Birthday • 1982-12-17 Gender •
Male Location • Chicago Member Since • 2006-01-30
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Achievements • In grad school! WAO Anime Fan Since • Early '90s. Favorite Anime • Musashi Gundoh. Goals • A university teaching gig! Hobbies • Reading Heidegger. Talents • Not really.
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Sunday, May 27, 2007
Seriously, what happened to Claymore?
After the last three or four episodes, I can't help thinking of the many scenes from Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid where the title characters, upon witnessing the guys chasing them track them everywhere and keep going without rest, ask themselves, "Who are these guys?" I mean, holy hell. Just look at the ANN page for this show. First notice that it's Madhouse, which is currently spread out over a zillion projects and has never been completely consistent. Take a moment to check out what the staff has done in the past... exceptions granted, the general fact is "very little worth mentioning." The series head is a first-timer with a lot of assistant and episode direction work in mediocre shows, nothing I can really remember being great. Most of the rest of the staff is in the same boat. Claymore really should be just a nameless show to be buried with the other underachievers of the season (the anime market is a bubble right now, and I can't shake the sense that it's going to burst very very soon). But... it's not. It's incredibly good. I mean, I could nitpick about the first few episodes, or the occasional Dragonball Z-isms ("LOOK OUT! SHE'S USING OVER 70% OF HER YOMA POWER!!"), or fret about the series' future, but it really would be just nitpicking. This is one of the best shows on right now - there, I said it. And I have no idea how it happened. "Who are these guys?"
