Akame ga Kill! Episode 6 Discussion

LeFlower-kun said:

You expect Mine to carry two teigu with a broken arm?

Anon1409 said:
In what episode will

Tokoya said:
It's like that in the beginning, but as of last week's episode, this is not the case at all

ChirthorpeTwo said:


She can lug one around using a broken arm without much issue, I don't see why two would be hard. They don't appear to be very heavy at all.

Alternatively, Mine could have been killed instead. She was a more annoying character, harder to sympathise with, AND Sheele could have attempted to save her by killing guardgirl, thereby remotely shutting down her weapon "just too late".

Anon1409 said:
In what episode will

HunterTennouji said:
I totally did not see this coming. I only watched Akame ga Kill because the action is mindlessly fun and exciting. Didn't expect it to actually build up a plot, character development through suffering, morally grey characters and "Anyone can die". My, it's almost as if Urobutcher wrote this.

T3hSource said:
So Seryu is not an insane evil sociopathic killer? Oh and Esdeath, we've seen her humiliate and kill a guy, totally not evil and just as psychopathic.

This will be like Mami's death in Madoka, as in: oh look, the main cast can die!

Nidhoeggr said:
Well.. both Esdese and Seryu are rather simple characters that received just marginal development in the manga so far. It's actually pretty shockign to me to see people hype stereotypes up this much.

Nidhoeggr said:


Please, as if just labelling someone as evil makes them evil in the first place.
Most members of Night Raid and Tatsumi are just the typical tropes you can find in a lot of other action Shounene series. The onee-san, the kuudere with her sword (Yamato Nadeshiko, how I loathe thee), the tsundere, the bro character, etc.
Uh..what is this? They kill people? Well, so do many other Shounen series. Even One Piee does that..actually, I'd argue that the main cast in OP is just as "evil" as the main cast in AgK is. They do some morally questionable things, but utilizing selfjustice on some cartoonishly evil villians is someting different than releasing hudnreds of the worst criminals upon the world and actually overthrowing legitimated governments and their agencies left and right. Which is kinda ironic because despite its goofier art, OP villians are usually more believable than all the "bad characters" we were shown so far in AgK (that includes the entire manga as well).
Thankfully Oda knows how ridiculous these tropes can get and actually manages to write max between goofy and serious that works and makes the characters feel more vivid whereas in Akame...you are left with a really formulatic concept that doe not get expanded well.
It also doesn't help that when it tries to be funny it feels awfully tagged on because of the extreme overdone serious effect it tried to achieve earlier.

Also, do not even try to start anything about plot armor and "characters actually die here". They did so in countless other Shounen. Currently HxH and Jojo air where main characters are dieing on a constant basis without it feeling forced and hilariously badly written. Akame and many other characters here have very visible plot armor and denying that is bs.

Tokoya said:

I'm Not going to bother reading or responding to you anymore for obvious reasons so you can just stop right there and save it

Mikatarukito said:



Since you've read the manga

Nidhoeggr said:
Well.. both Esdese and Seryu are rather simple characters that received just marginal development in the manga so far. It's actually pretty shockign to me to see people hype stereotypes up this much.

@Tokoya:
Next time provide arguments instead of ad hominem. I heard those have more credibility.

Tokoya said:
Ad Hominem? We're making up accusations now, are we? Cool

bastek66 said:
Yay, CR less censored

saanguen said:

Omg, man, whyyy did she die? Hur.

-Resident- said:


You simply don't get the point, like most people.
Schere's death was not meant to be something for us to feel that much. That's why her character wasn't developed as much, as you'd like.

I'm glad you brought up Tatsuya, instead of Tatsumi, that is going to prove my point even further. The whole point of her death was simply to show us that our main cast is not invulnerable, like Godsuya and other OP main characters. I hope you heard what Najenda said in the end. - "It takes a Teigu to beat a Teigu."
That's what Takahiro was trying to say. As long as any future opponents use a Teigu, our main cast is not guaranteed to make it out. That just adds extra excitement to future fights, which I did experience. It's not my fault that your, and many other people's interpertations are flawed.

Keetriver said:
People can just simply like a character for their personality and behavior, wanting them to appear more and deeper exploration of their character. When that gets taken away, I say it qualifies as depressing.

-Resident- said:


You simply don't get the point, like most people.
Schere's death was not meant to be something for us to feel that much. That's why her character wasn't developed as much, as you'd like.

