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4	->''"As long as there is human nature, so too must there be malice. As long as there is malice, so too must there be evil. Evil beyond salvation. For those who don't wield a sword, these vile demons are silenced in the darkness by a group of elite assassins."''
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7	An anime adaptation of ''Manga/AkameGaKill'' by White Fox aired during the Summer and Fall 2014 seasons. Crunchyroll streamed the anime, which can be [[http://www.crunchyroll.com/akame-ga-kill viewed here]] for people living in the following areas: [[note]] USA, Canada, UK, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, Netherlands, Scandinavia, Latin America and Turkey.[[/note]]
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9	''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 on August 9, 2015.
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11	The Anime adapts the first 8 volumes, plus parts of volumes 10 and 11. However, the last few episodes, from 19-24 are a different story, with a GeckoEnding. Please put tropes that are in both versions of the story in ''Manga/AkameGaKill''
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14	[[JustForFun/IThoughtThatWas Not to be confused with]] ''Anime/KillLaKill'', which has nothing in common [[SimilarlyNamedWorks despite the similarity of the titles]].
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16	!!This anime series provides examples of:
17	* AbortedArc: The anime took out the Wild Hunt arc entirely, and [[spoiler: Syura]] ended up being nothing but an ordinary VillainOfTheWeek.
18	* AdaptationDrift: The events of the anime series were fairly close to the manga for most of the run, but it really started [[AdaptationDeviation deviating]] as it started leading to a GeckoEnding. Specifically, the main point of divergence is at "Kill the Fate"[[labelnote:note]]Episode 19 or Chapter 36[[/labelnote]]. The manga's final arcs do follow similar events to the anime, but it still significantly differs on which characters die and survive.
19	* 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.]]
20	* AdaptationalCurves: Several of the girls have noticeably larger busts than in the manga. Esdeath is probably the most blatant example.
21	* AdaptationalRomanceDowngrade: Tatsumi's romance with Mine is cut short in the anime because unlike the manga, they don't get a RelationshipUpgrade [[spoiler:and Mine only gets to confess her love when she's dying in Tatsumi's arms]]. In the manga, on the other hand, [[spoiler:both survive and get married, with Mine being revealed to be pregnant in the final chapter]].
22	* AdaptationalWimp: Due to the anime cutting out several plot events past the Bolick Assassination arc many characters aren't as strong as they are in the manga. Esdeath [[spoiler: never obtains her levitation ability or ice calvalry]], Tatsumi [[spoiler: doesn't become strong enough to land a hit on Esdeath, withstand Maha Padma, and his final Incursion evolution isn't Tyrant]], and Budo's Teigu doesn't have a majority of its abilities from the manga. Wave is the most notable example however as a lot of his more noble traits from the manga, and [[spoiler: defeating Syura in a fist fight, being able to use Grand Chariot and Mastema, and his fight with Akame, Lubbock, and Mine]] were all removed. In fact, he doesn't get a fight with any character in the anime whatsoever, with the exception of two brief skirmishes with Susanoo and Tatsumi and the battle he had against the Emperor in the 23th episode.
23	* AdaptedOut:
24	** Many scenes of the manga regarding the Jaegers were cut out from the anime before the start of the original ending. This affected their characterization, especially Dr. Stylish's one.
25	** Wild Hunt didn't appear in the anime at all, being replaced by mere {{faceless goons}}. [[spoiler: This is mainly because many of the actions committed by the Wild Hunt would be too controversial to air on television. More specifically, the rape and murder of Bols's wife and daughter by Champ and Syura.]]
26	** The scene where Tatsumi and Bulat head to a mountain range to fight Danger Beasts before fighting the Three Beasts was not present in the anime.
27	** Extra bonus chapter 23.5 was not adapted into animation. This is most likely because of the fact that it was a side story that had no relation to the main plot but also the fact that it would have been too graphic to show on television.
28	* AllDeathsFinal: Animé episode 5 explicitly states that '''none''' of the Imperial Arms can resurrect the dead. Once you're dead, you stay dead. [[spoiler:Kurome's]] Yatsufusa can't resurrect them, either, it just can animate their corpses to act as puppets under the wielder's control (they're explicitly referred to as "puppets" by it's wielder), but they retain [[spoiler:parts of their memories and personalities]] and that can and was exploited in battle.
