Manga: Claymore

[Ryllharu]

Trying in with a post from the anime thread I thought it would be more interesting to talk about here since we already know about Alicia and Beth, and Galatea will reappear soon.

Granted there will always be stars in each generation like Teresa and Priscilla, but it seems like the Claymores of present day are stronger overall, by comparing Noel and Sophia (ranked 4 and 5) to the members of Miria's team (6, 15, 22, 47). Miria's team members are special cases, but for supposedly being stronger than Miria, Sophia and Noel came off as pretty generic.

Let's look at the generation before the War in the North. Since Alicia and Beth are special cases, if we remove them from the rankings, that moves Miria down to 4th, and Galatea down to 1st. That puts her at equivalent rank to Teresa, and she has superior powers since she can actually manipulate Yoki when her foes aren't paying attention or using too much. With Miria having developed her old form of Flash and Flora (adjusted to Rank 6) with the windcutter, compared to the old 4 and 5, Noel and Sophia, they do seem stronger overall.

Then with the 17 of various ranks killed, and 7 deserted after the battle at Pieta, this next generation is obviously weaker since they just cranked them out as fast as they could, but trained the strongest to purposely fight Awakened and Abyssal Ones. This brings me to the next point and back up to date.

If we assume Galatea's adjusted rank would have been first, are we about to see a repeat of what happened with Teresa and Priscilla? It's been mentioned twice that Miata could be ranked 1st, sound familiar? She won't because of her obvious mental issues, but Miata also fights incredibly well under suppressants, just as Priscilla did by never releasing her energy. Priscilla had father issues, Miata has mother ones. She and Clarice are hunting a higher ranked Claymore who excels at reading and in this case twisting Yoki.

I think we may see a parallel to the Teresa-Priscilla fight, but hopefully with a better ending this time. Claymore revolt seems to be theme of this era in the story, and where Priscilla was on her own, Miata has Clarice as her voice of reason.

[Yukimura]

I couldn't not read the manga anymore, and it's been a damn fine experiance. So many charachters but they all have such interesting personalities and quirks. Off all the charachters in the big battle my favorite was probably Jean (R.I.P. Jean I'll miss you forever!!!) with the other half awakeneds all being very interesting of course. Gotta love those hyper-honorable types who follow main charachters around like loyal servants and make main charachters realize important things about themselves.

As for the current arc the hunt for Galtea AKA The Prettiest Claymore has me worried, since loli vamp might just be able to do take her down. Hopefully we'll instead see Galatea escape and join the Band of 7 (they can sacrifice Yuma to keep the number since she's not all that interesting). Also, Clarice reminds me of Clare somehow, and I think that similarity is going to be built upon as the story progresses.

[Oakleya]

I believe about most of everyone who started the anime, started watching the manga. This series just seem to great for me to refrain from reading manga. However im still anticipating for the anime to come out each week ~..~

[animus]

So do I. I like watching the animated versions of Manga. Even though, the manga can be great, it being animated sometimes adds a whole new dimension of depth and action.

[Death13a]

I have a feeling that anime will stop at time skip. And season 2 will depend on sales and amount of manga.

[Munsu]

I would stop the series at the time skip, and then start doing small OVA series afterwards like Hunter X Hunter does.

[Augury]

I'm too lazy to post most of the time, but I feel that I should add some input at this point. I sent a private message to Ryllharu earlier regarding his comments in the Claymore Anime thread. I didn't think that I came across as impolite or as giving him shit about his participation in that discussion, and if that's how my message was received that certainly wasn't my intention.

Ryllharu, I don't think you should stop posting in the Claymore discussion because I agree that most of what you say generates good discussion and keeps the thread interesting. From my point of view, you've been one of the more intelligent and interesting posters for quite a while. I just think that any manga reader shouldn't engage too deeply in anime speculation because something is bound to leak eventually.


In the upcoming Miata vs Galatea conflict, I also hope for Galatea to survive. However, I wouldn't count on her joining the Band of Seven because they already have an "eye" type. There's several ways to play out this situation but I also think that a parallel to Priscilla vs Teresa is likely. Clarice being the emotional support of Miata will probably be the deciding difference.

I also liked Jean's character (R.I.P.!!) but one of the interesting elements in Claymore is that the protagonists aren't all safe from death. I think, though, that since the Band of Seven cannot use yoma techniques anymore, Helen has probably inherited an ability similar to Jean's to at least remember part of her. No more hyper-honorable character for a while though...