See how much better that looks....but Gainax gunna appease to "that" crowd that apparently enjoy seeing the tits and ass of a schoolgirl. I never understood why fan service is always perverted.
This is pretty well thought out.Just finished episode one. That fucking ruled.
So okay I'm really, really sensitive to fanservice for fanservice's sake for the most part but I am totally down with the Senkotsu design now that I've seen it in the context of the show. Soooo much of the show is taking the piss out of exploitation tropes and it's very clearly very intentional.
During the fight with Fukuroda once she's revealed, Ryuko is embarrassed by the Senkotsu. Instead of focusing on the fight Fukuroda starts creeping on Ryuko because of Senkotsu, which makes her upset. When he tries to attack her, it doesn't matter that like 10% of her body is covered, she's completely protected. On the other hand the Goku uniforms are like full body suits from neck to ankle. It's a total send up of the absurdity of the awful armor women wear in dozens of other exploitation films/anime.
There's a hell of a lot more thought to this than wank material for virgin otaku. Sexiness isn't an inherently bad thing; and I think using it in a subversive way like this is pretty god damn brilliant.
I don't know how I'm going to manage to wait weekly for more episodes of this show.
Episode 1 was definitely great. I'm hopeful that the rest of the series can maintain (or surpass) that level.
I noticed that (not necessarily spoilers, but theories based on observations)the school itself has eyes, a neck, and the shoulder outline of a seifuku. I wonder if that is just a motif, or if the whole school is going to enter the fray at some point.
Nice OT OP.
Edit: Oh, if we're posting impressions:
The animation style is really working for me, as is the general atmosphere of the show. After seeing a classmate getthey all go back to class and resume their day. When asked about it, Mako tells her thatbeaten to death by the student councilin a comic tone. That carried through to the guys gettingit happens all the time and that she shouldn't worry about itand other stuff like that. That's very reminiscent of FLCL to me, although there are obviously shades of Gurren Lagann in the basic premise ofboiled in hot oil and then emerging battered and fried.her having to fight minions in order to get to bigger bosses, which mimics Viral/Tymlyph (sp), Viral/ Uhh...Ocean Lady, etc
I'm not in love with the design of her outfit, but assuming that it willit's not a big deal to me. It's definitely not the turnoff that it seems to be for some people.fill in as she absorbs the power or threads or whatever of the other Goku
I expect to see drills.
i know Sawano gets a lot of shit for his music lately
but
fuck y'all that guitar when title shows up behind Ryuuko was hype
i know Sawano gets a lot of shit for his music lately
but
fuck y'all that guitar when title shows up behind Ryuuko was hype
i know Sawano gets a lot of shit for his music lately
but
fuck y'all that guitar when title shows up behind Ryuuko was hype
I made some avatars from the artwork floating around/show if anyone wants them.
Alas, what it could have been.Loved everything except for the soundtrack - should have been by Iwasaki.
Studio Pablo is working on this? Nice.Yeah, they look good. Studio Pablo - the dudes who worked on Flower of Evil's background art, among others - is assisting as well.
Really? wiki and ANN say it's 12.
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God, Mako just steals every scene she's in.
By being your sort of standard, kind of dopy, cute baby-faced sidekick girl. Really didn't like her that much. She's such a walking trope. Nothing all that clever or funny in the way she's written. She dragged down the scenes she was in for me.
Thats her point, she is suppose to be horribly cliche and annoying on purpose, when shes balancing on a box constantly talking to the main character.
Case in point:Never trust ANN.
Rating: 2 (out of 5)
An undeniably stylish and frantically paced (to say nothing of well hyped) show, Kill la Kill nonetheless has some problems that impacted my enjoyment of it, to the point where I had to turn it off and go to bed before resuming in the morning. The most glaring issue for me was one that may not bother all viewers the repeated references to the rise of the Nazi party every time the students were in class. Granted, this makes a grand total of two times, but the seeming significance of the references was quite clear. Honnouji Academy, which towers oppressively over a shantytown, is ruled by a despotic student council garbed in fantastic Goku Uniforms, which grant their wearers amazing physical prowess. One student in the class in question has stolen one, and thus the burly blond Iro is out for blood. And he gets it we open the next school day with another history lesson about Nazis as we find out that the student in question was, in fact, killed. This was an uncomfortable juxtaposition for me, as I don't feel that it is one that should be made lightly.
In between these scenes, we meet Ryuko, our badass heroine. Ryuko has come to town bearing half of a giant pair of scissors, which apparently was the weapon that murdered her family an undisclosed amount of years before. Ryuko is on the trail of the other blade, and instantly invokes the wrath of the student council although not the stoic Satsuki, supreme leader of the bunch. Apparently she knows more than she's letting on. In any event, Ryuko finds a skimpy and sentient sailor uniform of her own in Daddy's basement, which allows her to fight the student council in a spectacular manner, upsetting the not-so-fragile balance of power at Honnouji. Thus a series is launched.
Perhaps Kill la Kill does more right than wrong it looks good and is visually fascinating, there are plenty of anime trope jokes, and the shantytown is a great piece of background but the aforementioned historical references and the fact that virtually every line is screamed take away from that. It wasn't for me.
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I doubt Satsuki is the real final villain.
That being the point does not make it good writing. There are smart ways to do that type of character, she just happens to be a terrible version.
Never trust ANN.
they overdid it, or at least that's what I thought and bothered me. I understand when she gets "assaulted" by the uniform or when she gets half naked for the first time, but in that fight she was blushing all the time....That's an interesting position to take. Why don't you like the blushing?
um. it's not only about slut/pussy jokes, not at all. there is a lot more than that, and really well done too.Oh thank god someone else put into words my exact thoughts on Panty & Stocking.
Sushio's artstyle saves the show, but I dunno how it'll look when a lesser artist takes on animation directing.
Yes please.
Mr. Umakoshi incoming? We've seen that Tadashi Hiramatsu's possible transformation cuts could be present on the next episode, so more of her close friends at it is always a possibility...Episode 2 is by Shouko Nakamura; not worried.