It's basically ATTACK ON TEPPLIN.

>>84978

>>84979
I did not say this was a bad thing.

Huh. That certainly was a thing.
Wonder what's with the references to the Weimar Republic and the rise of the Nazis. Oh, and to Nineteen Eighty-Four.

I feel like that's the first time "Anime Cloak" had any real justification besides a cool reveal.

Saw the first episode aaaand... I dunno.

I didn't really enjoy the pacing of the episode too much. I mean in Gurren Lagann a lot of the first episode was dedicated to some nice character interaction and the only real info-dump we got was that the people lived underground and what a Gunmen was.

Here it's like they gotta explain what a Goku Uniform is, who runs the school, who our antagonists are, who our protagonist is, what that scissor sword is about, why she's trying to find the second half, why the principle is powerless to stop the Student Council President, who our protagonists supporting casts are and also provide an origin to how she got her power armor uniform.

And I feel like SO MUCH OF THAT could've been saved for a later episode or at least told in a much more visual way that gave us more time to really get what's going on that when I watch the episode again so much of it feels like they gotta throw all of this shit at us that we just can't breath.

It's interesting ENOUGH that I wanna keep watching but I'm not too terribly digging it with this first episode and I'm hoping it improves.

Just watched it and, well that sure was a thing. So far I'm liking this MC a lot more than Simon, and aside from the excessive exposition it was pretty cool so far. I have a feeling Tumblr is gonna go ballistic over that scene where she got her clothes though.

It's AWESOME
But also way too sexy, I mean goddamn. I had fun but I can't show this to anybody.

It's great!
Not was awesome as expected, but I think we're off to a good start. And while >>84993 has some valid points, I believe we'll get plenty of answers in the course of this series. That felt like a glimpse of what's to come.
Also, I love VA jokes. Now we need a Spice a& Wolf joke.

>>84996
So far, tumblr is loving it for what I've been seeing.

Ryuko and Mako are like the opposite of what I thought from the previews/press releases: I figured Ryuko would be a jerk and Mako was the only one nice enough to stand her, but it turns out Ryuko is probably the one of the nicest people in the entire town while Mako is too stupid/crazy/childish to be anything but complacent in all this crap ("The student council killed a guy for stealing a uniform, but that happens all the time so it's not a big deal!").

Dear Trigger,

Remain BASED.

Love, The Internet.

Can't wait for the full version of "Don't Lose Your Way". Looks like it's going to be the next Bios/α≠a/Attack-on-Titan.

How many episodes are we gonna get, anyway? Because holy shit, this pacing.

>>85008
Two cours I think.

At first I was really liking it, but as it went on I felt more and more like there needed to be a break in the action. This show never really gives you a chance to breathe. Another issue I have is that the fight scenes have absolutely zero tension, what's actually happening during the fight has no real meaning when the world seems to be running on Tom & Jerry physics.

I get that this is probably supposed to be style over substance, I guess I just didn't realize how much so when I went into this.

I gotta say though, that style is definitely there. This show is extremely well done on every visual level and feels great to look at the whole way through. Not too many anime are capable of achieving that feeling of really being a cartoon, and it's enough to get me to watch at least a few more episodes.

>>84998
This is exactly what I have come to expect when I watch anime.

It's interesting I guess but I wish it was slightly slower paced and less nervous at time to the point it's literally tiring to watch. Lots of exposition that were probably not that necessary in a show that just tells you to just accept everything to begin with.

Got some Afro Samurai flashbacks from her backstory. They was some gud flashbacks:

Father vs Justice

Heheh.

>>85019
I realy need to watch that show.

>>85021
So many times I had sneak up on them quicker
With my finger on the trigger
Like Like I'm pulling out my sword
This is combat, man, this is war

The RZA - Combat

>>85021
do eet fagit

>>85022
The numbah two headband.

Enough Afro Samurai, this is the Kill La Kill thread.
It's crazy how much /a/ime lurves KLK at the moment.

>>85024
What else is there on the airwaves right now worthy of note besides KLK and AoT?

