Akame ga Kill! Characters

A young swordsman from a poor village who comes to the Capital to earn money for home. His first days there show him how corrupt the Empire is, and he joins Night Raid to fight it. When Bulat dies after the battle with the Three Beasts, Tatsumi inherits his armour, Incursio, and grows quickly into one of the group's strongest fighters. He is kind, friendly and a good cook, and he takes every lost comrade hard.

The title character, a quiet swordswoman with long black hair and red eyes. Sold to the Empire as a child with her younger sister Kurome and trained as one of its assassins, she changed sides when she was sent to kill Najenda and joined Night Raid instead. She can seem cold, but she worries constantly about her comrades, does most of the cooking at the hideout and has an enormous appetite.

A relaxed, cheerful blonde who acts as Night Raid's big sister and gathers information for its missions in the Capital, where she grew up in the slums. She first meets Tatsumi by robbing him in a tavern, then brings him into Night Raid. She has no patience for people who prey on the weak.

Night Raid's sniper, a proud, quick-tempered girl with pink twin tails. She was mistreated as a child for being half-foreign and joined the Revolutionary Army hoping that nobody else would suffer that kind of discrimination. She is cold to Tatsumi at first and slowly warms to him.

A gentle, absent-minded woman in glasses who grew up in the Capital's poorer districts, where people mocked her clumsiness, and later joined the Revolutionary Army. She is hopeless at everyday chores but calm and precise in a fight, and she is kind to Tatsumi from the start. She is killed early in the series in a fight with Seryu of the Imperial Police.

A green-haired joker who keeps a book-lending shop in the Capital as his cover. He fell for Najenda at first sight, followed her into the Imperial Army and then out of it into Night Raid, and his love for her goes unanswered. Behind the jokes he is crafty and dependable, and he becomes Tatsumi's close friend.

A former high-ranking officer of the Imperial Army who left in disgust at a government that cared more about bribes than merit, and joined the Revolutionary Army. Calm and kind, though he likes to call himself hot-blooded, he becomes a big brother and mentor to Tatsumi. He dies after the battle with the Three Beasts, leaving Incursio to Tatsumi.

Night Raid's leader, a former general of the Imperial Army with grey hair, an eyepatch and a mechanical arm. She defected to the Revolutionary Army after confronting Esdeath over her cruelty, and now plans Night Raid's missions. Calm and level-headed, she has a weakness for bad jokes and ramen. Later she brings Susanoo, a humanoid Imperial Arms, into the group.

The Empire's most feared general, who can create and control ice after drinking a Danger Beast's blood, the Imperial Arms Demon's Extract. Raised in a clan of Danger Beast hunters by a father who taught her that the strong survive and the weak perish, she lives for battle and has no pity for anyone she thinks weak. Called back to the Capital after conquering the northern tribes, she forms the Jaegers to hunt Night Raid and falls for Tatsumi at a tournament.

Akame's younger sister, who stayed with the Empire when Akame defected and was trained as an assassin in a separate unit. She joins the Jaegers and is quiet and ruthless in battle, with a big appetite like her sister's. She is set on settling things with Akame herself.

A young man from a small coastal town who served in the Imperial Navy before joining the Jaegers. Easy-going and decent, he sees Night Raid as killers and does his duty, but the longer he spends in the Capital, the more uneasy he grows about the Empire. His armour, Grand Chariot, is a black counterpart to Incursio, and he becomes Tatsumi's rival and friend.

The Empire's Prime Minister and the real power behind its boy Emperor, who trusts him like a father. Gluttonous and utterly selfish, he cares only about keeping his position and his comforts, has his rivals removed and lets the country sink into poverty. His son Syura and agents such as Bolic, planted in the religious group Path of Peace, do his work across the Empire.