Sakura of DOOM

I'm a shonen fan and I do love the SHONEN FIGHT!iness off it. I think in particular because so few women in shonen get their fair share of SHONEN FIGHT as do their male counterparts, and even when they do their SOMETHING I MUST PROTECT concerns so often revolve around Girly Things or men. Claymore's cast of mostly-female characters adhere to the gold standards of shonen heroes and are simultaneously actual women—there's a real sense of that, that their being women is not unimportant and they aren't men with breasts, nor is it all "HAY LOOK HAWT CHICKS WITH SWORDS!" There are men in Claymore, even nice men, without the women immediately gravitating to them as Shiny Special Male Rarity. It would be nice to see more input from the "normal" women of Claymore's world, though.