29	* AMillionIsAStatistic: Taken to absurd levels in episode 23 of the anime. [[spoiler:With the Revolutionary Army on the doorstep of the Capitol, Honest has the Emperor use his Imperial Arms, a HumongousMecha capable of BeamSpam and nukes. Though the Emperor questions if such high casualties and destruction is necessary, Honest keeps telling him to harden his heart and stop the rebellion at all cost, never mind all the collateral damage. It gets so bad that even several of the Jaegers [[EvenEvilHasStandards end up helping]] Night Raid to [[EnemyMine stop the Emperor]] and protect the civilians.]]
30	* AnachronismStew: The series takes place in a feudal fantasy world full of supernatural beasts and mystical items; along with futuristic weaponry, genetic manipulation, and cyberpunk.
31	* AnyoneCanDie: [[spoiler: And nearly everyone DOES die in the anime.]]
32	* ArtShift: In the anime, any character whose portrait/design changes from fairly normal to monstrous looking can be safely considered to be evil, such as the Prime Minister or the various minor villains Night Raid fights against.
33	* BaitAndSwitchCredits: The second opening of the anime shows a campal battle between Night Raid and the Jaegers, showing versus like Lubbock and Leone vs Run, Seryu and Coro vs Susanoo and Chelsea, Tatsumi vs Wave and Esdeath vs Najenda. None of them happens in the anime storyline, [[spoiler: Leone fights with Run in episode 23, but is alone because Lubbock died three episodes back, Seryu never met Chelsea or Susanoo in live, Wave and Tatsumi have a little skirmish, but is in the battle of Akame and Kurome and hardly would count as a real battle, and for last, Najenda never fights Esdeath alone in the anime, she uses Susanoo for that because she hardly is at Esdeath level.]]
34	* BittersweetEnding: In the anime, The Prime Minister is killed in episode 24, and the Emperor is overthrown, ushering in a new era of peace for the surviving people. Unfortunately a lot of the main cast dies before this happens. [[spoiler:Only Wave, Run, Akame and Najenda have survived. And in Najenda's case, her life has been shortened due to her link with Susanoo and using her lifeforce to activate his powers, so she's unsure how long she has left. And Tatsumi's village still thinks he, Ieyasu, and Sayo are still alive, and plan to throw a big celebration for them upon their return, not realizing what really happened to all three.]]
35	* BloodFromTheMouth:
36	** Ieyasu does this in the first episode. Tatsumi is later told it's a fatal disease, and in fact they're surprised his friend lasted as long as he did.
37	** Akame does it in episode 24, but she manages to survive it.
38	* BolivianArmyEnding: [[spoiler:The anime ends with Akame and Najenda as the sole survivors of Night Raid. Akame voluntarily takes all the blame for the Revolutionary Army's crimes and disappears. In the very last scene, Akame is surrounded by a gang of bounty hunters, and she draws her sword and attacks.]]
39	* CerebusRollercoaster: The show seems to have trouble [[MoodWhiplash sticking to a tone.]]
40	* ConservationOfNinjutsu: While Kurome's two remaining puppets last a while against Akame in episode 22, both of them get killed promptly by a Danger Beast that shows up. A short while later she summons some random people she's killed, but Akame finishes them all off in one strike. When the two girls are fighting directly however, Kurome gives her sister more of a challenge.
41	* CoolBigSis: Akame towards Kurome until the former leaves to join Night Raid. The latter never forgives her for that, and they end up locking blades in episode 22 to resolve their issues with each other.
42	* DeathByAdaptation: [[spoiler:Suzuka, Mine, Kurome, and Tatsumi]] survive in the manga but are killed in the anime.
43	* DeathWail: Akame in episode 22, [[spoiler:shortly after being forced to kill her sister Kurome.]]
44	* DecoyProtagonist: [[spoiler:Tatsumi, at least in the anime. Even though it's told from his perspective, the central character is really Akame, and the Night Raid as a whole. Tatsumi even dies in the penultimate episode, while Akame survives, showing that he was more of the {{Deuteragonist}}.]]
45	* DiedInYourArmsTonight:
46	** Akame does this for [[spoiler:Tatsumi]] after he stops the defeated Emperor's HumongousMecha from crashing into a crowd of people in episode 23.
