General Discussion

[Southe,]

Best selling single this year was One Piece opening 10 i think it is. Share the world and Best album wss Gintama Best. these were just anime related cds tho.

Got bunch of stuff for christmas didnt get all my books tho so still waiting on post to deliver them.

[Neversoft]

Woohoo, Gintama BEST! Gintama Shiroyasha Koutan was also the best selling TV anime DVD, outselling second place (and Oscar winner might I add) La Maison en Pe**** Cubes by over 20,000 sales. Gintama's fanbase in Japan is dedicated.

[Nemo]

Woohoo, Gintama BEST! Gintama Shiroyasha Koutan was also the best selling TV anime DVD, outselling second place (and Oscar winner might I add) La Maison en Pe**** Cubes by over 20,000 sales. Gintama's fanbase in Japan is dedicated.

Speaking of gintama, the latest madou ep was brilliant

[Neversoft]

I'm three episodes behind on Gintama. This hasn't happened since I started watching the series!

[Nemo]

I'm three episodes behind on Gintama. This hasn't happened since I started watching the series!

blasphemy! u must catch up

also i finished claymore, better than i thought itd be, but ending was worse than i thought.


And im watching darker than black, looks like the first 15 episodes were character introductions and pasts. Seems like its kind of getting into some kind of story now.

[Neversoft]

I've got all the episodes downloaded, but the current arc didn't seem that interesting and I've been a little busy so I pushed it back on my schedule.

The ending completely ruins Claymore, though the manga keeps going from strength to strength. Hopefully they'll make an OVA or something to cover the rest of the story while ignoring the last episodes.

The only thing I'm really watching at the moment is Minami-ke and a bit of Monster here and there. Suppose I better finish Seirei no Moribito and the disappointing Soul Eater soon. Those two have been on hold for months. Gotta finish Toradora and School Rumble too.

[Nemo]

I've got all the episodes downloaded, but the current arc didn't seem that interesting and I've been a little busy so I pushed it back on my schedule.

The ending completely ruins Claymore, though the manga keeps going from strength to strength. Hopefully they'll make an OVA or something to cover the rest of the story while ignoring the last episodes.

The only thing I'm really watching at the moment is Minami-ke and a bit of Monster here and there. Suppose I better finish Seirei no Moribito and the disappointing Soul Eater soon. Those two have been on hold for months. Gotta finish Toradora and School Rumble too.

The ending of soul eater is also quite the disappointment.

Whats happening in claymore? how does it differ from the anime ending?

[Axel]

Almost finished d.gray-man.. 88/104.

[Neversoft]

The manga is still going. I'll give you a rundown of whats happened if you don't mind spoilers.

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- After Clare defeats Rigardo Jean saves her from awakening. Jean dies.
- After that all of the Claymores are swamped by awakened beings, we're lead to believe they all fighted to the death.
- It skips to seven years later, Clare, Miria, Helen, Deneve and two other Claymores were able to survive the battle by taking those yoki hiding pills and using up all their energy to cheat death. During the time they've been training so they're mega strong.
- Isley travels to the south and fights and kills one of the other abyssal awakened begins (Luciela).
- The team travel to the holy city and find Galatea hiding their (who has gouged out her eyes so no one knows shes a Claymore), deserted from the org. At the same time the org send two new warriors to go and hunt down Galatea.
- Rubel (the guy who gave Clare her orders when she was a normal Claymore) shows up and talks a load of nonsense and riddles but makes it clear he is on no ones side and is not working to benefit the organisation, he then leaves.
- Miria reveals what she has discovered about the org, and explains that all of the yoma, claymores, awaken beings and such are all test subjects that the org created in hopes to create a weapon to use for a huge battle that is currently taking place on the 'main land'.
- The two warriors find Galatea and enter in mortal kombat. An awkened being joins the fight which proves a tough opponent, Galatea however takes it down and upon hearing Miria's knowledge of the org the other two warriors also decide to desert the org and hide out with Galatea.
- Raki turns up for the first time since leaving Clare when she fought with Ophelia ages ago. He's all grown up and badass. He is travelling with Priscilla who has shrunk in size since she has not been eating any humans. Priscilla points out a yoma to Raki and Raki slays it.
- The team split up to visit their hometowns and to gather information. Clare is with the two newbies, Helen and Deneve are together and Miria stayed behind.
- Helen and Deneve bump into Isley who is hiding in a town. They attempt to flee but Isley senses their presence and starts to fight them assuming they're purposely after him.
- It is revealed the org have a new weapon - abyssal eaters. When they sense an abyssal ones yoki they emerge from the forest surrounding the town and attack Isley, and eventually kill him. Isley's dying words revealed that he had only been eating what was necessary to live and he had learnt the love and friendship of a family by looking after Priscilla and Raki, and that he wanted nothing else but to be with them. He was a rather nice character to be honest. Helen and Deneve flee.
- Clare encounters Riful and Dauf, who are torturing the current no. 5 Claymore and forcing her to awaken a carcass Riful found. The carcass is that of Luciela, whos body is seemingly merged with the former no. 5 Claymore Rafela. It is revealed that the two are sisters and that Rafela let her yoki slip into Luciela after Isley defeated her to try and save her, but things went horrible wrong and their bodies merged and they entered a temporary sleep.
- Riful is able to awaken the carcass which she hopes will be her new underling. She claims to destroy it if its power grows too large, but its power grows insanely large in a short amount of time so Riful is unable to stop the awakening.
- The merged bodies turned into some kind of super abyssal awakened being that shoots flesh like missles that then spawn into awakened beings. These awakened being then start attacking the villages and they merge into everyone they touch, making them into an awaken being.
- Riful flees but is stopped in her tracks by the abyssal eaters, who she has a hard time with.
- The no. 1 and no. 2 warriors (Alicia and Beth) arrive on scene to take down Riful but didn't anticipate there would be a new obstical. One of the missles pierces Beth and she then mutates into and awakened being.
- Alicia takes down Dauf (but he isn't dead) and is owning Riful but without Beth's control she starts to grow weaker.
- Clare is able to reach the conscience of Rafela with her refined yoki reading abilites and Rafela gives to Clare all of her knowledge and disappears from existance, leaving the super abyssal awakened being a simple war machine that just destroys everything surrounding it. It seems to have no sense of self and also seems to be unstoppable. It continues to destroy its surroundings and spreads missiles around the land that turn into awakened beings.
- One of the missles lands in the town Raki and Priscilla are in. The chapter cuts away and when it cuts back the awakened being is destroyed but Raki has two missles from it sticking out of his chest and Priscilla is no where to be found.
- The org quickly show up and take Raki away (who some believe is going to turn into an awakened being because of the flesh missles in his chest).
- Priscilla shows up where the action is taking place and takes down the awakened no. 2 (Beth) in a flash while being so badass its criminal, and thats as far as the manga has gotten. Looks like Priscilla and Clare might finally meet again for the first time since Teresa's death. The battle taking place now is also the biggest in the series so far.

That was quite long but I still only covered things briefly. Some things may sound a little silly but of course they have a lot more development in the manga and there are other smaller things I haven't mentioned that help advance the story and characters. Also, I have talked about whats happening in Claymore before but in more detail here.

[PaulMacC]

I'm thinking of watching Ghost In A Shell.
What order does it go in and what is it about.