Claymore - 10
Interesting, the current episode answered many questions the previous episodes have been hinting at, with the most important one being: did Claire inherit any of Teresa’s specialities? The answer is: yes.
Episode eight indeed made a huge impact on Claire, and she indeed has inherited Teresa’s ability of sensing Yoki, but because of the fact that she only is 1/4 Youma, instead of the usual 1/2, her physical strength is weak. I think that because of this, she decided to use her skills, rather than her strength.
Especially because this is a perfect way to fight Awakened Beings, which probably was the biggest reason for her to concentrate on this skill. I do wonder, though. What caused Deneve to develop her skill as it is? I mean, extra-fast regeneration definitely is useful, but only once or twice against a strong opponent. She probably won’t ever need it when she faces regular Youma. What caused her to actually need this skill?
Another thing that’s remarkable is Claire’s ability to stand, even though she’s got a lot of wounds. I’m not sure what’s up with that, but I can imagine that being under the care of a Youma for her entire childhood did make her body quite tough.
Also, if I understood things correctly, the party was sent to get killed off. The organization was aware that there was a male Youma in the vicinity, yet they didn’t notify Miria of this. I can understand Claire, being 47th and all, but why did they want to kill off the three others?
This episode was quite nice, but I’m actually more interested in the next one, to see how everyone changed after the events in this episode. One thing that annoyed me in this episode, though, was the lack of battle-tactics. These four Claymores just rush in, without knowing anything about each other. No planned moves, nothing. Heck, Miria first keeps telling that she wants to know as much of her companions as possible, but she doesn’t even know about Helen’s extended arms for god’s sake.
