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  SamTheSauceMaster

  81/100
  Solid pick for the "Gore Fantasy" genre. Gives a lot of Seinen vibes in a Shonen "sauce".

  __ALERT TO ALL READERS! THIS REVIEW IS GOING TO CONTAIN SPOILERS OF THE REVIEWED ANIME EVEN IF ME, THE WRITER, WILL TRY TO INCLUDE THEM IN THE LOWEST QUANTITY AND ALSO TRY TO BE VAGUE. ALSO THIS REVIEW IS BASED ONLY ON ANIME CONTENT AND HAS AS TARGETS PEOPLES THAT NEVER HEARD OF CLAYMORE. SO...MANGA READERS, DON'T BLAST ME BECAUSE I'M EVALUATING POSSIBLE ASPECTS THAT COULD CHANGE FROM VOLUME 12 OR IF I'LL BE TOO NAIVE WITH THE REVIEW. __ If you are fine with what written, guess you can go on. Have fun reading my first review ^^

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  Live...live...LIVE LIKE AN HUMAN!

  The soothing words of the fallen sister.

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  Even if you think that everything is meaningless, your life is the proof that people that came before and that loved you gave their best to make sure you stay here and that you'll go down the route that will lead toward your future.

  You can't afford to become a monster, you can't afford to lose your mind. You now must fight for something you want to protect now.

  Fighting for a past that will consume you it's not anymore your choice.

  So now...stand up warrior. Even if your flesh it's not of an human anymore... you have the right to keep living like one if you still have a mind and a gentle heart.

  

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  INTRODUCTION AND REFLECTIONS

  Yagi-sensei... this is really a Shonen? REALLY?

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  The words in the previous section...these were the thoughts that flashed straight away in my mind after have watched the epilogue of the last episode of Claymore :
  a dark fantasy, supernatural and gore oriented anime produced by studio MADHOUSE in collaboration with
  DR Movie that aired in the spring and summer season of 2007.

  The show is an adaptation of the homonym manga published by Shueisha on Monthly Shonen Jump (2001-June 2007), Weekly Shonen Jump( June 2007-October 2007) and finally Jump Square (October 2007-2014) and that created by Yagi Norihiro-sensei.

  So...yes, here we have the first points to make clear about Claymore with the actual information I gave:

  This show, even if it has a pretty dark, a little impegnative and also has a pretty decent characterization of its own "key characters", obviously from my point of view,...well the magazines are talking.

  The anime adaptation that I watched and now reviewing not only covers 11 volumes of the 26 that completes the manga, making it an incomplete anime for the obvious reasons that ended 7 years later (and also to note that the 11 volumes in the anime are like in the manga...so good job to MADHOUSE for the factor "no fillers")...Claymore still remains a Shonen
  (demographic target of male teens between 13-17 years old ) and that's a fact that remains for the whole course of the anime experience and that everyone can feel on their skins... but it's still really a good one even with only those 11 volumes and its "open ending" in the anime that yes, it kinda let you wish for more but it's a pretty decent ending that leaves the watcher with actually something at the end.

  The structure and the development is on the same line of everything that it was been published from the end of the 90's and the middle-end of the 2000's on Jump...and this is another reason why Claymore amazed me!

  I am going to explain myself a little better: I think we are all too familiar with how battle shonens works.
  We just start with an apparently strong character as the main protagonist, that beats everyone ass for the first 3/4 arcs, he mets a big guy, he goes to training, beats the big guy, gain some kinda of character development, go into the next location, etc... the circle repeats itself until there is a tournament or war arc blah blah blah.

  Welp... Claymore shares a similar structure....
  BUT STILL I found it more than interesting for the simple reason that in Claymore...
  more you become strong...more you are doomed to become the painter of the next bloodbath of innocents. More you become powerful...more you are going near the limit where you can't go back and you become a monster.

  And not only you have nightmares every night about that inevitable day... but you can't avoid it.
  You can fight that urge and try to still remain human... but one day you'll break and that is inevitable.

  This concept and the continuous battle non-stop deep inside you to stop your urges is the bread and butter of Claymore and the fact is that gives A LOT of space for this concept and theme in the show even if anyone can see that is a narrative formula that it was used and reused a lot of times.
  And this exact contrast that in my opinion that makes it a really interesting concept to give a chance even if you are not a gore/medieval fantasy/shonen type of person.

