Shounen Claymore by Norihiro Yagi

[Gold Knight]

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Keep discussion going here about Claymore and tell us what you think about it. If there's enough demand for it, we may be creating a section for it, as well as help promoting it.

 

[FinalFan]

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How many of the actual volumes do you own? I own 8 of them. and who's your favorite Claymore character? Mines Maria

 

[Hitsugaya_333]

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Cool, GK.

I have vol. 1-12 and ch. 70-73 of vol. 13. I don't REALLY own them, because I downloaded them.

My favorite character so far is Teresa. So far because I'm only at ep. 10.

 

[lapchern]

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a claymore section would be great

 

[mayor]

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I agree, this manga is one of the best, read 12 volumes in 2 nights
favourite character is Galatea, I hope she will get even better in upcoming chapters

 

[spacecat]

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This is my new favourite most definitely. I'm happy to have a go at translations if anyone needs them.

 

[Galth]

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That'd be awesome, spacecat! Seeing as Claymore is going to be published in Shounen Jump in the future, I suspect it'll gain popularity from the people reading that. If you can post translations on this forum, with a little luck we can get a Editing project set up here, or even get 10sigh to join MangaHelpers to promote the series.

Actually, the things that interest me at this point:

RAKI > Raki is kept with Priscilla and Isley. Why does Priscilla "like" Raki and keep him with her? Why does she act like a child suddenly? Why isn't Raki searching for Clare frantically (assuming Isley and Priscilla wouldn't stop him)?

PRISCILLA > Why did Priscilla spare Clare when awakening? She just awakened, she was incredibly hungry for human intestines, and Clare was right there, but she just ignored her? That's totally illogical... Especially after the fact that we now heard she never spared anyone else (except Raki, once again a riddle). The way it was presented, it's most probably important to the plot, I guess...

CLARICE > Clarice is obviously meant as some sort of mirror of Clare's past, and at this point it seems they're hinting they'll join forces at some point. The similarity in names is obviously another reference to this. If I had to guess, I'd say Galatea will tell Clarice what she knows during the battle that's coming up the next few chapters, and Clarice and Galatea (and Miata, which will prove to be very awkward) might be Clare's new companions, or allies at least...? Though I can imagine Galatea dying there as well, as long as she passes on some vital piece of knowledge to Clarice in a "Please tell this to Clare..." way.

EDIT:

Anyone has any idea how the anime will end? Ofcourse the Pièta Annihalation seems a nice grand finale, but it won't make for a happy ending if we're going to believe they all died. And ofcourse it wouldn't settle the Priscilla and Raki issues... But then again, it's an anime series, they hardly ever tie up all their loose knots before they end due to their commercialistic nature. ^^

Oh, and most of my favourite characters all kinda... died at Pièta (Flora, Jean, Undine...). So I guess I'll have to start liking some others. (Though Twin-Sword Deneve seems like a great thing) ^^

And here's another thing I almost forgot about:

RIFUL > What's the thing Riful found that could possibly take care of Priscilla, but would require a Yoki-reader to work with...? And more importantly, who is she going to aquire to work with it (rule of manga -- no revealed weapon goes unused)? Galatea and Clare are the excellent Yoki-Readers we know about at this point, ehm, who else...?

 

[Sci-Fi]

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The anime can end (this 1st season) at several different places...all of which would leave a cliffhanger for anime only viewers. It depends on how many chapters/volumes the animators blow through...they are catching up to the manga quite quickly. Some feel that the fight sequences are too short in the anime when compared to the manga, but it seems fine with me and the anime is closely following the manga.

In any case, it will be a long wait before there is a season 2 unless they want to go with fillers. Also depends on how long Norihiro Yagi wants to continue the Claymore story...he did start it back in 2001.

 

[mayor]

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I think everything is explained in manga, Priscilla didnt eat Clare because she was so weak, and Priscilla wouldn`t fell that she eat something. And on the other hand, as they say, Priscilla had never killed small girls, she destroyed whole citys, but never killed any small girl, because of her memories, when she lost her family, and she Was small child too.

Yep, I think Clarice is very important charcter (whole 73rd chapter is about her) and I think she will join with Clare, I hope Galatea will do this too.

If they make one season of 26 episodes, I think they end on Pieta battle and if show will be popular, they might do some fillers, I hope they didn`t because its great show and runining it by some weak fillers, isn`t great option.

I think Norihiro Yagi will end this sotry properly, so he will publish his work until Clare defeat Priscilla and other abyssal ones. For me the most interesting thing is how Priscilla get stronger then Riful, she didn`t look like she could beat her. Maybe now she has some other form, then before?

