Claymore is CRIMINALLY underrated, such a great story if you read the manga. The anime only goes so far into the story but does a great job of capturing the essence of Claymore.
The only dark anime I prefer the Protagonist more than the epic Guts, Claire is Her. I absolutely think she is awesome epic asf and a total bad ass. My other female protagonists I think are just epic are Saber from FATE/STAY series, Roberta The Terminator and Revy from da same series called The Black Lagoon. I love all these broads they kick hella ass and I don't know why but its so attractive seeing broads in fiction be such a bad ass without being sexist and toxic like our western progressive woke pandering trash. E.g. Ripley from star wars, Ahsoka live action series was just pathetic, Velma cartoon series just vomit inducing, so much more toxic crap we have over here in america. The japanese make mary sue female characters but they get their sweet ass's kicked and eventually win, shhh don't mention Roberta and many tons of mary sue anime characters names.Us males love our anime mary sues that are free from progressive, LGBTQ and liberal woke pandering BS.
@@deathandrebirth-y8x Nah keep it as is, because usually in remakes they take things out, if they clean up the animation and keep things identical per se, I'm all in for the remake, Tbh im sick of remakes, looking at you final fantasy games on pc and ps5 sigh
@@deathandrebirth-y8x I strongly agree. I actually think it needs a live action remake. Director of LOTR (Peter Jackson right?) and producer Jason Blum (for the horror/ blood and gore)
Theresa was definitely a badass character, and she was humanized by Clare. But to me she was always too strong and as such kind of uninteresting. That's why i liked the seven ghosts so much, seeing all of them struggle thought the story and grow. It's also why, at least in my opinion, the ending of the manga was as bad, if not worse, than the anime. We've been following the growth of Clare only to get an ending that can only be described as the nail in the coffin of the "Theresa vs Priscila" debate. And i'm not even going to how exactly Theresa's personality was stored inside Clare so that she can resurface during the awakening.
@@achilleaskifonidis5824 Its because Clair completely mastered her Yoki energy and transformation. By the end of the manga, Clair could practically switch back and forth between human and Yoki at-will; so in the final fight against Priscilla, she supercharged her Yoki transformation...into Theresa herself, regenerating Theresa from whole cloth by pumping enough raw energy into Theresa's organs. Note that this isn't even the first time the Claymores have effectively used Yoki energy to resurrect someone, the only difference being just how few organs remained of Theresa compared to the other resurrection incidents. Also note that Theresa herself was surprised at how stable Clair's transformation was, as it meant that Theresa herself was also in complete control of her transformations and was at no risk of going insane. While Clair may have had smaller Yoki reserves, she was able to keep up with her colleagues through efficient use of what she had. Also, it is less that Theresa came back from the grave, and more that Clair mantled Theresa's power, form, and personality for a short while. This included Theresa's bonkers energy reserves (due to practical body resurrection), of which the original Theresa would NEVER have had the level of control needed to match Abyssal Priscilla; not without going full Abyssal herself, at any rate.
I love the mini Renaissance that Claymore receive recently. Its criminally underrated and surprisingly influential. Anyone that watch AoT will see some of Claymore DNA in it.
@@kamilazman2943 pretty much. To bad that the manga finished before they got to explore the outside world. I always wanted to know why they were using the claymores as experimental soldiers. It is never explained really explained just stated.
As someone who's seen both, I'm not sure what commonalities you're talking about aside from broader themes that pop up in most literature, tv, manga, anime, etc. --Becoming a monster to defeat monsters, human hatred toward beings different from them, how we fall into cycles of hatred etc.
What made Claymore click with me: That moment i figured out Raki is not a comic relief character but the audience self-insert. It's all about the emotional support.
I hated early Raki with a passion, for the same reason I hated early and middle Shinji with a passion. Once his balls dropped, he became a solid character but HO BOY did I root for the yoma to eat his guts in the first few episodes.
@@FangerZero Understandable really. To be fair, the manga and anime overlapped at the Northern arc so the last 3 or so episodes, they had to change lol
Claymore was the first anime I completed when I was a kid. Me and my siblings were so obsessed with it and it continued throughout our teens as we read the manga online. We actually discovered in a pirated Devil May Cry CD my brother bought. We played the CD in our DVD player and found out it didn't contain the game or any movie, but a complete season of 240p Claymore anime and a 240p Onimusha movie 😂. While the kids in our neighbourhood and school were obsessed with Naruto, Dragon Ball and Bleach, we were obsessed with Claymore lol. Glad it's being talked about again. Hopefully it gets a remake.
