What i also found funny is that they realized that the justice girl wasn't an inherently evil person like every other villain, so the writers decided to make her completely deranged to compensate

I think the problem with Ga Kill is that is a shonen trying to hard to be a seinen. It trued to have these dark themes, featuring characters who look like they jumped out of several different shonen titles.

@cappedminer369

Жыл бұрын

What’s seinen ?

@lukaszspychaj9210

Жыл бұрын

@@cappedminer369 very generally, shonen is aimed at teenagers and seinen is aimed at an 'adult' (18+) audience

@TermInator-np6vw

Жыл бұрын

This way of thinking is stupid. Shonen can have dark themes (devilman , attack on titan , hokuto no ken) and seinen can have light themes (grand blue). The two targets only serve to indicate at what age it is more congenial that they are addressed but do not imply the treatment of the issues.

@TermInator-np6vw

Жыл бұрын

@sonic 1995 And your answer made it clearer for me.

@TermInator-np6vw

Жыл бұрын

@sonic 1995 You answered me that way, without explaining what I didn't understand. As if I were to say to someone "you made a mistake" and they asked me "what did I do wrong?". I teased you with my answer. That's all.

I've always agreed with this take of yours. Akame ga Kill just kind of sucks on a fundamental level. Even after finishing the manga, outside of changing the fate of the main character and some of the Jaegers (Kurome isn't entirely defined by her relationship with Akame for instance), the anime just kind of expedites things to reach a similar conclusion, which was done at the suggestion of the author anyway (or he could have just signed off on it, I'm not sure so don't quote me on that). The anime does miss out on the fetishistic levels of macabre edginess too (i.e chapter 23.5, and the part with the pedo clown raping and killing Bols' family on his grave) so it not even "appealing" on that level. The artwork is also less detailed in it's grotesqueness in the anime so that might have contributed to why you don't agree with it's reputation as an edgy series. But the fact that all the villains are either remorseless cackling serial killers that wear r***-faces all the time (probably because a non-insignificant amount of them are r**ists) without a shred of nuance still earn the label in my opinion.

@etheri0n959

Жыл бұрын

Fair. The villains are cartoonishly evil and the show's outlook on justice and punishing evil in the world seems really juvenile.

@gravethestampede3454

Жыл бұрын

@@etheri0n959 I always thought it was pretty half-hearted whenever it's insisted upon that Night Raid aren't heroes when the series never gives room to question their methods or motives since all their assassination targets are painted so unflatteringly as total monsters and nutcases with few exceptions from Esdeaths team. The only time the writing dares to make you feel conflicted was with Chelsea shanking Bols in the neck. The portrayal of twisted justice just isn't twisted enough for my liking. The Boys this is not.

I remember finishing this and being genuinely confused as to why the general consensus about it was "it's good but the ending is bad" when i had almost the exact opposite opinion lol. I've always thought that the show was absolute dogshit except for the ending, which while still being kinda bad, was genuinely the most tolerable part of the series imo

Despite how flawed it is, I still enjoyed the anime regardless. Pretty much like Michael Bay's Transformers (Especially the first one)

3:31 made me laugh so hard i snorted milk out of my nose

You're correct bro..👍🏻

Btw what about the jaegers ? Idk how that’s spelled but I’m just wondering since they aren’t mentioned here, though I’m guessing they are as forgettable.

@etheri0n959

Жыл бұрын

I think I was okay with them. I found the fact that the show was humanizing them and letting tatsumi spend some time with them to be interesting, but other than that, I didn't really care too much about them

7: 35 I mean what do you think of esdeath and tatsumi's relationship?

The manga does have the better ending but even with that in mind yeah Akame ga Kill wasn't good just ok but I can still enjoy it for what it is. Also fun fact in the english dub Esdeath is voiced by the same person who voiced Izumi Curtis in both fma dubs which I thought "You know that's actually perfect casting".

@etheri0n959

Жыл бұрын

Yeah, that voice actor would probably fit that role really well. That's actually really interesting.

