It’s here – the end is nigh! A wonderful, amazing, long-running manga has finally come to a close. No, not that one. No, I’m writing about Claymore. At the end of September, and after a 13-year-run, Claymore finally concluded. So obviously, it took me almost two weeks to finally get around to reading the last… Read More Claymore, Final Chapter (155): The Gospel According to Teresa
Created and developed far from Europe and the Americas, and conceived in a country where less than 1% of the populace is Christian, manga could hardly be called out for inaccurately portraying Christianity. It would be silly for calling out mangaka for getting the story of Christ wrong or for presenting the Bible as “just… Read More Fact Check: Claymore Teresa’s Only Thing to Live For
I was dusting out blog drafts, and found this completed entry among them. I don’t know if I would’ve written it today…but nonetheless, here it is! Several years ago, while I was still in college and unmarried, a group of close guy friends and I had a conversation about “animated women.” My friend blogged about… Read More Belldandy, Nagisa, and What it Means to Be Pure
Teresa of the Faint Smile is the most powerful of the claymore, women warriors of the manga of the same name. She shares similarities to John the Baptist through their roles and relationships to others, and more obviously through the ultimate events in their lives.… Read More Finding the Invisible God in…Claymore
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