Claymore is one of my all time favorites. The manga is insane. Compelling characters who become so bad ass by the end. The finale is just so unforgettable because the road there is long and bloody. The anime was an excellent try up til the end where they did whatever the F that was. Im just saying if youve only seen the anime youre missing 3/4 of a very huge story. The anime is literally just a fraction of what you endure reading the manga. The battles get so very edge of your seat and the story really starts to pull you in after the 7 years of the Claymores vanishing only to come back deadlier than ever. The characters are so damn good too. Everyone has something bad ass about them. Treat yourselves if you lile anime. Youll be pulled in from watching the likes of Beth and Alicia, the claymores in black, to Clarice, the claymore with brown hair, her arc literally made me cry. Its just such a beautiful piece that i cant recommend enough.
one of the most satisfying manga. It feels so satisfying, I completed it in 2022. last time I felt this satisfying was wathcing the end of code geass r2 in 2018.
I think my favorite thing about claymore is the "goku" of the series dies and stays dead pretty much. Aka Theresa, she is/was the strongest of all time. And her personality/attitude were phenomenal.
Years ago, I dropped the manga and forgot about it when it was in the beginning of the final arc (because of long time without update), one day I suddenly found out that Claymore was completed, and even more shocked to find out they brought back the forgotten most badass character that they killed early on - Teresa, she's so damn OP that I was fangirling for her to finish the job this time - end that b*tch Priscilla. The moment she appears and barehanded push away the abyssal was just satisfaction. It's the kind of OP character I need to appear and fuck Griffith up for the sake of Guts too
@@FangerZerothere's no matter what anime they belong to but every Goku is bound to get resurrected for at least once or for a while, even Theresa got resurrected by Clair even though she wasn't even the main character of the claymore like Goku is in the DB 😂, but that's what I like about characters like this, sometimes there's not a chance or either fun of winning without them
I’ve always thought a Claymore like game would be so cool. You choose to be either a defensive type warrior or an offensive type, and which aspects of your abilities to specialize in, Yoki synchronization, speed, etc. Also fighting styles! What if you could even awaken your character and that would count as that characters “death” and when you make another character you could find that awakened one out there in the world.
@@obadijahparks ikr the idea fits so well into a game system, like Yoki sensing could translate to say more forgiving parries, and sensing enemies obviously.. Yoki manipulation could throw off enemies attacks like Galatea and Raftela. Ooh what about a Rogue like? When you die the flesh of your warrior can be used to create the next one? What if they awakened instead?
i could be wrong but women could become a witcher if they can survive the trials its just that almost no men survive so they dont bother letting women waste their lives.
@@TrenchCoatDingo It's not that, it's that literally no female has ever survived and after a time they just gave up completely on the idea of female witchers. Does that mean it can't happen? Practically...yes, but there could be that special snowflake that does survive, but how many would have to die to find that one? If only 30% of males survive the initial Trial of the Grasses but no females ever did, then at minimum the chance one could is less than 1%. Not to mention the potions and alchemical materials everything else aren't cheap/easy to get. It's basically a waste to use it on a less than 1% chance of success. 30% is already a really low chance of success, and that's an average, there were almost certainly times when there were no survivors. Geralt, as far as I can remember, is the only one to ever to be given even more augmentation potions and the like (due to him taking to them so exceptionally well with limited to no negative side effects). I think it would be a pretty safe assumption that another candidate like him appearing is about as likely as a female surviving the Trial of the Grasses.
@@TrenchCoatDingo In a medieval society women are too valuable due to the many complications of childbirth, so any community losing them in the process of turning them into a monster hunter is extremely wasteful and pointless since men are always available.
Claymore is one of the greatest stories ever and the art is freakin amazing. Its a pitty it is so underrated. More people should read it. And we need an anime with the full story.
The art is pretty impressive when you think about it. The process that makes them into warriors also does a lot to make them look the same. Somehow they managed to take a bunch of women who all have the same eye color, hair color, skin tone, general body type, wear basically the same uniform and use the same weapon and make them all very visually distinct.
Awakening being compared to orgasm makes all the partial awakenings hilarious, when you realise that the power system is canonically just edging in that context
Claymore is what the author of Attack on Titan wanted to write. PS. 3:20 We actually do know the reason? The healing factor appears the moment youma flesh makes contact with the future Claymore's insides, meaning the incision heals during the implantation process, before they are able to suture it, hence a permanent scar.
