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 Main

Kuwashima, Houko Japanese

Raki Main

Takagi, Motoki Japanese

Teresa Supporting

Park, Romi Japanese

Miria Supporting

Inoue, Kikuko Japanese

Galatea Supporting

Orikasa, Ai Japanese

Irene Supporting

Takayama, Minami Japanese

Ophelia Supporting

Shinohara, Emi Japanese

Jean Supporting

Mitsuishi, Kotono Japanese

Riful Supporting

Mizuki, Nana Japanese

Helen Supporting

Nagasawa, Miki Japanese

Cook, Justin Producer

Maruyama, Masao Producer

Tamura, Manabu Producer

Harp, Clarine Producer

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Nov 8, 2024

quaink

Recommended

I really liked the art style, plot, and music of this, character design was great as well, awakened beings looked great, and somehow they managed to have the claymores have very distinct personalities and appearance while also looking very similar. I personally had no problem with how it ended, and I'm actually glad what happened did happen, but I do wish that it kept going for another 20ish episodes. Flushing out what the organization really is, who they are, what their motives are. Having certain characters actually continue their objective at the end when it comes to the organization. Seeing those play out may have ... put this up to a 9/10 for me, since I really did enjoy the plot, visual, and music of this. What annoyed me are the morons that cried about how the show went because they just have Dragon Ball Z brain "Duh good guy must wevel up and beat up bad guy Duh" and are incapable of understanding any nuances in the story. I think the fights could have been animated a bit better, and I wish we got more character development and more episodes to really unravel the story more as our characters went on, but still great none the less. 7.5/10

Reviewer’s Rating: 7

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Feb 11, 2025

conanbush

Mixed Feelings

The studio should be re-adapt the manga again! Or unless they should be labeled for ruining sauch a great manga with such a terrible ending...
The anime till episode 19 was great tbh! And then I don't know what happened...even if you are in a hurry to end your adaptation YOU should NEVER ruin the characters & their whole personality and purpose in this way... Raki was really abnoxuies..

Non the less this anime -till episode 20- was great, the OST the art was superb in my opinion
Just please don't watch beyond that and read the manga from chapter 50 and enjoy one of the most ... beautiful journeys in manga

Reviewer’s Rating: 7

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Apr 13, 2025

1stDecame4Danime

Not Recommended

It's a very shonen/action-focused anime. There really isn't much story nor anything meaningful explored beyond a series of mindless fights between various combinations of claymore warrior women and human-eating demon monsters. It never actually goes anywhere and just sort of reaches the end of the season still climbing that ladder as bait for the manga.
The characters are barely allowed to have any presence beyond rehashing brain-damaging exposition/narration/peptalks and their 1-note character traits. The closest it comes to having actual characters in an arc gets unceremoniously cut through extreme contrivance. The plot armor is everywhere with pretty much every fight being nonsensical asspulls of more and ... more powers being thrown in on top of the power of tryharding/friendship/love/etc to win from start to finish.
To be fair, as far as generic action-shonen go you could do much worse. At least this has some grittiness to it.

Reviewer’s Rating: 3

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