Kill la Kill

Kill La Kill is the first original work from Trigger, a studio founded by a couple former Gainax employees. It ran from October of last year to March of this year. Its head writer was Nakashima Kazuki, who was also one of the series writers for Gurren Lagann. So, how did Trigger's initial foray into an original series go?

Story:

Our tale opens with the militant Honnouji Academy getting a new transfer student. Enter our protagonist, Matoi Ryuuko. She's traveled across the country looking for leads about her father's killer. The trail has led to Honnouji, where the student counsel President, Satsuki, rules with an iron ... fist and students' positions in her hierarchy determine where they can live and what kinds of jobs their families can hold. Ryuuko demands answers from Satsuki only to be beaten by one of her minions who's using a magic uniform that grants him superhuman powers. Yes, the premise really involves magical clothing.

Ryuuko slinks back to her father's burnt lab, falling through a trap door. Inside she finds a magic sailor uniform that talks to her and grants her super powers but needs her blood to activate. Ryuuko decides to put an end to Satsuki's ambitions and force her to tell the truth about her father's death. But the secret of Honnouji Academy goes far deeper than she realises.

The plot of this story is pretty weak and largely just serves to transport Ryuuko from one over the top action or comedic sequence to the next. The plot twists come out of nowhere with nothing foreshadowing them whatsoever, but a lot of them are really predictable in spite of that simply because they're really cliché. The attempts at comedy fall short as well, usually being based on either the idea that nudity is funny or rambling that borders on incoherent.

Characters:

The only characters who even gravitate towards two dimensions are Satsuki and Ryuuko, the rest are firmly rooted one-dimensional archetypes. Whether it's the friend, the loyal minion, the bloke who loves to fight or something else entirely. The only thing that really sets them apart from the usual archetype is that they're more over the top. Kill La Kill subscribes to the notion that subtlety and depth are unnecessary. It just tries to exaggerate the casts' archetypal qualities to make them the most extreme versions it possibly can.

Art:

The art in this looks pretty bad. The characters look like blank-faced action figures with proportions out of a bad 90s comic. The action sequences are frequently difficult to follow with an over-emphasis on flashy effects and special attacks that just strain your eyes more often than not.

The outfits are really fan-servicey as well, but I'm pretty certain the designs are being used in an attempt at comedy. Both because the art style does not lend itself to actual fan-service and because the anime draws attention to how ridiculous the outfits are on several occasions. The problem is the execution. Everything is ridiculously exaggerated in this anime so the over the top fan-service doesn't come across as tonally different from anything else, be it serious or not. Furthermore, while a joke at the expense of how ridiculous fan-service can be could work in a short piece or when used sparingly in a longer work, the series is decently long with twenty four episodes, all of which keep the same ridiculous outfits. If they wanted them to serve as a parody, they really should have replaced them with something actually practical instead of coming up with a contrived excuse for why they couldn't.

Sound:

The voice acting is awful. Like the art, story and characters, it's ridiculously exaggerated. The actors usually sound like they're reading off of their scripts as quickly as they can with little to no range of emotion. The actors who get it the worst are Suzaki Aya, Shintani Mayumi and Hiyama Nobuyuki. It doesn't help that Hiyama is the only one of those three I've heard in roles that required actual acting skill. That being said, the series also has Seki Toshihiko, Yuzuki Ryoka, Koshimizu Ami and Tamura Yukari all of whom are very good, but you wouldn't know that with their performances in this. So, it is very likely a fault with the direction. The music is kind of generic action fare.

Ho-Yay:

The ho-yay factor is a 4/10. Things get pretty homo-erotic between Mako and Ryuuko. Satsuki and Nonon are also implied to be more than friends. Nui is openly into other girls, even getting a kiss scene at one point. Then you have Ragyou, who gropes her own daughter in several different scenes. To be fair to Kill La Kill, these scenes are supposed to be creepy and are played up as such.

Still, this is the fourth anime I've seen in a row that's had incestuous content to some degree. What's next, a boy having a crush on a clone of his mum? Would any series really be that stupid?

Final Thoughts:

Kill La Kill is a mindless, over the top, action series. This “over the top” aesthetic does give the series something different from the usual mindless action schlock, but I'm not sure if that's to its benefit. It's not even over the top in an enjoyable way like Jojo's Bizarre Adventure. It's just mind-numbingly stupid in terms of plot, characters, art and acting but at least it's relatively harmless. If you're a fan of that kind of exaggerated comedy, you might enjoy it. If you aren't, there's really nothing that this series can offer you. My final rating is going to be a 3/10. Next week, I'll look at Neon Genesis Evangelion.

I'll start this review out by acknowledging that my opinion is a very unpopular one. This anime has quite the following, and it's been described as the "rebirth of classic anime," or something like that.

Personally, I found almost no enjoyment in this anime. The battles are drawn-out and boring. The characters are underdeveloped, stereotypical, and frankly, incredibly annoying. Satsuki is the only character that I could actually tolerate.

The OP is all right, I guess, but nothing special. The background music is more interesting than the battles could ever hope to be, but it ends up just being distracting.

The plot is bizarre, and makes very little ... sense. Any quality that it may have had was thrown away and replaced by disgusting amounts of fanservice. People have argued that it was a "critique" of fanservice, and mocked it, but the "It's making fun of the genre!" argument can only go so far. Plain and simple: the fanservice was excessive, derogatory, and unnecessary.
If you're not grossed out already, get this: a character is incestuously molested for /absolutely no reason/.

In my experience, fanservice has been used as a replacement for good writing quite a bit. This anime is a prime example.

There isn't much to say about the characters. The main character, Ryuko, is irritating and has unclear motives. The sidekick/comedic relief character, Mako, is annoying to the point of physical pain. I would love Satsuki if she were in any other anime, but KLK treats her character incredibly poorly.

The art is good, but everything else is so dreadful that I can hardly appreciate it. Please do not waste your time with this anime. I like Studio Trigger (Gurren Lagann, Little Witch Academia, and even Inferno Cop were infinitely better than this trash heap), but I cannot find it within myself to feel anything but intense hatred toward Kill la Kill.

Well... For those who have read my review of Tengen Toppa Gu etc etc, I have pretty much the same complaints here. To sum them up: WAY OVER THE TOP.

