[Anime] Akame ga Kill!

I've only watched through episode three and I love it so far. Mein is the best.

First Rize, now Seryu. Kana Hanazawa is so enjoying herself this summer. :D

Also, dem derp faces.

episode 6

After having read the manga I get to sit here and laugh. It's so good.

Such a tease, you... (jk, already read the manga, too)

Anyway, I don't think I can handle the next episode or two D:

So what I've learned from this

That upset me pretty heavily that they'd kill off an important character. The author did a really good job of making me like Sheele, only to devastate me.. Shit was so unexpected too.

ANIMUS:



eps7

They did Esdeath and Tatsumi's scene so well. Also Bol is amazing as expected. Had a good laugh.

Ep 9.

I'm really liking the anime so far, but the thing I hate is that they just...

That's the main theme of this anime. Any of the characters could die at any moment, even Tatsumi. The only one who's safe with plot armor (I hope) is Akame, since she's the Titular character anyway.

Nah, Tatsumi is also safe since he's the Male protagonist. Anyone else isn't.

School Days. Soukou Akki Muramasa. Code Geass. Should I go on?

-Most of them died at the "end", no one here is implying that Tatsumi cannot die at the "end".
-All of the above mentioned are not adapted from a manga series, which instantly makes a significant difference as one has it's story planned out and released in parts with that plan subjected to change every time, while the ones mentioned have their stories completed before their release.

Find me one example of a main protagonist from a manga series that died without any character replacement/retconed afterwards by means of revival.

You implied that Tatsumi is safe or cannot die(as you've responded to Uzumaki101's statement of "Any of the characters could die at any moment, even Tatsumi") and you now tell me no one implies that. Please rectify.

Regardless of when they met their end and the differences in development of the story, the fact remains that the male protagonist was not safe in the alluded works and that provides a strong example to a situation where the male protagonist is not safe as you have argued against.

Also you switched from the male protagonist to the main protagonist, those can overlap for a main character but the distinction is clear.

Legend of Galactic Heroes. I've not read it and decided not to skim through it to spoil myself but from what others have told me, it fits the bill.

I just want to make it clear that as long as the story is still in progress he cannot and will not die as he's protected by the writer, and the only place that he can actually die is at the end of story. Akame ga Kill, despite the gruesome deaths and dark themes is still a Shonen story and it will follow the tropes of the Shonen Genre. As the main male protagonist in a Shonen story he's an essential character for the demographic, killing him mid story is illogical to the genre as it will alienate the main demographic, young teen boys. Also despite the mangas name, Akame is not the one carrying the story of the manga, everything is from Tatsumi's POV.

The main point of plot armor and "anybody is not safe" is about characters that can die in the midst of a story arc and their death will not halt the progress of the story, Both Akame and Tatsumi will not and cannot actually die until the end of the story, because they have plot armors as the main character that moves the story.

Also Legend of the Galactic Heroes actually doesn't fit the bill because:
1. It's originally from a Novel, which instantly invalids it as once more has significant differences in how it was written when compared how the current manga industry works.
2. The main character of Ginga ended the story with his death, not that much different from the ones you mentioned before.

Episode 10

Okay this is much better.



Akame ga Kill has the chance to deviate from that norm, minuscule but a chance as predecessors in the Shonen genre have shown. NGE is Shonen but has heavy Seinen influence and threw concerns such as appealing to it's demographic to out the window(resulting in it's plummeting reputation in that generation) in order to push it's complex adult relationships and themes concerning science and religion. Now I'm not expecting something of that level from Akame ga Kill, but something different isn't impossible simply improbable for Akame ga Kill.



I never said Akame was the one carrying the story of the manga and I acknowledge the fact that Tatsumi is the main male protagonist.



Plot armor is really good way to reel in people into thinking they are safe, it could be really good bait or they'll just roll with it. Time will tell.



You know I didn't skim Legend of the Galactic Heroes to avoid spoilers and now I know about that ]=, well I suppose I should've seen it coming. Once again it's improbable but not impossible for an original manga series to match a work such as a LN that took months to create in a span of a week. SAO for example is easily trumped by Tokyo Ghoul in my opinion.