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Hola Amigos de Hive-Con! ¡Ha pasado un tiempo sin vernos!
Un poco de contexto por favor
Verán, la primera vez que vi Claymore fue en su adaptación al anime, la cual me presto una amiga sus DVD (que tiempos aquellos) para verla, la trama gira en torno a mujeres que son mitad Yoma(demonios) mitad humanas, las cuales son encargadas de proteger a la humanidad de estos mismos monstruos, y para ello usan sus poderes de Yoma y usan una espada gigante llamada CLAYMORE que es de donde viene el nombre del anime.
Nuestra protagonista es Clare y conforme avanza la serie nos damos cuenta de que ella es la más débil de todas las Claymore y de su pasado, el punto es que la adaptación al anime hace bien al contarnos el principio de la historia y un poco del avance de la protagonista, sin embargo, en ese momento el estudio que adapto ese manga al anime le paso lo que les pasaba a muchos estudios en ese tiempo:
Se quedaban sin presupuesto.
Alcanzaban al manga y al no tener mas contenido sobre el que trabajar, pues se lo inventaban.
Y lo que le paso fue las dos cosas, al llegar a cierto punto en la historia, se inventaron dos capítulos en los que nada tiene sentido, y luego de eso finalizaron la obra con un final inventado muy controversial y fuera de tono bastante malo.
El manga y sus beneficios
Obviamente como imaginaran, quedé sorprendido con ese corte tan repentino y hasta se lo dije a mi amiga, le comenté que me había gustado la serie pero que ese final había sido horrible, y me comento que el manga seguía y automáticamente fui a leerlo, y amigos encontré oro jajaja.
Se que muchas personas no les gusta leer manga por muchas razones, pero este manga esta tan bien dibujado y el contenido esta tan bueno que lo lees y no puedes evitar pensar que estas viendo un anime, pero por fotogramas por la calidad que tiene, además de continuar con la historia que quedo a medias en el anime.
La historia de Clare es bastante trágica y uno de los principales motivos por los cuales siento que el anime esta muy incompleto es que no muestra totalmente su desarrollo de personaje, por ejemplo al comenzar la obra, recalco que no es spoiler pues pasa en el primer episodio, ella comienza a viajar con un chico llamado Raki, el cual en el anime no obtiene NADA de desarrollo, mientras que en el manga observamos un crecimiento genial en el personaje, ya que es un eje central de la trama y una de las personas importantes de Clare conforme avanza la serie.
Algo que también me gustó muchísimo es ver la interacción con las demás Claymore´s en el manga, se nota que todas y cada una de ellas tienen una motivación, diferentes habilidades y objetivos para lograr, algunas son buenas y otras de dudosa moralidad.
Mucha acción, poca censura
Si bien es cierto que muchos animes son bastante lentos a la hora de sus combates, tanto en el anime como en el manga de Claymore son muy dinámicos y explícitos, hay bastante GORE para quien lo disfruta y como advertencia a quien no, no es un manga/anime que tenga mucha censura, en lo personal me parece excelente, pues si el mundo de la obra esta lleno de monstruos y guerreros, me parece lo mas sensato, y debo aclarar que a mi NO ME GUSTA EL GORE, de hecho hay bastantes obras que apenas veo el nivel de gore las abandono.
Los combates son frenéticos y viscerales, son todo un espectáculo, también la gama de habilidades de cada una de las Claymore’s que vemos en la obra son muy vistosas y de lo más creativas.
En cuanto a la censura y su tema, la serie tiene un tono muy adulto y conforme avanza la serie, vemos una cantidad de giros de trama bastante interesantes, aparte de un desarrollo de estado de mundo bastante elaborado, aquí debo hacer mención al manga, pues en el anime se trata muy poco esto.
Los “villanos” son muy interesantes la verdad
Algo que me llamo bastante la atención es que si bien hay antagonistas y villanos en la obra, todos y cada uno de ellos tienen un trasfondo bastante bueno, últimamente he visto que muchas obras sean manga o anime, meten un villano que solo es malo porque le dio la gana de serlo, o solo ponen una excusa bastante vaga de ello, pero aquí la verdad es que cada uno tiene su motivación justificada a niveles aceptables y eso me gusto bastante, pues llegas a empatizar con muchos de ellos y a otros simplemente los detestas jajaja.
Quiero hacer una mención a Isley, que, aunque no tuvo tantas apariciones, luego de conocer el trasfondo y pasado del mismo, me pareció un tipo durísimo jajaja.
