Characters / Akame ga Kill! - Akame

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"As the survivors, we carry the feelings of those who've passed away on our shoulders."
Voiced by: Sora Amamiya (Japanese), Molly Searcy (English), Tamara Veppo (Latin American Spanish)

The titular female protagonist of the story and the "Red-Eyed Killer", Akame is a young girl who was infamously known for being the Empire's number one assassin. Akame's cold-hearted and serious demeanor stems from her hellish training the Empire forced her and her sister through after being sold by their parents. After being tasked one mission to assassinate former general Najenda, she is convinced by her to not only spare her but also to instead join her crusade against the Empire by becoming a member of Night Raid. Her defection from the Empire sparks an intense rivalry between her fellow assassin and sibling Kurome, along with a mutual desire to be the one to end the other.

Akame is widely considered to be the strongest member of Night Raid, slaying even the strongest of enemies with minimal effort. Her hellish assassination training allows her combat ability to be on par with those as powerful as Generals within the military levels of the Empire. Her Teigu, One Cut Killer: Murasame, is a katana known for being coated in an immensely deadly poison that can kill those cut by it within seconds.

Akame also returns as a supporting character in Hinowa ga Crush!, serving as a mentor figure to its protagonist, Hinata.

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• The Ace: Akame is an extremely fast and powerful swordswoman. She is often regarded as this in Night Raid as the former top assassin of The Empire. While Murasame does help a great deal, she's not dependent on it, and is a very accomplished warrior on her own.
• Action Girl: The poster girl for this within Night Raid and the entire series.
• Adaptational Badass: Her anime counterpart was able to fight Esdeath to an even match during the final episode and eventually kill her, although Esdeath herself was suffering from a case of Adaptational Wimp. Her manga counterpart, on the other hand, needed the help of a Super Serum, 10 teigu user (most of whom were killed in battle), an army of 100,000 regular soldiers, and a rampage Incursio-possessed Tatsumi, just to wound Esdeath.
• Advertised Extra: You'd think being the titular character and poster girl of the series she'd be a major character throughout right? She doesn't actually receive much focus until the series is almost over, with most of it focusing on Tatsumi's adjustment to being in Night Raid and his dynamics with them. This is averted in Zero however where she's firmly the protagonist.
• Almighty Janitor: In Zero. Akame was ranked #7 out of her entire team, the Elite Seven, with #1 being the strongest member and #7 being the weakest. Despite this, Taeko noted that Akame was much stronger than Akame's teammate, Cornelia, who was ranked #3. Later Akame was able to defeat an opponent who killed rank #2, Guy, in the next arc.
• Aloof Dark-Haired Girl: She has really long black hair, is very pretty, and displays a stoic and aloof attitude most of the time.
• Anguished Outburst: When she gets the news that Sheele is dead, Akame quietly nods in acknowledgment, hiding the fact that she's distraught by it. When Tatsumi privately comments on Akame being able to handle the news stoically, she finally lets her emotions out and exactly tells Tatsumi about how she's feeling as well as chewing out on Tatsumi for how insensitive he was being, even if Tatsumi didn't mean it.
• Anti-Hero: She fights for the side of good, though like the rest of Night Raid, her way of dealing with things is not pleasant at all. And that's not to mention the amount of pain and misery she went through whilst serving The Empire.
• Badass Adorable: An absolutely ruthless and efficient killer with a cute attitude and No Social Skills.
• Badass Boast: She states that she will kill General Esdeath when the time comes. In the anime, she does it in episode 24.
  Esdeath is certainly powerful... But she has a weakness. She's alive... She has a beating heart. If so... I will kill her. Even if she is the fabled strongest in the empire!
• Badass Longcoat: She wears a black longcoat as an occasional part of her attire.
• Big Eater: She can eat beasts several times her size in one meal. Tatsumi in episode 2 even wonders if she's the designated cook so she can sneak in bites of the food she's preparing. She denies it, while doing exactly that.
• Big Sister Instinct: Flashbacks show her exhibiting this trope to the max in regards to her younger sister Kurome, protecting her and dragging her along during the dangerous training exercises of their past. Separation and several years has poisoned their sisterly bond though.
• Black Eyes of Crazy: The sclerae of Akame's eyes turns black when she uses her trump card.
