Akame

Tatsumi

Leone

Mine

Lubbock

Sheele

Bulat

Chelsea

Esdeath

Kurome

Wave

Susanoo

Bors

Najenda

Seryuu Ubiquitous

Spear

Gozuki

Suzuka

Daidara

Kubikiri Zank

Sten

Shura 

Trooma

In a land where corruption rules and a ruthless Prime Minister has turned the puppet Emperor's armies of soldiers, assassins and secret police against the people, only one force dares to stand against them: Night Raid, an elite team of relentless killers, each equipped with an Imperial Arm - legendary weapons with unique and incredible powers created in the distant past.<br>
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Rescued from a fate worse than death by Night Raid, young Tatsumi is offered the chance to join their lethal ranks… but it's a deadly choice, as few can master an Imperial Arm and even fewer survive when two Arms go against each other in combat. The battle is on, and only the strongest will make it out alive.
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(Source: Sentai Filmworks)

“The reason does not matter. As long as tiny bit of hope exists, that is all that matter.”—Tatsumi.

Akame ga Kill!  is a Japanese shounen manga series written by Takahiro and illustrated by Tetsuya Tashiro. It started serialization in Square Enix's Gangan Joker in March 2010. An anime television series adaptation of the main series premiered in Japan in July 2014. The story of the anime focuses on Tatsumi, a young villager that travels to the Capital, to become a soldier and to earn enough money to save his village. When Tatsumi reaches his destination point, he finds out that the country he wants to serve is rotten; however, one man cannot do anything against the whole country. Thankfully, Tatsumi encounters a group of assassin known as Night Raid. That group tries to assassinate all rotten politicians that do nothing but torture people, and to rebuild their country as a place, where all people have the right to live. Will the assassin group called Night Raid, together with Tatsumi, be able to change their rotten country? Find out the answer now. 

While the story line sounds intriguing, it has too many flaws to be good. To be more precise, it has three main flaws: it is rushed, it relies too much on death, and it is unclear whether the main focus of this series is comedy, drama, or action. Not only the anime suffers these three flaws, but also it does not explain enough: Akame ga Kill! does show characters’ backstories, but, at the same time, they are so short and sometimes do not make sense at all. The only explanation that I have is that the creators of Akame ga Kill! did not have enough resources, and so they decided to omit some scenes and to make the story of this series more rushed. All In all, this is one of the weakest parts on this series. 

The animation and sound are, perhaps, the reasons why this anime is actually watchable. But again, the animation is average and I would never call it unique. Yes, character designs are not bad and, yes, action scenes are fine, but it is still not enough to say that the animation is good. Some scenes are extremely beautiful, but some are just ugly. Anyway, luck of budget is obvious even here. The sound is more or less good: not only the ED and OP themes are good, but also the OST is very enjoyable. Also, good voice actors compensate for pale characters. 

The characters are,  not that bad and I would highly recommend you to only think about characters and about characters only, forget about the story. Anyway, let us discuss the characters. I will start with Akame (anime is called Akame ga Kill!, by the way). Akame is one of the main characters of this series, but despite having her name in the anime’s title, the anime does not pay enough attention to her persona; it does show us that she is always hungry, quite, and calm, her backstory is okay and it also makes sense, but it will be shown a bit too late. What I am trying to say is that when we first see Akame, the anime heavily implies that she will be the main protagonist of this series, this anime is called Akame ga Kill!, after all, but, for some reason, Tatsumi receives more screen time than Akame. The next character I would like to discuss is Chelsea. Chelsea is also a member of Night Raid, she is extremely beautiful, and her cheerful personality helps to make this anime less dramatic. However, the main problem with her character is that she does not do anything for the story, she is absolutely useless. She is a member of the Night Raid and this organization is the main focus of this anime, so, um, why not pay more attention to Chelsea’s character? The next character is Esdeath, the only Akame Ga Kill’s best girl. Not only she is interesting, but also she might be the only character you will have faith in. Yes, she might be called a plain villain, but her actions and her character overall, MAKE SENSE.  AND finally the last character I would like to discuss is Seryuu. While she is annoying sometimes, she is one of the characters that I like and you will probably like, as well. She does what she finds important to do and to achieve her goals, she is ready literally for everything. 

Anyway, I would not say that the cast of this series is extremely bad; it is average, but not bad: some characters do not receive enough development, some characters are absolutely useless, and so on. Again, the characters and the story are not the problem of this anime, the only problem of this anime is that it did not have enough resources. 

All in all, if you still have not seen Akame ga Kill yet, I would highly recommend you to either read the manga, or watch the anime. Of course, reading the manga will the best case scenario, it is just MUCH-MUCH better, but still, the anime is not that bad. Yes, it is far from being good, but just do not expect something good: be ready for an average drama with some action elements.

Too bad the anime is worse than the manga.

Akame ga Kill is a silly show that beseeches you to feel for these generic shounen characters in this fake seinen world

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Plunging into the abyss where gloom scatters about, Akame ga Kill! silhouettes against the sunlit opening. To watch is to enter an unpleasant territory full of dark elements. Now, you can interpret that unpleasantness in two ways. Whether that'd be the dreary experience or the thrilling bloodshed, both can pretty much describe the nature of this show.

In a world of darkness empowered by shadowy secrets and corruption, several assassins constitute a covert group with the motive of overthrowing the people who lead a crippling nation. Night Raid, the source that drives the story and many of its conflicts also introduces some predicaments into an otherwise solid premise. While the clichéd characters are something I didn't mind much, it’s the execution that causes a lot of letdowns. The creators tried too hard to grip the audience. Here's the case. We have the powers of Teigu, relics of high calibers that pave way to fights of high action and risks. The apparent life or death fate of these fights is why when some ended in an anticlimactic fashion, any tension dissipates too quickly. Many deaths are burdened by the small amount of relatability in the characters, like more in-depth backstories, to create a more impactful consequence for us viewers. Feeling meaningless in the end, it only leaves a sour taste even if the fight is great. But those that depicts true clashes really shows how dangerous they are. No jokes, no playing around. Being serious is the way to survive and that's something that causes a lot of thrills here. Another good thing is the interactions between allies alike in both sides, antagonists included. The fact they have actual relationships between each other with ideals that mixed and matched give qualities that speak for the state of their world and for their own personal character. Romance, a side dish within the show, is supported by good events leading up to the influx of feelings but the suddenness is quite contrived, which fails to satisfy. For the comedy, the facetious attempts kicked me out of the serious atmosphere occasionally but some did managed to leave a bit of lightheartedness. This anime has no major world building as it focuses more on a condensed setting. Even so, at least it stayed true with its own violent and grim take on dark themes all the way from the start towards the end.

Expanding on the darkness, the world is splattered with detailed redness that reinforces the gory violence this anime has set out for. First of all, the visual isn’t anything special but compare it to the narrative or character elements and it has more details at numerous times. This is particularly noticeable with the incredible close-ups of the character's face full of all kinds of expressions. Combined with the blood, brutality, and amputated limbs, you'll get something that trembles the tone with negative feelings. As for the animation, there are inconsistencies so the enjoyment varies. But together, it adds up into something pretty average. A few of the episodes are dedicated to intensified movements for the fights, coming in with great choreography and energy that expels out onto the unforeseen demise of whoever will lose. It’s these fights and the different but cool appearances of the characters that factors in the badass sides of the show. They also go hand in hand with their Teigu powers, which have various designs to make each one a unique and special weapon capable of delivering deathly attacks in their own ways. Efforts for the voice-acting are sometimes hindered to full potential by the clumsy switches between seriousness and humor. It still didn't stray from the fact that they are able to express emotions to a successful degree. Anguish, anger, and pain can be heard coming out of their voices, along with care, friendliness, and relief. This show that the characters are still humans who possess varying feelings and ideologies, whether clashing with foes or matching with their friends. While the soundtracks aren’t the most golden part of the show, they are the ones that had the least amount of issues. I'd say they were effective in their uses. The collection of a variety of tracks blend in well with the mood of each scene, such as sorrow or excitement, without any obstruction.

