leave him on the doorstep of a church in the town of Hage. On the same day, another child named Yuno was left at the doorstep of the same church with both infants being found by the priest Father Orsi Orfa. He had headed the town orphanage and came to adopt the two children who came to be raised alongside other foster children. Years later, Asta joined in a trip for some grocery shopping where he came to overhear some villagers coveting the lifestyle of those living in the Noble Realm. It was then that he came to learn about the discrimination between the commoners and the nobles in the kingdom whereupon he came to develop his ambition in becoming the Magic Emperor. Later on, Asta came to see a thug steal Yuno's necklace and immediately went to get his friend's item back. He was ultimately successful but was left with injuries all over his body from the endeavour. This saw Yuno developing similar ambitions in becoming the Magic Emperor and the two forming a rivalry. Asta was then returned to the church where Sister Lily was healed of his injuries. At some point, Asta also came to be infatuated with Sister Lily who helped run the orphanage where he wanted to marry her but she often rejected his declarations of love. In this time, he and Yuno often practiced magic where Asta tried to break through the latter's wind magic attacks. These often resulted in failure but Asta refused to give up where he persisted in his attacks. At one point, he finally managed to break through Yuno's magic where he credited his persistence for his success. Asta would regularly go away to train in the hope of getting strong enough to challenge Yuno. A few days later, a Grimoire Acceptance Ceremony is held in a tower near Hage. Asta fails to receive his grimoire and Drouot suggests for him to try again next year. Later in the evening, Asta is still left in a daze after Yuno also brushed off his declaration of rivalry. In the distance, while he hangs on a tree branch, Asta sees that Yuno is in trouble and quickly runs to save him. However, because of his lack of magic power, Asta is cornered by Revchi Salik who is armed with a grimoire. Unable to retaliate, Asta submits as his spirit was shaven off by Revchi. He manages to regain his will to fight, however, after Yuno reveals his respect for Asta during their time as children. Asta then tried to get back on his feet when a grimoire suddenly flew towards Asta and gave him a sword. Using his newfound sword, Asta defeated Revchi and recommitted himself to his promise with Yuno.
Black Bulls
Six months later, Asta attended the Magic Knights Entrance Exam where he came to meet Yami Sukehiro, Finral Roulacase, and Gordon Agrippa for the first time. During the exam, Asta was unable perform the first task given to him, which attracted the attention of Sekke Bronzazza who planned to take Asta's poor performance to his advantage. At the end, during the combat test, Sekke asked Asta to be his partner, which the latter gladly accepted. Sekke then condescendingly revealed his reason behind his decision to have Asta for his partner. Nevertheless, Asta quickly defeated him and revealed his intention to become the Magic Emperor. However, his use of unfamiliar magic meant that none of the captains want to recruit him. It was then that the captain of the Black Bull squad stepped in to test Asta's determination. The young orphan managed to impress Yami and was offered a place in his squad. He then travelled to the squad's headquarters via Spatial Magic and introduced himself to the other members of the squad. One of the members, Magna Swing, decides to give Asta an initiation test to prove his worth for the squad. Asta impresses Magna when he deflects Magna's fireball back towards him. Additionally, Magna remains impressed of his ability, even when Asta reveals his lack of magic power. The young Knight is then congratulated by the other members before he receives his robe while Vanessa Enoteca brands his headband with the squad's insignia. After the test, while being taken on a tour of the headquarters, Asta meets Noelle Silva, who is the other new member of the squad. He tries to be friendly with her, but she completely rejects Asta's good intention as she mentions her royalty status. Afterwards, Magna takes Asta to the latter's personal quarter. The notion of having his own room, deeply excites Asta and he begins cleaning every corner of it before he goes to sleep. Later at dawn, Asta finds Noelle while she practices on her own. He witnesses her magic power go out of control. Yami orders Asta to stop her magic as he throws the young Knight towards Noelle. Asta is able to save him with the use of his Anti Magic and lands safely on the ground with Finral's assistance. He then begins to praise Noelle's ability while also encouraging her to grow stronger.
