Ah yeah.....This manga was nuts. The author literally does not care who your favorite character is. No one is safe. Akame is pretty legit, she's probably my favorite character. Her or the main female antagonist with the ice powers.
I can't recall a more lulzily tryhard anime or manga I've observed since Elfen Lied. Pretty dumb fun, but not sure if I care enough to follow the series.
It's overrated too. My roommate won't shut up about this dreck, and it drives me crazy. It tries way to hard to one-up series like Elfen Lied, or even Attack on Titan.
I've only watched a couple episodes though, so I'm still not really sure how I feel about it.
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I've caught up with the manga and I've seen the first six episodes so far. I enjoy both and I'm glad Yen Press has licensed the manga. Not sure why it's being heavily compared to Elfen Lied. Aside from the violence, they are worlds apart.
AgK has a more basic shounen manga feel to it while Elfen Lied is a seinen manga (Not one of the better ones, IMO. I prefer Battle Angel Alita, Berserk, and Eden It's An Endless World!).
Despite the reputation it has for killing off characters, the body count isn't that high. Atleast the ones who have died so far get a fair amount of development unlike in Terra Formars where you barely get to know the cast before their heads are separated from their torsos.
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I compare it to Elfen Lied because both seem to have that super edgy tryhard feel to them (As opposed to a series like Berserk, Vinland Saga, Neon Genesis Evangelion, or for a fellow Shonen series Attack on Titan, where the darkness of the setting is portrayed very seriously and the really ****ed up parts are used relatively sparingly).
I mean, in the first episode (So like, spoilers I guess but who didn't see this coming?) there's a teenage girl who tricks homeless people into coming into their home by acting as a kind-hearted good-samaritan. Only she actually just wants to torture the shit out of them and eventually kill them (Her family is of course in on it too). Okay, fair enough, but then she has an incredibly over the top rant about how country people are farm animals and about how she tortured some girl as long as she could because her hair was nicer than hers or something despite being a hick.
I mean really:
Can anyone here say they could take this scene seriously? I still laugh while thinking about it, and I'm not sure if it was meant to be funny.
I mean, I wouldn't say it's truly awful. The animation and art style are actually pretty nice, for example, and there's a certain narm charm that made it easy to watch (Even if the protagonist is the most generic piece of shit in history). I'll also be fair and say that there wasn't a moment as jarring as some of Elfen Lied's (Namely the ****ing puppy song, lol), and if people like it then hey, that's fine. There are certainly worse shows out there, and if someone thinks it might be worth a look (like BloodRain up there) then go ahead. But personally? The first episode wasn't enthralling enough to convince me to follow the series.
Sure, and the first three volumes are also not really all that great and that's one of the biggest examples of early installment weirdness in anime (Though I like to pretend Guts did this to intentionally be ironic, being that that is the succubus apostle who killed Corkus).
Also, I feel like a difference should be established between "edgy tryhard" and just "edgy". There's nothing wrong with a work being "edgy" in of itself, as I'm sure you'd agree; after all, you are a fan of A Song of Ice and Fire. There's nothing wrong with a messed up show.
But shows like Elfen Lied and seemingly Akame Ga Kill aren't messed up shows because they try so hard to be one.
It reminds me of the mood of Future Diary in terms of you know you are going to lose some people and its just a matter of time but along the way there is still a bit of humor but everyone is freaking psycho, even the characters you like you like them because they are psycho. Yet you understand why they are psycho on a realistic level.
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