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Claymore (stylized in all caps) is a Japanese dark fantasy manga series written and illustrated by Norihiro Yagi. It debuted in Shueisha 's shōnen manga magazine Monthly Shōnen Jump in June 2001, where it continued until the magazine was shut down in June 2007.
Claymore, a manga series by Norihiro Yagi, is set in a medieval world plagued by Yoma, humanoid shape-shifters that feed on humans. A mysterious group, known as the Organization, creates human-Yoma hybrids to exterminate Yoma for a fee. The public refer to these warriors as "Claymores," alluding to their large swords, or "Silver-eyed Witches ...
Norihiro Yagi (八木 教広, Yagi Norihiro, born 1968) is a Japanese manga writer and artist from Okinawa Prefecture.He started making manga in 1990. Norihiro Yagi is a successful manga artist, having won the 32nd Akatsuka Award for his first work, Undeadman.
The Claymore anime series is based on the manga series of the same name by Norihiro Yagi. The episodes are directed by Hiroyuki Tanaka and produced by Madhouse Studios. [1] [2] They adapt the first through eleventh volumes of the manga over 24 episodes. The remaining 2 episodes follow an original storyline not found in the manga written by Yagi.
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An anime adaptation of the manga was announced in the October 2006 edition of Monthly Shōnen Jump. [3] The first episode of the anime aired on April 3, 2007 on Nippon Television, with the last one shown on September 25, 2007. [4] [5] The chapters have been compiled into 27 tankōbon in Japan by Shueisha. The first volume was released on ...
The term claymore is an anglicisation of the Gaelic claidheamh-mòr "big/great sword", attested in 1772 (as Cly-more) with the gloss "great two-handed sword". [3] The sense "basket-hilted sword" is contemporaneous, attested in 1773 as "the broad-sword now used ... called the Claymore, (i.e., the great sword)", [4] although OED observes that this usage is "inexact, but very common".
An anime television special ("Zinkenstill Arc") which aired the first two episodes of the anime television series was broadcast on January 21 on Tokyo MX prior to the anime series. [6] Aniplex of America has licensed the series in North America. [7] The 12-episode series aired from April 2 to June 18, 2017 on Tokyo MX and other channels. An ...