Jul 16, 2008
Claymore is an amazing manga, everyone who wants to read any type of shounen manga must read claymore!
It takes place in medieval times, but that doesnt even matter. I dont think that it would really make a difference if it took place in the year 2020. You dont really even notice the time period as you read it.
Anyway, first you must know what a claymore is. A claymore is a WOMAN not man for reasons explained in the manga, who is a demon, but has a human mind. Claymores are made by the organization, which is just called the organization. I dont recall seeing
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the heads of the organization, but the main person who talks to the claymores from the organization is this shady dude dressed in black. He gives the claymores their missions. their missions: kill yoma (demon). Now the claymores can kill the yoma because their bodies are those of yoma. The difference between a claymore and a yoma, the claymore has a human mind and can control their thirst for human flesh.
The story revolves around a boy named Raki. Raki, which apparantly means lucky in japanese, gets his entire family eaten by a yoma. This particular yoma is plagueing the town, and in response to this threat the town resolves to hiring a claymore from the organization to kill the yoma. Since the claymores are part demon, they are seen as a necessary evil, and feered by everyone. A claymore named Claire is sent on a mission from the organization to kill this yoma. As many ppl in the town are afraid of claire, Raki is not, but is actually grateful for her presence. All in all, Claire kills the yoma and Raki, w/ no family and rejected by the village, decides to follow Claire on her adventures. The story is about Claire, and her past and her main goal, and her reaching it. Events happen in the series which are both unexpected and ingenious. The only character whose past matters in this series is Claire, for most of the caracters have very similar pasts. The story line is broken up into arcs. There are so many elements in this manga, but all the mysteries are introduced at a very modest rate, to keep the reader in control over understanding of the mysteries.
The storyline shifts away from Claire's main goal, and moves twards a very large mystery. Claire unravels this mystery with the help of fellow claymores. The reason this manga isgood is because it is not just one person who is a claymore, nor by any means is this person the strongest claymore. And once again, it shifts away from being about Claire and her goal, and moves twards hidden motives of other characters. Bascially, it gets into how ppl are screwing each other over. Its really interseting. The manga is seen in the shonen monthly, so it only comes out once a month, and sometimes skips months. However, when they do come out it is worth the wait. The manga does not move at a rediculously slow rate. But the problem is that they keep switching view ponits from character to character. So lets say manga #45 is about claire, manga 46 will switch to another character. That is the only annoying part. But besides that it is a must read!
the art is really good, i always know what is going on, its not hard to see things at all. There is not that much blood as far as i can remember, but that is becasue blood usually makes it hard to know what the pictures are showing. So like in some mangas, o they are bleeding, to bad the blood is coverning up the face so i cant see who it is. Instead they just cut off limbs, which i think is good enough. And this is intense cutting of the limbs by the way.
So anyway, i love claymore, anyone who reads it will fall in love w/ it right away, and will just be drawn so much closer in by like the 20th manga because the story line heats up.
I do reccomend reading it when the series is complete though, or else you are just going to end up smaking yourself across the face because you just want to know what happens already.
Reviewer’s Rating: 9
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