Hello everyone, today I will be giving my reasons on why I absolutely despise the ending to the akame ga kill anime.
To most of you, your probably surprised that I’m discussing something other than Hunter x Hunter content for once, and even more surprised that I’m discussing akame ga kill of all things. But I really thought it was a good time to start going outside of my “genre” so to speak, and delve into something quite a bit less complicated and intricate.
This also gives me a good break from my weekly volume reviews, and as I do love them, they can get a bit tiring at times. Aside from that, one benefit of going over a separate topic from my main content, is the fact that I can vent my frustrations on Akame ga kills main literary flaws towards the end of the series.
From this point forward, there will be spoilers for the last few episodes. You have been warned
So to start off this review I would like to say that I thought the rising action that built up the climax towards the last few episodes was really good. Akame finally settling things with her sister after the tension between the two had been built up for a good while in the series, was great. It gave off a sense of darkness that seemed was supposed to be replicated in the final episodes.One thing I thought was really interesting at all points in their fight, and even before their fight, was the fact that you can see in their demeanor that they didn’t want to fight each other, but knew they had to finish their bout once and for all.
After that though, that’s where the series falls apart, and very quickly might I add.
In the episodes immediately after that, the story take a dramatic shift in tone and pacing. As mentioned before, I thought the battle between Akame and her sister was great, since it had been built up for a good amount of time. The same can also be said for the final showdown, and even more so since it’s been built up for the entire series. The difference between the two plot points however, is their execution. As the fight between the two sisters gave a satisfying conclusion, the final battle in the series feels extremely rushed, and it gave random characters extremely important roles in this climatic ending.
The biggest problem I had with these episodes, were the people it killed off, mainly Tatsumi.
It came completely out of nowhere, setting him up as the one to confront the main enemy, then just making him die immediately to some random fodder in the story to “save Akame”. Which I thought was a bull crap explanation.
So after Tatsumi sacrifices himself in a completely unsatisfying, extremely rushed, and utterly ridiculous way, Akane confronts the final enemy left in the story: Esdeath.
After Akame confronts Esdeath (which wasn’t built up at all in the story, or even alluded to before. If anything, the story alluded to Tatsumi being the one to take out Esdeath) Esdeath is pierced by Akames cursed blade after a bit of dueling, and slowly starts to die. She then goes over to Tatsumis dead body and hugs it, freezing the two in ice forever (until the ice breaks and the bodies disappear shortly after).
After that, Leone has the most retarted death I’ve ever seen, and Akame and the captain soon go their separate ways.
Overall, I would say there is absolutely nothing noteworthy about this conclusion, it’s extremely rushed, it makes no sense, and it has no satisfactory plot points. I would not recommend watching this anime at all whatsoever, all because of the conclusion and how terrible it is.
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