Claymore

You already appear calm on the surface. But your real heart is a whirlpool of passion. - Irene to Clare

Status

Manga: incomplete. (130 chapters.)

Thoughts

It's actually quite interesting, despite the relatively lackluster premise - an organization which employs half-demon warrior women to kill demons for a fee, but which quickly grows into something else once more of the truth behind the organization is revealed. And I do harbor fond thoughts of Clare and Miria (definitely not Teresa, she just came off as too OP to me) - the characterization is pretty nice, too. Nah, what I really don't like about this series is that it's just not...engaging. The painfully slow progress of the manga might be part of it, but I think that, despite some interesting enough characters, the overall plot just doesn't grab me at all: character-driven plots mean nothing if there is no plot to speak of at all. (Not that Claymore doesn't have any plot, but...)