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Season... 2? The first one was like 150 episodes long?
Black Clover's "seasons" are weird, as the show is set up to air every week without interruption. It technically has 3 seasons consisting of 51 episodes (52 in S3) with a 4th that is 16 episodes. Basically, a season per year since its release in Oct 2017 up till they went on hiatus in March 2021. Yet, it is all part of the first continuous (technically there was a production delay due to COVID that resulted in a break but that's an exception) "season" before they went on hiatus after having caught up to the manga and not wanting to make the same mistakes as FMA by making filler and deviating too far from the plot.
And that's not even getting into the fact each 51 episode season includes multiple story arcs of varying episode lengths.
So, yes, technically, depending on your definition of "season", Black Clover S1 has around 170 episodes.
Thanks for the thorough explanation. From what I remember, the arcs definitely felt like different seasons, as someone who binge watched the whole thing. The last arc especially felt like a new season. Anyway, glad it's finally coming back.