Claymore ending left me broken ;___;
It's still on of my fav anime....but I need to start reading manga.

This is one of those post apocalyptic stories and the yomas are either mutants or old bio weapons. The Org is what's left of the old government and they biologically enhanced them selves to live forever (It's pretty clear none of the elders are human any more) while continuing to experiment with this new strain that appeared after the war (yomas).

While the land are mostly composed of city states the Org act as a shadow government since they have the most advanced technologies with Claymores as super soldiers. They funds themselves buy getting paid to get rid of wild yomas and also through extortion. Some of the yomas in the wild are probably released by them and sent to the towns as Tersa has implied and was not denied by her agent.

In the anime? of course i liked it! waiting for season 2.
been reading manga until now. *yaawn* it takes 1 month for a volume to be released. but it's fine to wait. *yey*

I just got into this show myself and loved the anime, and am going to start reading the manga soon. It's too bad a second season never came out, and it doesn't look like one will since its been about 2 years already. But I loved the whole feeling of the show, I even downloaded the Ost and am listening to that now. Sucks to hear that the manga only comes out once a month, but it'll be a little while before i catch up on that

I think the ending was definitely fun to watch action-wise but then again, I think the manga is many times better just because it brings up some things that were completely amazing and interesting. Sadly I cant bring anything up at risk of spoiling it for people. :x

To be honest I didn't really care too much about the ending, For me the highlight of the show was the Theresa Arc, she was and will always be the greatest and most interesting character in the show, as always anime have to kill off the greastest character >.>

I disliked it. It left no opening for a second season. :I

It would have been better if it followed the manga because the manga is getting more awesome.

Too bad the maga isig not because they have damaged the series

I can totally see why Madhouse came to this ending. It had to make a direct conflict between primary Protagonist and primary Antagonist. (In a shounen it has to be a physical battle). It had to have Raki in it because he's one of Clare's greatest supporting characters and the male lead. (Although his masculinity is in question. What would you do if you were pretty powerless? What could Madhouse do with such an "important" character who can't really do anything?) It had to resolve primary conflict of main character. (Vendetta against Priscilla and reuniting with Raki) -All supporting characters had to show face.

The parts that I think they did wrong were, they left it open for another series. They had too much to solve and too little time to solve it. They shouldn't have followed the manga so tightly. The manga is on entirely different time constraints. The problem is that there were only 26 intervals of 22 minutes. Each interval needed to be an entire sub-story. While the manga has as much time as it needs, chapters can vary in length according to how much the author wants because the constraints are much more ambiguous. The story should have been a bit more simplified and concentrated more on the action and characters than on the grand scheme of things.

In my opinion, extending the battle scene to justify Priscilla's defeat and shortening the epilogue would've made a great difference. All in all, it was a great Shounen series, couldn't have expected too much unless it was marketed to my demographic. "Raki" is important to the story whether we like him or not because he's very important to Clare and Clare's character development. I personally think he's a pansy and should have done the martial arts thing and done nothing but train for 10 years or more out in the wilderness.