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If you love fast-paced mature action and comedy, this is one of the best experiences you'll ever have watching any show for sure.

Story - 10/10 Kill la Kill is a story about revenge and acceptance and is executed with a level of perfection that is almost unmatched in the world of anime and TV storytelling. It can be goofy at times but it can also be dark and disturbing. It tackles the issue of blind following in authorities and the unnatural vanity that people possess in modern society. The problem for me in most shows that try to tackle complex subjects or explore a complex story that over a number of episodes leaks more and more context to misteries previously established is that they often take their time to liberally and end up being slow-paced, dragged out, and let's face it - boring. Shows and movies that try to be very "deep" often end up spending too much time on notheing and just look pretentious and even if they do have very intelligent story, what is that all worth if they can't entertain you? Kill la Kill is anything but that to the point where it's near the antithesis of slow, lacking substance pretentious shows. Normally I like longer stories, but this one covers more story in 24 episodes than most dragged out shonens do in 240. It has a solid beginning, middle and end and I would say it even tonally and story wise changes during the middle, creating a distinctly two-arc narrative. The plot slowly drop-feeds you information about Ryuuko's dad's murder and expands the lore of life fibres and Goku/Ultima uniforms and how they came to be in such a way, hidden between great action and restless comedy

Characters - 10/10 While the character set isn't extremely vast, it is just perfect for a short series like this. Ryuuko is one of my favourite protagonists ever, because of how strong-willed she is and how much she clashes with the world she's thrown in, creating the element of chaos in Honnouji academy, despite being less chaotic that most of the people there, showing how isolated they are from the rest of the world. Mako is Ryuuko's big-hearted best friend and is probably the cutest character I've ever seen while simultaneously having many moments throughout the series that prove her awesomeness. The Mankanshoku family are extremely endiering, Satsuki, the student body president, has one of the best redemption arcs ever put to screen, the four devas are just....perfect and the true villains, which I will not spoil, are terrifying. Even more minor characters such as the hit man with a personal vendetta against life fibres are booming with personality.

Music - 10/10 The intros, outros and background songs in this show are mesmorizing and trully elevate the tension at every point. I don't need to say anything else in this department.

Fight Scenes - 10/10 The adrenaline rush from most enemy encounters and even in tournaments kept me not only figuratively but *literally on the edge of my seat the entire time, and past half way through the show there is not a single episode without at least one jaw-dropping major twist that is impossible to predict. Almost every episode of the series has more tension than the climax of most shows and the actual climax episodes are something other-worldly.

Overall - a 10/10 if I've ever seen one. Studio Gainax have been proving since the 90's how well-crafted original anime plots can be and with shows like this now the torch has clearly been passed to Trigger. Seriously, everything these guys make is great. I'd suggest Panty & Stocking with Garterbelt also for people who want more fast-paced comedy + action show with clothing-based power systems. It was the original one I watched years ago that introduced me to these studios and this is just as good, if not better - a more intense and more *complete PSG.

Gainax did an AMAZING job with this anime. The animation had a quite limited budget and it really makes every bit of it count with unique artstyle - it's incredibly well stylized and the animation quality downgrades at more mondane scenes and puts all the extra efford and budget into some of the chase/fight scenes, which look incredible at times. Our heroes aren't quite your typical heroes and seem really unlikeable but when you pass more time with them you really grow to love them, not because of character depth but beacuse of how cool they are plain and simple. This show is something that only comes out once or twice a decade. It achieves in 13 episodes what most longer-running shows can't do in hundreds. Simply put, there are very few times I've been invested and interested in a fantasy world setting more than in this one. It doesn't take itself seriously almost at all, but just enough for you to get attached to it, but not so much that it becomes your typical anime hero's jurney story. The story line alternated between episodic with few things slowly connecting together as a loose overall plot and there is definitely some feel of progression, which I think is the absolute perfect combination. Even in the most random, disconnected from reality and traditional continuity episodes, due to the coins the sisters collect after slaying ghosts slowly adding up to the total needed to get back to Heaven, the story progress can be felt at least on a subtle level. I really, really like the setting in Daten city - a city stuck between Heaven and Earth, where the angels that have been consumed by two of the seven deadly sins must defeat ghosts and demons coming from the underworld and save the citizens to prove their worth and go back to their home in Paradise. Each episode does something really unique, often changing artstyles and even genres to fit a certain mood or give you the desired experience. Don't underestimate the plot of this anime just because it's overall pretty nonsensical at first glance - everything actually makes sense, and characters that seem only as filler and support charaters like Brief and Garterbelt become extremely important further on in the story in ways that will surprize you. There is a certain cliffhanger that devestated me when I watched this anime for the first time 4 years ago. I won't spoil what happens at the end but it's both in a sense one of the best and the worst endings I have ever seen in a piece of media - best because it makes me desire to see the next installment more that any other ending has - worst because the installment never came to be. Gainax have become infamous for their inconclusive ending but this may be the worst offender of it. I know that the studio is broke at the moment since most of the staff have moved on to Trigger, another fantastic anime studio, and I know it's been 10 years but this NEEDS to come back at some point in the future. I will wait as long as I have to but it needs to happen eventually. The ending theme is quite somber and contrasting with the rest of the show and watching it after you've finished the show it's quite depressing.

The show is absolutely amazing and strangely perfect for something that went out of its way to be stupid on purpose. While I love it to bits, to say that it's not for everyone is a gigantic understatement, which makes the fact that this show's average rating is not all that impressive actually make sense. Give this a try if you are not someone easily offended and if you turn out to be the very specific type of person that will enjoy this show to the fullest, like myself, this may be one of the best pieces of animation you will ever see. If not, it will most likely still be a lot of mindless fun either way. Oh and I would suggest the dub, while for most anime I prefer subs and the original voice acting is top-notch, the dub is on a whole another level and possibly my favourite dub of forain media in history.

This is an absolute 10/10 for me. The story, characters, soundtrack and setting are just far too perfect for it to be anything less than a ten. Thank you Gainax, please make season 2 or continue the story with an official manga continuation!

You know that feeling when you search for a song you don't know the name of and you find it after months? I had an extreme case of that with this show. I watched this some time around when I was six or seven on TV and recently I'd been seaching exessively for this show's name to find and rewatch it. I finally found it and I'm glad I did. The show is just as good as I remember it and I had an absolute blast binge-rewatching it. I gotta say the animation is not very impressive but that is not the show's fault as it wasn't very mainstream and so it didn't have a huge budget and also TV CGI in the 2000's wasn't very developed. Although the voice acting is pretty decent, the sound design felt a bit off until I realized what I was watching is probably a dub since the show is Korean/Spanish. If that's so, it's one of the best dubs I've ever heard since dubbed voices very rarely match the caracters so perfectly that you wouldn't expect it to be a dub. Although the animation is not impressive the fight scenes and some of the best animation in the show is in the later half of it - either that or I got used to it, and the story telling easily makes up for the CG. This is an exceptionally well-written story in terms of how quickly it introduces us to this robotic world and builds up it's heroes and villains. The character development on both Marty and Ellie is also very well done in such a short time. It's a masterpiece of storytelling.

I strongly recommend giving this a watch if you haven't already, don't get fooled by how childish it seems the first time getting into it. 9.5/10