Claymore - Requests for new threads

[SimplyEd]

LOL Tempest^^

That sounds just as attractive as a "Claywatch" subthread^^

[NoSanninWa]

Very amusing. Not going to get its own thread though. Claymore has one of the highest signal:noise ratios on AnimeSuki Forums and I'd like to keep it that way. Unfortunately as funny as you were, I know that there are ten or twenty times as many who only think that they are funny. It quickly becomes hard to find the funny amongst all the comedians who consider the existence of that thread as a challenge whose siren song they must fall to.

[SimplyEd]

Yeah, i agree. Comedy should only be used to lighten up the mood, when everything seems a bit stiff and heavy-handed.
Apart from that..i think we got all bases covered, as far as threads are concerned.

[Negativedark]

Or of course to kill time waiting for next months chapeter. He He He.... We have definetly been very silly in there.

[Tempest35]

Too true...comedy's a tricky thing to begin with - even more tricky with a serious anime like this. That and people have different ideas about what is 'funny' and what isn't.

That and I was up late last night and decided to watch all the 'Shimigami Cup Golden' specials until I finally fell asleep. ^^ Maybe I'll keep the idea going but make them into little fanficclets or something and post them there. If that's okay...

[NoSanninWa]

Originally Posted by Tempest35

Too true...comedy's a tricky thing to begin with - even more tricky with a serious anime like this. That and people have different ideas about what is 'funny' and what isn't.

That and I was up late last night and decided to watch all the 'Shimigami Cup Golden' specials until I finally fell asleep. ^^ Maybe I'll keep the idea going but make them into little fanficclets or something and post them there. If that's okay...

I agree that the fanfiction thread is the best place for such writing.

[Xellos-_^]

Originally Posted by NoSanninWa

highest signal:noise ratios

What does that mean?

oh can we have the Ep12 thread yet?

[hollywoodlou]

I think we've saturated new thread ideas...maybe, who made up those symbols on who's number 1 to 47 and how each Claymore became synomymous with her own symbol...

[Zu Ra]

Spoiler for Japanese Manga:

Thread Title : [manga] Who is more Evil ?

Poll with Same Question as Title : Who is more Evil

Priscilla :

Spoiler for Saving Space:

Priscilla was promoted to Claymore #2 shortly after she joined the organization. She was so powerful she could fight with her Yoma power entirely suppressed, allowing her to conceal her presence from Yoma and fellow Claymores. According to Ilena, this made her the perfect Claymore to fight against Teresa, as Teresa's greatest strength was her ability to sense Yoma energy.

Priscilla became a Claymore after a Yoma possessing her father slaughtered the rest of her family right before her eyes. She managed to chop off its head and this incident caused her to develop a strong belief in justice.

Though extremely powerful with the potential of becoming #1, Priscilla was still a child and mentally weak when she received the order to execute Teresa. While she was polite and fair in combat, her view of the world was entirely black-and-white: every person and action in this world was either right or wrong, with no room for grey. She was the only Claymore sent to execute Teresa who actually believed Teresa deserved to be executed.

This blind faith of hers would ultimately cause her to lose all her humanity and altruism when she was defeated by Teresa. Confused and frightened as to why a righteous person like her could not defeat a murderer, she attacked Teresa in a fit of blind rage and self-righteousness, releasing too much of her Yoma power and eventually turning into an Awakened Being. Immediately thirsting for blood, she decapitated Teresa, amputated Ilena's arm, and killed Noel and Sophia, in front of a horrified Clare, before flying off.

It is not known why Clare was spared at this point. According to Riful, Priscilla is said to have killed all the men, women, and children in every town she visited as an Awakened Being, but the same way she didn't kill Clare, she didn't harm any little girl, as if they "didn't even get reflected in her eyes."

As an Awakened One, Priscilla is a winged humanoid about 2m tall with a single horn on her forehead. She later on teams up with the Abyssal One Isley, but the details of their encounter are unknown. Riful originally said that Isley had defeated her, but after encountering them, she now believes that Priscilla is actually stronger than any of the Abyssal Ones, including Alicia, and is Isley's master.

Priscilla is currently acting like a human child and seems to be attached to Raki for unknown reasons.

Ophelia :

Spoiler for Savin Space:

When Ophelia was a child, her beloved brother died protecting her from Priscilla. This caused Ophelia to deeply hate all Awakened Beings and she vowed to take revenge on the "one-horned monster".

Ophelia eventually became Claymore #4. Though powerful, she developed an incredible thirst for killing, especially Awakened Beings or partially Awakened Claymores. She murdered others indiscriminately for the fun of it, and even killed humans while slaughtering all witnesses to avoid punishment. She also enjoyed torturing and played sadistic "games" with her opponents in battle. Even other Claymores considered her a "monster".

Her special fighting technique is "rippling" her sword by waving it back and forth at great speed. This technique is extremely difficult to dodge or block, even for an opponent who can predict her movements, such as Clare.

