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Black Clover: Sword of the Wizard King (2023)
★ 8.1 · 372 ratings on TMDB
When the legend revives... The kingdom will fall.
As a lionhearted boy who can't wield magic strives for the title of Wizard King, four banished Wizard Kings of yore return to crush the Clover Kingdom.
DirectorAyataka Tanemura
The emergence reading
Black Clover: Sword of the Wizard King keeps every mind human — it fights its subject at zero distance. The story fights on E8/E12 of the E0–E14 reality ladder, compressing meritocracy, equality, power, magic, ambition.
zero-distanceJPmeritocracyequalitypowermagicambition
Same rung, same subject
Films fighting at the same level of reality, about the same things.
Stardust (2007)E8/E12 · rare rung · magic, power
Oz the Great and Powerful (2013)E8/E12 · rare rung · magic, power
Willow (1988)E8/E12 · rare rung · magic, power
That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime the Movie: Scarlet Bond (2022)E8/E12 · rare rung · magic, power
Dragon Ball: Mystical Adventure (1988)E8/E12 · rare rung · ambition, power
Black Panther (2018)E8/E12 · rare rung · powerSame subject, different rung
The same preoccupations examined at another scale — one mind versus a nation.
Same people
Shared director or cast.
