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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Aug 12, 2024

devil_lady

Recommended

Violence, body horror, and hot women with giant swords - but there’s more! This adaptation does a really good job staying faithful to what part of the manga it manages to cover, and though I could say so much about the manga, that’s not what this review is about. Claymore is one of those series a person finishes and wants more. Animation is sharp, though unfortunately censors many scenes from the manga that are down right insane. The main protagonist, Claire, is a very refreshing example of the shonen archetype and at times I am almost convinced her character was written by a woman. Women ... in general in this adaptation are written in a way that I feel extremely commendable compared to other female stereotypes in anime. Strong recommend.

Reviewer’s Rating: 10

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Apr 5, 2024

sadledgerspace

Mixed Feelings

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This anime is perhaps the closest to a perfect beginning, a very continuous middle and a questionable ending. Honestly, the story is very good, it explains itself as the episodes progress and it looks a lot like the female version of The Witcher. The end of the anime was a little more rushed, without as much explanation as it had at the beginning and it really fooled me, but that doesn't take away from the fact that it's a great plot.

If I could summarize, I would say that the anime starts out as a very good seinen, but over time it becomes ... shonen and this summation ended up confusing the themes. Even so, I would say that it is a very good anime and should be enjoyed, but with the awareness that waiting too long can be a huge breach of expectations.

¹: Fans of The Witcher MUST watch.
²: Berserk lovers might find this a good one.

--Portuguese version--

Vamos lá:

Esse anime talvez seja o mais próximo de começo perfeito, meio bem conduzido e final questionável. Honestamente a história é muito boa, se explica com o decorrer dos episódios e se assemelha bastante a The Witcher versão feminina. O final do anime ficou um pouco mais corrido, sem tanta explicação como tinha de início e me decepcionou bastante, porém isso não tira o mérito de que é uma baita trama.

Se eu pudesse resumir, diria que o anime começa como um seinen muito bom, mas que com o tempo vai se tornando shonen e essa soma feita acabou embaraçando os temas. Mesmo assim, eu diria que é um anime muito bom e que deve ser aproveitado, mas com a consciência de que esperar muito pode ser uma quebra grande de expectativa.

¹: Fãs de The Witcher DEVEM assistir.
²: Amantes de Berserk podem achar uma boa.

Reviewer’s Rating: 8

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Oct 15, 2022

Lirelle

Not Recommended

Funny

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.

Art:
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

Reviewer’s Rating: 4

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