Culture Kill la Kill Creator: Anime Fanservice Is Necessary or "Everyone Will Die" - The creators of Studio Trigger's Kill la Kill make a bizarre case for the show's fanservice, arguing that it's necessary for the fate of humanity.

The creators of Studio Trigger's popular Kill la Kill anime series have made an intriguing case for the show's blatant fanservice, arguing that it's an essential component of both the medium and the show itself for the fate of humanity.

Japanese outlet Febri spoke to Kill la Kill writer Kazuki Nakashima and director Hiroyuki Imaishi. As Nakashima joked that bathtub peeking scenes were probably off-limits these days except for a good reason, like a character's life being at stake, he outlined his view on fanservice somewhat more seriously. "We're making a commercial work, so we want the audience to see it. I don't care if they say, 'I don't get it,' but I don't want them to feel unnecessarily uncomfortable. On the other hand, if we make the work completely sterile, people's immunity will be weakened, and they will all die. Therefore, there is a way of thinking that we should dare to take on the stigma and transmit harmful things to the public."



As Imaishi and Nakashima laughed, the latter continued, "We do it with the high aspiration that 'this is necessary for the immunity of human beings.' We'll never be appreciated for it, but we're willing to go out in disgrace for the sake of humanity. There is a way to do it with that kind of feeling (laughs)." Imaishi added, "Be that as it may, I don't want to perish if I can help it."

Kill la Kill was the first televised anime series by Studio Trigger and one of the most popular anime of the last decade, ranking 55th out of over 20,000 anime on MyAnimeList (1.7 million members). It represented the beginning of a slew of original works, with Trigger now well-known for maintaining a consistent aesthetic of loose, dynamic art across all its anime. Their titles include the popular Darling in the Franxxx, Cyberpunk: Edgerunners, Kiznaiver, Little Witch Academia and the currently airing Delicious in Dungeon on Netflix.

Kill la Kill streams on Crunchyroll, which describes the series: "After 6 years since their collaboration on the ground-breaking anime series, Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann, Hiroyuki Imaishi and Kazuki Nakashima are back to shock the world! Ryuko Matoi is a vagrant schoolgirl traveling from place to place searching for clues to the truth behind her father’s death—the 'woman with the scissor blade.' The journey has led Ryuko to Honnouji Academy."

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[Kari Kamiya]

The journo probably unironically believes (thanks to Tumblr) KLK is a feminist series due to how it "subverts" the female protag expectations and fanservice being actual plot-relevant.

 

[Party Hat Wurmple]

Most of them are underaged though, just like most of the characters in Kill La Kill.

No they're not. The age of consent in Japan is 16. Ryuko is 17. By Japan's standards, which is whom anime is made for, you can fan service her all you want. She's a consenting adult. Hell, in most of the US she's legal too. If this cartoon were a real girl, you could shag her in most states and not go to prison. You might get some judgement from your peers though.

 

[Sexy Senior Citizen]

The fact that this article was written, with 100% seriousness, made my day.

 

[generic sauce]

No they're not. The age of consent in Japan is 16. Ryuko is 17. By Japan's standards, which is whom anime is made for, you can fan service her all you want. She's a consenting adult. Hell, in most of the US she's legal too. If this cartoon were a real girl, you could shag her in most states and not go to prison. You might get some judgement from your peers though.

Shes only 17 years and 364 days old you sick fuck.

 

[The Mass Shooter Ron Soye]

The guy made an anime on how nudism can save humanity from alien clothes.

What was the journo thinking he would say?

Also, the girl gets her clothes powered by feeding it with blood. Cutting/menstrual blood reference, a double whopper in one.

This also makes the clothing shrink, emphasising that she does not have to be ashamed of her body, and gets empowered by gawking looks.

I dare any feminist to make sense of it. Their heads will explode.

I have a feeling most "feminists" would not watch past episode 1, or give a shit about any of the symbolism.

 

[St.Davis]

i know for Japanese men it may seem like the world will end if they don’t see high schooler panty shots at least one a day, but i’d like to assure them this is not actually true

Do you have some PROOF of this assertion? Some EVIDENCE, perhaps?