I'm glad you brought up Tatsuya, instead of Tatsumi, that is going to prove my point even further. The whole point of her death was simply to show us that our main cast is not invulnerable, like Godsuya and other OP main characters. I hope you heard what Najenda said in the end. - "It takes a Teigu to beat a Teigu."
That's what Takahiro was trying to say. As long as any future opponents use a Teigu, our main cast is not guaranteed to make it out. That just adds extra excitement to future fights, which I did experience. It's not my fault that your, and many other people's interpertations are flawed.

Nidhoeggr said:


Look at your last post... You are disproving yourself right now.
Tell me, how is AgK main cast morally grey or "evil"? I eagerly await a response.

Nidhoeggr said:
Because I started it and I almost never drop manga. As for the anime... comparing source to adaption.



So you have no argument and choose to bailout because you cannot argue further? Fine then.

Kaoknight said:
I just find it weird that people are expecting a battle shounen to be super deep when people are spilling gallons of blood when a limb is cut off and characters are making their straight man jokes.s

T3hSource said:

I'm not sure I got your point. So people want something to have depth, and when it's taken away that's depressing, right? What if there is no depth to begin with, and that's only wishful thinking that there will be when suddenly that opportunity is taken away, that's disappointing, not depressing from my view.

Keetriver said:
Every single character written in every fiction ever conceived have the POTENTIAL for depth. That POTENTIAL may be classified as wishful thinking, but that wish is immediately crushed if the character is removed from the story.

Tokoya said:
Please stop trying to start shit....It'n not going to work

And secondly, nice try to get me to spoil, but no. I shouldn't need to explain the obvious to you since you supposedly read the manga yourself.....

For the last time, I am DONE with you, so please take your attempts to bait and troll elsewhere because quite frankly, I don't give a shit anymore

Forgetfulness said:
Except it still is. Last week Seryu was introduced as someone who might be working for "good", but this episode clearly shows she's just insane and fucked up, like every other villain we've had so far

T3hSource said:
Well when it's serious and dramatic about people spilling gallons of blood and isn't showing the characters having fun or being campy, of course there's something wrong with it.

Black Lagoon's fights were over the top, but half the time they were done with banter, grins, rule of cool badassness and the like, yet it's so much more realistic and dramatic when it needs to be.

Nidhoeggr said:
The characters are all very varied and grey and surely not all either insane and over the top evil or generic tropes.
This is not trolling, this is trying to start a discussion ffs. But apparently not praising something counts as trolling now.

Jenkof1993 said:


If nobody wants to discuss with you then couldn´t you just stop and leave.No reason for you to be here then.

LeFlower-kun said:


He never said he has no argument to offer. He never said he's bailing out. It's just that you are trying too hard to make yourself sound right, in fact, replying to you is a bother and is a waste of time if you never can be convinced otherwise. That's why.

Forgetfulness said:
Except it still is. Last week Seryu was introduced as someone who might be working for "good", but this episode clearly shows she's just insane and fucked up, like every other villain we've had so far

as for the episode, it was alright. Some parts were good (especially Sheele's dying moments), some were mediocre shounenshit (like always)

Greenward said:


If he had arguments to offer he would use them and he literally hasn't. He literally said he's bailing out.

Greenward said:


If he had arguments to offer he would use them and he literally hasn't. He literally said he's bailing out.

T3hSource said:
So... bitter disappointment.

"She could've been so much more.
*leaves off to write yurifiction*"

T3hSource said:

So a character death is not supposed to be a tragic a event, but rather a proof of a fictional concept? That doesn't really make for a compelling narrative which is inherently told through characters, whom the viewer is supposed to attach to in the first place to immerse themselves in the story.

T3hSource said:
And I mixed up the names, damn similar one kana differences.

Keetriver said:
People can just simply like a character for their personality and behavior, wanting them to appear more and deeper exploration of their character. When that gets taken away, I say it qualifies as depressing.

T3hSource said:
Who's Scheele and why the heck should I care about her dramatic death when she could've easily killed Seiryu instead of cutting her arms again wasn't she supposed to be only good at killing without remorse?

Forgetfulness said:
If anything, manga readers and AgK defenders in this thread seem to be the ones lacking on arguments.
Shall I show you an example?

Forgetfulness said:
If anything, manga readers and AgK defenders in this thread seem to be the ones lacking on arguments.
Shall I show you an example?

Ahhel said:
Wasn't Sheele teigu supposed to cut through fucking everything? How did Seryu block it with her guns?

retepeters said:
lol i din't expect this
ffs a gun in her mouth? idk if that is impossible, but i'm sure it's pretty stupid