• Break the Cutie: The past has not exactly been kind to Akame, to say the least. Her innocence was stolen the day she was installed by The Empire to be one of their assassins alongside Kurome, and this also led to Akame being exploited and physically and mentally harassed by others. Even after defecting The Empire to join Night Raid and maintaining a stoic, fearless disposition, Akame's mindset is not really unshakable, provided one of her closest ones dies.
• Broken Bird: She's a fierce warrior with a steely demeanor and is willing to enter battle without hesitation, but underneath it all is a mentally broken and frustrated girl who had suffered a lot from the very Empire that she used to serve under and while she does a good job hiding it, she really doesn't take it well when a loved one dies. In the anime, she breaks down into a sobbing mess on Tatsumi's lap, barely comprehending the fact that she had just killed her younger sister, whom she cherished, regardless of their differing allegiances.
• Brought Down to Badass: By Hinowa ga Crush, Akame is using standard katanas during battle. This is mainly because Murasame was broken to pieces during Akame, Night Raid, and the rebels' climactic battle against Esdeath. These do nothing to hamper Akame from being an incredibly deadly swordswoman to anybody who would cross paths with her.
• But Now I Must Go: In the anime, she leaves following the rebellion's success, shouldering all of Night Raid's darker deeds, never to be seen again. The manga is a bit more uplifting as she's leaving so the Empire can grow without it getting out that they employed assassins to maintain the peace and to find a cure for the curse that's ailing her as a result of Murasame's Trump Card.
• Byronic Heroine: She's someone who fights for what she believes is a just and justified cause and is generally a good person, but she does carry a lot of personal troubles which are highlighted by her quiet disposition, which buries her melancholy over losing a lot of her friends as well as believing that the only resolution to her relationship with her younger sister is to kill her in combat.
• Cain and Abel: She is the Abel to Kurome's Cain, with Akame fighting with Night Raid to liberate The Empire and make it a better place through their rebellious efforts while Kurome wants to uphold The Empire's iron fist and contribute to their military cause. In Kurome's perspective, however, she believes herself to be the Abel for her loyalty and Akame as the Cain for betraying the Empire.
  • Surprisingly, Zero reveals that Akame is Mez's foster sister. Meaning that Akame is also the Abel to Mez's Cain.
• Combat Pragmatist: It comes in the territory of being trained to be an assassin after all. During combat, Akame makes no pretensions about dispatching her enemies as quickly as possible. The fact that her sword is renowned for having an extremely potent poison only furthers her approach to combat in wanting to finish off her fight as fast as she can, considering it doesn't take long for said poison to kill someone once they're afflicted by it.
• Creepy Good: While kind and compassionate towards her friends and those who don't pose any antagonistic thoughts on her, Akame inspires dread towards most of her enemies, which is further accompanied by her unflappable facial stance and gesture during battle. She's one of the main reasons why Night Raid has a fearsome reputation toward The Empire.
• Chef of Iron: The main cook for Night Raid, and arguably the most dangerous of them all.
• Children Forced to Kill: She was barely a teen by the time The Empire decided to enlist her and Kurome into their assassination program and raise her into becoming a ruthless killer.
• Cruel to Be Kind: Akame treats Tatsumi rather cold and harshly in chapter 3, especially while training him. He thinks that she doesn't respect his abilities, and goes on his first mission to prove that he's a capable fighter and assassin. Later Leone reveals to him that she acted that way because she didn't want him to get overconfident and die.
• The Comically Serious: A lot of Akame's comedic value comes from her lack of social skills and her voracious appetite, always while keeping the same deadpan expression.
• Curse: In the finale of the manga, despite Murusame's destruction, and the end of the powerup, the markings on her body have her in a constant state of excruciating pain. She journeys to the island where Murusame was made to try and find a cure.
• Daddy's Girl: Averted. Akame never truly saw Gozuki as a true father figure, like the rest of the Elite Seven. She was actually much closer to her surrogate mother, Martha, which is part of the reason why Gozuki tasked Akame to kill Martha as Akame's first human kill.
• Dark Action Girl: Her quiet disposition and her dark clothing create a very eerie and scary presence against anyone who dares to fight her. This is more apparent in Zero when she was an assassin for The Empire and ironically wears white, otherwise, she's a more traditional Action Girl by the time the main series takes place.
