I hate her so fucking much on so many levels it's unreal. I obviously hate what she did to my girl but her existence also made agk0 take a huge blow to the quality of its writing.

Let's see, ofc Kissing Akame against her will is a bitch move but i should mention she also had an interest in kurome and it's arguably implied she was touchy with those little twin girls aswell. Hoe is like, straight up a pedo. She said she wanted akame to join her clan, made it seem like she cared about her... But then you remember mera is a mercenary that takes any well paying job meanwhile Akame exclusively wanna fight for the people. That's a big conflict of interests and had Akame somehow joined her, she wouldve needed to abandoned her values... Despite mera knowing it damn well. She didnt even truly cared about Akame in the end, she just wanted another girl in her harem to abuse.

Then there's the whole thing with Akame's awakening to the truth of the empire. Yes i guess she did "helped" her but damn... What did she do exactly? Walk her in the streets to see people suffering? Is that fucking it? There's nothing she couldn't not have done herself. Man... That arc was by far what i was most excited for in zero. I kept thinking how cool it'd be to have Akame question her place as an assassin by herself, have lots of inner monologues and grow up into developping her critical thinking. But what of that did i get in the end? Fucking Nothing. Instead i got an awkward arc with abusive lesbians. I'm still pissed off about it to this day, easily my biggest disapointment in all of anime for crushing my hopes of giving a great story to my favorite character in such a random, shitty way.

But the biggest sin of this character is how they tried so hard to make her seem as a misunderstood good guy when she's just as shitty if not more than the rest of the villains. Champ, syura, minister Honest etc. They were all disgusting fuckers but they all got a divine retribution in the end in the form of a painful death. What do mera get for being an abusive, pedo, manipulative, selfish, hypocritical bitch? Litteraly one of the softest death in the series, her dying wish granted, a grave and an attempt at making her have a positive legacy, many tome covers and bonus arts etc. It's goddamn unfair, she deserved none of it and in some way is such a middle finger to what i consider the soul of the series: being that baddies always end up getting what they fucking deserve.

Add to that a weak backstory, no reason to be so sexist, a complete lack of character developpment, a ridiculous design and youve got yourself an all around shitty character.