Akame ga Kiru

I dunno, wouldn't it look kinda look bad if he just upped and killed the emperor's adviser.

I know it might be similar the anime ending which was lol the rulers are dead let's have democracy!!! >_>

Hrmmm...I can't tell whether or not I should like or hate this manga/anime now. I don't mind the gore and death, but on the other side, this show is a perfect example of the negatives of killing off your cast too early (if at all). A lot of the characters, especially on the villains side, have some potential and could've led up to some interesting stories of their own, but half of them get reduced to death fodder early on. Some of the deaths in general felt rather unnecessary.

I can understand Sheele and Bulat dying since the former set the "anyone can die" precedent and Bulat's death meant Tatsumi got Incursio, and I can even get behind Susanoo's sacrifice, but why did Chelsea have to be greedy and go after Kurome? Why couldn't Lubbock have managed to escape with half of his balls and the teleportation Teigu (the Empire got Cross Tail anyway and it's not like he's a regular fighter of the group)? Shouldn't Stylish have been busy with doing other experiments? It's not like tailing Night Raid was going to get him any better test subjects or open many new doors with his research. etc.

I know I'm complaining a lot. I like this manganime and all, but there's just so many problems with it that it leaves me feeling conflicted. I don't know what to think of it now.

Its really just a case of Love It or Hate It; part of the fun of the manga was the Mood Whiplash between comedy and gore, while also guessing who's gonna bite it next. (Remember all of the good times that were had between the Esedeath, Mine, and Akame fans).

But ever since Mine's coma, the story is pretty much on a railroad to the finish. The lighthearted characters are dead and we're pretty much just waiting for the final battle with Esedeath.

That and I think the Anime soured a lot of people's opinion about the series.

Yeah. The anime did start to get pretty bad once it started to make stuff up three-quarters of the way in. The final encounter between Akame and Kurome was also rather cheap with the out of nowhere Danger Beast interfering. Hopefully, that will have a better conclusion in the manga. It is kind of painful that it doesn't try to delve deeper, but I guess it's kind of hard to delve deep at all in a show where all everyone talks about is killing the Prime Minister (who is effectively the Emperor from his position and corrupting) and killing the assassins trying to kill the Prime Minister. It's not like there's someone dedicated to documenting all the Teigu or discovering the origin of Danger Beasts first and overthrowing an evil empire second. I guess that's why I enjoy doing the sidequests for games like Xenoblade Chronicles and Paper Mario so much. Come to think of it, from beginning to end, didn't stuff like Xenoblade and Kill la Kill become less to the main characters about committing murder and/or mass genocide/regicide and more about making the surrounding world less miserable and...death-ridden as well as stopping/reforming the main villain without going all out and chopping off their head? That order seems to be perplexingly reversed when it comes to Tatsumi in this series as he makes that transition of top priorities from "save the village" to "kill the Prime Minister". I guess having "assassin" as a profession will do that to someone over time, but it's still interesting to see the order reversed like that. In that respect, it reminds me a little bit of the "Infamous" series whenever you go down the bad karma routes.

...I still kind of wish the series wouldn't pull the "Bleach" move of hyping a power/character only for it to be a disappointment or a red herring.

The only character that ever came off as "overhyped" to me was Budou, who died before he got to do anything really.

Which is sad, because his character arguably had the most potential to shake things up; someone who's aware of how shit the empire was and publicly said he planned on dealing with the Prime Minister, right in front of Esedeath.

Like hell, he could have been a mentor figure to Wave or something.

I know, right? Why didn't he just decide to stick around and train Wave so he can help with cleaning the empire from the inside-out? He could've been busy with protecting the less evil nobility from any foul play on the Prime Minister's side and took a little time to train Wave every once in a while like you said. Budou could've even left trails of bread crumbs for Wave and the Jaegers to follow that would lead to them catching the more evil members of nobility and arresting them before Night Raid axed them. It would be helping Night Raid and the effort to clean up the empire without Budou losing face with the populace or the Prime Minister, all without spilling blood. Yet another potential plot thread left to dangle around like Lubbock's leftover testicle (no, I'm not going to let that part go. It was even more brutal to me than Chelsea's death and display, and you know how bad that was. Mine, Bulat, and Susanoo, you all got off easy). It all makes me wonder if the anime will get redone like the Fullmetal Alchemist anime (is the series even popular enough for that to happen?).

Doubt it. Its a nice thought tho.

