Akame #10 — Attack of the Stumpy One Eye

September 7th, 2014

  

Got to love the ridiculous broadcast censorship.

Impressions:

I feel like I need to reiterate that I see no reason why this and the last episode couldn’t have been combined into one. He gets pulled into the antagonists, meets them, has one awkward night, escapes. It’s not exactly something that required forty minutes to cover. It would have also worked a lot better (as usual) without being so comically over the top when it comes to nearly everybody but the protagonists being cackling sadistic psychopaths. They had plenty of chances to add a little more depth to what’s apparently going to be long-running antagonists, and yeah, it’s probably dumb to expect any at this point in the game, but the opportunity was obviously there and squandered. 

If they had allowed a little moral ambiguity to slip in there, that would have worked a lot better than… well, this. Not that I want him to start blathering and waffling about what he’s doing, but just a little self-awareness would be nice. Just the slightest acknowledgement that he is in fact running with a bunch of murderers killing small villages on someone’s word himself. Alas, everything is black and white (and no, 11th hour flashbacks don’t count at all). And speaking of which, it doesn’t help that his version in the other camp turns into a black version of him. Subtlety, thy name is not anime.  

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6 Shouts From the Peanut Gallery

  • tachi says:

    Hot villain lady: “have sex with me!”

    Hero:”n-nope.”

    Anime

  • Atmo says:

    Wait for “don’t lose your head” jokes that are incoming.

  • algorithm says:

    All that moral bullshit leaking from Night Raid’s members makes me puke in my mouth a little. The villains are so much more likeable.

  • anon999 says:

    God, I cannot believe I was expecting something dark and grim from this. It’s like Haman trying to seduce Judau, except with less skin and more yandereness.