During meal time, Asta asks about the duty of a Magic Knight, and Magna chides him for his ignorance. However, after he heard his squadmates' interpretation of their duty, Asta simply concludes that they are all weird. Later on, Magna reveals to Asta and Noelle that their first mission will be a boar hunting in Sosshi. Asta rejects the mission at first, but quickly accepts it when he is threatened by Yami. The three of them then travel to the village on Magna's broom, because Asta cannot ride one himself and Finral is unable to transport them with his magic. Upon their arrival, they discover that the village is covered in mist, so Magna asks Asta to cut a path for them. The moment they reach the center of the village, they find the villagers are held hostage by a group of mages, led by Heath Grice. Once Magna saves the villagers, Heath launches a second attack, which Asta counters with his sword before he confronts Heath for his actions. Asta begins his assault while he tries to uncover Heath's true purpose. Unfortunately, Heath's answers quickly infuriate him and cause Asta to proclaim that he will protect the villagers from him. Heath and his group launch a Compound Magic spell that keeps Asta and Magna occupied and unable to protect the villagers. Fortunately, Noelle casts Sea Dragon's Nest that shields all of them from their attacks. Asta quickly dashes towards Heath as soon as he sees an opening, but he fails to effectively damage Heath because Heath froze the ground under Asta's feet, dampening Asta's momentum. Heath then repeatedly knocks Asta down, but Asta refuses to give up despite his injuries. Inspired by Asta's determination, Magna steps out of Noelle's spell and asks Asta to redo their initiation ceremony. Their strategy succeeds, and Asta quickly delivers the final attack and defeats Heath. Asta faints as soon as Heath is defeated, but he immediately is awoken by an anti-bird, which followed him from the entrance exam. When Asta sees the anti-bird carrying a stone, which belongs to the village's chief, he tries to have it returned but the villagers decide to give it to him. After that, Asta witnesses Heath commit suicide to protect his leader's information, which deeply shocks Asta. Asta later runs around with the anti-bird constantly pecking him while being followed by Noelle. He then has a chance meeting with Nick, the chief's grandson, to whom he gives words of encouragement.
Having returned to the headquarters, the three Knights report back to Yami who praises them for their work. Yami then gives them their salary, which quickly excites Asta. Vanessa subsequently offers Asta and Noelle to go on a shopping trip to Kikka. As they arrive, Asta becomes excited with the new experience and wishes he could take the Hage villagers with him. After they are finished with their errands, Vanessa takes both of them to the castle town's black market, where Asta spots Magna at the casino. Additionally, the young Knight encounters Sekke who tries to flirt with Vanessa and Noelle. A conversation later, a thief snatches an old lady's bag, so Asta quickly chased and immobilized him before Sekke delivers the final strike. Unfortunately, Sekke finds himself paralyzed and attempts to give his final words, but Asta quickly stops and motivates him before Sekke learns from Vanessa that he is fine. Asta returns the bag to the old lady and leaves with his squadmates. Sometime later, Yami informs Asta and the other Black Bull members about the appearance of a new dungeon. The Black Bull captain then explains that the Wizard King has requested Asta to explore it, which quickly excites the latter, even though he knows nothing about dungeons. He then travels to the dungeon, which is located at the edge of the Kingdom, along with Noelle and Luck Voltia. As they enter, Asta argues with Noelle about the name of the anti-bird. The argument settles immediately after Luck suggests the name 'Nero' for it. Immediately after, Asta drops their source of light, which causes them to walk in the dark before they reach the inner-side of the dungeon. Asta then accidentally activates a trap when he whines about his inability to sense mana within the dungeon, but he is able to easily handle it. Asta and Noelle, however, face against numerous other traps, as Luck playfully activated all of them before he leaves them on their own. Another trap quickly emerges and immobilizes Asta. However, Yuno arrives at the scene and effortlessly saves him.
Asta and Yuno's reunion was quickly set aside when Yuno's senior, Klaus Lunettes, begins a conversation with the Black Bull members where he believes that saving them is unnecessary. Asta and Klaus then start a series of arguments with Noelle and her cousin, Mimosa Vermillion, on their respective sides. At the end, Asta is unable to give an answer when Klaus asks them the whereabouts of Luck and the arguments begins to move towards the reputation of their captains. As the Golden Dawn members leave to conquer the dungeon, Asta and Noelle also begin their search for the center of the dungeon. Noelle starts to question their searching method, because none of them possesses a magic that could help them. Moments later, Asta sees Nero take off and point them to a tunnel. They decide to follow Nero's guidance, but left stranded in an area with a gravitational anomaly where Asta finds a treasure chest with living organs inside it. They continue in their search for the center of the dungeon when Asta suddenly stops after he heard a peculiar noise. Noelle infers the possibility of it being the sound from Luck's fight. Asta quickly suggests that they assist him, but Noelle argues by saying that their current priority is to conquer the dungeon. However, Asta decides to help Luck and manages to negate a spell that is about to kill the latter. When Luck's opponent, Lotus Whomalt, asks for Asta's identity, the latter simply says that he is Luck's comrade. In contrast, Luck refuses Asta's help and charges towards the opponent. However, when Lotus is about to counterattack him, Asta interferes as he ignores Luck's request. Luck finally agrees to fight the Diamond Kingdom's mage together, but the opponent immediately traps them within a shroud of thick smokes. Asta tries to cut the smoke multiple times, but he quickly grows anxious due to its unlimited amount. As soon as Luck notices something after he remarked their opponent's sensory ability, he launches a barrage of lightning-based spell attacks to guide Lotus at a certain direction while Noelle prepares to launch Asta towards him with her spell. Asta then delivers a wide swing at Lotus and the latter remarks that he had never encounter an opponent without magical power.
