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BrokenPieces: Claymore is a dark, action-oriented all-female cast [except for four notable male characters] about female slayers [Claymores] who fight monsters called Yoma. The Claymores themselves were implanted with Yoma flesh to give them super strength, but using their powers causes them to become more and more monster-like. There's amazing twists and turns in the story, both heartwarming and heart-breaking events, and some really interesting characters. It's my favourite manga after Tsubasa Reservoir Chronicle.

Bradleigh: Sounds interesting. Maybe I'll add it to my list.

Kuraudo: I might check it out. I'm not normally a fan of all female cast anime but it sounds interesting enough to hold my attention. I never got into Tsubasa but I did like Cardcaptor Sakura. Eriol was my favorite. I remember saying when I was like 12, "I love him, he's such a jerk."

Has anyone seen Katekyo Hitman Reborn? It's kind of long (over 200 eps) but the plot seems interesting.

Here's the link for Claymore:
http://www.mangareader.net/claymore/1

Be warned: blood, violence, nudity, and some really uncanny/frighting monsters within. It also contains subtle and not so subtle lesbian subtext, including one of the greatest [in my opinion] tragic love stories that doesn't involve romance.

As I said, the anime is an unsatisfying mess, but I certainly don't want to force you to read the manga if you don't want to. The only good thing about the anime in my opinion is the Japanese voice cast and the music:

Maybe I'm just bias because the manga is so awesome.

Well maybe I'll check out the manga then. I understand your pain. I hate to see amazing books adapted to movies and the movies suck. I'm sure it's worse when it's manga to anime because it really should be awesome. So it's okay to be biased.

I have all of the volumes on my manga shelf. I've been collecting them since 2010, up to the end of the manga in 2015.

Here's some [non-spoilery] artwork, including group shots of the main cast:





I find all of the characters so beautiful.

Oh, and there's swear words here and there, but not in plentiful amounts. Mostly when hot-tempered Helen or Undine are around; they're quite abrasive.

Nice. I don't see what could be spoiled for me since I don't know anything. I think I'll start reading it next week when I go on vacation. I'll need something to do because I don't sleep well in foreign places. So I imagine I'm going to spend a lot of time staring at my laptop screen.

Thank you.

^Well, some of the artwork references scenes later in the story [such as a certain angel...]

My screensaver is the Claymore twin goddesses of love:


I liked the idea so much that I kind of *cough* "borrowed it" *cough* for one of my stories!

You're very welcome. I love recommending my favourites.

Very pretty. I won't remember that lol.

I've "borrowed" ideas myself. Sometimes it simply must be done.

That's okay.

I borrow ideas from all of my favourite things. I've even considered giving names to the thirty three cats in one of my stories based on my favourite couples.

I had birds when I was younger and they were named after Gundam Wing characters.

There was Trowa, Quatre, Wufei, and...Milliardo Socks Kush Peacekraft Yuy Maxwell the 3rd. All of their names were that long and ridiculous but we just called them by their first names.

And Quatre had her own theme song. My childhood was hilarious.

I named one of my many] fish after a Fire Emblem character, and consider Cloud and Tifa to be good cat names.

I don't think animals should have real people names so Cloud and Tifa sound as good as any. Oh, I had a cat I named Kadaj, around the time AC came out. She lived outside. Everyone called her Kadashi. I named one of her kittens Souba.

I've only ever had one cat, a family cat, named Monkey Pi.
That's brilliant.

Have you seen Rurouni Kenshin? I just found out they made a live action movie of it...like five years ago. O.o But it was just released to the West recently.

No, I haven't. What's it about?

It's set in the late 1800s I believe. Kenshin (also known as hitokiri battousai) is a former assassin who protects the people of Japan (as atonement) and vows not to take another life.

I only saw the original anime series, and the manga ended about a year after that. They apparently have several movies and the live action movie is part of a trilogy. o.O I'm not sure I want to see them but it's interesting to know.

That was the first period anime I'd ever seen, and the only other one I saw was Samurai Deeper Kyo which I loved also.