{"id":7172,"date":"2026-08-04T22:25:17","date_gmt":"2026-08-04T14:25:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gametrader.sg\/blog\/black-clover-volume-38-bonus-chapter-guidebook-2026\/"},"modified":"2026-08-04T22:25:17","modified_gmt":"2026-08-04T14:25:17","slug":"black-clover-volume-38-bonus-chapter-guidebook-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gametrader.sg\/blog\/black-clover-volume-38-bonus-chapter-guidebook-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"Black Clover Volume 38 Is Out \u2014 New Bonus Chapter Shows Asta&#8217;s Coronation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After 11 years and 392 chapters, Asta&#8217;s journey from penniless orphan to Wizard King is finally complete on the page \u2014 and fans who waited for the physical release get something digital readers never had. <strong>Black Clover Volume 38<\/strong>, the manga&#8217;s final tankobon, lands in Japan today (4 August), and it comes bundled with an all-new 15-page bonus chapter plus a 340-page companion guidebook released the same day.<\/p>\n<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.gametrader.sg\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/black-clover-official-guidebook-cover.jpg?w=474&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Black Clover Official Guidebook cover showing the main cast\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\"><figcaption>Image courtesy of Shueisha<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h2>What Black Clover Volume 38 Contains<\/h2>\n<p>The final tankobon collects <strong>chapters 381 through 392<\/strong> \u2014 the entire endgame of Yuki Tabata&#8217;s decade-long Shonen Jump series. Those chapters cover the Clover Kingdom&#8217;s most desperate battle and bring Asta&#8217;s seemingly impossible dream to its conclusion. If you read the serialisation week-to-week on <a href=\"https:\/\/mangaplus.shueisha.co.jp\/\" rel=\"noopener\">Manga Plus<\/a> or Viz, you already know how it ends \u2014 but Volume 38 is worth picking up for what comes next.<\/p>\n<h2>The Bonus Chapter: Asta&#8217;s Coronation, Finally on the Page<\/h2>\n<p>The real draw for manga readers is a scene the serialisation deliberately skipped: Asta&#8217;s coronation ceremony as Wizard King. The weekly chapters ended at chapter 392 without ever showing the moment fans had been chasing since chapter one. Shueisha confirmed that Volume 38 corrects that omission with a brand-new, <strong>15-page chapter drawn exclusively for this release<\/strong> by Tabata himself \u2014 depicting Asta being crowned Wizard King alongside Yuno.<\/p>\n<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.gametrader.sg\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/black-clover-asta-yuno-coronation.jpg?w=474&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Asta and Yuno in formal coronation ceremony attire, colored promotional art\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\"><figcaption>Image courtesy of Shueisha<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>It is 15 pages of entirely new Tabata-drawn material, not a reprint. For anyone who has been reading since 2015, this is the payoff the serialised ending held back.<\/p>\n<h2>The 340-Page Official Guidebook<\/h2>\n<p>Also releasing today, the <em>Black Clover Official Guidebook<\/em> runs to <strong>340 pages<\/strong> and covers the entire series in depth:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>An encyclopedia of <strong>250-plus characters<\/strong>, from the Black Bulls through the final arc&#8217;s Paladins<\/li>\n<li>A catalogue of <strong>400-plus magic spells<\/strong> from across the series<\/li>\n<li>An extended <strong>interview and commentary by Yuki Tabata<\/strong> \u2014 including previously unreleased thoughts on the world, the characters, and how the story was planned<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The spell and character encyclopedias alone should fill in years of lore that never made it into the chapters. Given how rarely Tabata has spoken publicly about the series, the creator commentary section is probably the most anticipated part.<\/p>\n<h2>Getting It in Singapore<\/h2>\n<p>The Japanese edition is out now \u2014 import copies should reach online retailers and Japanese-book specialists in Singapore within the coming weeks. No confirmed English release date from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.viz.com\/\" rel=\"noopener\">Viz Media<\/a> yet; their tankobon releases typically follow the Japanese editions by several months.<\/p>\n<p>In the meantime, chapters 381\u2013392 are freely readable in English on <a href=\"https:\/\/mangaplus.shueisha.co.jp\/\" rel=\"noopener\">Manga Plus<\/a>, so SG fans can catch up on the ending right now. And if animated Black Clover is more your speed, <a href=\"\/blog\/black-clover-season-2-october-2026-crunchyroll\/\">Black Clover Season 2<\/a> arrives on Crunchyroll this October.<\/p>\n<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.gametrader.sg\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/black-clover-season-2-key-visual.webp?w=474&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Black Clover Season 2 official key visual \u2014 Asta in full Devil Union form\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\"><figcaption>Image courtesy of Shueisha \/ Studio Pierrot<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>More <a href=\"\/blog\/category\/manga-anime\/\">manga and anime coverage<\/a> as it arrives.<\/p>\n<p><!--GT-SCOUT source=\"Web (English)\" theme=\"Manga\" flags=\"none\"--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Black Clover Volume 38, the manga&#8217;s final volume, is out in Japan today \u2014 featuring a new 15-page bonus chapter showing Asta&#8217;s coronation and a 340-page official guidebook.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":7168,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":[]},"categories":[25],"tags":[239,364,589,1063],"class_list":["post-7172","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-manga-anime","tag-black-clover","tag-manga","tag-shueisha","tag-yuki-tabata"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.gametrader.sg\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/black-clover-volume-38-cover.jpg?fit=2000%2C1125&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p13AlF-1RG","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":4876,"url":"https:\/\/www.gametrader.sg\/blog\/black-clover-season-2-anime-expo-2026-crunchyroll-october\/","url_meta":{"origin":7172,"position":0},"title":"Black Clover Season 2 Premieres at Anime Expo 2026 \u2014 Coming to Crunchyroll in October","date":"July 4, 2026","format":false,"excerpt":"Black Clover Season 2 had its world premiere at Anime Expo 2026 on 4 July. 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