document_title: List of Black Clover episodes

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"Asta and Yuno""Asuta to Yuno" (アスタとユノ) October 3, 2017December 2, 2017
Hundreds of years ago a great demon was defeated by a mage who became the Clover Kingdom's first Wizard King. Two babies named Asta and Yuno are abandoned and raised by Father Orgi and Sister Lily. 15 years later the boys have grown up as brothers in the Clover Kingdom where all people are able to perform magic with personal spell books called Grimoire’s. Yuno has become a quiet boy with a strong affinity for wind magic, whereas Asta has become outgoing and competitive but has yet to show any magical ability and has relentlessly trained his body instead. They both desire to become the next Wizard King. Asta and Yuno attend a magic ceremony to receive Grimoire’s suited to their abilities. Each Grimoire has a picture of a 3 leaf clover on the cover symbolising Integrity, Hope and Love but Yuno receives an extremely rare 4 leaf Grimoire which symbolises Luck, angering the nobles who all treat commoners with contempt. Asta is humiliated when he does not receive a Grimoire. Yuno is attacked by a disgraced ex magic knight intent on stealing the 4 leaf Grimoire. Asta is badly beaten by the thief who mocks his lack of magic. Asta’s determination to win summons a black Grimoire with a legendary 5 leaf clover which, supposedly, symbolises the Devil.
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"A Young Man's Vow" / "The Boys' Promise""Shōnen no Chikai" (少年の誓い) October 10, 2017December 9, 2017
Yuno recalls growing up with Asta who always looked after him, despite Yuno being the one with magic powers. Asta spends most of his time trying to convince Sister Lily to marry him but is constantly rejected. They are both inspired by tales of the first Wizard King and Asta declares he will become Wizard King one day. Yuno is asked to deliver an important letter to the chief of the next village but is attacked and beaten by a thief on his way home who takes the necklace he was found holding as a baby. Yuno becomes too scared to fight back with his magic. Asta attacks the thief with his bare hands, receiving many injuries but ultimately getting the necklace back after the thief becomes bored. Yuno decides to become as brave as Asta and announces he will be Asta’s rival and become the Wizard King before Asta does. In the present Asta uses his black Grimoire to summon a giant black sword with which he cuts through the thief’s magic and defeats him with one overpowered slash. Asta and Yuno reaffirm their promise to remain friendly rivals until one of them becomes the Wizard King.
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"To the Royal Capital!" / "To the Royal Capital of the Clover Kingdom!""Kurōbā Ōkoku, Ōto e!" (クローバー王国、王都へ！) October 17, 2017December 16, 2017
Asta and Yuno both train their new abilities relentlessly in preparation for the Magic Knight Selection exam, hoping to earn a place in one of the Magic Knight squads, nine squads of mages who use magic for combat under the command of the current Wizard King in defence of the Clover Kingdom. Asta and Yuno’s rivalry reaches new heights of childish competitiveness. Father Orgi and Sister Lily hold a going away party, congratulating Yuno on his likely future success and subtly reminding Asta that when he fails he can always return home. One of the orphans, Nash, tells Asta that if he manages to become a Magic Knight it might mean everyone’s dreams can come true, even the dreams of commoners and orphans. Asta and Yuno depart for the Capital City, a journey of several days on foot, continuing to train as they travel and both growing far stronger than they were, though Yuno still manages to outperform Asta using magic to accomplish tasks Asta must use strength and skill for. They arrive at the capital city and the magic knight exam, where success involves proving themselves more powerful than the other magic knight candidates.
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"The Magic Knights Entrance Exam""Mahō Kishidan Nyūdan Shiken" (魔法騎士団入団試験) October 24, 2017January 6, 2018[c]
Asta and Yuno register for the exam and learn Yuno is already famous for receiving the 4 leaf grimoire. As commoners Asta and Yuno are automatically looked down on by the noble candidates. The exam hall is filled with Anti-birds that are more attracted to a person the less magic they have. Asta is harassed by an entire swarm of Anti-birds while Yuno is ignored by them altogether.  Asta is approached by Sekke Bronzazza, an arrogant noble candidate who offers to help Asta with the exam.  As the exam progresses Yuno outperforms every other candidate and Asta fails miserably while Sekke shows off his skill at Asta’s expense. The final test is to be one on one duels and Sekke chooses Asta as his opponent, revealing to Asta his total contempt for his lack of magic and his own desire to become a Magic Knight purely for the easy lifestyle. As the duel begins Sekke summons a magic shield hoping Asta will embarrass himself trying to get past it, however Asta summons his sword and cuts the shield in half, knocking Sekke unconscious while repeating his promise to achieve his dream and become the Wizard King.
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"The Road to the Wizard King" / "The Path to the Wizard King""Mahōtei e no Michi" (魔法帝への道) October 31, 2017January 13, 2018
Despite his easy victory Asta is mocked by the candidates for his dream to become Wizard King. Yuno is likewise approached by an arrogant noble candidate, Salim de Hapshass, who is confident that his skill and power will be far superior to a commoner. Salim uses his most powerful spell, intending to humiliate Yuno, only for Yuno to defeat him effortlessly. With the duels concluded the squad captains decide which candidates they want. Many candidates fail and are sent home. Yuno is selected by all nine squad captains, which is unheard of, and joins the Golden Dawn, which usually only accepts Royals and nobles. Asta is almost sent home until Yami Sukehiro, the intimidating captain of the Black Bulls, accepts him. Sekke, having only been accepted by a less famous squad, the Green Mantises, decides to get revenge and summons a lizard whose poisonous bite would cripple Asta for life. However, Yuno destroys the lizard and Sekke flees. Asta is taken to the Black Bulls Hideout and rushes inside to introduce himself, only to be struck by a magical explosion. As he is thrown backwards Yami welcomes him to the Black Bulls, the worst magic knight squad in the kingdom.
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"The Black Bulls""Kuro no Bōgyū" (黒の暴牛) November 7, 2017January 20, 2018
Yuno is taken to Golden Dawn headquarters and is greeted coldly by Klaus Lunette, a Golden Dawn Knight who doubts a commoner like Yuno is worthy of Golden Dawn. Asta finds the explosion was caused by two Black Bull Knights brawling and several other knights exhibiting various odd behaviours. Yami proves his might by bringing them all to heel with a single furious glare. Asta learns that while he has been accepted into the Bulls he has yet to earn his robe. Yami puts him through a series of physical tests, proving that Asta’s physical abilities are way above normal. Finally Asta is ordered to duel with Magna Swing, a young Knight who specialises in casting fireballs with a flaming baseball bat. Asta instinctively strikes the fireball with the flat of his sword, preventing it from exploding and returning it at Magna Swing who is almost blown up by his own spell, impressing him mightily. Asta is enthusiastically welcomed to the Black Bulls and receives his own robe with the Black Bull symbol. Asta is observed throughout by an individual Anti-bird who has been following him and by a young lady who is the Black Bull’s second new recruit.
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"Another New Member" / "The Other New Recruit""Mō Ichinin no Shin Nyūdan'in" (もう一人の新入団員) November 14, 2017January 27, 2018
Asta and Yuno both write letters to the orphanage who are surprised but proud that Asta became a Magic Knight alongside Yuno. Asta meets the other new recruit who turns out to be Noelle Silva, youngest daughter of the Silva royal family and sister to the Silver Eagles captain. She immediately labels Asta “little insect commoner”. Asta stands up to her, causing her to attack him with water magic, only for her spell to miss him completely. She angrily quits the Black Bulls. Later Asta sees her practising and realises she is unable to control her magic at all. Noelle remembers her family calling her a disgrace and refusing her entry to the Silver Eagles, the squad her family has belonged to for generations. When she realises Asta saw her fail to control magic she becomes so upset she accidentally traps herself in a gigantic water bubble and begins drowning. Yami solves the problem by throwing Asta at the bubble, whose sword cuts through the spell, nullifying it and saving Noelle. When Noelle realises Asta admires her power and that the Bulls accept her despite her lack of control she re-joins the squad and begins calling Asta by his name.
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"Go! Go! My First Mission" / "Go! Go! First Mission""Gō Gō Hatsu Ninmu" (ゴーゴー初任務) November 21, 2017February 3, 2018
As the Bull’s newest recruit Asta is given all their household chores such as cleaning, laundry and waking captain Yami every morning without being murdered. Noelle, despite being the same rank as Asta, does no chores at all. Asta realises he has no idea what Magic Knights actually do and the explanations provided by the Bulls are useless. Yami takes Magna with him on a dangerous mission, which turns out to be their code word for gambling. They lose everything at poker, including their underwear, to the chief of Saussy village who agrees to forgive their debt if they do something for him. Yami gives the task to Magna, Asta and Noelle so they can gain experience, though really he just does not want to do it himself. They are to deal with a pack of boars causing problems for Saussy village, giant bad tempered boars that can shoot fire magic. Magna flies Asta and Noelle to the village, though Noelle pushes Asta off Magna’s modified flying broomstick, Crazy Cyclone, for gripping her around the waist without warning. Meanwhile a group of evil mages arrive at Saussy village, led by the rogue ice mage, Heath Grice.
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"Beasts""Kemono" (獣) November 28, 2017February 10, 2018
Grice and his mages enter Saussy village looking for a certain magical stone. After Asta manages to kill the boars they head to Saussy village. Magna reveals that in his youth he was a troublemaker but was always defeated by the Saussy chief who eventually convinced him to join the Magic Knights. They reach Saussy but find it surrounded by a mist barrier. Asta uses his sword, which has the ability to nullify any magic, to dissipate the mist. They reach the villagers just as Grice attempts to execute them. Magna protects the villagers but his friend the chief had already been killed. Grice attempts to crush them with a giant ice ball which Asta then slices in half. Grice attacks with ice spikes from every direction and despite Asta and Magna’s best effort several villagers are injured. Noelle tries to attack Grice but misses her target again forcing Asta and Magna to protect her. Overcome with shame and fear Noelle almost leaves the villagers to die, but when a terrified young girl begs for help, Noelle’s instinct to protect others unlocks a new spell in her Grimoire, a giant water shield that protects the villagers from the ice.
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"Guardians" / "Those Who Protect""Mamoru Mono" (護る者) December 5, 2017February 17, 2018
Asta lunges at Grice but his sword only grazes Grice’s ribs instead of impaling him. Asta is repeatedly stabbed with ice pillars. Magna recalls the people from his village being proud when he became a Magic Knight and that the Saussy chief gave him the pouch he uses to carry his Grimoire. Determined to help he uses all his remaining magic to cast fireballs at Grice and his mages. Grice blocks most of them but several fly past him which Asta them strikes with the flat of his sword, the move he used against Magna to earn his Bull’s robe, and the reflected fireballs strike Grice and his mages from behind, defeating them, though one mage manages to escape. Asta falls asleep from exhaustion and Noelle blushes as she admits to herself he is kind of amazing. The Anti-bird, who had been secretly hiding inside Asta’s robe, finds the stone Grice was looking for. Grice kills himself and his mages to avoid interrogation. The Anti-bird keeps the stone and starts living on Asta’s head permanently. Elsewhere Grice’s master decides he can retrieve the stone later as he prepares for “the Resurrection”. It is shown he wears a Golden Dawn robe.
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"What Happened One Day in the Castle Town" / "What Happened on a Certain Day in the Castle Town""Toaru Hi no Jōkamachi de no Dekigoto" (とある日の城下町での出来事) December 12, 2017February 24, 2018
The Wizard King presents the Black Bull’s with a star for saving Saussy. Stars represent achievements in service to the Clover Kingdom which the nine magic squads compete to earn. The current champions are Golden Dawn with 70 stars, while the Black Bulls mess up so often they have negative 30. Asta receives his earnings for the month of 200,000 Yul (Clover Kingdom currency) which Noelle considers pocket money while to Asta it is a vast sum. Noelle learns of Asta’s crush on Sister Lily and becomes irritated. Asta sends most of his money home to the orphanage. The Bulls spend the day in town indulging their various hobbies. Vanessa Enoteca, a beautiful Black Bull member who wears revealing clothing and is frequently drunk, takes Noelle and Asta to the Black Market. Despite her distaste for the criminal atmosphere Noelle tries to find items that might help her control her magic. Sekke, who now only performs minor jobs for the Green Mantises and has become a gambling addict, attempts to flirt with Noelle and Vanessa but is irritated when he learns the two beautiful ladies are with Asta. A thief steals an old man’s bag and Asta rushes to catch him.
