Claymore

When a shapeshifting demon with a thirst for human flesh, known as "youma," arrives in Raki's village, a lone woman with silver eyes walks into town with only a sword upon her back. She is a "Claymore," a being manufactured as half-human and half-youma, for the express purpose of exterminating these monsters. After Raki's family is killed, the Claymore saves his life, but he is subsequently banished from his home. With nowhere else to go, Raki finds the Claymore, known as Clare, and decides to follow her on her journeys.

As the pair travel from town to town, defeating youma along the way, more about Clare's organization and her fellow warriors comes to light. With every town cleansed and every demon destroyed, they come closer to the youma on which Clare has sought vengeance ever since she chose to become a Claymore.

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Clare Main

Kuwashima, Houko Japanese

Raki Main

Takagi, Motoki Japanese

Teresa Supporting

Park, Romi Japanese

Miria Supporting

Inoue, Kikuko Japanese

Galatea Supporting

Orikasa, Ai Japanese

Irene Supporting

Takayama, Minami Japanese

Ophelia Supporting

Shinohara, Emi Japanese

Jean Supporting

Mitsuishi, Kotono Japanese

Riful Supporting

Mizuki, Nana Japanese

Helen Supporting

Nagasawa, Miki Japanese

Cook, Justin Producer

Maruyama, Masao Producer

Tamura, Manabu Producer

Nakatani, Toshio Producer

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Sep 17, 2025

Sph1nxy

Recommended

I was hooked from the very first episode. Nowadays, a lot of anime feel oversaturated or overly childish, but this one is the complete opposite. The setting is fantastic, and I love how each town portrayed in the episodes carries that strong medieval vibe, it really pulled me in.

Clare’s character is outstanding, and while Raki can be a bit irritating at times, I could still tolerate him.

At times the pacing felt a little too fast. Spoiler alert: they made us grow attached to some characters only for them to be gone by the next episode.

The ending was definitely a choice. Overall, I’m ... glad this ended up as my 100th anime, it was a great ride.

Reviewer’s Rating: 10

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Nov 4, 2025

ajc228

Mixed Feelings

Often compared to other dark-fantasy anime like Berserk, it contains superficial similarities but none of the substance. On the surface, there is a feudal European setting and both series concern the exploits of stoic mercenaries who fight demons. Sadly, Claymore carries none of the interesting political maneuvering or the complicated relationship dynamics informed by trauma. Instead, it decides to focus on a more straightforward plot-structure concerning a half-human/demon heroine who must rise to the challenge to fight increasingly stronger monsters and control her demonic impulses. A route like this is acceptable if the show displays strong animation, fight choreography and a sense of strategy. Regrettably, ... it tends to use lots of still frames and repeats cuts of animation. After a while, the repetition gets boring and contributes to a tedious finale.

Reviewer’s Rating: 6

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May 21, 2025

1stDecame4Danime

Not Recommended

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It's a very shonen/action-focused anime. There really isn't much story nor anything meaningful explored beyond a series of mindless fights between various combinations of claymore warrior women and human-eating demon monsters. It never actually goes anywhere and just sort of reaches the end of the season still climbing that ladder as bait for the manga.
The characters are barely allowed to have any presence beyond rehashing brain-damaging exposition/narration/peptalks and their 1-note character traits. The closest it comes to having actual characters in an arc gets unceremoniously cut through extreme contrivance. The plot armor is everywhere with pretty much every fight being nonsensical asspulls of more and ... more powers being thrown in on top of the power of tryharding/friendship/love/etc to win from start to finish.
To be fair, as far as generic action-shonen go you could do much worse. At least this has some grittiness to it.

3/10 (where 5/10 is average)

Reviewer’s Rating: 3

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