User blog comment:Butterfly Effect/Akame Ga Kill! ( Anime TV Series ) - Final Episode and Anime History;/@comment-4829046-20141215085706

"( Akame Ga Kill! was a success )"

Considering that the anime did not do well, and thus having this forced ending due to the impossibility of having a second season, I really don't think it was a success in Japan's perspective. Non-Jap perspective, yes. But this series was an acquired taste one anyway, so I wouldn't call it that great a success in that department either. Even English anime critics were disappointed with it after a certain point. But you are right in a way, if any anime repeats this, they will fail the same way AGK failed. Quite a pity.

I'd say Shingeki no Kyoujin brought this aspect into the saturated cliche first. It was the very first series(since maybe Death Note or Hellsing) with THAT much gore, violence, mature themes and considerable lack of comedy, ecchi and romance, to receive International acclaim and literally become a symbol of Non-Jap otaku culture. It's like "Oh look, its that 'Attack on Titan' thing. I hate anime" kind of thing now instead of "Oh, is that Naruto? They must be kids to watch that". Generalization I know, but I speak from my own experiences.

It was SnK that set the stage for other series like Black Bullet or Akame ga kill or even Terra ForMars to receive anime(anime that have some similarity with SnK, production-wise) Sadly Black Bullet failed miserably. Akame ga kill also failed. Terra ForMars might succeed however, maybe not among non-Japs, but in the Jap market. I'm not sure though.

And why do you make it like "Takahiro made the anime"? Indeed, we will likely see this tragic kind of ending in the manga too, but the one that made the final decisions for the anime ending wasn't Takahiro. Takahiro is pacing himself without rushing too quickly.