[Anime] Kill la Kill

[color=#006FFF]I'm having flashbacks to the very first episode after this one because so much happened!

First off, the biggest thing, like Zamor said, Senketsu is in literal pieces! I can honestly say I was not expecting anything like that at all. And Satsuki had the pieces ordered to be sewn in with other students' uniforms, so how is he going to "reform" himself?? As long as this doesn't turn into a big fetch-quest for Ryuko where she hunts down the pieces of him, this could be quite interesting.
The fact that Nui was Nagita came as a big shocker to me, so kudos on getting that one by me. It's a shame though because I loved his voice acting.



This episode gave a big insight into the organizations of REVOCS, the group that Ragyo is leading (if I'm not mistaken) within which, daughter Satsuki leads a sect. I must say, at first I thought their relationship was pretty tense in that Satsuki was the usurping type but then it seemed like she was acting as a general under her mother, leading her plans, but THEN when they left they both had words to say that implied their slight animosity for one another so it'll be interesting seeing how Satsuki plans to go against "mommy dearest" whenever that happens.



As a general note though, I'm so glad this ended up resolving Ryuko's "depressed state" too, albeit in a way that might result in her being even more bummed out because she lost Senketsu, one of her few friends. Overall, an excellent episode I think; it had a lot of comedy, a lot of story, and some great character development.

[color=#006FFF]obligatory "fuck you, Nui!"

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First five minutes: Who is this guy

Middle Ten minutes: I kinda like this guy.

Last five minutes: FUCK HOW DID I NOT NOTICE WE ONLY SAW ONE EYE THE WHOLE TIME!
Senketsu? :'(

Most confusing boner.

Senketsu has been kill la killed. Trigger ruined January instead of Christmas this time

Well that was unexpected, so Senketsu got destroyed... I mean, I'm sure she'll reform him somehow, but it was still sad :/

Pretty nice, I think it's good that they are giving Ryuko a chance to stand on her own two legs since she was mostly depending on Senketsu for most of her battles. On another note I found stripped Ryuko less arousing than Kamui Ryuko.

[color=#006FFF]For one reason or another, I hadn't thought of it like that--that's a really interesting way to look at this turn of events.

That being said, since I forgot to mention it in my initial post, I did find sad to see Senketsu fall into shreds. This sort of loss is something that I think was kind of needed for the series since every other time, there's been a threat, but never much of a loss so much as "discipline" (e.g. Ryuko getting beat up). It's a good way to say "Hey, these people mean business" both from Nui as well as Satsuki who didn't let Ryuko keep the Senketsu squares.

Yeah she usually got roughed up, then Ryuko and friends just ran away, then tried again with lucky results; which is a bad precedent to set for a strong main character but good setup for ample character growth, remember Simon became a completely different person by the end of Gurren Lagann. I am lead to believe the whole touring the provinces and fighting without Senketsu deal is leading up to this character growth.

I think it's Satsuki's way of maintaining her good-bad guy role in the series, she's been acting awfully lenient lately so having this to balance her out is good. She did save Ryuko's life and if Satsuki let Ryuko stay overconfident with Senketsu and Ryuko fought Rui somewhere out of her reach it's likely her promising rival would attend be doing roll call from an ashtray.

Given the fact that he's all torn up now and she only has one piece, I think what will happen next is that she's going to track down the pieces of the uniform and down those whom it was given to. That means she's going to potentially be fighting not only students from Honnouji Academy but those from the other schools.

Exciting.

[color=#006FFF]Holy moly that was a freaking amazing episode! The action was non-stop and only got progressively more intense, going from Sanageyama's battle against Takarada (who I can't help but love) to the Four Kings/Elite Four/whatever all getting an upgrade in their uniforms and a kick-ass team pose.

(I'm not the only one who is reminded of Lordgenome's "HACKIIIING" form by Inumuta's am I?)





Then you have Ryuko fighting for the final piece of Senketsu which had my favorite bit of animation



And let's not forget Nudist Beach finally making an appearance! Despite them being gone now (assuming Nonon actually did kill them all and their entire base), it was really cool to finally see this side-faction in action.

And lastly, there was the almost Episode 3 Quality rematch between Ryuko and Satsuki which was, needless to say, freaking epic. I love how it only went higher and higher in its intensity and scale, going from the ground-level, to the air, to Ryuko evading Nonon's blasts until the entire skyscraper was collapsing. It wa a very well choreographed rematch, I would say.

One of my favorite shots from the battle. Love how Junketsu can manipulate the shoulder spires (loving that drill there).

[color=#006FFF]I feel like this episode was the first step on the gentle slope upward that will exponentially grow steeper as we reach the apex and climax of the series that is the final clash between Nudist Beach (including Ryuko) and the Kiryuins? Satsuki, Ryuko, Nudist Beach vs Ragyo and COVERS? Satsuki vs Ryuko/Nudist Beach vs COVERS? The separate parties aren't too defined just yet since we can see that Satsuki has some hidden agenda here from her mother, which is something I'm especially excited to know about. Next episode should be very interesting if nothing else as we see what this next move of Ragyo's is--it definitely seemed to come as a surprise to Satsuki which has me curious.

So this life fibers are actually worm type alien parasites from space that gave a human being super powers by sucking up blood as payment? And they are the reason why the apes evolved so rapidly until it evolves into humans? And if you put these parasites into your body, they gonna eat you from the insides? Hmmmm.... This parasites are actually digging through your body so they can get inside and eat you.