Debemos leer Mangas mas seguido
¡Muchísimas gracias por leer! Espero que le den una oportunidad a esta obra, sea en anime o manga la recomiendo, y aunque vean el anime sé que querrán ir al manga jajajaja, en fin, ¡me despido y les deseo todo lo mejor! Pentaghast Fuera!
Hello Hive-Con friends, it's been a while since we've seen each other!
I hope you are enjoying your favorite anime this season, the truth is that I personally am having a great time watching Jujutsu Kaisen and Zom 100 (there are 5 chapters and I really like it a lot), but I have not yet started watching Bleach although it is one of my favorite anime, well, adult life does not always leave us time to see and do everything we want, however this time I come to talk about a manga that I read again recently and sincerely although the years go by I still like it: CLAYMORE
A little context please
You see, the first time I saw Claymore was in its anime adaptation, which a friend lent me her DVD (what a time those were) to watch it, the plot revolves around women who are half Yoma (demons) half human, which are responsible for protecting humanity from these same monsters, and to do so they use their Yoma powers and use a giant sword called CLAYMORE which is where the name of the anime comes from.
Our protagonist is Clare and as the series progresses we realize that she is the weakest of all the Claymore and her past, the point is that the anime adaptation does well to tell us the beginning of the story and a little of the progress of the protagonist, however, at that time the studio that adapted the manga to anime happened to him what happened to many studios at that time:
They ran out of budget.
They reached the manga and not having more content to work on, they invented it.
And what happened was both things, when they reached a certain point in the story, they invented two chapters in which nothing makes sense, and after that they finished the work with a very controversial and out-of-tone ending, quite bad.
The manga and its benefits
Obviously as you can imagine, I was surprised with that sudden cut and I even told my friend, I told her that I liked the series but that the ending was horrible, and she told me that the manga was still going on and I automatically went to read it, and friends I found gold hahaha.
I know that many people do not like to read manga for many reasons, but this manga is so well drawn and the content is so good that you read it and you can not help but think that you are watching an anime, but by frames for the quality it has, in addition to continuing the story that was left halfway in the anime.
Clare's story is quite tragic and one of the main reasons why I feel that the anime is very incomplete is that it does not fully show her character development, for example at the beginning of the work, I emphasize that it is not spoiler because it happens in the first episode, she begins to travel with a boy named Raki, which in the anime gets NOTHING of development, while in the manga we see a great growth in the character, as it is a central axis of the plot and one of the important people of Clare as the series progresses.
Something that I also really liked is to see the interaction with the other Claymore's in the manga, you can tell that each and every one of them has a motivation, different skills and goals to achieve, some are good and others of dubious morality.
Lots of action, little censorship
While it is true that many anime are quite slow when it comes to their fights, both in the anime and manga Claymore are very dynamic and explicit, there is enough GORE for those who enjoy it and as a warning to those who do not, it is not a manga/anime that has a lot of censorship, Personally I think it is excellent, because if the world of the work is full of monsters and warriors, it seems to me the most sensible thing to do, and I must clarify that I DO NOT LIKE GORE, in fact there are many works that as soon as I see the level of gore I abandon them.
The fights are frantic and visceral, they are a spectacle, also the range of skills of each of the Claymore's that we see in the work are very colorful and most creative.
In terms of censorship and its theme, the series has a very adult tone and as the series progresses, we see a number of quite interesting plot twists, apart from a quite elaborate world state development, here I must make mention to the manga, because in the anime this is treated very little.
The "villains" are really interesting.
Something that caught my attention is that although there are antagonists and villains in the work, each and every one of them have a pretty good background, lately I've seen that many works are manga or anime, put a villain who is only bad because he felt like it, or just put a vague excuse for it, but here the truth is that each one has his motivation justified to acceptable levels and I liked that a lot, because you get to empathize with many of them and others just hate them hahaha.
I want to make a mention to Isley, who, although he didn't have so many appearances, after knowing his background and past, I found him to be a really tough guy hahaha.
Read Mangas more often
I wanted to do this little review, because I recently got an excellent application to read manga on the mobile and this was one of the first manga that I read again and the truth is that it deserved its recognition for being such a good manga, at least in my opinion.
Thank you so much for reading! I hope you give this work a chance, whether in anime or manga I recommend it, and even if you watch the anime I know you'll want to go to the manga hahahaha, anyway, I say goodbye and I wish you all the best! Pentaghast Out!
