User Recommendations for Claymore

Fantasy animes that revolves around knights swords and epic fights.Lead character in both of them is a female knight.

“There never was a way out nor a means of salvation.” - Both series are very dark and and quite brutal at times. Likeable characters have a very real chance of dying or facing an even worse fate with evil reigning supreme. Furthermore neither of the two really employs fan-service or annoying comic-relief. (Waver+Rider-scenes in Fate/Zero and some of the scenes with Hellen in Claymore may be somewhat lighter than most of the rest, but neither feel out of character for any involved party and everyone always behaves in appropriate ways for the given situation.) Other than that both series have nice fights (to those of