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SpoilerI've been wondering since the whole "12 spirits of the zodiac" motif was brought up as to whether or not Mashima would work Ophiuchus into it. I'm pretty glad he did, too. Holy **** at Pisces, though. All the other spirits are more or less in line with what I was expecting prior to their reveal, but Pisces all sorts of out of left field

....you know.... that would make a lot of sense... Lucy's ability is a lot like FFXI smns! Only the gold keys (avatars) are ever really useful while the silver keys (elementals) exist and are far more common, we never see her use them, save random specialized situations and plue for the sake of him being plue.

Buuuuuuuut:

Taurus -> Titan (The big guy)
Cancer -> Ifrit (The rarely used claw guy)
Aquarius -> Shiva (The super strong icequeen (Ok, shiva's not super strong, but the only avatars I've seen get regular use for the entire time I've played are her and garuda, others fade in and out)
Virgo -> Garuda (The useful, kinky one)
Sagittarius -> Ramuh (The rarely used awkward one (horse hat, ramuh's gigantic ******* eyebrows, etc)
Leo -> Fenrir (The loyal powerhouse)
Scorpio -> Diabolos (The specialized powerhouse (sleep-based vs sand based)
Gemini -> Carbuncle (The cute one)
Aries -> Alexander (The defensive one)
Capricorn -> Odin (The situationally strong one (Presumably))
Pisces -> Leviathan (the creepy looking fish one)
Libra -> Pheonix (The... Gravity vs Pheonix.... pheonix are birds and can fly, there's something here to make this work. idk, boobs.)
Ophiuchus -> Bahamut (The oh shi- music queing one)

********* actually
Natsu -> Sam (Designated Shounen Protagonist Sue (Sam being the sue, Natsu's shown SOME ability to not be totally shounen protagonistic)
Gray -> Drg (The Not-quite-as-strong-but-still-really-strong Rival, but really I only say this because of Gray's Icemake: Gungnir)
Erza -> Pld/War depending on the situation (Team Tank or Melee Weapon Specialist)
Wendy -> Whm (Overly strong healer, with Sky Dragon's Roar being Wendy's Holy II)
Happy/Charle -> The Moogle (They're cute and they can fly)
Gajeel -> Drk (The Other-not-quite-as-strong-but-still-really-strong Rival)
Elfman -> Mnk (The Other-other-not-quite-as-strong-but-still-really-strong Rival, but with some tankability)
Lily -> Pup (The unassumingly strong one (Lily's my favorite, this analogue is totally inaccurate, but I don't care because <3 Lily and <3 pup))

True, but compare her physical combat strength to Natsu's. Then compare smn melee to sam melee. Still, your point is valid.

Yea, I wanted to go with that, but given how cliche that would be with the fact that he uses Dragon Slayer magic, I opted for Sam, which is pretty much FFXI's version of the "Generic Shounen Invincible Protagonist" Realistically, you could argue that Natsu, Wendy, and Gajeel are all drgs, with Happy being the Multipurpose wyvern, Charle being the Support wyvern (and by proxy, wendy being drg/whm or drg/sch) and Lily being the Offensive Wyvern, but that was too much to type out at the time I was doing that

Oooh, I hadn't thought about that, but now I want to see it too...

SpoilerRemember way back in the Soul Society Arc when Ishida went against Mayuri, and had to use that mega powerful, but lose your powers forever thing?

Pretty sure that's what we just saw.

Also, the villain is now wearing heels.

I was expecting something more along the lines of SpoilerKubo rehashing something else and making Arranquincies with Resurreciones, or for him to pull some fifth* group out of his *** to fill the void and have the quincy badguys be half quincy-halfnewgroup, and then the new group would either become a third party and instigate a three-way war, or would for whatever reason, align themselves with one side or the other. Both seemed far more convoluted and Kubo-esque than simply taking something he used as a one-shot forever ago and half-retconning it to fit the plot now.

*: Fifth counting Shinigami, Quincies, Hollows, and Fullbringers, and ignoring Bounts, unless I'm missing someone. Visored are half shinigami/half Hollow, and arrancar are half hollow/half shinigami, so neither is really a full group on their own.

Since they can still awaken, my guess is that from now on they will have to go Highlander on each other every time one of them changes. The final two Claymores will then kill each other during the final battle, and the Claymores and Yoma will become legends in the island's history.

There are plenty of rumors. Some say he's restarting the series under another name. Others that the publisher just decided Claymore wasn't doing well enough. Some that it's part of a protest against legal changes to author's rights to their works.

Yeah I found that article. If that is the case then I understand and fully support it just hope he fills in the fans on it


wow I really need to pay attention to which word I pick from the spell check list. It really made me look like a **** there.

Edited, May 4th 2012 2:37am by RavennofTitan

hrmmmmm,

SpoilerSo rogue is not at all content with his guild, while sting is a complete assjack, which everyone had already figured out. Yukino wants to talk with Lucy for obvious reasons, Kagura wants to kill Jellal... god dammit Mashima... I WANT NEXT WEEKS CHAPTER NAO.

edit: I also love that he totally carried through with the Quatro Puppy thing

Edited, May 3rd 2012 9:51pm by Jinte

SpoilerMy guess? Gray and Lyon unconsciously stripped, which Lyon blamed on Gray and then started a fight about. They had a swordfight, and it ended about as well as could be expected. And yes, I did that intentionally.