Lotus then escapes along with his injured subordinates and Asta fails to pursue him. Luck then suggests that they return to the main objective and head to the center of the dungeon. Upon arriving, Asta quickly activates his magic and saves Yuno from an attack. He then starts arguing with Yuno about the latter's circumstances but decides to stop and joins the fight. The fight begins as Mars creates multiple clone puppets with his magic. While Asta is able to easily destroy the puppet, the rest of the Black Bull and Golden Dawn members have a tougher time against them. Mars tries to launch another attack after he recreated the sword that was destroyed by Asta, but the latter easily cuts it apart. Asta then quickly dashes towards him and manages to break his armor and blow him away into the surrounding pool. However, Mars quickly prepares another attack by covering himself with an even larger armor. Mars's attack, through the said armor, is able to give Asta a significant damages but the latter is still able to hold it together while sharing his ambition to protect. Mars tries to ignore him and launches another attack, but Asta manages to break through it and render him unconscious. After Klaus restrains Mars with his magic, the Clover Kingdom's Magic Knights finally enter the center of the dungeon as Asta cuts down the door to the treasury. They are immediately in awe with the sight of treasures stored behind the said door. Asta quickly dashes in and starts tinkering with various magic tools within. Until Nero forcefully lead him to a wall with a similar locking mechanism as the treasury door, albeit smaller, attached on it. Nero then starts pecking on his head when Asta expresses his lack of understanding of Nero's hints. Suddenly, Mars barges into the treasury and manages to land a critical damage on Noelle. As soon as Asta sees it, he immediately charges towards the Diamond Kingdom's mage, but is easily overpowered by Mars's new fighting strategy. The latter also manages to send Asta flying through the wall that Nero was showing him. Feeling helpless and unable to find any solutions to counter Mars, Asta sees Nero flying pass him and further into the hidden room behind the wall. When Asta turns his head, he sees Nero landing on top of a sword covered in dirt. Asta quickly grabs the sword and manage to save both Mimosa and Noelle just in time from Mars's incoming attacks. He then rushes towards Mars and is able to land an attack but Mars's healing spell is preventing Asta from giving him a significant damage. Suddenly, Noelle finally regains her consciousness after Mars attacked her and immediately orders Asta to end the fight. Asta accepts her request and throws a slash to defend himself against Mars's incoming attacks. However, to his surprise, a stream of water is coming out of his sword as he neutralizes Mars's attacks. The stream of water manages to hit Mars but Asta, unfortunately, is unable to completely stops Mars's previous attack as a blade pierces his stomach. Asta then falls to the ground as he loses his consciousness. After Yuno defeats Mars in an instant, Asta's newfound sword suddenly enters his grimoire with unknown writings appearing on the pages. Subsequently, the dungeon begins to collapse and the fainted Asta is immediately taken by Luck as Yuno prepares a vessel for them to escape. Before he completely loses his consciousness, Asta tries to reason with Klaus on taking Mars with them. Unfortunately, they fail to fulfill Asta's wish and head towards the exit. As soon as they are outside, Asta is taken to a safer place for Mimosa to continue her healing process. The moment Asta awakes, Klaus quickly hugged him alongside Yuno as he acknowledged the two orphans.