  This anime has a typical combo of elements from Seinen mangas (demographic target of male young adults of 18-19 years old and more) ... but still keeps the structure of a Shonen, making it a really entertaining bridge for the two demographic categories.

  It's an optimal compromise for peoples that are searching a more meaningful SHONEN experience while trying to keep the classical character development formula of this category but with a more adult depth.

  To be honest I started watching Claymore without a clue of what I was going into... but with only keeping in mind 3 words that my fellow otaku bros always told me...."Sam....CLAYMORE > BERSERK".

  And you know what? That's an ERROR that everyone could do now that I lucidly think about it because comparing those two titans of the Gore Fantasy...
  it has no sense, but not because one of the two titles is better than the other from my point of view or one it's the son of the other and has a same base theme (but honestly I would take the side of Claymore in the war... but that's a talk for another day) but cause they have a different demographic target and so they take with them the cliches of their own demographic target for what was required to them at the beginning of their publish. Especially in Claymore case.

  CLAYMORE = Shonen
  BERSERK = Seinen
  They are in different dimensions with 12 years of difference and so they are titans of the genre that both started in two different eras. I agree that they possibly have a father-son relation with how they managed Guts and Clare...but Claymore has a more standard formula from my point of view but that doesn't actually take control of what it wants to give.

  And... the fact is that this creative work has some ways to wield his sword against a big shot like THE "Berserk" and this can tell you that maybe, not the anime but at 90% the manga of Yagi-sensei it's worth a shot if not one, but many affirm this and are still "happily confused" on the identity of this work.

  But I think I wrote a lot in this section for just only being an introduction.
  So let's jump in analyzing the plot.

  

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  STORY AND PLOT ANALYSIS

  Oh young lady...are you determined to live yor next days as a demon of the battlefield?

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  1) STORY
  In an hypothetical continent in a world in his medieval phase...humans struggles each day with the fear of being torn apart and have their guts been eaten. In this cruel and desperate world exist since humans can remember a race of demon-like predators called "Youma".

  

  They have no mercy... man, woman, elders, kids...they just cut them down without any care, eat them and take the forms of humans before starting their cruel killing and torture session again that culminates with eating other humans organs.

  No human can stop them... but an unnamed organization offered their answer to the problem...the group of warriors called "Silver Eyed Witches" but that are commonly known between the normal inhabitants of the continent with the name "Claymore " for the swords that they carry with them.

  These female mercenaries are the results of experiments with the objective to let absorb the flash and blood of a Youma into an human... and for this exact reason the Claymore warriors, even if they gave their body to the experiments and became weapons for the sake of humanity, are feared as "Half-Youmas "

  Our story starts when in a little village in the south of the continent a Youma starts to torment it and to eat people each night.
  For this cause, the mayor decided to contact the Organization and doing so, it sent one of the nearest witches to the location....the Claymore named Clare.

  

  Here our heroine will met one of the 2 survivors of the first attack of the wild Youma in the village, the young boy Raki that, drove by his curiosity and desperate desire of vengeance for his parents killed by the Youma, start to approach and talk to the half-demon hoping that she will avenge his parents instead of him.

  

  Clare coldly answer to the hope of the boy with a:
  "It's only a job. I don't care about your vengeance".
  But eventually and fortunately for our now broken Raki, Clare herself will be the woman that will save him from the fangs of the hidden Youma that planned to assault our boy that same night before heading out of the village... but the plans of the demon will be torn-apart by the simple fact that Claymore warriors as half-demons has the ability to feel the Yoki and the Yoryoku a.k.a the stored energy and the released aura that each Youma posses and controls...and so what I can say?
  Bye bye to the small fry. The warrior will slash the Youma and she will leave in the direction of a new job.

  

  But after the end of the job our poor Raki will have no more an home and a place to return and so he will start to wander in the middle of nowhere until one day, in a village near some woods, will met another demon and so a Claymore will again appear...that will be no other than Clare.

  The boy after seeing again his heroine save him again, he will not esitate to ask if he could start to travel with her.
  He has no home, no loved ones and has no idea to what to do about his life...and so he ends up offering himself to become Clare cook-companion for her journey with the objective to slice down monsters.

  Clare past flashes in her mind in that moment... memories of a past where she was still a kid and that she walked along another woman...another warrior...another Claymore.

  

  And so... the woman will allow the boy to accompany her in her journey.

  A journey apparently empty, where she is going to struggle in every battle for still keeping her sanity...with only one objective for our mercenary.
  Cut down the head of the "horned demon" of that day of a cursed past... trying to still remain human.