47	** 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]].
48	* DoItYourselfThemeTune: The first opening theme and the second ending theme are performed by Sora Amamiya, who voices Akame.
49	* EverybodyDiesEnding: Alongside the deaths that were featured in the manga, many characters who are presently alive (or didn't die at all) in the manga ended up being killed off in the anime. By the end of the anime [[spoiler: Akame and Najenda are all that remains of Night Raid, Wave and Run are all that remains of the Jaegers, and almost every notable supporter of the Empire not affiliated with the Jaegers have been killed.]]
50	* FantasyCounterpartCulture: Several things about Kyoroch, a city to the far 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.
51	* GeckoEnding: Due to the anime being produced 3 years before the manga's ending, their respective endings are fairly different. The anime splits off into an original ending at "Kill the Fate"[[labelnote:note]]Chapter 36 / Episode 19[[/labelnote]], since [[OvertookTheManga the manga had not progressed much further than those episodes by the time the anime was produced]]. Several characters (most of both Wild Hunt, and the Rakshasa Demons, for example) ended up getting AdaptedOut to reach the anime original ending as fast as possible. The manga actually followed much of the same plot beats from the anime's final battles, but characters who suffered DeathByAdaptation [[spoiler:like Mine, Kurome and Tatsumi]] survive to the end.
52	* GratuitousForeignLanguage:
53	** 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.
54	** 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 [[UsefulNotes/JapaneseHonorifics "-sama", "nee-san" and other honorifics]] untranslated.
55	* TheHeroDies: [[spoiler:Tatsumi]] dies at the end of the anime after doing a HeroicSacrifice.
56	* HeroicSacrifice: Tatsumi gains an EleventhHourSuperpower while battling the Emperor in episode 23, which allows him to stop the latter's madness. Unfortunately, [[spoiler:it takes a heavy toll on him, particularly when he uses his remaining strength to keep the Emperor's gigantic Imperial Arms from hitting innocent civilians.]]
57	* HuntingTheMostDangerousGame: Episode 17 shows a scene from Chelsea's past [[spoiler: of how the viceroy she was hired under hunted people for sport]].
58	* LighterAndSofter: Zig-zagged. Because the anime decided to skip the Wild Hunt arc and went with an 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.
59	* PublicExecution: Under the Honest's corrupt regime, public executions are distressingly common-place in the capital and in the one shown in the third and a couple of other episodes 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).
60	* TheRevolutionWillNotBeCivilized: After taking out their latest target in episode 19, the Revolutionary Army begins their march on the capital in episode 20. This has several of the high ranking Imperial officers worried, particularly as many strongholds surrender without a fight. [[spoiler:They finally succeed in episode 24 after Akame finishes off Esdeath.]]
61	* SenselessSacrifice: In episode 23 [[spoiler: Tatsumi overexerts himself and dies]] saving a bunch of civilians from the falling giant mecha Relic. Too bad that about a minute or two later Esdeath sweeps the whole area with her ice power, completely flattening everything within a pretty large radius and almost certainly killing all those people, particularly as many of them were wounded and unable to escape even if they tried.
62	* SparedByTheAdaptation: [[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.
63	* 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 angers off Lubbock's , 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.]]
64	* WhamEpisode:
65	** Episode 6 shows the first onscreen death of a Night Raid member, [[spoiler:specifically Sheele.]]
66	** Episode 8 has the next one, [[spoiler: Bulat.]]
67	** Both the Jaegers and Night Raid lose one member in episode 17, [[spoiler:Bols and Chelsea respectively.]]
68	** Tatsumi gets captured in episode 20 after being hopelessly outmatched by Budou. Additionally, another Night Raid member gets killed, [[spoiler:this time Lubbock, though not before he kills Syura.]]
69	** The Night Raid succeeds in rescuing Tatsumi in episode 21, but in the process, [[spoiler:Mine is fatally wounded by Budou, and [[DiedInYourArmsTonight she dies in Tatsumi's arms]] later on. Susanoo is also KilledOffScreen by Esdeath, using the amount of energy he has left [[YouShallNotPass to give the Night Raid time to escape as he fights her]]]].
70	** In Episode 23, [[spoiler: Tatsumi defeats the emperor but dies preventing the emperor's Imperial arms from harming more innocent civilians.]]

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