>>85025
Kyousagiga's finally being organized into a proper series and Samurai Flamenco will probably be okay considering who's working on it.

>>85025
Am I the only one who didn't really like the Titan anime? I enjoy the manga, but aside from a few nice scenes the anime's direction is incredibly mediocre.

>>85027
>Implying the AoT manga is not a colossal technical failure on nearly every level

ep 2 is out, if anyone cares

So episode 2 and I uhm...

I don't know what to think of it really. Like, I don't know where it's going?

I thought the setup would be "MC fights various Club Activity Themed generals in progressively sillier fights" for 25 episodes but now apparently they're revealing that the Rival character has the same type of uniform as her in the third episode. I dunno I'm just worried the anime's gonna blow it's load early on and gonna fumble around getting our attention. Like maybe it's trying to subvert expectations but I D K

Jesus fucking christ that 2nd episode.

Well since I now officially like Mako that leaves the uniform as my only remaining complaint. I was fucking applauding at the teacher sequence.

FLY AWAY NOW

FLY AWAY NOW

FLY AWAAAAAAAAAAAAAY

I liked the second episode MUCH more than the first, the pacing was way better.

>>85057
Mako is my favorite character right now. She has been since the first ep, actually.

>>85058
>man nipples

>>85056
>I'm just worried the anime's gonna blow it's load early on
Remember when we said that about TTGL?

>in this episode, pic related

>>85057
>I was fucking applauding at the teacher sequence.

I loved how, if you pay attention, you can just barely see the blanket slipping before Ryuko notices.

>>85056
>apparently they're revealing that the Rival character has the same type of uniform as her in the third episode.

The opening already made that pretty obvious when both Ryuko and the class president have their clothes start to split apart in the same manner. Anyway, it's clear Ryuko's not ready to take on the president. Establishing something about who the president is early on isn't going to change that; she'll probably remain the big boss up until at least the first cour of the series.

>>85069

See the thing about TTGL was that there WAS some mystery to the Beastmen. We didn't know who exactly lead them, and as we uncovered more and more about their leaders and generals we got more and more enemies.

When it was revealed that Lord Genome had another Lagann type mecha and could also use whatever power Simon had (as far as we knew at the time) it was a legit OH SHIT moment cause even though we could've guessed that easily enough the story was still structured in a way that reveal came off as genuinely raising the proverbial stakes.

Here they're just unveiling all of the main badguys in the first episode and they're already having Ryoko fight class president who we ASSUME will be no match for her, but if that's the case then why have them fight at all? Anything the fighting will reveal will either lessen the impact of the actual final confrontation between the two by showing us a weakness of hers too early.

Or it'll be pointless padding that'll go nowhere and teach us nothing more than the President is a badass... which we already know. There's a difference between establishing conflict between your rivals and which one is stronger early on to give our protagonist incentive as to which one they need to overcome, and just having the rival and protagonist fight early on even after the rival's gotten her upgrade just to... show that she means business? I dunno... it seems a lot more poorly handled.

Revealing your rival and you have the same powers seems like a legit "SHIT JUST GOT REAL" moment that the anime is pulling out in the third episode of all places. Why? I dunno... maybe they're gonna totally reverse expectations again and have Ryoko beat her? Or have it be a stalemate? Which would have its own problems but whatever.

I guess if the school council stops becoming a threat they could move up to the Board of Education as an enemy. Maybe it'll be revealed that Japan's become some kind of post-war Feudal Society again where children are trained to be super-soldiers? Maybe Mako will be offered a Goku uniform by the council president and forced to fight Ryoko to elevate her dirt poor parents into a nicer life? Oh! Maybe Mako's mother is the one who stole the blue scissors from the professor and she gave it to a young Mako who puts on a cheerful demeanor to hide the fact she's trying to assassinate the Student Council president with the Blue Scissor Sword? Or maybe it'll just go the predictable route and Ryoko will continue to fight enemies of the week until a final showdown against the class president who'll develop a skimpy uniform herself.

