Claymore

[WetWired]

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

[Slyvr]

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

[WetWired]

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

[Sovereign]

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.

[WetWired]

Does it get away from the normal missions?

[Sovereign]

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

Claire goes bankai :p

[Willkillforfood]

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

[Sovereign]

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

[Willkillforfood]

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

[WetWired]

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

[Sovereign]

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 :(.

[Willkillforfood]

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

[Rurouni Storm]

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.

[Willkillforfood]

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

[Sovereign]

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

Ewwww!!

[Willkillforfood]

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.

[WetWired]

4318 4319 4320 4321 4322

[Sovereign]

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!

[WetWired]

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

[WetWired]

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.

[hotdog]

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.

[WetWired]

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.

[hotdog]

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?

[WetWired]

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.

[hotdog]

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.

[WetWired]

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

[Sovereign]

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.

[WetWired]

do you see claire getting offed Teresa style?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 areMiria 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...

[hotdog]

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!!!

[Willkillforfood]

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.

[WetWired]

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.

[hotdog]

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.

[Willkillforfood]

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.

[WetWired]

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

[Willkillforfood]

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

[WetWired]

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

[Willkillforfood]

Probably. Edit it, WW!

[hotdog]

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?

[Willkillforfood]

A human pet!

[WetWired]

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?

[WetWired]

Claymore ep. 20= They took random frames from chapters 54-56 then pulled a story out of their ass to tie them together. They even robbed me of my Claire vs. Flora sparring match.

It's almost like they had the manga author overseeing the first dozen episodes, then he stepped out and they decided to take the story in their own direction...

[WetWired]

Another horrible deviation from the original work this week. In the anime story, Hotdog's concerns apparently don't exist, as Raki watches Priscilla eat a man this week.

At least I can look forward to Clare's rampage next week. If they decide to write that out, I'm quitting the anime and not looking back.

[Sovereign]

Is clare's rampage the one against the lion dude? I saw some picture of that on a wetsite once.

[WetWired]

Yes, fucking awesome. Yet, I bet they'll manage to fuck it up anyway.

[Rurouni Storm]

This show started out so well but's turned to shit rather quickly.

[WetWired]

I agree. What it looks like to me, is that they've decided to end the anime early vs the manga. The first half of the series followed the manga 90% phrase for phrase, the second half has a corellation factor of less than 25%, I think. If the first half excited you, I definately reccomend you pick up the manga; I don't read manga anymore, but for Claymore I make an exception.

[Willkillforfood]

I agree. What it looks like to me, is that they've decided to end the anime early vs the manga. The first half of the series followed the manga 90% phrase for phrase, the second half has a corellation factor of less than 25%, I think. If the first half excited you, I definately reccomend you pick up the manga; I don't read manga anymore, but for Claymore I make an exception.

There's no way it'll end at 26 is there??!?

[WetWired]

I think it may

[Sovereign]

This is japan, they can do it and most probably will.

I havn't read that far into the manga or seen the anime, but I can see everyone just walking into the sunset going on to their next mission or some equally cheesy shit.

[WetWired]

Wow, anime Claire didn't need to awaken all four limbs to beat Rigald, but she took like twice as long...
Any case, just further evidence for my swift ending hypothosis. In the manga, Claire never gained full control of her movement using only her legs; she had to awaken her arms and use all four to control her movement. With full control of her limbs at lightning speeds, I think we can expect a real end within 3 episodes, especially since Isley and Priscilla are in town and it seems that the rest of the horde isn't coming back.

[WetWired]

Extra 3 translated by 10sigh is out. It's about Isley and Priscilla's first meeting. If Priscilla is as powerful in the anime, even anime Claire has no chance.

[Willkillforfood]

Maybe Priscilla kills Clare and takes Raki as her man servant ;). I'm sure Raki will save Clare since Priscilla likes him and then clare or another claymore will lop off priscilla's head.

[hotdog]

If they somehow continued this series I would be amazed they would need a whole new storyline because it is so fucked up. And a lai style of fighting is worthless unless you can use the sword once its out thus Flora should get raped by someone and I don't care who.

[WetWired]

Flora's already dead. In both stories.

[hotdog]

I just started reading the manga since no one subs the anime in english anymore and I like the manga better. So I am not that far in the manga but she looks shitty from this last chapter I read.

[WetWired]

Eclipse is still delivering weekly Claymore.
http://eclipse.no-sekai.de/projects/claymore

Relative to where Flora is introduced: In the near future,
Claire and Flora duel. Their overall combat strength is roughly equal. Also, further in the future,Claire picks up the wind cutter as her main attack when she goes undercover (i.e., no yoki release)

[hotdog]

Gotta get my post in before Grav bans me again since I just raped him with a quip.

Say what??? Why couldn't I find it on Veoh or YouLube yesterday its all spanish subbed eps...

