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Claymore (stylized as CLAYMORE) is a Japanese dark fantasy manga series writt and illustrated by Norihiro Yagi. It debuted in Shueisha's shōn manga magazine Monthly Shōn Jump in June 2001, where it continued until the magazine was shut down in June 2007. Following a four-chapter monthly publication in Weekly Shōn Jump, the series was transferred to the newly launched Jump Square, where it was serialized from November 2007 until its conclusion in October 2014. Its chapters were collected in 27 tankōbon volumes.

A 26-episode anime television series adaptation by Madhouse was broadcast on Nippon Television from April to September 2007. A CD soundtrack for the anime and a CD of character songs using its voice actresses were released in July and September 2007, respectively.

The Claymore manga was licsed for glish release in North America by Viz Media and released its 27 volumes from April 2006 to October 2015. The anime adaptation was licsed for release in North America by Funimation. Madman tertainmt has licsed the anime for release in Australia and New Zealand and the anime is sub-licsed by Manga tertainmt for UK distribution.

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The series is set on a fictional medieval island where humans are plagued by Yoma (妖魔 ), humanoid shape-shifters that feed on humans. A mysterious group, known as The Organization, creates human-Yoma hybrids to kill Yoma for a fee. These female warriors wear armored uniforms. The public refer to them as Claymores, alluding to their claymore swords,

Yoma and Claymore warriors alike are powered by a demonic ergy, Yoki (妖気 ), which allows shape-shifting and extreme strgth. Wh warriors use too much Yoki, they awak, becoming a super-Yoma called an Awaked Being. The act of awaking is liked to the feeling of sexual climax, so while both male and female warriors existed in the past only the wom proved to be successful warriors and so the creation of male Claymores stopped altogether.

Claymore warriors No. 1 through 47 are ranked on their baseline Yoki pottial, strgth, agility, intelligce, ssing and leadership. A warrior's rank rises and falls according to the warrior's strgth in relation to other warriors. It is unclear whether the warriors strgth comes from training/experice or if the pottial lies within the warriors themselves.

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In addition to all having differt names, most warriors (usually high in rank) further their individuality by possessing a unique sword technique, fighting style, or Yoki ability. Examples of sword techniques are: twisting the arm around and thrusting for a drill-like strike, unsheathing and re-sheathing the sword faster than the eye can see, or vibrating the sword so quickly the emy cannot tell where the blade is coming from. A few fighting styles include: stretching the arm, fighting with two blades, and releasing a burst of Yoki for a momtary burst of speed. For Yoki ability, there are several Claymores who can sse Yoki over vast distances and very accurately in close quarters. This appears to be, while not offsive, a very rare and valuable ability and the Claymores in the Organization with this ability are usually highly ranked. In addition, there are four Claymores that have offsive techniques that are Yoki based. The first is Galatea's ability to control her opponts' Yoki for brief periods during battle, usually to cause the emy's attack to miss. The second is Teresa's: her ability to sse Yoki is so strong that she can sse it moving around her opponts' body and can therefore sse how and wh her emy will attack next, a technique later copied by Clare. The third ability is that of Rafaela who is able to manipulate the vision and movemts of other Claymores. She is employed as an anti-training warrior.

The first arc introduces the protagonist of the series: No. 47, Clare, who saves a young boy, Raki, from a Yoma. The next arc flashes back to the time of Teresa, warrior No. 1 of her era. And the young girl she saves from Yoma—Clare. The arc ds with their tragic counter with Priscilla.

Flashing forward to Clare's time, the Slashers arc introduces Miria (No. 6), Deve (No. 15), Hel (No. 22) and Galatea (No. 3). The Gravestones arc introduces Ophelia (No. 4). The Witch's Maw arc introduces Jean (No. 9), Riful and Dauf. The Northern Campaign arc introduces Flora (No. 8), Undine (No. 11), Isley and Rigaldo. Raki and Priscilla reappear here.