• Dark and Troubled Past: She and her sister Kurome were sold by their parents when they were young and forced into the Prime Minister's assassin creation programs. To clarify, her training was being forced into a large forest with 100 other children and being hunted by vicious Danger Beasts until only a couple were standing with nothing more than a sword. And that was just the first part.
• Dark Is Not Evil: She wears mostly black and is by no means evil.
• Death or Glory Attack: Just before the final fight against Esdeath in the manga, Akame took a serum in order to give her a power boost. The doctor who gave it to her warned her that it could dull her senses and skills and even disable her if she used it. Akame decides on using it if it means that it'll give her even a slightly better chance at victory. Nothing comes out of it, however, as she soon activates her trump card to kill Esdeath.
• Decoy Protagonist: You'd expect the title character to be the protagonist, but she takes a backseat to Tatsumi for most of the series. But then Tatsumi bites the dust in the penultimate episode, leaving Akame to kill Esdeath alone.
• Defeat Means Friendship: She was recruited into the Night Raid when she was successfully talked into it by Najenda when she was assigned to kill her.
• Defrosting Ice Queen: Zigzagged. At first, it looks like she's an Emotionless Girl but Tatsumi and the reader soon learn she's actually pretty caring and Tatsumi had just misunderstood her.
• Determinator: She's deadset about wanting to end the corruption that had damaged and poisoned The Empire for so long and liberate the population from its tyranny, even after losing a good number of her friends and comrades fighting against them. Given that she was bought up by said government, which resulted in her undergoing a number of traumatic events and having to live by performing assassination tasks throughout her late childhood and teen years, her determination is quite personal in that regard.
• Did You Think I Can't Feel?: She's usually so calm and composed that Tatsumi thinks she's simply numb to emotions, but she admits that she isn't.
• Double Standard: Rape, Female on Female: Much like Chelsea, Akame ended up on the receiving end of this in Zero throughout the Merraid Oarburgh arc. When Akame was captured by the Oarburgh clan, many of their female members, including Merraid herself, sexually molested Akame, and it's even strongly implied they raped her at two points, as Akame looked disheveled and exhausted afterward. Despite all this, Akame never viewed the Oarburgh members as bad people, even though she acknowledged that they did in fact sexually assault her. What is even more astounding, is that Akame views Merraid, the one most guilty of sexually harassing her, as a Worthy Opponent.
• Drama-Preserving Handicap: Many of the antagonists in the sequel Hinowa ga Crush! are nowhere as strong as the villains in the main series. However, to prevent Akame from easily wiping the floor with them, Murasame's curse prevents Akame from fighting at full strength. It also helps that she no longer has Murasame anymore.
• The Dreaded: How did the Imperials Akame was sent to kill in the final arc react when they see her? "IT'S AKAME!"
• Emotionless Girl: Justified since she was trained to kill her emotions to be a proficient assassin. But this is subverted, as Akame may be reserved most of the time, but she's far from emotionless.
• Emotion Suppression: Akame represses her emotions to be an effective killer.
• Enemy Mine:
  • As with the rest of Night Raid, Akame briefly works with whatever's left of the Jaegers to take on Wild Hunt, who consistently end up proving to be much worse than the Jaegers due to their habit of killing discriminately for self-gratification and furthering The Empire's corruption.
  • In the anime, Akame and Kurome's duel in Episode 22 is interrupted by a Danger Beast that awakens during their fighting. They both stop fighting each other to deal with the creature, and as soon as it's dead, they go right back to fighting each other.
• Fastball Special: On more than one occasion, Akame has been thrown by a strong ally to attack a foe.
• First Kiss: Zero reveals that Akame's was taken by Merraid Oarburgh, not unlike how Tatsumi's first kiss was stolen by Esdeath.
• Flash Step: Pulls this off a lot against mooks and even high-end villains have been nailed with this by her.
• Foil:
  • Her and Tatsumi are among the most active members of Night Raid after the latter joins the group. However, their demeanor and approach to things very wildly contrast with one another. Tatsumi is extroverted whereas Akame keeps to her herself most of the time. Tatsumi also has a desire to help others and is open about it, in addition to engaging in fights that take a while due to him having less battle experience than his peers whereas Akame aims to destabilize The Empire's government as her way of helping others, which is not known to anybody outside of Night Raid and her fighting experience allows her to end a battle quickly most of the time.