A show with great promises and buildups, Akame ga Kill! took several downfalls and redemptions throughout the whole journey, making it difficult to justify itself as a well-executed show. Too many times it had tried to forcefully crack emotions with the deaths it was not afraid to show, and the lackluster performance meant that a lot of the efforts fade away to the void. Despite that, it didn't come without enjoyment, and for a dark Shounen, is still a show that can excite with strong anticipations.

While it can be a thrilling dark Shounen, many pitfalls present themselves to drag enjoyment down into the unlit abyss.

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__Story: 8/10__
The story is very good because the Good guys are Bad guys and the Bad Guys are Good Guys. 
I like too that Esdeath a cold heart killer had her first sight of love from Tatsumi Smile and Fighting Skills.
The only thing i dont like is that everyone die.
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__Art: 10/10__
This is only my 2 Review but from all animes i see almost every anime have a perfect Art (There are animes like beelzebub that have a little error in 1 part or other but that isnt a BIG trouble) so what i am trying to say is that for me all animes i see have the same cool art
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__Sound: 10/10__
The Soundtrack are Good but the Openings and Endings is so beautiful.

Opening 1: I like this Opening because the sound is kinda scrambled

Opening 2: Its soo cool as the 1st opening (more chilled in the begginer and then go more scrambled)

Ending 1:The ending is perfect to this anime because of the deaths 

Ending 2: More sad that the 1st ending and everytime i listen i cry (I am listening in the moment i am writing to remember all :P)
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__Characters: 10/10__

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Tatsumi: I like Tatsumi because he look weak in the beginner but he start to go stronger.

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Mine: She is cute and had her moments of cuteness and overpower. Her death has sad but i ship TatsumiXEsdeath (Sry TatsumiXMine Fans)

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Akame: She was very mysterius in almost the entire anime but in the final she has cute and sooo cool (Tatsumi made a promise to her it was sad that he hadnt do it in the anime)

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Leone: I only have 1 thing to say : BOOOOOOOOOOOOBS :D. Just Kidding i like her from the very start but i think her death was stupid.

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Esdeath: My favorite character. I love her power and most important the love she had to tatsumi.

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Lubbock: I dont have many things to say from him but i say its sad that he die without saying he love Najenda

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Chelsea: To be honest i dont like her and her death doesnt had put me sad because she kill Bolts and Bolts didnt deserve to die (HE GOT A FAMILY FOR GOD SAKE).

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Bulat: When i had see him i remember ElfMan from Fairy Tail but i dont know why. His death has sad but crucial to Tatsumi become stronger

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Kurome: I had think she could survive and I HATE HER BECAUSE SHE HADNT GIVE COOKIE TO TATSUMI. Just kidding she has cute and overpower.

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Sheele: She has the 1member of the Revolutionary Army that die and i dont have things to say exept she has a good character because of her distraction


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Enjoyment: 7/10

The anime is good to see but sad because of the deaths and because when you start to watch you start to like a character (Esdeath in my case) and then the character dies

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Overall: 10/10
IGN 10/10 Pretty Good (Game of the year). The Overall is 10 because of the mix of all avaliations~~~~

Akame Ga Kill is a good fighting anime and almost everyone knows this anime for a reason 

(This review has been reposted from my review of Akame Ga Kill! posted on MyAnimeList)
Akame Ga Kill! is a story about a young man named Tatsumi who travels to the capital of his nation in order to try and earn money for his starving village. However, after his arrival, it seems the capital is more twisted and full of despair than Tatsumi ever could have imagined. He ends up joining a team of assassins called Night Raid, a group whose purpose is to rid the capital of its corruption and turn a new leaf in the despairing nation.
I really enjoyed watching Akame Ga Kill. It was a fun ride with fun characters, fun battles, and a setting that's well imagined and shown. It has many strengths, but I do believe that it falls short in some of what it has and what it could have done.

To start, I would like to talk about the setting, premise, and overall direction of the show. Akame Ga Kill makes it very clear what you're gonna be dealing with from the get-go and follows through with it to the end. Aside from a large amount of gore and violence, one thing the show does a good job of communicating is the setting we're in. The anime does an excellent job of painting how corrupt the capital is under its minister's reign. It shows how things are connected, how the public is being manipulated and abused, and how an uprising has been so hard to do. As Night Raid dispatches foe after foe, we get to see each one's unique weapons and powers as as well as the corrupt and sick things they've been doing to find themselves on Night Raid's hit list. These battles are also nice demonstrations of the heroes' abilities, as well as emotional moments for the characters. The show makes it very clear it isn't afraid to kill off a character we've grown close to, and it communicates very clearly that no assassin is safe from the job of killing they've burdened themself with. The fight scenes, though the animation can feel lackluster and a bit lazy at some points, is overall satisyfing, as what carries it through is each character's abilities and strengths clashing against each other.

This leads me to the next thing I would like to talk about: the characters. Each character has a memorable design and personality, and their distinct features, differences from each other, and abilities help make each member of Night Raid memorable. The chemistry between the characters, for the most part, is well established throughout the show, and we get to see how well these assassins are connected, which helps make their deaths all the more emotional for both their fellow friends as well as the viewer. However, I do have some problems with our heroes. For one, lots of them don't exactly have the most original personality or character archetype. Lots of them follow specific anime tropes that have been long overused, such as the tsundere character, the onee-san character, the pervert, the kuudere, the overly heroic protagonist man, and so on. They do make good use of these for the most part, and each character will definitely stick with me for a while, but I would be lying if I didn't say a large portion of their memorability comes from their character designs, which are not exactly outstanding, but do a nice job representing the character and making each one distinctly stand out in the crowd. Another problem I have is with some of the dialogue. Here's a fun drinking game: take a shot every time Mine explains how her gun works. Chances are, you'll be wasted by episode 10. The audience is treated like idiots through a good portion of the anime, and this is made very clear from the character's dialogue and exposition. Rather than let the audience figure out the situation for themselves, the characters feel the need to state in an out-of-place manner the blatantly obvious, and exposition scenes happen in almost every episode. They did an alright job of keeping me entertained with the visuals, but the dialogue became fairly irritating every so often. It's definitely a problem that's hard to miss. Finally, before moving on, I want to talk about character development. Lots of the characters have very clear motivations, and some characters have their lives cut short before they can fulfill their dreams, which does help to make their demises more painful. However, lots of characters especially seem to lack development. I think Esdeath's elite assassin team could have definitely had more development, which could have been fixed as easily as introducing them later. It would have been so much more interesting, and you would have had a much more powerful emotional resonance with the the characters and an audience member It also would've made some certain showdowns with other characters way more emotionally impactful and less one-sided, but I'd like to stay away from spoilers as much as possible. One character, in particular, I would like to address is Akame. Both the title of the show as well as the openings and endings highlight her in particular, so you would think her being the protagonist of the show is a safe bet. However, she gets significantly less screentime than you would expect, and instead, the show probably should have been called Tatsumi Ga Kill! as most of the show clearly follows Tatsumi's journeys and interactions, many of which do not include Akame in the slightest. Akame is also one of the main characters with the least development in the entire show. It does a good job of establishing her past and relationship with certain characters, but Akame ends up being a pretty static character throughout her time in the show.