The anime is about a transfer student, Ryuuko, and how she's trying to find her father's killer. On her disposal is the half of a scissors blade and her faithful fighting suit which was designed by her father and reveals as much skin as possible, pretty similar to what you would see in a strip club where the dancers aren't paid enough to go full nude (questionable design mr. Matoi, especially considering you planned ... for your daughter to wear this...)The suit is alive. And talks to her. And only she can hear it. It also feeds on her blood to give her power. At this point it's almost impossible not to make a period joke but I'll show restraint. The whole school (if you can call it that, honestly there's been a max of like 2 scenes where we see a lesson) wears some short of battle suits and because of the school leader's order everyone is aiming at Ryuuko to kill her. Yeah the plot doesn't matter much, it's just an excuse to fill the episodes with over the top action, transformation scenes etc etc. The school leader, the second most important character in the series Kiryuuin Satsuki is supposedly the daughter of a cloth-making company, has a similar suit to Ryuuko's and knows who Ryuuko's father's killer is, but won't reveal it to her because... Because the script writers wanted us to be amazed by the "sudden" twist that Satsuki was not actually the killer (oops spoilers... but honestly you'll see it coming from a mile away). Satsuki is as strict and always angry looking as possible which after a while becomes rather boring and annoying.

Now I've mentioned the main lead: Ryuuko and the second most important: Satsuki, but there is actually a third main character that is somehow the audience's favourite and personally makes me want to choke puppies... Mako. She's the "humorous" character who basically acts all childish, is supposedly "true to herself"and a constant reminder to Ryuuko of what she stands for... Aka she's annoying as f"£k. Her chibi animation doesn't help either.

One thing that Kill la Kill actually did WORSE than Tengen Toppa is that the characters are too swallow. Except for Ryuuko who occasionally has a dillema everyone is waaaay too one-sided. Satsuki is always the strict perfetionist, Mako is always the stupid annoying f$%k . The situations and alliances might change but the characters themselves don't change at all. We're talking about class A zero-depths. Especially Satsuki, considering she's the only family Ryuuko has left (oops, spoilers again) feels waaaaaaayyyy too lakcing in the emotional part. (At that point I congratulate the doujinshi writer Ninoko for her work Yuri La Kill and the beyond brilliant idea of making Satsuki a siscon while not taking away from the strict character. In fact, why DIDN'T the writers of the show do that? It's actually pretty fitting -her remaining in the leading role and all even in family matters- and offers for some great humor without ruining the character.)

The animation is rediculous, doing the same stupidity as Tengen Toppa and announcing the names of attacks/transformations with BIG BRIGHT RED LETTERS ON THE SCREEN (and more often than Tengen Toppa too) and the animation, again, looks way too manga-like for my liking. The soundtrack is easily forgettable and the voice acting while fitting doesn't exactly excite me much. At least this time there are no mechas around... Not at the start anyway...

Remember how I was accusing Tengen Toppa for trying to be the overly-manly anime it was, aka being an anime featuring apes for apes? Well somehow Kill la Kill is also following the logic of being overly manly and apish... Despite 60% of the cast being female. Do you see the problem here? I'm not trying to be sexist but they just don't fit well. Hell, the only character that actually fit her role (of playfully diabolical all-hail-Cthulhu female) was Nui, but even she is buried underneath the current of flows and immaturity the show has. You can't go having the females act like males in THOSE kind of suits, they just don't work together.


As Tengen did, the plot eventually ends to the conquering of the galaxy and a gigantic nonsensical space fight with people screaming their lungs off, with lines pretty similar to "who do you think I am" and going from stupid transformation to stupid transformation. In the final scene we see the three main characters going on a mall for shopping because the show suddenly decides to remind us they're girls after all. . . . Wait they are? The protagonist is so tomboish that if it wasn't for her almost-non-existant battle suit you would propably consider her a boy (also for some bizzare reason she kinda looks like Fudo Yusei... When she's not going around naked I mean), Satsuki is so strict that again, you barely consider her a woman and Mako is so annoying that you can't possibly consider her human, let alone define gender. Hell, NUI is more feminine than them and the show presents her as the terrible monster (oh yeah, she's also my favourite char in the series, which means that if I give the others a 2/10 I give her a 5/10).

Overall stupid, immature and pretty clearly there to fullfill the fantasies the director had when he hit puberty. Trash.

Kill la kill was... alright. An overall score of 4 describes it perfectly with the word "Decent". Let me tell you what I mean.

Story: 3

The story centers around a hero whose motivations don't make much sense, and whose actions make even less. There's very thin lines between parody and seriousness with KLK. Each episode expands the plot a little more, and it gets crazy and reaches ridiculous proportions. Is this a parody of other shows? Are they being serious with the random, crazy plot points? You can't really tell, and at some points you have to look past ... the craziness and ask yourself "What exactly is going on?" and "Is there a story, or are the writers just throwing plot progression haphazardly into the show for no other purpose than to create more opportunities to draw ridiculous fight scenes?"

Art: 4

At some points, the art is really nice. At other points, it's really crappy. Once again, is KLK attempting to parody other shows, or is the budget just really tight? Am I supposed to accept the crappy animation and dull art as comical, or should I be concerned that characters have literally begun to move around as if they are in a 2-D world? Is it okay that some fights are just lines moving around everywhere, and that important scenes are just paintings? I don't know, with KLK anything is possible.

But, nonetheless, the art alternates rather frequently between good, okay, and really bad, and averages out to an overall "Decent".

Sound: 9

The soundtrack speaks for itself. Amazing music choices all around, amazing OST, and most of the songs are great listens outside of the show. Voice acting? Also amazing, the voice actors were very unique and memorable. The voices fit the characters, they were expressive and emotional, and the voice actors do an exceptional job keeping up that level of quality throughout the show. The sound of this show is easily the best part.

Character: 5

Characters generally fall into one cliche or another. Personalities are set early on and no many of the characters develop further than their initial setting. Let's be clear, the characters are all unique, they have good chemistry in the show, and they break most of the annoying or dealbreaking stereotypes. The chick you'd expect to be your typical moe character is actually caustic and cynical, the ditzy character isn't tripping over her feet every seconds and blushing about her love interest, and the tomboy badass chick is actually a badass, and isn't just waltzing around beating on boys for groping her.

So kudos to KLK for meeting the bare minimum of good characters, but it isn't enough to move past a 5 in score. Characters are generally one-dimensional, and character development is done swiftly and with little to no logic behind the shift. The villains are very generic, the heroes are also very generic. The main heroes even cover the basic spectrum of "reasons a character wants to be the hero", vengeance and values. It's just too piecemeal and too uninspired to deserve anything above a mediocre ranking.

Enjoyment: 3

Enjoyment is rather subjective. Personally, I didn't find much of the show to be funny, and I didn't find much of the action to be entertaining. To be frank, the story wasn't nearly intriguing enough to keep me interested, the fights were either too short, had obvious solutions, or were won by something completely out of the blue, making them hard to enjoy, and the humor alternated between crude and horrible and somewhat chuckle-worthy. To say the least, it's colorful and fast-paced, but KLK leaves a lot to be desired.

