Just like Za_Paper told me in the previous article, these episodes are the ones that help separate Claymore from all the other action Animes. What’s also surprising about them is that they let the story speak for itself, rather than “forcing” the facts onto you.
Episode five begins with a completely new character. One which you may remember from the intro, Teresa of the faint smile.
If you watched the first four episodes, you will probably get a deja-vu feeling from watching these. Although the story is different, there are small aspects which you may remember from them.
Teresa is considered the strongest Claymore among all of them. One curious thing about her, is that she never unleashes her powers when fighting the Youma. She slays them with a serene expression upon her face.
On one of the towns Teresa visited, she found a small girl, who after being saved from the clutches of a Youma, decides to follow her, despite Teresa clearly saying that she doesn’t to be followed. After a while, Teresa finally succumbs to her human side, and decides to let the girl follow her. Eventually they become close, and even the cold Claymore starts feeling care and warmth for the girl.
Those feelings that Teresa gains eventually become her undoing, as she disobeys the most important rule of being a Claymore, which is: To never kill a human.
The episodes that follow that act are very dramatic and end up with an excellent, yet heartfelt conclusion and we are finally introduce to what appears to be the main enemy of the story. For obvious reasons I won’t tell you who she is, but at least you can have an idea of what she looks like (and you may even recall her from the intro).
In the next episode we will see the beginning of Clare’s story as a Claymore, and, possibly, what happened to the other characters featured in this small arc.
I’m glad you enjoyed it ^_^, from this point on the series will continue to pick up as a lot more revelations and characters (both allies and enemies) and will start to appear.