How is it possible that no one is talking about this great piece of anime anymore? Have you guys lost interest or what?

Ep.22 is out, but I haven't seen it yet. I'm waiting for my spanish fansub to watch it.

I'm kinda afraid, you know:


I haven't been soo hooked to an anime since Elfen Lied. This is definitely good stuff.

lol I talk about it on facebook :P.

Anywho, episode 22 kinda pissed me off, I was looking forward to it, but how it's turning out, it's giving me hints that my favorite part in the manga won't be happening in the anime, perhaps.

You mean this?:


By the way, have you guys seen this?:
http://www.koichan.net/mt/src/1187018398933.jpg
http://www.koichan.net/mt/src/1187018540857.jpg
I don't like that "line" over her head, but anyways it looks amazing.

Wow, that figure is freaking awesome, where'd you find that?

And it's hard to explain what I'm talking about without spoiling it for you, since I'm riding on assumption ever since:

hmm...just started watching this anime today after reading this thread, its the first anime that i have actually enjoyed watching and bothered to watch past the first few episodes in a long time (as far as new series go). definitely good stuff.

Well, I couldn't resist anymore and downloaded Ep.23 from an english fansub..



Greykin: About those pictures, I usually search in forums and japanese sites for fanart and stuff. I hope to see that figure on play-asia soon. I'll try to find info about it.

Episode 23? It's out? > > Or did you get the manga subs?

Bad typing, sorry. I meant Ep.22

Tecnically, the anime is aired every tuesday, so we'll have to wait a little longer.

Anyways, about the figure, check their official site:

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If I'm not mistaken, it will be released on November 2007.
5,775 yens....like $50, right?

Haha, a Claymore shirt. Usually with yen I just add in a decimal place where it would normally be and that would equate to the approximate price. That's too pricey for my blood though D:

Can't wait for episode 23 though, more of the Clare goodness then. They're kind of stretching the battle out though compared to the manga. Raki's moments seem to extend the episodes.

they are stalling it, thats makes me go crazy =___=

So ya, it's clear that the anime is going to have a made-up ending to finish it at 26 episodes. Though I am VERY disappointed that they took out my favorite scene with, my favorite claymore, Jean, it's sort of nice to have "new" story to follow along though, even though I despise Raki haha.

I just finished volume 9 of the manga.


I have up to volume 12. Is there any fansub dubbing the manga? Or since it was licenced in US no one is dubbing it anymore?

I've also seen Ep.23, which it was pretty good. Obviously every person who has read the manga is disappointed, but anyways it was a decent episode.

From my knowledge, that's as far as the manga currently is in Japan :D
It's still running after all.

I honestly stopped watching the anime though, I wasn't impressed with the changes they made. (as you wrote, it seems to be the norm for people who read the manga first)

A good question I'd like to ask the manga readers is whether Raki ever becomes an awesome character. In the anime, he's been made into an idealistic chump whose only sole purpose is to serve as a plot device whether it's to keep Clare from awakening or to hypnotize Priscilla. Other than that, I haven't really seen him do anything useful which brings the question as to why he was put in there in the first place other than the fact that he's in the manga. As it stands, I could see this show taking place without Raki and nothing would really change in terms of plot.

Raki remains pretty much the same in the manga. He doesn't do anything particularly useful outside of buying Clare enough time to reattach her limbs in the Ophelia battle.

I'm not a fan of where the anime is going compared to the manga, but I have to admit that episode 24 was pretty sweet.

Over all, i have really really liked the anime, Up to the last few episodes, its stuck pretty close the the manga, if not quoting it word for word at parts. But i will have to agree with everybody else, on the part that the manga is better. the manga lets us know abit more about things between all baddies.

and as far as Raki goes, i think it was just some parallelism that they through in there. That is probably the real reason he is there, and he is also a driving reason for Clare to stay alive(besides the obvious, not wanting to die) and for her not to awaken. I would say, the only reason he is there, is because he in a since, keeping her human, so to speak.

Which means that all he does is serve as a plot device. And a character that has no other function in a series other than to serve as a plot device leads to a pretty crappy character. There really is no depth to the anime version of Raki. And that's a damn shame given all the potential that he had to develop into a strong supporting character (which has incidentally been given to the other Claymores).

Any word on whether there'll be a second season? From the way this series is proceeding, I'm expecting it to close out.

I never said he wasn't a crappy under developed character, I was just describing what kinda of plot device I thought he was.

In regards to Raki,

and thus the greatest (in my incredibly biased opinion) most recent shounen anime has come to end, and there is definitely room for a second season! I'd like to start reading the manga from this point, despite what I've heard about discrepancies in between anime and manga towards the last episodes.

I admit that the end got far too DBZish for me:


Frankly, I don't see how or why they would just leave it at that, unless it wasn't popular enough to warrant the next season's budget or whatever.

Probably because it'll be all fillers and would suck.

The anime finished not very far from where the manga is and considering that the manga is being released one chapter per week, we'll have to wait for more than a year if we expect the second season to be any good.

About the ending:

That last episode was too painful to watch. The show definitely started going downhill after episode 17. Once the showdown began, the consistency and quality just became completely laughable.

My problems with the last episode can be summed up below:



I can sort of understand if this was done to preserve a shot at a second season. But if the plan was to create a second season in the first place, why deviate from the manga at all? By all accounts, the manga was pretty decent and everything fits in order. It's when they started deviating from the manga (after episode 17 I think) is when this show started becoming laughable.

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Basically, I have to echo zzeroparticle's complaints too and it seems like that's the most common observation. When it started changing things from the manga is when things started coming off the rails.

Dizzy, Claymore's once a month, it just gets rerun every week apparently. AFAIK the author mentioned he'd like to take it to 25 volumes which means we won't see the end of this one for some time. Mirai Nikki's the same way, along with several other manga.

As for Raki?

waiting for this month's manga chapter to be out.
hmm. it's kinda disappointing how the anime turned out. hope there's a second season. or a OVA

hmm. the Clare model looks tad bit too shiny. though the extra attachment is kinda amusing. imagine a budget version -arms not included-