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"The Wizard King Saw""Mahōtei wa Mita" (魔法帝は見た) December 19, 2017March 3, 2018
Sekke chases the thief as well who flees on a magical cloud. Asta throws his sword through the cloud, nullifying the magic. Sekke tackles the thief, desperate to steal credit for the capture but is stabbed in the foot by a poisoned dagger. He says his dramatic last words to Asta, only for Asta to smack him for giving up so easily, especially as the poison was just a skin irritant. Sekke takes the thief to the authorities while Asta returns the woman’s stolen property. As they leave the woman transforms into Julius Novachrono, the current Wizard King, who, as a shameless magic nerd, is intrigued with Asta’s unheard of Anti-magic. Yuno is on his first mission with Klaus and second new recruit Mimosa Vermillion, another royal like Noelle, acting as security for Salim de Hapshass, the noble Yuno defeated in the exam. Klaus is suspicious of Salim requesting Yuno since his defeat meant no squad wanted him. Salim learns Yuno came from Hage village. They are attacked by bandits so Salim suggests they spend the night in Hage, which just happens to be nearby. Yuno is welcomed home enthusiastically by everyone and Salim insists they can stay a while.
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"The Wizard King Saw, Continued""Zoku Mahōtei wa Mita" (続・魔法帝は見た) December 26, 2017March 10, 2018
Sister Lily is kidnapped by the bandits. Yuno realises the bandits wanted him, not Salim. He finds Sister Lily with the bandits in Asta’s hideout under the giant demon skull. The leader demands Yuno’s 4 leaf Grimoire. Klaus and Mimosa defeat the bandits in an ambush. Klaus reveals Mimosa interrogated Salim with Plant Creation magic, summoning a plant that speaks its victim’s thoughts. Salim wanted revenge for losing against Yuno in the exam and hired the bandits to steal the Grimoire. Klaus accidentally reveals he respects Yuno’s abilities. Yuno offers to free Salim if he stays away from Hage village. Salim tries to kill Yuno so Sister Lily furiously knocks him out. One bandit goes missing and is revealed to be the Wizard King in disguise, having taken one bandits place so he could observe Yuno. The Wizard King learns from Salim that his father, a high ranking politician, is corrupt and awards the Golden Dawn a star for exposing him. Klaus suspects Golden Dawn’s leader, William Vangeance, knew about Salim’s father beforehand. Asta learns Yuno also earned a star on his first mission. A new mission becomes available and the Wizard King knows exactly who to give it to.
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"Dungeon""Danjon" (魔宮 (ダンジョン)) January 9, 2018March 17, 2018
An unexplored dungeon appears near the Clover Kingdoms border with the hostile Diamond Kingdom. The Wizard King decides to send Magic Knights there to protect any treasure and magical artefacts. The Bulls name Asta’s Anti-bird Nero, the only name Nero likes. The Wizard King requests Asta explore the dungeon. Yami sends Noelle so she can gain experience and Luck Voltia, a cheerfully deranged Bulls member who constantly seeks out powerful opponents. Nero tags along on Asta’s head. Noelle becomes scared inside the dungeon and clings to Asta. The dungeon is revealed to be a confusing nonsensical labyrinth. Luck and Noelle claim the entire place is overflowing with mana and full of magical traps Asta cuts through to protect the panicking Noelle. Luck senses other people and rushes towards the one with the strongest mana hoping for a good fight. Noelle learns about Yuno from Asta then becomes embarrassed when she realises she is alone with Asta, accidentally triggering a carnivorous plant trap that tries to eat them. They are saved at the last second by Yuno, who along with Klaus and Mimosa, was also given the quest to explore the dungeon by the Wizard King.
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"The Diamond Mage""Daiyamondo no Madōsenshi" (ダイヤモンドの魔導戦士) January 16, 2018March 24, 2018
Vangeance believes it is crucial Yuno become stronger. Klaus accuses Asta of lying about receiving a star and being given a mission by the Wizard King. Noelle is annoyed to see Mimosa, her cousin. Golden Dawn leave to explore the dungeon. Asta is proud of how much Yuno has improved but is determined to reach the treasure room first. As Asta and Noelle become lost Nero somehow knows the right direction. Yuno angrily warns Klaus about insulting Asta as he is far stronger than he appears. The Wizard King learns Diamond Kingdom mages lead by Lotus Whomalt, a smoke manipulation mage, have entered the dungeon. Luck is revealed to have defeated the mages but is troubled by Lotus’ smokescreen. He manages to scratch Lotus’ face and becomes more deranged as the fight continues. Lotus reveals he once duelled with Captain Yami and received a large scar on his chest. Luck is hit by Lotus poison gas and loses control of his body. Golden Dawn reaches the door to the treasure room but Mimosa is injured by a crystal manipulation mage from the Diamond Kingdom. Far from being defeated Luck turns completely mad and attacks with even more powerful lightning magic.
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"Friends""Nakama" (仲間) January 23, 2018March 31, 2018
As children Asta and Yuno discuss what it means to be a family. As a child Luck was considered abnormal for constantly smiling and was abused by his mother until he discovered his lightning magic and defeated a noble. This made his mother start treating him lovingly, making him promise to keep winning no matter what. Luck attacks Lotus again but is trapped in a smoke cage. Klaus is almost killed by Mars, the crystal mage, while Luck is almost executed by Lotus. They are saved by Yuno and Asta respectively, who both declare they will protect their new friends. Luck remembers that he couldn’t even stop smiling at his mother’s funeral and insists on fighting alone so his mother will love him. Asta, however, refuses to let him and Luck realises he has friends and is not alone anymore. Yuno succeeds in casting two spells simultaneously to take down Mars. Luck realises Lotus can sense their magic and thus their location inside his smoke and uses teamwork to formulate a plan using Asta’s lack of magic for a surprise attack. Lotus is heavily injured while Mars survives Yuno’s spells by summoning an enormous crystal sword to defend himself.
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"Destroyer""Hakaimono" (破壊者) January 30, 2018April 8, 2018[d]
Lotus flees from the Bulls. Klaus sees Mars has crystals embedded in his skin and recalls that the Diamond Kingdom had tried to produce stronger mages through human experimentation and fights to the death. Mars, who wields a two colour Grimoire, is the result of the experiments. Yuno draws strength from his memories of Asta’s determination and refuses to surrender. As Yuno is about to die Asta appears and slices the giant crystal sword in half. Luck smashes Mars’ crystal warriors while Noelle casts her water shield around Mimosa, keeping her safe while she heals. Klaus refuses to believe that Golden Dawn mages were saved by Black Bull mages. With his Anti-magic and sheer strength Asta overpowers Mars. Noelle tells Klaus to accept it because whether he likes it or not Asta is, in his own way, far stronger than any noble. Asta is crushed between two chunks of crystal and badly injured while Mars reappears inside giant crystal armour. Klaus upon seeing Asta’s muscles realises how much he must have trained to fight against Mars without magic. Mars has flashbacks to a girl from his childhood and tries to destroy Asta. Asta smashes the armour apart, knocking Mars unconscious.
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"Memories of You""Tsuioku no Kimi" (追憶の君) February 6, 2018April 15, 2018
Mars is restrained with magic. Noelle blushes when she sees Asta’s clothes are ripped and he is half naked. The treasure room is filled with magic artefacts. Yuno picks up a scroll containing a spell which reacts to his Grimoire before disappearing. Nero tries to direct Asta to a golden seal on the wall but is ignored. Klaus learns Mars’ Grimoire is two Grimoire’s stitched together. It suddenly flies out of his hands and returns to Mars who can use two types of magic, not just one. Mars memories suggest the girl from his childhood was another test subject he was friends with but was forced to kill in a duel. Noelle is injured and Asta is blasted through the golden seal into another room. Mars states his belief that only the strong should survive. Asta wakes to find Nero sitting atop a second black sword. He seizes it and instantly defends Mimosa and Noelle from Mars’ as the new sword is smaller and faster. He receives encouragement from Noelle and the sword suddenly absorbs her magic, allowing him to cast a water spell. Despite his armour Mars is blasted backwards but Asta is impaled by a crystal and collapses.
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"Destruction and Salvation""Hōkai to Kyūsai" (崩壊と救済) February 13, 2018April 22, 2018
Mars experiences a flashback about the girl, named Fana, who hoped one day she would be allowed to go outside. Mars promised her they would see the world together, but they were forced to duel to the death. Mars killed Fana by accident while protecting himself. Fana’s Grimoire was stitched to Mars’ Grimoire, giving him both fire and crystal magic. Mars moves to kill both Asta and Mimosa. Yuno desperately casts a random spell from his Grimoire and time freezes. A tiny elf appears and casts a wind spell that hurls Mars into a wall. Yuno realises the spell from the scroll has appeared in his Grimoire. The dungeon begins to collapse and Lotus is revealed to have taken a large pile of treasure and saved Mars. Mars’ dreams reveal Fana allowed herself to die so Mars could experience life. Mars is deeply affected by his memories. Asta awakens mostly healed and thanks Mimosa, who also develops a crush on him. Klaus apologises for thinking less of them for being commoners and starts treating them like equals. Noelle becomes embarrassed when she realises, like Asta, her clothes are torn and she is half naked so she punishes Asta for peeking.
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"Assembly at the Royal Capital""Ōto Shūketsu" (王都集結) February 20, 2018April 29, 2018
After the dungeon Asta falls asleep for a week. Noelle spends the week worrying about him. They are summoned to Magic Knight Headquarters along with Yuno, Klaus and Mimosa. Mimosa confesses her crush on Asta to Noelle who experiences a moment of jealousy. The Wizard king examines Asta and Yuno’s Grimoire’s. The elf from Yuno’s new spell is Sylph, a wind elemental who serves only one master every era. He also finds that Asta’s swords drain magic from whoever holds them, meaning Asta can wield them because he has no magic to drain. They attend a Knight’s promotion ceremony where knights who have earned enough stars are promoted. The Wizard King promotes several knights including Noelle’s older brother and sister, Solid and Nebra Silva. The Wizard King then leaves Asta, Yuno and their friends alone with the newly promoted knights, who are all arrogant nobles. Asta easily ignores their insults until Noelle’s siblings deliberately embarrass her and her eldest brother, Nozel, tries to force her to leave. Enraged, Asta stands up to them in defence of Noelle. A Golden Dawn noble tries to bury him in sand but Asta slices the spell and repeats his promise to become Wizard King.
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"Capital Riot""Ōto Sōran" (王都騒乱) February 27, 2018May 6, 2018[e]
Rades Spirito, a former Magic Knight expelled from his squad plots revenge against the Clover Kingdom. Noelle’s siblings and several other nobles all attack Asta together, furious that he dares stand up to them. Asta is forced to draw both his swords to fight Noelle’s brothers Solid and Nozel. The fight is stopped when Nozel unleashes his mana, freezing everybody with fear, including Asta who he intends to punish himself. Fuegoleon Vermilion, Mimosa’s cousin and captain of the Crimson Lion’s, questions the nobles honour for teaming up to bully Asta. His brother, Leopold, is impressed by Asta and decides to become his rival. This leads to captains Nozel and Fuegoleon both unleashing their mana against each other in a battle of wills. Before any damage can be caused the city is attacked by Rades and his zombie army who are unaffected by damage caused to their bodies and kill numerous citizens and mages. Asta chooses to rush to the front lines to protect the commoners while the nobles split up to protect different parts of the city. Rades is about to kill a little girl but Asta slices through a group of Zombies, totally destroying them, and lunges at Rades.
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"Wild Magic Dance""Mahō Ranbu" (魔法乱舞) March 6, 2018May 13, 2018
Rades knows who Asta is but is still confused that his zombies were destroyed so easily, so he summons even more. The Silver Eagles, Golden Dawn and Crimson Lions begin fighting zombies throughout the city, quickly finding the zombies only stay dead if their bodies are totally destroyed. Asta attacks Rades directly so he summons a more powerful magic wielding zombie called No. 4 Jimmy who shoots Asta in the face with a magic bullet that infects his flesh with bleeding curse magic, making Asta bleed continuously. He parries the next bullets so Jimmy begins firing at the girl instead, forcing Asta to protect her. Noelle sees Asta is in trouble but due to her siblings bullying has lost all confidence in her abilities. Fuegoleon sees this and bangs Noelle on the head as punishment for hesitating, telling her to either work to become stronger or stay weak forever. Noelle realises that is what Asta does every day. She joins Asta in battle, casting her water shield around the girl while Leopold burns away the zombies, allowing Asta to rush straight at Jimmy and destroy him. Enraged, Rades summons No. 2 Alfred who attacks Asta with powerful lightning magic.
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"The King of the Crimson Lions" / "The Crimson Lion King""Guren no Shishiō" (紅蓮の獅子王) March 13, 2018May 20, 2018