Now, I would like to talk about the atmosphere and tone of the show, which I think it handles nicely. The constant themes of death and violence are prominently present and never forgotten about, and, as I stated before, the show does a great job at nailing how the empire is in a state of despair and horror. The show manages to accomplish lots of the tones through its soundtrack, which is not outstanding or exceptional, but does a great job for adding another layer of depth to the battle scenes or otherwise, whether it's a tense or despair-filled moment, the music helps set the mood very well. The visuals and animations are about average, the fight scenes sometimes feeling like our vision is restricted so the animators have to do less work, but are overall interesting enough. A neat touch during some scenes of the show is this unique art style, one that really emphasizes the characters and their emotions, which are oftentimes delusion or hatred. It doesn't appear as much as I would personally like, but it definitely helps add some layer of uniqueness to scenes, though whether you like it or not is completely up to you, I personally enjoy the touch. One sizeable complaint I have about the show's themes presented, however, relates to the stupid-audience treatment I mentioned earlier. The show bashes you over the head over and over with its themes, and it would take a complete idiot not to take away something the show is trying to say about killing and the work and struggles the characters go through. Fights and dialogue give a nice shoving down the throat of these themes, and the show definitely could have taken a more subtle approach to this. Something that contrasts almost everything I've mentioned, however, is the show's humor. Throughout the series, the characters are cracking jokes fairly often, which debatably breaks the atmosphere, but I feel it helps make the character interactions feel more natural, though I agree it definitely could have been toned down in some places where the darker themes of the show should have taken the spotlight. For that matter, the show definitely could have had a more grounded and gritty feel to it with both the art style and color choices, which in the actual product are fairly standard, and it would have accompanied the atmosphere much of the show goes for very well in my opinion. The humor would definitely have to be more grounded and/or toned down if that were the case, and the show would have a much different feel to it, but I think it would've worked nicely. However, that's just my personal opinion, and you don't have to agree with me.

Overall, I really enjoyed watching Akame Ga Kill. I loved the characters, and the premise and battles will stick with me for some time. Despite its many flaws, there are a good amount of things the show does well, and I think the problem is less what it did wrong and more what it could've done better. Overall, I would rate Akame Ga Kill! a solid 6/10, and I would recommend it to someone not necessarily looking for something outstanding but a very fun ride (and someone who can handle gore of course). Thanks for reading my review, and have a great day! <3

Enjoyable action show with quite a bit of gore. Has many flaws, but the show is a fun watch regardless.

[imported from the review I did 3 years ago on MAL]

THIS REVIEW CONTAINS SPOILERS

I'm not a professionnal anime reviewer and this is my 1st review so please keep that in mind while reading.

Akame ga Kill ! takes place in a medieval-like fantasy world, where corruption and power abuses rule. The emperor is being manipulated by the prime minister, a man who does not hesitate to kill everyone that could represent an obstacle for him. This anime gives a decent account of your typical "rebels vs. corrupted" kind of plot. The story in itself is not the most original you could find, but it remains coherent.

On to the art now : I've got nothing special to say about the quality of animation, as I find it neither especially god nor awfully bad. The combat scenes are not wonderful and there are not that much detailed backgrounds, but it remains decent : White fox studios have choosen not to take risks on the animation style which results in what I could qualify of a "usual good animation".
Talking about art, the sound of an anime is very important to me, and here, apart from a few very nice tracks - I personally like the openings and endings, however they did not hype me as much a some other OP/ED did -, the OST did not really move me.

In my opinon, THE real problem of Akame ga Kill ! is about the characters. There are of course some character development, but not enough for me. Most of the members of the Night Raid are given a 2-minutes flashback about their past, but that's pretty much it. We can learn a bit more from the story of Tatsumi and Akame, but here again it's not sufficient : both of them would have deserved a bit more flashbacks or anything else that could benefit their character's deepness. The real problem is not here tough. This anime's characters have a very short life expectancy, similar to a Game of Thrones / Attack on Titan character, that is to say : you KNOW - or at least you understand it fairly early in the series - that many deaths are to be expected -, which is in itself fine : it's a choice. However, there is a big problem concerning litterally ALL the deaths in this series : they are not given enough time to be touching. In fact, as the reviewer "MrPretentious" pointed out, it seems that we are seeing the "the death of some stranger in a car accident" : the little character development, but also and especially the music and the length of the death - often less than a minute - results in that kind of feeling. That stranger that was just killed, you can feel pity towards him, but what we should feel is, in my opinion, sadness. I'm talking about the music because the death passes rapidly, so the music does not have any possibility of growing emotional, like in a cescendo, or at least it did not move me as much as I expected. Just compare it to a certain character's death in Hai to Gensou no Grimgar (won't tell his name but you obviously know who I'm thinking about if you've seen the show). The death of this character keeps floating in the air of many episodes and it feels more "important", more touching. He was part of the main character and you feel sad when he dies. This is more what I expected of a show such as Akame ga Kill where many deaths occur, especially when considering it's a 24-long series, compared to the 12-eps long Hai to Gensou no Grimgar...

[Big spoilers ahead]
In conclusion of all those problems, when I arrived at episode 24, I was just left with all the characters that are basically dead, and Akame, smiling - not even bothered - living her assassin life as if nothing happened... So yeah, I was just left here, with the feeling that the dead were forgotten, as if the anime was saying to me "Hey come on, that protagonist and all his friends died, but heh, no big deal righ' ? Who cared about 'em anyway ?"


Taking all this in consideration, I still wanted to put a 76/100 for this anime as I actually enjoyed the rest of the show - that is to say most of the episodes actually. The end disappointed me but it remains a decent show in my mind.

[EDIT : As of 11/2020, i have read the beginning of AgK zero, and I think reading this manga before seeing the anime might be worth it. It gives a nice background for Akame and Kurome, the latter being a bit underdevelopped in the anime in my opinion.]

Note From the Author: This review is a little outdated. If I'm being honest, while I still don't exactly like this show, I do think I was a tad harsh on it. Its action actually rather grew on me recently, and I no longer believe that the lack of nuance surrounding the Empire is that big an issue. That said, I do largely stand by everything else I said here. Nowadays my rating for it would be 40. If you still want to give this review a read, I hope you enjoy!
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This is a slightly edited/updated version of my original Akame ga Kill! review from 2018. The original (bit cringier) version can be found here: https://myanimelist.net/reviews.php?id=294964 

Akame ga Kill! is a great example of trying to bite off more than one can chew. The show has an incredibly large cast of characters, a plot about war that takes itself completely seriously and no time to properly explore any of it.

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The story follows a young warrior named Tatsumi who ventures into the Empire's Capital hoping to earn money that would help save his village. Due to various whacky hijinks involving a family of psychotic sadists, Tatsumi learns about the corrupt and deeply sinister nature of the Empire, the ruler of which is a nine-year old child who had to assume control after the demise of his parents. Unfortunately, his young age makes him easy to manipulate for the despicable Prime Minister, Honest. Tatsumi ends up being forcefully recruited by a rebellious group of assassins known as Night Raid, whose main objective is to kill the Prime Minister and bring light back to their bleak world. 

