If you like your demon hunters a bit on the "creepy girl" side, this book's for you, but if you're looking for a little meat with your potatoes, you might consider looking elsewhere.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.
Overall, Claymore is no better or worse than any other title of the same genre. Beyond that, the book's little more than a game of "Spot the Yoma" and that's not hard to do at all. Learn more about IGN Comics' rating system.Ĭlaire is a likeable enough character, despite her fearsome and aloof demeanor, but there's little to set her apart from other super-powered demon hunters from countless other books. Written by: Norihiro Yagi Art by: Norihiro Yagi Publisher: Viz Genre: Manga Price: $7.99 Suggested Age: 16+ Release Date: Now Available but still, I was looking for a little variation, and it never came. that to Claire all these cities are the same. Non-essential characters are barely noticeable, and each city seems the same. Artistically, the only real problem with Claymore lies in the lifeless environment of Claire's world. Without giving too much away, one of my favorite action sequences in terms of pacing and artistry is in this book.
Where many manga-ka will leave you scratching your head about how a particular move was even possible, Yagi keeps it simple, and within even one panel can accomplish what takes others a whole page. Yagi does some great work with action scenes. The artwork is flashy and full of action when it's called for, but fairly pedestrian and bland when it's not. If you're thinking that every chapter is essentially about the central character, Claire, hunting down and killing each Yoma, revealing a little more about her history along the way, give yourself a gold star. Only the Claymores, female warriors who have merged their blood and bodies with the Yoma, are capable of seeing them for what they are, and killing them with the massive swords that gave them their nicknames. Monsters called Yoma prey on a helpless human population, killing and inhabiting their bodies to move on to their next kill. Many stories languish on bookstore shelves already about demon fighters who hide a deep dark secret, and this title seems destined for the same fate. Claymore is nothing new to the seasoned manga reader.
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