Claymore - Q & A

[Tsuyoshi]

Originally Posted by sonotme_9FedriqSama

you should read it....its hilarious....I was like rofl while reading it....if i get time i'll re-read it...

Most def. I never get tired of reading it because it's so "innocently" hilarious. So far, I haven't found anything tho, but there is one instance where Yagi mentions he does everything by himself so it's likely he doesn't have any assistants (or at least didn't at the time). His drawing style hasn't changed a whole lot since then either.

[whitepearl]

The first nine chapters of Angel densetsu had a noticeably different style of art in some respects. the characters had a little more of a cartoonish look to me but they still definitely looked like they were drawn by yagi (faces, eyes). the art was simpler for the most part; no incredibly intricate characters like awakened beings that he had to draw then.

but yes, Angel Densetsu is very funny and worth reading.

[haegar]

Somebody mentioned in some thread that Yagi supposedly said something like there's about another 50 chapters to go before it ends... can somebody confirm that?

BTW, are there interviews with him on his artwork, specifically Claymore? And if there are do they exist in English translations? thx folks

[clarakiss~]

Originally Posted by haegar

Somebody mentioned in some thread that Yagi supposedly said something like there's about another 50 chapters to go before it ends... can somebody confirm that?

BTW, are there interviews with him on his artwork, specifically Claymore? And if there are do they exist in English translations? thx folks

if that's true, i hope he doesn't cram everything that's happening in the last five chapters or so. it'll feel all rushed and just plain bad. that's how some animes are. i don't want to name those that already pop up in my head.

[zato_1one]

I remember that it was originally posted somewhere here about may be two years ago. That post mentioned that Yagi-sensei wished to end Claymore around volume xxx, I can't remember number. But at that time we calculated the number of chapters per volume and we estimated that it shouldn't exceed 150 chapters. If it's true then it means that Yagi-sensei already plan how to end his manga. It literally means that Claymore will not become a never ending series with never ending fight.

[haegar]

Well I don't mind him planning an end - that is as long to us readers that end remains forever in the vast reaches of a distant future shrouded in the mists of time that might never come to pass. phew. how poetic. *snicker* in short: Yagi don't you dare end it

anybody know about any interviews avaiable online? preferably in english?

[shogun01]

Originally Posted by zato_1one

I remember that it was originally posted somewhere here about may be two years ago. That post mentioned that Yagi-sensei wished to end Claymore around volume xxx, I can't remember number.

It was "volume 25" and I also remember reading that a couple of years ago. I can't remember where I read it from though.

[camilla]

Originally Posted by haegar

anybody know about any interviews avaiable online?

I asked about that on page 54 and nobody has given me an answer yet.

Does someone know if Yagi has recently commented again on that matter? Or remember if in that interview of two years ago he said it was volume 25, around volume 25, onother 25 volumes?

[zato_1one]

That's because no one know where is the source. An on top of that, it was two years old information.

[whitepearl]

Originally Posted by camilla

I had the impression that Yagi didn't have any assistants. If he had, wouldn't they be credited? In Miura's case they are.

He had assistants when he was drawing Angel Densetsu but as far as I know, he doesnt have assistants for Claymore.

[haegar]

Well, my hat's of to him either way

[camilla]

Originally Posted by zato_1one

That's because no one know where is the source. An on top of that, it was two years old information.

I thought that maybe someone might have saved the interview together with the link. I understand that after two years I was probably pretending too much...

Originally Posted by whitepearl

He had assistants when he was drawing Angel Densetsu but as far as I know, he doesnt have assistants for Claymore.

By any chance, do you remember what kind of assistants he had while he was working on Angel Densetsu? Did they take care of inking and adding tones or were they even in charge of drawing the background and some minor characters? I'm asking 'cause I just started reading it and couldn't find them credited anywhere so, as a consequence, I deduced they were in charge of the inking and tones since in general who draws minor characters gets mentioned alongside the mangaka's name.

