Najenda

Features of Najenda:

Age In the mid-20s Gender Female Height 172 cm (5'8") Eye color Light purple Hair color Silver Blood type TO

Najenda is the leader of the assassin group Night Raid. She was a general of the Empire who defected, along with Lubbock, to the Revolutionary Army shortly after completing an expedition led by her and Esdeath to eliminate the opposition of the Ban Tribe.

Najenda's Appearance:

Appearance Najenda is a woman with short silver hair and purple eyes. She wears an eye patch over her right eye. She wears a black bodysuit that reveals her cleavage. She has a green and black mechanical right arm. When she was younger, her hair was longer and she wore it tied up and braided.

Najenda's Personality:

Personality Najenda is taciturn, perceptive, and level-headed, leading the group with a surprisingly kind yet firm air. Her years of experience serving in the Empire as a general have made her a very capable leader. She is sometimes mistaken for a man due to her youthful appearance, and is even nicknamed "The Gallant of the Rebellion" by her peers. She has a habit of telling cold jokes and making bad puns.

Najenda's Story:

Najenda was a general of the Empire who decided to defect after noticing the corruption of the current regime. She was a colleague of Esdeath and accompanied her on a previous expedition for the Empire. During a mission to eliminate a revolutionary army base, Najenda informed her army of her plan to defect from the Empire, which they agreed with. Because of this, she and her troops became targets of Imperial troops and eventually Esdeath's army. She lost her right eye and arm in the ensuing brief battle against Esdeath. Najenda makes her debut in Akame ga Kill Zero when Saikyuu gives Gozuki a new mission to kill her after the operation on Mount Hakuba. As Gozuki already had his own mission, he passed it on to Akame. Prior to their encounter (including Bulat, who was also Najenda's bodyguard at the time) Akame was already having thoughts about the Empire's misdeeds and questioning its actions. When they came face to face, Najenda revealed before the battle that they lured Akame here, away from the Empire's other spies, to finish her off with Bulat because the Revolutionary Army took enough casualties thanks to her actions, making her a major target. The battle enters an endless loop because Najenda's Teigu Pumpkin couldn't hit Akame (because she wasn't giving any openings), Bulat's fighting style wasn't suited to defeat an assassin like Akame (because he was raised as a soldier), and Akame's Shingu Kiriichimonji couldn't land a critical hit on Incursio (because the armor was a Teigu).

Najenda's Story:

When Akame began to think about retreating so she could come up with a new strategy to defeat them both, Bulat opens his heart to Akame, confessing that he felt she was already questioning the Empire's wrongdoings from the way she wielded her sword. After a long conversation, Akame decides to join the Revolutionary Army and pretends to Gozuki that the mission was unsuccessful because they escaped with a secret path leading to the City. Najenda passes her Teigu to Mine due to her being unable to use it anymore. Due to her injury, Najenda usually stays at the base, ordering her subordinates around. When Tatsumi arrived, Najenda explained his options and who he would be paired with in each training session. She assigns roles and pairs each member of Night Raid to help Tatsumi adjust as an assassin. Following the loss of several members, such as Bulat and Sheele, and the growing threat of the Empire, mainly due to the formation of their new faction, the Jaegers, Najenda temporarily abandons Night Raid's base and returns to the main Revolutionary Army's army to hand over the Teigu they have taken and search for new members to bolster her team. During Team Stylish's attack on Night Raid's hideout, Najenda arrives just in time to assist her comrades, bringing two new members with her: Chelsea and the humanoid Teigu, Susanoo. During their time away from the hideout, Najenda and Night Raid train while also introducing Chelsea and Susanoo to the members of Night Raid. They train for roughly a month until Revolutionary calls her and Night Raid back to the capital with the others to subdue new types of Danger Beasts.

Najenda's Story:

After suppressing all the Danger Beasts, she received new orders from Command to ally with the Peace Path and the Revolutionary Army due to their strong influence in the east and to leverage their uprising to benefit the Revolutionaries. Najenda reported and explained the three-pronged attack plan drawn up by the Revolutionary Army. During her mission outside the Night Raid base, she visited several castles and forts, convincing some Imperial Crown Princes to defect and thus slow the Revolutionary advance south. Najenda later explains the plan to assassinate Borick on the Peace Path, and it turns out that Borick is an Imperial spy tasked with preventing an uprising from within. By eliminating Borick, she is also able to convince the Lord to start an uprising in the East and ally with the Revolutionaries. She personally assumes command of the operation, using this mission to lure the Jaegers out and devise a plan to ambush them. Before reaching her objective, she split Night Raid into two teams, traveling east and south to weaken the Jaegers. The strategy was successful, and Najenda used her trump card, the Magatama Manifestation, for the first time to defeat Desta Ghoul. Following the assault, Najenda and the others retreat to safety while Lubbock arrives. Worried about Chelsea's decision to pursue Kurome alone, she orders Tatsumi and Akame to reinforce her. However, her decision was too late, and Chelsea has already been killed by Kurome and put on display in Romari Village. She and the group arrive at Kyoroch, the headquarters of Path of Peace, and observe Borick's mansion from a distance. She contacted the Revolutionary Espionage Team to formulate a plan to assassinate Borick.

