Akame ga KILL

[shinta|hikari]

Kurome's motivations were all over the place. All she wanted was to be with her sister, but she won't betray the kingdom because of her dead comrades... Huh? That makes absolutely no sense. It completely contradicted everything that was revealed about her siscon tendencies. A much better reason would be her drugs. If she can't get it if she defected, Akame's betrayal also means betraying her, since there is no way they could be together.

I'm fine with anime original endings, but why are they always so horrible? Don't people QC the script before having it animated? I can easily come up with a better ending for this story. How inept are the scriptwriters for these things?

I wanted to laugh at the comment about Esdeath being surrounded. Nothing so far has indicated she would give a fuck, much less be in danger lol. This entire revolution seems like a joke in the face of that monster.

[David75]

It's only the second time, but do you think having that boomerang blade arms entitles you to be cut vertically from head to toe?

[Kraco]

Kurome's motivations were all over the place. All she wanted was to be with her sister, but she won't betray the kingdom because of her dead comrades... Huh? That makes absolutely no sense.

That's not true. She wanted to be with her sister, but she also remained loyal to the Empire till the end. Akame invited her to leave the Empire, but she refused. The leaders of the assassins were no fools. They had separated Akame and Kurome for a number of years for that express purpose. Unlike Akame, Kurome had cracked during those years. Like a yandere, she wanted to kill Akame if she couldn't be with her.

[shinta|hikari]

That's what I was complaining about. Kurome, the siscon whose sole motivation was to kill (read: possess) her sister (she said so herself), would have simply left the empire. The reason for her staying loyal is her "dead comrades," as if the opinions of dead people matter more than the sister she has been longing for since forever. It's retarded.

[Kraco]

Uh... No. If her sole purpose in life was to be with Akame, she would have left the Empire and joined Akame in Night Raid. Since she didn't leave, Akame wasn't her everything. I have no doubt she would have left if the leaders hadn't had the wits to separate them for years. But they did, and Kurome became a part of the Empire, whereas Akame was stronger. Kurome loved her own image of Akame, the one who formed an unbeatable team of Imperial assassins with her. The real Akame didn't cut it anymore, so she wanted to kill it. These are humans were are talking about here, one of which was crazy to boot. You gotta lessen your logic subroutines a bit.

[shinta|hikari]

You do remember that Kurome wanted to kill Akame because she can turn her into a doll, right? She has this twisted view that even as corpses, they are still with her.

To make it clearer, what I am saying is that Kurome being loyal to the empire makes no sense. I am not questioning that she is (or rather, they forced her to be with a BS reason). I'm saying that she shouldn't be, given everything we know about her.

[DarthEnderX]

Episode called "Kill the Little Sister", has a giant Big Daddy in it.



Anyway, I predicted both Wave and Tatsumi showing up, but I thought it was going to lead directly to a Wave/Tatsumi showdown. Instead, that whole fight just ended up getting disarmed and everyone just went home...

These last couple episodes aren't going to be as interesting as I though. With Wave faltering, and Free not actually being an enemy, instead of being relatively evenly matched, the badguys only have Esdeath and a giant Mecha left vs. the remaining Night Raid, and probably the Jaegers too.

[shinta|hikari]

The mecha is ridiculous. Hopefully it is not a ploy to get Esdeath on Night Raid's side after she sees something more powerful than her and decides to challenge it...

[Kraco]

Episode 23 - HS





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I have to say this show didn't manage to keep it up till the end. This episode especially was really unsatisfactory. It felt like it belonged to some other series. Also, why didn't anybody go and kill the minister while he was all alone, unguarded and screaming advice to the Emperor? The Emperor couldn't have protected him since the giant laser mecha wasn't capable of anything but destruction.

[NeoCybercoin]

Goddamnit, the transformation scene may have looked alright but it was NOTHING compared to the manga. Really? Shining golden glow? Wings? Fuck that. Man did this show fuck up near the end. It really went downhill after Bols.

[shinta|hikari]

Uh, Tatsumi died.

[David75]

Since the show's title is all Akame and lots of characters died here and there in boths the Jaegers and Night Raid, I expected Tatsumi could die too, regardless of his exposure.
I concur to the idea that this episode was unsatisfactory, not because Tatsumi died which could have been a nice twist if properly done, but because it felt rushed and useless.

[Kraco]

I actually have a problem with Tatsumi dying because I wanted a Tatsumi+Akame couple. But if he had died in a nice manner (like dying saving Akame), it could have been acceptable. However, now he died saving idiotic citizens who couldn't do even so much for themselves that they would have run 30 meters to the side to avoid the slowly falling giant. Best of all: The pieces of shit Emperor and minister still live. In fact Esdeath still lives as well and is right where Akeme is. Logically the next thing to happen in the show would be Esdeath killing Akame. Then we would have the minister arranging a victory party, the stupider than a rubber boot Emperor back on his throne (once it was rebuilt), the rebellion crushed, and the corruption renewed. Such a wholesome and uplifting story!

[KrayZ33]

eh....hmm
It's not like I didn't expect things to be rushed, but this clearly topped my imagination.

I'm just going to tell myself that Tatsumi didn't die and will be crowned as the new Emperor because he saved all these people. Thus they want him to be the new protector of the realm and Esdeath + Akame fight to decide who will sit next to him

Well, everything that happened was very convenient and that fight against this Angel Guy was ... uh-hmm, it "happened" and that's it. Kinda out of place, very unnecessary and felt like he was screaming "Hey, I'm here too, don't forget me!"

[shinta|hikari]

I think Leone will come to Tatsumi's rescue and regenerate him at the expense of her Imperial Arm.

[Kraco]

I think Leone will come to Tatsumi's rescue and regenerate him at the expense of her Imperial Arm.

That's what I also expect. As much as killing a character and then resurrecting them annoys me. Though all things considered nothing would anymore really annoy me about this show as I gave up already.

[shinta|hikari]

Hey, this show deserves at least a resurrection. So many have died already, and it would actually sort of make sense since Leone hasn't used her secret ability yet.

Akame is whipping hers out next episode, and maybe she can manage to survive against Esdeath.

My most favorite episode in this show is the one where Akame was in a bathing suit.

[NeoCybercoin]

Didn't Kurome resurrect people all the time? :P
Anyway, if Tatsumi does make it back somehow it would be because Incursio would have adapted to death or something.

[Buffalobiian]

I Leone could resurrect people she'd have done so already right? It's not like Tatsumi was the first important person to have died. I don't think she can heal other people. That's like saying Tatsumi's armour can make other people invisible. It's a power granted to the individual, not everyone else involved.

[shinta|hikari]

Leone was never around a fresh corpse. Esdeath's ice ability can freeze time, so regenerating someone else is far less a stretch, especially if it comes at the cost of the imperial arm itself.

Rather than resurrecting, it's probably closer to resuscitating.