Faced with continuous atrocities performed by their feudal lord it is only a matter of time before someone decides to take justice into their own hands. Such a task befalls a peasant with no aptitude for martial arts, who instead carries out a meticulous plan for ruination of his oppressor.
This descent into merciless times of feudal Japan has an almost opera-like feel to it. With characters that lack any memorable individuality but instead represent the collective oppression. There is some parallelism between this fictional world and that of today's, albeit not to such an extreme extent, but in the author's time it was most
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 Alternative TitlesJapanese: 赤目 More titlesInformationType: Manga
Volumes: 1
Chapters: 2
Status: Finished
Published: Jun 1961 to Dec 1961
Genre:
Suspense
Theme:
Historical
Serialization:
None Authors:
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Feb 29, 2024
This is a short manga by Sanpei Shirato, and a story of brutality, feudal oppression, rebellion, and above all, revenge. The first thing the reader will notice is how utterly brutal this manga is. It's a far-cry from most manga of the time, in both how mature and violent it is. But that's because its author was part of the "Gekiga" movement, which distanced itself from the "whimsical pictures" of manga. Osamu Tezuka once gave Sanpei credit for introducing strong violence into Manga. Even today, the brutality of Akame still stands out. At its heart, Akame is a manga about the oppression of the peasant
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