This is a generic set-up but on its own it's harmless. The problem lies in its frankly embarrassing attempts at nuance. While it is true that not every AGK villain is purely evil, the show never once even tries to showcase the actual benefits of living under the current regime or the negative effects of Night Raid's actions. Whenever the innocents are suffering the perpetrators are always the Imperial goons and the assassins are always the good guys. But I mean hey, there really are governments on Earth that have no redeeming qualities. The thing is though, they are usually driven by some sort of an ideology and AGK’s Empire doesn’t have one of those either. They are just dicks. This would not be such a big deal but this show really does genuinely make attempts to get the viewer to sympathise with its antagonists even though it makes no effort to make their cause worth sympathising with or give them a believable worldview (for the most part) instead of being entirely on Night Raid's side. The Empire is evil just because they are and, as a result, uninteresting. 

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Perhaps there would be more time to flesh out the more subtle inner workings of the war if the show was not trying to cram the story that could easily go on for 50 episodes into just 24. The narrative of AGK is beyond rushed and because of that character development is rare. And even if someone does develop, it is handled poorly and breezed through (e.g. Bulat's character development in Episode 8 ultimately came down to a bunch of exposition being screamed over a fight scene). As a result, it becomes impossible to get truly attached to anyone. Which is a shame because there actually are some characters in this who had some potential. Most were completely worthless. Just a bunch of bland (Najenda and Tatsumi), unlikeable (Chelsea), annoying (Lubbock and Leone), cardboard cut-outs. But among them there were those select few bright spots. For example, Mine who did actually have genuinely interesting ideals and motives. Or Seryu, a severely psychologically broken law enforcer who takes a great deal of pleasure in enacting """justice""" upon anyone whom she considers evil. And her definition of evil is pretty damn broad. Characters that really should be far more interesting than they ended up being if only they got some more development. Coming back to the examples listed previously, Mine’s motives go unexplored beyond just establishing them in an exposition dumb near the beginning of the show. And Seryu, while pretty entertaining in how insane she is, is never developed at all. We get to learn about what made her the way she is and after that she is just a purely evil character.

And then there are the likes of Esdeath who are developed, but very poorly. Her arc is mainly done through her getting a school girl crush on Tatsumi. And the viewer is supposed to find it funny and charming even though Esdeath is a raging psychopath whose favourite pass-time is torturing people. Yeah.

Another issue with how the show handles its characters is the rapid pace at which it's killing them off. The fact that after a certain point there is at least one major character death every episode or two, not only made it hard for them to resonate individually but it also made them very predictable. And yes, the weapons that the characters use, the Imperial Arms do have that rule placed upon them that when the users clash at least one has to die, but quite frankly that rule did not need to be there. It added to nothing, outside of serving as an excuse for the characters to get axed off faster.

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As for the visuals, Akame ga Kill! feels largely uninspired. The landscapes and general location designs are incredibly generic and forgettable making the world feel rather bland and not immersive. The fact that there is next to no lore to speak of (beyond just a story about how the Imperial Arms came to be that delivered via an exposition dump) does not help. Most of the fight scenes are either way too overblown and all over the place to have much tension and using some largely underwhelming choreography or borderline feel like slideshows with some music played over them (e.g. the Zank fight in Episode 4 mostly consisted of static images).

The soundtrack on the other hand was quite good. I don’t have a ton to say about it, but the tracks are quite well composed and memorable. I especially like the show’s second opening theme, Liar’s Mask. The voice acting (for the English dub) was all around decent even if there were no true stand-outs.

Overall, Akame ga Kill! has little good to offer. With its badly developed cast of characters, terrible plot, uninspired visuals, forgettable action and just general bad writing and pacing, this one is difficult to recommend unless you just want a little bit of braindead fun that won’t insult your intelligence too much. But even then, it honestly may be a bit too depressing for that.

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Oh wait, that’s right, Akame! I’ve somehow gone through the entire review without even mentioning the titular character. Oh, how silly of me uwu. Well Akame...she is...uh...nope, I’ve got nothing.

Akame ga Kill! wants to be so much, yet ends up being so little.

___SPOILERS BEWARE!___

Originally I watched this series in late 2020, a few days ago I had the sudden urge to rewatch it which I simply couldn’t get off my mind so I finally did. This will be my 2nd time writing a review for Akame ga Kill since I did write one originally however that one feels outdated and I don’t really agree with some of the points that I made anymore. Some of my feelings haven’t changed regarding the series however, I enjoyed it thoroughly back then I and still found it fun to watch now. The beginning to Akame ga Kill is very good as it definitely captivated me. The story is practically set in stone as well as the imperial capital that Tatsumi thought so highly of is actually rotten to the core run by corrupt higher ups. Night Raid is an organisation that rebels against this corruption formed of assassins. Tatsumi joins this organisation at the end of the first episode after learning about the truth. His two childhood friends were killed by a wealthy family that was deceiving outsiders only to make them their playthings and torture them to death. This is the ***real*** capital and the ugly truth that is hidden on the inside.

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Akame ga Kill makes it clear very early on that this is not a forgiving show, regardless of how important of a character you are, you are never safe in this anime. The 5th episode explores Sheele’s backstory. She is a clumsy gal that finds it hard to fit into society however she found her natural talent as a cold blooded murder by one day saving her friend. During my original watch I couldn't have known exploring a character's backstory more deeply meant a massive red flag leading to their death soon after however as a rewatch you know this is the case so it gives me a whole another perspective of looking at these events. In the following episode she meets her fate. Her character is explored further in her final moments. This incident makes it very clear to Tatsumi that although Night Raid is a skilled organisation with expert assassins, any one of them could falter any moment. This episode also proves that no character is ever safe in this show as this will become more apparent later in the series.

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The next two episodes further elaborate on my point that this series holds no prisoners. Bulat is the next main character to bite the dust. He got some nice development in these past two episodes which foreshadowed his approaching death. Bulat’s wasn’t as brutal as Sheele’s as he and Tatsumi won their fight however Bulat died in the aftermath from poison; before passing on he did pass his imperial relic Incursio to Tatsumi which will become important later in the series in developing Tatsumi as a character.

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If I’m already on topic of characters then I should mention that most of the protagonists and antagonists end up dying by the end of series. By the end of the series only Najenta and Akame survive from Night Raid and likewise only two survive from the Jaegars being Wave and Run. Everyone else perishes in one place or another so even though the prime minister is killed and the country is born anew was it really a win with so much bloodshed? The short answer to that question is still yes, regardless of how much blood was spilled as long as the cause is justifiable then I believe it to be correct. The way prime minister Honest was running the capital was rotten to the core only benefiting himself while allowing the weak to suffer and die. For this reasoning alone I strongly believe the revolution had a justifiable cause for occurring in the first place. As I mentioned above the bare minimum of the anime’s cast survives this revolution, many deaths which we don’t really get enough time to grieve for. There were two in particular which had an influence on me and one that really hurt me deep down.

