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Oct 6, 2022
Mixed Feelings
I watched the anime, it was an easy watch, but was intrigued to know the anime had an original ending and even more to know the manga had already ended sometime after. So I dived into the manga... to find out it it barely manages to be above average.

Anyway, this is my review for the whole manga:

.::Story::.
The goal from the protagonist from the very start is pretty clear, and it stays sharp focused on it till the end: destroy the evil empire. At first its very entertaining, but as it goes on, it feels pretty stale as there aren't much surprises in this department. The world building is also pretty choppy. As for the battle systems, the gimmick for this manga series are Teigus, which have all kind of powers that grant the user whatever BS the chapter needs, and overall are pretty formulaic with little thought: new enemy appears with a new Teigu, they battle, then they show some random power up or hidden ability we never heard of, it things gets interesting the second player might show some random power up/hidden ability and someone is dead.
And thats something else, characters do die in the manga, all the time, and also new characters are added from time to time to keep things fresh, which can be good or bad or both.

.::Characters::.
Most characters are darn right flat, why? evil guys are evil just for the sake of being evil, good guys will be good guys because cliches reasons. Most of them end the same way they start or are given subtle developments: mostly Tatsumi... which isn't the titular hero, and also Wave, who is his rival late in the series, Akame which is actually the titular hero doesn't really stand out aside from her design.
The most flawed character might be the biggest boss: Esdeath, she is powerful for the sake of being powerful, it grows so flawed, than her powers just become a plot device on itself, but not only that, she is also insanely fast, strong and witted and all that because... reasons. She had some glimpses of character development, but were quickly discarded.

.::Artwork::.
This might be the strongest suit coming from this manga. Battles are really well drawn, and you can follow the action pretty easily. Almost every character is pretty unique in design and is easy to have a favorite or favorites in that regard. The gore is well presented with out going all the way to a seinen level.

.::Overall entertainment::.
Despite all this, the manga can be a good time, it's fast paced has good artwork, dialogues are simple enough to read fast but not simple enough to be dumb. There are some ships here and there and they actually go through with it. It might overstate its welcome with 15 volumes, but any more than that and it would have reeked of it's stale formula in storytelling.
Reviewer’s Rating: 6
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