Ranked #45

Claymore (Manga)

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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“Die for others, live for others”

As the story begins there’s a little drama and horror beneath it that gave me a shot to continue reading. As I continue, the flow of the story begins intriguing and exciting, then soon I noticed that I have been hooked up in continuing reading it. Protecting and revenging are the main cause of this manga, they have been passed over to be able to live longer and do what is incorrect.
An action, sci-fi and adventure type of story that revolves on the life and belief of the main character. There are also mysteries and intrigues that I found out that makes me carry away.

Story: [10]

It's about girls that was abandoned or cast away from their past and then they have been adopted by some kind of organization for them to take care of and afterward they will become a warrior that enters in a survival like arena; those who left standing are able to continue while the others who don’t will sadly face their fate. Self-interest is the main purpose why they live so far; glory, fame and power such as. A bloody and sword-fighting scene that excites me through reading, that’s why I certainly love it because the story/plot is progressing and well developed.

Art: [8]

The art is detailed and captivating, every battle scenes, equipments, special attacks are shown on every chapter, and there's some mild nudity shown, but there are some chapters that disappoint me.

Characters: [9]

What I love about the characters is their personalities, different attitudes, and different ways of thinking, and also their battle techniques which are shown on how the way they fight. Every character has a unique power to show which add some effect to the story, but sadly to say it lacks on character improvement, few are really progressing and the others are like the way they are in the first place and sometimes they die quickly out to the manga.

Overall: [10]

Ten because it's story is not boring to read and quickly to adopt.

A nice manga to read, the story is progressing, an action thrilled story that gave me excitement, and the twist and intrigues about the story that brought me to read all the way, but there I think something is lacking and the sad part are few characters are improving, the art sometimes fail for me, and release date of every chapter takes long to wait which is the saddest part.

A kind of manga for those who want action, adventure and shounen just like me and people who have patience to wait for a long time on every chapter, worthy to try, as for me I like it a lot.
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