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On July 18, 2006, Viz Media announced the serialization of the Claymore manga in North America in its Shon Jump manga anthology.

An animated TV series adaptation of the manga produced by Nippon Television, D.N. Dream Partners, Avex tertainmt and Madhouse aired from April 4 to September 26, 2007 in Japan.

The anime is directed by Hiroyuki Tanaka, with Yasuko Kobayashi handling series composition, Takahiro Umehara designing the characters and Masanori Takumi composing the music.

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It adapts the first elev volumes of its source material over the first 24 episodes, th uses an alternate ding for its final two episodes.

As of February 2008, sev DVD volumes, each containing three episodes of the anime, have be released in Japan by Avex Trax.

In addition, four limited edition sets have be released. The first limited edition set contains the first DVD volume, while the other three sets each contain two DVD volumes.

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The latest limited edition set and volumes were released on January 30, 2008. Two more DVD volumes and one more limited edition set are planned for release on March 26, 2008.

As of February 2009, three volumes have be released. On February 16, 2010, Funimation released a boxed set containing the complete series in Blu-ray format. Madman tertainmt has licsed the series and Volume 1 released early 2009.

Netflix also made Claymore available for streaming, but the series has be removed as of April 2012. All 26 episodes are available on Hulu, however, and Funimation via their streaming video service and DVD.

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Two pieces of theme music are used for the episodes: one oping theme and one ding theme. The oping theme is Raison d'être (レゾンデートル , lit. Reason for being) by visual kei rock band Nightmare. The ding theme is J-pop singer Riyu Kosaka's single, Danzai no Hana: Guilty Sky (断罪の花 ~Guilty Sky~ , lit. Flower of Conviction~Guilty Sky). These two themes are used in all twty-six episodes.

Two CDs have be released for the Claymore. The first soundtrack, titled Claymore TV Animation O.S.T., contained tracks from the anime series and was released on July 25, 2007 with instrumtal compositions by Masanori Takumi. Spanning 32 tracks, the soundtrack includes the television-sized versions of the oping and ding themes.

A second soundtrack, titled Claymore Intimate Persona: Character Song Shuu (CLAYMORE INTIMATE PERSONA~キャラクターソング集~ ), was released on 27 September 2007. It contains t tracks, one each for t characters from the series, featuring songs performed by the character voice actresses from the anime adaptation.

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Claymore: Gingan no Majo (CLAYMORE ～銀眼の魔女～ , lit. Claymore: The Witch of the Silver Eyes) was released by Digital Works tertainmt, 28 May 2009, in Japan.

In this Nintdo DS game, the player controls Clare in a similar fashion to side-scrolling Castlevania and Metroid games. Player can alter the strgth of Clare's Yoki by using the touch scre and stylus.

In his review of volume 7, Carlo Santos of Anime News Network says about Clare's action sces that Clare's fights are nothing short of eye-popping, with page layouts designed for maximum dramatic effect. About the drama, he says that ev the occasional attempts at drama feel oddly distant. About the part in the story where Raki and Clare are separated, he states that it is more like leave now because that's the obvious next step in the plot.

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Theron Martin, also of Anime News Network, says in his review of volume 14 that the series has lost some of its luster, and it seems like less and less is actually happing with each volume. About the action sces, he says that the actual fights lack some of the dynamism se in earlier volumes. As for the art, he states that as has be true in the past, Yagi's artistry lacks for nothing.

However, in his review of volume sixte, Theron Marton says that Yagi is back on track, and that he provides a good mix of old frids popping back up, new allies, startling revelations, dire threats, and of course good-ol' beatdown action, in the process returning the series to arguably its strongest level since volume 12.

Theron Martin also gave his thoughts on the first five episodes of the anime. He stated that while not without some flaws, the first five episodes gerally get the series off to a strong start, practically assuring that Funimation has a solid hit on their hands.

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