@muhammedraashid3667

Жыл бұрын

You mean the ending where the MC becomes a dang gragon and somehow magically not lose his consciousness and kill Mine because the series wanted a fairy tale like ending?

Thank you

Akame ga Kill is a show that’s easy to enjoy but difficult to respect. It’s always so much fun to tear apart such a complete mess! 😂 You’re spot-on here. Very amusing video essay. 👍 When people say Akame ga Kill is edgy, I think they mean it’s gratuitously dark for the sake of being gratuitously dark. I’m not sure that’s true though; I agree that it’s trying to be dark for the sake of emotionally sucker punching the audience harder. It’s just that when it’s too incompetent to land the sucker punch, it seems like it’s dark solely for its own sake. Of course, Akame ga Kill is also literally edgy. Who doesn’t like cool swords? 👍

@etheri0n959

3 ай бұрын

True, upon hearing more about this show from other people, I understood more where the edgy stuff came from. Like you said, when a show is incompetent, it can make for some very un self aware writing.

Hey, "small" note: Don't include examples to other works if they're BIG spoilers just to explain a point.

@etheri0n959

2 ай бұрын

Yeah that's fair. Sorry about that. Just to make sure, was it what I said about ff7?

I agree Akame Ga Kill is a huge mess i never understood why people love this anime so much this might be a odd comparison and i am going into spoilers for Naruto: Shippuden but the deaths in Akame Ga Kill and Danzou's death are kinda similar Akame Ga Kill never took the time to make me love the characters and Danzou we saw him being a jerk for 200+ episodes and then they expect to make me feel sad for his death but newsflash i was glad he was going away unfortunately he didn't truly die there because he kept reappearing in later episodes there is also the death of Eren's mom in Attack on Titan we can feel sad for it happening because Eren deeply cares about his mother and that scream at the end from Yuuki Kaji was insanely powerful but it also kinda fails because we the viewer never got to know Eren's mom so it's not as bad as Everyone Ga Kill or Danzou's death but it is worth noting

@TermInator-np6vw

Жыл бұрын

The manga is twice as long and also has a prequel and a sequel , in addition to the fact that some things in the main series go differently. To enjoy it you have to read manga. As for the deaths, each one serves a purpose and doesn't necessarily have to sadden you. For example, sheele's it is true that it was quick but it serves to make the reader and tatsumi (who will reflect after her death) understand how the claims of the night raids about dying at any moment were true and the manga does not spare anyone just because he's a main or nice character. BUlat instead serves as a teacher for tatsumi, so that she grows and gets a teigu (mine in fact, will think that tatsumi for the deaths of sheele and bulat was sad but not for chelsea, showing that the character grows). Some like chelsea's look silly and useless but it's good if the author wanted to get rid of the character.

@GamersArea

Жыл бұрын

@@TermInator-np6vw bro pls stop spamming! Akame ga kill anime and manga both have many flaws. I read it's prequal (akg zero) and squeal (hgc) they are also trash like this and many flaws.😒

@TermInator-np6vw

Жыл бұрын

@@GamersArea I'm not saying it has no problems. I'm just saying that just complaining doesn't make sense. A bit like you. At least one user who discussed merraid had points. You and others just rant.

@GamersArea

Жыл бұрын

@@TermInator-np6vw i also have many point but i don't want to discuss. But when people trying to defend these types of series it's really makes me annoying.

@TermInator-np6vw

Жыл бұрын

@@GamersArea - I'm just stating my thoughts. If I was defending and just say agk is perfect why yes. -In fact, I didn't criticize the user who gave me points as to why he doesn't like the series. - And if you don't want to argue, why did you feel the need to defend the ideas you believe in (agk sucks)? Could you have avoided talking if you think about it? Basically you limited yourself to saying the exact same things as 99% of the users on this section just to say something. From your comment it seems that you only want to discuss with those who share your ideas.