Nozel is confused about the lack of enemy strategy. Augustus Kira Clover XIII, the lazy and self-centred King of the Clover Kingdom, who is spending the battle safely with his mistresses in the castle, petulantly demands to know why the Wizard King is not there protecting him. Charmy Papittoson, a young Black Bull obsessed with food, sneaks into the palace kitchen so she can meet the royal chef. Asta cannot match Alfred’s speed so Fuegoleon steps in and burns Alfred to ash. Rades mocks Asta’s dream of becoming Wizard King using only Anti-magic. Fuegoleon is so impressed with Asta he decides to become his rival as well. He takes Asta’s place in the fight so Asta can recover. Rades reveals he used to be in the Purple Orca’s squad but was banished from the Clover Kingdom because his necromancy was considered unnatural. Fuegoleon attacks but Rades summons his strongest corpse, No. 1 Karl and hides behind Karl’s magic shield. Fuegoleon, being more experienced than Rades, blasts a fire bolt through the shields weakest point, destroying Karl and defeating Rades. The city begins to recover but a witch named Catherine flies overhead implying the battle is not over.
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"Blackout""Burakkuauto" (ブラックアウト) March 20, 2018June 3, 2018[f]
Noelle and Leopold defeat Rades final zombie, No.3 David. Fuegoleon examines Rades Grimoire and finds that it contains a single page with only one spell, meaning necromancy is all he is capable of. Rades is revealed to have a magic item in his ear transmitting someone’s voice that warns Rades to follow their master’s plan in future. A spell suddenly activates, the zombies having been used to lure Magic Knights into teleportation traps that send almost every Magic Knight in the city to far away locations. Catherine attacks the city and begins draining the mana from every magic user in the city, aging them while her she grows younger. Yuno, who escaped the trap, battles with her and Catherine reveals the invasion was aimed at one person, Fuegoleon Vermillion, who is suddenly transported away to a different location than the other Knights. Yuno is hit by curses stealing his vision and hearing. He almost gives up but he realises that with his sight gone he is more attuned to the flow of mana. He summons Sylph to manipulate all the mana in the city to strike Catherine with a massive hurricane. Meanwhile Fuegoleon is approached by a mage he recognises.
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"Adversity""Gyakkyō" (逆境) March 27, 2018June 10, 2018
Catherine, drained of mana and now elderly, crashes through the wall of the palace kitchen where Charmy is feasting. She desperately tries to drain Charmy’s mana but Charmy, under the impression Catherine wants her food, summons a giant sheep who knocks Catherine through another wall. Catherine’s stolen mana returns to her victims who revert to their normal ages. Charmy’s meal almost falls through the wall as well but it is caught by Yuno, causing Charmy to develop a crush on him. The King demands the battle end soon as the noise is interfering with his nap. Noelle realises the mage who teleported Fuegoleon must be nearby and Asta uncovers him hiding beneath a pile of zombies. The mage, named Valtos, returns Fuegoleon, unconscious with his right arm torn off, meaning the mage Fuegoleon was teleported to is even stronger than a squad captain. Seeing his brother defeated shocks Leopold into near catatonia. Rades tries to escape through Valtos portal but Asta stops him. Rades other allies arrive and surround them. Asta, still suffering from No.4 Jimmy’s bleeding curse, slashes his own body with his swords, removing the curse and readying himself to fight as Rades allies move to attack them.
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"Wounded Beasts""Teoi no Kemono" (手負いの獣) April 3, 2018June 17, 2018
Asta and Leopold battle the mages together. Noelle casts her shield to prevent further harm to Fuegoleon who is slowly dying. Asta and Leopold are impaled by wind needles but are saved by the teleported Magic Knights who worked together to return to the city. Mimosa begins healing Fuegoleon. Rades and the mages flee through a portal, kidnapping Asta. Nozel decides searching for a commoner like Asta is not worth the effort. Solid and Nebra mock Fuegoleon for being defeated. The Magic Knights begin rebuilding the city’s defences while Noelle worries about Asta. Elsewhere Rades and the mages argue about his recklessness. One of the mages, Sally, wants to dissect Asta for his valuable Anti-magic. As they reach their hideout the Wizard King appears from the shadows. They attack him but the Wizard King is so superior in strength and skill he kills two mages effortlessly and captures the rest in seconds. Asta realises just how much he has to learn before becoming Wizard King. The Wizard King expresses interest in a nearby stone tablet inlaid with several jewels, like the one from Saussy village, but a mysterious mage suddenly appears and blinds everybody with intense light magic.
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"Light""Hikari" (光) April 10, 2018June 24, 2018
The Light Magic mage disappears with the stone tablet. The Wizard King returns Asta and his remaining prisoner to the city. Noelle is secretly happy he is safe, as are Klaus, Mimosa and Nero. Fuegoleon is revealed to be missing his jewel necklace which the Wizard King suspects is part of the stone tablet, now in possession of the Eye of the Midnight Sun, the group behind the invasion. Nozel swears revenge for Fuegoleon’s injuries. Leopold decides to become Wizard King. The Wizard King concludes one of his Magic Knights must be a traitor. Fuegoleon remains unconscious. Sally begins experimenting on Asta’s blood. The mysterious master is revealed to have been injured by the Wizard King’s Time magic, his right arm aged to that of an old man. He is shown to have thousands of followers. Asta argues with Yuno who responds with a powerful wind attack Asta struggles to nullify. It is shown Sylph, only visible to Yuno, has made his magic even more powerful. At the Black Bull’s hideout Magna has finally earned a star whereas Asta reveals that for defeating the invasion he has been promoted to Junior Magic Knight, Third Class, meaning he now outranks Magna.
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"The One I've Set My Heart On""Kokoro ni Kimeta Hito" (心に決めた人) April 17, 2018July 1, 2018
Black Bull member Finral Roulacase has organised a mixer party of three women, himself, Asta and Luck. As they leave via Finral’s portal spell Noelle follows then hides, reasoning that she is ensuring Asta doesn’t get in trouble, when really she is jealous of him meeting other girls. At the mixer the ladies are definitely not impressed by Asta, Finral or Luck, deciding Asta is too young and a commoner, Finral is too flashy and Luck is too violent. Noelle is relieved the mixer is a disaster. Nearby Sekke is attending another mixer. Asta is left alone with a young woman named Rebecca Scarlet. After a few uneasy moments they end up bonding over the fact they both have multiple younger siblings, causing Noelle to panic. A large drunk man insults Rebecca so Asta furiously throws him across the room where he lands on Sekke, ruining his mixer. Rebecca develops a crush on Asta but decides to pursue him slowly after learning he loves someone else. Noelle mistakenly thinks Asta has a secret crush on her which makes her happy. Both Finral and Luck are rejected by the other two ladies because of their misunderstood belief of Black Bulls being too violent due to hearing that Asta threw the drunkard onto a table when he was defending Rebecca.
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"Path""Michi" (道) April 24, 2018July 8, 2018
A recap of episodes 1–28.
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"The Mirror Mage""Kagami no Madōshi" (鏡の魔道士) May 1, 2018July 15, 2018
Gauche Adlai, a Black Bull obsessed with his 10 year old sister Marie, is happy because it is Marie’s birthday. Father Orgi and Sister Lily learn that Asta was promoted to Junior Magic Knight Third Class and Yuno has been promoted to First Class. Asta visits the village where Rebecca lives which infuriates Noelle. As Gauche gets to the orphanage where Marie lives he finds her playing with Asta and Rebecca’s siblings. He overreacts, scaring Rebecca’s siblings and upsetting Marie who has a crush on Asta. Gauche attempts to murder Asta until Sister Theresa Rapual, a nun who cares for Marie, stops him. Gauche argues with Theresa who is the reason he can visit Marie only once a month. Rebecca invites Asta to spend the night with at her house which causes her siblings to assume that that means she will try to seduce him. Noelle faints from the shock of hearing that. Gauche attempts to murder Asta in his sleep. Their fight leads outside where Asta realizes the whole village is covered in snow in the middle of summer. Rebecca intervenes and reveals two of her siblings, Luca and Marco, along with dozens of other children from the village, are missing. The children are shown in hypnotic trances being led away by Neige.
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"Pursuit over the Snow""Setsujō no Tsuigeki" (雪上の追跡) May 8, 2018July 22, 2018
Sister Theresa realises the snow hypnotises children whose magic has not manifested. Gauche almost hits her in anger but Asta stops him. Gauche tracks Marie into the mountains with Asta and Sister Theresa, leaving Noelle behind to contact reinforcements. Marie wakes up among hundreds of kidnapped children. Neige realises she is awake, accuses her of being a bad friend and hits her. Neige’s abusive older brother, Baro, realises Marco has almost no mana so he throws him out into the snow. Noelle contacts Magic Knight Headquarters and is forced to ask Sekke for help. Asta spots Marco in the snow but Gauche only cares about Marie. Asta falls off the broom to reach Marco while Gauche flies on. Asta nullifies Marco’s hypnosis while Sister Theresa heals him. Baro begins painfully draining the mana from the children. Gauche arrives but is forced to stop fighting when Baro uses Marie as a shield. Asta arrives and frees Marie. Sister Theresa sees the children are completely empty of mana, meaning they will never be able to use magic, ever. Baro assumes Asta is weak for having no magic, until Asta learns Baro was stealing the children’s mana for money and blasts him into the wall.
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"Three-Leaf Sprouts""Mitsuba no Me" (三つ葉の芽) May 15, 2018July 29, 2018
Sekke flies to the Black Bulls hideout to get help for Asta and Gauche but finds most of them are drunk and Yami, having just woken up in a very bad mood, thinks Sekke is a debt collector. Neige is tricked and defeated by Gauche’s Mirror Clone. Sister Theresa restrains Baro while Asta begins nullifying the children’s hypnosis. Baro activates a signal transmitter. Sister Theresa mentions that she once trained Sister Lily who told her about Asta and his determination which inspires her every day. Sally, responding to the signal, appears through a portal. Sekke finally manages to explain that Asta and Gauche need help. Yami weighs up doing it himself, which he does not want to, or sending Gordon and Grey, both of whom are generally hard to communicate with. Sally outmanoeuvres and traps Asta and Gauche with her Gel magic. Sister Theresa burns away the gel and reveals she was once Theresa the Crimson She-Leopard of the Crimson Lions who trained Captain Fuegoleon when he was a child. Sally injects Baro with a magical substance that transforms him into a giant mud monster. Gauche flees with Marie, leaving Asta, Sister Theresa and the other children to die.
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"To Help Somebody Someday""Itsuka Dareka no Tame ni naru" (いつか誰かの為になる) May 22, 2018August 5, 2018
The mud monster tries to kill Neige but Asta protects him. Gauche has a flashback to their childhood when a relative killed their noble parents, stole their money and threw Gauche and Marie into the street. Gauche turned to thievery to keep Marie from starving but was sent to prison and Marie was taken in by Sister Theresa. Gauche changes his mind when Marie tells him she was proud he became a Magic Knight, so he leaves her with Marco outside the cave and goes back. He sees Asta is still fighting the mud monster so Gauche attacks Sally but is badly beaten. Asta ends up saving him, causing Gauche to remember first joining the Bulls. He decides, for the first time in his life, to support someone else. A new spell appears in his Grimoire and he casts it using the magic mirror inside his left eye, creating dozens of Asta mirror clones and they defeat the mud monster together. Neige swears revenge on Sally while Asta offers to be his friend. Neige, Gauche and Sister Theresa are suddenly attacked by Licht, leader of the Eye of the Midnight Sun. Like Yuno, Licht owns a 4 leaf clover Grimoire.
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"Light Magic vs. Dark Magic""Hikari Mahō Bāsasu Yami Mahō" (光魔法VS闇魔法) May 29, 2018August 12, 2018
Licht claims it is his duty to destroy the Clover Kingdom and expresses anger that Asta possesses the 5 leaf Grimoire. Yami appears through Finral’s portal and saves Asta with his sword, a Katana from his home country. Licht, who wields Light magic, decides to duel Yami, who uses Dark magic. As Yami is convinced that they met before, Licht reveals he comes from a village of powerfuled magicians before being slaughtered by those who once revered them out of jealousy. Yami counters with his own more ridiculous tale of how ended up in the Clover Kingdom, eventually wounding Licht's face once the villain admitted to have serious wounded Fuegoleon. Yami orders Asta to fight as well, revealing that he countered Licht's attack by sensing his Qi, non-magical energy emitted by a person's movement. Licht asks Valtos to capture Asta so Yami orders Asta to use his Qi sensing technique, Asta succeeding on the second try while reflecting Valtos's attack back at him. This infuriates Licht as he causes a cave-in to bury Asta and Yami under the rubble, only for the two to free themselves before Licht and Valtos can leave.
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"The Light of Judgment""Sabaki no Hikari" (裁きの光) June 5, 2018August 19, 2018
