The only thing that was defining them was their death.
Nobody cared about the heroes or the villains, who by the way are complete archetypes with nothing special about them. The first couple of deaths were shocking because they were unexpected, but after the 100th time somebody died, all they were doing was guessing who gets killed in the next episode. Which is exactly what anime fans were doing in the forums. He needs to be constantly stimulated or he’s not going to give a shit.Without much to care about a character, all you have to look forward to is seeing who gets to die next.
AKAME GA KILL CHARACTERS PLUS
And yet this is seen as a plus at an age where the average attention span of a viewer is less than 6 seconds. If nothing lasts for long, it comes off as superficial. Too bad any sense of dramatization is lost when they drop like flies without being given much screen time or any significant characterization. It’s also adored by many for not having plot armor, since people are constantly dying on both sides of the conflict. Yet none of the emotionalists seemed to care because it was keeping things on the edge.The show is also praised for its very fast pacing, instead of spending entire episodes on unimportant stuff such as fleshing out or character development. Hell, they don’t even have any motivation for torturing and killing hundreds of people other than “Because we can lol”. The bad guys are pitch black evil and never show the slightest sign of remorse or questioning their horrible acts. Which is not the case since blurring the lines of good and evil is not the same as making everybody a psychotic mass murderer who loves to torture and rape innocent people. What it’s actually doing is making you think if you mix extreme violence with extreme comic relief, the result will somehow be more grey than if you have clear cut good guys and bad guys. Speaking of edge, the show is constantly trying to present everything as grey in morality, since most of the heroes are heartless assassins and many of the subordinates of the villains obey them out of duty or some twisted concept of justice. Which is why it appeals so much to edgelords. The mood whiplash it creates is immersion breaking, since it can’t maintain a specific emotion for more than a few seconds. Something which is not, since it constantly ruins every dramatic scene with out of place fan service and slapstick comedy. Everybody were so butthurt by Pein being talked into changing his mind and bringing back to life all those he killed, that the instant they found a show not doing that, they hailed it as mature and serious. And by clichés I mean plot armor and talk no jutsu, elements the shonentards got tired of seeing in Naruto. This made it super popular while it was airing and eventually got overhyped into the status of a masterpiece, because it deconstructs the clichés of fighting shonen. If you are one of those people who expects to get emotional from the very first episode, you will lose your shit with this one because (GASP) it constantly kills its characters and doesn’t resurrect them a few episodes afterwards. Akame ga Kill has become the representation of feelziness.
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