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Mine’s death is bittersweet, she dies in the arms of the person she loves while sadly not being able to keep her promise to Tatsumi. She was not able to survive the revolution but as we later learn Tatsumi would have broken this promise too since he dies in the penultimate episode. Mine was probably one of the most developed characters up to this point so her death is genuinely sad, its always sad to see a protagonist die however her death had an appropriate impact because of how much she was developed up to this point in the show. Mine’s death may have been sad but Chelsea’s death still really hurts me to this day. Even though Chelsea was only around for a few episodes she made such an impression on me that she ended up being my favorite girl from the show. Chelsea was so bold in what led to her death, she practically assassinated Kurome however she had plot armor at that moment, which is not something she could have predicted, once Chelsea’s disguise is revealed she is no more than a normal human so there was no way she could have survived the assault she found herself in. Since I was rewatching on this occasion, watching through the episodes and seeing anything related to Chelsea talking about someone dying in the party is so ironic since she dies first. It’s also a foreshadow to this occurring however no one can really expect Chelsea to be the first Night Raid member to die in a while especially from how her character had been portrayed up to now. I still remember her head on the pole at the end of the episode which really hurts me deeply since I harboured affection for this character, she was nicely developing but died off before she reached her full potential. My girl Chelsea didn't deserve such a gruesome end. This episode still makes me really upset since I really adored Chelsea's character and her personality.

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*Bonus pain down here:*

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The caption speaks for itself, it really does hurt me however since its relevant I figured I should include it. May you rest in peace Chelsea...!~

I mentioned the OST in my old review very briefly however I want to touch on it in greater detail this time as some of the OST is actually really daunting. The first ED song is a good example of that. “Konna Sekai Shiritaku Nakatta” sounds pretty powerful giving me vibes of a huge battle that I’ve just overcome but at what cost and what sacrifices that were made to achieve my victory? The second ED “Tsuki Akari” gives off similar vibes to how I just described the first ED. This song is also sung by Akame’s seiryu which if you refer to what I just described above fits very well. Akame is one of the few survivors of the revolution while most of her friends had passed away. The weight she carries on her shoulders must be tremendous and this song perfectly accompanies that thought. Lastly if we’re talking intimating songs then look no further than “Le chant de Roma”. Oh man this song still gives me goosebumps, this one speaks for itself, this is the song of death in this anime and carries so much value whether its life, death or unfulfilled promises. Its safe to say Akame ga Kill handled its soundtrack pretty damn well for the atmosphere it was striving to achieve.

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Without delving too much into the manga all I will say is the anime diverts from its source roughly from about episode 19 onwards. As we very well know this is the part of the show that a lot of major characters start dying practically left right and centre. At the time of this adaption the manga wasn’t finished hence White Fox's own take on concluding Akame ga Kill. Originally I said it was a terrible ending which should be overlooked however I wouldn’t agree with that point completely nowadays. Sure, enough the ending may be unsatisfying since most of the cast is dead however Akame ga Kill does what many wouldn’t dare. This series felt realistic right up to its final moments and you could never predict who would survive the revolution. Did I think Akame would make it? Maybe, because the series is named after her, however did I think Najenta would survive? Absolutely not, she is still a character shrouded in mystery that we don’t know too much about, it makes me wonder whether her backstory wasn’t adapted here or it simply didn’t exist at the time of this adaption. What I’m trying to say here is that originally I criticised the ending of the anime for being quite genuinely shit however I don’t think that’s the case now. It may not have been the best ending possible however its far from being a bad one. Akame ga Kill is brutally realistic right up to its final minutes and that’s something I have to give it credit for; it showed a bloody revolution that doesn’t end all happy where everyone survives. It knew what it wanted to achieve and portrayed it somewhat decently, many of the deaths aside I still find this anime enjoyable. The battles are entertaining and some of the characters do stand out. It may not be the best watch however its certainly a memorable one to me at least. In the new era of the capital, Night Raid and its fallen members are forgotten practically as they never existed in the first place however I won’t forget its unsung heroes which made this revolution possible in the first place. At the end of the day Night Raid was a pretty badass organisation that shouldn’t be forgotten for the deeds that they achieved in orchestrating the revival of the capital by cleansing its rotten root from deep inside. If you have some free time then I think it’s worth checking out Akame ga Kill. After finishing my rewatch my interest in this series only grew so I may read its manga some day.

A brutally realistic tale right up to its final moments.

This show really threw me for a loop the first time I watched it. I mean the whole plot had twist upon twist that you could honestly see coming for the most part, but still stuck because they were so well done. Overall it gave me a "government bad" feel which I always seem to find in a lot of anime along with "japan is fucked up because of foreign influence" but that's not necessarily a bad thing. The characters in this show went through a lot of development despite there being some hiccups due to unforeseen influences. Let me just say this... just about no character in this show has plot armor so try not to get too attached. I recently watched Akudama Drive so if you are looking for something that is similar to this show just in a futuristic dystopian society and not a fantasy/steampunk one then I would check that out. My main reason for only giving this show a 7.5 is basically because the waifu choices were pretty dogshit. I mean there were a decent amount to pick from, but there's really only one practical correct choice. I aint even have to say it I mean damn you gotta have some wack taste to not know. But yeah anyways solid show (honestly my favorite kind of show) it just did not deliver on some of the things that I often enjoy more in anime. When it came to the music and the fights I was satisfied more than I normally am with these shows that are not necessarily in a genre but a sub genre so you don't always know what you'll get, but they absolutely killed it with the atmosphere. When I had watched this I think I was 14 so a lot of the more heartfelt scenes got to me a little more than they would now... I mean have you seen Violet Evergarden that shit sad as hell but I know for a fact the ending to this show had me crying because they try to make you attached to the characters. It's a classic underdog type of story like I sort of mentioned before with the government bad thing. With both sides as well it's really not just about the good guys vs the bad guys with this anime. A lot more of it is about characters doing what they think they need to do because they just had different experiences or were told that the other side were the evil ones. I liked that a lot because that just speaks to how people are inherently, we don't often ponder why doing the right thing is the right thing and this show makes you question that. That's sort of the bread and butter of the show and I think that just about anyone can enjoy it unless you don't like to see some pretty terrible things happen to objectively good people. In conclusion I think that this anime is good for people that have seen no anime whatsoever because it's a good example on how anime as an art form can screw with your thoughts on reality and morality in your every day life.

