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Jan 23, 2016
Yippie ki-yay, another street fighting anime. Kill la Kill Gold while noteworthy from a sound perspective, comes off as just plain blah to us. The best part of the anime is not even in the anime. It's the songs that comes inside.

As you can see, all the characters from Kill la Kill from the television runs are here for this home version. Each character has enough moves, combos, linkers, special attacks, finishers and god knows what else to kill somebody. Kill la Kill is rated T for Teen, and rightly so. Remember our report on anime violence? Too bad we didn't have some footage of this little baby. The 3D graphic realism of Kill la Kill makes the violence that much more noticeable. Just look at how Ryuko just whacks a person to death with a sword. Ouch! Isn't it interesting that even Trigger, who once had a policy against this stuff, got lured into the street fighting genre because of the pot at the end of the bloodstream? We're not advocating censorship, or even commenting on whether or not the anime is wrong. But it just makes us wonder, why people actually spend $80 to see a bunch of characters get beat into the ground. When they can do it for FREE on a REAL LIFE HUMAN BEING. Ok, turn off the tsk tsk mechanism in your brain, it was a joke, a bad one.

Trigger's press release has make Kill la Kill: Gold sound like a revolution in anime. Yet as with sports anime, the real revolution involves only the amount of options, which are added as you finish more episodes.

Through it's highlights, we did find two favorite characters. Ryuuko, this fighter has a long sword that can be used at long ranges, so they needn't risk their life by getting to close to the opponent. Also Gamagoori, a very powerful man who's spinning leg moves are fast, overwhelming, and powerful.

Kill La Kill, seems like a rushed title for my DVD player, the camera isn't utilized very well, except for an opening zoom shot at the beginning of each battle. The animation isn't 3D, it's practically a bit of fun.
Reviewer’s Rating: 7
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