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meganbmoore1. Ophelia and Flora have amazingly girlish voices. It suits Ophelia, I think, but is a bit odd on Flora to me.
2. I forgot how much I love Deneve in the Pieta arc.
3. The world needs more Galatea and Irene/Ilena.
4. I really do like how the series (both versions) doesn't really play favorites with who dies. Characters with fully fleshed out backstories and motivations die a few chapters after being introduced, and characters who seem destined to be red shirts live. And it never really seems to be gratuitous with the deaths, but rather that people die in this life style, and sometimes it's just the luck of the draw, no matter how cool you are.
5. One quasi-negative thing that I've noticed, though, is that the anime doesn't make it as clear that The Organization seems to have effectively preyed on traumatized young girls with no one left, for whom the chance to become a warrior and get revenge would seem to be the only real option. The "preying on weak young girls" bit, IMO, is especially pertinent as several of their personal stories are tied into how they gained strength from each other, and some characters are set apart from each other by how they deal with that trauma as adults. Plus, of course, there's Miria and Teresa (and arguably Galatea) catching on to their game, which is one of the core parts of the plot.
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2. I forgot how much I love Deneve in the Pieta arc.
3. The world needs more Galatea and Irene/Ilena.
4. I really do like how the series (both versions) doesn't really play favorites with who dies. Characters with fully fleshed out backstories and motivations die a few chapters after being introduced, and characters who seem destined to be red shirts live. And it never really seems to be gratuitous with the deaths, but rather that people die in this life style, and sometimes it's just the luck of the draw, no matter how cool you are.
5. One quasi-negative thing that I've noticed, though, is that the anime doesn't make it as clear that The Organization seems to have effectively preyed on traumatized young girls with no one left, for whom the chance to become a warrior and get revenge would seem to be the only real option. The "preying on weak young girls" bit, IMO, is especially pertinent as several of their personal stories are tied into how they gained strength from each other, and some characters are set apart from each other by how they deal with that trauma as adults. Plus, of course, there's Miria and Teresa (and arguably Galatea) catching on to their game, which is one of the core parts of the plot.
Related to that...
In the next-to-latest(I think) chapter it was confirmed that The Organization is behind the Yoma (which we pretty much knew already.) I wonder, though...has anyone else considered the possibility that they somehow could tell if a village had a girl(or girls) who were compatible with the Claymore process, and deliberately had their families targetted? A good way to make sure you have fanatically devoted warriors is to have them lose everything at the hands of what you want them to fight.