Akame ga Kill

This series of 4 episodes came out in 2014, and should be coming out on adult swim in August 2015 later this year, with english dub. Each episode is 24 minutes or so.

This show is violent, spoiler alert, but people die. I wont tell you who, but be forewarned that characters do die. The show follows Tatsumi (the guy in the tan sweater in the photo above). He comes to the capital to earn enough riches to save his small village on the outskirts, unfortunately he quickly finds out that the capital is not all that he believed, especially not it the case of the people. Things occur that leads him to joining the elite team of Night Raid, a group of assassins that kill prominent members of the army and government. 

However thats not the most interesting part, that belongs to weapons they each carry. Imperial Arms. 1000 years ago the first emperor realized that he would not be able to live forever, so he endeavored to create 48 weapons of superior power to pass down the generations to keep his empire safe. These weapons were created using the rarest of elements and the energies of the rarest and most powerful "danger beasts." These Imperial Arms range in power as well as type. Some are swords or guns, others are armor or supply like objects. There are even a few organic ones that are in and of themselves alive. These Arms have incredible abilities like being able to cut anything in the world in half, or cursing the victim with death from only a single cut, or being able to summon those that have been killed by it, or even to create ice out of thin air. These Arms however have ended up on both sides of the fight over the years and now Night Raid must fight the Jaegers of the empire for control. And it is important to know that because of the power of the Imperial Arms, if two people each with one fights against each other, it is pretty much guaranteed that at least one of them will die.

I enjoyed the series, though I thought that some of the fights were a bit short, however that may be from my own history or watching things like Dragonball Z where the shortest fights were 10 episodes long. But here I thought that some of the fights ended too soon, sometimes making it feel somewhat anti-climatic. But in the end the series gets a 10 out of 11.