History Anime / AkameGaKill

''Akame Ga Kill!'' was one of the most requested Creator/SentaiFilmworks shows for airing on Creator/AdultSwim's Creator/{{Toonami}}. True to their word, the Toonami crew announced at Momocon that it will be their first Creator/SentaiFilmworks show airing on the block, premiering August 9, 2015.

[[JustForFun/IThoughtItMeant Try not to frustrate this series with]] [[SimilarlyNamedWorks a completely]] unrelated Anime/KillLaKill anime series]].

[[JustForFun/IThoughtItMeant Not to be counfused with]] [[Anime/KillLaKill a completely unrelated anime series]].

[[JustForFun/IThoughtItMeant Not to be counfused with]] with a completely [[Anime/KillLaKill unrelated anime series]].

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* HuntingtheMostDangerousGame: Episode 17 shows a scene from Chelsea's past [[spoiler: of how the viceroy she was hired under hunted people for sport]].

* GratuitousForeignLanguage: Several of the tracks played in the course of the series are clearly not in Japanese. Iwasaki Taku instead opted for a dialect of Romani, that is, the language spoken by the Roma (the nomadic people commonly referred to as Gypsies who originate in India). This is especially clear for the song listed in the OST as "Le chant de Roma" which even has it in the title.

* StupidSacrifice: The Rebellion Army's female liaison that Lubbock and Tatsumi meet in the capital in episode 20. After finding out Syura killed all of the other members, she attempts to curry favor with the latter by attempting to hold Lubbock to prevent him from escaping or attacking, in the hopes that her jailed parents would be given some clemency in exchange for assisting in stopping Night Raid. Syura "thanks" her by [[SlashedThroat cutting her throat]], as he said earlier that he didn't want anyone butting in during his fight. This sets off Lubbock's BerserkButton, and he proceeds to [[LetsGetDangerous get serious]], slicing off Syura's hand. [[spoiler:The trope comes into play when the woman manages to stab Lubbock in the back while he had the upper hand in the fight and once again asks for her parents to be freed from jail right before she dies. Syura then laughs and says her parents died some time ago in jail, before attempting to banish Lubbock into a different dimension.

* StupidSacrifice: The Rebellion Army's female liaison that Lubbock and Tatsumi meet in the capital in episode 20. After finding out Syura killed all of the other members, she attempts to curry favor with the latter by attempting to hold Lubbock to prevent him from escaping or attacking, in the hopes that her jailed parents would be given some clemency in exchange for assisting in stopping Night Raid. Syura "thanks" her by [[SlashedThroat cutting her throat]], as he said earlier that he didn't want anyone butting in during his fight. This sets off Lubbock's BerserkButton, and he proceeds to [[LetsGetDangerous get serious]], slicing off Syura's hand. [[spoiler:The trope comes into play when the woman manages to stab Lubbock in the back while he had the upper hand in the fight and once again asks for her parents to be freed from jail right before she dies. Syura then laughs and says her parents died some time ago in jail, before attempting to banish Lubbock into a different dimension. Played again with Tatsumi's demise in Episodes 23-24 where Tatsumi has a final upgrade that lets him beat the Empires ultimate teigu; Shikoutazer, where he sacrificed himself in a pointless endeavour to save some straggling civilians who were [[TooDumbToLive smack in the middle]] of an epic battle at the center of the capital between Night Raid and the Emperor himself (plus Honest), bad enough none of them were smart enough to just cut it and run like hell when they had the chance; considering the WretchedHive these morons live in one would think you'd take your chances with danger beasts and roaming bandits. Our hero ends up needlessly playing the martyr to keep their personal idiocy from crushing them all as the Shikoutazer falls over in defeat, made more trivial and meaningless when Esdeath suffers an emotional backlash that freezes a wide area stretching around the inner state most definitely freezing everyone their savior ever tried to rescue as a result.]]