IDK the way this anime builds itself up right now it's still interesting enough for me to keep watching but I get the feeling that with the way it's going it can either turn this all around to be amazing or it'll shit itself... like, more than most anime who fit that criteria.

We already know that Satsuki's mom is the school chair, it's not like its hard to imagine further bosses for this show.

So am I the only one expecting that Satsuki and MC will be revealed to be sisters? We only know about MC's dad and Satsuki's mom, and they both have those suits. It just kind of seems like it's gearing up for that reveal.

>>85072
Just remember with Trigger/Gainax: until the fat lady sings, you ain't seen shit yet.

Just watched the first episode. This thing's going to be crazy, isn't it? I'm so in.

>>85072
>post-war Feudal Society
It's possible. The school is named Honnouji after the famous last stand of Nobunaga, and I think Hokkaido was one of the few places not to really get involved in the battles of the Warring States mostly because the native Ainu were too busy fighting for their own independence.

Ryuko and Mako are so goddamn cute.

OK ONE MORE SLIGHTLY NEGATIVE POST AND THAT'S IT!

I wonder how it's going to end. Considering this is former GAINAX staff...

>>85082
You'd be wasting your time if you even try to guess.

Okay... watched the first episode. That was... the greatest thing ever. In its category, that is.

>>85084
What would that even be?

>>85085
Shonen fighting / magical girl / high school adventure / fanservice show?

First episode watched. Face blown off by awesome. Literally no face. Please send help.

Expecting troll end.

>>85085
Nononono, don't engage him, don't you know Mister Twister?

Watching the first episode now. Perhaps ya'll raised my level of hype (from 0 to "eh?"), but even those introductory two minutes were quite excellent.

And "animation porn" is absolutely the right term.

http://toro.2ch.net/test/read.cgi/anime/1381562484/
https://twitter.com/search?q=%E3%82%AD%E3%83%AB%E3%83%A9%E3%82%AD%E3%83%AB%203%E8%A9%B1&src=typd&f=realtime

Apparently KLK3 is akin to a series finale.

>>85085
Gainax shows.

>>85096
But it's not from Gainax.
And no, just because it comes from a studio made of former employees from there it doesn't make it like that.

>>85098

> doesn't make it like that.

Noo I think it pretty much DOES!

These guys pretty much defined what modern Gainax is. They worked on FLCL, Gurren Lagann, Diebuster, etc.

Really the only Gainax trait this show DOESN'T HAVE is a Wimpy protagonist.

Which means there's a 50/50 chance Ryoko's going to die at the series end. Like Nono did.

>>85098
>>85099

So, this made me think... are these guys working for both Gainax and Trigger, or did Gainax just lose a good handful of really talented animators and directors?

>>85100
The second.

The show’s first episode didn’t do anything for me at all in terms of storyline. It had beautiful animation and some appealing character designs, but the story just didn’t click with me.

>>85102
Yes I too long for the deep, rich fiction of TTGL and Panty Stocking.

[DameDame!] Kill la Kill OP

>>85105
I hate that song almost as much as I hate the motherfuckers who think that shit is funny

https://twitter.com/REMUx2
昨日3話の先行上映を観てきたんですが3話で最初のピークを迎えて4話はまた違ったベクトルで すごい回（今 石監督コンテ）とのことで「今後も80年代ジャンプ漫画のようにどんどんインフレしていくので ご期待くださ い」とのことでした＞キルラキル

Episode 4 has storyboard by Imaishi and it's the beginning of the new arc. The show will only grow larger and larger in scale from this point on.

holy shit this show is off the fucking chain

Jakuzure=A Stranger I Remain
Inumuta=Stains of Time
Gamagōri =Red Sun
Sanageyama=The Only Thing I Know For Real
Kiryūin=Collective Consciousness/It Has To Be This Way

Hope we don't end up getting a dirge of slow episodes like in Gurren Lagann. That crap was partially why I prefer the compilation movies among other qualities.

