- cross-posted to:
- murdermoe@lemmy.world
- cross-posted to:
- murdermoe@lemmy.world
Artist: Takatisakana | pixiv
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This one is weirdly captivating
It’s a favorite of mine. A depiction of a moment in the series when Ryuko has contentment forced upon her.
She looks happy, but the immediate surroundings make it clear that something is very, very wrong.
This is from an anime? It looks cute, what’s the series about? Are all the characters adults?
It’s called Kill la Kill and explaining what it’s about is a fools errand, but I’ll try.
It’s about a dystopian high-school, where the uniforms give the students super powers.
The school is run like a private military, led by a fascist student council.
This fanart depicts a time when Ryuko is forced to wear Junketsu, one of only two Kamui uniforms (it gets sown onto her skin, hence the bloody threads around her). It takes her over and forces her to join the bad guys.
But that’s a mere surface-level description. The plot has so many twists and turns and details it’s futile to try and summarize it.
Also it’s trigger, so the animation is god-tier.
It’s a timeless masterpiece, so stupid it loops back to genius.
Ah. Drag isn’t interested in seeing uniforms sewn onto the skin of high schoolers. Drag only likes that kind of content when the characters are all adults. Have a nice day.
That seems arbitrary.
There are few other animes like KLK. Either it lands or it doesn’t, but you genuinely cannot know until trying it.
It’s a special kind of odd. Some characters may be adolescent, but that’s utterly irrelevant because the characters do not act like children. Nor does it indulge in the typical tropes associated with high-school animes.
Its not a factor worth considering because it has absolutely nothing to do with why the series is or isn’t good. The fact is, it’s incredible.
The school literally goes to war at one point, straight up invading and taking over other schools through military might. It’s a stand-in for a governement. The anime uses the school to tell a story about society, by using the school as a small-scale allegory.
And thats before the high school setting is completely discarded about a third into the story…
Drag just doesn’t like NSFW content involving children.
Adolescents aren’t children. The lives and heads of 17-20-year-olds are not devoid of NSFW things, violent or sexual.
KLK is a widely appreciated masterpiece. It should not be overlooked due to pre-conceived notions on whats it is about.
In fact the way it disregards hangups around sexuality spoke very much to teen me. Nudity is fine. Sexuality is fine. “Wear” it like your best clothes. Own the space around you. Allow no-one to shame you for what you have.
And that’s just one thing it’s about.
