Claymore

When a shapeshifting demon with a thirst for human flesh, known as "youma," arrives in Raki's village, a lone woman with silver eyes walks into town with only a sword upon her back. She is a "Claymore," a being manufactured as half-human and half-youma, for the express purpose of exterminating these monsters. After Raki's family is killed, the Claymore saves his life, but he is subsequently banished from his home. With nowhere else to go, Raki finds the Claymore, known as Clare, and decides to follow her on her journeys.

As the pair travel from town to town, defeating youma along the way, more about Clare's organization and her fellow warriors comes to light. With every town cleansed and every demon destroyed, they come closer to the youma on which Clare has sought vengeance ever since she chose to become a Claymore.

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Clare

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Kuwashima, Houko
Japanese

Raki

Main

Takagi, Motoki
Japanese

Teresa

Supporting

Park, Romi
Japanese

Miria

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Inoue, Kikuko
Japanese

Galatea

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Orikasa, Ai
Japanese

Irene

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Takayama, Minami
Japanese

Ophelia

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Shinohara, Emi
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Jean

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Mitsuishi, Kotono
Japanese

Riful

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Mizuki, Nana
Japanese

Helen

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Nagasawa, Miki
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Cook, Justin

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Maruyama, Masao

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Tamura, Manabu

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Harp, Clarine

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"Raison D’être" by Nightmare

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"Danzai no Hana~Guilty Sky" by Riyu Kosaka

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Jul 24, 2023

myl1ttledarkage

Recommended

One of the best dark fantasy action animes I've ever seen. The atmosphere is THERE. The characters are THERE (well, mostly). And the action is cool and doesn't seem silly. I loved Clare's character and her relationship with Teresa and her fellow Claymores. In fact, the friendship and camaraderie between the girls was def one of the series' highlights for me. Clare's evolution was also entertaining to follow along, she's the type of main character you can't help but root for.

The one bad thing I have to bring up is the character of Raki, Clare's sidekick. I didn't feel like he added anything to ...

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Aug 21, 2023

SenApai07

Mixed Feelings

This is a tuff one because I really enjoyed the first half of the show; Teresa was just amazing and I really loved her and Clare's dynamic, and it broke my heart when she died. I can't put my finger on it, but the world itself reminded me of Berserk by just how harsh, miserable, and real it was with its fantasy world.

Where the show lost me was during its second half. The story alongside Clare became inconsistent, Rakis character development was none existent. I can go on and on, but to make a long story short the flaws just kept stacking and stacking, ...

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Oct 15, 2022

Lirelle

Not Recommended

Reviewing a series from 2007 in 2022 because why not.

As a fellow dark fantasy fan, I'm very disappointed, especially that there are barely any anime of this genre, we have SNK or Berserk...or Berserk... Maybe also Berserk!

Claymore is like the Witcher 3, but without the lore or its' charisma, actually only with the bounties part, or Dark Souls, but without any memorance for world design and boss fights. It's a very cheap, poorly designed souls-like with barely any story at all.

Plot:
I hate describing series as "boring", but Claymore really has barely anything interesting to hold on. Side-plots lack any meaning or bright points, they ... are forgetable, very random and rushed, also somehow repeatable (strong purposeless enemy appears out of nowhere, someone gets hurt or dies, someone gets mad or discovers something about themselves, repeat but with a stronger enemy). The world building revolves around the existence of claymores and yomas (which are not even explained, they just exist without any purpose or something), it feels very one-dimensional, without anything interesting that wants to be digged deeper, it's hard to talk about any lore here.

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It's a complicated matter. On one hand I really like the dark, gloomy colors, also design of some locations and "bosses" with this lovecraftian creepy vibe. On the other hand, human character design is very poor, they all have the same body type, almost the same faces and clothes, somehow they all blend together into one person.
Animation is a mess. It's mostly pure gore without any interesting action, sword fights are silver slashes made by characters who barely move themselves, there are implications that they are moving so fast that an eye can't catch this, but it looks very uninteresting and repeatable.

Characters:
Teresa was the only interesting person here and she had like 3 episodes of screen time, what a shame. The rest is either annoying or forgetable (mostly both), all their personalities revolve around fighting and they all compete who is the strongest one, without any time to explore their insides. There are sometimes some mentions about their pasts, but they feel very meaningless, also there are way too many characters who die in a second just to introduce another group of characters to die an episode later. There are way too many claymores without any personality, it's hard to care when they die or get hurt, but it's very easy to confuse one with another because they're just too similar and barely have anything characteristic in themselves.
Except Teresa and Clare, it's also almost impossible to speak about any bonds between the characters, they just lack anything interesting in their interactions, no fun dynamics, no meaningful relationships.
The dialogues feel like from a very poor, lifeless shounen and it has this annoying for me manner of repeating the same sentences over and over.

So yeah, in conclusion, Claymore may feel tempting for darker themes fans, but it's just not worth a while

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