October 06, 2013
Kill la Kill
The latest installment is the cute girls doing cute things genre is a gentle, methodically paced tale that follows a charming but haunted young lady who transfers into a new high-school where she knows no one. She struggles to fit in and find friendship by joining an after-school club populated with wacky misfits.
Please be advised that this is NOT a review of that show.
The show being reviewed here does involve a female transfer student which may have contributed to some confusion. However, if you're looking for a review of that show then you probably don't want to scroll any further. In fact you should probably move along because that show sounds boring and I'm not likely to review it this season.
Kill la Kill follows a young lady named Ryuko Matoi, who is seeking to avenge her fathers murder. Her one clue to his killers identity (and her primary weapon) is a is a scissor...
Wandering through a rather run down city, she enrolls in the local high school as a transfer student and makes an inquiry about the student council.
...at which point things proceed to deteriorate with considerable alacrity.
The ad does not look anywhere as retro as this show actually is.
With Kill la Kill, the people that made Gurren Lagaan in homage to giant robot shows have decided to accord the same respect to the genre of hard boiled high school gangster tales...and women in prison movies....and just generally shout out their adoration for Go Nagai.
This jarringly old-school retrogasm of a show is a completely over the top, tasteless exercise in gratuity. It navigates the utterly bizarre twits and turns of its story at a breakneck pace, all the while managing to be offensive, exploitative and refreshingly devoid of any redeeming societal values.
I laughed, I cheered, I winced, I deleted my browser history....
I don't know how long that they can maintain this level of truly high quality squalor but I aim to find out.
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Please be advised that this is NOT a review of that show.
The show being reviewed here does involve a female transfer student which may have contributed to some confusion. However, if you're looking for a review of that show then you probably don't want to scroll any further. In fact you should probably move along because that show sounds boring and I'm not likely to review it this season.
Now that we've cleared that up...
Kill la Kill follows a young lady named Ryuko Matoi, who is seeking to avenge her fathers murder. Her one clue to his killers identity (and her primary weapon) is a is a scissor...
...singular.
Wandering through a rather run down city, she enrolls in the local high school as a transfer student and makes an inquiry about the student council.
...at which point things proceed to deteriorate with considerable alacrity.
The ad does not look anywhere as retro as this show actually is.
With Kill la Kill, the people that made Gurren Lagaan in homage to giant robot shows have decided to accord the same respect to the genre of hard boiled high school gangster tales...and women in prison movies....and just generally shout out their adoration for Go Nagai.
This jarringly old-school retrogasm of a show is a completely over the top, tasteless exercise in gratuity. It navigates the utterly bizarre twits and turns of its story at a breakneck pace, all the while managing to be offensive, exploitative and refreshingly devoid of any redeeming societal values.
I laughed, I cheered, I winced, I deleted my browser history....
I don't know how long that they can maintain this level of truly high quality squalor but I aim to find out.
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So, now we know what happened to Urabe Mikoto's scissors.
Posted by: Mauser at Sun Oct 6 21:27:57 2013 (TJ7ih)
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Okay, I watched it. that was some amazingly over-the-top stuff, and yeah, retro-styled. Painted backgrounds!
I'm guessing it's going to be a succession of fights until she gets to the top.
I'm guessing it's going to be a succession of fights until she gets to the top.
Posted by: Mauser at Mon Oct 7 05:08:29 2013 (TJ7ih)
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I was actually disappointed by the first episode. After watching Little Witch Acadamia, I expected a much different show. Guess the Studio Trigger people have a wide-variety of tastes and styles...
Posted by: Siergen at Mon Oct 7 11:13:02 2013 (c2+vA)
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The same people also made Panty and Stocking With Garterbelt.
Posted by: Max at Mon Oct 7 11:38:38 2013 (9p6/L)
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Oh dear... if you were were expecting Gurren Laggan then this show was still a shock.
If you saw "Trigger" and were thinking Little Witch Acadamias...you probably lost 1D6 san.
I rolled a 6 and now everything tastes purple and looks falsetto so I'm happy.
If you saw "Trigger" and were thinking Little Witch Acadamias...you probably lost 1D6 san.
I rolled a 6 and now everything tastes purple and looks falsetto so I'm happy.
Posted by: The Brickmuppet at Mon Oct 7 11:56:54 2013 (DnAJl)
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Great! Time for you to re-read Leftism Revisited. Let me know when you are ready, I'll order a bottle of Elder Sign(tm) for you.
Posted by: Robert Mitchell Jr. at Mon Oct 7 17:31:13 2013 (MNAY3)
Posted by: Max at Mon Oct 7 19:12:10 2013 (9p6/L)
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