Alfonso The Lie Weaver

Before watching this I used to condemn humor in anime because I thought everything was that bland juvenile humor of juvenile anime, since I saw it bleed a lot into the humor of weebs around me. Kill la Kill made me laugh, but not just chucle, I mean out loud. For that I recommend it, but there's more. The design is amazing, the art is pretty and expressive and the animation spectacular, things that I do not often praise in anime. The characters are as well defined as Looney Tunes, not a lot of depth, but lots of personality, that is what makes the comedy and I must say that for this reason the plot works perfectly without a story. I enjoy and even encourage sexy art, but most of anime that tries to be sexy does it in a perverted way that feels undeserved and intrusive, it's true, Kill la Kill has a lot of those moments, BUT it's proud of it's fanservice, making it not just a tool to atract prepubescents who can't diferentiate between good and bad anime.

I so really wanted to like it, but it feels very disjointed... let me explain: The characters are great, they're deep and very human and that's what made me not like it, the potential of these characters is wasted in one offs just to show off the woldbuilding, which is great, but the focus is just not there for the world or for the characters. The format feels like a "villain of the week" action hero, but the characters are made with the care of your DnD character for a 5 year campaign, even the episodes that are character focused feel this way, the backstories are dramatic and very well written, but 80% of the series are not even trying to explore the characters and instead there are slapstick episodes that could fill the comic relief, but they don't because there's not just one pressing matter or objective they're stirring towards. I felt like I was watching someone play skyrim and only doing side quests. SPOILER One of the themes was "you have friends, you are not alone" so It felt very bad that, at the end, everyone was very egotistical, going their own way without even saying goodbye, Spike was the only one with a real objective and it could have been easy to put every episode connected, but we have all his character arc being obsessed and pushing apart everyone, dying alone in a battle that felt climactinc in action but very flat emotionally "Yeah, man, you deserve it" was my reaction.

I think it was good until certain point. The overal theme of hating the parents is interesting when explored by all the diferent characters and then putting it in perspective when considering the whole human race and their creator. But I think the character arcs and human themes are thrown through the window at the last quarter of the series in favor of conspiration and fanservice. The main character remains the same, but the writting really does a diservice to the four main feminine presences and the story as a whole. After all the years people have told me to watch it I really wanted to like it, but big monsters and fanservice are not enough for me. Action scenes are scarce but very well animated tho...