Akame ga Kill! Trivia
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50 free Akame Ga Kill! trivia questions with answers — trivia quiz, new questions added Aug 2026.
Akame ga Kill! began as a 2010 Square Enix manga about a country boy who walks into a corrupt capital and ends up in an assassin cell. The 2014 anime from White Fox compressed the story, killed most of the cast, and became one of the most-watched premieres in Toonami history. This quiz covers the writer and artist, the magazine it ran in, the prequel and spin-off, the studio and theme songs, the Night Raid roster and their Teigu, Esdeath and the Jaegers, the Three Beasts, Wild Hunt, and the sales and streaming history since. Every answer is explained, so the lore gaps get filled as you go.
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Q 01Who wrote the Akame ga Kill! manga?
Takahiro
Takahiro was a visual-novel writer with his own game studio; asked for a manga in 2007, he held it back until the studio had shipped its second game, Majikoi, in 2009.
Q 02Who illustrated the original Akame ga Kill! manga?
Tetsuya Tashiro
Tetsuya Tashiro was recruited in 2009; in the first volume's afterword the writer says he picked him for his eye-catching action scenes and because he draws cute girls.
Q 03Which publisher released the Akame ga Kill! manga in Japan?
Square Enix
Square Enix is best known for the Final Fantasy games, but its manga arm also published Fullmetal Alchemist and Soul Eater.
Q 04In which magazine was the Akame ga Kill! manga serialized?
Monthly Gangan Joker
Monthly Gangan Joker, launched in 2009, is officially a shōnen magazine aimed at teenage boys, despite the torture and gore this series became known for.
Q 05Besides Akame, which Night Raid member survives the anime's ending?
Najenda
Najenda and Akame are the only two left alive: the anime overtook the unfinished manga and wrote an ending of its own, killing even Tatsumi, who survives in print.
Q 06Which seemingly kind noble girl takes Tatsumi in on his first night in the Capital?
Aria
Aria seems an angel until Night Raid attacks her home and shows Tatsumi what her family does to travelers from the countryside, his two friends among them.
Q 07Why does Tatsumi travel to the Capital at the start of the story?
To raise money for his village
To raise money for his village he plans to enlist in the army, but he is turned away, swindled out of his savings and taken in by a noble family with a dark secret.
Q 08Which studio animated the Akame ga Kill! anime?
White Fox
White Fox, the studio behind Steins;Gate and later Re:Zero, animated all 24 episodes, with the manga's own writer supervising the scripts.
Q 09What does kiru mean in Akame ga Kill!'s Japanese title?
Slash
Slash, or more exactly kill with a blade, is what kiru means; the English title swaps the verb for the sound-alike word Kill.
Q 10Who voices Akame in the Japanese anime?
Sora Amamiya
Sora Amamiya was two years into her career when she was cast in 2014, and the part came with a second job: she sang the show's first opening theme as her music debut.
Q 11Who illustrated the Akame ga Kill! prequel manga, Zero?
Kei Toru
Kei Toru drew the prequel, which follows Akame's years as an assassin for the Empire, before she changes sides and joins the rebels.
Q 12What is the title of the Akame ga Kill! spin-off manga illustrated by Strelka?
Hinowa ga Crush!
Hinowa ga Crush! moves the action to a distant eastern country, Wakoku, with a new heroine; from the original cast only Akame returns, as a side character.
Q 13Which company licensed the Akame ga Kill! manga in North America?
Yen Press
Yen Press began its edition in 2015, after the anime had already finished the story with an ending of its own, so English readers met the manga's real ending years later.
Q 21Who captures Prime Minister Honest in the manga's final battle?
Leone
Leone, shot and left for dead, fuses with what is left of her Teigu to catch the fleeing Honest, then dies smiling on the street where she first met Tatsumi.
Q 22In the manga's ending, which Night Raid member wakes from a coma to marry Tatsumi and have his child?
Mine
Mine collapses after spending the last of her strength to kill a general, wakes carrying Tatsumi's child and settles down with him far from the Capital; in the anime, neither of them survives.
Q 23What was the original 2007 concept for Akame ga Kill!?
An all-female band of assassins
Q 14Which company licensed the anime for North America?
Sentai Filmworks
Its status as one of that licensor's titles is why the show vanished from a major streaming service in 2022.
Q 15Lubbock's Teigu, Cross Tail, lets him fight and set traps using what?
Threads
Threads are all Cross Tail is, yet Lubbock uses them to kill the prime minister's own son in his final fight.
Q 16In the English version of Akame ga Kill!, what are the Teigu called?
Imperial Arms
Imperial Arms is the literal meaning of Teigu: relics forged from rare materials and the remains of Danger Beasts, so strong that when two wielders fight, one of them must die.
Q 17Which capital enforcer kills Sheele?
Seryu
Seryu paralyzes Sheele with a hidden gun so that her Teigu can finish the job; Sheele's last act is a blinding flash that lets her wounded partner escape.
Q 18Which Teigu does Tatsumi inherit after Bulat's death?
Incursio
Incursio is handed over by the dying Bulat, who had judged that Tatsumi could take the armor further than he ever had.
Q 19Who is Akame's younger sister, a member of the Jaegers?
Kurome
Kurome and Akame were sold to the Empire as children and split into separate assassin squads; when Akame defected, each sister vowed to be the one to kill the other.
Q 20Who leads the brutal Wild Hunt formed by Prime Minister Honest?
Syura
Syura is Honest's own son, and Wild Hunt's atrocities are so vile that they turn the Empire's own Jaegers against it as well as Night Raid.
An all-female band of assassins was the pitch, with a boy they capture and force to work for them as the hero; the Night Raid that reached print has men in its ranks.
Q 24Who composed the Akame ga Kill! anime's music?
Taku Iwasaki
Taku Iwasaki, the composer of Gurren Lagann, was a familiar hire: he had already scored Katanagatari and Jormungand for the same animation studio.
Q 25What is the first opening theme of the Akame ga Kill! anime?
Skyreach
Skyreach was sung by the voice of Akame herself as her music debut; "Liar Mask" replaced it for the anime's second half.
Q 26The Akame ga Kill! dub premiered in the US in August 2015 on which anime outlet?
Toonami
Toonami's premiere drew more than 1.8 million viewers, which the show's licensor announced as the most-watched series premiere in the block's history.
Q 27Which streaming service removed Akame ga Kill! on March 31, 2022?
Crunchyroll
Crunchyroll dropped it with dozens of other shows that day, months after Sony's Funimation had bought the service; most of them were by then streaming on rival HIDIVE.
Q 28Tatsumi's inherited armor was created from the flesh of which Danger Beast?
Tyrant
Tyrant was a dragon-like Danger Beast so powerful that its flesh is still alive inside the armor, which lets it evolve with its wearer and, in time, begin to consume him.
Q 29What is the name of Akame's poison-bladed katana?
Murasame
Murasame kills with a single cut, its poison curse spreading in seconds, which is why Esdeath hacks off her own arm the moment the blade nicks it.
Q 30Which former Imperial executioner turned serial killer hunts the Capital at night with a mind-reading Teigu?
Zank
Zank the Beheader was driven mad by the voices of the people he had executed; when Akame finally cuts him down, he thanks her for freeing him from them.