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REVIEW: Kill la Kill Episodes 13-24 Streaming

I do think you are trying to make some good points here DuskyPredator, and I recognize that the show does use a lot of interesting symbolism and imagery, but I think unfortunately the vast majority of that cool symbolism and imagery is mostly just for that coolness factor (or for other nefarious purposes) and has virtually no deeper narrative meaning to it.

The most obvious example I can point to is the whole "chakra" aspect. I remember earlier in the show, myself and some others were complaining about how Ragyo kept molesting Satsuki and how we thought it was kind of crude and probably just there for fan service purposes.

Apollo-kun wrote:

Rahxephon91 wrote: Apollo-kun wrote: ChibiKangaroo wrote: Rahxephon91 wrote: Who the hell was looking for a high quality narrative experience with Kill La Kill? Apparently, all the people who said that poor development was a negative for the show. Not everyone is satisfied by "it has a coolness to it, and that's all I care about." Hit the nail right on the head. Some people demand more than "edgy" design and over-the-top zaniness in their shows. But, you know, we must just be thinking too hard about it, or something, right? Actually yes you would be. And since you sadly can not turn off that mindset and look at something by its own merits, maybe you'd be better served by something that warrants that thought process. And you, sadly, cannot turn off your mindset. See how silly that sounds? Different people have different opinions. There's no such thing as watching a thing "wrong," or playing a thing "wrong," or reading a thing "wrong." Unless, you know, you're inferring something radically different from what the show presents. As long as you can legitimately support your claims, you can make them, and they're not wrong. They're opinions, and like bumholes... well, you know the rest. But please, continue to tell people that how they're watching it is wrong because it's not how you watch it. Which is, incidentally, an opinion.

oh please. Spare me this bull. This coming from a poster who's response to claiming a game sucked was "a lot of other people like it". Then had no response when an actual opinion was argued.


You're opinion here isn't even well argued. It amounts to "I'm super smart and I deem this show not smart so I guess it's overated". Said all without much reason.

There's no real argument or response to kill la kill from you.

No Kill La Kill is not some naunced master peice of storytelling. That is not a negative and something that can at all be held aginst the show. It isn't about that.

That wrong mindset does not all look at what the show does.

The characters are not deep. They aren't supposed to be. They are walking personifications of power sets, ideals, whatever. You don't like Sum.. because he's a deep character. You like him because he's the cool warrior who is so cool he dosent need eyes but can see through sense. It's a dumb idea and over the top, which fits the over the top insanity on display. So when he fights it's awesome to see what ridiculous things his powers will bring and how his personality interacts and adds to the style of the show.

The characters are all one note and you watch them to see what over the top cool thing they do. Excuting over the topness is an art. Which kill la kill does so well. From the plot, the story, the world, and the the actual directing. It all adds up to an anime that is so visualy exciting and entertaining to watch. It is style over any substance and it is so well. It's just so invintive and imganativly fun in what it does.

People say the 2nd half story tries. Hell no. The plot just becomes an excuse for more crazy things to happen. It is not a plot to take seriously. It is there for more fun things to happen.

So no, I'm sorry if your critique is the story was bad without any talk on how the show achieved this tone of over the top hyper activity or didn't do it well. If your critique is the show is bad because it lacks depth. Then no I'm sorry Kill La Kill is not for you. Your opinion is meaningless. You are not in the right mindset for this show. Nothing wrong with that of course. Never said people can't have diffrent taste. Your taste dosent line up with kill la kill.

Constant action CAN get tiring for a viewer and that's pretty much all Kill la Kill has going for it.

Here is the thing about that argument that makes it faulty. You keep saying that any qualms people have with the show don't have the right mind set and shouldn't take anything in the show seriously. The problem I have with that kind of thinking is that you are basically saying the show should be free of criticism. It should be looked at a masterpiece that has absouletly no faults because the animation is part of it's style (even though the show reuses a gross amount of animations and shots that don't contribute to it's style at all) and the story doesn't matter because it shouldn't be taken seriously.

