BRSxIgnition said: According to an interview with the 4 Deva VA's - something bad happens to them in EP 18.
..... NONON, GAMA NO DON'T LEAVE ME.
I'm interested. Can you link me?
I don't think it would quite make sense story-wise for Gamagoori to die right now, considering his relationship with Mako is still blooming. Jakuzure, maybe; it would certainly be interesting to see Satsuki's reaction to that. I could see Inumuta dying, and it later turns out that he had saved a data version of himself somewhere, along with other important data and information. Sanageyama, maybe, but I'm not sure what impact that would have. I think Ragyou or Nui will control them using those multicolored spools of thread and pit them against Ryuuko, explaining why she's so beaten up in the preview.
ollythirteen said: For me "Kill la Kill" has been a let down.
I went into the show expecting a "character drama" thinking "Oh, I didn't like Gurren Lagann but the character designs of this show look amazing and apparently this is a character drama. Cartoony design + character drama = awesomeness. Yeah!" and then episode 2 happened and I felt let down.
I listened when people said "Just enjoy it for what it is: a parody;Turn your brain off" and settled in for popcorn entertainment but then episode 6 happened and I felt let down (I actually hate Sanageyama....and after this show his seiyuu).
Episode 2 explained Satsuki's system more, established the theme of clothing, had our first real introductions to Senketsu, Aikuro and the Mankanshoukous, showed the first instance of actual teamwork between Ryuuko and Senketsu (when he suggested she use the scissor blade as a tennis racket), etc. A sizable portion of the show's development involves elements that were established in this episode.
I don't really understand why you hate Sanageyama or Episode 6, aside from "Men! Dou! Kote!" :l
"Holy shit, Nui is the killer! What does this mean for the story?" Still waiting on an answer.
Keep waiting. We can't understand her importance to the story until we know her story. Despite that, though, she has already contributed a fair amount to the story, even just in Episode 11. In a series where everyone fights so seriously for their own important goals and ideals, she can easily call two completely opposite emotions one and the same, and follows the "empty rhetoric" that "fair is foul and foul is fair". She acts individually, without regard for obligation, logic, or even the story. She has done a lot to contribute to the development of clothing as a theme. Hell, her first major action in the series is severing Sanageyama's "red thread of fate".
"Holy crap Nui destroyed Senketsu! What does this mean for Ryuuko and her emotional/mental state?!" We get her riding a bike in homage to Kill Bill/FLCL/whatever other pop culture reference (I'm not really a fan of those...pop culture references, I mean, since it's merely a form of pandering).
I've said before that the point to take from that scene is that Ryuuko's bond with Senketsu is, at that stage, solely an empowering one. Exemplifying this is the way they synchronize in Episode 15, simply walking side by side as friends and comrades, neither "putting on"/subjugating the other; it's a situation they both only benefit from.
"Oh shit on a bunny! Ryuuko doesn't want to fight anymore! Tsumugu thinks that a Kamui should be destroyed if it isn't used for fighting - it is on like donkey kong!" And then we get:
Mako - "HMPH!"
BGM - Hallelujah!
And then after some random rant the conflict is suddenly over.
Much like Satsuki, Tsumugu has never exactly seemed like Ryuuko's enemy to me. That along with Episode 16 ending with Mako saying that her snacks taste terrible assured me that it wouldn't result in that much of a conflict. However, we also have Ryuuko's later explanation that she didn't care that much about the fate of the world, further showing how Ryuuko and Satsuki are foil characters.
The whole thing about Satsuki using the Takarada guy to draw nudist beach out? Holy huh? A few episodes later we find out that Dr Matoi financed nudist beach. So what was the Takarada guy's importance?
Satsuki (paraphrased): "Who gave you the power to go up against Goku Uniforms?"
Likely, Takarada was paying NB to supply him, or they just supplied him on their own because of the desperation of the situation.
The whole thing of Satsuki wearing Ryuuko's glove so Ryuuko would come after her? Why would she distribute the rest of senketsu among other students? (people claim Satsuki is trying to make Ryuuko stronger, but the girl was fighting to kill).
Satsuki has constantly shown that she believes that only the people who live through whatever obstacle she puts them up against are worthy. She occasionally grants second chances, but that doesn't mean she's always lenient. Plus, with the conquer of Kansai, she probably knew she wouldn't have much more time.
How about the fact that the show is set in a school where Satsuki is at the top? Does she even GO to class?
I don't know nor care in the slightest.
Finally there's the matter of a shit load of stuff happening but it feeling like nothing has happened. This point is a tricky one because this show is not episodic by a long shot but feels pretty episodic. Episode 4, 5, 6 and 7 could have been left out of the show...while at the same time were integral to the story. It's weird. But because most of the happenings lacked punch it makes the continuity seem nothing more than ornament (such as Tsumugu wrecking shit back in episode 5 and him now being a recurring character. Yeah, he served to show that the show's world was bigger than Hounouji Gakuen but more than too many episodes later we are back in Hounouji Gakuen! So "fuck you" says the show to us viewers who notice these things).
Those episodes contributed a fair amount to character, relationship, and theme development and foreshadowing. Tsumugu's appearance probably taught Satsuki (more?) about Nudist Beach. |