Ultra Death Battle and Screwattack blogs: Character Analysis: Asta (Feat Felicia)

Asta Character Sheet

Background

Age: 17
Gender: Male
Height: 5'1" / 155 cm
Species: Human (bonded with a demon)
Occupation: Magic Knight, Royal Knight
Background: Asta is the child of Licita, a mysterious woman who was born with a magic ability that made her passively absorb others’ magic. Fearing for her child’s life, she had to abandon him near a church in the village of Hage, located in the Forsaken Realm. Licita went on to raise a demon child because he had no magic. Said demon, named Liebe, would later go on to bond with Asta. During his childhood, he grew up alongside Yuno, another orphan, but unlike other children, Asta displayed a complete inability to use magic. Despite this, he trained his body day and night in order to become a Magic Knight so that he could eventually be the Wizard King, a goal he shares with Yuno. Not long before the Magic Knights exam, Asta discovered that he possessed the rare power of anti-magic, the ability to negate all kinds of magic. His sketchy background and surprising strength attracted the attention of Yami Sukehiro, leader of the Black Bulls, a section of the Magic Knights formed by a lot of chaotic magic users who didn’t fit in with the rest of the Magic Knights.

Magic Mechanics in Black Clover

An important aspect that will help determine the results of this fight is what constitutes as magic in the Black Clover world, given that a liberal interpretation of Quirks could lead to misinterpreting them as magic. In BC, magic is formed by Mana, which is supernatural energy that exists in the air and inside most people. Spells are performed by expending one’s mana or occasionally pulling it from the environment.

There exists an element separate from Mana that Asta has a better understanding of, called Ki. Unlike Dragon Ball’s version of Ki, this is a proper depiction of life energy that exists within all physical elements and people. It doesn’t make you shoot beams, just understand your environment better in order to predict attacks and even minimize damage from non-magic attacks.

Powers, Abilities, & Equipment

Peak Physical Condition: Due to his belief that getting physically stronger would help him unlock magic, Asta spent his whole youth training his muscles. This has proven useful in fights against magic users who are overconfident in their magic and neglected physical training. He can perform a thousand single-hand push ups.
Five-Leaf Clover Grimoire: A worn-out grimoire that chose Asta despite his lack of magic. This grimoire belonged originally to Licht, the leader of the elves, and it gained its fifth leaf when he was manipulated by the demon Zagred. It allows Asta to use the power of Anti-Magic through a set of weapons that can be summoned at will from the Grimoire’s pages.
Anti-Magic: A unique magic attribute that allows the user to completely nullify the effects of other magic spells. According to the spell-ranking criteria used by the Heart Kingdom, Asta’s Anti-Magic cannot be ranked in an ordinary scale, granting him the special rank of Arcane stage. It is also capable of slicing through mana-based lifeforms, such as spirits.
Demon-Slayer Sword: The first sword that Asta unlocked, originally wielded by Licht. This broadsword is able to cut through magic with its edge, while its blunt sides deflect spells. However, its edge can only cut magic, and will have a blunt effect on any physical material (such as flesh). Asta can control and move the swords at will. This allows him to SURF ON HIS DAMN SWORD.
Demon-Dweller Sword: A sword found in a treasure room, also belonging to Licht. Just like the Demon-Slayer, it can cut through magic, but becomes blunt when used on physical matter. What makes it different is its ability to absorb and copy magic. When held by someone who actually has magic, it will passively absorb their magic and become impossible to wield. It is capable of shooting copied magic (or concentrated Anti-Magic) as projectiles. He frequently wields it at the same time as the Demon-Slayer.
Demon-Destroyer Sword: A sword obtained during Asta’s fight with Licht. It’s different from the other swords in the fact that it reverses the effects of magic, even after it’s already been cast, by absorbing the effect of the spells. This is done by severing the cause and effect relationship. Some practical effects were healing an entire village affected by poisoning, or undoing Reincarnation Magic, where souls were forcefully placed inside other people’s bodies. In complex cases such as Reincarnation, it can take a bit of time to fully take effect. It undoes magic that paralyzes even magic.
Demon-Slasher Sword: Formerly Yami’s katana, assimilated by Asta’s grimoire during the fight with Dante. It has the unique ability of being able to selectively cut anything that the user wishes to cut, leaving other things unharmed.
Ki Detection: A skill taught to Asta by Yami, based on the teachings from his country. By utilizing all five senses at the same time, this allows him to better predict attacks, detect threats, and even minimizing damage from natural objects, given that they also possess ki. It even allowed him to detect an invisible enemy.
Liebe: A demon that inhabits Asta’s grimoire and has bonded with him. Liebe is the source of Asta’s Anti-Magic, and he can draw energy from Liebe in various ways to achieve numerous enhancements.

Black Asta: A form achieved by allowing Anti-Magic to run through the interior of Asta’s body by controlling his inner Ki. This makes his body take on a half-devilish form, but greatly increases his physical stats, allows him to fly, and makes his magic-nullifying abilities more powerful by homing in on mana sources. Using his swords in this form allowed him to fully deplete Ladros’ mana. This form can become stronger when Asta has strong emotional reactions, at which point he can make his swords extend through pure Anti-Magic.
Body Sacrifice: Asta is eventually able to negotiate with Liebe to trade parts of his body with Liebe’s in order to become more powerful. The increase in power is enough to let him cut off Dante’s arm and deal the final blow to Dante using Yami’s katana.
Devil Union/Unite: A special state that allows Asta to fully merge with Liebe in order to increase their power to unimaginable levels. Currently, it can only be held for 5 minutes, and once that time runs out, Asta must wait 30 minutes before using his Black or Unite forms. In this form, his control of his weapons becomes much greater, as he can extend the Demon-Slayer to the size of a building, the Black Slashes gain incredible range, and the Demon-Destroyer can absorb magic of outstanding size much faster. It also allows him to automatically home in on magic sources.

Techniques

Black Hurricane: Asta spins while holding his swords, becoming an anti-magic tornado that deflects magic attacks. It becomes more effective when used in conjunction with Asta’s Black form.
Bull Thrust: A technique where Asta charges forward at high speed sword-first.

One-Horn Bull Thrust: An enhanced version of this attack that makes use of the Black Asta form.

Black Meteorite: A technique where Asta flies at high speed toward a source of mana while cutting through it
Black Divider: A technique used in Black form where Asta concentrates Anti-Magic into the Demon-Slayer Sword to an extent that increases the sword’s size. He was able to impale the demon Zagred with it.
Black Slash: Asta uses the Demon-Dweller to launch a barrage of Anti-Magic projectiles.
Infinite Slash Equinox: A technique executed with the Demon-Slasher Sword, which is capable of selectively cutting anything the user wants. In his Unite form, Asta used it to slice the Ultimate Demon/Lucifero in half.