>her father only has one eye
>the uniform only has one "eye"

>>85111
I think the show needed those slower episodes. You can easily keep up with the frantic pace when it's only 2 hours, but when it's a 2 cours show, you need some room to breath and build up to the climax.

>>85117

This is honestly my biggest concern with the show right now.

I'm worried that maybe they won't show ANY restraint, even when it would be needed.

I think my biggest complaint so far is that aside of DON'T LOSE YOUR WAAAAAAAAY, the music is totally underwhelming. hopefully we'll get a new OP after this arc. Or by some miracle, the above suggestion to just replace the OST with MGR: R's kicks in.

>>85149
Yeah, it gets drowned out by what's going on instead of accompanying the scene like Gurren Lagann's OST. And when you can hear it it just sounds like a mishmash of Sawano's staples rather than actually having any real melody like his old Basara works.

Expecting it to be TTGL tier music is perhaps setting the bar too high considering TTGL had god tier music (or maybe it's not since P&S did too), but that OP is just unfortunate. Even the Seinfeld version is better. I can barely remember the ED, which is similarly unfortunate because all 3 of TTGL's EDs were amazing.

But again we're on episode 2, perhaps we're expecting too much too fast.

http://www.excite.co.jp/News/reviewm...2840.html?_p=2
Nakashima talks Kill la Kill.

>They went with a female protagonist because it felt better; and he wants to write protagonist Ryuuko as a strong but beautiful character that struggles.
>Why clothing? it actually started as a joke. Seifuku means both conquest and uniform, fashion and facism are written the same in Japanese. They took that and ran with it. The entire world-view of Kill la Kill comes back to clothing.
>Episode 3 will make people realize why the costume needed to be so skimpy; and the direction of the story will become perfectly clear.
>The story will become very surprising after episode 3 and they want the audience to always need the next episode as soon as possible.
>Episode 7 will be Mako's big moment.

>>85189
>Episode 3 will make people realize why the costume needed to be so skimpy; and the direction of the story will become perfectly clear.

Technically speculation but I consider it pretty obvious:
Senketsu is incomplete which is why the outfit is so skimpy, which is why he absorbs the fibers of the other uniforms. Also so they can get stronger to challenge Kiryuuin

So I'm predicting a good bulk of series is beating up uniforms and powering up.

>>85189
>Seifuku means both conquest and uniform, fashion and facism are written the same in Japanese
Oh man I remember all those puns.

Soooo, the entire ED is a tribute and stuff. I guess that's neat.
SUKEBAN DEKA 1 enfrentamiento …

>>85081
DEM REFERENCES

That.... wasn't conclusive at all. What happened to all that JP chat about "You mean that's not the end of the series?"

Well, this was exciting. And lewd. And hilarious.

>>85198
You know how some anime (especially manga adaptations) end with an "unfinished business" no ending before fighting final boss? Usually the last episode has something awesome happen in it so you don't feel gyped and are eager to see it conclude in a movie or sequel series or something (ex. Ranma 1/2, Air Master, Dai Guard, Bobobobobobobo, The Big O, Narutaru, Get Backers, Heroman)? Maybe he was equating it to those.

It's more prevalent in Western shows that make cliffhangers because they're hungry for more seasons.

This is the best series ever made

http://skaboyjfk.tumblr.com/post/64402552228/in-the-right-order-this-time-oops
IT BEGINS

>>85211
BECAUSE YOU'RE FEEDING IT

>>85205

What is this, some sort of lesbian love confession?

...should I start watching this?

>>85213
It's the motivational speech that precedes the power-up via power of friendship. It's about how the heroine's tits are bigger than the villain's.

>>85211
>something is popular
>something has a story more complex than Dr. Suess
So of course the Tumblr Justice League will be all over it. This is not a surprise. I'm sure there are posts out there about how MLP is misogynist.

>>85211
>>85215
i'm wonderin if you guys even read it or if you saw "female empowerment" and alt+f4'd and ran out of the room
sage as i don't want klk and so i don't really belong in this thread

>>85216
I saw "tumblr.com" and assumed it was some sort of worthless rant that would use the term "cis" at some point. Didn't even open the image.

