I said in the anime thread that I was going to post what I feel would be the best place to end the anime. It may have been mentioned before, but it's a good a place as any. Leaves the audience wanting more, and is a reasonable place to stop.

They could pretty much follow the anime completely up to the time jump. The final episode with the deaths of all the Claymores in Pieta. In the final five minutes, show Clarice counting the claymores in the ground, announce that 7 are missing. Fade out with Helen's line, "She counted them all."

Skip Isely and Luciela, as well as Rafaela and Luciela. No point in putting them in if you can't get into the aftermath with Riful's talk with Clare. There's no point in putting Alicia and Beth in either. Their storyline seems to be quite a ways off.