I don't think the show was screaming "DON'T TAKE THIS SERIOUS SITUATION SERIOUSLY FOLKS! THIS IS SUPPOSED TO BE FUN TO WATCH!" at points like that.

There were plenty of attempts to make us feel for the characters. But they mostly came off as horribly contrived.

You are also disregarding the fact that people also get bored seeing such a formulaic story play out so predictably.

You seem to think that people can just sit through a story that has very little in the way of interesting aspects for 24 episodes and enjoy it just because it looks "cool".

It's fine if the show is all about action and entertainment but it isn't wrong for people to want something more at some point.

Constant action CAN get tiring for a viewer and that's pretty much all Kill la Kill has going for it.

@Rahxephon91

You're not going to convince anyone that Kill la Kill is some masterpiece show by simply repeating over and over and over that "it's not for you." Claiming that another person's critical opinion on a show should be disregarded because "anyone who doesn't understand the greatness of Kill la Kill doesn't deserve to watch it and shouldn't be listened to" is a ridiculous argument. It's the same type of un-intellectual argument as any of the ignorant populace in the "Emperor's New Clothes" parable would make.

That he mentioned Space Dandy as another show beneath his towering intelligence tells me all I need to know about his taste and his opinion of himself.

Ok, I'm going to create an anime called "poop." It is going to be about poop.

Poop will fly around.

There may or may not be character names,

but most if not all of them will be synonyms of poop.

None of them will have any kind of interesting background to them,

and they will spend most of their time sitting around being poop, or being flung around.

There will probably be poop jokes and perhaps even some fart jokes.

I will make this anime, and you will call it a masterpiece because it did exactly what I was intending it to do.

Thank you very much.

And that whole "You're watching it wrong" counter is the single most stupid thing I've ever read on the internet ever.

ChibiKangaroo wrote:

@Rahxephon91 You're not going to convince anyone that Kill la Kill is some masterpiece show by simply repeating over and over and over that "it's not for you." Claiming that another person's critical opinion on a show should be disregarded because "anyone who doesn't understand the greatness of Kill la Kill doesn't deserve to watch it and shouldn't be listened to" is a ridiculous argument. It's the same type of un-intellectual argument as any of the ignorant populace in the "Emperor's New Clothes" parable would make.

Oh please.

First of all. It's not "anit-intellectual". I know you want to present yourself as some smart person who only likes shows that are "smart", but you're not winning any awards here.

Because clearly you don't actually understand the argument. The argument is'nt "don't try an disucuss Kill la Kill". No that would be anti intelectual. the argument is "lets actually look at Kill La Kill and what it's doing". You and everyone else who's agreeing with you basicly actually have the anti-intelectual argument thing going on. You seem to think there's one way for a show to be good. One way for something to actually be well done. It's a shallow idea of smart, because it only rewards one thing that makes the person who belive it feel smart. So because Kill La Kill is obviously and willingfuly stupid you feel the need to strike it down.

"oh it's all about action. It has no depth. Oh It's not on my level"

Missing the point enteraily and not actually looking at the craft behind Kill La Kill.

Do you come to something like The Raid and think it sucks because it's story is basic. Oh the story is bad so it must be bad.

No an actual smart person comes to the Raid and looks at what the hell the thing is about. What does the story do in the Raid? Well one it's not offensive and it works in service to what the movie is about. It gives enough reason and even enough character motivation for the action to happen. On top of that the action is wonderfully done. The Raid is a fantastic movie and extremely well done. Yes it is a really good action movie and thus a really good movie because it succeeds at everything it set out to do.

You're entire argument rests on the story of Kill La Kill. So no I'm sorry, the show is not for you. If that is you're take away. Your opinion really is not worthwhile. The show and what it offers is not in line with your taste. Thats fine. Thats ok. I'm the last person who should tell you about moe shows or romance shows, because I'm not geared into those things. My opinion there is not that valuable because I can not handle them.