Licht criticises the Clover Kingdom's hypocrisies of respecting magical ability yet forces those with powerful magic to suffer in poor living conditions, continuing his fight with Yami while Asta faces Valtos. Despite his new ability to sense Qi, Asta is wounded so he throws himself into one of Valtos’ portals, reappearing on the other side of the portal in front of Valtos who and punches him into a wall, defeating him. Yami tricks Licht into attacking and wounds him. Licht praises Yami for being the second man to ever seriously harm him, the first being the Wizard King who aged his right arm beyond recovery. Licht prepares to use a powerful spell to kill both Yami and Asta and retrieve the 5 leaf Grimoire. Finral returns the children to their parents while Sister Theresa and Gauche undergo healing. The mage healing Gauche remarks that all of his injuries were on the edge of areas that should have been fatal; making it a miracle he is alive. Sister Theresa gives Gauche her remaining magic so he can help Asta, who she is glad has made Gauche a better man. Neige and Marie also give him their magic. Licht fires his spell Ray of Divine Punishment but Gauche has Finral teleport him in front of Yami and uses his Full Reflection spell to defeat Licht with his own spell.
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"Three Eyes""Mittsu no Me" (三つの眼) June 12, 2018August 26, 2018
The children return to the village, Noelle learning of the fight at the cave while upset that she was left behind and Asta might still be at risk. At the cave, with Licht knocked out by his own attack reflected back at him, Yami proceeds to restraint him and Valtos before he, Asta and Gauche have to wait from Finral to regain his strength to teleport them. Licht comes to as he recognizes Gauche as a friend of him despite the Magic Knight knowing they never met, Licht saving the explaining later when freeded by three Eye of the Midnight Sun members that suddenly appear through a portal. Licht explained the three members are the Eye's strongest members: The Third Eye. Licht further explains that Third Eye members represent traits that oppose Integrity, Hope and Love which the Clover Kingdom hypocritically value. Rhya the Disloyal displays his ability to use Copy Magic by replicating Yami's attack as the Black Bulls captains battles him, Vetto the Despair whose Beast Magic allows him to shatter Yami's sword, and Fana the Hateful who uses the spirit Salamander of the Fire. The Third Eye were about to finish Yami off when their attacks are deflected by Nozel Silva, Charlotte Rosary, and Jack the Ripper of the Green Praying Mantises.
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"The One With No Magic""Maryokunaki Mono" (魔力無き者) June 19, 2018September 9, 2018[g]
Neige explains to Noelle his motivation to turn himself in so he and Asta can be friends. Noelle continues to worry about Asta, which is noticed by Rebecca. In the caves the captains begin arguing amongst themselves, revealing that Jack and Yami duelled in the past, and that Charlotte is in love with Yami but is too stubborn to tell him. Charlotte duels Rhya, Jack duels Vetto and Nozel attempts to kill Licht but ends up duelling Fana. Licht grows angrier over Asta owning the 5 leaf Grimoire and his swords. Finral teleports Yami over Licht’s head for a surprise attack while Asta appears next to Licht and together he and Yami knock Licht to the ground. The entire cave is filled with light, as Asta’s sword nullifies a hidden sealing spell on Licht and his personality drastically changes. He identifies Asta’s swords as the Demon Slayer Sword and Demon Dweller Sword that once belonged to his Master, the true and unseen leader of the Eye of the Midnight Sun. As Licht’s power grows out of control the cave begins to crumble under the pressure. The Third Eye all break away from their duels and cast a new sealing spell on Licht, returning him to normal. They all disappear into a portal, promising the Eye of the Midnight Sun will return. Asta once more passes out from exhaustion. Nozel decides to keep an eye on Asta from now on. Elsewhere the Eye of the Midnight Sun members argue over what to do next and Rhya decides there is somewhere they have to go straight away.
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"The Magic Knight Captains Conference""Mahō Kishi-dan Danchō Kaigi" (魔法騎士団団長会議) June 26, 2018—
Asta awakens after being healed by Klaus and Mimosa, who along with Yuno arrived too late to fight Licht. Neige is arrested for kidnapping the children and ordered to work at Sister Theresa’s church as punishment. Sister Theresa recovers and is pleased Gauche’s attitude has improved, despite still being obsessed with Marie. Rebecca kisses Asta on the cheek to thank him for saving her siblings, and also to let Noelle know she likes Asta too. Back at Black Bull headquarters Yami is ordered by the Wizard King to attend a meeting of all the squad captains and to bring Asta. The Wizard King has a plan to unmask the traitorous magic knight helping the Midnight Sun. Before the meeting Marx Francois, the Wizard King’s main advisor, takes Asta to a secret prison where they are holding Midnight Sun members Catherine and George, who have spells placed on them to protect their memories, but the Wizard King hopes Asta’s sword can remove the spell and allow their memories to be examined to find the traitor. The squad captains bicker among themselves until they are summoned to the prison where Asta successfully removed the memory protection spell. The Wizard king reveals his discovery from their memories. The traitor is one of the squad captains.
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"Three-Leaf Salute""Mitsuba no Keirei" (三つ葉の敬礼) July 3, 2018—
The traitor is Gueldre Poizot the captain of the Purple Orca squad. Gueldre turns invisible and flees. Asta senses Gueldre through his Qi and uses his sword to nullify his invisibility. Gueldre is then trapped in a magic painting created by Rill Boismortier, captain of the Aqua Deer squad. Gueldre has his memories examined which reveals all his crimes; including kidnapping a Guardian Mage so the Midnight Sun could invade. As the captains are leaving it is shown that one of them was actually Rhya the Disloyal in disguise, though which captain he was impersonating is not shown. The Wizard King tells Yami and Asta that Charlotte and George also revealed information about the stone tablet. They intend to collect all the missing magical stones so they can be reborn in their original, more powerful bodies. Four stones are still missing, and they only know the location of one in the Underwater Temple, an area of strong magic almost impossible to reach without dying. The Wizard King asks the Black Bulls to retrieve the stone as of the nine squads they have the least ties to family and will not be missed if they die. Yami flashes back to his youth as a foreigner, shipwrecked on the Clover Kingdoms coast, isolated from society even after receiving his Grimoire. His first friend was Julius Novachrono, before he became the Wizard King. Yami agrees to the mission and the entire Black Bull squad begin preparing for a trip to the beach, including Noelle who panics at having to buy a bikini.
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"A Black Beach Story""Kuro no Kaigan Monogatari" (黒の海岸物語) July 10, 2018—
Yuno, Klaus and Mimosa hear a scream and rush into the shop it came from, only to find it was Noelle being stripped naked by Vanessa so she can try on bikinis. After they leave Noelle buys the most expensive bikini in the shop, hoping it will get Asta’s attention. The Black Bulls fly to the beach, only realising they accidentally left Gordon Agrippa behind after arriving. The Bulls begin having fun while Noelle is embarrassed at how much skin her bikini reveals but eventually decides she does want Asta to see her wearing it. However her every attempt to get Asta to notice are ruined by the Bulls antics. Sekke, who also happened to be at the beach, is blasted into the ocean by the Bulls mad stampede before he can flirt with any girls. Yami arrives and immediately punishes them for slacking off. He explains that the temple is on the ocean floor protected by magical ocean currents so strong most people would drown before breaking through. The only time the currents are weak is during the full moon, which is still a week away, and the only Black Bull capable of manipulating water is Noelle. Despite her lack of confidence Yami orders her to practise controlling her magic enough to break through the current. Noelle begins practising turning her water shield into an airtight water bubble that would allow them to breathe underwater. Asta offers to help her train but they suddenly hear a voice and further down the beach they find a young woman singing.
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"The Water Girl Grows Up""Mizu no Seichō Monogatari" (水の娘成長物語) July 17, 2018—
The girl, who introduces herself as Kahano, asks if she can be Asta and Noelle’s friend. She explains she had been practising her singing, dancing and magic to become an idol. As she grabs Asta’s hand she diagnoses him with muscle fatigue from his training and uses Song Recovery Magic to make him heal faster. Noelle is impressed as such magic requires high levels of control, which she struggles with. Noelle is intrigued at having a female friend her own age. Noelle explains the troubles she has so Kahano suggests she cast her spells while thinking of a pleasant memory, but all Noelle can recall is the abuse she received from her father and siblings. For the next week Noelle continues practising, and then on the last night before the full moon Asta suggests Noelle forgets control and just cast the spell randomly. As she does so the spell engulfs her and she is overcome by her feelings of failure and lack of any pleasant memory to focus on, however, she sees all the Bulls shouting encouragement and is overwhelmed by all the pleasant memories she has of her friends, especially Asta. Another new spell appears in her Grimoire, the Sea Dragon’s Cradle, and her water shield is transformed into a perfect airtight water bubble. As the Bulls celebrate Noelle realises Kahano has disappeared. Yami watches from a distance and is impressed with Noelle. Kahano remarks to herself she is looking forward to seeing Noelle again in the Underwater Temple, and then she jumps into the sea.
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"The Underwater Temple""Kaitei Shinden" (海底神殿) July 24, 2018—
The Bulls set off for the Underwater Temple, just barely passing through the magical currents using Noelle’s Cradle. They reach the temple but find it surrounded by a magic barrier of spinning whirlpools. Yami throws Asta at the whirlpools, despite knowing Asta cannot swim, and he cuts through them with his sword, allowing the Cradle to enter. Once inside and able to breathe the Bulls find the Temple, a large city grown from glowing coral. Unseen to everybody, Nero, hiding inside Asta’s robe, flies ahead of them.  They come across citizens of the Temple who, rather than becoming hostile, welcome them, asking them many questions about the surface and revealing that it had been over 10 years since they last had a visitor from the surface. Yami demands to see the one in charge so they are taken to the High Priest. Once inside they are attacked by a fish monster they easily defeat. The High Priest, an eccentric old geezer named Gifso, reveals it was a prank to scare visitors. Gifso, who knows they want the magic stone, tells them if they want it they must play his game and win, the game being a fight between the Bulls and the Temples warrior mages. The Bulls are teleported to random locations around the Temple and separated, forcing each Bull to fight a warrior mage alone. Asta is immediately confronted by an octopus headed mage and prepares to fight.
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"Temple Battle Royale""Shinden Batoru Rowaiyaru" (神殿バトルロワイヤル) July 31, 2018—
Yami is forced to watch the fight with Gifso. He reveals that his warrior mages are ranked as Intermediate Magic Knights while most of the Bulls are Junior Magic Knights. Yami smugly watches as Asta, Luck, Magna and Gauche each defeat their opponents in seconds, shocking Gifso and reducing the mage team to 5. Gifso reveals his 3 strongest mages would rank as Senior Magic Knights and will surely win. Charmy is put to sleep by her opponents Lullaby Magic, reducing the Bulls team to 8. Magna and Luck team up against another mage. Asta also runs into a mage who fights using swords. The mage, named Kiato, reveals the High Priest is his grandfather and if he defeats Asta he will be allowed to leave the Temple and pursue his dream of becoming a famous dancer. Noelle runs into the Lullaby mage who turns out to be Kahano, whose dream of becoming an idol is also dependant on defeating the Bulls so her grandfather will allow her to leave. As she is Noelle’s friend she insists on fighting fairly. She tries to put Noelle to sleep with her lullaby, but Noelle protects herself with her water shield. As they fight Noelle’s attacks all miss. Kahano tells Noelle she has had perfect control of her magic all along, the only reason she keeps missing is because she unconsciously wants to avoid hurting people. Noelle realises this is true and decides she must fight to win. Asta struggles to match Kiato’s graceful sword style and changes his own style to match it. Vanessa defeats her opponent by trapping him in a web of magical string, leaving the mages with only 4 members to the Bulls 8. The mage facing Luck and Magna is revealed to be Gio, the High Priests Son. As he duels with Luck and Magna he is suddenly crushed beneath a powerful spell as Vetto the Despair arrives with 4 Midnight Sun mages to steal the magic stone.
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"The Pointlessly Direct Fireball and the Wild Lightning""Guchokuna Kakyū to Honpōna Inazuma" (愚直な火球と奔放な稲光) August 7, 2018—
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"The Guy Who Doesn't Know When to Quit""Akirame no Warui Otoko" (諦めの悪い男) August 14, 2018—
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"Awakening""Kakusei" (覚醒) August 21, 2018—
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"The Only Weapon""Yuiitsu no Buki" (唯一の武器) August 28, 2018—
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"Despair vs. Hope""Zetsubō Bāsasu Kibō" (絶望VS希望) —

