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The Grasping Tree by Faintsmile1992

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There's no Photoshop or anything on this one, just a photo taken with my PowerShot on a misty day in...

It would be cool to cast the characters speaking English with their implied accents so that Raki is Polish, Isley is Scottish, Deveve is French, etc.

Why don't we get anything like this over here in the UK?

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At least this is region free though.:^_^
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Japan placed a low value upon its own popular culture until very recently, and even the filmmaker Kurosawa was seen as a hack during his lifetime. Schodt's Dreamland Japan there are examples of edgy...

It sound like you buggered it and need to get you a new one, sowwy.

TBH I think Yagi created the CMverse as he went along with influences from real life Europe (Rabona and its autonomy is obviously reminiscent of Rome and the Papal States, the Org has its...

Not true in fantasy, think of ie. Game of Thrones and its winters. Fantasy authors can build worlds as they like, you know. ;)

Why not. ;)

TBH, the first part of Claymore reminded me of a folklore motif about a wicked father figure disapproving of the maiden's suitor, implying sexual tension, and traditional folklore is...

Yes, the perfect boyfriend is a protector and a provider.

Someone do a crossover of Claymore and Game of Thrones. :)

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There are things I'd like to see explored in...

I have a crush on Karluk. :^_^

You are missing the point made by Teresa that humans are no different than youma. ;)

Humans do all the things youma are seen to do, even the eating of human guts has an analog in the human...

I have found Raki!

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Lets hope Ginga Force is region free cause I've ordered it lol.

FWIW, this is a better version of the test by someone who knows their stuff.

http://personality-testing.info/tests/DT.php

http://i.imgur.com/mos4i.png

Narcissism, score 1.8, percentile 23.1...

I much admire the late Nietzschean author Jonathan Bowden, so here's an extract about graphic novels from one of his books, which explains why comics are controversial, and how they blur boundaries....

OK, you know I have a thing (not really a fetish, nor explicitly sexual) for younger boys and I'm 20 years old. I'm not talking about shotacon, but the kind of barely present age differences as are...

That is pretty much my point.

Therein is itself a Nietzschean theme if youki is the supposedly 'inhuman' aspect of human nature that humans externalise. Nietzcshe wrote at around the same time as...

Yea well Raki gives them both something to live for.

Without something to live for, Clare and Priscilla both collapse into the abyss of hate.

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I wouldn't be surprised if the ending of the manga is more like the end of the anime than many would prefer. On the other hand, Yagi likes to troll.

Well your mileage may vary but certain references are explicit.

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Yea, precisely. I prefer the most tender...

I meant that in the books, the commoners see technology as a form of magic. The difference is that Dune is written from the point of view of social elites whilst the protagonists of CM are largely...

It's not the official word of god, but it is explicit throughout with the references to Awakened Ones and the Abyss isn't it?

Claymore is about the philosophy of Freidrich Nietzsche so the better word would be resentment rather than hate.

Resentment can either drag you back into an abyss, or drive you to overcome.
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Since this isn't our world they might possess a different 'tech tree' than ours. Its also possible they have a taboo against gun use in case firearms disrupt the social order like in Edo Japan.
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Yea well you see something and it makes you think "WIN".

If you had a medieval army wouldn't you want Gregor on your side? Course you would, but not in the cavalry after seeing that.

Cause that scene with the horse was badass lol.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=35XUvtRAXyc

I'm watching season one on DVD. My favourites are Tyrion and Gregor (though Gregor says fuck all). That bitch Cersei reminds me of my mum, I want a pet dire wolf puppy.

My thinking too. Hatred and misery leads to awakening but the presence also of love (for want of a better word) makes them able to become HA as they get motivation to control their youki and...

With regards to the bit about hatred the part of this post about 'meanness' might be of interest. Clare is mean when she receives no affection yet she entered remission when Raki turned up. Teresa...

Dae could be pronounced as 'Dawey' or something? Literally its 'Da-e' with a long vowel, where the value of the vowel in the middle can depend on the Japanese accent? In 'official' Japanese the 'a'...

What is Dae's name's etymologyi. Mind you, Rubel's is really Louvre but who cares about that? ;)

Your taking it too literally, Clare doesn't hate Teresa but she knows she is part youma through Teresa, and she still hates youma. Teresa hates youma no more than she hates humans but had exceptional...

Clare also experienced love... ;)

Another possible hole here is that Clare gets stronger after meeting Raki which detracts her at least temporarily from seeking all-out revenge against Priscilla at any cost to her own safety. It...

This chapter confirms what I've been saying but yea Teresa's existence creates a plot hole unless hatred or a desire for revenge is just one expression of an exceptionally strong will to power. Or...

1 I'm female
2 I'm 20 years old
3 I'm of Irish Traveller and aristocratic Gallowglass descent which means I'm of Gaelic and Norwegian descent (but with some English)
4 I live in England though I...

Welcome, I'm a 20yo female from England too, but I don't know what the difference between 16 and 20 is though cause you're not an adult till you're like boring and 23. Claymore and Elfen Lied must be...

Yea, I have interests in physical anthropology and in the Slavs. Gorals tend to look different from their neighbours, so you ought to be able to tell if you are.

So I couldn't help but ask. ;)

How come this post above was moved? It was on topic for the other thread, if anything its the thread that was OT giving as it relates to the fandom but not the manga or anime itself.

Thanks for...

Its informal and relates to the 'rules of game' that people such as Roissy/Heartiste talk about if you Google for the words 'alpha', 'beta' and 'game', some definitions are probably on the Urban...

But since you ask I quoted this over on our forum while it seemed eloquent.


" In the same way that evolution by natural selection can produce purposeful designs without an intelligent designer...

Yea but Clare's different and that's why I have such an interest in the character because she would be diagnosed similarly to me. She's disinhibited and socially withdrawn with deficits in social...

Yea she's coldhearted, which in psychology that means she feels but doesn't show them, rather than being a synonym for callousness as most people might use the word (callousness is an impairment in...

Since that was posted over on Siliconera, the release of the game was delayed to ensure it was fine with MS to release it region free. PlayAsia doesn't confirm whether the Japan import is compatible,...

Just to add a brief comment.

Isley looks a little too much like Galatea for many of us to lust over. ;)

Whilst Clare is grateful to have Raki. Its up to you whether you interpret that as 'true...

Oh its not that I mind lol.

I find neofolk fits the tone, this one might be how Teresa feels about humans before she goes in a red mist and actually kills some of the fuckers.

Sol Invictus -...

He's awesome and always was, he was hotter before though cause I prefer 'em like 12-14 and eager to please. My present boyfriends a bit older than that but he's actually very similar. I'm kind of...

Ok, does anyone know for sure whether Ginga Force on the 360 is region free?

Mucha is saying that Claymore is in the subgenre of 'low fantasy'.

If you look at their island, although it isn't a real world location, most of it looks very much like Renaissance Italy without...