Yagi takes the reader on flash backs and invites the reader to explore the depths of Claire’s heart. In many ways Yagi is as good at creating this peeling effect of Claire’s character as Lieber, Abrams, Lindelof are at developing their multi-faceted and fantastically complex characters in ‘Lost’.

He starts to unpeel not only the heart of her character, through the various encounters and interaction she has with the story’s characters, but also begins to unravel his character’s past and the motivations it in the present. From scene one Yagi moulds Claire into a character much like that of D, who’s sole purpose is to seek, locate and destroy Yoma.

Yagi fully develops and moulds her as he takes her through his scenes (chapters). This manga is a good springboard for Yagi to develop the reader’s understanding of the motivations of the empty Claire and whilst this emphasis is really this manga’s greatest strength it’s also its greatest weakness.Ĭlaire, the protagonist, is a ‘Strong and Silent’ type and Yagi does well to avoid spawning the same type of mistake that becomes of D in The ‘Vampire Hunter D’ anime. Norihiro Yagi’s ‘Claymore’ (クレイモア) is a dark and brooding story chronicling the journey of Claire, a Claymore (a half-breed of Human and Yoma), through her miserable job of destroying Yoma, devious creatures who morph into humans and proceed, resolutely, to start slowly feasting on a habitation’s population.

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