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Short but sweet manga on what value your life holds.
Advice to readers that aren't gna read the whole thing: savour the read, don't speed through it.

Story: Interesting hook that lead to a story with quite the melancholic feels. Pretty solid story that had its ups and downs.

Art: It wasn't anything special but I felt like the style fit the narrative quite well. Looking back, many of the frames were blank backgrounds but maybe that actually fits the story more contextually, as it is a character driven story with where they are located less important.

Character: MC is probably relatable to some degree. Hard ... to be completely relatable but you might find at least one aspect of either the MC or the female MC you can relate to. Makes them all the more real.

Enjoyment: 16 chapters is easy to binge and that is what I did. I recommend that you take it slow though, as this isn't some 300 chapter shonen that you can skip half of the fight scenes. Play some nice piano BGM while relaxing. Savour the story. It'll be worth it.

Overall: Masterpiece.

Honestly this may be a love or hate anime. Each category (barring sound/music) can either be a turn on or turn off for any given person.
Obviously, I fkin loved each and every moment of it.
-one thing before i begin: About the ecchi. Please. For goodness sake don't skip watching it just because it has ecchi. Yes some parts are borderline hentai but please. Soon after 5 or more episodes you'll find it natural and not that bothering anymore. Don't act like almost seeing tiddies will distract you from what an awesome anime this is (unless you some horny 12 yo that is then fap away)

... -long review below - Last Overview section is a hyper condensed TL;DR if you want that
-time for section for section breakdown

!!! Recently, there has been many visually pleasing animes by either Kyoani, ufotable, and A-1. My eyes have gotten so used to these "realistic" or "insanely detailed" animations that I kinda... lost feeling for it. Now I look at "mediocre" animations styles and I'm like meh the story better be good shit, since they are either lacking in talent or budget to be able to imitate the top dogs at animation. No creativity in animation(everything is too good basically) these days is the TL;DR for this section.

Somehow Kill La Kill and studio TRIGGER defies this at any given time I guess. They basically go "fuck the norm" and pull off whatever the fuck their minds can conceive. Which was a great ass breather for me. So thanks KLK.


>Story: yea ok this was slightly lacking. too simple for some in fact. But hey each to their own. I felt that this show wanted a basic premise that could be easily twisted around. And it did exactly that. Taking the revenge plot on a wild ride. Subplots weren't the deepest or most interesting shit but everything still kinda built on each other. Character dev. is a bit lacking for side characters tho hence the 8/10


>Art: hell ya. I practically watched this show for the goddamn animation style. This animation series has its heart and soul combined with its out of the world animation. As the characters say, nothing makes sense and thats what's special. Some of the things they do in KLK just aren't possible in those hyper realism animes these days. Instead of imitating IRL, it seeks to further it's own domain of art, anime. There are things you can express in anime that just defies any logic of real life. And that's good. KLK exploits this to the max with all their perspectives and fourth wall breaking.


>Sound: 10/10. I swear if you haven't heard KLK's soundtrack you missing out on a lot. My man Sawano making everything fit together perfectly with all the drops at the transformations. Also, each characters distinct theme can be heard each time they enter the screen. This really reinforces certain actions with certain scenes, kinda like how you hear Imperial March and you see Vader strolling towards you.


>Character: Each character has such unique character design. With Mako being like a comedic schoolgirl, her looks are distinctly different from Ryuuko. Each character's design in either looks or clothes amplifies their very personalities and again this is in stark contrast with "realistic" animes.


>Enjoyment: I think 90% of show I had either goosebumps or a smile on my face. Goddamn "ARE YOU NOT ENTERTAINED?" for real, each scene was animated for maximum enjoyment whether its supposed to be fighting or comedic, everything was great.


>Overall: Some people might hate the ecchi, some may hate the art, and some may hate the story. Sometimes though, I feel like some animes are to be watched with your feet kicked back and relaxed without analyzing each and every frame. KLK won't make you question "What is life?" or "What is human morality" afterwards, but sure as hell it's gna leave a big ass smile on your face. :)

"Akame ga Kill" is perhaps one of the more gory and dark mangas I have read up to date. With basically GoT styled killing of characters, this shounen turns into a bloody manga in the end.

Mild Spoilers Beware~~~~~~~

Story:
The story itself starts out pretty promising, with Tatsumi joining the Night Raid, determined to exterminate all evil from the Empire. Then you get introduced to Teigus, 48 powerful weapons. The plot isn't too dull or cliche for the most part as with "death flags" basically every fucking chapter and everywhere, characters seemed to be dying once per few chapters. Towards the end tho, more weird ass evil ... ass sick ass characters are introduced just to kill them off. Like really? (this is talking about Wild Hunt) Anyway, the final chapters finally got pretty intense again, with main characters getting hurt, fighting Esdese/Esdeath , and Tatsumi transforming into a motherfking dragon. But even though it was not really a typical "shounen" powerup moment, I really didn't know how to feel about it. But yea, the story did kinda end up stereotypical with the "good" guys winning by a hair's breadth and getting close to 0 acknowledgement for it.


Art:
Pretty damn good. Fight scenes are absolutely gorgeous, gory, and full of movement. Teigu looks cool as fuk too. The characters themselves don't seem to age, other than Tatsumi. But yea, Esdese's facial expressions are really good too. Not much to say other than GOOD.


Character:
Well many characters were fleshed out just so that when they died it would feel more emotional. And that was alright I guess. I'm glad Tatsumi pretty much stayed true till the end with his attitude. But Esdese... ;_; ....... I wish she was less sadistic lmfao cuz I really like her. Where's the Esdese x Tatsumi as promised???????? nooooooo
Anyways, the other characters were easily identifiable with easy to tell personality differences.


Enjoyment:
Yea I guess the beginning and end hit me the most. The story basically went to killing mode during the middle of the story so.... it wasn't really enjoyable. But the start with the setup, and the end with the epic battle was damn good.

Overall:
Yes, I will still be rating this as my 3rd fav anime/manga (1. AoT 2. Fate series in general) Why? Going past the bloody gory shounen, it is a tale of sticking to what you believe in. Tatsumi stuck out till the end. Esdese stuck out till the end. Akame, Leone, Najenda, Lubbock, etc, etc everyone did.


Come for the gore, leave with (some) feels.