Discussion Second half of Claymore - worse, better or the same as the first half?

Goral · Sep 21, 2014

Fate_Archer said:
I think some people just want to get that feeling you get when you see something of impact and the manga and anime media can be very successful at providing it. I have this theory that many manga and anime fans are emotional masochists.

I can't speak up for everyone but this is not true (in my case at least). The problem here is that up until Pieta every situation that Yagi has created had consequences directly proportional to the severity of the situation.

In the first volume Zaki was killed and Raki has been exiled. Now compare it to Raki living in peace with ABs, lol. Or with Raki being in the midst of the biggest battle in Claymore world history where he could easily stab Priscilla and where he survived her attack later. Utterly ridiculous.

In the same volume we've also seen the consequences of going over the limit which were quickly nullified by half-awakening. But it wasn't that bad since the premise of HA was very interesting and opened many possibilities. If other convenient plot twists were as interesting I wouldn't mind everyone surviving everything since volume 14 but sadly it wasn't so.

I could go with this list further (Clare barely surviving her encounter with Ophelia and losing her arm, Irene dying, Riful killing Claymores, etc.) but I'll skip to Pieta - it was expected that in a battle Claymores would die and Yagi did just that. Now compare it to the fight with AEs (abyssal eaters) and with ZAOs (zombie abyssal ones). In this madness no one died AFAWK. And when only ZAOs remained everyone were hit except for 7 ghosts (and Deneve who could regenerate practically everything). How ridiculous was that? It got even more ridiculous when Hysteria got hit by Roxanne but Miria wasn't even scratched, etc.

So yeah, the problem isn't that characters do not die. The problem is that Yagi is creating difficult situations and doesn't have the guts to go through with it to the end. Instead he creates an asspull and saves everyone. That was not the case in the first 12-13 volumes. If he wanted everything to be all funny and nice he shouldn't have created guts eating monsters in the first place. Past volume 14 Claymore has changed and become worse and only after Teresa returned we have been reminded why we loved this manga so much.