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Japan, Region 2

Chapter.

Episodes

Release date

Ref.

I

1-10

February 23, 2018

[24]

II

11-19

May 25, 2018

[25]

III

20-29

July 27, 2018

[26]

IV

30-39

November 26, 2018

[27]

V

40-51

January 25, 2019

[28]

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Funimation Entertainment (USA, Region 1)

Chapter.

Episodes

Release date

Ref.

Season One Part One

1-10

August 7, 2018

[29]

Season One Part Two

11-19

November 6, 2018

[30]

text: Notes[edit]

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Jump up ^ Adult Swim uses Funimation's English title.

Jump up ^ If there's one title; it is taken from Funimation and Crunchyroll. As the second title is taken from Crunchyroll.

Jump up ^ Black Clover didn't air on Adult Swim on December 16 and December 23 due to a Cowboy Bebop marathon[18] and a Dragon Ball Super marathon[19] respectively. It resumed on January 6, 2018.

Jump up ^ Due to special scheduling, Black Clover moved to 1 A.M. EST beginning on the night of April 7, which is April 8, 2018.[20]

Jump up ^ Black Clover moved a half hour to 1:30 A.M. EST as it switched time slots with Hunter × Hunter. Beginning on the night of May 5, which is May 6, 2018.[21]

Jump up ^ Adult Swim showed a FLCL marathon on May 26, 2018.[22]

Jump up ^ Adult Swim will show a My Hero Academia marathon on September 1, 2018.[23]

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document_title: World Golf Hall of Fame

question_text: what us president is in the world golf hall of fame

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text: World Golf Hall of Fame

text: History[edit]

text: The World Golf Hall of Fame was originally located in Pinehurst, North Carolina, and was privately operated by Diamondhead Corp., then owners of the Pinehurst Resort. It opened in September 1974 with an initial class of 13 members.[3] Initially it was a local project, but the PGA of America took over management in 1983 and acquired full ownership in 1986.

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text: Two other halls of fame have been merged into the World Golf Hall of Fame. The PGA of America established one in 1940, which was merged into the Pinehurst Hall in the 1980s. The Hall of Fame of Women's Golf was established by the LPGA in 1951, with four charter members: Patty Berg, Betty Jameson, Louise Suggs, and Babe Zaharias. It was inactive for some years, but in 1967 it moved into its first physical premises, which were in Augusta, Georgia and was renamed the LPGA Tour Hall of Fame. In 1998 it merged into the World Golf Hall of Fame.

text: In 1994 the global golf industry established a non-profit making body called the World Golf Foundation to promote the sport, with the creation of an enhanced Hall of Fame as one of its main objectives. Construction at the new site in St. Johns County began in 1996 and the new facility opened on May 19, 1998.

text: Membership categories[edit]

text: In October 2013, the Hall announced that it was reviewing its selection process and that there would be no induction ceremony in 2014.[4][5] A new process was announced in March 2014.

text: Starting in 2014, members are inducted into the Hall of Fame in one of four categories: Male Competitor, Female Competitor, Veterans, and Lifetime Achievement categories. Elections are held every other year with induction ceremonies in odd number years beginning in 2015. The process has changed from that used from 1996 to 2013. The minimum qualifications for male and female competitors are: minimum of 40 years old, or five years removed from "active competition" and 15 or more wins on "approved tours" or two "major wins". The veterans category is primarily for those golfers whose careers ended before 1980 and includes both amateurs and professionals. The lifetime achievement category remains from the old system.[6]

text: A 20-member selection sub-committee will choose from among the eligible candidates and select ballots for a selection committee. There will be five names each on the male and female ballots and three names each on the veterans and lifetime achievement ballots. A separate 16-member selection committee will then vote on all four ballots. Election to the Hall of Fame will require 75% of the vote and each year's election class is limited to two from each ballot and five total.[6][7]

text: In 2016, the Hall announced that the age requirement would be raised to 50 from 40 years old.[8]

text: Qualification details[edit]

text: A player must have turned 50 years old prior to January 1 of the year the ballots are constructed (2016 for the 2017 induction). The "active competition" requirement will be determined by each "approved tour" that the player is/was a member of.