Overall: 4

Kill la Kill is... decent. There isn't another way to describe the show. It's crazy, when it's not frustrating it's fun, and for a couple moments it's enthralling, but other than the soundtrack, there's nothing special about it. There's nothing that catches your attention and really shows you what makes the show so great. It's a bumpy ride of "How many bad parts am I going to have to sit through before another good part comes up?"

There are times in life, very few mind you, where I have been asked the question "Would you like to grout your bathroom floor?" To which I always reply, "No. No I would not". Then, finally, as if fate was trying to prove to me grouting your bathroom floor is a good thing, the low level on the spectrum anime of kill la kill comes around, and now, I can finally sincerely want to spend 6 hours on me knees grouting my tiled floor.

Everybody was so hype to see this show, much in the same way I was hyped to see Hangover 2, until ... I realized that it was one of the biggest mistakes of human history. Like Reality TV or Man Buns. This, I can only assume was because the same people who made the anime Gurren Laggan also made this epilepsy inducing anime. That's not very logical to think a company who produced a one hit wonder would make another anime that would be amazing. I mean, fuck, "Take on me" by A-Ha is a great song. But if you told me to name one other song they did, I wouldn't have a clue. I have more knowledge about the president James Buchanan than I do about the rest of their songs.

It throws a shit ton of repetitive jokes to keep you away from the fact that the plot has less substance than a Donald Trump campaign. Not only that, but literally only one of the characters(Satsuki) receives any character development, and that's being more generous than Jim Jones was with koolaid. It's characters, as well as it's goofy plot, are way over the top, like some spiraling out of control Robin Williams stand up special. Not to mention this anime is about as fan-servicy as it gets. I would never give a fuck if the hottest girl at my college caught me watching Death note, but if she were to catch me watching this garbage, I'd immediately crush all the bones in my right food out of embarrassment. This gives us anime lovers a bad name. This crap that appeals to the all the socially awkward weebos out there who crossed the line between liking anime and thinking their life was a fucking shounen.

The art is ridiculous, and I can't even say it's bad because it was entirely drawn like that on purpose. It would be like me saying south park can't animate for shit or draw for anything. They did it that way on purpose. Yet, it's still shittier than a New York city bathroom. Not only is the art harder to look at than a nude Rebel Wilson, they use the same animation loops over and over, which make the fights, which are hilariously over the top mentally insane renditions of combat, look repetitive and more unbelievable than Ben Carson being a neurosurgeon.

The writing is lazy and often dull, and I honestly can't even see who this was ever meant for. The focus group must have been first time anime watchers around the age of 12, and a bunch of 15 year olds with mild Asperger's.

I mean, these characters are throwing like galaxies and fucking battleships at each other? They're fighting in space, arguing about who has the least amount of clothes on?Like, this shit is trippier than adult swim at 2:12 am.

This anime is not deep or meaningful, despite it trying its oh-so hardest to be just that. At the end of the day, only the average plebeian could enjoy this, and they would have had to have abusive childhoods for them to take this sort of level of escape from reality.


All in all, this is seriously a cancer I would gladly let my left testicle receive if it meant I could spare the world from watching this shit show. Please, onegaishimasu, so not watch this show. Not only will you be killing your brain cells, you'll be encouraging others to watch it, and that's just not right.

Kill la Kill is a self-indulgent parody that moves at a breakneck pace: the plot in each episode moves faster than most series have over their entire run. Searching for her father's killer, Ryuuko arrives at Honnouji Academy, an all-powerful student council ruled through superhuman clothing. Clothes grant their wielders unique powers, and their stripperific outfits try to parody the fan service endemic to anime while eating its cake too. Adults leer at children in revealing clothing, try to peep on them naked, and the story culminates in a nudist colony fighting fascist clothing. But for good measure, it also needs gratuitous rape as both ... fan service and character development: why wouldn't a mother raping her daughter be anything other than sexy fun time? Kill la Kill is a fan favorite and an exhilarating ride that screams red flags of anyone who enjoys it. It is peak anime. It embodies everything wrong with the genre while somehow managing to be entertaining. The fan delusion that Trigger is saving anime and popularity of the series exemplifies the depraved nature of anime culture.

Kill la Kill is a pretty outstanding series in terms of how on earth can a show so action packed, fast paced and stylish still leave me feeling painfully underwhelmed. But, to be honest I’m probably being a bit too harsh, as KLK in its entirety is merely a reflection of the entertainment industry across the board – all flash and zero substance. It took a lot of A LOT of effort to finish this show as I found almost every aspect of it’s being to be a backbreaking, sickening experience that undoubtedly undermined, and maybe even lowered the intellect of just about everyone ... who watched it. But as I already stated, KLK only mimics the problems within today’s entertainment in how lacking it is in both quality and substance. It’s a big disappointment but hardly a surprise.

Anyway.

The plot of KLK revolves around two rival female characters Satsuki Kiryuin and Matoi Ryuko, the former is some kind of military/corporate/class president- dictator? (I dunno) whose initial goal is to gain world domination via the control of clothing. The latter is an underdog misfit looking to avenge the death of her wayward father. In between all that are numerous subplots that contain forced romance, some almost interesting relationships, a lot of bullshitted philosophy and political undertones that only serve to further muddle an already confusing story. In fact, that about encompasses everything wrong with KLK in how it completely lacks self awareness and it can’t seem to make up its mind as to whether or not it wants viewers to take it seriously. Boob jokes are being uttered within the same breath of discussing a flawed and oppressive government. It’s a cringe-worthy balance of political satire and obscenity. Most of KLK just leaves me unsure of whether I’m supposed to laugh at or ponder over what’s being said and more important how it was delivered. Even the artwork is in conflict with the dialogue.

On its own, the style of Kill La Kill is quite good and so was the animation, which I’m going to assume was intentionally sloppy as to parody old shounen animes. Yet even this added more work to the already tedious job of taking KLK seriously which is hardly to say that I don’t like parodies. Actually, the first show to come to mind upon starting KLK was Panty and Stocking. They both use schools as a backdrop for hinting at mature, political topics especially in reference to Eastern vs. Western views of death, religion and economics. But by no means did you have to take them seriously or even recognize these themes to enjoy the show and at no point in time were we beaten over the head with winded speeches about idealisms and morals. PSG presented a number of topics with a level of subtlety, smartness and an impeccable sense of timing that Kill la Kill just doesn’t possess.

