Satire's review discussed more thoroughly than I can the nature of the fan-service in this anime. The anime centers around overpowered students, gratuitous female sexualization, and appeals to common adolescent themes like rebelliously struggling against authority (parents, school, the world). Kill la Kill throws these around so much that it's taken to almost unashamed levels. While the abundant ecchi is often given a comical spin, it's a thinly-veiled attempt to downplay the fact that this anime is mostly fan-service. Kill la Kill adopts so many cliché fan-service elements that the actual content ends up being, well...cliché fan-service.
Kill la Kill's greatest quality lies in how incredibly well it consolidates and delivers these cliché elements. In a brilliant fan-service adaptation, they satisfy the ever-shorter attention spans of anime's largest audience by distilling the most popular fan-service themes and removing superfluous ones that may dilute the viewing experience. It accomplishes this with a refreshingly unique artistic style that is very in your face and honest in its intentions (its bluntness reminded me of Quentin Tarantino movies). While this leaves little complexity for the contemplative viewer, the anime is extremely easy to watch. The characters á la Gurren Lagann don't hold back and will dive right into the anime, pulling you along with it for an intense ride with no time to cool down. Ultimately, Kill la Kill removes a lot of the extraneous "fluff" and focuses on barraging the viewer unrelentingly with a balanced, fan-service-themed mixture of quality action, drama, and comedy in every single episode.
Therefore, if you enjoy gratuitous action, strong adolescent characters, ecchi sexualization, typical anime comedy and a revenge plot that offers little in the way of complexity, then this is probably going to be a fan-service dream come true for you because Kill la Kill does a fantastic job weaving these together. I usually hate these, but even coming in with such bias, I was still impressed with just how well the creators delivered them cohesively with a unique flair in their stylistic presentation. I would recommend Kill la Kill to anyone, with the caveat that this anime panders to a specific audience, and as such, viewers should temper their expectations accordingly.
