Anime: Claymore!!!!!!!
I am head-over-the-heels in love with this. This is either a feminist dream or a dream of a high-school-age boy. I take is as a feminist dream. The anime is ALL ABOUT GIRLS with special powers, or Claymores, and their fight against monsters, or Yoma. It doesn't give us just one awesome main herouine (Claire) but also many others who are equally awesome and have various awesome specialities. It is a bit like "Bleach", only much shorter, doesn't have any male characters worthy of any notice whatsoever (apart from Clair's little friend Raki) and has lots and lots of gore and limbs cut off (and re-attached) in a very artistic manner in every episode. I fell in love with the gorgeous gothic animation and with the story that doesn't revolve around male/female sexual tension but instead is about different types of love and friendship and caring for each other. I am on the episode 18 now but I have spoiled myself for the ending already.
I must say I am disappointed that that anime finishes very differently from the "Claymore" manga and I don't get to see Raki growing up and looking like this:
The video of the opening sequence is below (not spoilery); the title sequence and the anime itself is so Joan of Arc. Please also notice the twin Goddesses of Love:
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