Several people reading this is making me want to catch up too!

I figure the cut-tag text is not spoilery if you are reading shounen...

( Spoilers face even bigger bads! )

Um, yes, my inherent privileging of narrative over pretty much everything else has won over my flailing and pathetic attempts to get enough sleep. I fear this is the story of the life.

But, continuity! Story structure! Reveals! I have to say, Yagi's worldbuilding is pretty good... I now have to reread to see what's been set up and what hasn't.

( Spoilers have no pithy remarks )

Whoo! The continuing excitement from volume 11 continues! And I get my favorite manga storytelling devices-flashbacks, flashforwards, and individual character stories!

( Spoilers are impatient )

This is so sad. It hasn't been very long at all since I last read vols. 1-8, and I've already forgotten who half the Claymores are, what they do, and what's going on ( Read more... )

I think I actually flipped through volume one in a bookstore before and decided the series was too bloody to read; luckily, my public library has it, so I ended up mainlining it anyway ( Read more... )