Jul 8, 2014
Weak... if I had to describe this series in one word, it would be "weak", either that or straight up disappointing.
If I have anything positive to say about Akame ga Kiru!, then I'll say that at the end. The story is one simply but huge cliche that's been going on for centuries over centuries in all kind of fiction... we've seen this everywhere, manga, anime, TV, movies, books... there is no area of fiction where we haven't seen a story IDENTICAL TO THE ONE IN THIS MANGA. About characters? Let's start with the main character, a guy who cries about the death of his beast
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friends (quite logical right?) and then 10 seconds later is having a comedic moment where he gets kidnapped by a group of murderers who he decides to join "out of the blue". I will not discuss how week the members of that team are, and I'll jump straight to the main villain, a female who apparently lacks any kind of common sense, it is so ridiculous how unrealistic the attitude of every person in this universe acts, that for me to explain why she is THE WORST villain I've seen in ages, would man to re-type what I've read. She falls in love for no reason with the main character (unless a list she wrote perfectly describing him before meeting him is a good reason) and attempts to make him his pet/lover by force. and who might this guy be? Surprise surprise... the main character who has every single character with a vagina in love with him. Despite her ordering the death of his comrades, it does not stop him from having funny moments with here every time they meet. Does honor, loyalty, friendship and love means so little to this mangaka? They introduce characters and kill the SO FAST that I don't even get to develop feelings strong enough to make me feel sad (or happy for that matter). So unoriginal, so cliche, so boring, so simple and so weak. NO ONE has any reasons for doing the evil things they do in this manga, a bunch of aimless antagonist, with the main villain doing it cause he likes to eat meat, the king (emperor or whatever) does it cause the previous guy tells him too. There is a general who left his people, family, and beliefs, because the moment a woman offered help, he "adored her" and just for that turn against everything he believes and commits suicide for someone he does not know.
P.S that same guy has an attack called "Evil-Dragon-Spear"... how original is that? He is straight up admitting to be evil, and there was no dragon on that spear. Also, characters explain their strategies to their enemy, apparently so they can counter it and drag the fight for many long and pointless chapters. Seeing thins like when a character has the opportunity to get rid of the foe with a surprise attack, he suddenly screams something obvious like "I AM GOING TO KILL YOU NOW", giving the enemy the opportunity to react in time and kill him... senseless, just... senseless.
To keep listing the negative things in this series would take me a couple months so I'll just say the one good thing I see in it: the main weapons for combat; "Teigu". As unoriginal as the it is, there is this one type called "biological teigu" which consist of an animated weapon with multiple functions, yes, we have seen similar stuff before, but the concept of a human-looking weapon to b nothing more than that, a weapon, makes for an interesting variety of outcomes (of which of course the mangaka always chooses the most obvious), that even tho never taken advantage of, keeps the illusion going and makes me think "it still has potential, maybe in the future we'll see it turn around like other have... but I doubt it"
Reviewer’s Rating: 3
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