  After all... Claymore warriors are also Half-Youma.
  And the limit that separates Rage and Insanity...is made of thin walls of paper.

  

  2) PLOT ANALYSIS
  Okay... here we are boys and gals!
  This will be the SAUCE of this whole review and so I want to start kinda weirdly with a maybe stupid question... can we, humans, manage to keep our "animal side" inside the limit of our minds?

  Well, obviously there are going to be lots of different thesis...but this no end research is a big theme inside this work.

  Because I think you can guess already what Claymore main content is...and so...yes.
  Claymore is a tale about vengeance and how to move on from it , other than having a really REALLY shonen-ish start and not a tale about "yeah, let's killl all freaking demons/titans/monsters" like now they use to do.
  The fury of our main heroine, Clare... is always against only one being. Not the world, not the whole demon-race. Just one.

  And all the stereotypical training and "kinda circular" structure typical of shonens anime and manga is going to be done not because she has a big inspirational dream, want to save the world or noble reasons. Even with the help of our boy Raki... the main mindset will remain the same in in the beginning phase of the show and her deepest desire will always torment Clare in the middle and especially at the end of it.

  She wants to see blood run down on her blade without a care and to survive so she can gain the power to cut down who torn apart away her "sister". And this mostly generic formula is surprisingly good in the world of Claymore!

  This is the tale of your typical little girl, but that suffered a lot and more then everyone her age should at the point to even fake madness to not be eaten.
  And when she finally find another being, independently if she was a monster or not, that loves her ...she see madness when the monster is taken away from her from... just from another girl but that unfortunately passed through the limit and couldn't turn back anymore.

  So... now, you. Seasoned reader or not... you are probably thinking: <Ok Sam, what's so special about this If it's just your typical "shounen-ish tragedy" ?>

  Well my fellow otakus...."the answer is simple".... it's HUMAN! This is an "HUMAN AT SOUL " tale... even when the rules of the story are "even if you try your best, you are going to become a MONSTER"!

  In fact I bet that more experienced readers might already get it... but the limit I talked about before...It's the limit that an half-demon MUSTN'T AND NEVER go too near to.

  Claymores....are not other than "time bombs" that could explode ANY TIME and not become just Youmas.
  No no no no, you think they are going to become just weaklings??? AHAHAHAhahahah...
  ...
  They are going to become "Awakaned Beings", monsters that could kill in a couple of minutes whole towns and slay low ranked Claymores. Mostly only the warriors in top 20 can hope to SURVIVE a battle against them and only the top 5 can do a 1vs1 against one of them.

  And if we make a Claymore in the top 5 position an "Awakened Being"...well we obtain not only the main interest of the HUMAN anger, despair and killing instincts of Clare, but also genocides, genocides, genocides...
  that are actually nothing if compared to what one of the "Abyssal Ones", a.k.a "Youma kings" to semplificate the argument, can do.

  

  And so... this is what hurt the most and that can let you understand why Claymore is so human and sad.
  The fact that the Claymore warriors sacrifice everything they have...to just condemn themselves to become monsters sooner or later for their objective.

  This is no mere power up that you can control with training. This is A CURSE that YOU MUST TRAIN AND CONTAIN each freaking day because if you don't do it... your own sisters that shared with you the pain of the battlefield are going to chop your head in an instant.

  Hate like an human, become a monster for the humans, and hope to die while fighting inside for giving your last breath as an human. And if you become a monster...just hope to have forgotten everything because you are going to realize that you were only a pawn of someone that used you.

  

  And so...i think that now you reader understand the first section under the disclaimer.

  These were the mere words of a simple beginner reviewer and narrator... but I think that those were the most accurate words to say to this group of warriors that gave their whole beings to a bloody and desperate past.

  Faintly hoping that something like this will never happen to others... while knowing or not even knowing the fact they could possibly became the next authors of the bloodshed of innocents of a tomorrow.

  Realizing it and doing the first step to salvation is the real objective of this show. And what it means...well I guess that only the manga readers knows it lol. UwU

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  PACING, POWERUPS AND TECHNICAL ASPECTS

  Powerful sprint at the begging....but at the end we'll see XD

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  Honestly I wanted to write here a not really complex technical section with giving an opinion on animation and soundtrack before to closing the review....but I dumbly forgot one important thing in battle shonens and similar: Power Ups and how they are paced!