My last problem with Kill la Kill is how it’s confused a lot of viewers into thinking this is some sort of new amazing thing allegedly reviving anime as a genre. That might be the case if the year was 1992 (when animes like this were charms WITHIN the genre, they didn’t DEFINE it) and not 2014 where every second anime released is an onslaught of stupid harems, fan service and *whispers* ~shock factor~.
Gruel doesn't suddenly turn into a steak dinner upon receiving it larger amounts than what your used to eating and Kill la Kill exemplifies that. What anime isn’t doing what KLK did? What has KLK done that other shows aren’t still doing, and doing to death?

Answer: not a damn thing.

People who praise Kill la Kill are the hipsters of anime.
Alright so a lot of you will discredit me after seeing my anime list, I watch a lot of shallow anime but I have enjoyed a few more complex ones. This was neither and did nothing for me, all hype.

Back to the hipster statement. True, kill la kill has retro art and retro fight scenes, but the people praising this anime are the people who want to be "that guy" who's into retro fight scenes. It is NO Gurren Lagaan, so stop. You may say I don't get it and I'm full of it ... this anime has everything, retro art and fight scenes, satire, action, comedy, sound, and whatever! But just because it has everything doesn't mean it's well done. I dropped it half way through just wasn't getting any enjoyment from any of its aspects.

Oh and that "accept your body" message that makes it so great? Ya, that could've been great if they'd done it better, but how they did it was like scribbling that "message" on a post-it note and slapping it on top of the fanservice.

This anime is a 3/10 wearing a ton of cheap makeup making people hype it to an 8 or above. Bite me.

*SPOILERS WARNING*

Kill La Kill is one the more popular shows to come out recently. Hell, i can't go a day on the internet or just being out with my friends without hearing of it. The majority of my friends love it, and only a very, very small minority don't, and which side am I on? I'm with the very, very small minority of my friends who don't. I don't out right despise the show like Sword Art Online if you read my rather...abrasive, review on it. There are redeemable traits in this show, they just weren't around enough for me to really enjoy it.

Story
The ... synopsis is already there for you, and due to MAL's guidelines, i'm not supposed to write this synopsis here since it is already written on it's page on this site. The story is rather cut and dry of any shounen series you would watch. The two main characters of this story are actual siblings, which was, fairly obvious from how similar their backstories if you really paid attention since about, episode 3 (quote from one of my friends). And going back, he was fairly spot on about that. They also have that other cliche of the evil parent, the rebellious, edgy protagonist who happens to be the younger sibling and the orderly, commanding elder sibling who is a rival for that rebellious protagonist. The way the writing is executed makes the show seem like it wants you to take it seriously, but at the same time, not. It's confused on what it wants to be. This is shown whenever they're talking about things that are there to advance the plot, but then Mikisugi's glowing crotch or nipples are just there to take away any sort of involvement you may have for this show or it's plot. And I know they want you, as the viewer, to take it seriously because of a very important plot detail that has to do with Ryuko's immortality and backstory. The show also really has no point of normalcy. Let me give an example. Fooly Cooly and Gurren Lagann were both made by the people who made Kill La Kill who had left Gainax to go to Trigger. In both of these shows, they established the world with a sense of normality. Simon becomes hesitant when they try to take over the landship on Episode 8 of Gurren Lagann. Kamina comes in to punch him because he told him if he caught Simon doubting himself, he would be there to literally pummel any doubt out of him. He does this twice in the episode. Once before he is stabbed, and once right before he dies. It knocks doubt from Simon and he gets back up on his feet to fight for his friends and his brother. After this, the action scene known as "Kamina's Last Stand" portrays the first viewing of the most over-the-top moment of the show at this point, the Giga Drill Break. And as I said, after this, Kamina dies from his wounds. Simon and Team Dai-Gurren mourn at the loss of their leader who had brought them this far. Fooly Cooly does this in a more everyday life manner, while also making it completely over-the-top and ridiculous. Naota is stuck in the mindset that nothing amazing will happens in his hometown, and that nothing amazing will ever happen to him or it. Haruko, who knows this is the way he thinks, tells him "Nothing can happen, until you swing the bat." It was a metaphor about the episode that started out with Naota playing baseball, and he never tried to hit the ball once. Near the end of the episode, Haruko was asked to hit back a bomb that was going to blow up the city. Haruko, after giving Naota batting practice, gave him the chance to swing the bat and save the city. All of the people monitoring the bomb sees that, and Amarao says that he'll never do it, symbolizing that he'll never take his own steps into making life extraordinary. But when it came down to it, Naota did swing the bat at the overgrown bomb that looked like a baseball, making his first steps towards something amazing. There were normal events happening behind these moments that made them feel so much better to see. While Kill La Kill just does them all the time with no build up to them, so they just come off as annoying, repetitive, and boring. These constant over-the-top moments become the point of normalcy, so my overall reaction was just "meh" the whole time. It's like they kind of forgot what made their over-the-top moments so great which is why this show was so bland at times to watch.

Characters
There are some honest to good characters in this show, but my main problem with this is that it feels like we're following the wrong character in this show from beginning to end. I'll state why with going over some of the characters.