Glad I can use torrents without some wierd P2P program like bitcomet now.

[WetWired]

What's wrong with BitComet?

[hotdog]

Nothing against bitcomet but I meant I don't like the whole people can DL shit from you while you DL it from them thing. I understand that it works even when you exit it so I prefer not to use those P2P things. They scare me a bit.

[WetWired]

Not Bitcommet, or Bittorrent, or Azerus. The way that torrents work, others are downloading from you while you download from them. Only what you are explicitly downloading or seeding is available to others. Since this arrangement greatly increases the total upstream bandwidth for a given file or set of files, it results in cheaper (for the host of the work), faster downloads for an educated download population (you have to forward ports to enable others to request from you to get the maximum possible download, though even without forwarding, your client will try to establish outbound connections). In any case, I think if you read up on it and understood it, you wouldn't be against it. On the other hand, many other P2P systems aren't so clean...

[Rurouni Storm]

After 23 I officially give up on this series.

Guess I'll continue Darker than Black where I left off as it's much better.

[Rurouni Storm]

Edit: Double post

[WetWired]

This week's episode confuses me. They made Priscilla bigger for no reason, then gave Claire the claw she didn't need for the fight against Rigald. Never mind the on-the-verge-of-death warrior carting herself an extra 10 miles to bring Claire back from awakening. The most confusing, though, is the four-limbs transformation. Her left limb is a claw speciallized in grappelling, and her right has her flash-sword speed, but no extra power as far as I've seen in the manga. For Claire to have a chance at all, she needs a full awakening. Even so, not only does Priscilla have the speed to defend against the flash-sword, but she can regenerate in almost an instant, while mounting a full assault.

[Sovereign]

O_O

Thought this was hella interesting.

[WetWired]

WTH is that?

[Sovereign]

I didn't save hte other image, and assuming the translations weren't edited for lulz

It's raki


Course , it was offa 4chan, so it veyr well may be total shit anyway.

[Willkillforfood]

That looks exactly like the main character off Berserk.

http://images.animanga.nu/fanart/3129/berserk_001.jpg

Are you sure that's raki? ;)

[Sovereign]

No, and i already stated that my source was pretty much unreliable. I am not up to date with the most recent scans, and I odn't even know when a new oen is supposed to be out.,

[WetWired]

It comes out arround the second week of each month. Currently, it's up to chapter 74 and 3 extra chapters. Extra chapter 4 should be out in a few weeks, then chapter 75 in November.

[WetWired]

I was hoping for an interesting ending to the anime, but it was just bullshit and confusion. Claire for no apparent reason just suddenly defeated Priscilla, then Raki stopped her from killing Priscilla. Jean turns Claire back reminding her of the spirits entrusted to her. Scenes of people entrusting her to kill Priscilla play (um, WTF? How does that make any sense in this context?). Everyone survives except for the four commanders. Miria, Deneve, Helen, and Claire desert, none with any real reason except Deneve -- just on a whim.
Such a disapointment that a series that started so strong ended so weakly. I think that even without a continuation, it would have been better to follow the manga to the end rather than push for a conclusion written by writers for whom this is just another story that they don't really care about.

[WetWired]

Volume 78 is out. 7 deserters versus 1 #2 awakened being.

[Wallow]

You guys talk about Claymore when I haven't even started it. Is it that good of an Anime/Manga to watch/read even though according to you guys the ending sucks? In other words, is it worth it?

[WetWired]

I recommend watching Eclipse's translation of the anime through ep14, then switching to 10sigh's translation of the manga starting at volume 8. The anime episodes 15-26 are non-canon, which is why they suck and you shouldn't watch them. If you're interested in starting, PM me.

[Wallow]

When I finish Death Note, I'll pm you
By the way, do you know why I don't have the big avatar yet?

[Goodlookinguy]

When I finish Death Note, I'll pm you
By the way, do you know why I don't have the big avatar yet?

You have to sign up for it in another thread.

By the way, WW, it is episodes 16-end that are different, not 15-end. 15 followed the story, a little out of order of according to the scenes in the manga, but still follows it to where you could start reading after that and nothing is different.

[Wallow]

Does Death Note end at episode 36? 'Cause I'm on episode 31 and wondering if I'm almost done.

And no GLG, I posted start on the avatar club thread, and nothing's happened. A new phenomenon...

[Goodlookinguy]

Does Death Note end at episode 36? 'Cause I'm on episode 31 and wondering if I'm almost done.

And no GLG, I posted start on the avatar club thread, and nothing's happened. A new phenomenon...

Death Note has 37 episodes and WetWired has to personally set you to have the large avatar. It doesn't happen immediately because of a post.

[hotdog]

I watched Death Note until after L died. I stopped though out of fear that it would become gay like Claymore suddenly did. So now I read the manga. Yeah Claire is ******.