Ah well, perhaps I'll be doing reviews on some of my most recently watched shows. I finished Akame ga Kill in about five days--just finished it today, in fact. So, like Noaragami, I'll be doing an overview. This is quite an older show (If one-plus years is old) so I won't really hold back on spoiling. And perhaps, this shall be a rant: maybe no structure whatsoever but to vent my thoughts.
Akame ga Kill started off quite nicely. Tatsumi is quite a nice character. However, we didn't get a good explanation of how he became better than the others. About the story. It was fine at the start, but goes on quite wildly to kill random, seemingly important characters who could perhaps be fleshed out better.
About the characters. Major spoilers ahead.
Akame, perhaps the only one who Tatsumi won't defeat anytime soon. However, I didn't get why Akame betrayed her old assassin squad. The Capital should've completely mindwashed all of their subjects, have they not? Her sister, Kurome, should've been better as the Capital assassin. Perhaps that was why she wanted to kill Akame so badly.
Yeah, Akame looks cute and has great swordsmanship, I need to give that to the producers. However, for a show who has her name in its title, her character seems not completely fleshed out by the end of the show. Tatsumi got all the story. Well, that makes Akame ga Kill memorable: the main character who's a deuteragonist (that is, the second most important person in the story).
When I first watched the show, never expected it to become like Game of Thrones, with the gore and the major character deaths. Unpredictable, I quite like that. Shame, that unpredicableness wears off when you know that everyone shall die but Akame. Every single Night Raid member. Cool members, with at the very least enough story to make each death an emotional one, at the very least.
To recap: Sheele's death became the first stunning death, but that became quite the driving force for Mine. Bulat's was the only way of giving Incursio to Tatsumi (But must he use Incursio?).
Then they are replaced by Chelsea, who died usefully, weakening Kurome, and Susanoo, who fought bravely. Then, about Mine: that was just sad, not able to die beside her loved one. But why do we need to have this funny love triangle going on, again? Finally, Leone's death was quite sad, but not after epicly crushing the Minister's head.
But a lousy way to die for Tatsumi. He didn't even had the most memorable of final moments, passing away after With a woman that loves him but doesn't love back: General Esdeath. I've no idea about love. An alien concept, at least for now. I have no idea where that love started for Esdeath. Fascinating conflict, though.
Oh yeah, Boss survived.
Now. The Jaegers could have been used much better to be the villains we also hate to die. And they succeeded, to a point. I just feel that they could be used better, at least waver upon realizing what the Empire has done.
Waver... reminds me of Wave. Did he die?
So, overall, decent characters. Just...decent. Most, if not all, of them, are perhaps too shallow, too one-sided. There should be more interesting conflict if they are better sculpted. Well, they're already experts in writing, aren't they? I shouldn't blame them too much.
More about the story, then. It ended quite abruptly. Why did they opt for the huge-mecha-villain end? Perhaps, out of ideas. I don't know, the story could have been better, tying up the loose ends more neatly. At the end, this is another story of 'tyranny will fall'.
The scenes, then. The fights were quite nicely animated, unlike the more recent Owari no Seraph (I also watched that, however I've nothing much to say about that yet). Quite tense, perhaps dumb moves here and there. Still doesn't rival Fate/stay night UBW. Oh, and interesting that they showed much gore. One more good thing is, the jokes and funny expressions didn't ruin the important scenes. Had quite a good laugh.
Music, didn't really made me pay much attention. The first opening was quite nice, though. The only distracting thing is the stupid blaster sound, much like in Star Wars Battlefront, used whenever someone punches, or stabs, or whenever. Just... distracting.
So, to close up: Akame ga Kill has one-sided characters who die off in the author's attempt to replicate Game of Thrones (perhaps). Quite nice scenes, overall. Story ends abruptly, only to convey that tyrants will fall. Perhaps a good show if you want some gore or don't have anything left to watch. Story's quite amusing when you're already watching it, though. My friends' comments were right, after all--this post should sum them up. The manga might be better.
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Akame ga Kill! is originally a manga by Takahiro and Tetsuya Tashiro, adapted into anime by White Fox Studio and produced by Square Enix.
Edit 14/1/16: Added image.
Akame ga Kill started off quite nicely. Tatsumi is quite a nice character. However, we didn't get a good explanation of how he became better than the others. About the story. It was fine at the start, but goes on quite wildly to kill random, seemingly important characters who could perhaps be fleshed out better.
About the characters. Major spoilers ahead.
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| The first assassin group. Taken from the first opening. |
Yeah, Akame looks cute and has great swordsmanship, I need to give that to the producers. However, for a show who has her name in its title, her character seems not completely fleshed out by the end of the show. Tatsumi got all the story. Well, that makes Akame ga Kill memorable: the main character who's a deuteragonist (that is, the second most important person in the story).
When I first watched the show, never expected it to become like Game of Thrones, with the gore and the major character deaths. Unpredictable, I quite like that. Shame, that unpredicableness wears off when you know that everyone shall die but Akame. Every single Night Raid member. Cool members, with at the very least enough story to make each death an emotional one, at the very least.
To recap: Sheele's death became the first stunning death, but that became quite the driving force for Mine. Bulat's was the only way of giving Incursio to Tatsumi (But must he use Incursio?).
Then they are replaced by Chelsea, who died usefully, weakening Kurome, and Susanoo, who fought bravely. Then, about Mine: that was just sad, not able to die beside her loved one. But why do we need to have this funny love triangle going on, again? Finally, Leone's death was quite sad, but not after epicly crushing the Minister's head.
But a lousy way to die for Tatsumi. He didn't even had the most memorable of final moments, passing away after With a woman that loves him but doesn't love back: General Esdeath. I've no idea about love. An alien concept, at least for now. I have no idea where that love started for Esdeath. Fascinating conflict, though.
Oh yeah, Boss survived.
Now. The Jaegers could have been used much better to be the villains we also hate to die. And they succeeded, to a point. I just feel that they could be used better, at least waver upon realizing what the Empire has done.
Waver... reminds me of Wave. Did he die?
So, overall, decent characters. Just...decent. Most, if not all, of them, are perhaps too shallow, too one-sided. There should be more interesting conflict if they are better sculpted. Well, they're already experts in writing, aren't they? I shouldn't blame them too much.
More about the story, then. It ended quite abruptly. Why did they opt for the huge-mecha-villain end? Perhaps, out of ideas. I don't know, the story could have been better, tying up the loose ends more neatly. At the end, this is another story of 'tyranny will fall'.
The scenes, then. The fights were quite nicely animated, unlike the more recent Owari no Seraph (I also watched that, however I've nothing much to say about that yet). Quite tense, perhaps dumb moves here and there. Still doesn't rival Fate/stay night UBW. Oh, and interesting that they showed much gore. One more good thing is, the jokes and funny expressions didn't ruin the important scenes. Had quite a good laugh.
Music, didn't really made me pay much attention. The first opening was quite nice, though. The only distracting thing is the stupid blaster sound, much like in Star Wars Battlefront, used whenever someone punches, or stabs, or whenever. Just... distracting.
So, to close up: Akame ga Kill has one-sided characters who die off in the author's attempt to replicate Game of Thrones (perhaps). Quite nice scenes, overall. Story ends abruptly, only to convey that tyrants will fall. Perhaps a good show if you want some gore or don't have anything left to watch. Story's quite amusing when you're already watching it, though. My friends' comments were right, after all--this post should sum them up. The manga might be better.
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Akame ga Kill! is originally a manga by Takahiro and Tetsuya Tashiro, adapted into anime by White Fox Studio and produced by Square Enix.
Edit 14/1/16: Added image.
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