Ophelia was assigned to fight with Clare against an Awakened Being, but she tried to kill Clare and Raki instead as she suspected that Clare was partially Awakened. She almost succeeded, but was stopped by Ilena, who severely wounded her.

Badly wounded and furious at her defeat, Ophelia released all her Yoma energy and Awoke, becoming a serpentine creature, similar to the Lamia from Greek Mythology. Despite her hunger and desire for guts, Ophelia doesn't realise she's awakened until she caught a glimpse of her reflection in a lake. She was killed by Clare with the assistance of Ilena's Quick Sword technique and her own suicidal tendencies.

Her character and death scene bear some similarities to the character Ophelia from Shakespeare's play Hamlet.

* Major Similarities :

- Both are connected to each other and share a somewhat common history

- Both have child like innocence and demeanor

- Both have twisted sense of justice which overshadows logic

- If you strip them to the core both are not truly evil

- Both wont hesitate to take out their own comrades for their justice

- Both did go past their limits due to emotional stress

- Both are Tensai, at being Effective killers


* Major Diffrences :

- Priscilla is more naïve and her sense of justice is more twisted

- Ophelia is more demented and sadist

* So out of the two who is more Evil ?

[GundamZZ]

It takes a lot of time to contribute to the compare and contrast thread.

Spoiler:

Trust me. I tried to compare Alicia(honor student and teacher's pet) to Clare(deliquent and underdog). It wasn't easy. On the other hand, it's easier to make the ridiculous comparison thread. Like "Hey! it reminds me that bleach monster". "Hey! It's Highlanders' mile mile long sensor". It is as good as blogging.

I like to see the thread about personality analysis.

[hollywoodlou]

How bout' the "I hate Raki" thread?

[NoSanninWa]

While it is almost worth it in the faint hope it will drain out the pointless Raki hate posts from other threads where it is getting tiresome, I doubt it will really do that job and I cannot see any advantage to having a hate thread.

[Xellos-_^]

How about a Saimoe 2007 thread for Claymore Characters.

Just letting people when the voting begins and what characters are up for voting. It would also keep the Claymore discussion form the Main Saimoe page.

Edit: Offical voting has begin for round of the prelims - Including Riful(Riffle) and Helen.

[NoSanninWa]

Ug. Saimoe time again? Last year saimoe caused a lot of garbage in many forums and threads until we limited it to a single thread in General Anime. I expect that we will do the same thing this year.

[hollywoodlou]

I have a request...for a watcher/ORg thread and what makes them tick.

[NoSanninWa]

This was brought up a little while ago. It was decided that it would be best to create a broader topic, The world of Claymore, and discuss the Organization there. With the dearth of discussion about the Organization since then, I cannot see creating an entire thread just for that one element.

Please discuss the Organization and MIBs in: The world of Claymore

[hollywoodlou]

Here's one...Favorite "event".

Events in both the manga and anime (separate, maybe?) that shocked you and maybe changed your initial perception of your favorite character and future story arcs...it could also include fight scenes.

examples: Irene showing up alive and saving Clare's behind, Teresa getting her head cut off or maybe Clare shoving her tongue down Raki's mouth (lucky brat)...

[Guido]

I really have become a huge fan of Claymore, and thankfully I have already read all of the manga to the latest issue.

What I want to request to the mods is the inclusion of a thread that quite describes and explains thoroughly the dynamics and history that follows between Clare and Raki.

After watching 14 anime episode plus all of the manga, I have built up some interesting ideas on my head. Of course, this idea will be strictly adhered to the observations I have made from the manga.

And it will also pay important comparisons as to Clare's lifestyle with Teresa.

The mods can keep eye to make discussion as informative and non-farfetch'd and keeping it as less spoilerful as possible.

I have really good theories on what I believe Yagi-sensei has hinted either implicitly or explicitly about those two.

[hollywoodlou]

In that case, I want to request a thread that will make sure Raki DOES NOT HAVE a thread...

[guest]

Originally Posted by Guido

I really have become a huge fan of Claymore, and thankfully I have already read all of the manga to the latest issue.

What I want to request to the mods is the inclusion of a thread that quite describes and explains thoroughly the dynamics and history that follows between Clare and Raki.

After watching 14 anime episode plus all of the manga, I have built up some interesting ideas on my head. Of course, this idea will be strictly adhered to the observations I have made from the manga.

And it will also pay important comparisons as to Clare's lifestyle with Teresa.

The mods can keep eye to make discussion as informative and non-farfetch'd and keeping it as less spoilerful as possible.

I have really good theories on what I believe Yagi-sensei has hinted either implicitly or explicitly about those two.

How about just a thread for relationships of any kind between all characters? Seriously, I can rant on forever how terrible Raki is but I am sure nobody wants to hear that now. To be fair, it should be a thread for all, not just Raki and Claire. It would be an obvious flame bait.