Although about piano playing, Shonen Jump's newest manga PPPPPP shares some of the best tropes from Black Clover, minus the magic.

Black Clover documents the struggles of a magicless boy named Asta who lives in a world where magic drives the world and whose adopted brother is a celebrated mage. Despite this massive drawback, Asta has the audacity to believe that he can become the Wizard King, a position that's not only contingent on the user possessing magic but being the most skilled magic-user of all. His passion and tenacity allow him to overcome the overwhelming odds, eventually landing him a position in the Black Bulls, one of the Clover Kingdom's nine squads of elite mages.

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The new manga PPPPPP explores this trope to a degree through the piano. Lucky is a septuplet born with no musical talent into a family of talented pianists. All of his siblings are incredible piano players and eventually become world-renowned before high school while Lucky's mediocrity causes him to be tossed aside. No one even knows he's related to the so-called sextuplets. But regardless of this unfortunate circumstance, the pain of his past flows through his playing that compels a judge to accept him into an elite music school even though his actual skill is subpar.

Another prevalent theme in Black Clover includes family members ridiculing their less talented siblings for bringing shame to their family name. One of the most famous of these instances is with the character Noelle who was born into House Silva, a royal family of the Clover Kingdom. Noelle couldn't control her magical powers growing up and, as a result, was mistreated mercilessly by her family, many going so far as calling her a defect. Noelle's brother even rejects her entry into the ranks of the Silver Eagle squad, compelling Captain Yami Sukehiro to induct her into his Black Bull squad.

Lucky also falls victim to severe familial abuse in PPPPPP on account of his mediocrity. Growing up, his father would strike him every time he made a mistake and became so infuriated by how his wife supported such a talentless whelp that he divorces her and cuts ties with them both, taking his more gifted children with him. Lucky's misfortunes continue when his mother falls ill, forcing him to live with his mother's sister who surprisingly sides with his father. She and her son resume Lucky's mistreatment, not even allowing him to stare at a piano, let alone play one.

Although Shonen Jump has only released one chapter of PPPPPP, mangaka Mapollo 3 masterfully weaves numerous themes from such a major manga like Black Clover into their own work without feeling as though the reader is getting buried beneath too many details at once. PPPPPP might not have any magic, either, but there have been hints of the supernatural through the use of so-called experiential-visual music, where the pianist's experiences can seep into the melody, causing the area around the audience to transform. While it's unlikely that Lucky and other pianists will try to summon this phenomenon to battle each other like how mages wield magic in Black Clover, it's clear that Mapollo 3 will be exploring many other unique tropes in their manga with future chapters in Shonen Jump to come.

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