User blog comment:Butterfly Effect/Akame Ga Kill! ( Anime TV Series ) - Final Episode and Anime History;/@comment-4829046-20141215085706/@comment-4829046-20141216091623

Darker than Black is certainly of mention, but I mean from a particular craze. Darker than Black was an acquired taste series from a different time. Not to mention that Darker than Black gets its charm from the main character focus.

Where to start the manga? Hmm.... I would suggest the very beginning. The anime did a good job capturing all the non-filler scenes to a T but they were forced to omit small bits that I felt had some interesting character development. Plus, take it from me and a friend of mine, the manga is a really fast read. Especially since the action scenes are still the same as the anime, so you don't need to spend time looking at those. And even then, it is really fast.

If you don't have time though, you could check this because, forgive my memory, but not sure whether it was animated. But otherwise start from about here. That's the point where they started deviating from the manga. Like big time. Then you have an entire arc before we get to Tatsumi's execution.