Talk:Karma Akabane/@comment-37344728-20181115235840/@comment-27736988-20181116003824

The anime adapts his introduction pretty faithfully from what I remember so there's basically no difference there. Might be a hot take but while his final solo assassination attempt was suicidal in nature, I don't think Karma himself was actually suicidal.

He had a lot of trust issues after he felt his teacher betrayed him. The fact that they were allowed to assassinate a teacher in Korosensei served as an outlet for Karma's bitterness and frustration from that betrayal. Korosensei treated all his assassination attempts like jokes up to that point so Karma, desperate to get revenge on any teacher, devised that plan of jumping off a cliff as a last resort. What he wanted more than anything was to "kill" the idea/essence of a teacher and to be proven right.