Royal Capital
After the mission, Asta fell asleep for a week before he is awaken and given an order to give his report regarding his mission to the Magic Knights headquarters. When he arrives with Noelle, the couple meet with Klaus, Mimosa, and Yuno where all of them head to the designated venue together. As they arrive, the five of them are welcomed by the Wizard King himself as the latter then examines the magic that Asta and Yuno manage to take from the dungeon. Asta shows the Wizard King the writings that appear on his grimoire while also presenting the sword that could be summoned from it. Subsequently, he asks the Wizard King about the method they should use to become the Wizard King in which the latter gives them an interesting answer. Asta, along with the others, are then invited by Julius to attend a War Merits Conferment Ceremony that honors Magic Knights with the best achievements. As soon as the ceremony ends, Asta then attends a banquet in which he quickly enjoys the fine dishes served while ignoring the scrutiny by the honorary Magic Knights. However, once those Knights start insulting Klaus, Yuno and Mimosa, Asta begins to lose his composure. The latter reaches boiling point when Noelle is humiliated by her own siblings in which he then declares that he will silence all of them by becoming the Wizard King. Asta's confrontation is not received well by the honorary Knights as Nebra Silva, Alecdora Sandler, and Solid Silva try to put him in his place. Using his Anti Magic, Asta swiftly manages to neutralize all of their attacks until Nozel Silva, captain of the Silver Eagle, decides to enter the fray. Nozel's intense burst of magical power reminds Asta of Yami's own burst of magical power during his entrance exam to the Magic Knights as it sends chills to his body. Luckily, Fuegoleon Vermillion, captain of the Crimson Lion, stops Nozel from acting even further while his brother, Leopold Vermillion, declares Asta as his rival. Not long after, someone enters the hall of the banquet and warns the Knights that the Royal Capital is under attack. After the sudden announcement, Asta then joins his fellow Knights as they discuss their strategy for counterattacks. However, he immediately leaves them as he expresses that they are taking too long while the citizens are being attacked. Not long after, Asta manages to find the perpetrator of the invasion, Rades Spirito, as he defeats all of his opponents along the way. When he arrives, Asta immediately proclaims that he will protect everything that Rades wishes to destroy as he also manages to secure a little girl from the man. Hearing Asta's determination, Rades summons more corpses to attack Asta but the boy is able to easily immobilize all of them. However, when Asta charges towards him, Rades summons a different and more powerful corpse, No.4 - Jimmy. After "Jimmy" manages to scratch Asta's face with one of his Magic Bullets, Rades reveals that the bullets are composed of curse power as Asta begins to bleed from it. Rades then proceeds on ordering "Jimmy" to unleash a barrage of attacks on Asta but the latter is able to easily defend himself. Seeing this, Rades orders "Jimmy" to shift its attention on the little girl behind Asta. The latter immediately steps in front of her as he is forced into the defensive, trying to prevent any of the bullets on hitting her.
Overview
Personality and attributes
In appearance, Asta was a young man with a short stature who had an exceptionally muscular build where he had green eyes along with mess ash blond hair with bangs on his forehead along with a single strand protruding upwards from the middle of his head.
His notable traits were his cheerful and hyperactive disposition.
He had a tendency to shout in order to express his thoughts and goals.
His upbringing in the Forsaken region meant that he was frequently insulted and received cruel opinion from others. This led to Asta developing a slightly sarcastic nature when he tried to defend himself.
Asta had a strong sense of justice where he believed that everyone deserved to be protected. This was not only to his friends but extended to his enemies as well.
He came to claim that it was his persistence that was the source of his success.
While an immensely endearing and honest person, who can win over people with his tenacity, Asta can come off as quite stupid to those around him. Asta is not exactly stupid but growing up in an orphanage in the middle of nowhere has left him ignorant of many things that others consider common knowledge and his headstrong nature makes him come across as the stereotypical muscle head with little to no brains. His naivete constantly leads him to blurt out things with little to no tact or care for the situation at hand, and his blind trust of people in the kingdom despite evidence to the contrary has made him very easy to fool, depending on the situation. His trusting, truthful nature has been taken advantage of by the courts and he nearly spoke his guilt without thinking of the consequences while he was on trial. He is also very ignorant about many things in the kingdom and on its functions which Magic Knights should know with most of his squadmates is that he does not know many simple things such as how corrupt the system ruled by the nobles really is which almost cost him and Marie their lives.
He and Yuno had a longstanding rivalry due to their shared dream of becoming the Magic Emperor. Thus, the two considered the other his rival which pushed them into improving themselves and becoming stronger in the process. In one instance, he witnessed Yuno's power in a fight against a Magic Knight Captain which left Asta distraught as he felt he had been surpassed. Despite this, he vowed to Yuno that he would grow stronger and surpass him in turn.
Powers and abilities
It was discovered that unlike many in the Clover Kingdom, Asta actually possessed no inherent mana within his body which prevented him from casting spells. However, he was shown to possess a high level of physical strength where he was able to do a thousand single-handed handstand push-up. He was able to swing heavy swords single-handedly and punch holes in rock walls with no injury to himself.
