Which only prompts the central question of any piece of writing about Kill la Kill – is this anime very, very stupid or very, very smart?
That's what's so cool about Kill la Kill (and Gurren Lagann), it's one of those works that teaches you to stop thinking about art in those terms. At a surface level, it's very dumb, but as it goes on, it becomes really clear that the show is trying to do something. And then with some analysis, one sees all the careful planning that went into the structure of the thing. For example, Ragyo and those associated with her are the only ones that talk in other languages, and use concepts like sin. They are coded as westeners. A lot of cool interpretations can come from that (I'm partial to the idea it is all a metaphor for Japan in WW2, and the inevitable failure of the imperial project). But something is always missing, it refuses one unifying interpretation. And it keeps being earnest and dumb the whole way through.
The article seems to care a lot about the nudity in the show. I can't say for certain since I'm gay, but it didn't seem like it was supposed to be titilating, most of the time the characters look like blobs. I think this was part of the Discourse(TM) when it came out.
There is one part of the show that feels really gross and exploitative and it doesn't seem to have a purpose. People who've seen the show probably know what I'm talking about.
That scene where Ragyo sexually assaults Satsuki in the bath. I honestly don't know what that was supposed to be about. It's never brought up again and I've never seen an analysis that incorporates it.
That's what's so cool about Kill la Kill (and Gurren Lagann), it's one of those works that teaches you to stop thinking about art in those terms. At a surface level, it's very dumb, but as it goes on, it becomes really clear that the show is trying to do something. And then with some analysis, one sees all the careful planning that went into the structure of the thing. For example, Ragyo and those associated with her are the only ones that talk in other languages, and use concepts like sin. They are coded as westeners. A lot of cool interpretations can come from that (I'm partial to the idea it is all a metaphor for Japan in WW2, and the inevitable failure of the imperial project). But something is always missing, it refuses one unifying interpretation. And it keeps being earnest and dumb the whole way through.
The article seems to care a lot about the nudity in the show. I can't say for certain since I'm gay, but it didn't seem like it was supposed to be titilating, most of the time the characters look like blobs. I think this was part of the Discourse(TM) when it came out.
There is one part of the show that feels really gross and exploitative and it doesn't seem to have a purpose. People who've seen the show probably know what I'm talking about.
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That scene where Ragyo sexually assaults Satsuki in the bath. I honestly don't know what that was supposed to be about. It's never brought up again and I've never seen an analysis that incorporates it.
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