** In the German dub, Bulat would like Tatsumi to call him either "[[GratuitousJapanese aniki]]" or "[[GratuitousEnglish handsome]]", probably because the dub authors couldn't think of any German translation of these words that didn't sound as if it came out of the [[BlindIdiotTranslation Google Translate result box]]. They also leave the occasional [[JapaneseHonorifics "-sama", "nee-san" and other honorifics]] untranslated.

* CryCute: Akame in episode 22, [[spoiler:shortly after being forced to kill her sister Kurome.]]

* StupidSacrifice: The Rebellion Army's female liaison that Lubbock and Tatsumi meet in the capital in episode 20. After finding out Syura killed all of the other members, she attempts to curry favor with the latter by attempting to hold Lubbock to prevent him from escaping or attacking, in the hopes that her jailed parents would be given some clemency in exchange for assisting in stopping Night Raid. Syura "thanks" her by [[SlashedThroat cutting her throat]], as he said earlier that he didn't want anyone butting in during his fight. This sets off Lubbock's BerserkButton, and he proceeds to [[LetsGetDangerous get serious]], slicing off Syura's hand. [[spoiler:The trope comes into play when the woman manages to stab Lubbock in the back while he had the upper hand in the fight and once again asks for her parents to be freed from jail right before she dies. Syura then laughs and says her parents died some time ago in jail, before attempting to banish Lubbock into a different dimension. Played again with Tatsumi's demise in Episodes 23-24 where Tatsumi has a final upgrade that lets him beat the Empires ultimate teigu; Shikoutazer, where he sacrificed himself in a pointless endeavour to save some straggling civilians who were [[TooDumbToLive smack in the middle]] of an epic battle at the center of the capital between Night Raid and the Emperor himself (plus Honest), bad enough none of them were smart enough to [[WhatTheHellTownsPeople just cut it and run]] like hell when they had the chance; considering the WretchedHive these morons live in one would think you'd take your chances with danger beasts and roaming bandits. Our hero ends up needlessly playing the martyr to keep their personal idiocy from crushing them all as the Shikoutazer falls over in defeat, made more trivial and meaningless when Esdeath suffers an emotional backlash that freezes a wide area stretching around the inner state most definitely freezing everyone their savior ever tried to rescue as a result.]]

* FantasyCounterpartCulture: Several things about Kyoroch, a city to the fast east of the and base of the "Path of Peace" religion, seem to resemble the Middle East such as the clothing of the inhabitants, the architecture, its great wealth from natural resources below it and the great impact of religion.

* PublicExecution: Under the Honest's corrupt regime, public executions are distressingly common-place in the capital and in the one shown in the third episode the convicted were apparently tortured beforehand to be subjected to a slow and painful death by crucifixion (they were bound to the cross with ropes instead of being hammered to the cross with nails through the wrists to prolong the suffering, as practiced in RealLife most infamously by the Romans).

** In the German dub, Bulat would like Tatsumi to call him either "[[GratuitousJapanese aniki]]" or "[[GratuitousEnglish handsome]]", probably because the dub authors couldn't think of any German translation of these words that didn't sound as if it came out of the [[BlindIdiotTranslation Google Translate result box]]. They also leave the occasional [[JapaneseHonorifics "-sama" and "nee-san"]] untranslated.

** In the German dub, Bulat would like Tatsumi to call him either "[[GratuitousJapanese aniki]]" or "[[GratuitousEnglish handsome]]", probably because the dub authors couldn't think of any German translation of these words that didn't sound as if it came out of the [[BlindIdiotTranslation Google Translate result box]]. They also leave the occasional "[[JapaneseHonorifics -sama]]", even though there are enough decent ways to translate it into German.

** In the German dub, Bulat would like Tatsumi to call him either "[[GratuitousJapanese aniki]]" or "[[GratuitousEnglish handsome]]", probably because the dub authors couldn't think of any German translation of these words that didn't sound as if it came out of the [[BlindIdiotTranslation Google Translate result box]].