  • She and Kurome, aside from being sisters, are their groups' respective katana wielders. However, Akame, in addition to defecting from The Empire, has a better grasp on her mentality and her katana injects an incurable toxin that kills whoever is cut by it, Kurome maintains her loyalty to The Empire, has signs of mental instability, and her katana has the ability to durn deceased bodies into biological puppets for her to control and employ for battle.
  • Like Esdeath, Akame is Night Raid's strongest member, in comparison to Esdeath being The Empire symbol of strength. Both possess a level of camaraderie, but where Akame really does care about her friends and expresses sadness and sorrow over losing them, Esdeath also has some affection for her closest allies but can be just as willing to see them as disposable if they fail to meet her expectations. Finally, their stance and attitude in combat are total contrasts; Akame uses a poisonous katana, keeps a still disposition, and opts to end a battle as quickly as possible whereas Esdeath has fantastical ice powers and is a sadistic Blood Knight who expresses glee and excitement in slaughtering anybody in the battlefield.
• Forgotten First Meeting: Justified. Akame and Chelsea did briefly meet before the main series in Zero, but at the time Chelsea was disguised as Natala. Chelsea does vaguely hint at seeing Akame once before in the main series.
• Fragile Speedster: Depending on the strength of her opponent, she can be reduced to this. Thanks to her great speed, she can avoid nearly every attack thrown at her. However, she lacks durability and a few good hits can be detrimental to her. This is best showcased during her fights with Wave.
• Glass Cannon: Nimble and precise but about as tough as paper mache in battle, just as long-lived too if the fight is drawn out. This was shown by her fight with Wave as she couldn't hit him due to his armor.
• Gone Horribly Right: She was taken in and raised by The Empire to become an assassin under their service. They made her into one of their most valued and effective killers thanks to the training provided making her a force to be reckoned with and one of the deadliest Teigu, capable of killing anyone with a single graze due to the potency of the poison it seeps. The moment Akame leaves The Empire, she goes from being among their most prized assassins to arguably their most persistent and feared enemy, culminating with her killing Esdeath, albeit with the help of several rebel soldiers and Teigu wielders, and playing a role in ending The Empire's government corruption.
• Happily Adopted: Zigzagged with the Elite Seven. On one hand, Akame clearly loves her adoptive siblings. On the other hand, she doesn't really care for her adoptive father, which ends up being a source of conflict between her and Gozuki.
• Heel–Face Turn: She used to be an assassin working for The Empire prior to the events of the series. Around that point, she became disillusioned and jaded regarding her occupation and working for a corrupt government, leading to her leaving, branding The Empire as enemies from then on, and joining Najenda and Night Raid in the hopes of ending The Empire's corruption.
• Hero with Bad Publicity: She and the rest of Night Raid are seen as terrorists by The Empire and preach this notion toward their populace. Justified in that The Empire's government is aware that they seek to dismantle their corruption and they are their biggest threat, not to mention that Akame was once someone who worked for them, giving them the excuse of labeling her as a traitor to The Empire. This dies out when Honest is killed and The Empire's corruption is eventually toppled by the series's end.
• Honey Trap: In Zero, Akame attempts to seduce Merraid Oarburgh in order to kill her. While she gives herself away at the last minute and allows Merraid to escape, she does distract her for long enough to allow her friends to launch their attack on the Oarburgh mansion. She later catches up to Merraid and kills her through more direct methods.
• Humanizing Tears: When Tatsumi compliments her for her apparent composure following Sheele's death, she tearfully lashes out that deep down she's hurting.
• Hypocrite: She berates Tatsumi because he was confident that he could kill Ogre, saying that arrogance would get him killed. Tatsumi manages to somewhat easily kill Ogre. Later Akame claims that she will certainly kill Esdeath, the Empire's Strongest, but only manages by consuming drugs and with the aid of 100,000 soldiers. Granted, it's made clear after Tatsumi returns from assassinating Ogre that she only said that to ensure he would be careful and return safely. Also, while she is determined to be the one who kills Esdeath, she is never under any illusion that it will be an easy task.
• Incest Subtext: Her relationship with Kurome gets a little...R-rated sometimes. At one point in Zero, Akame has to give Kurome her medicine and Merraid tells her she has to feed her sister mouth-to-mouth. She ends up unhesitatingly giving her sister a passionate kiss with full use of her tongue. Played for Laughs because another character talks about how avoidable that was.
