Anime Brilliant hopes, crappy anime
Like many others, I started this anime by recommendation from a close guy, who actually was reading the manga at the same time. Very much like the good ol' Sword Art Online, I would be lying like a bastard if I say that Akame ga Kill was crap from beginning to end. In fact, its very first episode got me hooked up and made me feel that I was again in tune with the topicality in terms of the anime scene. That was in Autumn 2014, I think. We had an anime with pretty generic shonen elements, but elements which could give birth to a great series. Young, colorful, and even color-themed rebellious characters, an evil empire, absurdly evil antagonists, nonstop action, blood, etc. The series was not innovative, but it was fresh enough to probably not to need to innovate. It could have been great. And in fact, for some episodes, it was. Great battles, great characters, great promises.
Then it came the breaking point. The series started killing characters, kicking out the manga storyline and straying into weird directions, building plot obstacles and resolving them logically badly, negating moments of awesome, and, if I have not mentioned it, killing characters. It was worse than Game of Thrones; here it looked like the scripwriter had recently discovered he could kill characters and was having fun by doing it left and right. This man didn't care about, character development, impact and even longevity. And when this problem ganged up with the other problems, they together brought down the anime.
At the end, I was relieved when the series ended. Speaking about the way, I have seen enough anime series to not to induct the finale of Akame ga Kill to my top worst anime conclusions, but I felt tempted. I definitely had trouble with Esdeath being ridiculously invincible, but Akame suddenly being powerful enough to beat her fast was too much. Not to mention the absurd deaths of Tatsumi, Kurome, the emperor (and rather everybody, because in this series, every death was absurd, but I have already said that above) and the sense of plot incoherence the anime left behind.
I will probably not read the manga. I am done with those incredibly bad used characters, and time is money. I can only put in this review the disappointment this anime was for me, and alert the reader to stay away from weaaboos. Thank you all.
Anime A good concept pushed down to not-good by the characters and the length
I have watched many anime that have active hatedoms, and liked them.
Sword Art Online for one.
I watched this anime with an active hatdom, and didn't really like it.
I don't know exactly why: though I'd argue it was Tatsumi really. His entry into the plot felt more out of place than even Shiro of Fate fandom, and seemed to get more girls with less effort than most harem-esc series.
He just, slid in far too easily.
It has good animation, an interesting story, and the morality was interesting. But Tatsumi, and to a lesser extent the other characters, dragged it down.
Too many characters with too little time to develop them honestly.
A series with a lot of morality questions requires more episodes than Akame's count. Death Note had 30ish and Code Geass 52. The series lacking it's shonen anime's 100+ run, despite what many complain of in Naruto, One Piece, and others, would have benefited it greatly.
Could more episodes have fixed the characterization issues? Perhaps, and perhaps if that had happened I'd have enjoyed it more.