text: Male[edit]

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Approved tours (15 wins total)

PGA Tour
European Tour
Japan Golf Tour
Sunshine Tour
Asian Tour
PGA Tour of Australasia

Majors or Players Championship (two wins)

Masters Tournament
U.S. Open
The Open Championship
PGA Championship
The Players Championship

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text: Female[edit]

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Approved tours (15 wins total)

LPGA Tour
Ladies European Tour
LPGA of Japan Tour
LPGA of Korea Tour
ALPG Tour

Majors (two wins)

U.S. Women's Open
Women's PGA Championship
Women's British Open (2001−current)
ANA Inspiration (1983−current)
The Evian Championship (2013−current)
du Maurier Classic (1979−2000)
Titleholders Championship
Women's Western Open

text: Categories from 1996 to 2013[edit]

text: From 1996 to 2013, members were inducted into the Hall of Fame in one of five categories: PGA Tour/Champions Tour, LPGA Tour, International, Lifetime Achievement, and Veterans.

text: PGA Tour/Champions Tour ballot[edit]

text: Current and former PGA Tour and Champions Tour players were eligible for this ballot if they met the following requirements (beginning with 1996 election):

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PGA Tour

Minimum of 40 years old
PGA Tour member for 10 years
10 PGA Tour wins or two wins in the majors or Players Championship

Champions Tour

Champions Tour member for five years
20 wins between PGA Tour and Champions Tour or five wins in the majors (regular or senior) or Players Championship

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Years
% of returned ballots needed for election

1996–2000
75%

2001–2003
65%

2004–2013
65%, in the event that no candidate receives 65%, the
nominee receiving the most votes with at least 50% is elected

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text: Voters voted for up to 30% of the players on the ballot. If a player was named on less than 5% of the ballots for two consecutive years, they were dropped from the ballot. Players not elected could remain on the ballot indefinitely[9] (prior to 2007 the limit was 10 years, from 2007 to 2009 the limit was 15 years).[10]

text: LPGA point system[edit]

text: LPGA Tour golfers were eligible through a point system. Since 1999, LPGA members automatically qualified for World Golf Hall of Fame membership when they meet these three criteria:

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Must be/have been an "active" LPGA Tour member for 10 years.
Must have won/been awarded at least one of the following - an LPGA major championship, the Vare Trophy or Player of the Year honors; and
Must have accumulated a total of 27 points, which are awarded as follows - one point for each LPGA official tournament win, two points for each LPGA major tournament win and one point for each Vare Trophy or Rolex Player of the Year honor earned.

text: Before 1999, players had to win 30 tournaments, including two majors; 35 tournaments with one major; or 40 tournaments in all to automatically qualify. At one time, players had to win two different majors to qualify with 30 wins, but this was changed earlier in the 1990s.

text: This point system is still used for selection to the LPGA Hall of Fame.[11]

text: International ballot[edit]

text: Men and women golfers not fully eligible for PGA/Champions Tour ballot or the LPGA Tour point system were eligible for the International ballot if they met the following requirements[12] (beginning with the 1996 election):

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Minimum of 40 years old
Cumulative 50 points earned as follows:

Men

6 points – Major victories
4 points – Players Championship win
3 points – Other PGA Tour win, European Tour win
2 points – Japan Golf Tour, Sunshine Tour, PGA Tour of Australasia, Champions Tour win
1 point – Other national championship win; Ryder Cup, Presidents Cup participation

Women

6 points – Major[a] victories
4 points – Other LPGA Tour win, Women's British Open win prior to 2001[b]
2 points – LPGA of Japan Tour win, Ladies European Tour win
1 point – Other national championship win, Solheim Cup participation

text: Election requirements: same as PGA Tour ballot.

text: Lifetime Achievement category[edit]

text: There was also a "lifetime achievement" category through which anyone who had made a major contribution to the organization or promotion of the sport may be selected, for example, Bob Hope. These members were chosen by the Hall of Fame's Board of Directors. Most played golf, in some cases with some competitive success, but it was not their play alone which won them a place in the Hall of Fame.

text: Veteran's category[edit]

text: The last category was created to honor professional or amateur players whose career concluded at least 30 years ago. These members were also chosen by the Hall of Fame's Board of Directors.

text: Membership[edit]

text: New members are inducted each year on the Monday before The Players Championship[13] (previous to 2010 in October or November), and by May 2013 there were 146 members. Beginning in 2010, the ballots are due in July with the results announced later in the year. New entrants in the Lifetime Achievement and Veteran's categories are announced at irregular intervals. For example, Frank Chirkinian was elected in the Lifetime Achievement category in an emergency election in February 2011, with the vote presumably held because he was then terminally ill with lung cancer;[14] when it became clear he would not live to attend his induction, he videotaped his acceptance speech in late February, less than two weeks before his death.[15]

text: Men[edit]

text: Unless stated otherwise these men were inducted mainly for their on-course success. The exceptions mostly correspond with the lifetime achievement category, but not quite. For example, Charlie Sifford was notable as a player but was inducted for lifetime achievement.

text:
1974  Walter Hagen
1974  Ben Hogan
1974  Bobby Jones
1974  Byron Nelson
1974  Jack Nicklaus
1974  Francis Ouimet
1974  Arnold Palmer
1974  Gary Player
1974  Gene Sarazen
1974  Sam Snead
1974  Harry Vardon
1975  Willie Anderson
1975  Fred Corcoran – many-faceted promoter and administrator
1975  Joseph Dey – executive director of the USGA and the first commissioner of the PGA Tour
1975  Chick Evans
1975  Young Tom Morris
1975  John Henry Taylor
1976   Tommy Armour
1976  James Braid
1976  Old Tom Morris
1976  Jerome Travers
1977  Bobby Locke
1977  John Ball
1977  Herb Graffis – golf writer and founder of the U.S. National Golf Foundation
1977  Donald Ross – golf course architect
1978  Billy Casper
1978  Harold Hilton
1978  Bing Crosby – celebrity friend of golf who founded his own PGA Tour event
1978  Clifford Roberts – co-founder of the Augusta National Golf Club and the Masters Tournament
1979  Walter Travis
1980  Henry Cotton
1980  Lawson Little
1981  Ralph Guldahl
1981  Lee Trevino
1982  Julius Boros
1983  Jimmy Demaret
1983  Bob Hope – celebrity friend of golf who founded his own PGA Tour event
1986  Cary Middlecoff
1987  Robert Trent Jones – golf course architect
1988  Bob Harlow – promoter who played a key role in the early development of the PGA Tour
1988  Peter Thomson
1988  Tom Watson
1989  Jim Barnes
1989  Roberto De Vicenzo
1989  Raymond Floyd
1990  William C. Campbell – two-time President of the USGA
1990  Gene Littler
1990  Paul Runyan
1990  Horton Smith
1992  Harry Cooper
1992  Hale Irwin
1992  Chi Chi Rodriguez
1992  Richard Tufts – ran Pinehurst and served as President of the USGA
1996  Johnny Miller
1997  Seve Ballesteros
1997  Nick Faldo
1998  Lloyd Mangrum
2000  Jack Burke, Jr.
2000  Deane Beman – Commissioner of the PGA Tour 1974-1994
2000  Michael Bonallack – British golf administrator
2000  Neil Coles – first Chairman of the PGA European Tour
2000  John Jacobs – first Tournament Director of the European Tour
2001  Bernhard Langer (inducted with 2002 class)[16]
2001  Greg Norman
2001  Payne Stewart
2001  Allan Robertson
2001  Karsten Solheim – golf equipment manufacturer and founder of the Solheim Cup
2002  Ben Crenshaw
2002  Tony Jacklin
2002  Tommy Bolt
2002  Harvey Penick – golf instructor
2003  Nick Price
2003  Leo Diegel
2004  Charlie Sifford
2004  Isao Aoki
2004  Tom Kite
2005  Bernard Darwin – golf writer
2005  Alister MacKenzie – golf course architect
2005  Willie Park, Sr.
2005  Vijay Singh (inducted with 2006 class)[17]
2006  Larry Nelson
2006  Henry Picard
2006  Mark McCormack – sports agent who represented many top golfers; the developer of golf's first world ranking system, adapted into today's Official World Golf Ranking
2007  Joe Carr
2007  Hubert Green
2007  Charles B. Macdonald – inaugural U.S. Amateur champion, founding Vice-President of the USGA and "Father of American Golf Architecture"
2007  Kel Nagle
2007  Curtis Strange
2008  Bob Charles
2008  Pete Dye – golf course architect
2008  Denny Shute
2008  Herbert Warren Wind – golf writer
2008  Craig Wood
2009  Christy O'Connor Snr
2009  José María Olazábal
2009  Lanny Wadkins
2009  Dwight D. Eisenhower – former U.S. President
2011  Ernie Els
2011  Masashi "Jumbo" Ozaki
2011  Doug Ford
2011   Jock Hutchison
2011  Frank Chirkinian – television producer, known as the 'father of televised golf' for the impact he had on golf broadcasting.
2011  George H. W. Bush – former U.S. President
2012  Phil Mickelson[18]
2012  Dan Jenkins – golf writer[19]
2012  Sandy Lyle[20]
2012  Peter Alliss[20]
2013  Fred Couples[21]
2013  Ken Venturi[22]
2013  Willie Park, Jr.[23]
2013  Colin Montgomerie[24]
2013  Ken Schofield[24]
2015  David Graham[25]
2015  Mark O'Meara[25]
2015  A. W. Tillinghast – golf course architect[25]
2017  Henry Longhurst – golf writer and commentator
2017  Davis Love III
2017  Ian Woosnam

text: Women[edit]

text: The first five women on this list were grandfathered in 1998 from the Hall of Fame of Women's Golf, which was founded in 1951, via the LPGA Tour Hall of Fame, which was inaugurated in 1967. The list shows the years when they were originally inducted into the Hall of Fame of Women's Golf. Unless stated otherwise the women on the list were inducted primarily for their on-course achievements.

