User blog comment:B214/Akame ga Kill! Episode 23 Review/@comment-5916303-20141207200454

Though the episode lost me half the way through, I can safely say that it was of an average quality.

Makoto's spring of a "Mad King" persona out of the blue is utterly ridiculous. The anime has given him very little screen time and very little character development. All of this time, we've known him as a simple young boy who has been manipulated by a malevolent and greedy old man. Now suddenly, we're suppose to believe that he's ready for a Pyrrhic victory at any cost, has a god complex and no regards for his own citizens he so greatly desires to protect. There's a bit of irony in this, as he kept shouting out loud his ambition to protect the empire, while tearing it down piece by piece. And if the empire had such strong Teigu, why have all this trouble on your hands with the revolution and everything else?

Wave still hasn't shown any kind of combat he displayed in the manga, the anime even goes so far as to give him the same weapon as Incursio has, making it seem more like a blue copy of its prototype rather than an improvement.

Tatsumi's evolution was overpowered. He even looked more like a pterodactyl rather than his initial form and the paint job is over the edge. Additionally, compared to the one in the manga, this one seems like an 80s joke, not to mention him using falcon punch to take down Makoto. And really? That giant armor has a weak spot that obvious?

Tatsumi's death was decent, fitting how the anime actually set it up, but with characters dropping like flies constantly, it wasn't as emotional as it could have been.

Did everybody just forget about Honest and simply let him be? Especially Akame?