Alternative TitlesEnglish: Claymore Japanese: クレイモア
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Type: Manga
Volumes: Unknown
Chapters: Unknown
Status: Publishing
Published: May 2001 to ?
StatisticsScore: 8.631 (scored by 5812 users)
Ranked: #362
Popularity: #11
Members: 9,423
Favorites: 1,725 1 indicates a weighted score
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SynopsisIn a world constantly haunted by demonic predators known as "Youma", the everyday life of humans is full of fear and suspicion, as these monsters easily blend into human society to hunt their hapless prey. However, in this world, there is also a mysterious organization, employing half-human, half-Youma warriors to effectively track down and kill the demons. Called "silver eyed witches" or "Claymores" after the huge Claymore swords they carry, these female warriors are eyed with suspicion and distrust by most because of their inhuman powers.
But there are many currents flowing in the shadows, from the mysterious machinations of the Claymore "Organization" and the twisted ambitions of the powerful "Abyssal Ones" to the hopes and desires of each Claymore warrior. This story follows the fate of Clare, one of the Claymore operatives as she sails deeper and deeper down the currents of conspiracies and revenge. |
Related MangaAdaptation: Claymore
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Anime-Destiny
40 of 55 people found this review helpful
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85 of ? chapters read
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Claymore is a Shounen-based action adventure series that features a medieval-like world where "Youma" exist to become predators in eating humans. To defend the human population, an organization enlist warriors where humans or "Youma" identify them as "Claymores". While the situation stands out as it is, there are several different layers to the story that made this manga a fascinating read.
Throughout most of the story, it falls upon the fate of a Claymore warrior named Clare who deals with several themes of losing comrades, attempts on getting revenge, becoming stronger, and learning new information bit by bit as the manga progresses. Along with the fact of holding a strong bond with a exiled village boy named Raki, Clare will also deal with many dangerous encounters of strong opponents that are known as "Awakened Beings". While there are some cliche areas most readers should be familiar with from a Shounen-based series, there are other unpredictable areas of the story such as learning new information about the "Abyssal Ones" and the Claymore "Organization" itself. With the many entertaining and twisted areas of Claymore, the story certainly brings out many promising results to enjoy from the manga.
As for the characters, Clare is usually the main focus to the series but she certainly is a well-developed character to the story. Along with the present events that happen to her in the story, readers will also learn about Clare's interesting past before she joins the Claymore "Organization". While traveling with Clare, Raki also sets upon his life goal in order to become a stronger individual. Also, many interesting and unique characters are introduced to the story that provide their own personality or background. Among the different characters, several of them usually play out a necessary or interesting part to the story itself.
As for the artwork, the early chapters were a little disappointing due to the character designs being a little too plainish to its readers. However as the story progresses, the artwork certainly gets a lot better with the character designs, background images, and fight scenes that take place in the manga.
Overall, Claymore provides an intriguing story and characters that makes this a worthwhile read to check out. I certainly recommend this manga to readers that are interested in seeing a Shounen-based series providing some promising and fresh results.
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exabyte
37 of 64 people found this review helpful
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This is the best manga by far. The story is about girls with big swords (called Claymores by others) hunting down Yomas (demons who plague the world). It's incredibly violent and bloody which is awesome. The story only gets more interesting once it reaches the Teresa Arc, which talks about Teresa, the strongest Claymore ever, and how she meets Clare (the main character). This story is interesting because of the many conflicts and plot twists that will keep you reading it over and over. There's mild nudity too, not bad.
Must read.
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While Claymore may not be just as dark and gory as Berserk, it still holds plenty of bloody battles and monsters. The characters are interesting, and so is the story.
And Claymore is full of nice women. Just so you know.
Violent action sword fighting manga that is extremely well drawn.
Monster fighting, not always ends well, dark ambience.
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There is a lot of fighting in both stories. In Bleach every shinigami has his/her typical zanpaktou technique, the same goes for Claymore (but with swords). In both stories the characters fighting against some kind of evil creature (in Bleach: hollow; in Claymore: youma). The main characters (Ichigo (Bleach) and Clare (Claymore)) are similar in that they want to became stronger for some reason (in Bleach Ichigo wants to become stronger to protect his friends; in Claymore Clare wants to become stronger for the sake of her revenge).
These two manga's just got a lot in common on a lot of points. Both are based on sword fighting, and in both manga's there are two sides fighting eachother. The warriors are leaded by an organization and get numbers which stand for their strenght. If you liked Bleach, Claymore is a MUST read.
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