text:
1951  Betty Jameson
1951  Patty Berg
1951  Louise Suggs
1951  Babe Zaharias
1960  Betsy Rawls
1964  Mickey Wright
1975  Glenna Collett-Vare
1975  Joyce Wethered
1975  Kathy Whitworth
1977  Sandra Haynie
1977  Carol Mann
1978   Dorothy Campbell Hurd Howe
1982  JoAnne Carner
1987  Nancy Lopez
1991  Pat Bradley
1993  Patty Sheehan
1994  Dinah Shore – celebrity friend of the LPGA; founded a tournament that eventually became a major
1995  Betsy King
1999  Amy Alcott
2000  Beth Daniel
2000  Juli Inkster
2000  Judy Rankin
2001  Donna Caponi
2001  Judy Bell – administrator; first female President of the USGA
2002  Marlene Bauer Hagge
2003  Hisako "Chako" Higuchi
2003  Annika Sörenstam
2004  Marlene Stewart Streit
2005  Ayako Okamoto
2005  Karrie Webb
2006  Marilynn Smith
2007  Pak Se-ri
2008  Carol Semple Thompson
2012  Hollis Stacy[26]
2015  Laura Davies[25]
2017  Meg Mallon
2017  Lorena Ochoa


document_title: Brenda's Got a Baby

question_text: who played the girl in brenda's got a baby video

question_tokens: who played the girl in brenda 's got a baby video

text: Brenda's Got a Baby

text: Lyrics[edit]

text: The opening consists of a duet singing the song's title twice. Much of the rest of the song is one long verse performed by Tupac.

text: The verse begins with Tupac telling a group that he has heard about Brenda's pregnancy. He also notes that she has had virtually no education, and calls this a "damn shame" because she has little hope of a future. Her family is very poor and her father is a drug addict. Brenda is impregnated by her unnamed boyfriend, who is also her cousin, but she is successfully able to hide her pregnancy. Tupac explains that her family wouldn't care if she gave birth, as long as they got their cut of the government assistance.

text: Although she believes that her cousin (her baby's father) will stay with her and help her raise their child, he is merely a molester, and abandons her before she gives birth on the bathroom floor. She throws the baby into a trash bin but later retrieves it when she hears it crying. Her mother scolds her severely, and Brenda becomes so ashamed of herself that she runs away from home.

text:
Brenda is now forced to live alone, and unsuccessfully seeks employment. Her attempt to sell crack cocaine results in robbery, and eventually she views prostitution as her only way to earn money and survive. This life path leads to her getting murdered. The fates of her parents, her cousin, and the baby are left unexplained. The song's final minute consists of a chorus singing "Don't you know she's got a baby?" repeatedly. The beginning of the song can be heard in The Game's song "Street Riders"
2Pac has another song which he made late in his career which deals with this same subject called "Mama's Just a Little Girl". The song can be found on his fourth posthumous studio album Better Dayz.

text: Music video[edit]

text: The video of the song is in black-and-white. It was made to visualize what Shakur narrates. The first part shows Shakur and "Brenda" and then the actual story starts. Ethel "Edy" Proctor portrays Brenda.

text: The video begins with "based on a true story," although the characters themselves are fictitious, Shakur wrote the song after reading a story in the newspaper of a 12-year-old girl getting pregnant by her cousin and trying to dispose of the baby in a trash can.

text: Parts of the video were included in Tupac: Resurrection, a 2003 documentary on 2Pac's life, in a television show later in the music video of "Ghetto Gospel", in the music video of "Changes" and appears as a bonus in its entirety on the film's DVD. Part of the video and song was played in 2Pac's biopic film, All Eyez on Me, released on June 16, 2017.

text: The video was directed by the Hughes brothers.

text: Charts[edit]

text:
Chart (1991)

Peakposition

US Hot Rap Songs (Billboard)[2]

7

US Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs (Billboard)[3]

23


document_title: Robust control

question_text: when is a control system said to be robust

text: Robust control

text: When is a control method said to be robust?[edit]

text: Informally, a controller designed for a particular set of parameters is said to be robust if it also works well under a different set of assumptions. High-gain feedback is a simple example of a robust control method; with sufficiently high gain, the effect of any parameter variations will be negligible. From the closed loop transfer function perspective, high open loop gain leads to substantial disturbance rejection in the face of system parameter uncertainty.

text: The major obstacle to achieving high loop gains is the need to maintain system closed loop stability. Loop shaping which allows stable closed loop operation can be a technical challenge.

text: Robust control systems often incorporate advanced topologies which include multiple feedback loops and feed-forward paths. The control laws may be represented by high order transfer functions required to simultaneously accomplish desired disturbance rejection performance with robust closed loop operation.

text: High-gain feedback is the principle that allows simplified models of operational amplifiers and emitter-degenerated bipolar transistors to be used in a variety of different settings. This idea was already well understood by Bode and Black in 1927.

text: The modern theory of robust control[edit]

text: The theory of robust control began in the late 1970s and early 1980s and soon developed a number of techniques for dealing with bounded system uncertainty.[4][5]

text: Probably the most important example of a robust control technique is H-infinity loop-shaping, which was developed by Duncan McFarlane and Keith Glover of Cambridge University; this method minimizes the sensitivity of a system over its frequency spectrum, and this guarantees that the system will not greatly deviate from expected trajectories when disturbances enter the system.

text: An emerging area of robust control from application point of view is sliding mode control (SMC), which is a variation of variable structure control (VSS). The robustness properties of SMC with respect to matched uncertainty as well as the simplicity in design attracted a variety of applications.

text: While robust control has been traditionally dealt with along deterministic approaches, in the last two decades this approach has been criticized on the basis that it is too rigid to describe real uncertainty, while it often also leads to over conservative solutions. Probabilistic robust control has been introduced as ana alternative, see e.g. [6] that interprets robust control within the so-called scenario optimization theory.

text: Another example is loop transfer recovery (LQG/LTR),[7] which was developed to overcome the robustness problems of linear-quadratic-Gaussian control (LQG) control.

text: Other robust techniques includes quantitative feedback theory (QFT), passivity based control, Lyapunov based control, etc.

text: When system behavior varies considerably in normal operation, multiple control laws may have to be devised. Each distinct control law addresses a specific system behavior mode. An example is a computer hard disk drive. Separate robust control system modes are designed in order to address the rapid magnetic head traversal operation, known as the seek, a transitional settle operation as the magnetic head approaches its destination, and a track following mode during which the disk drive performs its data access operation.

text: One of the challenges is to design a control system that addresses these diverse system operating modes and enables smooth transition from one mode to the next as quickly as possible.

text: Such state machine driven composite control system is an extension of the gain scheduling idea where the entire control strategy changes based upon changes in system behavior.


document_title: List of Indian states and union territories by literacy rate

question_text: lowest female literacy rate state in india 2011

text:
States and union
territories of India
ordered by

Area
Population

Abbreviations
Capitals
Child Nutrition
Crime rate
Electricity penetration
Fertility rate
Forest cover
GDP (per capita)
Highest point
HIV awareness
HDI
Home ownership
Household size
Human Trafficking
Institutional delivery
Life expectancy at birth
Literacy rate
Media exposure
Number of Vehicles
Number of voters
Obesity
Open defecation
Origin of name
Places of worship
Poverty
Power capacity
Safe Drinking Water
Safety of Women
School Enrollment Rate
Sex ratio
Suicides
Tax revenues
TV ownership
Toilet availability
Transport network
Underweight people
Unemployment
Vaccination coverage

v
t
e

text: Literacy rate in India is uneven and as such, different States and Union Territories of India have differences in their literacy rates. The following table shows the 2011 and 2001 census data on total literacy rate, male literacy rate, female literacy rate and decadal difference in percentage.[2][3] According to Census 2011, Kerala has the highest total literacy rate and female literacy rate whereas Lakshadweep had the highest male literacy rate. Bihar has the lowest total literacy rate and male literacy rates while Rajasthan has the lowest female literacy rate.[2]

text:
Rank
India/State/Union Territory
Literacy Rate (%) - 2011 Census
Male Literacy Rate (%) - 2011 Census[2]
Female Literacy Rate (%) - 2011 Census[2]
Literacy Rate (%) - 2001 Census
Decadal Difference (pp)

1
Kerala
93.91
96.02
91.98
90.86
3.05

2
Lakshadweep
92.28
96.11
88.25
86.66
5.62

3
Mizoram
91.58
93.72
89.40
88.80
2.78

4
Tripura
87.75[a]
92.18
83.15
73.19
14.56

5
Goa
87.40
92.81
81.84
82.01
5.39

6
Daman & Diu
87.07
91.48
79.59
78.18
8.89

7
Puducherry
86.55
92.12
81.22
81.24
5.31

8
Chandigarh
86.43
90.54
81.38
81.94
4.49

9
Delhi
86.34
91.03
80.93
81.67
4.67

10
Andaman & Nicobar
86.27
90.11
81.84
81.30
4.97

11
Himachal Pradesh
83.78
90.83
76.60
76.48
7.30

12
Maharashtra
82.91
89.82
75.48
76.88
6.03

13
Sikkim
82.20
87.29
76.43
68.81
13.39

14
Tamil Nadu
80.33
86.81
73.86
73.45
6.88

15
Nagaland
80.11
83.29
76.89
66.59
13.52

16
Manipur
79.85
86.49
73.17
69.93
9.92

17
Uttarakhand
79.63
88.33
70.70
71.62
8.01

18
Gujarat
79.31
87.23
70.73
69.14
10.17

19
Dadra & Nagar Haveli
77.65
86.46
65.93
57.63
20.02

20
West Bengal
77.08
82.67
71.16
68.64
8.44

21
Punjab
76.68
81.48
71.34
69.65
7.03

22
Haryana
76.64
85.38
66.77
67.91
8.73

23
Karnataka
75.60
82.85
68.13
66.64
8.96

24
Meghalaya
75.48
77.17
73.78
62.56
12.92

India
74.04
82.14
65.46
64.83
9.21

25
Odisha
73.45
82.40
64.36
63.08
10.37

26
Assam
73.18
78.81
67.27
63.25
9.93

27
Chhattisgarh
71.04
81.45
60.59
64.66
6.38

28
Madhya Pradesh
70.63
80.53
60.02
63.74
6.89

29
Uttar Pradesh
69.72
79.24
59.26
56.27
13.45

30
Jammu & Kashmir
68.74
78.26
58.01
55.52
13.22

31
Jharkhand
67.63
78.45
56.21
53.56
14.07

32
Andhra Pradesh
67.4[b]
75.56
59.74
--
--

33
Rajasthan
67.06
80.51
52.66
60.41
6.65

34
Arunachal Pradesh
66.95
73.69
59.57
54.34
12.61

35
Telangana
66.5[c]
--
--
--
--

36
Bihar
63.82
73.39
53.33
47.00
16.82

text: Notes

text:
Jump up ^ In September 2013, the State Government of Tripura claimed that the state has surpassed Kerala as the most literate state in India, with a literacy rate of 94.65%.[4][5]
Jump up ^ As per a government report dated May 2014 (based on the 2011 census data), literacy rate of Andhra Pradesh is 67.4%.[6]
Jump up ^ Census 2011 data was calculated for unified Andhra Pradesh. As per Times of India report which quoted the literacy rates of Telangana as 66.5%.[7]


document_title: Lymph node

question_text: where are lymph nodes concentrated in the body

text: Lymph node

text: Structure[edit]