• Innocently Insensitive: She and Leone help Tatsumi and Lubbock work out by sitting on them as they do push-ups. When Leone mocks Lubbock by stating that Tatsumi is able to do more push-ups than him, Akame casually states that is because Leone weighs a lot more than her. Everyone else present is shocked and Akame seems completely clueless about why Leone punches her in the head moments later.
• Kill the Ones You Love: Akame still loves her sister Kurome and since the latter refused to join her in the rebellion and Kurome's mind and body are far too damaged by the drugs she was forced to take, Akame has decided to kill her as she thinks that's the only way to end her sister's suffering. In the anime, she succeeds; in the manga, however, Wave intervenes and convinces Kurome to give up her drug addiction and her obligation to the Empire, sparing her the heartbreak of doing so.
• Knight in Sour Armor: Akame has a rather clouded viewpoint on her attempts to change The Empire as well as her efforts due to the number of losses she's endured throughout her experience, as her glum personality shows. Even then, she still decides to continue fighting, adamant to finish off what she and her friends fought for.
• Lady of War: Akame's calm, quick and skilled wielding of Murasame leads to many of her targets dying before they even realise what happened.
• The Lancer: She's second only to Najenda in regards to Night Raid. While Najenda is the one formulating plans and gathering intel regarding The Empire, Akame is the one she puts the most faith in, considering she's arguably the most formidable member Night Raid has and one of the few who remotely has a chance against Esdeath.
• Leeroy Jenkins: She occasionally has the tendency of charging at her foes before backup. The first example was when she charged at Kurome, leaving her comrades behind, while the latter was surrounded by her puppets and on the top of a powerful Danger Beast. Hadn't Tatsumi jumped to save her, Akame would have been reduced into cinders by Bols. During the final battle, she decided to face Esdeath by herself and only starts holding her ground once the rest of the rebel army comes to support her.
• Light Is Not Good: In Zero, she wore mostly white when she worked for the Empire.
• Lightning Bruiser: Can actually take a number of devastating hits without slowing down and is easily one of the fastest characters in the series, so much that even Esdeath was challenged to keep up with her (and that's before she uses her power-up). One opponent mentions that she's almost as strong physically as she is fast.

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• Magic Skirt: Played straight in the anime as whatever acrobatics and combat action she performs, her skirt is always lowered to her knees. Zigzagged in the manga, where it's hard to tell if a Censor Shadow is being used or if Akame is just simply wearing black panties.
• Mark of the Beast: Akame gets markings all over her body once she uses her trump card. They remain after the end of the powerup and in the manga, they continue to have her in a constant state of excruciating pain.
• Master Swordswoman: She's an extremely talented swordswoman, probably the best in the series.
• Meaningful Name: "Akame" literally means "red eyes".
• The Mentor: Occasionally plays this role Tatsumi in earlier chapters/episode. She later takes on this role completely in the sequel series Hinowa ga Crush! for Hinata.
• Minidress of Power: Her Iconic Outfit is a black minidress with a red necktie, making it look similar to a Sailor Fuku.
• Ms. Fanservice: Her Iconic Outfit is a Mini Dress Of Power with a short skirt showing off her legs. Not only that, but she has been shown wearing nothing but a bikini or underwear on numerous occasions, and to top it off, she was also featured completely naked on a color page in Zero.
• Murderous Thighs: When Ibara of the Rakshasa Demons manages to take her sword, she breaks his neck with her legs to retrieve it.
• Never Hurt an Innocent: Her first encounter with Tatsumi has him in the wrong place at the wrong time and with the wrong idea of who is good and who is bad. She's very aware of this and avoids fighting him.
• No Place for Me There: In the anime, she disappears after the revolution succeeds, taking all her sins with her.
• No Social Skills: Akame isn't the best when it comes to social norms and common sense. Chelsea once tried to lift her skirt to see if Akame would try to stop her, which she fortunately did.
  Chelsea: I was just testing to see if she had any kind of shyness as a girl. I got worried there for a second.
  Akame: Course I do! I’ve been taught all forms of common sense!
• The Not-Love Interest: Normally, it would be expected for the titular heroine to be the male lead's love interest. This is not the case with Akame, who is just good friends with Tatsumi with very little to no romantic tension between them. Interestingly enough, she's the one female character in Night Raid, outside of Najenda who doesn't get any real Ship Tease with Tatsumi. Tatsumi ends up paired off with Mine instead.
