Claymore (The only "horror" being how similar character are among each other)

  The only expectation I had was for the story to be entertaining but a bit scary; I found it in the "horror" section, and well, an expectation not met.

You'll never find a girl like me!

Plot reminder: 

Some bad guys are having a war with other bad guys, so bad guys B are overwhelmed by bad guys A because bad guys A have some sort of biological nonsense advantage due to being descendants of the dragon kind or something like that, hence the bad guys B create flesh-eating creatures that resemble a bit to the "Tokyo Ghoul" ghouls, but uglier.

The experiment fails, so instead of making trial-and-error on the battlefield, they make a facility on some remote island to do the research. Their methods? They kidnap children and perform human experiments on them so they can become a mindless half-monster hitman for "the organization" (that's their non-evil name) then they release these aforementioned "Yoma" creatures and make people pay them a very handsome amount of gold to send the hitmen to exterminate the treat that they created, like the Mafia.

 We are supposed to believe that all of this happens without the knowledge of the common folk, but is rather obvious that the "organization" is behind the "Yoma" for the simple fact that if you don't pay the protection fee, a couple of days after several Yoma come to destroy the village and kill everyone except the children they kidnap.

 One of these kids is the protagonist, Clare, that is on a journey to hunt down an "awakened one" (a half-monster hitman that became a full monster) that killed her mother figure and even though she's beheaded in action, we all know she's going to resurrect somehow to prevent the destruction of the "organization" and after five chapters of forced emotional crap, Clare is going to convince her with the power of friendship that the "organization" is evil, as we already know since page five, and after a boss fight, the organization is going to be ultimately destroyed and they lived happily ever after.   

Even though I can't say that the drawing is charming, it isn't bad either. The battles are utmostly inextricable, surrounded by a blur of confusion, and the characters lack a distinctive feature aside from their haircut, it is sad to say that despite all the efforts I doubt not made by the writer none of these awake empathy in the slightest, and thus none of their joys or sorrows result in strong emotions, but in a phlegmatic apathy. 2.5/10


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