text: Lymph nodes are kidney or oval shaped and range in size from a few millimeters to about 1–2 cm long.[5] Each lymph node is surrounded by a fibrous capsule, which extends inside the lymph node to form trabeculae. The substance of the lymph node is divided into the outer cortex and the inner medulla. The cortex is continuous around the medulla except where the medulla comes into direct contact with the hilum.[5]

text: Thin reticular fibers of reticular connective tissue, and elastin form a supporting meshwork called a reticulin inside the node. B cells are mainly found in the outer (superficial cortex) where they are clustered together as follicular B cells in lymphoid follicles and the T cells are mainly in the paracortex.[6] The lymph node is divided into compartments called lymph nodules (or lobules) each consisting of a cortical region of combined follicle B cells, a paracortical region of T cells, and a basal part of the nodule in the medulla.[7]

text: The number and composition of follicles can change especially when challenged by an antigen, when they develop a germinal center.[5] Elsewhere in the node, there are only occasional leucocytes. As part of the reticular network there are follicular dendritic cells in the B cell follicle and fibroblastic reticular cells in the T cell cortex. The reticular network not only provides the structural support, but also the surface for adhesion of the dendritic cells, macrophages and lymphocytes. It allows exchange of material with blood through the high endothelial venules and provides the growth and regulatory factors necessary for activation and maturation of immune cells.[8]

text: Lymph enters the convex side of the lymph node through multiple afferent lymphatic vessels, and flows through spaces called sinuses. A lymph sinus which includes the subcapsular sinus, is a channel within the node, lined by endothelial cells along with fibroblastic reticular cells and this allows for the smooth flow of lymph through them.The endothelium of the subcapsular sinus is continuous with that of the afferent lymph vessel and is also with that of the similar sinuses flanking the trabeculae and within the cortex. All of these sinuses drain the filtered lymphatic fluid into the medullary sinuses, from where the lymph flows into the efferent lymph vessels to exit the node at the hilum on the concave side.[5] These vessels are smaller and don't allow the passage of the macrophages so that they remain contained to function within the lymph node. In the course of the lymph, lymphocytes may be activated as part of the adaptive immune response.

text: Capsule[edit]

text: The lymph node capsule is composed of dense irregular connective tissue with some plain collagenous fibers, and from its internal surface are given off a number of membranous processes or trabeculae. They pass inward, radiating toward the center of the node, for about one-third or one-fourth of the space between the circumference and the center of the node. In some animals they are sufficiently well-marked to divide the peripheral or cortical portion of the node into a number of compartments (nodules), but in humans this arrangement is not obvious. The larger trabeculae springing from the capsule break up into finer bands, and these interlace to form a mesh-work in the central or medullary portion of the node. In these trabecular spaces formed by the interlacing trabeculae is contained the proper lymph node substance or lymphoid tissue. The node pulp does not, however, completely fill the spaces, but leaves, between its outer margin and the enclosing trabeculae, a channel or space of uniform width throughout. This is termed the subcapsular sinus (lymph path or lymph sinus). Running across it are a number of finer trabeculae of reticular connective tissue, the fibers of which are, for the most part, covered by ramifying cells.

text: Subcapsular sinus[edit]

text: The subcapsular sinus (lymph path, lymph sinus, marginal sinus) is the space between the capsule and the cortex which allows the free movement of lymphatic fluid and so contains few lymphocytes.[5] It is continuous with the similar lymph sinuses that flank the trabeculae.[5]

text: The lymph node contains lymphoid tissue, i.e., a meshwork or fibers called reticulum with white blood cells enmeshed in it. The regions where there are few cells within the meshwork are known as lymph sinus. It is lined by reticular cells, fibroblasts and fixed macrophages.[5]

text: The subcapsular sinus has clinical importance as it is the most likely location where the earliest manifestations of a metastatic carcinoma in a lymph node would be found.

text: Cortex[edit]

text: The cortex of the lymph node is the outer portion of the node, underneath the capsule and the subcapsular sinus.[7] It has an outer superficial part and a deeper part known as the paracortex.[7] The subcapsular sinus drains to the trabecular sinuses, and then the lymph flows into the medullary sinuses.

text: The outer cortex consists mainly of the B cells arranged as follicles, which may develop a germinal center when challenged with an antigen, and the deeper paracortex mainly consists of the T cells. Here the T-cells mainly interact with dendritic cells, and the reticular network is dense.[9]

text: Medulla[edit]

text: The medulla contains large blood vessels, sinuses and medullary cords that contain antibody-secreting plasma cells.

text: The medullary cords are cords of lymphatic tissue, and include plasma cells, macrophages, and B cells. The medullary sinuses (or sinusoids) are vessel-like spaces separating the medullary cords. Lymph flows into the medullary sinuses from cortical sinuses, and into the efferent lymphatic vessel. There is usually only one efferent vessel though sometimes there may be two.[10] Medullary sinuses contain histiocytes (immobile macrophages) and reticular cells.

text: Location[edit]

text: Lymph nodes are present throughout the body, are more concentrated near and within the trunk, and are divided in the study of anatomy into groups. Some lymph nodes can be felt when enlarged (and occasionally when not), such as the axillary lymph nodes under the arm, the cervical lymph nodes of the head and neck and the inguinal lymph nodes near the groin crease. Some lymph nodes can be seen, such as the tonsils. Most lymph nodes however lie within the trunk adjacent to other major structures in the body - such as the paraaortic lymph nodes and the tracheobronchial lymph nodes.

text: There are no lymph nodes in the central nervous system, which is separated from the body by the blood-brain barrier.

text: Function[edit]

text: The primary function of lymph nodes is the filtering of lymph to identify and fight infection. In order to do this, lymph nodes contain lymphocytes, a type of white blood cell, which includes B cells and T cells. These circulate through the bloodstream and enter and reside in lymph nodes.[11] B cells produce antibodies. Each antibody has a single predetermined target, an antigen, that it can bind to. These circulate throughout the bloodstream and if they find this target, the antibodies bind to it and stimulate an immune response. Each B cell produces different antibodies, and this process is driven in lymph nodes. B cells enter the bloodstream as "naive" cells produced in bone marrow. After entering a lymph node, they then enter a lymphoid follicle, where they multiply and divide, each producing a different antibody. If a cell is stimulated, it will go on to produce more antibodies (a plasma cell) or act as a memory cell to help the body fight future infection.[12] If a cell is not stimulated, it will undergo apoptosis and die.[12]

text: Antigens are molecules found on bacterial cell walls, chemical substances secreted from bacteria, or sometimes even molecules present in body tissue itself. These are taken up by cells throughout the body called antigen-presenting cells, such as dendritic cells.[13] These antigen presenting cells enter the lymph system and then lymph nodes. They present the antigen to T cells and, if there is a T cell with the appropriate T cell receptor, it will be activated.[12]

text: B cells acquire antigen directly from the afferent lymph. If a B cell binds its cognate antigen it will be activated. Some B cells will immediately develop into antibody secreting plasma cells, and secrete IgM. Other B cells will internalize the antigen and present it to Follicular helper T cells on the B and T cell zone interface. If a cognate FTh cell is found it will upregulate CD40L and promote somatic hypermutation and isotype class switching of the B cell, increasing its antigen binding affinity and changing its effector function. Proliferation of cells within the lymph node will make the node expand.

text: Lymph is present throughout the body, and circulates through lymphatic vessels. These drain into and from lymph nodes – afferent vessels drain into nodes, and efferent vessels from nodes. When lymph fluid enters a node, it drains into the node just beneath the capsule in a space called the subcapsular sinus. The subcapsular sinus drains into trabecular sinuses and finally into medullary sinuses. The sinus space is criss-crossed by the pseudopods of macrophages, which act to trap foreign particles and filter the lymph. The medullary sinuses converge at the hilum and lymph then leaves the lymph node via the efferent lymphatic vessel towards either a more central lymph node or ultimately for drainage into a central venous subclavian blood vessel.

text:
The B cells migrate to the nodular cortex and medulla.
The T cells migrate to the deep cortex. This is a region of the lymph node called the paracortex that immediately surrounds the medulla. Unlike the cortex, which has mostly immature T cells, or thymocytes, the paracortex has a mixture of immature and mature T cells. Lymphocytes enter the lymph nodes through specialized high endothelial venules found in the paracortex.

text: The spleen and tonsils are the larger secondary lymphoid organs that serve similar functions to lymph nodes, though the spleen filters blood cells rather than lymph.

text: Clinical significance[edit]

text: Swelling[edit]

text: Lymph nodes may become enlarged due to an infection, tumor, autoimmune disease, drug reactions, or to leukemia.[14] Swollen lymph nodes (or the disease causing them) are referred to as lymphadenopathy.[15] Swollen lymph nodes may be seen, as in enlarged tonsils, or seen as gross enlargement of nodes due to lymphoma. They may be felt, or seen on a scan. Swollen lymph nodes may be painful or cause other symptoms such as a difficulty in swallowing or in breathing. When very large they may compress on a blood vessel. Swelling can occur in one node, in a localised area, or be widespread.

text: The taking of a medical history and exam by a medical practitioner can help point to the cause of the swelling, whether it be a localised infection, or a systemic disorder. Many symptoms or signs may point to the cause of swelling - for example, a sore throat and a cough may point to an upper respiratory tract infection as the cause of tonsil swelling. Changes in the appearance of a breast or a mass that has been felt may explain underarm pain and axillary lymph node swelling. Ongoing fevers or night sweats may suggest a systemic infection or a lymphoma as the cause of swelling. Depending on these findings, a wide variety of medical tests that include blood tests and scans may be needed to further examine the cause. A biopsy of a lymph node may also be needed.

text: Lymphedema is another and fairly widespread condition that results in fluid retention and tissue swelling. It can be congenital as a result usually of undeveloped or absent lymph nodes, and is known as primary lymphedema. Secondary lymphedema usually results from the removal of lymph nodes during breast cancer surgery or from other damaging treatments such as radiation. It can also be caused by some parasitic infections. Affected tissues are at a great risk of infection.

text: Cancer[edit]

text: Lymph nodes can be affected by both primary cancers of lymph tissue, and secondary cancers affecting other part of the body. Primary cancers of lymph tissue are called lymphomas and include Hodgkin lymphoma and non-Hodgkin lymphoma. Cancer of lymph nodes can cause a wide range of symptoms from painless long-term slowly growing swelling to sudden, rapid enlargement over days or weeks. Lymphoma is managed by haematologists and oncologists

text: Local cancer in many parts of the body can cause lymph nodes to enlarge, usually because of tumours cells that have metastasised into the node. Lymph node involvement is often a key part in the diagnosis and treatment of cancer, acting as "sentinels" of local disease, incorporated into TNM staging and other cancer staging systems. As part of the investigations or workup for cancer, lymph nodes may be imaged or even surgically removed. Whether lymph nodes are affected will affect the stage of the cancer and overall treatment and prognosis.

text: Additional images[edit]

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Lymphatic system

Section of small lymph node of rabbit.

Lymphatics of the arm

Lymphatics of the axillary region

Lymph node histology