• Not So Stoic: While usually emotionally contained, it has been shown on a number of occasions that Akame is more emotional than she lets on.
  • Akame breaks down in tears while berating Tatsumi when he assumes that she had already got over Sheele’s death.
  • This happens again in the anime after she killed her younger sister, Kurome, mainly because how much she and Kurome loved each other.
  • In a twist of fate in the manga, she cries and expresses relief when Wave gets Kurome to defect from the empire and lead a happy life outside of killing, meaning that she no longer has to kill her younger and beloved sister. Akame couldn't be happier.
• Number Two: Akame serves as the Field Leader of Night Raid, and whenever Najenda is away or otherwise indisposed, Akame is left in charge.
• One-Woman Army: Akame shows many times that she is capable of dealing with and killing groups of enemies without much difficulty and even beats Dorothea's enhanced soldiers alone without her Teigu.
• Out of Focus: For a titular character, Akame doesn't get much screentime or development throughout the series, at least early on. This is lampshaded by Akame herself in the last Theater of the anime.
• Parental Abandonment: She and Kurome were abandoned by their parents, who left them in the hands of The Empire who decided to enlist the sisters as part of their assassination program.
• Pay Evil unto Evil: As a member of Night Raid and a Professional Killer, Akame tends to kill a lot of villains and enemies, but the most notable example occurs after she fatally wounds Izou of Wild Hunt. When Izou makes his final request for Akame to take his katana and "keep it fed with blood", she responds by cutting his chest open while he's down, brutally refusing his final request. While this was a cruel thing to do, Izou is still a mass murderer who killed her comrade Lubbock, and his final request wasn't a particularly noble wish worth granting anyway.
• P.O.V. Boy, Poster Girl: She mainly serves as the mascot character of the series as well as its namesake. Tatsumi, the boy, is the character with the most prominent narrative and focus. Even then, Akame still remains very important to the plot and, in addition to providing some Character Development for Tatsumi, also goes through some of her own.
• Pragmatic Hero: Unlike most Teigu users, Akame simply decides that if she participates in battle, then she would end it as quickly as she can, and doesn't mess around when dealing with specific targets or a group of soldiers. The fact that her sword allows her to kill anybody who so much as receives a small cut only furthers this.
• Pre-Mortem One-Liner: "Eliminate!"
• Psycho Serum: In the manga, Akame has to use drugs with unknown side effects in order to stand a decent chance against Esdeath.
• Raven Hair, Ivory Skin: Her long, voluminous black hair contrasts with her light skin tone. Interestingly, she still looks cute with those looks, but then switches to terrifying when she's engaged in combat.
• Rebel Leader: She's second-in-command to Najenda, but Akame is usually the one on the front lines when fighting on the battlefield with Night Raid, alluding to the fact that as their most powerful member as well as the one with the most knowledge about The Empire, provided she used to serve them, she would be the most fitting to strike fear to the empire and be their most notorious target in the organization's ranks.
• Red and Black and Evil All Over: Downplayed and inverted. Akame wears a black dress with some red accessories, but she's a ruthless anti-hero rather than a villain. Zero reveals that she wore a white outfit when she was working for the Empire.
• Red Baron: Akame of the Demon Sword Murasame.
• Red Eyes, Take Warning: Her name and her assassination skills invoke this trope.
• Red Is Heroic: Red is her main highlighting color and she is the series's primary female Anti-Hero, though said color also places an emphasis on her fear factor.
• Red Is Violent: She's not called the "Red-Eyed Killer" for nothing, and this is how her enemies tend to identify her. Even before that, her Empire days saw her wearing Red and White whilst being one of the most effective assassins in their service.
• Sacrificed Basic Skill for Awesome Training: Akame's rigorous assassination training makes her one of the strongest combatants in the story in exchange for a lack of social skills and repressed emotions but her time in the Night Raid slowly fixes that.
• Single-Stroke Battle: Akame would often slash her enemies to dice by just unsheathing her sword reflexively. She engages in this whilst fighting against Horikama and later in the anime against Kurome, the latter which she ends up winning, though not without getting hit herself.
• Slashed Throat: If she's not decapitating enemies with Murasame, then Akame is just as likely to lacerate anyone's throat her blade makes contact with.
