Akame ga Kiru

What is interesting about the mourning of Syura is that it felt like it was truly heartfelt. Then it was like the evil in the Minister's brain took notice and:

"What is this? Love? I thought I had cleaned up the place. Time to another self-lobotomy."

Creepy.

Luboc had no chance of escaping. Didn't think that his killer would be the swordsman. Nice set, he was killed by the unknown and his murderer got a little character.

Maybe the whole loving Uncle figure to the young Emperor and Diabolical monster is the result of a spilt persona!

Could be.

But I think he deliberately killed his love for Syura. Total control of the self. Really nasty.

To rebuttal the notion that NR members drop like flies

They really don't

Sheele Chapter 9

Bulat is in chapter 14

Chelsea doesn't bite it till 33

Susanoo 43

Rubac is chapter 52

The jagers follow a similar pattern

Stylish 21

Bors 32

Seryu 38

Run 48 -though he didn't get the coundtdown coda-

Meaning.... if the pattern follows through the next person up is a Jager

Yeah, that Prime Minister scene looked creepy as fuck.

It was like he was reacting normally...and then suddenly he snaps into his classic villainous behaviour. It almost gave me Brainwashing vibes.

There is a Man Behind the Man

edited 21st Sep '14 8:46:08 PM by NickTheSwing

Maybe the old emperor isn't dead

edited 21st Sep '14 8:48:15 PM by FrozenWolf2

Yeah, what the fuck happened with Honest there? It's as if he had to force himself to remember that he's an asshole.

As creepy as it was, it was a pretty interesting (and evil) thing to see, somebody overcoming sadness and love.

Now I am asking myself which members of NR will survive. To me it would be interesting if Tatsumi died just to see which direction the Manga would go.

The other question is which members of the empire are going to kill a hero. Nobody expected Yasuo.

The antagonists with bigger hero-killer traits are Esdeath, Honest and Budo. I also think that Wave is going to kill a Night Raid member considering his oath to protect Kurome and Run's dream of changing the empire by inside.

Who would replace Tatsumi as the protagonist if he dies? I'm guessing Akame, but she hasn't done much since she fought Kurome the first time. Esdeath suddenly turning Villain Protagonist is an interesting idea, but I'm more convinced Esdeath will die next, so that's a no-go. Maybe Wave, since he's now the second most important male character after Tatsumi?

Assuming someone other than Tatsumi dies, I say Najenda. Dying after Lubbock is something I find oddly fitting for her. Mine seems to have a degree of Plot Armor, despite speculation saying otherwise, but I wouldn't rule out her own death, particularly if it's caused by Esdeath. Granted, I didn't expect Izou to kill Lubbock, so perhaps someone from Wild Hunt will kill someone else in Night Raid.

Speaking of that, who else is still alive in Wild Hunt? Champ was killed by Run, Enshin was killed by Akame, and Syura was killed by Lubbock, so... that leaves Izou, Dorothea, Cosmina, and Suzuka. Of those four, Cosmina still lives, but has been rendered brain dead, so she's not worth much, and Suzuka may have been killed by Esdeath for trying to rape Tatsumi.

edited 22nd Sep '14 9:00:38 AM by Serocco

Either Akame or Wave getting protagonism is a thing I support. Although since the Zero manga gave protagonism to Akame, I think Wave now has a bigger chance than her.

As for plot armor in Night Raid I think only Akame (manga title) and Tatsumi (the protagonist) have them.

Najenda fits a master/tutor type that is very killable.

Mine is in an odd place, as a girlfriend of the protagonist she has some plot armor but at the same time big potential for a tragedy. Esdeath might stuff her in a freeze. When she declared people screamed "death flag" non-stop.

Leone is in the inverse situation. If she gets too much development she may be killed for the tragedy, if she doesn't get it she may be killed off because people would care little.

I'd agree that Wave seems the most plausible choice, he's basically Tatsumi on the other side of the battle.

When Najenda mentioned she might consider clearing things up with Lubbock after things settled down, I took that as a death flag for her, not Lubbock. Though this series throws death flags around like candy.

Oh, but I don't think Suzuka counts as a formal member of Wild Hunt.

It's hard for me to see Wave replacing Tatsumi, if only because Esdeath doesn't love Wave and Kurome is an ally of Wave.

Najenda trying to patch things up with Lubbock probably means she's next for death. On the other hand, Lubbock died before her. Maybe a similar scenario will come between Tatsumi and Esdeath - perhaps neither will die after all after the execution thing, because death flags for both were raised in the last chapter.

I mean, fuck it, it could be Leone who'll die next, or perhaps Budo. At this point, anything goes, because the author is fond of throwing curveballs and red herrings.

edited 22nd Sep '14 9:37:04 AM by Serocco

It's kinda annoying how the author knows what the audience expects, and plays around with that so now we don't know jack. It's part of the fun, I'm sure.

On that note, about the Revolutionary Army. I wonder how close they and Night Raid are on a personal level. Say that when all of this over and the rebels win, would they expect the people to trust them knowing they have a band of assassin's capable of doing things off the radar? And if not, how far would the army go to "rectify" that little issue?

... Seeing that Night Raid is part of the Revolutionary army

Nothing

Gave up and started reading the manga.

Incidentally, the splash page for the first chapter is Tasumi, Mine and Akame. Dunno if it means anything.

It means EVERYTHING you want it to mean

Zero 10 is out

Deathmatch's begin and granny comes for you!

Wait, huh?

Oh, one thing I found odd was the Jaegers' dislike of Wild Hunt's, erm, methods. Didn't Esdeath, like, order mass rape back at the tribe village? So if she was still put off by Wild Hunt nonetheless, that... doesn't make much sense. Wild Hunt is meant to be worse than the Jaegers ever could be, but if Esdeath ordered mass rape, then that kinda defeats the purpose from a writing perspective.

Granted, the anime had it as "just" a massacre, and the mass rape part was more implied than shown in the manga ('cause of teh violatez), so meh. I'm probably just over-analyzing too much from a critical perspective. I'm seeing some say yes and others say no to the mass rape order, so whatever.

edited 24th Sep '14 11:08:09 PM by Serocco

What Wild Hunt was doing was just pointless sadism that was not even directed at their enemies. Plus the entire murdering Bols family did no favors given that she liked Bols.

Ahhh, good point. I get it now, and the anime explicitly had it as only mass murder so Wild Hunt could be seen as even worse to a degree.

New topic. What's the plot in the Akame prequel manga?

edited 25th Sep '14 10:37:37 AM by Serocco

Its ten chapter's long at the moment, go read it and find out

Why so sad Akame?◊

11 chapters into Zero

And we get our first top 7 assassin deaths... ****

Spoiler pics

Duel to the Death 1◊

Duel to the Death 2◊

Duel to the Death 3◊

Duel to the Death 4◊

Duel to the Death 5◊

Duel to the Death 6◊

edited 26th Sep '14 9:48:29 AM by FrozenWolf2

That was Taeko, right? One of Chelsea's teammates?

edited 26th Sep '14 5:46:10 PM by Serocco

Taeko is the Swordmans, Cornelia was the one with the Shingu that got killed

Since Taeko is one of Chelsea's teammates.... welp, there goes that.