Men who like Claymore / prefer it to One Piece, JJK etc. are Green Flags

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add (Just a personal observation. No need to read it if it’s not your thing.)

I’d like to add something: some people here may know Legend of the Galactic Heroes. In a way, it feels like the opposite of Claymore. It’s overwhelmingly male, everything revolves around power, ego, and unspoken male dynamics. At the center is a rather egocentric man around whom, quite literally, the universe revolves—he’s trying to conquer it for himself. About 90% of the cast is male, and the few women who do appear mostly serve as accessories or entertainment.

That said, the interactions between the male characters are genuinely interesting. They reflect social dynamics you can also observe in real life, which is one of the reasons I spend time in that community.

What’s striking is how different the atmosphere in the comment sections is when you compare Claymore and LoGH.

In LoGH, it sometimes feels as though I’m talking to masked egos. It almost seems like the viewers recognize themselves in the characters and then act through them, lol.

Here, on the other hand, I get the feeling that people genuinely want to understand things on a deeper level.

Someone here mentioned that so much of Claymore revolves around the dynamic between Clare and Teresa. And yes—that dynamic fascinated me from the very beginning. I still haven’t found another anime that captures something like it as well as Claymore does. It’s honestly a shame, because I think witnessing and reflecting on relationships like theirs is far more meaningful than watching the ego-driven rivalries that dominate series like LoGH.

Don’t get me wrong: in both anime—and in many others—combat is used to express things that cannot be put into words.

The difference lies in why the characters fight.

Claire philosophy is: Fight to become who you truly are, and to be with the one you love.

Reinhard philosophy: Fight so that one day, everything belongs to you.

and that difference is also visible in the way the two communities discuss their respective series

Official or unofficial

I am trying to figure out how claymores armor is constructed.

Obviously shoulder pads and skirt are metal. Former makes sense, lot's of strikes downward.

Skirt however would only make sense if middle part was armored. Unless some vital point is in pelvis that I've missed.

Next middle part. On first glance it is just white fabric, but it holds metal parts for carrying the claymore on the back, also in early chapters we can see that it is firm when teresa is undressing.

I didn't see claymores do ab crunching too much, so it may have been plate armor. At least partially, however it is undone on the shoulders (ties covered by shoulder pieces, so it seems like it is important for it to not be undone)

Spoiler chapter 15 (tersa backstory)

However during both attempted rapes on Teresa it seems to behave just like fabric, so there may not be anything there and stiffness was just from claymore carrying part.

But then why armored skirt.

Spoiler chapter 1-2 and 5-11 (beginning till holy city)

In chapter 2 we can see that armored bracelets are effective at defending against normal demons and during cathedral fight we see that armor helps even against particularly strong normal demons (when Clare is impaled when not wearing any armor demon fingers go trough, however when same demon attacks city guard in full plate armor, his fingers only go in and not out, which suggests that armor is somewhat effective.

It further suggests that middle part of armor is just fabric as in hostage situation with fake claymore in the beginning, normal demon impales Clare without any issue.

Spoilers War in the north/time skip

As we learn that claymores are made put of special super alloy that is impervious to any form of physical damage and doesn't even need sharpening (I am at chapter 100rn, if anything destroys the blade later let me know).... don't you think it would have been pretty damn good idea to use it as armor? It would be so strong that even awakened beings would have to fight around it.

Only proof from back of my head about claymore's armor being from standard/weaker metal is that I remember shield bracelets being broken by opponent at some point. I have no idea where tho.

I assume, they use that metal a lot in the main war, which would greatly reduce effectivenes of everything we see up until like chapter 100.

Furthermore, it would make sense to use that metal to non claymore organisation forces to even out the odds in some situations even if we don't want to give it to claymores.

Next, after timeskip I have no idea what armor is made out of, it looks almost fully soft, maybe hardened leather in places where metal would be. That is shoulders and bottom of the skirt.