  This aspect is a crucial one for the genre and so I need to talk absolutely about this...and how this show doesn't do absurd things with them even going mostly fast with this. And the reason why is for the rule that i told before about:
  More you are strong, more the power is "heavy" and more you are possibly near to doom.

  And I must confirm that, yes, power ups are really simple in this anime and at the same time freaking powerful ...but it's good like that because they are not actually power ups but like they say more than one time they are "techniques" (except the last one in the last arc of the anime and the awakening powers from other "Silver Eyed Witches" like Deneve and Helen ). So it means that they are just basic mastery of one art without doing crazy stuff in most of the cases, thing that goes well with the medieval world where the work is set.

  They need to train yes, but this are skills that can be mastered only with years and years of fighting and slowly reaching the limit. And with years I mean years like decades.

  And actually this makes sense even with the "not aging factor" of the warriors. Also, another thing that goes well is that the warriors for mastering a skill mostly needs just these 3 things:
  -Sword Mastery
  -Yoki perception
  -Yoryoku control
  And this 3 stuffs are in posses of basically every half-youma female warrior in the show in lesser or bigger quantity.

  The only thing that I don't really liked is the way on how Yagi-sensei kinda cheated when Clare learned Irene technique...but I guess he could have made an huge error with the pacing of the story if he wouldn't made that choice, making it take an huge break that will have lead to a terrible slow down in our heroine development probably.

  The pace of Claymore is pretty fast at the start and in the middle. Even when it takes a detour with the flashback arc of the whereabouts about Clare past it's pretty interesting and not only for the important facts that happens but also because it felt really complete and not rushed from that moment on...until the last arc.

  In fact I need to admit that the last arc it went really, REALLY slow and basically it was just only A LOT of fights episodes without many situations in much more depth, except the end climax, but MADHOUSE did a good job with adapting them and at least made them enjoyable and pretty good for that time.

  I personally don't have really anything about to say on animations. Obviously they are not absurd stuff but for the technology and techniques of 13 years ago they are really something, even if not the best I've ever seen. I think that animations of studio BONES shows at that time were better than the animations of Claymore, but these are fluid and not too impegnative for the eye...at least for me.

  And finally...let's talk about the sound design...or I would desire to also talk about sound design but my hears made me dive inside the show thanks to those sounds and that's everything I can say.

  There are not crazy tracks (except the battle themes) inside here but they knew how to make the right atmosphere every time, even if there were not a big variety in the tracks.

  They completed the story and the action really well and except some electric guitars in battle they were not too invasive. So REALLY GREAT JOB with sound MADHOUSE.

  So...what can I say anymore? We finally reached the end.
  But before to jump in the final thoughts section, some ost samples here:

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  FINAL WORDS AND SYNTHESIS

  Here we are at the end of the review after more than 3300 words lol. If you, reader , patiently read the entirety of this review I guess I need to at least give you a thank you to have absorbed my boomer reviewer skills and also hope that it was worth it XD. But I guess you are here to read the final judgment and so...here it comes:

  Claymore is one or maybe also THE most solid pick that i ever saw in the "gore fantasy" shonen genre and that can introduce a young adult that is trying to approach to more impegnative titles of the seinen target .

  Yes, it still keeps the narrative structure and common points that every Jump shonen has from the end of the 90's to the mid 2000's and is never going to get rid of them in the anime... but those chains can't actually stop Claymore to reach high peeks of depth and not making it "just a bloody shonen"

  Finally the show proceeds at a fast pace and feels complete for more or less 3/4 of it . Before the end climax the anime becomes slower story wise but the good animations and sound design fill those holes and makes them watchable at a fast pace like the 20 episode that comes before and it ends with an open finale giving a reasonable bitter-sweet feel and also a lot of expectations for the manga that's the only and obvious way to complete the work.

  SamTheSauceMaster SHINSENGUMI, GOING OUT!

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  SCHISHNE

  75/100
  The Anime started off really well but slowly dies from the mid to end because the stakes didnt exist anymore.

  The Anime Version of the Witcher [SPOILER ALEART]:

  Well, ill do a little summary of the anime with the review element sprinkled into it:
  The start: Got me quite hooked actually, especially from the artstyle, the shady but shiny looking Claymore Clare, the Yoma beeing pretty much the monsters Geralt would hunt in the witcher series (although i was a little bit dissapointed that Yoma were mostly one kind of monster) and the rules set for the Claymores, a pretty interessting little concept and some fighting scenes were pretty smart and one time even very short but actually incredible when it came to the actions and moves. I was definetly hooked with this anime.