 

[Galth]

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"The anime can end (this 1st season) at several different places...all of which would leave a cliffhanger for anime only viewers. It depends on how many chapters/volumes the animators blow through...they are catching up to the manga quite quickly. Some feel that the fight sequences are too short in the anime when compared to the manga, but it seems fine with me and the anime is closely following the manga." - Sci-Fi

"If they make one season of 26 episodes, I think they end on Pieta battle and if show will be popular, they might do some fillers, I hope they didn`t because its great show and runining it by some weak fillers, isn`t great option." - mayor

An alternate ending is possible, but not filler: they already announced when the anime series started that it would only last 26 episodes, ergo: one season. They could be planning an alternate ending though, who knows?

And yeah, so far I'm very happy with the anime. They stay true enough to the story, fights may be short, but any longer would probably get boring, the music and choice of genre are great, the animation quite decent... Actually the only bad things are that Clare's voice is just so dull and lifeless... I know that's supposed to be like that, she's a Claymore after all, but it still annoys the audience at times, and ofcourse, Raki is even more useless and irritating in the anime than he is in the manga. I know he's the artist's tool to counter Clare's unemotional personality and make the series more interesting, but he still bothers me. ^^

"I think everything is explained in manga, Priscilla didnt eat Clare because she was so weak, and Priscilla wouldn`t fell that she eat something. And on the other hand, as they say, Priscilla had never killed small girls, she destroyed whole citys, but never killed any small girl, because of her memories, when she lost her family, and she Was small child too." - mayor

She wasn't weaker than any other human being, and Awakened Beings don't eat Claymore guts, or they prefer human ones at least. Where else was she going to feed? But meh, it's not so important actually. Raki's case is, though.

 

[Vaxgen]

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Ah, I hope Priscilla's awakened form didn't change, I really liked it and her regular human appearance as well.

Also, I don't remember anything about Priscilla not eating Clare, or other little girls for any specific reason, she just didn't seem to notice Clare. I don't think she cares how strong, or weak a human is, theres got to be more to her reason for not devouring Clare.

"Actually the only bad things are that Clare's voice is just so dull and lifeless... I know that's supposed to be like that, she's a Claymore after all, but it still annoys the audience at times" -Khaludh. I personally don't find Clare's voice to be all that annoying, and I think throughout the series it will get more lively, especially if there is a second season.

 

[Adam_xx]

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Lol, I've tried to avoid most of the posts. I have yet to read past Volume 7, where can I get the translation for the rest of it?

 

[ibra87]

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Lol, I've tried to avoid most of the posts. I have yet to read past Volume 7, where can I get the translation for the rest of it?

Either #lurk or Mangatraders

 

[Adam_xx]

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Thanks ibra. Gun! xD

 

[spacecat]

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That'd be awesome, spacecat! Seeing as Claymore is going to be published in Shounen Jump in the future, I suspect it'll gain popularity from the people reading that. If you can post translations on this forum, with a little luck we can get a Editing project set up here, or even get 10sigh to join MangaHelpers to promote the series.

Yeah I'd be happy to do that if someone provides me with a raw or script I'll keep my eye out for it.

 

[No OnE]

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Keep discussion going here about Claymore and tell us what you think about it. If there's enough demand for it, we may be creating a section for it, as well as help promoting it.

That would be awesome

 

[Bling]

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is chapter 74 available???

 

[tyleroc]

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is claymore going to be coming out on a weekly, biweekly, or monthly basis?

also i'd love to see claymore have its own section, i just read the entire series in a day and love it now that i've gotten further in it. i think it definitely needs promoted more though

 

[Vaxgen]

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It's a monthly publishing Bling, comes out on the sixth of every month or something? Or, I usually see the new chapter online around then anyhow. To Tyleroc, according to Khaludh, it will be in Shounen Jump on a weekly basis sometime, hopefully sometime soon. And I want it to get its own section as well, I think it'll pick up a larger fan-base eventually.

 

[One Bad Mo Fo]

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It's a monthly publishing Bling, comes out on the sixth of every month or something? Or, I usually see the new chapter online around then anyhow. To Tyleroc, according to Khaludh, it will be in Shounen Jump on a weekly basis sometime, hopefully sometime soon. And I want it to get its own section as well, I think it'll pick up a larger fan-base eventually.

The monthly shonin jump that Claymore was published in has been discontinued as of the issue that came out June 6th. Supposedly according to this: http://mj.shueisha.co.jp/suspend.html (would be great if someone who can read japanese could confirm that) Claymore's going to be taking a month break so we wont be seeing chapter 74 until early August at the very least. I can't really see it going to weekly publication as that would necessitate at least a double the pages every month.