that mint color and general look of the uniforms definitely suggests it, although I think it's a poorly done send up/mash up of magical girl anime in general. I didn't really watch the preview, just skimmed it a bit. I have to say, I really, really hate that style. It reminds of those cheap, badly done "How to Draw" books. The sort of crude, Christopher Hart style of manga.

Wow this looks terrible. I can't even describe how much i detest this. I though American animation had reached the absolute lowest level of fanservice and apathy but wow this takes it to a level worse then anime with solely sexual content or Drawn Together. I know is just a preview but come on, there's nothing at all to make me want to watch more.

Last edited by gpink (01-21-2014 05:15:48 PM)

Hm. If anything, it sort of looks like a love letter to the shoujo genre to me. Between goatee'd Touga, color-swapped Anthy, the Sailor Moon transformation sequence, it looks like whoever's behind the show actually like shoujo a lot.
It definitely doesn't look as crude or lowbrow as Drawn Together to me, and I didn't really feel like it was making fun of the genre in a derogatory way.

Last edited by dirufacade (01-21-2014 06:44:18 PM)

I have no objection to the show beyond goatee'd Touga. That is Not Okay.

Edit for not comically-exaggerated opinion:

No, I didn't think it was making fun of the genre, and definitely there are bits and pieces of other shows in there as well, but the Anthy-hairdo on that girl, and the uniform GoaTouga is wearing strike me as definite references to SKU. Then again, I don't watch anime a lot, so I wouldn't know if these showed up elsewhere in the genre....

Subtle like sledgehammer this is.

I get the deliberate bad animation, very LOL CLEVER, but if you're going to pull crap like that ironically, your dialogue better be funnier than this is.

As far as reference to KLK, I'm halfway through the show, and to be totally honest I fail to see any real referencing to SKU at all. It shares a few themes, sure, but those are all themes that are hardly groundbreaking from SKU, either. Isolated schools with strict student hierarchies and organized violence?

dirufacade wrote:

Kill La Kill

Onsenmark wrote:

KILL LA KILL

Kita=Yisabell wrote:

Kill La Kill

Giovanna wrote:

KLK

...I think it's pretty clear where my priorities are at. >.>

MissMocha wrote:

... It reminds of those cheap, badly done "How to Draw" books. The sort of crude, Christopher Hart style of manga.

Not all of his books look like that, only some of them.

I find it really funny that 'Touga' married someone that looks almost exactly like him.

Sparky wrote:

Giovanna wrote:

As far as reference to KLK, I'm halfway through the show, and to be totally honest I fail to see any real referencing to SKU at all.

Did you get to the car yet?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BVhndXCHBTo

LOL I want to see them ride with Akio and piss him the fuck off

Sparky wrote:

Giovanna wrote:

As far as reference to KLK, I'm halfway through the show, and to be totally honest I fail to see any real referencing to SKU at all.

Did you get to the car yet?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BVhndXCHBTo

Thisssssssss was the last episode i watched and i said the exact same thing. Man, so many parallels for me. THE SMART NERD GUY HAS BLUE HAIR. Seriously, can someone get a hold of the creators... I need to know if these are head nods to Utena or not. That car. cmon. cmon. this whole show cmonnnnn.

Nocturnalux wrote:

Having a 'smart guy' character with blue hair is actually fairly frequent in anime. Blue hair is very often coupled with being rational, cool and collected.

And I'm still not over goatee Touga. GOATEE. TOUGA. It's like a part of me has died and I don't even like Touga. It's just...gah.

is the green haired guy always the kendo captain too? I mean i'll totally buy that, im not well versed enough.

But yes... Goatee Touga married to female Touga makes total sense... he is a bastard like that.