Kill la Kill | |
International promotional artwork of Kill la Kill with Ryuko Matoi (foreground, wearing Senketsu) and Satsuki Kiryuin (background, wearing Junketsu).
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キルラキル (Kiru Ra Kiru) |
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Genre | Action, comedy-drama, magical girl |
Anime television series | |
Directed by | Hiroyuki Imaishi |
Written by | Kazuki Nakashima |
Music by | Hiroyuki Sawano |
Studio | Trigger |
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Original network | MBS, TBS, CBC, BS-TBS |
English network | |
Original run | October 4, 2013 – March 28, 2014 |
Episodes | 24 |
Manga | |
Illustrated by | Ryō Akizuki |
Published by | Kadokawa Shoten |
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Demographic | Seinen |
Magazine | Young Ace |
Original run | October 4, 2013 – March 4, 2015 |
Volumes | 3 |
Original video animation | |
Goodbye Again | |
Directed by | Hiroyuki Imaishi |
Written by | Kazuki Nakashima |
Music by | Hiroyuki Sawano |
Studio | Trigger |
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Released | September 3, 2014 |
Runtime | 25 minutes |
Kill la Kill Original Sound Track | |
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Soundtrack album by Hiroyuki Sawano | |
Released | December 25, 2013 |
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Genre | Soundtrack |
Length | 1:17:22 |
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Label | Aniplex |
Producer | Hiroyuki Sawano |
Kill la Kill (Japanese: キルラキル Hepburn: Kiru Ra Kiru?) is an anime television series produced by Trigger. It follows vagrant schoolgirl Ryuko Matoi on her search for her father's killer, which brings her into violent conflict with Satsuki Kiryuin, the iron-fisted student council president of Honnouji Academy, and her mother's fashion empire.
The series is Trigger's first original television anime project, directed by Hiroyuki Imaishi and written by Kazuki Nakashima, both of whom had previously worked together on Gurren Lagann. It aired in Japan between October 4, 2013 and March 28, 2014.
Aniplex of America licensed the anime for a simulcast with a home video release starting July 2014. The series premiered on Adult Swim's Toonami block on February 8, 2015. A manga adaptation by Ryō Akizuki began serialization in Kadokawa Shoten's Young Ace magazine from October 4, 2013. An OVA was released as a 25th episode on September 3, 2014.
Kill la Kill is set at Honnouji Academy (本能字学園 Honnōji Gakuen), a fictional high school situated in Tokyo Bay, Japan on the island of Honnō City. The school is dominated by its fearsome student council led by Satsuki Kiryuin. Its students wear Goku Uniforms (極制服 Gokuseifuku, from gokusei (極製?, "finest quality") + seifuku (制服?, "school uniform")) which give their wearers superhuman abilities because they are constructed with a special material known as Life Fibers (生命戦維 Seimei Sen'i, lit. "Life Battle-Fibers"). Vagrant transfer student Ryuko Matoi, who wields a scissor-shaped longsword that can cut Goku Uniforms, challenges the council as she searches for her father's killer. Although she is initially easily defeated, she finds a sentient sailor uniform that she names Senketsu, a Kamui (神衣, lit. "Godrobe") which is completely made of Life Fibers and transforms her so that she can face Kiryuin and her trials and obstacles. She is befriended by her hyperactive classmate Mako Mankanshoku and lives with her family.