Manga 'Claymore' Receives Live-Action TV Adaptation

CBS Studios and Propagate Content are teaming up with actor and manga enthusiast Masi Oka (Heroes, Hawaii Five-0) to develop a live-action television adaptation of Claymore, the dark fantasy manga by Norihiro Yagi. The project is being developed in collaboration with Japanese publisher Shueisha.

Oka will executive produce the series alongside Propagate's Ben Silverman, Howard T. Owens, and Rodney Ferrell, with Shueisha also involved in the production. A writer for the adaptation has yet to be announced.

Set in a medieval world plagued by shape-shifting creatures known as Yoma, Claymore follows the elite female warriors tasked with eradicating these monsters. The adaptation aims to capture the intense action and layered moral conflicts that defined both the original manga and its anime adaptation, which has been available to U.S. audiences via Crunchyroll.

Yagi originally ran Claymore in Monthly Shounen Jump from June 2001 to June 2007. Following the magazine's discontinuance, the manga switched to Jump SQ. in November 2007, where it ended in October 2014. Shueisha published the manga in 27 volumes. VIZ Media released the manga in English between April 2006 and October 2015.

Madhouse adapted the manga into a 26-episode television anime in Spring 2007. Funimation licensed the anime in North America and released it on home video.

Oka, a longtime manga collector, has prior experience in adaptations, having co-produced Netflix's 2017 live-action Death Note movie. He and Propagate both have ties to CBS Studios—Oka previously starred in CBS's Hawaii Five-0, while Propagate has an ongoing collaborative relationship with the studio, having previously held a first-look deal.

Source: Deadline