Criminally underrated series, needs either a remake or continuation ASAP… A lot of the OG anime series just hits different this was def wanna my favorites growing up…
So the reason that the open wound from the operation that makes them Claymores never heals is stated in the story. It's that wounds from before they get implanted with youma aren't healed, and that since they technically get powers during the surgery that is the state their bodies heal back to, sliced open down the middle.
I remember when the anime first came out back in Highschool I became incredibly obsessed with it from beginning to end. I loved it so much so that I nearly cried when the manga finally ended 7 years later (I was already a full time office worker by then). Such a bittersweet moment 😢
I still remember when Claymore was first previewed on Shonen Jump magazine. They had women's of manga appreciation, then the question of this "new" female protagonist with her name being revealed on the last panel of the first chapter.
I absolutely love this manga. One of my favorite pieces of fiction, right up there with berserk. That being said, I struggled with telling the claymores apart for the longest time.
A bit of a correction: ALL Claymores are able to regenerate lost body parts given enough time, effort, and control. The difference is that defensive ones can regenerate limbs that retain their augmented abilities, whereas offensive Claymores would regenerate a normal limb that does is only as good as a normal humans and this takes them a considerable amount of time to do even this.
I watched the series on netflix back when it was just one log in, no profiles. One day I got a text from my sister, "are you watching cartoon prawn on netflix?" Yeah.... Claymore isn't exactly a pg show. :|
Seeing videos on Claymore makes me want to re-read it for the umpteenth time. It’s just so incredible to read the story, characters and combat are thrilling.
man last time i heard anything about claymore was like 10yrs and even then, it was a mini resurgence because there was rumors going on they were going to get rebooted just like fma brotherhood
I was so caught off guard by this. haha I love this manga! I never tried the anime but boy the manga is my goto to read leisurely. It's the coolest. Thanks for the release. Claymore deserves it.
I didn"t expected to see a new video about Claymore. I watched the anime when I was young and it was a really great anime. But unfortunatly, it doesn’t seem to have had much success when itreally deserved it
The manga is epic but the anime series need a a complete remake. Plus more seasons to finish it out. It has the run time of fmj so it would make a pretty good run. I am a big fan of this animation style though. Clair is up there for favorite characters.
Okay... This is an amazing video. Why are there no channels that ever do the same sort of in depth studies into aspects of anime and manga - like countless channels do with aspects of SciFi? Picking apart the vehicles, creatures, different organizations, etc etc.
23:45 - I'm pretty sure it is mentioned in the manga that their uterus are removed in the surgery that turns them into claymores. 24:50 - it is stated that youma don't age and claymores also don't, consequentialy. It is not just the awakened.
I still recommend this series to anyone at every chance I get. It feels sorely underappreciated and unknown to many where I'm from. Tho the anime was great, it does pale in comparison to the depth allowed by its source manga even at 24 episodes long. Nonetheless, the anime does a good job of whetting the appetite to go and read the full story in the manga.
When I played Nier Automata, I could see the similar setting and plot at the beginning. I was hoping it'll progress the story in similar direction like Claymore and get a rebellion against the organization and possible freedom in the end; unfortunately, it decided to go crazy nihilistic instead. What a disappointment that was... Claymore is so much better and yet so underrated.
The characters from this series were very interesting, unlike most other series I've been coming across as of late. Ending of the manga felt rushed and left many questions unanswered. Riful MVP
This anime needs a studio to adapt the manga’s ending. Considering how the earlier studio went or beforehand did the Got S7/8 route by making their own ending
I adore the Claymore anime and have seen it 3(4?) times at this point. It's even been the first anime I watched with my ex fiancee and it got her into anime very efficiently. Besides Raki being medieval Shinji in terms of annoyance for a few episodes (then he gets much better), I have very few issues with the anime from the point of view of someone who hasn't yet read the manga. Well, the ending seemed... incomplete/rushed/wtf'd, but that's about the extent of it. Would highly recommend 'Berserk with Waifus', as another youtuber put it.
One of my most favorite anime AND manga After Fate Stay Night, this is my most fav story. It is really sad that the anime and manga are so underrated and soo many ppl are missing out something so amazing. Its dark, depressive, but has its own happy moments and good jokes. Yagi did amazing job with this as he did with some other works... wish there was a lil bit more content.
I'm sorry for being pedantic, but it seems to me that in the word "plethora" the stress should fall on the first vowel (pléthora). As in the word "plenty"; because of its greek roots. I checked with dictionaries.