TLDR The show is good and I recommend it as something that people that have not seen anime watch. 

~~~__Alright... Time for Revolution...__~~~
Hello, I already have a good idea on how this is going to age, it's going to age like dead bodies, but I believe that my opinion is valid so I'm going to drop it in here, probably the most controversial I will ever make but here goes nothing.

Akame Ga Kill for me was almost a MASTERPIECE, Yup... Please take a reason to hear me out before you stab that dislike button, I'm going to be as unbias as I could.

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I'm going to sum this up in 1 long paragraph, so here goes the marathon.

Akame Ga Kill has 3 Goals in mind when it was being aired, To show good character development, good plot twists, and be realistic, which in my opinion they nailed for the most part.

Plot twists are a thing you better get used to if you're gonna take this anime on, 1st episode was a plot twist as a whole, (spoilers) as the aristocrats of the castle who took Tatsumi in ended up being the bad people having been exposed by the Night Raiders to have murdered tens and hundreds of poor people who they lure into their castle/trap, and these plot twists just keep coming up until the very controversial last episode which we will... get into in a bit.

Realism in Akame Ga Kill was the definition of removing plot armor from EVERY character, even the Main Characters, The Night Raiders dropping like flies, almost every episode one of them dies to lead them to the final three, people might argue the anime was desperate to just get done with and reach its end point, but NO! I beg to differ, that's the POINT of the anime, the anime is there to show you the POV of Tatsumi from start to end as all his team die one by one to reach their ultimate goal, it honestly is phenomenal, every character getting their spotlight to shine, and all of them actually being likeable in their own way (for the most part) until the end! The anime is made to make you shed tears, and it did just that.

Some major mistakes were made along the way, and here are some:
1. Akame Ga Kill's final episode, the most controversial episode, there is some rules in anime who supposedly should never be broken, 1 of them is not to switch Main Character, which makes sense to show all the hate the anime gets, and it's justified as an opinion, but what I see is that this was foreshadowed from the title.
2. Chelsea's death was bullshit and as a big fan of this anime I also admit that, broke the main point of Chelsea's weapon just to kill her off, the only bullshit death I'd have to say.
3. Seryu is the last mistake I think this anime made, an anime villain needs to somehow show humanity or sanity to become likable, both Seryu failed to show and simply proved how shitty of a villain she is, worst villain in the history of anime even, she just sucked and was a pain to watch to the point compilations of her death were created frame by frame as enjoyment, literally! And for her to kill many people's favorite character, it just hurts, it really does, shameful.

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My rating for this anime will be very controversial but the reason I give it this rating is because of it's ability of strongly impact the open-minded watcher emotionally with every death, only 2 deaths being BS out of 12 total deaths, plot twists are amazing, only the last one being controversial, people might find my rating bias but I just liked this anime, it made me tear up on many deaths, especially Leone, so unexpected, even after the conflicted ended the death was very reasonable from the amount of hits she stomached, and summed up why she was behaving oddly before, honestly thank you Akame Ga Kill....

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Thank you for taking your time to read my review and honest opinion on Akame Ga Kill, please remember opinions are objective and everyone has a right to agree or disagree to something, hope you have a great day, peace.

Alright... Time for Revolution... Akame Ga Kill was almost a Master Piece

__Review com spoiler no anime e mangá__(apesar de isso não fazer muita diferença né)
vou fazer os dois juntos pois é mais facil para acessar e as vezes de entender também os motivos descritos.

__Introdução__
Primeiramente vou fazer essa review da obra como um todo, tanto no anime quanto no mangá, porque isso faz muita diferença.
Conheci Akame ga Kill da mesma forma que muitos de vocês conheceram, algum "senpai" dos animes já te recomendou uma "listinha" básica de animes que você deve assistir, com certeza nessa lista deve ter um Fullmetal Alchemist (que vou fazer review em breve), HunterXHunter, aquela zoeira com boku no pico, One Piece, One punch man (que eu mesmo recomendo), e muitos outros, e dentre eles pode ter aparecido esse nome, assim como na minha lista.
É bem provável que você, antes de assistir, também ouviu alguém falando: “Nossa! Você vai assistir Akame ga Kill? Todo mundo morre nessa merda!!”, e eu também ouvi isso, normal até agora, e com essa review tentarei responder algumas dúvidas.

__Mundo__
	Eu sempre tenho apresso pela construção de mundo dos animes, acho que já expliquei isso mas o mundo diferencia uma obra boa de uma genérica (como no caso dos isekais), e a construção de mundo de Akame ga Kill é bastante interessante, não é nada muito longo, mas que pode te dar uma boa introdução de uma história:  O mundo se resume a um Grande Reino, de mais de 1000 anos de duração, que se tornou potência nas mãos de um antigo imperador. Esse mesmo imperador foi quem iniciou a pesquisa das Tengu, que eram grandes ferramentas, um tipo de habilidade única, que podia ate mesmo matar quem não fosse compatível com ela, se me lembro bem, eram apenas 46 tengus, das mais variadas habilidades, de origem em todo o mundo, e reunidas para dar grande poder aos que usassem.
Isso é uma boa sinopse de mundo, não há muita confusão e também é equilibrada o suficiente pra não fazer clássicos “deus ex machina”, e sem spoilear muito da historia principal.
De fato, ao analisar melhor a ideia de mundo, é algo bem simples, mas que evoca uma grandeza ao cenário da historia, algo que é muito melhor exposto pelo mangá do que pelo anime.

__Enredo__
Finalmente Entramos no enredo, Tatsumi (por incrível que pareça lembro de vários personagens como se estivesse vendo o anime), um cara do interior do império, sai com seus 2 amigos rumo a capital do império, com o proposito de se tornarem fortes e fazer parte do exercito imperial, um cargo honorável e honroso para qualquer um. Nisso temos a clássica jornada do herói, um protagonista cheio de sonhos e anseios de conquista, mas é agora que Akame ga Kill se torna distópico, e mostra o que é realmente atraente nessa historia. 
Depois de um dia simples e de ser “ajudado por uma bondosa nobre”, ele descobre que um tipo de gangue de vingadores estava assolando a capital, a Night Raid, que matava nobres e ameaçava o império, ate que ele encontra os integrantes da night raid, e descobre a __Verdade__ sobre o império, uma grande podridão e corrupção corroía as entranhas do império, com pessoas más e perversas no comando, e o atual imperador (que ainda era uma criança inocente) influenciado por um primeiro ministro nenhum pouco honesto.
E tatsumi descobre isso da pior forma possível, vendo seus amigos de infância morrerem nos seus braços, depois de muita tortura que passaram nas mãos daquela nobre, o que faz com que ele entre para a night raid, com o objetivo de lutar contra a corrupção de um império de 1000 anos, a favor das pessoas. Vale também ressaltar que por causa dessa corrupção, insurge um exercito revolucionário, que a favor das pessoas, comanda a night raid a matar pessoas importantes para o governo. Podemos ver um bom desenvolvimento nisso, que mesmo com o desenrolar da historia, o mundo continua mudando, com essa grande rivalidade entre a revolução, que queria tirar o imperador e o primeiro ministro, e o governo corrupto do império(não estou querendo posição politica nenhuma, é apenas descrição do enredo)
Aqui vale abrir um parêntesis; é agora que o primeiro fator atraente de akame ga kill se mostra, um herói que, desiludido pela realidade, acaba por lutar no lado aparentemente errado, mas pelo motivo certo. Isso é muito interessante e traz um desenvolvimento para ele, pois mostra que as dificuldades são grandes pra ele conseguir o que quer. O segundo fator agora é que nesse anime PESSOAS MORREM, coisa que não era muito comum, e com exceção dos gores da vida, hoje em dia também não é muito comum.