  Backstory of Clare:
  This got me a little confused at first since i wasnt sure if it was actually the past or just a parallel story the reveal wasnt too late to be more confusing than it initially was, the limits of the Claymores and even how powerfull some can become were further explained and i thought "this looks pretty neat so far", one digit Claymores getting special names or titles and such gave them also a little bit more of an meanecing effect but i was still a bit afraid of plot armor because nobody had really suffered losses aka the stakes werent really showing and gave me the first worries of this anime beeing rather mid than awesome.

  End of the Backstory of Clare:
  This is where the risk of dying was finally showing, even the characters that i wouldnt have though could die, died in a flash but that death wouldnt look too unrealistic either since letting your guard down is in the end pretty unavoidable which really showed the risk of characters dying and the claymores not beeing overly powerfull like Geralt in the witcher.

  Continuing with Clare and Raki:
  This was pretty decent to watch at times, you got further explanations of how the Organization works and more details about Claymores but this is where Raki started to be annoying and reminded me of Yuki from Mirai Nikki: constantly whining about everything and doing a lot of unreasonable things, beeing a hinderance for Clare. The only pro of that is that it shows that professional workers cant really afford something like a companion or mate that dosent have a similar level of skills or experience but this is really the only pro the series got out of it which is...a rather small positive aspect since its a bit self explanatory.

  Clare getting new friends and the start of the doubts about the Organisation:
  This is the last part where it was rather good, she got new experiences, we find out more about the ranking system and even get a glimbse on the geographics and how many Claymores exist right to where we get to know that there were even male versions. After fighting one former male Claymore the whole "the organisation is sus" and the Top 5 Claymores is where the stakes started to drop again since we find out that all of the organization doubters was practically on the safe side when it comes to reaching past their limits of transforming into an awakened beeing and seeing a huge ammount of wounds beeing not a problem anymore compared to the start of the series.

  Where the Stakes were practically no more and where the last likeable thing appeared:
  The moment Clare continues to survive every enccounter and especially after getting more abilities and Ophelia turning the tables is where i stopped worrying about Clare and more about Rakis survival...but he barely showed up and was pushed aside from the focus of the story. Mistakes were made and dissapointments started to arise. The only thing i liked was the appearence of Irene, her beeing the teacher of Clare and her, one of the OGs facing the current number 2. (which she seemingly survives in the manga till the end). She was one of the most interessting characters for me because first, she had a rather tolkien-ish elven look (which i found suprisingly good in an anime version) and her beeing pretty calm about almost everything...pretty much beeing the calm Veteran that survives and lives along the current generation.

  The Downfall:
  Its pretty much from where Clare enccounters one of the big bosses of the Yomas till the end without her getting the risk of dying or else. She just outlives every enccounter without getting any negative outcome out of it except for Jeans death. The one and only thing that was a small positive stake poke was when some characters would suddenly die unexpectedly in Pieta where the 24 Claymores had to defend an onslaught of awakened which sadly gets an unrealistic turn because basically the general of the army deciedes to risk his life instead of keeping on the onslaught and risks his own life. If you would say "he got too many losses though which is why he had to put an end to it"...then why dosent the all mighty isley, king of the north fight 24 claymores alongside him and the army? The series couldve saved this logic problem by explaining that question for example but it didnt...till the end (and we didnt even see or hear anything about the current number 1 claymore which was also a hot question). Plus...Raki just appeared out of nowhere as nothing had happend.

  What i liked and what i didnt like and didnt:

  What i liked:

  • that it was a anime version of witcher of some kind.
  • the anime was very thrilling and hooking at the beginning to almost half
  • the power balancing and rules in the beginning to middle
  • how explanation wasnt just pure exposition at once
  • the character designs and especially the artstyle (at least for my taste) since the characters were a around middle between anime and realistic artstyle wise which i found most intriguing since im working on beeing an digital artist myself

  What i didnt like:

  • That armor was fashion and didnt have any use
  • That the stakes got lost from the middle to the end
  • The powerscaling being somewhat weird
  • Raki (meaning his personality and that there wasnt any developement at all and that he was just gone till pretty much right before the end of the series)
  • Animation quality beeing rather sparse at the end but that could be budget problems and the fact that this anime is rather old.

