Here are links to various sites that are simulcasting the anime:

American simulcasts:

Crunchyroll.com:
http://www.crunchyroll.com/kill-la-kill

Daisuki*:
https://www.daisuki.net/movies/seriesdetail/t

Hulu:
http://www.hulu.com/kill-la-kill

Aniplex:
http://aniplexchannel.com/show-page/kill-la-kill

Non-American simulcasts:

Madman entertainment(Australia):
http://www.madman.com.au/videos/view/4103

Wakanim(German and later UK version)
http://www.wakanim.tv/video/J9/1-si-tel … ll-la-kill

Just to help anyone who needs a link to official sources.

Snow wrote:

Just watched the first ep.I like the style, the action scenes are ridiculous and kinda fun to watch. Don't know if it'll be the next Utena, but it has the potential to be a fun series.
The outfit is quite stripperific, though...maybe the power-up thread things will add some armor later on, hopefully.
I like the student council member's designs a lot, especially the president's. Her uniform is awesome and she seems like an interesting character, I just hope she'll be more than a one-dimensional villain. The design of the school is also pretty neat, like an industrial complex/ship wreckage.
The story...I don't know . Will have to wait and see...

Overall I think I'll watch the next episode

Pretty clear from the get-go that they're not aiming to be the next Utena (even with the blatant scenery porn in a lot of the shots). It's got a lot of style elements from Gurren Lagann and FLCL, which isn't surprising, considering that they share a lot of the production staff. The use of huge typesetting in the background and the shading tell me that they're basically going for some kind of motion manga. Much in the way that many anime are adapted from manga, themselves, Kill La Kill is aiming to create a single entity which incorporates both formats, to a degree. If you've seen FLCL, you might know that they've tried this kind of thing before, though there they just popped in comic panels right in the middle of the action. Here, the fusion looks much more seamless.

To be honest, I can't help but compare it to the creators' previous works. It has the insanely fast pace of Dead Leaves and FLCL, the feel of Gurren Lagann, and the shameless fanservice of... well... pretty much everything they've done.

What? I used to be a huge Gainax fanboy back in the day.

Flah wrote:

Pretty clear from the get-go that they're not aiming to be the next Utena

Sorry, I didn't really express myself properly with that Utena part. I didn't mean it's stylistically similar to Utena ( because it's, well, obviously not ), I was just referring to the op's comment about people's huge expectations for this show.

The first thing I thought of with this anime was Utena too. The school being a really prominent part of the town, Mako being so similar to Wakaba, the orpan/tomboy main character, and the student council president's family name (Kiryuin and Kiryuu!). But I read somewhere that the name has roots in upper class society so it would make sense if they used that kind of name.

I'm not expecting anything too deep from it, though then again, maybe it's not the kind of show that wants or needs to be deep in the first place.

Yeah it could go either way... Gurren Lagann had some pretty serious themes, and went for the BIG FEELS, while Dead Leaves was just ridiculous. I'm hoping they make it gritty and epic. I'm actually surprised at how they crammed so much into the first episode -- they really just throw you off the deep end.

Does anyone know if it's slated for 12/13 eps or more?

Episode 2 has just been simulcasted about 1-3 hours ago, I might as well post my impression for the this episode since I just watch it.


Episode 2 - First impressions

Really good when it came to plot development and had a much interesting tennis gimmick for it's student of the week.
Something I did't mention in my Episode 1 review is that this show is really subversive when it comes to it's fan service specify when Senketsu is in it battle form, while other anime character that where these skimpy attire tend to have no sense of shame or decency because the writers tend to ignore this factor that comes out of wearing this kind of Attire especially the people who write anime that is written to sexually pander to the Otaku crowd(Most Ecchi anime), when Ryuko wears this outfit she feel's a sense of shame because of how much skin it reviling and how it was design where as Bayonetta does't give two shits about her attire and she does't question the fact that her outfit is absurdly sexualized.

Aikuro Mikisugi *sign* he had a fairly significant appearance in this episode in a way that is really erotic in tone I mean seriously the erotic posses he pull off are comparable to what Akio could do in Tv Utena, watch the episode and glanced at his fabulous posses, heck he even has a mullet that comparable to Akio's except without the pony tail when hes not wearing his glasses.

This Episode's fight scene is really good and shows off that they intend for each fight to be varied in some way, this episode's fight is a glorified tennis match which is also the first time Ryuko used the device the Aikuro gave him that activates Senketsu battle mode, it also really clever of them to use The scissor blade as a tennis racket because of it's large handle; The match itself is really tense and ends with a cliffhanger at the very end foreshadowing whats going to be kind of a interesting episode next week.

I Can't wait for the next episode.

WHAT THE HELL AM I WATCHING

I've only seen the first 6 episodes so far, and as of ep. 6 Sanageyama is in my top 5 favorite characters of ALL. TIME.

Seriously, I have such a profound amount of respect for this dude that I'm kind of bummed things didn't go his way. What unbelievable shuunen this man has! His pride is literally his only weakness... but even that can't take him down for long.

Spoiler:How does he respond to his first defeat? I WILL FOLLOW YOU FOREVER. Loses to someone else via being thrown off by a blindfold? FUCK VISUAL PERCEPTION, I'D RATHER BE BLIND. PROCEED TO LEARN ULTIMATE TECHNIQUE AND LEVEL THE FUCK UP. Wait, he lost again? WHO CARES!? I'M STILL SO AWESOME, KAMINA CAN SUCK MY DICK.