I really don't like the death in this anime, except for Seiyuu cause she deserved to die! She was so crazy and cruel, killed millions of people to make her dead mentor proud. Not sure he would be proud of his student after she killed families, kids and villagers. He would find her mad. Anyway, thoses parts went so fast. Tatsumi meet Bulat and the purple girl, talked to them during one day then BOOM they died. He barely knows them and me too! That's sad because Bulat was a nice guy, funny and helpful. I was angry that he dies, the assasin didn't deserved it 😭 The action is cool, the opening too but i wasn't invested in the story. Things goes quickly, the calm moments didn't last long and; like i said, the death were lame. The animation is pretty but not enough to make this anime good.

@TermInator-np6vw

Жыл бұрын

Seryu is an interesting character, who shows us how the empire's propaganda affects many individuals deemed enemies of the revolutionaries. Also you have to try to put yourself in her panin. We know that before her, her father was killed by a criminal. This led her to hate those who didn't abide by her law. Her night raids later killed Ogre and Stylish, two people important to her. This led her to hate criminals more and more, so much so that she killed without going through a court. Yet despite all this, she thought she was doing good for the people. I think it's worse Tsukushi, Akame's friend in the prequel as she admits that she knows how the empire works but that she doesn't care. BUlat had one purpose, which was to tutor tatsumi and deliver the teigu to him. It makes sense that quiet moments are few. After all, they are revolutionaries. However, if you are interested, in volume 1.5 there are 3 stories each linked to a respective character (sheele, bulat and lubbock).

@cloudman5788

Жыл бұрын

@@TermInator-np6vw Seryu is a shitty character lol. The reason why this character is so shit and generally doesn't work is simply because she's insane. She's basically a wannabe female version of the Joker. She's got this innocent side and in a moment's notice, she'll go crazy. But because these sides don't feed into each other at all, it's like 2 entirely different characters inhabiting the same body. Her insanity causes her innocent side to attempt and justify her crazy side but this never works because the innocent side has to pretend that they didn't just commit some horrid crime. A great example of this is when Seryu commits a war crime and doesn't bat a fucking eyelash. The anime attempts grey morality with her and even tries to get you to sympathize with her by giving her some backstory and her trying to form some emotional ties with other characters such as Stylish and Esdeath, but this doesn't work either. The worst thing about all this is that towards the end, the anime seems to realize what an awful character she is and has Mines verbally call out all her flaws to which she replies with it calling nonsense and doesn't even go into any further detail. You can't have a character like this, try to give multiple facets to said character, then not have them defend their ideology if unless they are too one-dimensional to defend such ideology, as is the case here.

this is a Clamp anime everything looks great and has interesting lore but nothing is developed and many things make no sense, also harem, they had good things both factions were cool, but then they one sided the things , it is a shame and I guess it should get awesome benefit from a remake.

Eh I enjoyed it. Its nothing special, but its fun. Its an Anime that lets you just sit back and enjoy the simple ride. It seems some people took this Story way to serious and got upset at it for one reason or another. I dont remember much from when I watched it other then I liked it. Thats the thing though I dont have any bad memories of it, just a sense of having enjoyed the time I spent watching it.

@nobalkain624

Жыл бұрын

@sonic 1995 Thats the thing, I never got that from it. Sure it had Dark Tones to the Story, but I never once thought I was meant to take it serious. Not everyone is going to see it that way just because you seem to think it does.

@TermInator-np6vw

Жыл бұрын

The manga is twice as long and also has a prequel and a sequel , in addition to the fact that some things in the main series go differently. To enjoy it you have to read manga.

@nobalkain624

Жыл бұрын

@@TermInator-np6vw I heard it is rather different from the Manga. I dont really Collect Manga as I dont have much Disposable Income. I just recently was able to finally finish collecting Bleach, and I started that shortly after the Anime started Airing on Toonami. I pretty much put all my Free Funds into Light Novels now instead. Even then I can only get one a Month.

@TermInator-np6vw

Жыл бұрын

@sonic 1995 Great review. You say nothing to corroborate your theories.

@nobalkain624

Жыл бұрын

@@TermInator-np6vw I might some day try that. Not really a Fan of reading Manga on my Computer. Being in my Mid 40's I just have a thing for wanting Physical Stuff if I have the option, thanks though.