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Originally Posted by gsilver
Claymore - Probably the biggest "girl fights monster" themed show in recent years.
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This. This. A thousand times this.
Next I'll suggest
Blood+, a show loosely based on
Blood, The Last Vampire, which you've seen. Saya appears again, but the story is much more complex. The chiropterans and their masters are still the enemy, though. I thought the series was more interesting than the movie, but I had some issues with the screenplay. It certainly fits your request, though. You can watch it at
Hulu, but only with English dubs. There's a two box set of all fifty episodes on DVD, but it's very hard to find. Amazon has only third-party sellers for the first box with
stratospheric prices; the
second box is $90.
If you'd like a moe-themed series I recommend
Sky Girls; make sure you watch the DVD Specials as well. It's none too serious, though, unlike
Claymore. The tracker on the
AS series page for Sky Girls is dead; use Google.
Yakushiji Ryoko is the Head of the Supernatural Division of the Tokyo Police. She and her male subordinate fight monsters together in most every episode. It's actually not a bad show when it transcends the "monster-of-the-week" format.
Chizuku, the "
Daughter of Twenty Faces," fights augmented humans who might as well be monsters.
Balsa squares off against a monster in
Seirei no Moribito, but that's almost incidental to the rest of the story.
Finally, I'm a bit surprised no one suggested
Puella Magi Madoka Magica. The opponents are witches not monsters, and incredibly stylized witches at that. Nevertheless it would be my next suggestion after
Claymore.