TV Series · 2007 · TV Series · 2000s
Claymore
Scored from 39 calibrated IMDb reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the title is ranked. Cohort: TV Series · 2000s (1,360 peers).
Summary
In a pseudo-medieval world preyed on by shape-shifting man-eaters called Yoma, a secretive Organization sells protection in the form of half-human, half-Yoma warriors: silver-eyed women whom villagers nickname Claymores for the greatswords on their backs. Clare, ranked forty-seventh and lowest of her generation, takes Yoma contracts while pursuing a private vendetta rooted in her childhood. She is trailed by Raki, an orphan exiled from his village after she killed the Yoma wearing his brother's face. Each use of her monstrous half draws Clare nearer to Awakening, the point at which a Claymore becomes the thing she was made to hunt. This twenty-six-episode anime adapts Norihiro Yagi's dark fantasy manga.
Released in 2007, Claymore is an action, adventure and animation television series. Its country of origin is listed as Japan. It is rated TV-MA. Its listed language is Japanese. A typical episode runs 24 minutes.
The cohort it is ranked inside is 2000s television series — 1,360 of them. Only 39 of its IMDb reviewers rate with enough spread for a personal baseline to be measured, so the calibrated figure rests on a thin sample; a broader pool of 41 reviewers with at least two reviews feeds the raw-average track. A second review pool sits behind it as well: 5 Rotten Tomatoes reviewers clear the same calibration test, and Rankquant scores them separately.
How the score was built
We compare the reviewers of this title against every other title those same people reviewed. Each review is scored relative to the reviewer's own baseline — a 7/10 from a hard grader sits well above their average, while a 7/10 from a generous grader sits below theirs. Every reviewer then counts the same, so the result is a calibrated consensus rather than a raw average.
- Global percentile
- Where Claymore lands against every title we rank.
- In-cohort percentile
- The same comparison narrowed to its cohort — titles of the same format released in the same decade. A 1970s film is judged against 1970s films, not against last year's streaming series. Ranked against TV Series · 2000s (1,360 titles).
- AI-adjusted percentile
- The same reviewer-normalized score, corrected for how much confidence the sample supports: thin samples are pulled toward the corpus average. Each title keeps the share n / (n + 53) of its measured distance from the average, where n is its calibrated-reviewer count, and the result is ranked on the same scale as the global percentile.53 is the median sample size across everything we rank. Here n is 39.
Cohort: TV Series · 2000s
