Yes i'm talking about Chelsea, the Lollipop girl (pun intended)
Her death haunted me for more than a week i swear, it felt so earned, yet so disrespectful, but totally in peace with the universe the author created. The most mind blowing thing is that some random Facebook picture spoiled her death to me, and still it was that painful to watch. But why?
Its a combination of factors:
1- She was an OP character, she was a very skilled assassin that had a BIG kill count, her opponent, Kurome, was the same, with pretty different styles, but on paper they were on the same league.
2- She was positioning herself as the love interest for Tatsumi, yeah, you could tell that Leone and Mine had the hots for Tatsumi, but Chelsea made the more sense since her introduction, i mean, the cold hearted assassin who breaks her shell thanks to the MC, who wouldn't get behind that romance? yeah, pretty old school, but for something like Akame ga Kill this was enough to make a compelling romance, until it didnt happen, on Tatsumi's part, at least. Because she died thinking about him, well, she died FOR him, because she pursued Kurome just to get praised by Night Raid and specially Tatsumi. She made a mistake and she paid dearly.
3- You can't get angry with her death, well, you CAN get angry for being unable to gent angry. I mean that you cant blame the writers, you cant blame plot holes, you cant even get angry at Kurome, because she killed Chelsea in self defense and to avenge the death of a Fallen comrade (Bols)
Kurome gets to the point of near disability after her attack, is not like she walked off from her fight like it was nothing after her "Power up".
4- My brain tricked me and made me think that Sheele (girl with glasses) was Chelsea and that the head on the spike would be Sheele's head in later episodes, but i realized the truth when Lubbock tried to stop Chelsea from going against Kurome, my death detector started tingling.
Yes, im on track with Re: Zero
I've watched Attack on Titan, i love it, its my #1 anime of all time, but the amount of Plot armor some characters have is ridiculous. I've also watched Parasyte, Overlord, even Elfen Lied, so that protects me against the argument of "nununununu you got surprised because Lollipop girl was just waifu material"
I couldn't find a decent video with her death without annoying interruptions, sorry this is the best i could find (for those who want to remember)
Her death haunted me for more than a week i swear, it felt so earned, yet so disrespectful, but totally in peace with the universe the author created. The most mind blowing thing is that some random Facebook picture spoiled her death to me, and still it was that painful to watch. But why?
Its a combination of factors:
1- She was an OP character, she was a very skilled assassin that had a BIG kill count, her opponent, Kurome, was the same, with pretty different styles, but on paper they were on the same league.
2- She was positioning herself as the love interest for Tatsumi, yeah, you could tell that Leone and Mine had the hots for Tatsumi, but Chelsea made the more sense since her introduction, i mean, the cold hearted assassin who breaks her shell thanks to the MC, who wouldn't get behind that romance? yeah, pretty old school, but for something like Akame ga Kill this was enough to make a compelling romance, until it didnt happen, on Tatsumi's part, at least. Because she died thinking about him, well, she died FOR him, because she pursued Kurome just to get praised by Night Raid and specially Tatsumi. She made a mistake and she paid dearly.
3- You can't get angry with her death, well, you CAN get angry for being unable to gent angry. I mean that you cant blame the writers, you cant blame plot holes, you cant even get angry at Kurome, because she killed Chelsea in self defense and to avenge the death of a Fallen comrade (Bols)
Kurome gets to the point of near disability after her attack, is not like she walked off from her fight like it was nothing after her "Power up".
4- My brain tricked me and made me think that Sheele (girl with glasses) was Chelsea and that the head on the spike would be Sheele's head in later episodes, but i realized the truth when Lubbock tried to stop Chelsea from going against Kurome, my death detector started tingling.
Yes, im on track with Re: Zero
I love Re: Zero and i loved episode 15 and the latest episode with the bunnies, but the return by death plays against the thrill of the deaths
I couldn't find a decent video with her death without annoying interruptions, sorry this is the best i could find (for those who want to remember)
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