Like several other people on my flist have said, I love that this manga is shounen and yet revolves around a host of female characters.
Another shounen series you might prefer over Claymore, that has a host of female characters is Venus Versus Virus. It has a truckload less graphic violence, has action intermixed with slower paced slice of life/characters and relationship* stuff, and what's currently a buddy relationship with femslash subtext. (The manga has one of those ambiguous relationships between the main characters that can be read as best friends forever, developing a romantic relationship, or even as honorary siblings.)
*I mean this in a variously friendship, family, and femslash subtext that could almost be canon way.
That said, Claymore is awesomesauce. I'm glad you checked it out, because I think everyone should check it out. But the series does get more graphically violent later on, and the fights are really involved. On the up side, it does really interesting things with the secret organization, and the nature of claymores. Every time I thought it might look gender squicky, a later plot development made it turn out to be even more awesome.
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Fri, Nov. 7th, 2008 02:18 am (UTC)Another shounen series you might prefer over Claymore, that has a host of female characters is Venus Versus Virus. It has a truckload less graphic violence, has action intermixed with slower paced slice of life/characters and relationship* stuff, and what's currently a buddy relationship with femslash subtext. (The manga has one of those ambiguous relationships between the main characters that can be read as best friends forever, developing a romantic relationship, or even as honorary siblings.)
*I mean this in a variously friendship, family, and femslash subtext that could almost be canon way.
That said, Claymore is awesomesauce. I'm glad you checked it out, because I think everyone should check it out. But the series does get more graphically violent later on, and the fights are really involved. On the up side, it does really interesting things with the secret organization, and the nature of claymores. Every time I thought it might look gender squicky, a later plot development made it turn out to be even more awesome.