Wow. What a way to fool us eh?

Excellent chapter, definitely left me shocked at the end.

I always thought people believing Miria was still alive were being too hopeful and naive, but I guess I was wrong and they were right. Now I'm not sure what to think. On the one hand, I'm glad she's still alive. But on the other hand, isn't the mangaka being too... I don't know what to call it, but Miria showing up alive is deus ex machina, right?

At first when they talked about those "three" and talked about one of them being mutiled member by member i was thinking that was Miria and became NOOOOO

Then i she the story how she died and then she a claymore walking to others and what i see? Miria! My face that was goes into O_O OMG! Damn mangaka! He scared us first and then do that to us

Next chapters will be win

Things are getting heated up, next chapter's going to be

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Wow, great chapter. Pretty impressive how Miria was able to rally the organization's claymores within one battle. Can't wait for the next one.

Hmm, have waited to see Raki for a while now :/, good chapter thou ( even if Raki didn't show up ).

I always thought that Miria died too...easily. But boy, glad I'm wrong. I like how the author kept aluding one of the 3 bodies was Miria, but then... it wasn't! And I think something big is gonna happen soon. Can't wait to see!

That was one amazing chapter.
The last 15 pages were just...impressing. The way that Claymore descriped their confrontation with Miria.....
Woh.
Just... Woh. Their was so much feeling in it!

My conclusion for today: Yagi Norihiro is one GREAT writer.

i can understand where your coming from, but not so much - if you think about it all, how the middle pages begin with the watchers of the organization rallying the Claymores to battle... if the Claymores really did just end up going mindlessly with whatever they were ordered to do then it shows how weak minded they are as characters/warriors/etc.

I think what the mangaka, Yagi Norihiro accomplished in this story (where alot of male mangaka in the same genre fail) is establish clearly strong lead female characters. Take for example mangas in like Naruto, One Peace, Bleach, D.Grayman, and Kurohime. Time and again the female characters in that manga are always shown in a weak submissive stereotypical fashion to their male counter parts. Even in Kurohime where the main character is a woman, as the story progressed her character devolved from being a strong female heroine to a hapless lovestruck teenage girl.

In contrast, the female characters in Claymore indicate that the mangaka seems to have a far more down to earth and respectful view of women. Then other artist in his field.

edit: an exception would be with FMA, although the mangaka there is a woman





i know right! same thoughts here!

holy crap, i was seriously jumping out of my spot. i can't believe how thye all realized that miria wasn't there to harm them, but the organization. i also love how they put up a show.

I don't think so. It would be a deus ex machina if Miria was clearly shown dead and done, since Claymore-verse doesn't allow resurrection. However, it has been shown that the warriors have tremendous regenerative abilities, even the Offensive types. So when we weren't shown Miria's dead body, it was the first hint that she would come back. Also, it doesn't really feel like an ass-pull because half the chapter is established showing that it were Miria's actions in the first place that allowed her to survive: her overwhelming power and her compassion have rendered all Claymores of the current generation unable to kill her. If Miria had a more scheming personality, I would go as far as to suspect that she did that all on purpose, to demonstrate young warriors that she is the friend, not the Organization, and then make them decide whether they side with her or with them.

I wonder what happened to her hand, though. Was she able to recover and reattach it?

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