The Passing Sensation That Was Akame Ga Kill

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Akame ga Kill has got to be the only shonen anime with the audacity to have its protagonist wear a sweater vest for the entire duration as if it is fitting attire for a monster-slaying adventurer. Joking aside, while this might not have been the biggest or best anime of 2014, it was certainly the edgiest, and it attracted a lot of attention.

Based on the manga of the same name by Takahiro, the series does not in fact follow Akame, the titular character, and instead follows naive Tatsumi, an adventurer looking to earn his riches. When he discovers that the Empire is dementedly, absurdly, laughably evil, he throws in with a group of assassins calling themselves Night Raid, to overthrow the corrupt government.

Akame Ga Kill: Major Differences Between The Manga & Anime

It would be hard to imagine fans of this anime from the time of its release listing Tatsumi as one of their favorite characters, especially since the conceit of their character feels like false advertising. After all, this show is called Akame ga Kill, and Akame hardly feels like even a deuteragonist for the duration of the first half of the series. More like a really cool supporting character.

And this is a shame, because she is a very cool character, if only for the most surface-level, blood-pumping reasons, namely her style and her poisonous katana. She isn't treated as the protagonist, just the most deadly assassin and a goalpost for a certain level of badassery that Tatsumi is expected to achieve.

Truly, the series is about one young man's journey to shed his naïveté about the world and harden his heart to a life of killing in the name of protecting the weak. There isn't really a lot of discourse about whether what they are doing is right or wrong or conflicts