Ryuko Matoi
Our rebellious, edgy protagonist. This character is over-privileged, over-powered, not really interesting, and really just down right mean spirited. She's immortal, that fact alone made me know the immediate outcome of this show when I saw the last episode. She was a life-fiber lab rat who was thrown out because they believed she died in the middle of these tests, but she did live and her father did save her and raise her for a good amount of her life. When he was killed, she sought out the killer and, even though she said she wasn't out for revenge, the minute she meets Nui Harime, she loses her cool and attacks her maliciously, causing her to go into a blood rage like berserk mode. This plot point really only boiled down to the cliche revenge arc that has not been interesting since the 1990's. Granted, after this she does become afraid of Senketsu after that whole ordeal, refusing to wear him because she's afraid she might go berserk again. This plot point could have been an extra point for this show if she didn't start wearing him again because some Randy mixed her and Mako's family into his own problems. She has no real obligation to wear Senketsu other than some Randy said "put the sailor suit on, Ryuko". When she does put him back on, turns out the Randy was actually Nui, and when they fight, she destroys Senketsu. THIS ALSO could have been a good plot point for how Ryuko had taken Senketsu for granted, and feeling like an over-privileged brat. But nope, this plot point was also thrown out the window when Nui cut up every single thread except his eye piece that keeps him alive. She never really apologized to Senketsu after this either, she just put on some gym clothes, hopped on a bike, and went to go get the remaining parts of Senketsu back that were being used to power the star uniforms at Honnouji academy. Later on, when Ragyou puts her plan into motion to cover the world in clothing, it is revealed that Ryuko is basically immortal from all of those tests as a child, because her heart is covered in life fibers. For some reason, with no explanation, a one month time skip happens after this event, and she was in a coma after finding this out. She does finally wake up after people making so much noise it basically woke her from her coma. After completely tearing the place she was at to shreds, Senketsu, who has been unquestioningly loyal to her, and has never talked down to her once, asks if she's alright. For no reason, she turns on him and calls him, and herself a monster because her heart is made of life fibers. I wouldn't have a problem with this if it wasn't completely irrational. She's been aging at the regular rate of a normal human girl. Nothing about her stands out to be anything out of the ordinary, it's just some pseudo drama i feel the show put in. Also it just makes her look like a down right mean-spirited bitch who doesn't deserve the people in her life that have been good to her. Senketsu has never really wronged in anyway up to this point, and I would sympathize with him more than Ryuko in this situation because he is honestly a likable character unlike his host, who is just mean-spirited for no reason. Speaking of pseudo drama, Ryuko gets corrupted by Ragyou and Nui into their way of thinking...just cause...because the plot wouldn't go anywhere if they didn't, and without showing it, they apparently sewed Junketsu onto her, while it looked like she just put it on of her own free will. And if Satsuki and the others try to take it off her, she'll bleed out and die. The thing is, we already established that she's immortal, so any sort of pain will immediately heal, no matter how severe the injury. It was obvious how this would play out, so it took away any sort of tension or emotional attachment to this part of this show that I barely had any of, since she is immortal and will win against her mom, obviously. The final battle ensues and I was severely annoyed with how it had to be Ryuko who fought Ragyou, instead of Satsuki. I'll get into that later with Satsuki's character. The only reason why it was Ryuko who fought her is that she's the protagonist. That's really the only reason. Satsuki has more right than her, but since Satsuki isn't the main protagonist, she gets out-shined by her bland little sister. In this fight, she makes the uncharacteristic decision to try and start over with her mother, but her mother refuses and kills herself. She then falls back to Earth, and since this fight used up all of Senketsu's power, it killed him in the process. Ryuko now only starts to feel regret to all of the things she's done to him now that he's dying. Again, I would feel inclined to like you if you had done this sooner, Ryuko. But you didn't, because you are more or less more enthralled with the feeling of power. When you first got him back, you just said "i'm glad you're alright." You never said you were sorry at all. So this translated to "I'm glad my source of power is alright." After falling back to Earth, everyone catches her, some time passes, and the show ends. Happily ever after. Yay...sorta. On a final note for her, Ryuko is in no way a good character. She is not sympathetic, there's no way to relate to her, over-privileged, over-powered, bland, and honestly just a terrible person. (On a side note, this is subjective, but that whole entire end segment of the fight reminded me of S-CRY-ed's final episode, and after realizing that, I went immediately to that fight to just go watch how epic it is again compared to Kill La Kill's).

Mako Mankanshoku
After watching this show, this character legitimately became my most hated character of anything. Now topping Ken Amada from Persona 3. And Ken was a hard one to beat. Any time this character was on screen, I felt as though my intelligence was being insulted. The episode would stop dead in it's tracks when this character came on screen to have her literal spotlight to reiterate things we already knew. She's really annoying and high pitched. She has no character other than being the comic relief friend for the protagonist. Her family is not as bad since they don't get as much exposure. And when she had her own episode, I was literally tempted to skip it. There is nothing likable or charming about this girl at all, she's annoying and she derails the plot whenever she's on screen. And it turns out, I honestly could have skipped her episode, because she doesn't change at all after that, her relationship with Ryuko doesn't exactly deepen anymore after that, it was entirely pointless and is nothing more than a filler episode with the inevitable JoJo's reference.

Senketsu
I feel so sorry for you my friend...you were the most likable character on Ryuko's side of this story, and you had to deal with so much shit when you were on this girl's side the whole time. You were shunned, put down, and you were never even given a real apology for all of the shit Ryuko did. So I will be the person to do it. I am so, very sorry.

Aikurou Mikisugi
This guy is like male Mako, but he's tolerable...to an extent. The things he says does advance the plot, and not reiterate it like Mako does. And when I said this show doesn't know what it wants to be earlier, this guy was pretty much one of the main reasons. His actions were detracting my attention from what he was saying, and I actually had to go back a few times because the show decided it wanted to be goofy by showing off the fact that yes, he is a part of Nudist Beach. But he doesn't need to pose every two seconds. Just have him talk for Christ sake. And unlike Mako, he does aid Ryuko in battle multiple times, as well as give her bits of information throughout the show. He also gave her the glove that allows her to power Senketsu at will, instead of having to pull an Eren Jaegar and possibly biting her hands. Also he fought without having to use life fibers, which i adored because EVERYONE is so dependent on them in this show.

Tsumugu Kinagase
I like you. You know how things work when push comes to shove. You're willing to make sacrifices if they are needed. You're a silent badass character i'm ok with. You also never fought with life fibers, only your nail guns. I just wish you had more screen time to develop your character.

Satsuki Kiryuin
10/10 100/100 Best Character, Best Character, Best Character. *Cough* Sorry. Moving on. Satsuki Kiryuin is, without argument, the most developed and interesting character in this show. Sure, she's still the orderly, commanding elder sister cliche, but at least she's doing things that are interesting. The main reason she created Honnouji Academy was to build an army strong enough to fight her mother so that she won't have to live a life enslaved to clothes. She does not like anything her mother stands for. She will use anyone to get to her goal, then throw them out when she doesn't need them anymore. When Satsuki made the Academy, without realizing it, this is exactly what she was doing herself. She didn't care who it was, as long as she found someone useful, she would use them to further her own agenda and toss them aside. But it turns out that, without these people she used, she never would have gotten this far. She changes and now relies on others, instead of using them. If she kept going down that road, she would have been no better than the very woman she was trying to stop. This was shown when she tried going up against the corrupted Ryuko on her own, her mother on her own, and when Gamagoori and the others stood in front of Ryuko when she had asked Satsuki if she could punch her. There is some honest, good writing in this show, and it saddens me that it was used on a character who is infinitely more sympathetic and likable than Ryuko is.

Ira Gamagoori
I'll be honest, he's your token big bodyguard like henchman who will do anything for his leader. But he is admirable. If he sees others in danger, even if it's Ryuko, he will go to their aid because his backstory reveals that he is the kind of person who likes to aid people who need help. He teels Ryuko that even though she is his enemy, she is still a student at Honnouji Academy, and that he is bound by his position on the student council to aid any student in trouble when they need it. He's a man of his word, and he's a pretty cool dude when he isn't growing to massive sizes to yell at people.

