History YMMV / Claymore

** ''Claymore: Sisterhood'' [[labelnote: Explanation]] Since the manga's conclusion, fans have helped out hope for an anime remake that adapts the whole story from beginning to end. Due to the success of ''[[Manga/FullmetalAlchemist Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood]]'', some of these fans jokingly suggest the hypothetical ''Claymore'' remake be subtitled "Sisterhood" or use "Claymore: Sisterhood" as a shorthand. [[/labelnote]]

* TooCoolToLive: Teresa, Jean, Flora, possibly Ilena. Miria would have counted had she not been spared by the other Claymores. The author admitted that if Teresa had survived or were somehow revived, he would have to rewrite the whole story.

* Squick: Clare kissing Raki full on the mouth before leaving him to go fight Ophelia. While Claymores have a VagueAge and Clare is probably only a few years older than Raki at most, at this point in the story she still looks closer to an adult woman while he's a child.

** Isley's a bit more of a [[CoolHorse literal]] [[JustForPun example,]] but his cool looks (both Awakened and human forms), awesome fighting style, and overall good treatment of Raki won him quite a lot of fans, especially after his sympathetic death and backstory.

* GermansLoveDavidHasselhoff: Along with the aforementioned ''Berserk'' and ''Manga/UbelBlatt'', the series is ''huge'' in France. Seems the nation has a love of dark fantasy Seinen manga.

* UncannyValley: Rubel. He's human alright, but... well, see TheUnsmile.
** In universe example: The Claymores themselves [[http://img.batoto.net/comics/2011/10/14/c/read4e987a2444e1e/Claymore%20v01%20c01%20p025.png invoke this reaction]] [[http://img.batoto.net/comics/2011/10/14/c/read4e987a2444e1e/Claymore%20v01%20c01%20p026.png in some of the ordinary people.]]

* FoeYay: EPIC amounts of it between Cassandra and Roxanne. Also, Clare and Ophelia, though mostly from Ophelia's side.

* WhatAnIdiot: Teresa deciding to break the Claymores's cardinal rule and butcher the bandits that tortured Clare is meant to be a tragic choice, but it is hard not to see it as an act of awful thinking given that she never bothered to take any of the many options she had to take revenge on them without being expelled from the Organization. She could have crippled the bandits with her sheathed sword, or merely chopped their limbs like she did to the first of them earlier - or, if she was that bent on killing them, she should have ensured she didn't leave any witnesses who could inform about her role in their deaths. Even although Teresa might have abandoned the desire to continue being a Claymore, she should have known the best thing for Clare's safety was ''not'' to make an enemy out of the Organization.
** The whole point might have been that Teresa was starting to show emotions and acting upon them, and them leading to her death. First she showed sadness to Clare, then wrath towards the bandits, and finally mercy against Priscilla. While living with emotions made her life a lot shorter, it also made it a lot happier.

* {{Glurge}}: Through all of the hardships that Clare went through upon becoming a claymore, considered to be a failure and ridiculed because of so, she was able to press on because [[YouAreNotAlone she always had Teresa with her]]... Very literally so since Clare was able to become a claymore by having the flesh from Teresa's decapitated head implanted in her.

* PeripheryDemographic: ''Claymore'' seems to get a dosage of female fan attention for a Shonen series, and it's obviously not because of the cast of {{Bishonen}} characters.

* MagnificentBastard: Isley, the Silver King, was the first of the Creatures of the Abyss, the first Number 1 of the first and only male generation of Claymores. Upon meeting the powerful Priscilla and learning her power, Isley submits to her, intending on manipulating her to bring the world under his control. Bringing about a war in the North with his former comrades now as Awakened Beings, Isley splits his forces in half to sacrifice them against another Abyssal One and the Claymore Organization while he heads South to defeat the third Abyssal One and take her lands. Bonding with TheHeroine Clare's former companion Raki, Isley truly grows to love him and Priscilla as family and even sends them away when the monstrous Abyssal Feeders come for him to save their lives. Even post-mortem, we learn Isley only ever Awakened to begin with voluntarily to stop his former comrades and instilled Raki with a plan to help stop Priscilla if she became a monster, a plan that Raki manages to pull off thanks to his teachings.

