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Claymore (TV).

The late episodes of the anime strayed from the source material in a few major ways:

1. In the manga, spoiler[Raki never actually made it to Pieta, and thus never hooked back up with Clare.]

2. In the manga, spoiler[Clare and Priscilla did not meet at Pieta and go to battle elsewhere. (In fact, several years have passed in the manga and they still have yet to meet.)]

3. In the manga, spoiler[Clare sprouted those wing-like projections from her back during the fight with Rigaldo instead of during a fight with Priscilla. Likewise, the scene where Jean died helping bring Clare back from the brink happened in Pieta immediately followed the Rigaldo fight rather than following a Priscilla fight, albeit in an almost word-for-word similar fashion.] However, this change is of minimal consequence to the plot.

4. In the manga, spoiler[Raki never finds out that Priscilla is an Awakened Being (i.e. the cave incident doesn't happen) and some of the "road trip" scenes with him, Priscilla, and Isley didn't happen.]

5. In the manga, spoiler[the remaining Claymores apparently fall in Pieta under the Awakened Being onslaught, but seven survive by playing possum. As in the anime, they agree to abandon the Organization and take their own path.]

The scene where spoiler[Flora confronts Clare] happens in the manga but plays out very differently, though that has no impact on the plot and, honestly, I felt was handled better in the anime anyway.

Now, I'm in the apparent minority who thinks that, the way the anime set up, it would be possible to bring it at least generally back on a parallel track with the manga on a continuation. However, I don't expect that to happen. Besides, for all the loose ends the anime version left hanging, it did complete its main story, which in the anime is ultimately about saving Clare from herself. The manga only really gives lip service to that notion, thus making the story a more pure action tale.

spoiler[ And what about prisilla? She wasn't killed in the anime. You would think if they went through the trouble of making them fight before they did in the manga, why wouldn't they just kill her? Unless, they wanted to keep her alive in case of a possible continuation of the anime.]

No, again, that has more to do with what the series is really about - i.e. saving Clare from herself, as well as Claymores in general struggling to find a balance between their humanity and monstrous sides - than about leaving an opening for a continuation. spoiler[In that final scene, Raki and Jean realized that if they let Clare carry through with killing Priscilla then all hope of salvaging Clare's humanity would be gone. Besides, sparing Priscilla under those exact circumstances - i.e. crouched on all fours like that, and exactly why the person standing over her spared her - makes that scene an exact parallel to Teresa's scene back in episode 8 where she had an opportunity to off Priscilla in town but didn't. The two scenes are too similar for that to be unintentional.]

The character of Priscilla is developed to the point that spoiler[leaving her alive without the thought of what the consequences of those actions are make no sense to me. ]

The character of Priscilla spoiler[has been seen by Raki to be a distraught and emotionally fragile young girl. Yes, she's a monster, and a powerful one, but she has no designs for widespread destruction, or an empire of some kind. She's really quite simple, and without Isley and his army, she would be no more of a threat to the general populace than any normal yoma.]

spoiler[Isley tells Raki that's how Priscilla gets her "nourishment". Left alive she is still going to continue killing and eating people.]

Haven't read all the manga that is currently out but have read past what is covered in the anime.

My thought to why the anime ended the way it did is that they where trying to give it some sort of an ending. (Like they heard they where not getting a second season are where not expecting on in the first place.) The ending (in my opinion) isn't a cliffhanger. Yes there could be another season but it is left in a way that a lot of other anime ends where you can decide for yourself as to where it goes from there.

From what I've read of the manga they could bring in another season with a little rewrite for how the anime ended to bring it back on track.

getchman--
I thought so too, but I checked, and By_the_Jelly_Beans? actually has not necroposted.

nbahn wrote:

getchman-- I thought so too, but I checked, and By_the_Jelly_Beans? actually has not necroposted.

Correct. The whole idea of having dedicated series threads linked to the stickied index post is that the threads are always considered active. He's just choosing to post on a lot of series threads that haven't been commented on in a long while.

Had Claymore on my mind seeing that Funimation linked an article from this site saying that the manga ended. Which pretty much brought me here.

By_the_Jelly_Beans? wrote:

Had Claymore on my mind seeing that Funimation linked an article from this site saying that the manga ended. Which pretty much brought me here.

Just as an FYI: the Claymore manga is still ongoing. IIRC, it's on Chapter 134. I'm not sure how much longer it has until it is done, but it's not done yet.