From Yami, he came to learn the principle of ki that allowed Asta to use a sixth sense and to perceive and react to unseen attacks and people.
He was later selected by a grimoire (魔導書グリモワール Gurimowāru) that was the rare five-leaf clover grimoire. At first, he came to only received basic training from Fanzell Kruger.
This allowed him to wield anti magic (反アンチ魔法 Anchi Mahō) that was capable of nullifying other forms of magic. Asta was able to summon Anti Magic Weapons (反アンチ魔法の武器 Anchi Mahō no Buki) that were imbued with Anti Magic. Among these were various swords that included the:
- Demon-Slayer Sword (断魔の剣 Danma no Tsurugi) : Asta's first sword can be enlarged by extending Anti Magic from the edges of the blade, while the flat side of the sword can be used to deflect spells. After six months of training in the Heart Kingdom, Asta has gained the ability to remotely control the Anti Magic within the sword, allowing him to to summon the sword back to himself by holding his hand open and calling its name and could ride it through the air.
- Demon-Dweller Sword 「宿魔の剣 Shukuma no Tsurugi) : Asta's second sword can release projected slashes of Anti Magic, allowing him to cut through spells from a distance. It can also borrow the magic from the people around him, allowing him to release slashes that possess the properties of other magic attributes. Besides Licht, only Asta can wield this sword because he possesses no mana, as other mages would not be able to use any magic while in contact with the sword and would have their mana reserves depleted.
- Demon-Slasher Katana (斬魔の刀 Zanma no Katana) :
- Demon-Destroyer Sword 「滅魔の剣 Metsuma no Tsurugi) :
Among the techniques known to him included:
- Bull Thrust (雄牛の刺突ブル・スラスト Buru Surasuto) : after being flung through the air, he pointed both the Demon-Slayer Sword and Demon-Dweller Sword in front of him where they dispelled any magic in his path as he headed to his target.
- Black Meteorite (ブラック メテオライト Burakku Meteoraito) :
- Black Hurricane (ブラックハリケーン Burakku Harikēn) :
- Demon-Slayer Sword: Black Divider (反アンチ魔法『断魔の剣・ブラックディヴァイダー』 Anchi Mahō "Danma no Tsurugi Burakku Divaidā") :
- Demon-Dweller Sword: Black Slash (ブラック・スラッシュ Burakku Surasshu) :
- Black Asta (ブラックアスタ Burakku Asuta) : a spell achieved once the limit to his anti-magic was removed whereby he channelled the power through his body causing it to cover a part of it with a horn forming by the right side of his head. The form was drawn to strong magic and greatly increased his strength as well as speed with him having the power of flight. It responded automatically to magic with Asta not having to consciously react to it but it meant that he had less control over his actions at times. It took a moment for Asta to enter this state which left him vulnerable to attack. In addition, his body was exhausted from its use which meant that he was limited to only attaining this state twice a day.
He gained the ability to transform into a form by tapping into the power of the devil within his grimoire.
After undergoing the Devil-Binding Ritual, Asta was able to undergo a special transformation due to being a Devil host with this being Unite (悪魔同化ユナイト Yunaito, literally meaning: "Devil Assimilation").
As a citizen of the Clover Kingdom (クローバー王国 Kurōbā Ōkoku), he came to join the ranks of the Magic Knights (魔法騎士 Mahō Kishi) where he reached the rank of 3rd Class Junior Magic Knight. This saw him being inducted into the ranks of the Black Bull (黒の暴牛 Kuro no Bōgyū) magic squad where his home came to be their headquarters.
Notes
- Asta was created by Yūki Tabata and featured in the setting of the Black Clover universe.
- In an interview, Japanese voice actor Gakuto Kajiwara described the character, "pulling the people around him into his life, but in a positive way. His enthusiasm, strong will, and his desire to never give up end up moving the hearts of those around him. Even if no one ever wanted to acknowledge it, people would end up wanting to see him and acknowledge him because of his determination and strong will, and he just kept flipping how people felt about him. I don't think this just applies in the story. I think as readers of the manga, he gives us the same kind of power. I think just by seeing him, we're able to find hope and energy in our own daily lives."
In other media
Television
- In Black Clover, Asta appeared in the setting of the anime television series adaptation where he was voiced by Japanese actor Gakuto Kajiwara and was voiced by English actor Dallas Reid in the dub.
Films
Video games
- In Jump Force, Asta appeared as a playable character in the setting of the fighting video game where he was voiced by Japanaese actor Gakuto Kajiwara.
Appearances
- Black Clover:
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