  Last words:
  Even though it gets rather meh from mid to end, the start to middle was quite the experience for me which is why im definetly going to get myself the manga. And its going to be one of my favorites for beeing pretty witcher like with a different taste and interessting artstyle...definetly a big inspiration for what im working on

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  eruroraito

  85/100
  8 am Small Personal Review Of Claymore Anime

  Non Spoiler

  For an anime that was released in 2007, I believe this anime still holds up to standards in this day and age. It has a bit of everything that I've been looking for in an anime. For being a part of the shonen category, I was surprised by how relatable it was. A big bonus for me was how it was an almost full cast of females, yet it worked out perfectly. With this short anime of only 26 episodes, I hope you, the reader, may give it a try.

  To start off, presentation wise, the animation quality looks outdated when compared to today’s. Although, it’s still enjoyable as it gives off the old school animation vibes. I believe the animation fits perfectly with the aesthetic of the whole show, and it sucks you into the atmosphere of dark fantasy, such as berserk. The character designs are original, in their own respective ways. The soundtrack, when combined with the scenes presented, are perfectly in sync to make a pleasant viewing of this anime.

  On the surface level, Claymore is one of your typical shonens with good VS evil. In the introduction, we learn that there are monsters called Yoma, disguised as humans, who feed off humans. Then, there are the so-called Claymores, which hunt down these Yoma. The claymores are all females who are half human and half Yoma. We follow this story through the perspective of the main protagonist Clare, and get a deeper dive into this twisted world that’ll have the viewer filled with curiosity.

  Spoiler

  In only 26 episodes, Clare easily became one of my favorite females. In the beginning, she is going on with her normal life as a Claymore, going from town to town to complete jobs killing off the Yoma. Everything changed when she was met by a younger boy, named Raki. Clare had saved Raki from being slaughtered by a Yoma, disguised as Raki’s brother. With no family left, Raki decides to follow Clare on her journey. From this moment forward, we witness a beautiful relationship blossom. 
  
  Since Clare is a claymore, she is devoted to only following orders and hunting down the Yoma. She is introduced as this blunt and straightforward person, only following her duties, but once Raki is in the picture, only then do we get to see more of her human side. On the surface level, we only get to see this cold, strong half human and half monster. Although Raki, with his actions, is able to show us that there is more to Clare than we know. 

  We learn that Clare went through the same experience in the past, by following a Claymore that saved her as a child. She was accompanying a Claymore named Teresa, who was the strongest at the time. Teresa was a proud Claymore, but started to show more of her human nature because of Claire. Due to unfortunate events, Teresa was murdered in front of Clare by a Claymore-turnt-Yoma named Priscilla. From this day forward, it has been Clare’s goal to get revenge by killing Priscilla.

  We get to witness just how similar the relationship between Clare and Raki is to that of Clare and Teresa. Raki, having nothing left, ultimately decides to stick with Clare no matter where she goes. Throughout the show, Raki is next to Clare , even during her toughest times. Raki is physically the weakest character presented, but mentally and emotionally his support is like none other. His ability to become a support pillar for Clare is very intriguing. For example, Clare, being a Claymore, almost became a Yoma by reaching her limits, but Raki was able to halt this transformation. It is very unusual for this to occur, which shows just how much of an impact Raki has on Clare’s humanity. At one point in the story, Clare is faced with stronger foes, which stops Raki from continuing his journey with her. But due to their bond, she kissed him and told him "I promise you... I won't die. I'll live...and I'll find you". At least for me, this relationship felt quite relatable to me , in the way it was represented. I wish I could fully explain, but I think this show does just that. 
  
  At first, I thought it would be a generic plot, but as the story progressed, it made my jaw drop more and more as the episodes progressed. The show tells us that Clare is supposed to be weak, and many side characters try to belittle her. But soon enough they realize how overcoming Clare can be when faced with tough situations. The characters can be snotty or sassy, but after experiencing true terror, they become hardened warriors ready to back up Clare in all their confrontations. At some times, it may appear as if all hope is lost, but when they work together, they are able to do damage. Throughout the plot, there is a heavy mysterious aura that surrounds the whole organization of the Claymores. In the anime, we are more focused on the journey of Clare. But this anime was able to create a strong world building that made me more curious into the whole idea of Claymores VS the Yomas. This anime definitely made me want to continue the story into the manga. 
  
  To summarize, this anime is packed with a bunch of gore, blood and fighting to have you on the edge of your seat. It has enough moments to make you pull out the tissues. Plus a convincing enough plot to make you want to say one more episode.

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