Uzu Sangeyama
He is your token rival who does eventually join up with their rival so he can become strong enough to beat them one day, but I like how he acknowledges his faults. He knows that he got cocky when fighting Ryuko, and he desperately wanted to prove himself to Satsuki that he isn't dead weight and that he is useful. He goes as far to have his eyes sewn shut so that his eyes won't ever betray his judgement ever again. And this time around, he does beat Ryuko, quite easily even, because he is determined to prove himself. I like a guy with conviction.

Nonon Jakuzure
What...is wrong...with your voice? It sounds really forced, and it was quite hard to listen to ( I am referring to the japanese dub, if you haven't noticed yet). But she is also your token best friend henchman. Nothing really stands out about her. I don't hate her character, I don't particularly like her either, she's just kind of there to me. But for the love of god, don't make her talk. Please.

Houka Inumuta
Your token Tech Henchman who's super smart. Same thing with Nonon, but his voice isn't annoying.

Ragyou Kiryuin
Ok, let's be honest here. You have as much depth as a villain as a first generation Power Rangers villain. You're just evil for the sake of being evil. Clothes chose us, so I guess I don't have a say in the matter. She's not an interesting villain because she has no real motivation other than "CLOTHES ARE OUR SAVIORS". She's not realistic because she is so unbelievably cruel as a person to her own daughter, even after she betrayed her. She doesn't feel a bit of remorse nearly striking Satsuki down, same with Ryuko. She's nowhere close to being like an actual human, so I don't really feel enthralled with this character as a villain.

Nui Harime
I should have addressed this earlier, but I absolutely hated how Ryuko always had to rely on Senketsu to fight. It has been proven that Ryuko can fight just fine without Senketsu, and she doesn't really need him since she's immortal, but when Nui first came on screen, I was happy because she I thought she was using her own strength to fight, and it was a breath of fresh air because I thought she would be that chaotic neutral character in the series, like Gilgamesh in Fate/Zero. But, my hopes were shot down hard when she's really just a pawn for Satsuki's mom and is completely made of life fibers. Soon after Ryuko breaks from Junketsu, Ryuko goes after Nui, and for some reason the show wanted to make the action of her getting her arms sliced off...funny. It wasn't in anyway funny, it was just disturbing. I'm not going to be like "haha, her arms got cut off." i'm going to be like "Oh my fucking god, she cut her arms off." With the way Kill La Kill was going, it was trying to be serious, still failing, miserably, but trying. This was one of those moments to try, and they messed it up. Good job.

Art
The art is very inconsistent. Some of the drawings will look fine in an episode, but next it'll be terribly drawn, and it would seem with the low budget already put into this show from it's animation, gets worse whenever high paced things start happening. Faces will get weirdly distorted in ways faces shouldn't be, and it just comes off as, unsettling.

Sound
You know, I would have been alright with you if you didn't reuse the same song every time Ryuko busted in to try and collect Senketsu's parts in that one episode. That got annoying, really fast. And i honestly muted the episode and just read the subs a few times.

Enjoyment
Ehh...I paid attention anytime Satsuki was on the screen, but anytime something around Ryuko went on I couldn't care less..

SCORE
3/10
As stated earlier, I feel as though there is a good story in this show, it was just wasted on the wrong character. What should have been Satsuki's story mostly, was Ryuko's. And Ryuko isn't a good character. Feel free to disagree with me if you so wish. I'm not trying to say you should hate this show, or anything. I'm just some guy on the internet, and so are you.

Script - Some weird aliens came to earth and helped humanity to evolve because they needed a host to stay alive. Just like the plot of Chrono Trigger, but in the game people who wanted to make use of the alien power had much more complex and intriguing reasons to do so, not some megalomaniac bad guys who want to dominate the world. Yes, this plot is about bad guys using alien power to dominate the world. The protagonist is a squeaky shounen protagonist with only one purpose in mind: revenge. The antagonist that'll become an ally is the serious leader who doesn't accept weakness. ... The main villain is a pompous lady who wants to rule the world because YES! So prepare yourself for battles after battles and nothing else in terms of substance. The struggles are defined solely by if you lose the battle or not, if you have a uniform or not, if you dominate the world or not. Extremes, thus, leading to edginess beyond belief in a not realistic adventure where who screams the most wins the fight. Of course, as a "parody" it works very well. After all, you can be stupid af, but once you admit your stupidity you're automatically forgiven of any bullshit invented. The whole concept of Kill la Kill revolves around not having a fucking clue of what's happening since the plot-twists come out of nowhere! OF COURSE, you shouldn't care about because FUNNY, ahahaha, hilarious! So, unless you have no problem in endure hours of nonsensical over the top stuff happening out of nowhere 24/7, this show is by far not something pleasing at all. That's my case and if it wasn't for my damn cousin to force me through this until the very end I wouldn't have endured this. And in case it's not obvious enough, it's a story where good guys will defeat bad guys and there's a lot of sudden plot-twists taken from the ass that appear to disguise this monstrosity as whacky and unconcerned, when in reality, it is just another lazy well-animated piece of schlock. Trigger once again producing top-notch visuals and conveying NOTHING along with it.

Cinematography - Ok, the animation is very fluid but sometimes terrible, and the character design is unique regarding each character. The camera angles are very well utilized in order to expose the various side of the same thing and also depicting different scenes in a single shot. The colors are disturbing and there're times when I had no clue of what the fuck was going on due to TOO MUCH HAPPENING in a single scene. Now, if you like everything above and is ready for some really crazy visuals that do not respect its characters physiognomy or reality whatsoever, go ahead. I prefer a naturalistic approach and changing too much the scenario for the sake of making things more fun just show their commitment to everything EXCEPT what really matters to me, the poignancy. When everything is over the top insanity, I really don't give a shit about anything and Trigger studio always do that. They don't give a shit as well, they just animate and that's it.

Sound - Okay, it's not amazing. It has two tracks I remember and the rest is just reuse of the same thing over and over again, and it's not even that effective. Unless you are in the mood for some action (which I wasn't), it'll just be 'oh look, DON'T LOSE YOUR WAY again' and that song for every time the main villain appears. I really hate, hate, hate dubbers who scream and force their voices for no reason. This show is trying to win the prize of most annoying voices ever. Again, it reflects the show's mindset of being crazy for the sake of it and it wouldn't miss the opportunity of making characters scream for their lives when they don't even need to do so. Sound effects are fine.

