Warning: Full spoilers for the episode below.
In service of fleshing out its two main characters, “The Boys’ Promise” rewinds time and spends a vast majority of the episode ten years in the past, serving up a backstory that, while touching, doesn’t feel especially novel or all that inspired.
So far, I’ve yet to feel truly invested in Asta and Yuno’s motivations for striving to become the Wizard King. Their motives are too cliched to foster any sense of a real emotional connection. Asta’s desire to make everyone happy and prove that anyone who works hard enough can achieve their dreams comes off as generic, and Yuno essentially parrots Asta, which makes his ambitions just as difficult to find compelling, if not more so.
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