Ahh, what can I say, another blood, gore, battle, death anime. Not to mention medieval! You can say that I’m a wee bit blood thirsty >3> since I can’t do like they do in real life, I might as well watch animes that do !!

Information
Episodes: 26
Status : Currently Airing (Not Licensed)
Aired : Apr 4, 2007 to Sept 26, 2007
Producers : Madhouse Studios, VAP
Rating : R - 17+ (violance & profanity)

-Synopsis-

In a world constantly haunted by demonic predators known as “Youma”, the everyday life of humans are full of fear and suspicion, as these monsters easily blend into human society to hunt their hapless prey. However, in this world, there is also a mysterious organization, employing half-human, half-Youma warriors to effectively track down and kill the demons. Called “silver eyed witches” or “Claymores” after the huge Claymore swords they carry, these female warriors are eyed with suspicion and distrust by most because of their inhuman powers.

When the young boy Raki meets Clare, a Claymore sent to kill the Youma haunting his hometown, he is eventually caught in a story of love, revenge and treachery, as Clare’s past meets with her future…

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Another great anime. Claymore is one of the more recent shounen anime that has come out in recent years and is, in fact, still airing, but not for long. It has a classic, classic plot what with all the revenge, leveling up (not like in games), powering up, justice, friendship, live and death situations, and so on. However, unlike reality medieval period, the strong characters and not to mention, most of the good guys, aren’t guys! They’re females! In fact, most of the bad guys are, not surprisingly, males.

What makes this anime different from your typical shounen anime is that the anime doesn’t drag itself out where usually there are the typical long battles, tournaments, and fistfights. From beginning to end, we see characters coming in and out, but all with reasons. Unlike normal shounen animes, they do not return in a later episode just because the anime needs more characters to fill in a spot to make it seem really cool. The characters in this anime are tied down by an organization where some were forced, some came on their own accord, some came by both. The characters come together and have to fight because there was a good reason to.

Also unlike some shounen anime, the characters in this anime do die. They don’t get chopped into half and then suddenly get back up, healed. No, here, when they’re dead, they stay dead. Though, I have to say, they were very specific on the point where they mentioned that they had to be severed thoroughly or they wouldn’t be really dead (i.e. chopping off the head, chopped into half). What happened in the past, have affects on what happens in the present in this anime. Allys and foes are made throughout this anime because of these events and encounters.

What we can see from the important characters is that they tend to leave deep impressions whereas the not-so-important ones leave only a slight impression that they’re there and then it’s gone, leaving viewers to concentrate more on the more important characters and their stories and journeys. This is actually a good thing because if all the characters leave deep impressions, eventually, the viewers would be confused as to who did what to who and when.

Other than that, the story in itself is rich in originality where the what should have been males, were filled out by female characters and so on. The drawings are highly unusual and not very conventional. Characters have splendid background coverage, especially so when at first, you see the character being cold and arrogant, turned to lonely, sorrow-filled individuals.

I totally enjoyed this anime, everytime an episode ends and the next isn’t out yet, I feel myself clawing at the air going “WTH!! Finish already?! So fast?! No!!!!!! I want to watch what happened!!! T3T” I’m thoroughly unhappy to have to wait a whole week for the next episode and it’s going to end soon! It’s currently, at this point of time, at episode 24, another 2 more episodes to go ONLY!!

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