Claymore: Women and the Sword

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DDZYTMTgvSI

^Watch that trailor it is AWESOME^

In a world where humans coexist with creatures called Yoma (sentient monsters that feed on human organs, aka demons) a nameless and highly secretive organization has created an order of warriors called Claymores to protect humans from the Yoma, for a fee. One Claymore warrior, Clare, struggles to hold on to her humanity while she fights the Yoma. As a child, Clare was adopted by the Claymore Teresa. Teresa rebels against the organization by killing humans in an attempt to protect Clare; and is subsequently killed (Claymores can only slay Yoma), so Clare volunteers to become a Claymore using Teresa's flesh to take revenge on the Awakened Being, an exceptionally powerful form of Yoma, who killed her. With determination and her human friend Raki by her side, Clare overcomes her low demonic power by honing the skills she inherited from Teresa, and other Claymores. As the series progresses, she becomes stronger and a better fighter, gradually earning the respect of strong allies and coming in conflict with the shadowy organization, the top Claymores who support them, and many powerful Awakened Beings.

This all sounds pretty good for women; as only a woman can become a Claymore. But to do this she must relinquish her body by transmuting her flesh with a Yoma's to gain the powers necessary to fight them. She becomes a Claymore, which isn't just a honorary title but a species in itself. She is no longer human, cannot age, live among humans, and every time she fights she risks loosing the last part of her human soul to the Yoma powers she inherited (An Awakened Being is a Claymore who lost their humanity after battling too long or too hard). These women are servants to the organization that created them, they wander slaying Yoma where they find them, and are feared second only to the Yoma.

So why is it that when a woman becomes a powerful force she becomes inhuman, even though she is still capable of feeling? Why is a powerful woman a demon, when a powerful man is respected? Not only that, but during the series it mentions a race of male Claymore's, they were more powerful but less useful, because they used their demon powers too often (thereby becoming demons) because the use of it resembled sexual release, thereby also inferring that the old belief that women have no sex and no sexual pleasure is true.

(All things considered though, I love this series)