Obligitory Animes Thread
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Animefreak6969
[11] Champion
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Ghengis_John
[13] Hero
So after watching 9 more episodes of Kill la Kill I can say there's a lot more going on under the hood than I initially gave it credit for. This started to dawn on me as I was watching the ending and I noticed Matoi looking at the wedding dresses. "I guess it's kind of nice she'd still want that." I thought. Then I thought "Does she want that?" In the same way most shonen animes are a boy's coming of age story we have a girl's coming of age story. She's examining the typical roles that society expects of women and wondering if they are really for her. Complete with the fact that her coming into power is heralded by shedding her own blood. Her nemesis has, in choosing to wear her "wedding gown" before it's time, turned her back on traditional roles and doubtlessly admires Ryuuko to some degree for forging her own path. There's issues with women accepting and taking power over their sexuality and the jokes which I initially dismissed as "stupid fun" are actually smart people making dumb jokes in a slyly overly stupid way. I kind of expected a (hell I can't think of the word right now it's like a dissection but that's not it, maybe after I've slept) DECONSTRUCTION of the shonen genre, what I didn't expect was the layers of enjoyment I've found in it. I don't think it's as good a show as some but I admire that you can enjoy it as a subversive commentary or as a straight up example of the genre. And I dig that "Don't lose your way" track, lol.
