Character · Akame ga Kill
Akame
Her sword kills anything it cuts, once, which makes every fight she takes a single question with one answer.
In Otakana the clue reads: Assassin with a one-cut poison sword
- Type
- Character
- Series
- Akame ga Kill
- Letters
- 5 · Hard
Akame belongs to Night Raid, the assassination arm of a rebellion against a rotting empire. She was bought as a child, trained by the same empire she now kills for a living, and separated from her younger sister in the process. The flat delivery is not a pose. She talks about a target the way a cook talks about a fish, and the series lets that sit uncomfortably rather than explaining it away.
The sword is Murasame, one of the imperial arms the story hands out to both sides. A cut from it, any cut at all, releases a curse that stops the heart within seconds. Armour helps. Distance helps. A graze does not. Because the weapon cannot be survived, her fights are decided by whether she gets to touch you, which turns them into short brutal contests of footwork.
Takahiro wrote the manga with art by Tetsuya Tashiro, running in Gangan Joker from 2010, and White Fox animated it in 2014. Akame ga Kill earned its reputation by killing characters readers liked, on both sides, at a pace that made every chapter feel provisional. The anime overtook the manga and invented its own ending, which fans have argued about ever since.
Spelling AKAME
AKAME is five letters and also a plain Japanese word, akame, red eye, from aka for red and me for eye. The title puns on kiru, to cut, so the game wants her name alone. Watch the middle: it is KA and not KE, and the two A's sit in the first and third positions.