Akame ga kill! Vol 2 continues Tatsumi's journey as he trains to become an assassin under the tutelage of the Night Raid, a band of highly skilled killers on a mission to overthrow the oppressive rule of the empire. This volume had a lot more exposition and world building compared to the first volume which made for more prominent story-telling but it didn't lose focus on the action-packed core of the manga. There were many suspenseful fight sequences right the way through and some new foes to be overcome. I enjoyed the various character arcs and I thought they were told purposefully, providing the right amount of relief from the relentless action.

I thought that the violence was, in places, overly gratuitous as though we needed constant reminders of how evil the empire is, with no real intent behind it and I thought some of the villains were too one-dimensional, such as Zank the Beheader who just seemed like an impossible villain to defeat with a very weak backstory.

However, I did really enjoy the fight scenes involving all the female leads Akame, Leone and Mein, it did an excellent job of portraying these women as strong and formidable.