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How many Black Clover books are there?

Thirty-eight volumes of the main series and 392 chapters, with a small, well-defined family around them.

The main shelf is exact: 38 tankōbon, June 2015 to August 2026, collecting 392 chapters plus Tabata's 2014 one-shot lineage. Around it sit two spin-off manga, three prose novels and a film novelization, two official guidebooks eight years apart, and one theater booklet. Nothing here sprawls the way bigger franchises do; the whole book family fits on one page, which is part of its charm for a collector.

Black Clover volume 8 Japanese cover
ONE OF 38Volume 8 of a run that would reach 38 volumes.

THE MAIN SHELF

Tabata's series
38 volumes
The tankōbon run, documented cover by cover in the manga gallery.
392 chapters
Plus the 2014 Shōnen Jump Next!! one-shot that piloted the series.
1 OVA booklet era
The 2016 OVA shipped on DVD inside the limited edition of volume 11, May 2, 2017.

SPIN-OFFS

Other hands, same world
Quartet Knights, 6 volumes
Yumiya Tashiro's manga of the console game, on Shōnen Jump+ from October 2018 to April 2020: 78 chapters including extras, and over 300,000 copies in circulation by October 2020.
Asta-kun, 3 volumes
Setta Kobayashi's gag manga, Asta-kun Mahōtei e no Michi, ran in Saikyō Jump from 2018 to 2021.

PROSE AND GUIDES

Novels and reference
Three novels by Johnny Onda
Abareushi no Sho (2016), Kishidan no Sho (2017) and Yuno no Sho (2019), prose stories in Jump J-Books with Tabata illustrations.
The film novelization
Atarō Kuma's novel of Sword of the Wizard King, June 9, 2023.
Two guidebooks
An official guidebook in 2018, then the Official Guidebook: Complete Grimoire on August 4, 2026, 320 pages with fifteen new pages of manga.
Volume 23.5
The booklet handed to the film's theatergoers in June 2023, counted here because collectors hunt it like a volume.
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THE FIRST WORD

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