Claymore
 

Claymore is set in a universe of swords and castles where demons walk the earth and feed on humans. The demons are incredibly strong, and can disguise themselves as humans, so the Organization came up with a way to give a human demonic strength and senses by putting demon parts into humans. Claymores, they are called by others, probably because each carries a huge sword; silver-eyed witch, they are called behind their backs because of their characteristic silver eyes and their inhuman speed and strength. These women devoted their lives to slaying demons at a young age with the full knowledge that eventually their demonic power would consume them and that they themselves would have to be slain. The story follows a claymore by the name of Claire, and a boy she rescued who travels with her as a cook.

This series is quite good and I'm always excited to watch each episode after I get it. Pictures later.

Plot progresses through:
70% Aggression
10% Socialization
15% Investigation
5% Introspection

Comedy:
100% Serious
0% Comedic

Episodic:
10% Episodic
90% Sequential

Sounds pretty good...maybe I'll check it out. Are there Youtube vids?

Apparently not.
It's being subbed by Eclipse, mahou, and Froth-bite.
http://www.animesuki.com/series.php/986.html

There's a manga too it too, and it gets pretty weird O_O. I wonder if the anime will get to the part of the manga that I read. According to the opening, it may.

It's a good action series though, GO WATCH. The delete key is free anyway.

Does it get away from the normal missions?

I've only gotten a chance to read one volume that was rapidsearch linked on 4chan.

Claire goes bankai :p

I watched all the episodes last night and I've got to say ...I was pretty impressed. Not a bad anime at all.

Yeah, the only bad thing is I hate how Raki says her name for some reason.

I'm wondering what they look like naked since it's so nasty, supposedly.

I'm sure we'll find out, eventually.

Ok, so, I knew that there was a manga,but I didn't know it was being released in teh US by viz. I went to work today. I was early. I went to the manga section and started browsing it, like I have done at least 20 times before. It was this 21st time that I noticed it....

Bought volumes 1-4 which sorta sees to leave me off where the anime is. I was flipping thjrough and found the part where she rips her shirt open and say s "if you want THIS go ahead". There was nothing shown :(.

Aww. I tell you what, just off the contours of their bodies I'd take a few scars to get with those mamas =P.

The next episode made it sound like she's just horribly scarred. Probably just combat injuries. I mean, look what Clare survived in the 2nd episode.

Mmm, the little boy will become a claymore. The first male one to not abuse his power =x! Nah, I doubt it ...

Well that and didn't they say that the Claymores are part yoma?

Ewwww!!

They're like half yoma. That's alright ...that seems to only be when they're fighting yoma that they materialize some of the traits.

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Just marathoned the manga over a few days. Learned a LOT about clares past and learned something very interesting about her (wnt spoil it :P) The next volume comes out next month I think, can't wait.

(only bad thing so far has been the fact that every one of the chars that I want to stay alive ends up being killed, excluding raki and clare.)

EDIT: got 8 today!

My first impression was wrong. This show is very much sequential.

Volume 9=holy shit.
This series just keeps getting better. I don't see how they manage.

I've bought all the manga, BTW. I couldn't stand to wait any longer.

LMFAO WW is becoming obessed with this one. As to the Raki situation he doesn't become a Claymore but he is starting to kick ass much like Galk and his little butt buddy in the Holy City. Those guys are able to beat some lower and mid ranked Claymore's and Yoma.

How do you know? I'm up-to-date on the manga (chapter 73 and extra 1), and I haven't seen anything like that.

The same way I knew Naruto was going to use Oodama Rasengan on Itachi in Shippuden like weeks before the episode Naruto left with Jiraiya. The same way I knew Ichigo was a Vizard and knew the other Vizard when they were still at the Bounto episodes. Incidentally this is also the same way I knew the story to Claymore before it even hit the shelves in Japan.

Go read a Shadowrun book and you will find out how I can know about works in progress and how they are going to pan out. I'll give you a hint he's what they refer to as a contact but hes a special kind that sells two things one is hardware of all kinds and the other is information.

Now tell me what is his profession named?

I'm becoming dissatisfied with this anime. They're leaving out important scenes and dialog for no apparent reason. It's strange, because it's like they are rushing though the story, eager to catch up with the manga, but if they keep up their current pace, they will exhaust the available material before they hit their 26th and final episode of this run. I would have expected them to try to strech it out to coincide ep 26 with chapter 64, then do another run later, containing the events after the time skip.

They do this with Naruto as well. I mentioned this in an earlier thread like a month ago. I think they do this to catch up but I would rather have 1 quality episode then 3 rushed episodes a week.

This is also why I both read and watch anime and stay away from dubbed eps. as America tends to fuck with things to the point of no return. Like Street Fighter.

Naruto isn't trying to catch up; they're trying to space it out.

Bah. If a license agreement isn't reached by the next major con for claymore, I'm just going to download it. If it does get licensed, I Hope its funi that gets it and hires the same dub cast as blue gender (sure the animation [and for some people the story]) might have sucked but I was very pleased with the dub.)



Wetwired, from where you are in the scanlations, do you see claire getting offed Teresa style?

I've not slept yet and am very very veyr tired so my bad If I'm making no sence.

I'm not sure I understand, but

if Claire were to die (as of chapter 74), it would be very bad for the situation of the survivors. The ranks of the survivors are

Miria and Claire=aces; Helen and Deneve=elite; Cynthia, Tabetha, Yuma=average

Speaking of voice acting, I really don't like the voices for many of the characters introduced in episode 18. Of course, I had concieved their voices in my head before hearing them, so...

Yes Bluegender did have good dubbing, and god no WW Naruto is NOT spacing anything out they have skipped so much shit thats in the manga it makes me want to cut my dick off. I could write a whole episode or two with just the shit they say in the manga only that isn't put in the anime.

And if Clare dies then...oh well she isn't that great...it's all about Raki!!!

It disappoints me that this is a 26-episode series. But I guess with her already performing up there with a top 3 claymore and killing a 4th or 5th one then there's no way it could be much longer.

I'm afraid that as powerful as the survivors become, they still couldn't kill Alicia. I really don't see the story ending any volume soon.

No way anyone could make Ailcia even sweat...except Raki he pwns. Claymore actually has more manga being released in Japan right now so I am sure it won't end until about 51 at the least.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claymore_%28manga%29

The anime adaptation of the manga began airing on Nippon Television on April 3, 2007. It is planned to run for 26 episodes. It, thus far, faithfully follows the manga.

I'm hoping the wikipedia page is wrong about the total number of episodes.

Faithful, my ass. They pretty much came up with a completely different fight for the most recent episode.

Well, hopefully the wiki page is wrong about the series length too =P.

I think the wiki page is just out-of-date.

Probably. Edit it, WW!

I still can't figure out why the hell Priscilla and Easly were being nice to Raki. You would think they eat him in like two seconds of seeing him but instead he gets trained by Easly...WTF?! A yoma training a human makes very little sense regardless of whether or not Priscilla likes him or not. I mean I could see being nice and letting him hang around but actually training him?

A human pet!

I also found it strange that they had a lot of food in the house. What would awakened beings want with human food? Maybe the insatiable desire for guts is only when you've been taking damage? Maybe they can make do with human food if they haven't been fighting?