Thursday, July 17, 2014

Akame ga Kill! Episode 02: Kill the Authority

Second episode of Akame ga Kill is about Tatsumi’s first mission as a member of Night Raid. The episode starts with Tatsumi in front of Sayu and Ieyasu’s tomb. Then, he’s grabbed by Leone to introduce him to the Night Raid members. After this, the Night Raid leader Najenda is introduced. When Tatsumi finally accepts to enter the group, he’s paired up with a distant and cold Akame for cooking and hunting while Mine, Lubbock and Bulat are out for a mission. After receiving another mission, Leone, Akame and Tatsumi are sent to the capital in order to kill the oil merchant Gamal and the member of the Imperial Police Ogre. Before starting the mission, Leone tells Tatsumi that Akame was captured with her sister by the government and was trained to become a killer but the she joined Night Raid. Once they complete the mission, they return to the base for the report but then, Tatsumi is stripped by Akame just to make sure he isn’t proud enough to hide any wound that could possibly be poisoned or mortal. After make sure he is right, Akame stops to be distant and cold. Tatsumi finds out that cooking and hunting with Akame was just for training purpose and that his next partner will be Mine.


Couldn't be possible
BOOBS
Psycopath girl with glasses
Tsunedere pink haired girl
So he ended up being a yaoi character
By the way, how can this toupee fit in the armor?
I wanted him to be the cool one...
But he ended up being a perv.
"Have you heard about the Avengers Initiative?"
They're cool
What an oxymoron...
You're right.
Welcome to the Avengers!
Her face expressions are just funny
She doesn't care at all
Take the fanservice!
Time for some blood
And her sister?
Did she had to kill her or something?
Kill him! He's too ugly!
Coldness.
This tactic is just perfect for you.
Let's begin.
Surprise motherf...
Madness of power
Overpowered
Bye arms
Those eyes
EPIC.
Let's have sex!
Nah... you're not f*ckable...
Well, I guess she likes him
Looks like both are naked
Time for the tsunedere to fall in love with him

So basically, this episode shows how Tatsumi is capable to kill someone as a member of Night Raid as last chapter he killed Aria just for a personal reason. One thing I realized is the art style showed when a character who is going to be killed shows how corrupt he is.

Footage from Episode 01
Footage from Episode 02
Another thing we got to see is a little bit of Akame’s past. As it’s said in the anime, she was kidnaped with her little sister and other children to be trained as professional killers but then, she joined Night Raid. One thing we didn’t get to see is what happened to her sister. We also discover a little bit of Bullat’s past as a member of the Imperial Army.

Footage from the Opening
Also, it’s explained that the only members of Night Raid to have a wanted poster are Najenda, Akame and Bullat. It makes sense as Akame and Bullat are traitors to the government. We don’t know yet if Najenda had a past connection to the government as well, but it would make sense for her to have a wanted poster just because she is the leader of Night Raid. 

Footage from Episode 02
And finally, at the end of the episode we find out that Tatsumi is now going to be paired with Mine. In the Opening we get to see Akame and her little sister and also Mine with messy hair and old clothes in the middle of the street. So, what I expect for next episode is to discover some of Mine’s back story as we did in this episode with Akame. I also expect Tatsumi to be paired with each member of Night Raid every episode to discover their backstories.

Footage from the Opening




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