Comments on: Claymore 15

By: ZeroSD

ZeroSD — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 22:51:51 +0000

It starts pretty low-level (I don’t think you’ve even see a basic-model Yoma yet, the standard enemies Claymore fight day to day. The kind of foes Miata’s trained to fight) then ramps it’s way up in between there and here.

By: Connie

Connie — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 09:57:20 +0000

Thanks for explaining that. I’m glad I was able to pick up the story here, where everything is re-introduced and the beginning of the next major storyline getting underway. I didn’t mind the last volume either, with the unrelated characters and the introduction to the fighting techniques and terminology for the series. I’m also very happy to hear that the cast isn’t over-utilized, that’s one of my biggest pet peeves in shounen action series, even my favorite ones.

I think I will pick up the first couple volumes next time I see them. This has been my favorite of the shounen series I’ve picked up at volume 10+.

By: ZeroSD

ZeroSD — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 23:14:30 +0000

I’ll note everyone who showed up here was an established character (to a greater or lesser extent. Three of them have about as much role as the blind nun Claymore). That’s a big, “Cool, they’re back!” moment there for some of us, even if it’s “Wow, mysterious warrors!” to you and Miata :) Starting where you did is something of an interesting jump-on point, since it is pretty much written to re-introduce things to the new major characters in a soft way (I.e. you’ll probably want to go back and read the rest because they’re cool, but this isn’t a Fallen Vampire situation).

Claymore has a reasonably sized cast, it just doesn’t insist on all of them getting a major role every time they show up, to keep it fast.

By: James Moar

James Moar — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 17:29:10 +0000

Claymore was only in Weekly Jump very briefly (in fact, I think four flashback chapters may have been the lot) — basically, it was a stopover for the title between Monthly Jump and Jump Square.

Clarice and Miata are new characters. So far, their function in the story has really been to provide a reentry point after a timeskip, and to show the contrast between the organisation then and now.

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