Nisso agora sim, ele começa a lutar, e passa por muitos momentos difíceis, alguns alegres, como aquele passeio com a Mine, mas presenciando a realidade de morte constante, como a da Sheele, que com certeza você ficou triste, ate hoje lembro daquela triste cena e daquela tesoura, do Bulat, que se torna seu mentor, e muitos outros até o final do anime. No final do anime ele acaba morto, o império é deposto com uma serie de lutas, culminando na morte da general Esdeath, e com a Akame saindo do pais em busca de resolver seu problema com a sua tengu. Ate agora pode ter ficado um pouco abstrato porque não falei dos personagens direito né, pois vamos lá então.
	

__Personagens__
O tatsumi, acho que não precisa de muitos detalhes, já que ele é o protagonista, já temos uma boa descrição dele, a jornada do herói e muitas coisas, o que posso dizer é que ele morreu de forma bastante dramática no anime, e no fim temos a luta mais esperada de todas. Ele também ganha uma tengu, que acaba herdando do Bulat, após sua morte, que é uma armadura de um antigo dragão, guardem isso na mente porque vai ser importante.
Akame, que é quem da o nome ao anime, é uma assassina, com a posse da Murasami, uma tengu, que é uma katana venenosa, que tem o poder de matar qualquer coisa, o que a torna uma assassina bastante eficiente, ela é calma e tudo mais, e acaba lutando com a Esdeath numa luta até boa, com um bom final. Depois disso ela sai pelo mundo em busca de uma cura para a maldição de sua tengu (que a dava poderes enormes, mas também a matava), em um outro pais, essa historia está no outro mangá do autor, chamado Hinowa ga Crush!
A Sheele, e outros personagens da night raid, como o Bulat, são muito amigáveis, em pouco tempo você se apega muito fácil a eles, por serem personagens carismáticos e excêntricos. E isso traz o ditado que todos que assistiram sabem: __Não se apegue a ninguém__. Personagens também como a Leone e o Lubbock se tornam grandes amigos, e isso também desenvolve a personalidade do protagonista, pois realmente agregam ao enredo. Acho que você já percebeu que TODO MUNDO VAI MORRER NÉ? Se acostume.
A Mine, que é outra integrante da night raid, merece um adendo especial, ela é a franco-atiradora (a sniper como eu falo), que usa a tengu Pumpkin, que é uma arma muito bolada. Ela tem aquela personalidade meio tsundere, e isso faz diferença, pois na grande luta dela, que é quando o tatsumi é preso, ela revela que esperava um filho dele, sim isso é uma revelação bombástica, que caiu como um meteoro no meio do enredo, mas guardem isso na mente.
A Kurome, que é a irmã da akame, também é um personagem a ser citado, pois mesmo o protagonista sendo o tatsumi, a akame também ganha um desenvolvimento, que é bem centrado na kurome, já que a akame, que antes trabalhava para o império, se tornou desertora, e sua irmã detesta isso, fazendo uma estranha relação de assassinas. Essa historia é contada com mais detalhes em Akame ga Kill Zero, outro mangá. No fim ela quase morre em seu duelo com a akame, e também ganha um bônus no mangá.
Esdeath, por fim, é de longe a personagem mais interessante dessa historia, uma general louca e totalmente sádica e desequilibrada que trabalha para o império, e caça a night raid com sua própria equipe. Isso seria muito superficial pra descreve-la, então pega uma pipoca ai vai. A esdeath também é do interior, um lugar frio nas montanhas ao norte do império, que vivia em uma tribo com um ensinamento: a sobrevivência do mais forte. Após sua família ser dizimada, ela entra no exercito e se torna a general mais poderosa de todo o império. Isso também é por causa de sua tengu, que é o poder de um antigo demônio do gelo, que vale a pena citar: o demônio foi morto na época do antigo imperador, e seu sangue guardado em uma jarra selada, era dito que todos que tomassem apenas um gole desse sangue teria um poder enorme, mas todos que tomaram ficaram loucos. Isso por um motivo simples, o sangue carregava a alma do demônio, que destruía qualquer que bebesse. Bom, pra mostrar que essa mulher era insana, ela literalmente bebeu TODA A JARRA, numa cena que tenho fresca na memoria ate hoje, e ainda conseguiu controlar o demônio do gelo, tornando ela a pessoa mais poderosa do império, senão do mundo todo. No mangá é descrito que “o poder da esdeath é tão grande que pode destruir países inteiros em segundos”. A própria mecânica do enredo diz que se duas tengus se enfrentarem ( o que aconteceu muito no anime), é garantido que um dos portadores morrerá, e no mangá, na reta final ela lutou com umas 10 tengus ao mesmo tempo, e ela só morreu depois que a akame, usando apenas o toco da espada murasami, fincou a espada no coração dela, sendo que antes ela já tinha sido atingida pela murasami e literalmente amputou seu próprio braço para continuar. Ela é uma personagem extremamente cativante, tanto que muitos já a consideraram suas wifus (apesar de eu achar isso muito merda). Por fim sua relação com o protagonista é exatamente o que você espera, ela considera o tatsumi a sua alma gêmea, e em varias vezes ela vai atras dele, mesmo sem saber que são inimigos, o que gera cenas cômicas impagáveis. A cena da ilha, que vocês devem guardar bem, é a mais engraçada, pois enquanto discutem um jeito de sobreviver, já que só o s dois foram presos numa ilha nos confins da terra, ela estava desenhando um retrato dele, uma clara evidencia de uma paixão cega.

__Mangá__
O mangá merece uma citação especial, pois todas as vezes que falei pra guardarem alguma coisa acima, tem a ver com isso, na verdade o anime não seguiu exatamente o manga, distoando totalmente a historia a partir do momento da ilha, onde o tatsumi e a esdeath estavam presos. A partir dai o anime começa a reta final matando muita gente, inclusive o protagonista, mas no mangá não é assim.
De fato, muita gente morre, mas por causa do anime não ter seguido o mangá, faz com que esse anime seja injustiçado, pois o final do manga é __INCRIVEL GENIAL 10/10__.
Começando com o protagonista, que não morre, por causa da instabilidade da sua tengu, ele acaba se transformando no dragão que originava sua armadura, ou melhor, tem sua alma presa nele. Isso já é um fator do anime, os portadores correm riscos de serem dominados por suas tengus, como no caso dele e da esdeath. Com isso ele é enviado ao norte, onde a Mine, que também não morreu, o esperava para viverem uma vida feliz com seu filho. Isso é um adendo importante, no manga mostra com detalhes o desenvolvimento da relação deles, ate mesmo no dia do ato em questão(que você sabe qual é), que inclusive ate a leone vê. Na luta em que a mine enfrenta o general do exercito, ela não morre mas acaba com sequelas do fato de sua tengu ter sido destruída e ela ter usado demais, mas ela no mangá é levada ao norte, ao contrario do anime, onde ela morre ali mesmo.
A luta com a esdeath foi magnifica, realmente passava a ação e tensão, mesmo nas paginas do mangá, pois a akame teve que fazer de tudo e com auxilio de outros usuários do exercito revolucionário, para derrotar a esdeath, que antes de se auto congelar e morrer, ainda se lembra do sorriso do tatsumi, realmente, essa personagem foi um exemplo de bom desenvolvimento de enredo.
Por fim acho que devo ressaltar uma das melhores coisas do final, a morte do primeiro ministro, que no anime foi muito bosta, ele era apenas um fraco que não conseguia se defender, e que mesmo atirando, a leone conseguiu matar ele. No mangá não, ele era realmente algo perigoso, primeiramente que ele tinha uma tengu, que era uma coroa que destruía outras tengus, com um cristal. Na luta dele com a leone, a leone teve sua tengu leão destruída, mas a tengu acabou por se tornar parte dela, e a luta foi acirrada, a leone ate mesmo jogou o cara de cima do castelo (que no anime você vê que é enorme) e ele ainda sobrevive. Com o fim do império e a revolução, literalmente pegam ele, vivo, e começam a picar ele, literalmente partir ele em pedaços, VIVO, e dar os pedaços ao povo. Essa cena no mangá foi marcante, porque realmente era o fim que ele merecia, de uma forma lenta e agonizante.

__Conclusão__
Akame ga Kill é um anime meio injustiçado, por não seguir o mangá, acaba com um fim muito ruim, que mesmo parecendo uma boa em relação ao enredo como um todo, não caiu bem no final. O anime eu recomendaria assim como outras pessoas, uma forma de agregar experiencia no começo de sua jornada pelos animes, mesmo que não seja a melhor obra de todas.
Mas o mangá não, o mangá se torna uma obra prima, com o final mais interessante e empolgante possível, dando uma conclusão para quase todos o personagens, alguns morrendo ou não, mas todos igualmente emocionantes e incrivelmente marcantes para qualquer um.
Recomendo o mangá como um exemplo de uma historia bem desenvolvida em com personagens carismáticos e construídos minuciosamente, com um bom enredo e finalização digna, mesmo com a dificuldade de lidar com a morte sem se tornar algo sem vida e desinteressante, cada momento de vida e morte dos personagens carrega a emoção e o bom desfecho de uma BOA HISTORIA. 