This guy wins so hard at life, he makes the main character look dull and boring by comparison.

What the Fuck!?
Imaishi you son of a bitch

I don't how this sceen was green-lighted during the writing process of this episode like people were already uncomfortable with that scene in episode 13 with Ragyo caressing Satsuki in a suggestive but you have give us a scene with Ragyo molesting Satsuki?

Well enjoy the tears from the people watching this episode including me

About the episode itself , aside from scene I mention before, it mostly exposition which is refreshing considering after the mostly action driven episode that came out, most exposition about the Life fibers, Nudist Beach and a minor for Isshin matoi.

Good episode overall thought the Bath scene and some major revaluations might put off some people with the former being a hard scene to watch through considering the context of it and I was't a fan of the life fiber=Aliens reveal ether.

Sort of a mixture of both. It's framed in a very fanservicey way but the whole thing comes off as a touch disturbing, mainly because of Ragyou's theme music playing during the whole sequence. Without the music, it just looks like a bit of ecchi. With it, it comes across as her establishing dominance over her daughter, in possibly the most uncomfortable (for the audience) way possible.

I already took the implied teamwork shot of Ryuko/Satsuki in the new OP to mean that she was gonna end up rebelling against her Mother in some way/shape/form, but I'll admit this was sudden. Sooner than I expected, and also a rather grim portrayal of things compared to previous occurrences in the show so far (IIRC, Isshin Matoi's end is the only death we've actually seen before now, and no other instance of combat has actually ended in us knowing someone has died.) This also probably means Nui is gonna be the one both of them end up so angry at that they'll stop fighting eachother, and admittedly I'm reeling in self-satisfaction at the knowledge that that's gonna happen. (I.E I can't wait to see it )


Strange as it may be for me to say this, I feel like the bathhouse scene between them in the previous ep. (and similar such occurrences that must have happened before that) might not even be the primary motivator behind her actions, and at the very least still part of a bigger picture. Sure, you can tell there are years of pent-up aggression being released in Satsuki's brutal attack, but I feel like the junior Kiryuin has more to be angry about than that particular aspect of her circumstances. I get the impression her fury is driven at least equally (if not moreso) by the overall power dynamics that molded their relationship (the physical molestation was but one form of dominance, after all) and that despite having plenty of good reasons to despise Ragyo Kiryuin this step is one she may remember more as a necessary action than a personal statement. Satsuki's true enemy (assuming her lines at the time remain honest) is life-fibers, and in some piece of her mind there may be a rationalization that life-fibers shoulder some variably-defined portion of responsibility for everything that's happened to her. Ragyo herself claimed to be an avatar of the life-fibers, this could easily be taken to the extent that she once had a sense of identity that wasn't such (I.E that of a human) that ended up being lost in this image. With this in mind one could interpret Satsuki's final choice as a mercy killing, one where she may have recognized (or may later end up noticing) a potential for redemption within her target that was given/taken by her own hand. I doubt Satsuki will end up regretting this decision at any point in her life, but it certainly seems like the kind of thing that will at least end up being reflected upon in her memory at some point, and I can't help but feel curious as to what sort of perspective she'll end up with when thinking about it.


Oh, and I hope Mataro's cheapskate success model ends up serving a good purpose. My bet for the next ep. is that while Ryuko (who seems rather upset at witnessing matricide, regardless of the perpetrator's declaration afterwards) and Satsuki go at it for no reason, somebody uses the knife Mikisugi handed to Scar that guy we feel sorry for now that he has a sympathetic backstory (I'm not mocking him, just can't remember his name atm >.>) and cuts the Manshouko family free. Either Mako will get into the arena and happen upon it in the midst of things, or perhaps Mataro himself will get his hands on it. Worst-case he'll at least he'll draw the attention of somebody who can deal with the problem. Anyway, I just hope his cleverness at selling the suit pays off in some way or another. Obviously it'd be pretty tasteless to kill off Mako's parents in this situation so I presume they'll be saved, although hopefully not at the expense of everyone else in the stadium... but in this context I don't think there's room to safely assume anything about the rest of the series, except that we're gonna see some huge reactions in accordance with all the shit that just hit the fan.

Quick review of Episode 18

While the last episode ended with [Satsuki backstabbing Ragyo], this episode ends on kind of a depressing note, to sum it up:
[It turns out that Ragyo is still alive even and immortal as evident in the scene where she put her decapitated head on her body because Nanomachines Life fibers and also during that scene, the show's equivalent of third impact starts to happen and even when satsuki tried to stop her, Ragyo beats her up and proceads to finger her then while Ryuko was fighting her, Ragyo then rips out her heart and reveals that ryuko is her daughter which confirms that Ryouko was the baby Ragyo experimented on.]

Also the last 2 revaluations was foreshadowed in this episode, watch this fight scene again and if you listen to music at 0:42, you'll find a short instrumental version of Ragyo theme "Blumenkranz"

and watch as your mind explodes, you don't see that kind of foreshadowing in anime these days.

The first thing this show made me think of was Digital Composition. It's compelling but its nothing new at all. Basically it's an exact stereotype of anime. I always wanted to know what Excel Saga was parodying but that's about it.