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meganbmoore) wrote2008-04-20 02:28 pm
meganbmoore) wrote2008-04-20 02:28 pm
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Claymore Vol 11
Wha...wha...wha...
That was...unexpected.
I OBJECT!!!
And...hope there's a much higher survival rate than expected.
At least Clare, Miria, Helen and Deneve...
But...wow.
As I'm being kinda random, allow me to clarify: In a huge and awesome "final stand" battle, ABOUT NINETY PERCENT OF THE CAST WAS KILLED OFF!!! Since the four mentioned above have awakened before, and all "died" off panel, I'm hoping they somehow survived, and are going into hiding(the blurb for vol 12 tells me that after the battle between two Awakened Beings that's going on now ends, the story skips ahead seven years to a new generation of Claymores) until they decide what to do. Since, you know, The Organization has basically been trying to get them killed for a while now, and just cheerfully sacrificed them and half the other Claymores. Oh, how I hope the wrath will be epic.
The thing about this book is that the mangaka tends to create characters that give you the impression the character will be around for the long run...and then off them. Not "this character has an interesting design and fighting style and an attitude" but fully developed characters with distinct personalities, fighting styles, relationships, individual moral codes and angsty backstories, and then s/he(?) just UP AND KILLS THEM OFF WITHOUT WARNING!!!
It's kinda scarring, actually. But in the good way.
At least there's still Galatea. She is definately Not Pleased with having half the Claymores sacrificed by The Organization, and doesn't seem likely to do nothing about it. Then there's the soulless twins, Beth and Alicia, who seem to have a lot of backstory to go with them. And did I understand that right, that they tried to do the same to Teresa and her sister(also named Clare?) and it didn't work out?
Hmm...and I just realized that, if we're about to jump ahead seven years, the book might actually go that Clare/Raki route it hinted at that made me go "WTF???" a few volumes back, esp. since Claymores don't seem to age like normal people do.
I love that I can't begin to guess what will happen next in this book.
That was...unexpected.
I OBJECT!!!
And...hope there's a much higher survival rate than expected.
At least Clare, Miria, Helen and Deneve...
But...wow.
As I'm being kinda random, allow me to clarify: In a huge and awesome "final stand" battle, ABOUT NINETY PERCENT OF THE CAST WAS KILLED OFF!!! Since the four mentioned above have awakened before, and all "died" off panel, I'm hoping they somehow survived, and are going into hiding(the blurb for vol 12 tells me that after the battle between two Awakened Beings that's going on now ends, the story skips ahead seven years to a new generation of Claymores) until they decide what to do. Since, you know, The Organization has basically been trying to get them killed for a while now, and just cheerfully sacrificed them and half the other Claymores. Oh, how I hope the wrath will be epic.
The thing about this book is that the mangaka tends to create characters that give you the impression the character will be around for the long run...and then off them. Not "this character has an interesting design and fighting style and an attitude" but fully developed characters with distinct personalities, fighting styles, relationships, individual moral codes and angsty backstories, and then s/he(?) just UP AND KILLS THEM OFF WITHOUT WARNING!!!
It's kinda scarring, actually. But in the good way.
At least there's still Galatea. She is definately Not Pleased with having half the Claymores sacrificed by The Organization, and doesn't seem likely to do nothing about it. Then there's the soulless twins, Beth and Alicia, who seem to have a lot of backstory to go with them. And did I understand that right, that they tried to do the same to Teresa and her sister(also named Clare?) and it didn't work out?
Hmm...and I just realized that, if we're about to jump ahead seven years, the book might actually go that Clare/Raki route it hinted at that made me go "WTF???" a few volumes back, esp. since Claymores don't seem to age like normal people do.
I love that I can't begin to guess what will happen next in this book.
And now I am utterly bereft of Claymore until Vol 12 comes out, unless I decide to read scanslations. But I kind of want to save it for when I get the books.
I suspect I am temporarily ruined for shounen consisting of guys yelling "And now...I'll show you MY REAL POWER!" or "And now...I'LL TAKE THE FIGHT SERIOUSLY!" etc...
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Re: the twins, the Organization did try it before with non-twin sisters, but I don't think we're supposed to assume Teresa was one of them.
Re: Claire/Raki, I do wonder exactly how Raki will manage to live through his current situation--I mean, yeah, he's pretty dense, but can Isley and Priscilla really fool him for SEVEN YEARS? Surely he can't be *that* dumb...
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The reason I wonder if Teresa is tied in somehow is the Teresa/Clare sister statues Raki saw not long ago.
Hmm...I'm not sure exactly how dumb Raki can/can't be. Let's face, while he may not be strictly "dumb," he only ever really sees the good in people unless they insult Clare, and he's rather blindly trusting.
Honestly, all I could think after reading the blurb for Vol 11 was "this will so go the ROCH route."
ROCH=Return of the Condor Heroes, a very famous wuxia romance about a young man who falls in love with his teacher, who raises him in a cave. They first meet when they're about 13 and 17, but the main story takes place about 7 years later(and then covers a few years.) They spend massive chunks of the story separated, and he rather searches the world over for her several times. (No idea how familiar you are with wuxia.)
If nothing else, we hope Isley teaches him to fight.
Man...there's going to be such massive amounts of angst...
(Out of curiosity, do you know how many volumes the manga is at now, should I read ahead?)
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I'm totally cool with Claire & Raki being separated for most of the story; he is nowhere near as interesting as, well, any of the other Claymores.
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Raki is...amazingly unannoying for a manga kid. I'm cool with him, but I have a fear that a 7-years-older Raki might get in the way of this being one of the few manga where the girls aren't automatically treated as less interesting/important than the guys.