The Raki discussion

[Hypervalor]

lol, why purple?

[azurie]

because i LIKE purple ;P

[iXenomorph]

Raki is a foil to claire. Nothing more :/

[azurie]

a foil? as in the weapon used in fencing?

[ClaFanN1]

Originally Posted by Kalinas

can someone draw Raki as a girl?

[Gooral]

Spoiler for Raki's future:

Who knows, maybe after these seven years, one day Raki woke up and sth was missing... Easley felt endangered and changed Raki's gender, then he made him/her a claymore (everyone knows woman could withstand temptation of releasing too much youki better than men) and now Raki woke up in a city, screaming awfully...

Spoiler for 74-th chapter:

Anyway, the one who was screaming in Rabona was definitely him

[AdventSleeper]

Originally Posted by Tempo

o.O did u make that?

[PGilis]

Originally Posted by Tempo

What you done?!!

Now all the Raki-haters will have wet dreams with him.

P.S.: Really great work!

[Guido]

Originally Posted by Tempo

Oh, my god!

Now all fanfic-writers and fanfic-drawers have been given "green-lights" to go for ClareXRaki yuri stories, that is, of course, assuming that not all of them are Raki-haters.

[Hypervalor]

Raki is an unisex name? If not, it must be named "Rakia" :P

[emu777]

LOL, what about Rakette? That sounds both similar and feminine, although I have to admit the drawing above does a good job of that.

[redmeat]

You horny guys can just imagine the current Raki as being a tomboy-type girl, since it's the thought that counts. Right?

[Muscular_Sophia]

Originally Posted by Tempo

I cannot help but drop my jaw in shock, this is so disturbing lol....A female Raki would still be as bad as the male Raki due to the fact that he''d still complain, yell out Clare every 10 seconds, cry in every scene he is in and still be worthless. Still it gave me a good laugh and it's the thought that counts i guess

[Arcananine77]

If Raki had been a girl. People would complain that the show suffers from the stereotypical useless and annoying loli.

As for what I think of him. I kinda like him. Sure, he's not an asskicker and he ruined the anime from the moment it started diverging from the manga. But a lot of his whining was quite understandable for me.
As far as I could tell, he whined a lot because he was frustrated over being so weak compared to Clare. And that inferiority complex only got worse and worse with the revelation that Clare was the lowest-ranking Claymore as well as the fact that he never could do anything to help her kill Yoma.

[LesAmiesNoir]

Yes I was rather glad that he was a "weak yet not useless male character" since I've seen plenty of female characters in shounen series, so it's refreshing to see a turn around having the female main character protect the sidekick male character.

[Kalinas]

Originally Posted by Hypervalor

Raki is an unisex name? If not, it must be named "Rakia" :P

lol do you know what Rakia means ?

[onepiecelover]

This may sound extremely retarded but when I first started reading claymore I thought Raki was the main character and after 74 chapters I still think that he is one of the most important characters in the manga. I always thought that he would be like a boy claymore or something cool like that

[AdventSleeper]

Originally Posted by Kalinas

lol do you know what Rakia means ?

no what does it mean?

[Twisted Reality]

Originally Posted by onepiecelover

This may sound extremely retarded but when I first started reading claymore I thought Raki was the main character and after 74 chapters I still think that he is one of the most important characters in the manga. I always thought that he would be like a boy claymore or something cool like that

You watch too much shounen anime.

Claymore is a shounen anime.

Ummm. . .yeah. Well, whatever, the point is that it'd be cliche.

[abcdefghijkLOL]

Spoiler for anime:

Did anyone else get annoyed whenever it was about to get into something good and then they cut over to a Raki scene? The scenes weren't that great either, he wimped out at the last moment when he could have killed Priscilla. But then again, maybe Clare would've gotten angry over the fact that she couldn't take Priscilla's head?