“The reason does not matter. As long as tiny bit of hope exists, that is all that matter.”—Tatsumi.

Akame ga Kill! is a Japanese shounen manga series written by Takahiro and illustrated by Tetsuya Tashiro. It started serialization in Square Enix's Gangan Joker in March 2010. An anime television series adaptation of the main series premiered in Japan in July 2014. The story of the anime focuses on Tatsumi, a young villager that travels to the Capital, to become a soldier and to earn enough money to save his village. When Tatsumi reaches his destination point, he finds out that the country he wants to serve is rotten; however, one man cannot do anything against the whole country. Thankfully, Tatsumi encounters a group of assassin known as Night Raid. That group tries to assassinate all rotten politicians that do nothing but torture people, and to rebuild their country as a place, where all people have the right to live. Will the assassin group called Night Raid, together with Tatsumi, be able to change their rotten country? Find out the answer now.

While the story line sounds intriguing, it has too many flaws to be good. To be more precise, it has three main flaws: it is rushed, it relies too much on death, and it is unclear whether the main focus of this series is comedy, drama, or action. Not only the anime suffers these three flaws, but also it does not explain enough: Akame ga Kill! does show characters’ backstories, but, at the same time, they are so short and sometimes do not make sense at all. The only explanation that I have is that the creators of Akame ga Kill! did not have enough resources, and so they decided to omit some scenes and to make the story of this series more rushed. All In all, this is one of the weakest parts on this series.

The animation and sound are, perhaps, the reasons why this anime is actually watchable. But again, the animation is average and I would never call it unique. Yes, character designs are not bad and, yes, action scenes are fine, but it is still not enough to say that the animation is good. Some scenes are extremely beautiful, but some are just ugly. Anyway, luck of budget is obvious even here. The sound is more or less good: not only the ED and OP themes are good, but also the OST is very enjoyable. Also, good voice actors compensate for pale characters.

The characters are, not that bad and I would highly recommend you to only think about characters and about characters only, forget about the story. Anyway, let us discuss the characters. I will start with Akame (anime is called Akame ga Kill!, by the way). Akame is one of the main characters of this series, but despite having her name in the anime’s title, the anime does not pay enough attention to her persona; it does show us that she is always hungry, quite, and calm, her backstory is okay and it also makes sense, but it will be shown a bit too late. What I am trying to say is that when we first see Akame, the anime heavily implies that she will be the main protagonist of this series, this anime is called Akame ga Kill!, after all, but, for some reason, Tatsumi receives more screen time than Akame. The next character I would like to discuss is Chelsea. Chelsea is also a member of Night Raid, she is extremely beautiful, and her cheerful personality helps to make this anime less dramatic. However, the main problem with her character is that she does not do anything for the story, she is absolutely useless. She is a member of the Night Raid and this organization is the main focus of this anime, so, um, why not pay more attention to Chelsea’s character? The next character is Esdeath, the only Akame Ga Kill’s best girl. Not only she is interesting, but also she might be the only character you will have faith in. Yes, she might be called a plain villain, but her actions and her character overall, MAKE SENSE. AND finally the last character I would like to discuss is Seryuu. While she is annoying sometimes, she is one of the characters that I like and you will probably like, as well. She does what she finds important to do and to achieve her goals, she is ready literally for everything.

Anyway, I would not say that the cast of this series is extremely bad; it is average, but not bad: some characters do not receive enough development, some characters are absolutely useless, and so on. Again, the characters and the story are not the problem of this anime, the only problem of this anime is that it did not have enough resources.

All in all, if you still have not seen Akame ga Kill yet, I would highly recommend you to either read the manga, or watch the anime. Of course, reading the manga will the best case scenario, it is just MUCH-MUCH better, but still, the anime is not that bad. Yes, it is far from being good, but just do not expect something good: be ready for an average drama with some action elements.