* VillainSue: Priscilla, to the point that even something called ''The Destroyer'' can't beat her, no matter what is thrown at her never sticks, nor even cause her any actual pause for most of the Manga.

** [[BigBad Rimuto]] is the head of [[TheOmniscientCouncilOfVagueness the Organization]] and the one responsible for its [[PlayingWithSyringes inhumane activities]]. Rimuto has [[WouldHurtAChild orphans]] taken by the Organization, turning the boys into inhuman monsters, either Yoma or Awakened Beings, while the girls are turned into Claymores. The lifespans of Claymores are typically short, either dying or becoming monsters themselves to perpetuate the cycle, with Rimuto having countless killed to keep their operations going. Utterly unconcerned with his test subjects, Rimuto even states warriors who die quicker are best, and when villages refuse to pay the fees, Yoma are sent to wipe them out completely. Throughout the course of the series, Rimuto keeps his warriors as disposable cannon fodder, conducting awful experiments on innocents while being [[ForScience wholly unconcerned with all who die in the crossfire]].

** [[BigBad Rimuto]] is the head of [[TheOmniscientCouncilOfVagueness the Organization]] and the one responsible for its [[PlayingWithSyringes inhumane activities]]. Rimuto has [[WouldHurtAChild orphans]] taken by the Organization, turning the boys into inhuman monsters, either Yoma or Awakened Beings, while the girls are turned into Claymores. The lifespans of Claymores are typically short, either dying or becoming monsters themselves to perpetuate the cycle, with Rimuto having countless killed to keep their operations going. Utterly unconcerned with his test subjects, Rimuto even states warriors who die quicker are best, and when villages refuse to pay the fees, Yoma are sent to wipe them out completely. Throughout the course of the series, Rimuto keeps his warriors as disposable cannon fodder, conducting worst experiments on innocents while being [[ForScience wholly unconcerned with all who die in the crossfire]].
** [[DarkActionGirl Roxanne of Love and Hate]], a former "Number One" of the Organization, differs from the majority of other villains in the series by being an outright cruel and violent {{sadist}}. Initially a low-ranking warrior, Roxanne rose up the ranks by [[ManipulativeBastard seducing/befriending]] and eventually murdering stronger warriors after [[PowerParasite stealing their techniques]]. Eventually, she set her sights on the existing Number One Cassandra, but when she saw Cassandra's technique, she decided it was unsightly and gave Cassandra the hated moniker "Dust-Eater." She later set up Cassandra's only friend to die a torturous death at the hands of a Awakened Being and mocked Cassandra by saying that her friend had looked as if she had "enjoyed" being played with by the monster, so interfering wouldn't have been right. Cassandra snapped and attacked her. Roxanne used the other 45 warriors as [[HumanShield shields]], relishing in their fear of Cassandra and cackling at how hideous Cassandra's abilities were. When Cassandra finally reached Roxanne, Roxanne gleefully impaled her head with the pommel of her sword, a technique stolen from her first victim.

** [[DarkActionGirl Roxanne of Love and Hate]], a former "Number One" of the Organization, differs from the majority of other villains in the series by being an outright cruel and violent {{sadist}}. Initially a low ranking warrior, Roxanne rose up the ranks by [[ManipulativeBastard seducing/befriending]] and eventually murdering stronger warriors after [[PowerParasite stealing their techniques]]. Eventually, she set her sights on the existing Number One Cassandra, but when she saw Cassandra's technique, she decided it was unsightly and gave Cassandra the hated moniker "Dust-Eater." She later set up Cassandra's only friend to die a torturous death at the hands of a Awakened Being and mocked Cassandra by saying that her friend had looked as if she had "enjoyed" being played with by the monster, so interfering wouldn't have been right. Cassandra snapped and attacked her. Roxanne used the other 45 warriors as [[HumanShield shields]], relishing in their fear of Cassandra and cackling at how hideous Cassandra's abilities were. When Cassandra finally reached Roxanne, Roxanne gleefully impaled her head with the pommel of her sword, a technique stolen from her first victim.