A review by irayred
Claymore, Vol. 11: Kindred of Paradise by Norihiro Yagi, Norihiro Yagi

4.0

"You know... I was probably already dead back then. Maybe I was allowed to live only for the sake of this moment. […] I’m grateful to you. Thank you, Clare. I'm glad I met you."

4.5/5
The fight against Rigaldo made Clare awakened her 4 limbs that improved her strength, speed and power. But everything comes with a price, so after fighting against him and finally defeating him, she asks Helen to kill her so she dies a human instead of a full awakened yoma. Instead, Jane sacrifices herself in order to make Clare go back to her human form, but it ends up in another death that hits close home.

I have to admit I cried in this volume because all my favorite characters died in a shocking way and they couldn’t do nothing about it. Even the death of Undine felt so frustrating, because she was just a girl who wanted to become strong, so others wouldn’t die on her.

But I guess that’s just the way the remaining soldiers have to live: with the responsibility to avenge the fallen, the ones that sacrificed themselves in order to protect what they believed in.

The organization doesn’t seem to care about any of them, and they’re already planning on getting more ‘new Claymores’, as if the others were mere disposable trash.

I think that Isley and Priscilla are together because they have a sense of what’s wrong with the organization, so they might not be entirely on the wrong side. Oh, and last but not least, we get introduced to the remaining Creature of the Abyss: Luciela of the South!

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