Akame ga Kill!

GENRE: Action, Dark Fantasy

MANGA

WRITER: Takahiro
ORIGINAL RUN: March 20, 2010 – present 
VOLUMES: 15

MANGA(Akame ga Kill: Zero)

WRITER: Takahiro 
ORIGINAL RUN: October 25, 2013 – present
VOLUMES: 5  

ANIME

WRITER: Makoto Uezu
MUSIC BY: Taku Iwasaki
ORIGINAL RUN: July 7, 2014 – December 15, 2014
EPISODES: 24

PLOT

Tatsumi is a fighter who, accompanied by his two childhood friends, sets off to the Capital in search of a way to make money to assist his poverty-stricken village. After being separated from his friends in a bandit attack, Tatsumi unsuccessfully attempts to enlist in the army and is swindled out of his money in the Capital. He is taken in by a noble family, but when an assassin group called Night Raid attacks, he learns that his noble hosts actually intended to torture and kill him as they had done with his friends. As a result, he joins Night Raid, which consists of the swordswoman Akame, the beastly fighter Leone, the sniper girl Mine, the scissor-wielding Sheele, the string manipulator Lubbock, the armored warrior Bulat, and their leader Najenda, a former general of the imperial army. Night Raid is also part of the revolutionary forces assembled to overthrow the prime minister Honest who manipulates the young emperor for his personal gain despite the rest of the nation falling to poverty and strife.

The members of Night Raid carry Teigu (anime: Imperial Arms), unique weaponry created 900 years ago out of extremely rare materials as well as legendary animals called Danger Beasts. The power of the Teigu is so overwhelming that it is said that when two Teigu users fight each other, one of them is bound to die. While Night Raid successfully assassinate some of Honest's cohorts, they lose Sheele and Bulat in fights against some of the Teigu-wielding allies of the Capital. Honest and the emperor recruit Esdeath, a sadistic and powerful fighter from the North, to lead a group of Teigu-using warriors called the Jaegers. Night Raid, along with new recruits Susano and Chelsea, fight the Jaegers.

When the revolution gains momentum, Honest forms a new secret police force, the Wild Hunt, led by his own son, Syura. However, the Wild Hunt heavily abuses its authority by killing innocent civilians for their own plans, antagonizing both the Jaegars and Night Raid. After a battle between Wild Hunt and the Jaegers, with casualties from both sides, Esdeath blackmails Honest into dissolving the rest of Wild Hunt while Syura is killed by Lubbock after he captures both him and Tatsumi. Lubbock is killed while attempting to escape, and Tatsumi is sentenced to death despite Esdeath's attempts to convince him to join her. The remaining members of Night Raid attack the execution site to rescue Tatsumi, the group being pursued by the imperial general Budo before Mine kills him at the cost of her Teigu while falling into a comatose state.


After all Wild Hunt members and her remaining Jaeger subordinates have died or fled the conflict, Esdeath resumes her duties as general to hold off the Revolutionary Army when they begin a siege on the capital to remove Honest from power. In a last resort, Honest convinces the emperor himself to join the fight as well with his own Teigu and Tatsumi sacrifices himself to defeat him.

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