Akame ga Kill! Chapter 77 Discussion

KurosoraRyuga said:


Idk, I actually liked her. I think the author made her way too op though but, there was still a more logical way to beat her. The author made it so that tatsumi still lived on but didn't make him join in the the fight sighs. He was literally flying above her, did he just want to watch is that it!? I mean sure maybe it took a while for him to regain his strength but still. All his fights, showing that he was the only one who can truly rival esdeath thanks to his power to evolve, wasted... Damn lol, I'm being too salty here. This was my first manga tbh, or at least the first one that I actually read til I caught up so I'm actually trying to be nice here and I did enjoy it so far, it's just that the end is being rushed af.

Oh, and one more thing, Why did esdeath even call murasame a dangerous sword if she can just freeze the poison!?

WhiteWolfEyes21 said:


Then the poison becomes irrelevant. Murasame is a sword. Poison or not, a wound to the organs would leave you incapacitated.

Which actually makes me realize just how bad this fight was written. In the previous chapter, Akame catches Esdeath off guard and barely cuts her arm. This of course causes Esdeath to cut the entire arm off...something Akame could of did. Better yet, Akame could have stabbed her through the heart or sliced off her head off. She got in a free shot on Esdeath and decided to barely cut her...on her arm.

Also, I agree with the other poster that Tatsumi should have done more in the final fight. I expected his power to go through the roof when he evolved, but was left extremely disappointed. He put up a better fight when he fought her alone, before fully transforming.

There was nothing exciting or clever about Akame getting a power boost and magically becoming stronger than Esdeath. I wanted more of a group effort. Particularly between characters that we know. All the new teigu users were unknown. We didn't know how strong they were other than being stronger than fodder, which doesn't mean much. Because of this, I couldn't be too impressed with Esdeath stomping them.

Lastly, wasn't Akame's trump card supposed to make her lose her sanity or humanity or whatever? She seemed pretty stable to me, during and after the fight.

NathanielKeehl said:


Anime/manga logic bro, is all I have to say to that first part. How many anime/manga have you not watched/read that feature a fight where other people can, and should, join in but don't because of some mysterious (read stupid) reason of their own?

*Sigh* One of the most disappointing aspects of AgK is how it went from being a shounen manga that subverted and averted a lot of shounen conventions only to turn into a stereotypical shounen manga.

As for that last part, all I can is, the author is an idiot and thinks we are idiots as well.

NathanielKeehl said:


The only excuse I can find for this particular bit of stupidity (there are plenty of others, both from Akame and Esdeath in this last round) is that Akame was used to just slicing her opponents because she had become over-reliant on Murasame's power. That this never cramped her fighting-style or that it was never exploited by her opponents is the result of crappy authorship.



I agree with all of that. Everything we had seen before this last chapter seemed to indicate that the final fight with Esdeath would be a huge brawl that would a) leave her exhausted, b) decimate the teigu users, c) actually justify her death.

But then again, that's what we would have gotten if the author of AgK was fairly decent, instead the author is crap, so well, there it is.

NathanielKeehl said:


You and I both feel the same way, bro.

Info-Chan said:
The chapter (and manga for that matter) was complete garbage. Esdeath as a character was wasted on this story and her death was boring and a token death for a typical boring predictable ending. Building up a character to be that powerful and then killing them off in such a fashion is the epitome of the lack of narrative imagination the author had towards the end. But, this was seen a long time ago, so it isn't a surprise. Of course, I'm hardly alone as many fell away from the manga for that very reason. Ultimately, this was just yet another manga with heaps of potential that was never reached.