Manga 'Claymore' Receives Live-Action TV Adaptation

by Vindstot
Mar 12, 8:44 PM | 24 Comments

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

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Live action? I am already starting to shutter.

Mar 14, 3:58 PM by Retro8bit

''having co-produced Netflix's 2017 live-action Death Note movie''

Dude.....

Mar 14, 3:22 PM by Tekakurika

Fans of this series are wanting a proper anime adaptation, not a live action. Very disappointing.

Mar 14, 2:10 PM by GabiiNova

unpopular opinion, but Im more interested in a live action for this than getting another anime adaptation... unless we get rings of power or wheel of time treatment, then just send it to oblivion

Mar 13, 11:26 PM by MichaelJackson

@MahiaErebeaNegi ANN is apologetic and wrong, MAL is chaotic but right

Mar 13, 11:23 PM by MichaelJackson

It's funny to see how people at MAL hates it while the people at ANN supporting it and they said it's certainly gonna be good simply because Claymore is supposedly more easier to adapt in live-action format like wut? Lol

Mar 13, 10:45 PM by MahiaErebeaNegi

I'm gonna echo the sentiment of many others in this thread, I'd greatly prefer a faithful reboot of the anime smh.

Mar 13, 9:00 PM by thebrentinator24

What Claymore needs is a reboot and proper adaptation.

Mar 13, 8:27 PM by NTAD

Moment of silence for claymore.
I hope it can drum up enough of an audience and love to make a real remake but I’m not getting my hopes up. I just hope that if this flops it doesn’t put this story back in the grave for another decade.

Of course I hope it’s good, but with the creative team’s ties to death note (2017) and the standards of the halo show doesn’t instil much confidence. I do selfishly hope they put some love on the shows original soundtrack - even with bad direction that soundtrack could carry the show a bit.

Mar 13, 6:10 PM by SkeletonCloset

Anime Gods, give us Claymore Brotherhood, not this.

Well, maybe Claymore Sisterhood would be more apt

Mar 13, 1:00 PM by Agelastus

This is all bad news for fans waiting for the faithful anime adaptation of the manga until the end patiently for years. I think there is no room for live action adaptation of the dark fantasy series with stunning art style like Berserk, Claymore, etc.

Mar 13, 11:28 AM by H_Erifu

The disappointment that washed over me when I read "Live-Action."

A budget finally gets put together again for this franchise and it goes towards the absolute worst decision. I'd much rather an adaptation made out of literal clay than this waste.

Mar 13, 11:28 AM by Attackonfiller

Years waiting for a new Claymore project and this is what I get. I have no words to express my disappointment.

Mar 13, 7:21 AM by Illyricus

Can't say it's one I ever expected to see this kind of announcement for.

Mar 13, 4:30 AM by ReaperCreeper

I don't think this is good idea....we need season 2 instead...

Mar 13, 4:02 AM by livexevil

We need a remake of the anime not live action!!

Mar 13, 2:22 AM by Memore

Meh... I prefer new anime, not live action... Japanese live action s**ks.

Mar 13, 2:14 AM by thepath

I have great fears that they will simply turn this into a typical modern Western girlboss-fest.

Mar 13, 1:17 AM by RobertBobert

"Co - producer of Death Note 2017"? Wow, this will be a trainwreck. Please leave Claymore alone. No one asked for this or wants this.

Mar 13, 12:19 AM by cri_c

Vindstot said:
Oka, a longtime manga collector, has prior experience in adaptations, having co-produced Netflix's 2017 live-action Death Note movie.

Uhhh, I haven't really heard good things about this one. I mostly know it through cringe-inducing clips, like brooding in a hoodie out in the rain.

I highly doubt that an American studio can (or want to) tell this kind of story... From what I hear it's a depressing, violent and horrifying story.

Also, I thought a big draw to this was the artwork. How are they going to adapt that, or at least put an equally-interesting spin on that?

Mar 12, 10:30 PM by perseii

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