• Sole Survivor: By the end of the series, she's one of the few remaining survivors of Night Raid alongside Tatsumi, Mine, and Najenda. In the anime, she's the only survivor who fought on the front lines, given that Najenda was mainly mission control for the organization.
• The Stoic: She always carries a melancholy look around her teammates and when out in combat.
• Sugar-and-Ice Personality: She normally displays a cold and quiet demeanor, but that's mainly because she was conditioned in her childhood to control and contain her emotions during combat business. She's actually affable and friendly when one gets to know her and she cares about her friends.
• Super Mode: Her Trump Card. When she cuts herself with Murasame, the sword's curse empowers her body and covers her with markings similar to its targets. Apparently, the actual power-up wears off, but the markings stay on her body albeit faded.
• Super-Speed: She can move and slice faster than the eye can see. At some points dicing entire groups of enemies in a matter of seconds. In her Super Mode, she moves so fast that she leaves afterimages, even in frozen time.
• Supporting Protagonist: She's the titular character, although the story primarily focuses on Tatsumi and his dynamics with Night Raid. She does get noticeable focus near the end of the manga, however, focusing on settling the score with her sister and her ultimate duel with Esdeath. She's also the last character seen to close out the series in both the manga and anime.
• Tears of Joy: In the manga, she cries in relief after Kurome is rescued from her servitude to the Empire by Wave, meaning they don't have to kill each other anymore.
• Trademark Favorite Food: Her appetite for meat would give Luffy pause.
• Trigger Phrase: In the manga, it's revealed that the phrase "I will bury you" is a sort of charm Akame use to set her mindset in killer mode. That's why she says this every time she's about to kill.
• Tsurime Eyes: Her eyes are focused and sharp, befitting for a stoic and strong Action Girl.
• Tyke Bomb: She was raised by The Empire to effectively serve their vile and corrupted government as a vicious assassin who is willing to kill anyone who would dare to talk or rebel against them. Fortunately, somewhere down the line, she became disgruntled by The Empire's corruption and lack of care and opted to instead defect and fight against it.
• Underwear Swimsuit: When Akame and Tatsumi go hunt for fish, the former strips down to her underwear so she can swim and catch the fish personally.
• Unscrupulous Hero: She genuinely wants to contribute to changing The Empire for the better. However, her means of accomplishing the task are as violent and bloody as she could be, due to her upbringing as an assassin.
• Vapor Wear: Akame can be seen wearing standard underwear, a swimsuit, or nothing at all under her dress, Depending on the Artist. A bit of Clothing Damage during her fight against the Rakshasa Demon, Ibara, reveals she isn't wearing a bra under her usual uniform, at least during that fight.
• Villain Killer: Befitting the Anyone Can Die nature of the story, Akame racks up a hefty number of kills throughout her quest to free The Empire from its corrupted government, all the way from petty nobles and dishonest soldiers to their best generals and Teigu wielders and Esdeath herself.
• Villain Protagonist: Of Zero, as the story covers her time as an assassin for the Empire before her Heel–Face Turn.
• Waif-Fu: Akame is a very lithe girl but she demonstrates she can move faster than the eye can see and bifurcate men several times larger than her in the same motion.
• Walking the Earth: In the epilogue of both the anime and manga after Night Raid is disbanded.
• Wax On, Wax Off: Whilst taking Tatsumi under her wing, Akame's method is to teach Tatsumi on how to cook and fish, whilst maintaining a cold, authoritative stance on the newcomer. The purpose of these is to make sure Tatsumi stays sharp regarding his tracking skills and hunting down potential prey that he can quarter and take to cook for food.
• Weaksauce Weakness: Played for laughs, in the manga Akame really cannot take food deprivation. When it was Mine and Tatsumi's turn to go hunt for food, they spent a few hours talking about their relationship. Akame ended up passing out from hunger from just having a meal go late.
• Well-Intentioned Extremist: Like the rest of Night Raid, Akame main goal is to liberate The Empire from its wretched and corrupt government. Her solution to the cause is to kill as many enemies as she can and inspire terror in those who are too afraid to confront her.
• When She Smiles: A smile from her is a rare treat and is highlighted each time.