Minha nota pode ser estranha, vou dar 90, não por causa do anime, mas porque o mangá fez a diferença pra mim considerar essa obra uma obra prima.

Uma boa obra estragada pelo anime. O final é incrível no mangá, mas deixa a desejar no Anime. Mangá > Anime

____Dialogues and light humor____ (which often smacks of kindergarten), are very stupid in places, although there are good moments. But the very play of contrasts in the work is still more bewildering... For everything is exhibited with an innocent mask and in iridescent colors, hop, we abruptly move on to a matter in which there is no place for innocence and weakness, then everything returns to normal... From dark elements, a sharp transition to a circus with horses. Yes, and there were too few relativity ... if they existed at all, and not a drama for the sake of drama (yes, there were moments on both sides of the same barricade when people loved each other, but did not accept or there were 'other reasons', but when with one from the sides there are, in addition to some characters, a lot of stereotyped evil, when on the other side there is not quite a template (not always, perhaps = /) beaver, then this is all somehow not perceived and does not look very good), in general, everything is pretty flat, like a total number characters and situations. Although in some places they tried to claim something more,... in any case, I understood the idea, but its presentation and execution leave much to be desired + it’s worth mentioning a bunch of frank references and allusions both to our story and anime in general, but no emotions in principle, it didn’t cause.
 
____The setting____ is unusual and claims to be more than one genre, and is essentially some kind of hodgepodge in which people were mixed ... horses ... I can’t write that it was bad in places, no, but it was uninteresting more often.

 ____Cliche.____ And there are many of them, as well as many stupid moments, especially when it was possible to finish someone off - the Persians are stupid, and then it ends with their death! In general, such dramas cause only one effect of the 'rukalitsa'.

 ____Characters.____ And ... what they were, what they were not. I expected a lot more from the title, because in the first series everything was not bad, when everything was said in plain text, although it was all impossible to understand and not see everything until it happened, over time, my thought is that this anime is not about action (which was also ambiguous and different), but about the story, plot, and characters, everything eventually fell apart like a house of cards. On the other hand, it’s good that the Persians weren't Sue and they could be killed at any moment, only their deaths caused only one emotion (you can consider me heartless): Well ... and ... what? ... That's the price of realism and sometimes sucked out of the finger of drama (although many bought into it, well, ok, MB I don’t understand anything at all), as well as the fact that there are many characters and I trivially didn’t have time to penetrate them, although some were revealed with grief in half (but less, from the beginning they both caused indifference, and continued to cause it).

 ____The ending____ is banal and did not cause any emotions. Although... ~!Esdes beautifully took her beloved with her.!~

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Pushing the edge of violent carnage is not something we often see in anything these days, and for a good reason. They are criticized as a mishandled and cheap way to distract us from the inconsistencies in the writing and characters. The only problem with that argument is that these days, animation studios edit any blood on most action anime to appease higher BD sales. Now, when you have an anime like Akame ga Kill to do away with that, it is a refreshing mix into the blender, even if the overall taste may be lukewarm.

I love my action shows to take more chances with the violence rather than the usual Hollywood-esque tricks that try to make everything clean so it can get a good age rating. There is none of that to be found in Akame ga Kill, and I’m thrilled to see something like it exist. This also helps because the art and animation are rock solid and colorful. Character models all feel vibrant and unique based on their appearance rather than all of them looking like the same bland boy or girl in armor. Fighting scenes are handled with more remarkable tenacity and wit than what you typically see in many shonen shows.

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As I’ve mentioned how the characters are unique and significant based on their aesthetic looks, the same can’t be said with their personality or memorability, for the most part. The characters that possess any of these qualities are Leonne and Esdeath, simply because they at least have an alluring presence that’s both charming from Leonne and deviant from Esdeath. The rest fall into the pit trap of being stereotypical just for being stereotypical. Not to say stereotypes are harmful in general; they’ll always be a staple that we get used to. Nevertheless, nothing was added to the experience negatively, quite like the stereotypical presentation.

An issue like this could easily be forgiven if they are given enough material for us to see past it. Most of it is just pointless filler that feels tacked on, or they’re decent character arcs that give off some laughs for me. However, some characters seem to have been supposed to give an essential role in the story, but they are just killed off in like one or two episodes before we can even start to get to know them. This, in turn, makes the death scenes lack any empathy for the sadness that the main protagonist, Tatsumi, goes through. As gruesome as some of the deaths are, they don’t add to the melancholy nature. This is a massive flaw because the story is centered around our characters that don’t amount to anything.

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Notably, this anime decides to deviate from the story by killing off certain characters that weren’t supposed to die in the manga. Many fans will write off the show as a negative, but that is not an acceptable way of critiquing it. An adaptation will constantly change the story to make it more unique than just a point-by-point adaptation. If it didn’t, you’d be better off just reading the manga at that point. Regarding the context of the anime, the changes at least didn’t seem out of place in terms of pacing, which is often the case for many poor adaptations.

Along with its characters, the story that goes with them details the various aspects of their journey as Tatsumi joins a group of assassins, called Night Raid, that seek to stop the corruption that plagues their country. What is strange about how the story is presented is how it doesn’t always seem to be there half the time. When you think about it, all the story is is Tatsumi going through Scenario A, Scenario B, and so on. None are connected very well, and you almost forget about the underlying nature of the Night Raid’s primary goal after the halfway point. They don’t make them as poignant gears to the narrative system that keeps the story focused.

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So you can make a case that the show falls short on that level narratively. That can’t be said with the action, though. With all that’s said and done, Akame ga Kill’s main reason for even existing is to show bloody carnage into its step set piece. That’s not to say I’m suddenly going to throw all the narrative problems out the window and give this an A or 9, but for what it’s worth, the action is quite enjoyable to watch. Thanks to the art and animation, it's fast-paced and is very easy on the eyes. Although it isn’t going to break any molds in how strategic our characters fight one another, it's nice eye candy to make any shounen fan’s hairs stand up.

By and large, Akame ga Kill is the prototypical junk food anime. Nobody can deny it. It has all the makings of how we all watched the colorful action animated shows we watched as kids, just not with all the horrific violence. It does do justice with dark humor between the characters and various actions that take place. Other than that, it is not offensively bad in any measure. What little plot or character growth there is to be had in Akame ga Kill, there’s at least one charming moment within every loose end that makes you pay no mind to it, only by an inch.

Grade: B-

A decent thrill ride but is undermined by it's perplexing narrative and character writing.

Akame ga Kill! Series Watch Order

Season 1