Maaaaan... what the fuck?Wh- why?Why the fuck am I read this shit?It's just depression and suffering and pain and death and just meaningless slaughter.People told me this was just cool monster designs and there wasn't really much of a story but there is and it's just fucking sad as shit.What is wrong with mangakas?I didn't ask for this.
>>287183838Well, to feel sadness you need to invest in characters, but it's hard to do because they fight for many chapters then die
>>287183953Oh okay well I guess I just imagined getting depressed, cool cool.
/a/nimals here hardly have any other mental states than horny or angry so they just didn't know about it
>>287184260This post makes me angery
>>287183978That’s on you
>>287184260How dare you
>>287184260Hot
it's a hidden gem that filters 95% of /a/ tards. but it's overrated now because the 5% that gets it just shill it endlessly
I just bought the first couple of volumes, physical. After watching the anime ages ago.Damn, the mangakas faces are ugly as sin. Will need some time to get used to them.
>>287184655he gets better with timethe art changes drastically
superb
Claymore is a 6/10 that tries to be more but whose art and samey characters never really deserve more attention than given, it's serviceable. And it ended "on time" that's more than most manga
>>287184549It's 80% of long fights, 15% of soap opera, 4% of worldbuilding, and 1% of the story. It's fucking ridiculous, it has more than 20 volumes and always loredrops in one chapter important things
westoids are obsessed with soft-seinen edgyslop
>>287184974long fights are better than periodical, repetitive fights that have no outward expansion. the world building aspect is severely undermined and lacking, but only if we consider it as a rich and vivid medieval fantasy setting.the essence of Claymore is just the fights and the human struggles of rampaging emotions
Isley was a jobber
>>287184974>>287184549It's a brute gem and it will never be good
>>287184549Hidden gem but has a final battle that dragged far too long.
I don't see anons issues with the writing. It's genuinely good. I didn't think too much of it the first time I read it but I reread it just recently and I was positively surprised by it.
>>287184655>>287184933He's also in the slow process of redrawing the earlier chapters
>>287190253what?why?since when?i thought he stopped making manga a while ago
>>287188522It's strongest up to and including the battle in the north. Everything up to that point is super tight, exciting and the art is great. For me on re-reading it starts to feel bogged down once it gets to all the Luciela + abyssal feeders stuff. The art also suffers during that period.
>>287183838This was the peak of the series btw
>>287190793I don't know if he's still chipping away at it or not, it was like 2017 that he did the first three chapters and the fourth apparently popped up on Amazon JP a year or so ago, I wouldn't hold out any hope for the whole series to get that treatment
>>287190982>For me on re-reading it starts to feel bogged down once it gets to all the Luciela + abyssal feeders stuff.I think I can see where it's coming from because the story suddenly revolves less around the main character and it deviates from normal shonen/seinen manga. To me that's where the world building really shines though because the world actually becomes dynamic after the status qou was broken and the main players are acting in ways they should be acting. E.g the organization doing what it does innovates to take out major threats to it instead of waiting until the main character takes care of them. Makes the world feel more alive and gives the characters more agency.
Total Dietrich love.
>>287190793First volume is out and available. No idea if he's redrawing more volumes
>read a series named after a big sword about people with big swords>be surprised when people use big swords
It's perfect at building up hope in spite of all the wretchedness and then yanking it away and giving you more suffering. I just want the cute monster girls to be happy, and for that fucking cunt Priscilla to die painfully.
>>287183838>It's just depression and suffering and pain and death and just meaningless slaughter.Where's the problem?
>>287187183True, the final boss battle was lame and saved only by Teresa's return