* GeckoEnding: Due to the anime being produced 3 years before the manga's ending, their respective endings are fairly different.

* StupidSacrifice: The Rebellion Army's female liaison that Lubbock and Tatsumi meet in the capital in episode 20. After finding out Syura killed all of the other members, she attempts to curry favor with the latter by attempting to hold Lubbock to prevent him from escaping or attacking, in the hopes that her jailed parents would be given some clemency in exchange for assisting in stopping Night Raid. Syura "thanks" her by [[SlashedThroat cutting her throat]], as he said earlier that he didn't want anyone butting in during his fight. This sets off Lubbock's BerserkButton, and he proceeds to [[LetsGetDangerous get serious]], slicing off Syura's hand. [[spoiler:The trope comes into play when the woman manages to stab Lubbock in the back while he had the upper hand in the fight and once again asks for her parents to be freed from jail right before she dies. Syura then laughs and says her parents died some time ago in jail, before attempting to banish Lubbock into a different dimension. Played again with Tatsumi's demise in Episodes 23-24 where Tatsumi has a final upgrade that lets him beat the Empires ultimate teigu; Shikoutazer, where he sacrificed himself in a pointless endeavour to save some straggling civilians who were [[TooDumbToLive smack in the middle]] of an epic battle at the center of the capital between Night Raid and the Emperor himself (plus Honest), bad enough none of them were smart enough to [[WhatTheHellTownsPeople just cut it and run]] like hell when they had the chance; considering the WreatchedHive these morons live in one would think you'd take your chances with danger beasts and roaming bandits. Our hero ends up needlessly playing the martyr to keep their personal idiocy from crushing them all as the Shikoutazer falls over in defeat, made more trivial and meaningless when Esdeath suffers an emotional backlash that freezes a wide area stretching around the inner state most definitely freezing everyone their savior ever tried to rescue as a result.]]

''Akame Ga Kill!'' is one of the most requested Creator/SentaiFilmworks shows for airing on Creator/AdultSwim's Creator/{{Toonami}}. True to their word, the Toonami crew announced at Momocon that it will be their first Creator/SentaiFilmworks show airing on the block, premiering August 9, 2015.

* AdaptationalBadass: Despite Syura being reduced to a VillainOfTheWeek the anime actually gives him a fight with Lubbock where he uses his Teigu and even reveals his trump card. [[spoiler: In the manga his only fight did not involve him using his Teigu and he was killed off by Lubbock outside of combat.]]

** Many scenes of the manga regarding the Jaegers were cut out from the anime before the start of the original ending. This affected to their characterization, especially to Dr. Stylish's one.

** Ieyasu does this in the first episode. Tatsumi is later told its a fatal disease, and in fact they're surprised his friend lasted as long as he did.

** Esdeath, does a variation of this in episode 24. [[spoiler:After being fatally wounded by Akame]], she goes to [[spoiler:Tatsumi's corpse, cradles it while freezing herself with him, then both disappear into nothing as the ice vaporizes]].

* LighterAndSofter: Zig-zagged. Because the anime decided to skip the Wild Hunt arch and went with the anime original ending, some of the more controversial content from the manga [[spoiler:such as the rape of Bols's wife and daughter]] was never shown. On the other hand, the anime kills off ''more'' characters than in the manga (since some of the characters in the manga are still alive), but some of the good-hearted characters [[spoiler:such as Run, Bols's wife and daughter, and the three girls from chapter 23.5, Luna, Fal and Air]] are alive in the anime.

* SparedByAdaptation: [[spoiler:Run, along with Bols's wife and daughter, as well as Air, Fal and Luna]] die in the manga but they survive in the anime.

** Wild Hunt didn't appear in the anime at all, being replaced by mere {{faceless goons}}.

* GeckoEnding: Due to the anime being produced 3 years before the manga's ending, their respective endings are radically different.