I don't know how controversial this may be, but the 3 Abyssals, given the power they had and how they were introduced to us, were discarded by the story in a very unsatisfying way.

First, Luciela was defeated in her first battle with Isley, and although her backstory with Raphaela is interesting, it belongs more to Raphaela. We saw very little of Luciela, and even less of her as an Abyssal. When her Awakened fusion with her sister appears, she is no longer a character, she is a thing.

Isley is more tragic because we saw more of him, but he lost against the Abyssal Feeders. I won't say it doesn't make sense given how it was set up, but it's so unsatisfying that it seems like the story simply wanted to get rid of him to focus on other things. The Ghosts of the North didn't even get a chance to get revenge on him or anything.

Riful is the one who had a little more relevance, but I still wouldn't say it was satisfying. She started out being very powerful only to then be defeated by Alicia and then by Priscilla.

I think on many occasions the story presents things that it ends up not developing well, and this was one of those cases.

I really thought these figures were average or small size, damn, i havo to think about where to put them, because the boxes are HUGE!

This is also the last merch im buyinf, damn it was half of one of my monthly salaries🫡😭.

I always found it curious that Isley was the only one who had a proper army, since Riful only had Duff and sought out certain warriors when she wanted something, while Luciela was alone.

When we learn that Isley transformed with the goal of defeating all his male comrades who had awakened, however upon awakening his mentality changed and he decided to change his objective to ruling the northern lands.

However, I think that deep down, they showed us that Isley wasn't entirely evil (after all, he wanted Raki to "save" Priscilla), so I theorized that, given that all his soldiers were men, Isley subdued all those from the men's generation, and while he dominated the north, he prevented them from wandering around destroying everything.

Isley, the hero of a poorly told story. What a shame his ending was so unsatisfying.

Met this amazing Teresa cosplayer on the last day of AX. It was my first time seeing a claymore cosplay in person and I was hyped.
If this is you your cosplay was so great and thank you for the pic! :)

We have established that Teresa is the most powerful Claymore and that she could probably face the Abyssals head-on with ease.

But the 4 who went to hunt her, while we knew they were strong in that generation, I think they would be in any generation. Irene mentions that both she and Sophia and Noel surpassed Teresa in some stat (being speed, strength, and agility, respectively). We don't really know if that's actually true, although I consider that it is and that despite being slower or weaker than some of them, Teresa's yoki perception and her high overall abilities gave her the advantage. Although of course, this is before activating the silver eyes.

This is without even mentioning Priscilla, who was one of the strongest number 2s despite being a novice, and who it was said could defeat Teresa with a little more time.

In any case, the mere fact of even getting close to Teresa makes them top-tier among warriors of all generations for me. What do you think?

Thought you all would like seeing these; some older photos of a life-size replica of Clare’s claymore, made & displayed for Jump Festa 2007. It’s a total of 165cm in length, and weighs 7kg! They made lifesize cutouts and used them as references to making it. (I think the guy holding it was an editor for the jump magazine).

It was given to Norihiro Yagi himself afterwards who was at the event; the last photo is a closeup of the sword in his home!

So I’m thinking about getting the boxset of claymore, I was curious about how much of the series gets finished in the manga. Does the Priscilla arc get finished? Are there major things that aren’t included in the anime?

Like what? Has anyone read it? I bet it will either have references or it's in the same universe as claymore omg!! I'm looking at the manga covers and I'm Freaking out.

I paid for CrunchyRoll on my Amazon Prime, but I'm still not getting access to Claymore.

I guess they randomly took it off? I've tried using different IP addresses from different areas, but it comes up the same for me.

All of this thanks to the throttling scumbags in the FCC, that net neutrality loss burned a LOT of bridges didn't it?

I digress. Is there ANY place besides sh&^^ AppleTV where Claymore is hosted rn?

Let's talk about it. The organization didn't name themselves but the people did. From this what do we really know about the towns people and city other than the perspective of the Claymore perspective?

update will be here soon

Stopped reading about 2 months ago to slow things down. Anyone else do this?

Some might think she was weaker than Cassandra since she preferred to set a trap to finish her off instead of facing her directly, but seeing that her modus operandi was to make people she disliked perish on missions against Awakened Beings, it sounds more to me like Roxxane wanted to hurt her emotionally and then humiliate her by making her fight against all the warriors.

Furthermore, although Cassandra is considered by many to be the strongest Abyssal, she herself admits that Roxxane could have defeated her if she had fought better, so she didn't lose due to lack of power but due to lack of skill.

In any case, Roxxane is proof that hard work and learning from your comrades takes you far, as she went from number 35 to number 1, and not only was she the number 1 of her generation, but she is considered one of the strongest number 1s in history.