Ahh well, I'll at least see how this series ends. I'll admit, its not as fun when you know who lives or dies at this point.

Only character worth guessing for now is Tatsumi, and he won't die until at least near the endgame.

As long as what happens to him isn't anything like what happened in the anime. I also hope they do a better job with the Esdeath vs. Akame fight. Nothing against the battle personally, but that one skill from Akame did come out of nowhere. At the very least, I'd like a reason for why it wasn't used sooner like "Once I use it, it has no off switch and will eventually kill me" or "I can only use it once in my lifespan, so I've had to save it until I'm faced against someone that absolutely must die at any cost" or something along those lines.

Well I guess Ryuko was less revenge obsessed since she knew she had Nui's number at the end of the series.

Yeah. Whether it's from gaining strength and new friend, going through a major heart-to-heart, or getting proper closure through some backstory on what went down that faithful night that their best friend/wife got eighty-sixed, most main protagonists get over that primal desire to kill "that guy/girl/race", or at least get better at managing it from a tactical or utilitarian perspective. If that doesn't happen, they usually make like the guys from Gun x Sword or Berserk and their desire to kill that certain someone remains a constant that only occasionally gets brought up instead of banging us over the head with the fact. Every. Single. Episode.

But enough about talking about characters we wish weren't killed off so quickly and typical changes within protagonists that follow the monomyth. Let's talk about something else. For example, does anyone else find it a little odd how in a world where almost all the big-breasted, cute girls he know are hitting on him, crushing on him, or getting themselves killed and decapitated doing something for him, Tatsumi, in the end, decides he wants to be with the one with the flattest chest that was constantly giving him more crap than the farmer at the fertilizer store? I don't know if someone else mentioned it before, but I felt like pointing it out; also, has anyone else been enjoying the little side chapters that crop up every now and again? I really do enjoy getting to see more of the characters already killed off, even if it's only for a little bit (probably the best parts of the series for me at times).

As long as we don't get anymore shit like 23.5, yea they're cool.

To be fair to Tatsumi He didn't choose the girl, the girl choose him lol.

Yeah. 23.5 was needlessly cruel to those people. Even for a city where most of the nobility takes up morally depraved hobbies because the Prime Minister makes it so easy to do without being arrested or killed, that was way too much, even by their standards.

And yeah, even if the girl chose him and is currently comatose, at least Tatsumi now has something to come back for...provided he survives in this adaption. At least he doesn't have to worry about her getting into trouble now.

EDIT:

Wait a minute! The anime series didn't start changing stuff until the middle after the fight against Seryuu in the Bolic arc, and in the manga (Chapter 43, page 30), the leader of the Path of Peace talks about how he hopes that their path takes a different path than the one he foresaw when he first saw Mine and Tatsumi, meaning either that was just another attempt to set up death flags...or...or...maybe the writer was referencing the changes between the anime and manga around that point.

By the way, has anyone seen the "Akame Ga Kill! Theater!" miniseries? It's kind of like those little clips that would play at the end of the Naruto Shippuden episodes.

edited 27th Aug '15 6:58:33 AM by InkyJay

I'm expecting a Code Geass ending like peace comes, but the male MC has to die for this to happen.

So basically the Anime :V

Well the anime did not have Wild Hunt so it's different...sort of >_> Hell it could be a real curveball if Akame died.

So I wonder if they will do an ova of like perhaps a special chapter. I know the anime won't do the rest of the manga ala Brohood, but a special ova like Tokyo Ghoul will have with Jack would be nice.

edited 27th Aug '15 7:26:58 PM by Mizerous

Honestly, I wouldn't be surprised if Akame died, if Akame's Murasame has a trump card, I could imagine its effect being similar to Yatsufusa in that it has something to do with the people it's slain. I would think that the manga counterpart would give the trump card user the strength of all creatures, human or otherwise, that were slain with Murasame. Only problem would be that as you continue using it, the tattoo produced by the trump card extends across the body slowly, and once it enshrouds the whole body, you die. That's my idea for the manga counterpart of the trump card, anyway.

Akame isn't going to die, she's the poster girl. They almost never die, ever.

They could change the name to Tatsumi Ga Kill or Kiru >_>

Looked at the latest chapter of Zero Gai is very dead now. He had his heart ripped out and crushed.

edited 29th Aug '15 3:56:08 PM by GilverDMC1

Have we heard Dubbed Esdeath yet?

We're only past Episode 4.

Here

Or that...

32 is out in English