I've caught up on DanMachi and I marathoned
Akame ga Kill! over the past three days. DanMachi is decent so far, and I think I'll continue to watch it.
I gave
Akame ga Kill! a 6.5/10 (rounded up to a 7 for MAL). There's a lot it can be both praised and criticized for, but it was entertaining and had interesting elements. It's refreshing to see an anime with a relatively simple plot and one that doesn't mind killing off characters. However, the character development and pacing were its fatal flaws, and the show never really overcame them.
Almost all of the main characters were archetypes of some form (tsundere, big brother figure, big sister figure, pervert, clutz, cold assassin, etc.). That isn't necessarily bad, but, combined with the rapid pace of the show and the consistent body count, many of the characters didn't get the chance to develop and remained fairly one-dimensional. The villains were worse, since, except for the Jaegars, most of them were only seen for one or two episodes and came across as "monsters of the week". Most of them were so ridiculously evil or power-hungry that they weren't believable.
It was nice that the show didn't mind killing off its characters, but it eventually became meaningless when the death flags were obvious and most of the characters weren't developed enough to care for. There are plot holes and questionable moments, but the fast-moving story partly distracts from them.
There was also the issue of the show having a sort of identity crisis. I couldn't tell if it was trying to be a fight-driven shounen, a moral story on good versus evil and the ideal of "justice", an edgy thriller, a dark, political plot, or a character-driven drama. It tried to be a lot of things, and only really succeeded in being a fight-driven shounen, in my opinion. The fights were entertaining and some of the Imperial Arms were fun, but there wasn't much in the way of powerful themes or poignant lessons. There were moments that tugged on heartstrings, though, especially in the deaths of some of the more key characters.
As mentioned before, most of Night Raid were all characters you've probably seen before, though I was rooting for Bulat (basically an openly gay Kamina) and Leone (a "big sister" archetype). Susanoo and Lubbock were interesting in their own ways, though Chelsea was perhaps the most notable character. She didn't have as much screen time as most of the others, but she felt real in a way the other characters didn't.
As for the Jaegars, Esdeath made a decent antagonist, but there wasn't too much to her. Seryuu could have been a statement on the different ideas and beliefs of "justice", but she quickly became a caricature of herself. Wave served as a good (and obvious) foil to Tatsumi, Bols was okay and the other two (Dr. Stylish and Run) received pretty much no characterization.
With all that said, though, I think the show did what it set out to do. It has its moments, and it's a fun show with entertaining fights and regular deaths.
EDIT: This review became much longer than I planned for it to be.
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