 CBS Studios and Propagate Content are teaming up with actor and manga enthusiast Masi Oka (Heroes, Hawaii Five-0) to develop a live-action television adaptation of Claymore, the dark fantasy manga by Norihiro Yagi. The project is being developed in collaboration with Japanese publisher Shueisha.Oka will executive produce the series alongside Propagate's Ben Silverman, Howard T. Owens, and Rodney Ferrell, with Shueisha also involved in the production. A writer for the adaptation has yet to be announced. Set in a medieval world plagued by shape-shifting creatures known as Yoma, Claymore follows the elite female warriors tasked with eradicating these monsters. The adaptation aims to capture the intense action and layered moral conflicts that defined both the original manga and its anime adaptation, which has been available to U.S. audiences via Crunchyroll. Yagi originally ran Claymore in Monthly Shounen Jump from June 2001 to June 2007. Following the magazine's discontinuance, the manga switched to Jump SQ. in November 2007, where it ended in October 2014. Shueisha published the manga in 27 volumes. VIZ Media released the manga in English between April 2006 and October 2015. Madhouse adapted the manga into a 26-episode television anime in Spring 2007. Funimation licensed the anime in North America and released it on home video. Oka, a longtime manga collector, has prior experience in adaptations, having co-produced Netflix's 2017 live-action Death Note movie. He and Propagate both have ties to CBS Studios—Oka previously starred in CBS's Hawaii Five-0, while Propagate has an ongoing collaborative relationship with the studio, having previously held a first-look deal. Source: Deadline |
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Vindstot said: Oka, a longtime manga collector, has prior experience in adaptations, having co-produced Netflix's 2017 live-action Death Note movie. Uhhh, I haven't really heard good things about this one. I mostly know it through cringe-inducing clips, like brooding in a hoodie out in the rain. I highly doubt that an American studio can (or want to) tell this kind of story... From what I hear it's a depressing, violent and horrifying story. Also, I thought a big draw to this was the artwork. How are they going to adapt that, or at least put an equally-interesting spin on that? |
| I have great fears that they will simply turn this into a typical modern Western girlboss-fest. |
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| Meh... I prefer new anime, not live action... Japanese live action s**ks. |
| We need a remake of the anime not live action!! |
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| I don't think this is good idea....we need season 2 instead... |
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| Can't say it's one I ever expected to see this kind of announcement for. |
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| Years waiting for a new Claymore project and this is what I get. I have no words to express my disappointment. |
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| The disappointment that washed over me when I read "Live-Action." A budget finally gets put together again for this franchise and it goes towards the absolute worst decision. I'd much rather an adaptation made out of literal clay than this waste. |
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| This is all bad news for fans waiting for the faithful anime adaptation of the manga until the end patiently for years. I think there is no room for live action adaptation of the dark fantasy series with stunning art style like Berserk, Claymore, etc. |
| Anime Gods, give us Claymore Brotherhood, not this. Well, maybe Claymore Sisterhood would be more apt |
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| What Claymore needs is a reboot and proper adaptation. |
| I'm gonna echo the sentiment of many others in this thread, I'd greatly prefer a faithful reboot of the anime smh. |
| People on MAL refuse to actually enjoy watching anime. Your taste in anime isn't a personality trait. MAL is literally just anime Twitter as its own website lol. |
| It's funny to see how people at MAL hates it while the people at ANN supporting it and they said it's certainly gonna be good simply because Claymore is supposedly more easier to adapt in live-action format like wut? Lol |
Reply to MahiaErebeaNegi
It's funny to see how people at MAL hates it while the people at ANN supporting it and they said it's certainly gonna be good simply because Claymore is supposedly more easier to adapt in live-action format like wut? Lol
| @MahiaErebeaNegi ANN is apologetic and wrong, MAL is chaotic but right |
| :v |
| unpopular opinion, but Im more interested in a live action for this than getting another anime adaptation... unless we get rings of power or wheel of time treatment, then just send it to oblivion |
| :v |
| ''having co-produced Netflix's 2017 live-action Death Note movie'' Dude..... |
| Live action? I am already starting to shutter. |
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