For more cool Anime & Manga wallpapers don't forget to check out our full collection of desktop wallpapers here.
We usually update with a new batch of anime backgrounds every month so do bookmark us for your future anime wallpaper needs.
Manga Review: Claymore
Posted By EthaNox On October 9, 2011
Manga Review: Claymore
We reviewed the anime so let’s hop onto the manga now, shall we? This article will also serve to point out some of the key differences between the two mediums on which the story has been represented. Think of this second and last article as a way to give you a more rounded choice on what to do if you decide to follow up on Claymore.
This is long
I’ll get my biggest nitpick out of the way right at the start. The manga is so freaking long that the entirety of the anime can be taken as a small, almost insignificant set of chapters that served to establish the world and characters more than anything else. Here’s the thing though, the first few villains and plot lines are well written and take a long time to get through, but they eventually get swept under a change of focus that’s big enough to make them look like plot devices.
Nothing escalates so far out of reach as anime and manga, but Claymore takes it to a whole new level. It starts off slowly, revealing aspects of the plot through Clare’s travels and her life within the organization, and then it slowly becomes a different story. One that may very well be high up there on the mind-fu..eh you know, scale as there are some revelations that serve to throw everything up to that point into disarray.
EVERYTHING HERE IS A SPOILER
You still have time to scroll down and get away from it, so ready? The organization, the world where they live in, the warriors and the Yoma are all basically irrelevant. The land they live in is basically an island that has been kept away from the rest of the world to serve as a testing facility to develop bio weapons; all because the actual organization is entangled in a battle with creatures that can be summed up as dragons, but what about the Yoma?
They are failed experiments that are simply being disposed off in the most useful manner. That’s right, the warriors and their Yoma hunting way of life is nothing but a result from the needs of a much more advanced society, so their battles and every single bit of tragedy in their lives can simply be blamed on the organization’s greed.
The story is great and richly developed in the manga, but that right there is a great twist that adds a lot to it and sets off some of the most interesting battles in the series so far.
NO MORE SPOILERS!
So the story is longer, the characters are fleshed out and given better development, but is it any good? It is! Even though it suffers from some shonen clichés like “This is the most powerful creature we have faced!” being used on a villain that amounts to nothing but a wimpy grunt by the next volume, or the classic new super ability being effective with one villain but doing nothing to another.
Overall the plot is great, it’s filled with huge swords…And what surprises me the most, it has amazon-like warrior women and it doesn’t delve into the usual and rather clichéd fanservice scenarios. I guess I would compare it to Berserk more than anything else, even though saying that might very well be a cardinal sin.
