Johnny-Dy

1st season 10/10. 2nd season 8/10. They will make a 3rd season. I couldn't say the 2nd season that just ended was a disappointment, I can't see it be written much better than it has. It's one of those shows where the incipient idea is brilliant and brilliantly executed, thus it's nearly impossible for it to follow suit. But follow suit it must, season 3 should be fun.

Oh, I haven't described what the incipient idea was. It's about a technology that allows people to seal off memories as well as sentience. Thus creating 2 people in one, one with his own memories and sentience, the other with his separate ones, inaccessible to the 1st and vice-versa. The show is about such peoples lives, the new born sentience (the slave) that always just goes to work - so it's practically sealed off working non-stop and the original sentience (the owner) that doesn't work at all - just trades 9 hours of its life for money and does whatever else it wants. It's a particular type of hell the human nature is capable of that hasn't been tapped before.

To that you add the absolute secrecy the company owning this technology has created around it's information, when there are a plethora of sections of severed people (brain split / half slaves), all knowing little about what they do, knowing little about each other, just working non-stop for f@^k all knows what. Altogether in a society where severed people are being frown upon and discriminated against, both in and outside the company. Fun watch.

I have seen loads of anime and read some manga. I can say without any shadow of a doubt that if Claymore would've been animated in it's entirety from the manga, it would've been the best anime ever made, even the best show ever made for me, because it has the best manga ever made tied with Berserk, both being of the same respect, dark, cold, hardcore medieval fantasy tragedies with immensely powered bone chilling creatures that you can't see anywhere else, alongside a storyline that even God can't foresee, a true stand alone to their kind in quality.

Evan partially animated, why do I consider it to be the best?

2 reasons: wonders done with limited budget; adapted after the best manga ever made, tied with Berserk, but league and bounds above Berserk in the 26 episodes both shows entail.

Why is it league and bounds above Berserk?

2 reasons: it follows faithfully the manga until middle ep. 22, while Berserk leaves out 2 crucial arcs from the manga: The Bakailaka Assassin Squad and Demon Monkey; while Berserk's true mindf#ck action starts only at the end of the anime, Claymore's starts with the end of chapter 2, so episodes 7-8. Thus much sooner - spelling it out as sometimes it's needed.

But even in the about 1/3 of the story that the anime covers from the manga, I still consider it enough to call it, having had read the manga from top to bottom, including the anime covered bit. Waited a decade for people to animate the rest, really did my best to wait but to my surprise and frustration, to no avail, for no good reason. Good to see all kinds of $h!t today gets 4-5 seasons in return, as a constant punishment to my mental health, while in 3 seasons you could probably wrap up Claymore and sell it for a fortune, not free to watch in HD on y0utube like season 1 is now, just to be completely ignored! The blatant disrespect in both proprietary as well as literal mind-pearl thrown to the pigs just to be ignored is mindbogglingly FUBAR here! Don't even get me there... blood pressure alarm.

When I see people today watching and reacting cr4p like My Dress Up Darling, Owel House, Pokemon, Spy Family, High School of the whatever boring theme, and nobody outside the deep anime cercle has even heard of Claymore, it turns my stomach. Stop watching that cr4p for toddlers and watch the greats, especially if they are encapsulated within 26 short episodes and posted freely on y0utube, the truest proverbial gem amongst the mountain of garbage you could ever find! There's no better advice anyone can give you.

Imagine this, I would say if I were one of them. Just try for a second, for the sake of argument, try to imagine that the boy is innocent. Imagine where that 18 year old human beying is at right now as we speak!

1. His father just got killed.

2. He's in trial for his life, literally.

3. His mother lost her husband and is at the mercy of 12 people of losing her son too that has all his future ahead o him. And he knows that.

4. 99.99% he did it but... there's a fraction of a percent in question. So... what if he didn't do it? What are we doing here?

Shouldn't we talk it out before putting his mother into the ground alongside her boy as well?