• White and Red and Eerie All Over: She donned a white outfit during her days in The Empire that contrasts drastically from her appearance in the present day. The Eerie part comes from the fact that she's one of the most dangerous and formidable assassins The Empire had to offer, and this was a corrupt, rotten government on top of it. Though Akame soon becomes disillusioned and leaves The Empire to oppose it, with her white costume being replaced by black.
• Worf Had the Flu: Her initial poor performance against Wave in Kyoroch is later handwaved as she was focusing more on reaching the cathedral than fighting Wave and hence was taken by surprise. It doesn't hurt that Grand Chariot is one of the worst match-ups she could face up against.
• World's Best Warrior: She's defeated Mera Oarburgh, Esdeath's assassin equivalent, in a one on one confrontation, and she even defeated and killed Esdeath on her own in the anime, though that has more to do with Esdeath's weaker status in the anime. In the manga equivalent, Akame needs a lot of backup just to put Esdeath in a killable position. With both women's deaths, the only thing that keeps her status as this from being public knowledge is the fact that Akame herself likes her privacy.

Teigu: Murasame

• Absurdly Sharp Blade: The Murasame's sharpness is especially potent, allowing it to cut through anything almost effortlessly, which is part of the reason why Akame is so feared.
• Bad Powers, Good People: Akame's a nice kid but her sword is a nasty piece of work. Not only is it cursed to always be coated with a magical poison, but in the anime, it can also tap into the life force of all the people it's killed to give its user a massive power-up.
• BFS: Murasame is a pretty long katana and is nearly just as tall as Akame, allowing it to have a wide reach, making the katana as intimidating as it is incredibly effective.
• Boring, but Practical: Being a One-Hit Kill weapon, Murasame is not made for spectacular or flashy battles as Incursio or Demon's Extract, but is very good in assassinations and ending unnecessary fights.
• Hungry Weapon: Played straight in the manga when it sucks up Tatsumi/Tyrant's blood to give Akame the massive power-up she needs to face Esdeath.
• Katanas Are Just Better: It's a katana and can kill anyone due to possessing a poison that quickly takes its toll on anyone that is affected by it and the lack of any known antidote that can treat it.
• Life-or-Limb Decision: One of the only ways to avoid being killed by Murasame's poison is to remove the cut body part before the poison can spread to the heart. Esdeath does this multiple times during their final fight in both the anime and manga by slicing off her arm and several fingers, which eventually forces Akame to strike her across the chest.
• Logical Weakness: Despite Murasame's abilities, it's only really effective when it cuts an opponent and they succumb to its extremely deadly poison. So when faced with opponents like Wave's Grand Chariot or Kurome's Yatsuhusa, it's nothing more than a regular katana. Also, it only affects living beings, so the Teigu is useless against biological Teigus like Susanoo or Hekatonkheires.
• Nemesis Weapon: Its general nature and efficiency contrast with that of Kurome's Teigu, Yatsufusa. While Murasame is embedded with a special poison that allows it to kill just about anyone the blade makes contact and graze with whereas Yatsufusa allows Kurome to effectively resurrect the deceased and enslave them into her bidding.
• One-Hit Kill: Its specialty, thanks to being a Poisoned Weapon. One tiny cut and the poison spreads to your heart and kills you instantly. It’s also said that there’s no antidote for the poison. The worst thing is that also affects its owner.
• Poisoned Weapon: Murasame is coated with a deadly poison that has no antidote. It only takes one nick to kill a man in seconds. She mentions that maintaining the sword is a real pain because she risks getting cut herself. However, the poison only affects living beings. If Akame faces robots or zombies, her sword is just a sword.
  • Though interestingly, its "poison" isn't actually a poison at all in the traditional sense. It apparently kills the mind or possibly the soul of the victim, and the body follows shortly after. Normally at least anyway, in the case of Tatsumi and Tyrant, the sword only killed the stronger psyche within the body which happened to be Tyrant. Thus, Tatsumi assumed full control of his now dragon body which was no worse for wear.
• Red Baron: One Cut Killer Murasame.
• Super Mode: When Murasame absorbs a sufficient quantity of kills, it can allow Akame to achieve a power-up that boosts her physical abilities even further, but it only lasts for so long.
• Wrecked Weapon: Esdeath ultimately shatters Murasame at the climax of the battle with Akame. Unfortunately for her, even the broken blade is still capable of its signature One-Hit Kill, which Akame manages to achieve.

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