don’t get too attached to them because about 90% of them die by the end of this series. there are a LOT of characters and… spoiler alert…. Overall the story was intriguing, but as aforementioned, there are some shortcomings with the show and it falls mainly on the characters…. They get pretty creative with each person’s Imperial Arms and it really turns this from what could be considered a dark anime into something a little more light-hearted, venturing into the shounen category. They range from a sword which poisons anything it cuts, to a cute and cuddly dog who will eat her master’s arm and replace it with anything from a cannon to a rocket launcher. Imperial Arms are special weapons that can only be used if the wielder is fully compatible with it. In addition to the story plots, each member of the opposing sides possess powerful artifacts called Imperial Arms. A lot of shows will just focus on the main plot and call it a day, but this one seems to do things a bit differently and that’s a good thing. It’s nice to see an anime focus on more than one story I feel a lot of animes have been lacking that kind of depth. While that is the overarching premise for this series, you also have a story between our main character, Tatsumi, and the general of the imperial army, Esdeath. They carry out the toughest missions and obliterating others. There is a rebel army of people against the government that take on some of the easier, lowly missions to try and overthrow those in power, but the Night Raid are the best of the best. Someone has to stop it and that someone is more or less a group of assassins called Night Raid. He is hutting down and raiding villages, imposing harsh laws upon the citizens, and using the might of his military to instil fear into the hearts of men, women, and children. A fat, disgusting, drunk-with-power advisor to the emperor is manipulating him into being ruthless and unfair to his people. Now, does that mean that I think Akame ga Kill is an AMAZING anime? Not by far as it did have some shortcomings, but it’s far from the atrocity that many source faithful are making it out to be. I’m probably in the minority here when I say that I actually enjoyed Akame ga Kill because I did something that I touched upon in my last Anime Pulse column… I never read the source material so I was forced to take this anime at face value. However, Akame ga Kill did NOT leave a bad taste in mine. Akame ga Kill has graced us with its presence over the past six months and what seemed to be a decent adaptation at best, completely spiraled out of control at the end because the studio went with an anime-only wrap up to the series, leaving a bad taste in everyone’s mouth.
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