Half human, half monster, these silver-eyed slayers possess supernatural strength, but are condemned to fight their savage impulses or lose their humanity completely.Ī village gripped by fear and paranoia when a Yoma claims six lives. In a world where monsters called Yoma prey on humans and live among them in disguise, humanity's only hope is a new breed of warrior known and Claymores. I know this is inconvenient and more work for some of you, but we have to cover our bases. Please re-host any images you have to an image hosting website. Try to approach as if you were reading Claymore for the first time! If you must incorporate future plot points in your writing, please please please use clearly marked spoiler tags.

Assume there are new readers participating. Please engage in friendly conversation and discussion about the 4 chapters contained in this volume.Īs previously mentioned, please keep discussion limited to this volume. However, as it goes along, the book does generate sympathy with Claire as slayer/victim, maiden/warrior, savior/fiend, showing that even tired material can still be interesting when presented unpretentiously.The community re-read officially begins! I hope everyone is having a good weekend and got a chance to read! If not, no worries, this thread will be up all week. The elements of this story certainly aren't fresh nor is the art especially striking. The rest of the book shows Claire and her na ve tagalong going through a series of confrontations with Yomas, in the worst of which Claire is summoned to kill her best friend, who feels herself losing control over her Yoma side. He sees her as a person rather than a creepy semimonster and follows her after he learns her name, Claire. In the episodes in this volume, a young boy watches one Claymore arrive in his village and do her thing. The monsters here are Yomas, shape-changing creatures with a taste for human innards the slayers are Claymores, young women who have been injected with Yoma blood so that they can recognize and kill the monsters but who then must struggle to keep their own humanity.

This nondescript but pleasant manga is set in the generic fantasy landscape where little medieval towns are separated by large tracts of wilderness, and monsters must be dealt with by traveling for-hire monster slayers.

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