>>85217
You don't even know what cis- means, do you?

Gonna try this out. What are the best subs of it, in your opinion, /jam/?

>>85220
Horriblesubs are just rips from Crunchyroll, so they're quite adequate.

>>85215
It's actually not. It's defending the show from the hordes of SJW who've been lambasting it on Tumblr.

>>85217
I was going to write a reply to this post, but then I glanced at the URL, saw "4chan" and assumed the thread was about shock images and gore.

>>85220
Apparently Underwater's.

>>85228
You'd be right.

>>85225
http://averyterrible.tumblr.com/post/64435411103
And it seems it failed, ironically. And sadly.

>>85217
>taking the time to write out a post refuting something that you didn't even read, based on the website it was posted on
mmmmmmmmmmmmmmm
hm

>>85231
Shi! Someone has an opinion contrary to mine on the internet! Well let's stop the fucking presses and tell all of our internet friends about it so we can bitch about it together like fucking drama queens instead of talking about the show. Bitching about Tumblr being Tumblr is WAY more important than talking about the show we got together to talk about!

Man, I know 4chan culture is guilty of a lot of shit, but the fact that we can't fucking talk about anything without someone feeling the need to keep us all abreast to the developments on Tumblr is one of the worst. Can't we just assume, for the sake of sanity, that any of us who give a shit about Tumblr are actually ON Tumblr, and can bitch about it there?

>>85233

So your argument is that we should stop caring about other people's opinions on a show on another site to... instead discuss our opinions on this show on our site?

Uhm... okay?

>>85237
No, my point is: if you want to start Tumblr drama, DO IT ON FUCKING TUMBLR. Why are you bringing your arguments from other communities here?

Tumblr Feminists will forever be full of wars between the anti-Slut Shaming SJW vs the anti-Female Objectification SJW. It's one of those things where you can never win, no matter how progressive your work actually is.

If your character is covered up one faction will complain about internalized misogyny and shaming of the female body, if your character is in a revealing outfit another faction (or maybe even some of the same exact people, for added irony) complaining that you're oversexualizing the character and feeding the male gaze. These types of people are just looking for reasons to take offense rather than push for actual progress so it's best to just ignore them.

>>85238
I honestly think it's just one anon that keeps doing that (posting irrelevent text posts and expecting outrage when only he cares) and they're honestly annoying me.

>>85240
Yeah, those posts are pretty formulaic so I think you'd be right.

But seriously, dude who keeps doing this, stop looking for this stuff. You're not going to get your outrage from either side of the issue over here.

I think I understand what MY issue with the clothing subplot here is and it DID take someone on tumblr to point this out but rather than posting a link I'll just paraphrase what was said.

Yoko from Gurren Lagann? Also wears really skimpy outfits showing a lot of skin. This isn't really any surprise to anyone.

But I had no issue with it because, despite her dressing like that? At no point did it appear she was uncomfortable or ashamed to be wearing it. She dressed sexily and didn't seem to think too much about it, and that was okay. Because her bodily autonomy was ultimately preserved, and so I don't have much of an issue thinking of her as sexy, as she seemed perfectly okay as being seen that way.

Ryoko on the other hand doesn't have this. She's FORCED to wear a skimpy outfit with a lot of revealing bits to it. The outfit forces itself onto her, it transforms, and she uses it. That in itself wasn't so bad, but the anime takes this a step up by having her be embarrassed about wearing this outfit and looking angry and noticeably uncomfortable when she's in front of a crowd with it on. In other words: she's coerced into something sexual against her will, and the anime wants us to think THIS is sexy. Not just that a woman is wearing something sexy, but also because she's noticeably uncomfortable about wearing something sexy. And THAT'S what's problematic, that the show is forcing a girl into vaguely sexual encounters when she doesn't want them to be vaguely sexual.

That and combined with the part where Mako says "OH YOU OBVIOUSLY ENJOY WEARING SUCH AN OUTFIT OTHERWISE YOU WOULDN'T!" is in itself problematic for... reasons.