1234 - Ripping off Chrono Trigger. For a fan of subtlety, seeing those plot-twists pulled out of producers' anuses is painful, excruciating and not even 'too bad it's good'. The most annoying cast ever because everyone without exception speaks like a freak and fits on a stupid stereotype because YES. The best friend of the protagonist is by far the most annoying character I've seen in anime. Every time she's on the screen I feel like doing something else instead of looking at her. If you find her funny, it's ok. However, once you don't it's going to be straight torture for HOURS! 'Oh look, that thing will enter in that guy's anus, HOW FUNNY HAHAHAHAHAH!'. Nudity and fanservice because the aliens are clothes and you know, THEY HAVE TO BE QUASI-NAKED! Of course, it's not something disrespectful towards the characters and uncomfortable to some viewer, it's just FUNNY! Sailor moon transformations because parody OR rather because it's appealing to a bunch of perverted people who like hot women almost naked for their pleasure. A lazy script about good guys vs bad guys and seek for revenge leading to childish discoveries and plot-twists, even though the story ends like any of its kind, villain dies and they live happily ever after. There's an OVA showing the next events that take place afterwards, but the end reflects the same of the series. When the fun is about seeing a bunch of explosions, shallow nudity that conveys nothing and fights upon fights, the only way you can enjoy it is turning off your brain. Not my thing though, I prefer things that contain substance and are not over the top boring and predictable.

Wanna see well-designed stupidity that's also aware of its stupidity and while screaming at you 'I'M A PARODY! I'M STUPID! I'M FUN!'? Enjoy Kill la Kill, because having a story that's not shameless rip off and characters who are not braindead scarecrows is too hard for Trigger to handle. I mean, Little Witch Academia at least wasn't that offensive. The End.

I really wanted to like this, tried it multiple times, but it just makes me cringe and I have to force myself to watch it. For one thing, it's absolutely hideous to look at with probably the ugliest animation style I've ever seen. Then you throw ecchi into said ugliness, and it just comes across as stupid, not even accomplishing anything in a fanservice-y kind of way, and all that stuff being shoved into the story is just super cringey. The story is ok, not terrible not great, but I mostly just remember the hideous animation and terrible excuse for fanservice. It has some great ... music though.

This anime is the worst i've seen in a long time. While the art and sound are good. Everything else is complete sexualized garbage.Nothing makes sense. It's not funny. It's fan service filled shounen wanna be anime. The main character is an empowered girl whose voice sounds like a boy too. Her character and attitude does not make sense. Nothing does. Very appalling story and characters. Fan service is too much to the level where it doesn't fit. If the main character and opponent were boys and the show wasn't sexualized, it would have made much more sense. What a shame. (I want to rant ... more but this is a summary of why it's horrible)

İ had a lot of problems with animes that had their protagonists are female and only females . But this ... this anime ...

Story ... Well it is not that bad story . İts 6 because story route is so dumb clearly dumb . İ have never seen or imagined this kind of a route . But content is good .

Art is weird than anything that had been drawn . İt is not bad though . Kill la Kill might be the only anime with such a different art . Tring different tastes sometimes is good , but this time it was confusing because ... it is a action anime at the same time .

İ think sound doesnt need an explanation . İt was good just listen it if you wonder why .

Characters are overpowered and have disgusting rare powers like in Naruto universe have . İt can be because they are protagonist and antagonist , but they are still overpowered . İts not about gender that why i think character is 1 rated . İt is because they are way too op and they are op because feminism .

İ enjoyed only openings , endings , ost music moments and first 3 episode . Rest of it goes crazy because characters and art .

I watched the first 8 eps and I just can’t get into this series. I guess it wasn’t what I was expecting. It had some funny moments but overall the comedy didn’t appeal to me and it felt awkward when against the serious, violent themes of the anime. Like a series about an oppressive ruler and class inequality and you’re gonna have boobie and panty gags every episode? Okay. And for 8 episodes it felt like all of the supporting characters were severely underdeveloped - I feel like at that point the series should have had more character history for Ryuko and it really needed ... some strong side characters. Mako was a fun character but a little too over the top and didn’t mesh with Ryuko, I felt. I realize she was supposed to provide contrast but it just felt out of place.
But I think what bothered me most was the gross sexualization of Ryuko. While it didn’t completely take away from what little character development she had, I just can’t be down with a series that has grown men ogling a teenage girl for gags in literally every single episode.
So yeah. Not what I was expecting, and I really wanted to like it because Ryuko’s kamui/uniform when it’s not activated is fucking badass and sexy as hell. But alas.

One of the most stupid, illogical and nonsensical anime series ever made. Ever.

Characters are just puppets in creators hands, they are absolutely shallow. If you are here for a good plot or story, character development, even a little bit of seriousness, then forget about this absurd, called "Kill la Kill". However if you want the most infantile show, then 'stay awhile and listen', feel free to watch it.

Highest imbecility level. If you want even something serious, forget about it, drop it right here right now. Absolute trash and waste of time. That's it.

Story & plot is trash: 2.

Art is disgusting: 2.

Sound is okay (one composition ... is even actually good): 5.

Characters are empty & shallow, just puppets in creators hands: 1.

Enjoyment? Are you kidding: 1.

Overall: 2.