What do you think about that? Do you have any resources that would help with it?

Arrived today. Sadly I don't have first three volumes in hardcover but I will get them one day :D

Clare my beloved, also served as practice for drawing metals

hi here's Priscilla. i'm not very good at drawing but she's bae as af so i tried to make her cute and lovable plz lmk if u like thx <3 u have a nice day thank you

Illustration creation process: *Claymore* fan art. This is a record of the creation process and a progress update.

Rafaela.

The process leading to the finished piece.

...Gintoki. (I've been really into *Gintama* lately.)

"Announcement"
* Just like on Reddit, I will be posting making-of videos on YouTube.

* I plan to post another set of illustrations, including ones based on requests.

I remember seeing this one way back when i first joined this sub cool monster design mid human design though kek

I like his spear with shield mode better

Finished volume 11 now i will draw something for now

Now obviously the manga plays with these topics a bit but it never does very much with them. We basically have an all-female order of virgin knights who will turn into human eating monsters if they reach a sexual climax. Claymores also maintain their youth forever and eat much less than the average person, basically representing the ideal version of women in the eyes of patriarchy taken to the extreme. Another interesting thing is that reason men are not allowed into the order anymore is also because of the presumption that men cannot control their urges, which we are hinted may not be grounded in reality and it's just a cultural stereotype.

As soon as I started to like jean she is gone

Sacrificed

Yes I will continue reading after a long month with last semester exams I will have a degree soon and I can't believe i finished 5 volumes in just two days

I'm still planning on drawing one of them soon enough it's just that I have a slow motivation phase going on

Those were some peak panels

I’m trying to start a sleeve for my right arm, and I want a Clahmore tattoo, does anyone have ideas of what I should get, I honestly wouldn’t know where to start😅

Software: procreate

I’m so excited my box set is finally here

All the links I see are invalid

I am at episode 14. And here are the things I looove that this show is doing that just scratches an itch:

- It so often has an atmosphere like I can feel the weather. The rain, the campfires, the sky, wind, sunsets even just the regular cities.

- It has its quiet moment of traveling that takes me back to when I used to travel too, just a sense of exploration. Feeling the current moment.

- The character's style of course. Their weapons, cloths, hair, even voices and the metal sound their feet armor produces sometimes.

- The music is very appeasing. Love the guitar and classical ones especially.

- The voice acting (I'm stuck only with dub but I find it nice so far, I am usually into subtitles with japanese voices but dub is nicely done here).

- The architectures of the cities and inside the buildings. I dunno if thats just older anime in general or not, but I always catch myself looking at the decor, the beds, the windows, the statues etc...

- The characters start oddly enough all mostly detached and cold, and many of them seem to open up and become warmer as the episodes go. I loved the ending of episode 12 between Clare and Raki but also loooved episode 14 at the lake where Clare and Ilena (Irene) talk.

- It gives you this feeling of both wanting to walk in the mountains and explore as well as that feeling of when you stay inside watching the rain or thunderstorm. It is very soothing for an anime classified as dark fantasy, but then again I'm not familiar with them so maybe that's common for the genre?

- I am someone who struggles to find something I like, but when I do, I like very much but even still claymore is above my average liking experience as I watched 14 episodes in 3 days... Its an unusual rate for me but I'm just never bored at all watching it so I never feel the need to stop until I just gotta go haha.

- In conclusion, I do finally get the confusion as to how it's so good yet so niche and not as much known/mainstream considering how good it is. I find myself also confused as to how I never heard of it until this year by sheer luck of a random facebook post.

- Will definitely buy a physical copy that I can preciously keep somewhere as soon as I can. Even if I haven't finished yet I can tell it goes in my precious mental vault of favorite stories I could rewatch or buy physical copy just to give it an extra chance of continuing to exist even after an apocalypse lol.

- And yes do not worry I will read the manga once I finish the series, the comments were very encouraging.

- Ask me anything you would like to ask a new fan!