Wednesday, October 23, 2013

Kill La Kill... holy shit!

So a new animation studio called Trigger just started their very first TV series called Kill La Kill.  I must say its fucking bad ass!  The animation is great, the story if tons of fun, and everything about it is just huge and epic!
Studio Trigger is founded by former Gainax employees Hiroyuki Imaishi and Masahiko Ohtsuka.  To give you an idea they worked on stuff like Gurren Lagann and Neon Genesis Evangelion.  They worked on some animation shorts like Little Witch Academia (2013) and Little Witch Academia (2014) which was funded by kickstarter, but anyways back to Kill La Kill.

The story takes place at a school called Honnouji Gakuen which takes place in what seems to be a post-apocalyptic Japan.  The school is dominated by the student council led by Satsuki Kiryuin.  The council members wear special uniforms called Goku Seifuku or Goku Uniforms that grant them superhuman powers, which they use to oppress the entire school (staff included).  One day a transfer student Ryuko Matoi comes to the school with a large half scissor-shaped longsword in search of the owner of the other half of the scissor who killed her father.  Since it seems like the student council leader Satsuki seems to know something about the large half scissor weapon Matoi challenges her right from the get go, but faces defeat almost immediately due to not having a goku uniform.  After retreating to her fathers home she discovers in the basement a set of clothing called Kamui, meaning god cloth, which grants her unbelievable powers in exchange for sucking her blood...

So far there are only three episodes out at the moment and they're all really great to watch.  The animation is top notch and will probably remind anyone who watches it of Gurren Lagann right away.  Trigger really took the extra mile to add to each and every frame per second.  The characters are really like-able and so loud that everything they say and do stands out in your brain and lingers there for a really long time.  The series in general is very epic and huge... just everything is supersized for your eyes to explode on.  When I saw the third episode I was literally on fire!... no seriously, I was sweating in my chair with my eyes wide I thought I was going to die watching this episode. That's how fucking amazing this shit is right now!  Stop reading this and go fucking watch it!

Oh right some disclaimers not everything is just awesome and only that.  First off maybe not age appropriate there is some nude transformation scenes going on, kind of like sailor moon, and the outfit they change into is very flashy.  Massive underboob, DAT ASS. lots of panty shots.  To say the least its a little vulgar, but that's also part of the show too :p.  Also the show is really random, some people might not be a fan of that and as far as the randomness goes its not on the level of Nichijou but its certainly very random.  Also the story is not very dominant.  It IS about the girl looking for the killer of her father but the side quests just have so much attention to me, but not so much that I'm forgetting what the story is about, but for some of you looking for a very detailed background story might not get all dem specifics and whatnot.  None of these downpoints are really that negative to me though, at least for my taste.


Here are some GIFs and Fan Art I found for this show as a showcase of its popularity, Credit for this art of course goes to their respective artists whose pen names I shall post with each one.

Henshin!

Matoi Ryuko - by Itou

Studen Council Staff - by Sushio

Kill La Kill vs Gurren Lagann - by hu58013901
(This makes perfect sense right?)



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