Kurome

**Kurome** (クロメ, *Kurome*), is both the fictional character and deuteragonist of the *Akame ga Kill!* series. She is the younger sister of Akame, a former member of the Jaegers, and the second strongest after General Esdeath, capable of taking on the entirety of Night Raid with her Yatsufusa and almost winning. Sold by her parents to the Empire along with Akame, the sisters were trained as assassins. She was drafted into a different assassin group than her sister and the siblings parted ways. She is also the only person that can clash swords with Akame and come out unscathed with no allies or supernatural assistance.

"*To kill the one you love... If someone else will do it anyway, I'd rather do it myself.*"

—Kurome.

## Appearance & Biography

*Voice Actor*: Juliet Simmons (English), Ayaka Ōhashi (Japanese), Not Known (Italian), Not Known (Spanish), Not Known (German), Not Known (Finnish), Not Known (Korean), Not Known (French), Not Known (Latin American Spanish)

### Appearance

Kurome looks very similar to her sister. She has short black hair in a twintail style and black eyes. She wears a black sailor uniform and a wears a red belt that has a red side skirt cover like Akame. She also wears red gauntlets like Akame. She keeps her Imperial Arm with her at all times. She wears it with long black socks and black shoes.

* Hair Color: Black
* Skin Color: Not Known
* Eye Color: Black
* Age: Not Known
* Birthday: Not Known
* Height: 160 cm (5'3")
* Weight: Not Known

## Personality

Although she shares some traits with her sister, such as her social awkwardness and a big appetite, Kurome is much more aloof and seems to show darker sides of her when it comes to killing her enemies. She is cold and ruthless in battle, usually ending the lives of her enemies as one would expect from a seasoned assassin.

Secretly, she is very scared of being seen as weak, knowing that, in the Assassination Division, if she became dead weight she'd be taken out to keep her silent. This has a lingering effect of her upbringing, as she almost did suffer this fate, were it not for the drug therapy she later underwent.

She displays an unstable mental attachment to her fallen comrades as she keeps them as her corpse dolls as shown with Run. When he was severely injured and about to die, she states that it allows them to be "together forever", and she intended to add her sister to this collection, prior to Yatsufusa's destruction. She also seemed to play with the corpses of those she has killed, as well as keeping powerful ones to use in her permanent collection which is limited to eight.

## Relationships

### Friends/Allies

* Jagers
	+ Esdeath
	+ Seryu Ubiquitous
	+ Dr. Stylish
	+ Wave
	+ Run
	+ Bols

### Family

* Unnamed Parents
* Akame (older sister)
* Gozuki (adoptive father)

### Enemies

* Night Raid
	+ Najenda
	+ Mine
	+ Lubbock
	+ Leone
	+ Sheele
	+ Bulat
	+ Tatsumi
	+ Susanoo
	+ Chelsea

## Powers and Abilities

Kurome is extremely skilled in the art of the sword and assassination. She possesses super-human reflexes, being capable of dodging Mine's long range sniper fire with only a moments notice, as well as super-human endurance, able to survive a fatal wound to the back of her neck. Kurome states that the only reliable way to kill her is to either crush her heart or decapitate her. She was even able to land a hit on Esdeath.

### Weaknesses

Kurome's abilities are not solely due to natural training, but through doping and continued drug use. Because of this Kurome must continually take drugs and appears to suffer from pain when she does not take them. After Chelsea wounded her, she has been drastically weakened.

### Weapons

Kurome wielded an offensive Imperial Arm like her older sister, in the form of a katana sword named "March of the Dead: Yatsufusa", which allowed her to enslave up to 8 enemies killed with the Imperial Arm. However, the corpses did not show any emotion.

## History

### Past

Along with her sister Akame, Kurome was among a group of children sold to the Empire who were forced to participate in a survival exam in a forest full of danger beasts. After the sisters survived by working together, they were drafted into different assassination divisions (because of their superiors reluctance to keep sisters in one group).

After joining her division, Kurome was subjected to cruel treatment as well as forced to ingest experimental drugs, making her body more powerful. Dr. Stylish developed a poison that mimicked the effects of the disease Rubeola and made a deal with Kurome's superior to exchange for 10 male prisoners. Stylish's poison would be used on Kurome's groups first official mission. The Targeted city was poisoned with this fake Rubeola, forcing the Revolutionary spies to flee. Kurome's group was tasked to intercept these spies as they left the city. The group waited for their targets to arrive and finally spotted them, taking their doping pills to enhance their strength as they began their attack. The group initially had the advantage against the spies, but soon the tides began to turn when Remus was grievously wounded and Womyn was killed by manner of bisection. Heavily wounded and distraught by the death of their comrade, the group returned to base, where they were treated cruelly and locked up. The group's leader withheld their medication and told them to reflect on their failures in punishment. The leader then heads to the infirmary and inquires about the status of "number 32", a female doctor informs him that Remus is wounded so badly she will never be able to be an assassin again, he then enters the room where Remus attempts to apologize for her failure, but the leader injects her with a vial, euthanizing her.

## External links

* Kurome *Wikipedia*
* Kurome *Akame ga Kill! Wiki*

## Notes & Trivia

* "Kurome" can mean "black eyes" in Japanese.
* Her measurements are 80-51-81.
* In the manga, Kurome is apparently left-handed as seen when she wields her Teigu. Interestingly in the anime, she uses her right hand.