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July 19, 2007

Bokura no - 15


Seriously, I can’t believe I cried at the end of the episode. I was ready to call this episode a failure, when it spent more time on Ushiro’s uncle than on Kirie himself, and then it comes with such an incredibly mean plot twist! I’m still not sure whether it was incredibly cheap or incredibly brilliant, but I’m really edging towards the latter.

Seeing the enemy commit suicide shows even more that there are real people inside of it. They’ve got the same worries as everyone else. This was a pilot who was even worse off than Kirie himself. I don’t know what his reasons were, and the sad thing is that we’ll never know them. He could have hated himself, perhaps he was suicidal, perhaps he got into a fight earlier, who knows.

I also love Kirie now, after this episode, now that it seems that he still has time left for development, especially considering that he doesn’t have the intention to fight, and the fact that he lives with Jun, now that his mother lies in the hospital. I’m anxious to see how this problem will be solved.

Still, what was up with Jun’s uncle? I’m not sure why Tanaka invited the guy.

Claymore - 16


Ah, it sees that my worries after the previous episode were all for naught. This episode was really good, and it finally tied the entire anime together. Lots of interesting things happened, and I didn’t even mind the way in which Galatea saved Claire at the last possible minute.

Let’s start with Galatea. It seems that she didn’t just get her first place, just because she was very good at sensing Yoki. She also possesses the ability to manipulate small amounts of it, and from all 47 Claymores, her strength increases the most when she releases her Yoki. (It would be bad for her to awaken, wouldn’t it?) It makes you wonder how powerful number one and two are.

It also seems that there are three awakened beings, even stronger than Priscilla. One of them is the girl we saw in this and the previous episode, Riful. One of them recruited Priscilla after she went berserk, and apparently she manipulated the guy into becoming active again. The episode wasn’t really clear whether he meant to pick a fight with Riful herself, or he means to fight against the organization, but all three of them have begun to gather more awakened allies.

What I’m really curious about is how these three awakened beings will be defeated, and what Claire’s role will be in it. I really like how she finally showed in this episode that she isn’t perfect, and needs the help of others. The next episode should start out really interesting, when Claire needs to rescue Jeane. At this point, all signs point to the fact that Claire is indeed going to save her, but then again, this isn’t the first time that Claymore surprised me. ;)