I'm going to feel bad writing this, especially given how popular it is, but I absolutely hated this show. It managed to perfectly personify every single trope that makes people say "anime is trash". I've seen multiple people claim it's satire, but if that's truly the case, then this is a failure of a satire. Satire is meant to make fun of a concept for the sake of social commentary, not perfectly embody it and go "haha just kidding". It's the satirical equivalent of calling someone a racial slur and going "it's just satire, I'm actually making fun of racists".
Plot-1
The plot, if you can even ... call it that, is that (spoiler: it's trash) sentient clothes want to use humans as host bodies, therefore an underage girl must wear an extremely scantily clad outfit in order to fight the ~evil bullies~ for the first 2402358032582 episodes that take an eternity, and only in the last few is it revealed that sentient clothes exist and the evil bullies were in fact just testing her to stop the sentient clothes. No, I'm not kidding. That's the plot. Nearly everyone I've met actually likes this show. I've seen people claim the show is about body confidence or some kind of trash like that. I don't even know where to begin with that argument, but I personally don't think that underage girls feeling uncomfortable wearing outfits you might see at a strip club is a prevalent problem in society. In fact, I'd dare argue that it's a good thing that an underage girl may be uncomfortable wearing such a thing. Yes, I know it's just a drawing of a 17 year old and no actual minors were harmed, it doesn't make me want to throw up any less. If you're into that, good for you, but it's not my thing. There are probably a million different ways they could've portrayed "body confidence" that don't involve... that. This ain't it, chief.
Art-7
The art, while overly lewd and with almost offensively bad proportions, is extremely cartoony and enjoyable. At multiple point the animators appear to make fun of themselves by making large characters have hardly any size consistency. The art style was good. I wish it was used to animate... literally anything but this garbage.
Sound-8
I'll concede here, I've been sent a few tracks from the show and they sound amazing. I wish they were used for literally anything else in the entire world.
Characters-3
The show had 2 saving graces, Mako was pretty goofy, and (spoiler) Ryuoko's long-lost sister was an amazingly developed character. Unlike the static main 2, she had actually motives for her behavior (aside from just "I'm angry/want revenge") a backstory showing the person she was in comparison to who she is now, and she feels very humanized because of it. She managed to be both powerful and still kind, something I rarely ever see written well. The other main characters are extremely one-note in comparison. I hardly ever saw Ryuoko not full of angst and grumpy or Mako not cheerful and naive. Additionally, she was one of the only two adult characters to be sexualized(yes, it really does make me uncomfortable when there is fanservice of underage characters, sorry not sorry). I consider her to be the main reason I didn't give this show a "1" for characters. If it wasn't for the fact that the rest of the show was so boring and awful, I'd probably consider her a favorite character.
Enjoyment-2
Everyone and their mother kept telling me for the past 10 years that I had to watch this show, it's so good, yes there's fanservice but it's so good, there is some stuff there that might upset you but it's so good. Having watched it, no, it is not that good. The vast majority of episodes are incredibly boring, and having the last 4 episodes finally pick up does not make up for that. Drawing a mother molesting her daughter was completely unnecessary, and downright disturbing. To the show's credit, it did not portray child molestation as a good thing(yikes, what a low bar), although it did portray Mako's brother and adult father spying on the underage Ryuoko while she bathed as a silly funny anime moment, rather than a traumatizing violation of privacy, so you tell me if they were actually trying to make a moral point about sexual assault or not. It's almost like the last few episodes were written by an entirely different staff than the rest of the show.
Overall- 2
I am very very sorry to the people in my life who love this show, but I absolutely hated nearly everything about it. The plot was terrible, the characters were unlikable, the humor art and music did not make up for that, it did not say anything profound or interesting about body confidence that didn't come off as an excuse to draw naked underage girls (most people who watch anime don't care, just say why you actually drew it and go home) and the fact that they went from "traumatizing event is funny" to "traumatizing event is bad and traumatizing, that is why I needed to animate it in detail, to show how traumatizing it is" does not bode well for me. I am glad I watched the show to get it out of the way, but I will never watch it again. If you have taste, or are one of those crazy weirdos like me who is deeply disturbed by the sexualization of minors, I recommend staying far away from this one.

I remember really loving Kill la Kill as a kid, it was one of my first animes and I really connected with the main character.

Upon resisting it, however, I realize that Kill la Kill was something that should've just stayed in my childhood. It hasn't aged at all, and pretty much everything that could be wrong with an anime is present here.

First off, the main character just isn't written well. There are so many instances where her decisions make no sense or go against her goals, and it makes her infuriating to watch. Furthermore, none of the supporting characters seem to fit this mold, which ... makes the entire thing a circus act with a clown ringleader.

The biggest problem I have with this show however, is the art style. This is by far Studio Triggers worst looking show, because it is trying out so many other art styles without fully committing. Like, just pick one! It's so hard to follow what's going on because the art is constantly changing; honestly, maybe parts of this art style COULD work, but all of it together creates this soup of animation that tastes about as good as soup.

Lastly, the elephant the room. This anime is so chalk-full of fan service, it distracts from everything else. Honestly, maybe they did it on purpose to mask how terrible the rest of the show is. But in my opinion, it didn't work. It's not hard to ignore Ryuko's naked body and see right to the core of the show, an ugly rotten one with no substance or nutrients whatsoever. It certainly is not the worst show I've ever had the unpleasure of seeing, but would not recommend, to anyone, ever.

Kill la Kill is an anime that is considered to be very polarised and judging the content I understand why.

Many people say the female characters are strong and empowering and I personally say that is a load of crap.

The only female character I think that is good is Satsuki and that is it.

After that the rest of the heroine are one dimensional. From having a moe type girl with a very bratty voice that is annoying who lacks a strong motive. The main heroine who is one of the most temperamental character I have ever seen that can make her seen more colder than batman ... himself.

And then there is Mako who could be just as bad or worse than Jar Jar Binks.

The fan service is so gimmicky I understand if they wanted to show it once to show the main heroine won't get embarrassed from her outfit anymore and nudist beach is one of the stupidest idea I seen. To those who's hiding behind the fan service is well made. I have to disagree it's used as gimmick as we see it occur too much times more than enough to understand the message.

For those who want more powerful and amazingly written female characters go read battle angel alita (Gunnm) you won't regret. If you are after strong female characters I can promise, you won't be disappointed. This manga rarely or hasn't rely on fan service at all to demonstrate a woman's strength.

If you want something over the top that focuses on comedy and parody(not satire) then Hyperdimension Neptunia franchise is the better alternative. When this series does fan service at least they are aware of it and the character makes a joke about it as it comments how modern anime relies on it too much.

Dropped this after 7 episodes.

People seem to not understand what satire is nowadays. It isn't "Oh look, I recognise that trope and it's making fun of it".

If you used that same line of thinking then Hot Shots 1 & 2 are both great works of satire as they ridicule over the top action films of the 80s. This is obviously not the case. They are stupid for comedy sake and they even fail at that and Kill La Kill falls under the same category.

"American Psycho", is what true satire is, mocking a truly morally bankrupt society with absolutely no values but also being rewarded ... for it with wealth and status. Kill La Kill is just DUMB and I was not engaged with ANYTHING that was happening. The characters, the story, the plot etc. It was just all so idiotically stupid.

The joke got old REAL fast and I only watched 7 episodes, this could only appeal to hardcore anime fans, particularly ones who have seen a lot of shounen.

Kill La Kill is a spoof. NOT satire.

If you look at it as anything else then a parody of all that is anime then it's simply just a disappointment. It did a decent job at picking out the most cliché parts of the anime industry like the all-mighty student council, fanservice, lazy revenge plot, random power-ups and what not but watching a single episode of that would be enough. The animation of battles was good but any other part seemed like a slideshow. Art style was not to my liking either, too simple and lazy. There's a limit to how far making fun of something else takes you. At some point you ... have to put something original, something of your own in that to make it special and enjoyable. Kill la Kill failed at that.