When someones complaint is the story in a show like Kill La Kill, I'm sorry. I do not take that opinion seriously.

A show about evil clothes and a girl who fights with a broken piece of a giant scissor. Her enemy is a girl with an evil student council who seeks to invade other schools and this is all being manipulated by an evil Fashion company.

I'm sorry, but that is so wonderfully stupid.

It's like the people who complain about the over the toppness in Gurren Lagann. How it's stupid that they keep just yelling and being all hot blooded.

You don't get it.

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Ok, I'm going to create an anime called "poop." It is going to be about poop.

Ok. Will you execute this idea well?

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Poop will fly around.

Ok will it be well directed and visually entertaining like Kill La Kill is? So much so that pretty much every action scene isn't boring to watch just like Kill La Kill?

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There may or may not be character names,

Oh well that dosen't sound like Kill La Kill where the characters not only have names ,but are distinctly recognizable and understandable.

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but most if not all of them will be synonyms of poop.

Ok, so there going to be charater troupes? Nothing wrong with that. Most characters in every anime are pretty un-orginal and can fit into a pre-made character type. It's really how you do them that makes them entertaining. Kill La Kill does this well with Gamagoori. There's nothing original about him, but his visual design is great. Also how the show directs his figure always leads to a fun visual gag, so it makes him memorable. Plus the extremely wacky BDSM stuff adds a layer of insanity with helps sell the pure ridiculousness of the show. Plus since the character troupe isn't handled poorly and Gama is pretty likable in all his actions, the character becomes pretty cool and I like watching him. I hope you're stereotypical poop characters are even half as well done.

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None of them will have any kind of interesting background to them,

Well that dosen't sound like Kill La Kill then. Too bad, because in Kill La Kill all of the characters have a fun tick that plays out well in the show. I mean I just talked about Gamagoori. But Sanageyama is also awesome. The entire "I can see everything" thing makes his fights very dynamic and cool, which is great for an action show like this. I hope then when you make your poop show you can learn from all the good things Kill La Kill does to add style to and personality. Personality is what you need in your poop show.

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and they will spend most of their time sitting around being poop, or being flung around.

Well I hope you have a good director. Because man the direction in Kill La Kill has so much flair. The writing has great and clever comedic timing. So it makes even the boring stuff great to look at. Since the writing is so good it never lets off the hyperactivity and is thus always engaging.

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There will probably be poop jokes and perhaps even some fart jokes.

Ok cool. Dumb jokes can be good. It really comes down to the execution. I hope you're not stupid enough to think you're two good for well played humor.

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I will make this anime, and you will call it a masterpiece because it did exactly what I was intending it to do.

Hey if you do this stupid premise well like Kill La Kill did then anythings possible. But it will take real talent in visual direction, clever writing, and whatnot to do that. Because those things are hard and Kill La Kill is a real testament to using those to success.

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Thank you very much.

No thank you for actually proving how wrong you are. I really could'nt have done it without you making a post that missed so completely like this.

I mean really.....you thought you'd just ignore the argument that people have been making Kill La Kill. About how it does what it does so well. You really thought by making a dumb comparison like this, which completely ignores pretty much everything Kill La Kill does well. You'd actually make a point?

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

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And that whole "You're watching it wrong" counter is the single most stupid thing I've ever read on the internet ever.

You should read your post then. The one that you made an account for just to embarrass yourself with. I mean no one dosen't think Kill La Kill is stupid.

Also Sora no Otoshimono is quite possibly the ugliest anime out there. It dosen't even come close to how great Kill la Kill looks and it sure dosen't have its style. It also has pretty annoying characters who I neither think are cool or tolerable. Can't say that about Kill La Kill. All of them are cool and entertaining. The complaint is they are one note. Boo hoo. Like I care in a show like Kill La Kill.