Najenda's Story:

However, the plan was delayed due to the Jaegers being on high alert, the fight against the Four Rakshasha Demons, and the deaths of many Revolutionary Spies, forcing them into a stalemate that lasted up to two weeks. During a conversation with Tatsumi, Najenda states that the number of soldiers needed to defeat Esdeath is fifty thousand elite soldiers and ten Teigu users, including Akame. When Najenda is alone with Tatsumi, she tells him about her past. At first, she teases him about her affection by telling him how many men she rejected when she was a general. During their mission to subjugate the bandits, she announces her defection to the Revolutionaries, and the Empire sends troops, but Najenda quickly dispatches her. Her biggest miscalculation at the time was that Esdeath's Army was also sent to intercept her. She herself lost her right eye and arm in the process, but was saved just in time by the arrival of the Revolutionary Main Army to rescue her, forcing Esdeath to retreat from exhaustion, but most of her troops died. From that day forward, she vows to purge this trauma by defeating her and the Empire. The night before the assault, Night Raid feasted, and Najenda returned to report on the mission. She herself will command the diversionary unit alongside Susanoo, Tatsumi, and Leone, while the rest will attack from the air with a pre-requested Aerial Manta. After the war, Najenda continued to help protect the new kingdom, contributing to the elimination of the remaining members of the old one and preventing further rebellions. Najenda lived the rest of her life single, but adopted at least one child. She retrieved Lubbock's glasses and kept them as a memento of her fallen comrade.

Najenda's Physical Abilities:

Physical abilities She herself has commented that due to the injuries inflicted on her by Esdeath, she only has 40% of her original strength. This might also have rendered her unable to handle her former Teigu, Pumpkin, at its full power, leading her to give it up to Mine. However, she is still a competent fighter, able to use her prosthetic hand to generate momentum with her kicks and punches, capable of taking heads off in a single blow. On one occasion, she demonstrated to Leone her ability to shoot her prosthetic hand and recall it. Reel Assault (リールアサルト, Rīruasaruto): She shoots out her prosthetic hand, coils it up to her arm, and quickly kicks out. [1]

Najenda's Leadership:

Leadership Najenda is calm and caring, able to adapt to various situations and give orders adaptively to the situation at hand. She is also able to rally the Revolutionary Troops that were attacking the capital, allowing them to hold the position before Night Raid defeated Esdeath and the Emperor. Esdeath states that Najenda always leads her troops and fights with serenity and enthusiasm, aware of her capabilities as a former general of the Empire. Before defecting from the Empire, Najenda wielded the Teigu, Pumpkin, and demonstrated great marksmanship and skill as a sniper. This is seen when she used the Pumpkin to defend herself against Esdeath during her defection. Afterwards, Najenda continued to use the Pumpkin as her weapon of choice, though it was hinted that her skill with it had diminished due to her injuries and the lack of an arm and an eye. Despite this, Najenda demonstrated enough skill to use it to provide covering fire for Bulat during his fight against Akame upon first meeting her, nearly taking Bulat down in their duel. She would later become the master of the humanoid Teigu, Susanoo, until her demise. Until her arrival at Headquarters, Susanoo remained inactive and began to react to her presence. Susanoo explained to the members of Night Raid that this was due to Najenda's resemblance to her former master, who was a great general. Since Susanoo can fight alone, Najenda has been shown to primarily fight alongside him by providing support, such as providing her own energy to activate his Assault Ace.

Najenda Trivia:

Najenda's measurements are 85-58-86. In episode 18 of Akame ga Kill! Theater, Najenda is shown to have a fear of cockroaches, or katsaridaphobia. His identical character is his Arifureta: From Commonplace to World's Strongest counterpart, Hajime Nagumo. Najenda is the only member of Night Raid, apart from Akame, to survive in both the anime and manga. Tatsumi and Mine survive in the manga, but die in the anime.