[Tsuyoshi]

Originally Posted by camilla

By any chance, do you remember what kind of assistants he had while he was working on Angel Densetsu? Did they take care of inking and adding tones or were they even in charge of drawing the background and some minor characters? I'm asking 'cause I just started reading it and couldn't find them credited anywhere so, as a consequence, I deduced they were in charge of the inking and tones since in general who draws minor characters gets mentioned alongside the mangaka's name.

Yagi didn't have assistants at all for Angel Densetsu. Now for this, I'm absolutely sure he mentions it somewhere. He said something in his notes along the lines of "here I am, drawing these pages all by myself and I'm wodering what to put in these blank pages, if I should continue drawing random angels just for the hell of it, yada, yada...." which kinda led me to think he didn't have assistants back then.

[whitepearl]

Originally Posted by camilla

By any chance, do you remember what kind of assistants he had while he was working on Angel Densetsu? Did they take care of inking and adding tones or were they even in charge of drawing the background and some minor characters? I'm asking 'cause I just started reading it and couldn't find them credited anywhere so, as a consequence, I deduced they were in charge of the inking and tones since in general who draws minor characters gets mentioned alongside the mangaka's name.

The only time I saw him make any reference to assistants is in the end of Chapter 25...if you go to OneManga and go to page 31 of chapter 25, you'll see him mentioning assistants. He doesn't say what they do (just mentions how they happen to watch MTV). At least you get to see what Yagi's musical tastes were at the time, including his English handwriting.

I just finished reading that manga today after spending a few hours a day for the past week. I really enjoyed it.

[romari]

Where yomas come from? eggs? Is there any superior beings in yoma horde like queens or so? (thinking about the alien vs predator example)

[camilla]

Originally Posted by whitepearl

The only time I saw him make any reference to assistants is in the end of Chapter 25...if you go to OneManga and go to page 31 of chapter 25, you'll see him mentioning assistants. He doesn't say what they do (just mentions how they happen to watch MTV). At least you get to see what Yagi's musical tastes were at the time, including his English handwriting.

I just finished reading that manga today after spending a few hours a day for the past week. I really enjoyed it.

Thank you for your precision! That time his assistants made him do all the work. The fact itself that he said he had to personally take care of the pen lines and drawing the sketches makes me suppose they weren't in charge of the background and minor characters at all.

I'm at chapter 7 and it's revealing an interesting and entertaining read.

Now that we have some examples of his handwriting ( I was particularly paying attention to his B's and P's at the end of chapter 4 ), we'd need a graphologist to tell us if Yagi's right or left-handed. Judging by the way he sometimes writes the D's, N's, R's and that he seems to have difficulty to space the letters, I'd be inclined to say he's left-handed and can't always see what he's writing. I had a friend in Secondary School who was and used to write in English like this.

Edit: A graphologist would be of no use because he/she can't say for certain whether the handwriting he/she's analyzing belongs to a person who's right or left-handed. It would have been too good to be true.

[GundamZZ]

I wonder about this case for awhile. Why is Galatea the only person with Class I nose? All other girls have Class II nose or Class V.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Human_nose

[haegar]

she had a nosejob?

*just kidding* no idea whatsoever
maybe an early accident with galatea's nose and then he stuck to it? maybe he figured galatea is the type 1 nose kind of woman? maybe he likes a little variation and will surprise us with new and exciting dragonkin characters with type 3 and type 4 noses and planed to do so from the begining? maybe he has no idea that nose types exist. I for my part didn't

[MrOdd]

Why does the manga only come out once a month? it is really annoying and can we do something about it? like make it once a week that would be cool

[shogun01]

Originally Posted by MrOdd

Why does the manga only come out once a month?

1. Because the title is in a monthly magazine (Jump Square) and not in a weekly magazine like the Shonen Jump.
2. Yagi doesn't have any assistances. It's done all by himself, which takes more time to complete.