 

[More AWS-8Q Than You]

cartoons aren't real, bro

Somewhere a long the way literally everyone has turned into a boring ass moral scold for one side or the other and this borderline Gen Xer finds it incredible weird. You fucking puritanical Millennial, Soylennial, and Zoomie fucks, they used to mail fucking soft core porn to every house in America for the Holidays and no one gave a shit. Good old Sears Catalog. "Oh my God, is that cartoon of legal age?" Christ Above, it's like none of you had girlfriends when you were teenagers.

Shes only 17 years and 364 days old you sick fuck.

Get with the modern standard, she's under 25, her frontal cortex hasn't fully matured yet.

 

[generic sauce]

Get with the modern standard, she's under 25, her frontal cortex hasn't fully matured yet.

I love that with modern feminism women are too stupid to know if they want a dick in them till 25

 

[Party Hat Wurmple]

Get with the modern standard, she's under 25, her frontal cortex hasn't fully matured yet.

You know, all this talk of age of consent really is pointless. There's only one man who's opinion on anime fanservice truly matters. I think it's time we summoned him to settle this debate once and for all.

@Save the Loli The time has come for you to embrace your destiny.

 

[SiccDicc]

You fucking puritanical Millennial, Soylennial, and Zoomie fucks, they used to mail fucking soft core porn to every house in America for the Holidays and no one gave a shit.

Sometimes you'd get real porn mailed to your house in a blackmailing scheme. Man, the 90's was a crazy time.

 

[Fluoxetine Man]

Most of them are underaged though, just like most of the characters in Kill La Kill.

They aren't real, and I thought troons had a problem telling fantasy and reality apart!

But there is another reason why most anime and manga are set in high school, or have teenage leads (apart from being the target audience) is that work life in Japan is fucking harsh! In Japan, high school is the most fun and flexible time in a person's life, when they still had some freedom, and dreams before being thrown into the meat grinder of the Japanese labour market. They literally have a word over there for working to death (Karoshi), so let the poor overworked Japanese salaryman enjoy his big teen anime titties in peace.

 

[Racist Trash]

Kill La Kill also had those MILF oppai for true connoisseurs:
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I do love the music in this show

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Sometimes you'd get real porn mailed to your house in a blackmailing scheme. Man, the 90's was a crazy time.

That evolved into corpos threatening random old people with downloading porn hoping to hit an easy payout.

 

[Enig]

You fucking puritanical Millennial, Soylennial, and Zoomie fucks, they used to mail fucking soft core porn to every house in America for the Holidays and no one gave a shit. Good old Sears Catalog. "Oh my God, is that cartoon of legal age?" Christ Above, it's like none of you had girlfriends when you were teenagers.

If you viewed the clothing section in a catalog as porn then I wonder if that last line's spoken from experience

 

[Party Hat Wurmple]

If you viewed the clothing section in a catalog as porn then I wonder if that last line's spoken from experience

I mean, who didn't fap to Good Housekeeping, AMIRIGHT fellas?

 

[Fluoxetine Man]

If you viewed the clothing section in a catalog as porn then I wonder if that last line's spoken from experience

Hey, there's nothing wrong about ogling ladies from the Victoria's Secret catalogue!

Spoiler

...Sears catalogue

 

[More AWS-8Q Than You]

If you viewed the clothing section in a catalog as porn then I wonder if that last line's spoken from experience

Don't bring that weak shit energy in here. Back in the 90s we weren't filled with soy and microplastics and there wasn't porn everywhere. Your choices were limited, girls were thinner and hotter, it was a better, more civilized time. I'm sorry that later generations grew up with the testosterone of old men when they were in the teens.

 

[Well Intentioned]

Somewhere a long the way literally everyone has turned into a boring ass moral scold for one side or the other and this borderline Gen Xer finds it incredible weird. You fucking puritanical Millennial, Soylennial, and Zoomie fucks, they used to mail fucking soft core porn to every house in America for the Holidays and no one gave a shit. Good old Sears Catalog. "Oh my God, is that cartoon of legal age?" Christ Above, it's like none of you had girlfriends when you were teenagers.

It's more the people who unhealthily fixate on the 14 year old magical girl protagonist or the 'ackshully, she's a 6000 year old dragon who just looks like an 8 year old' are invariably fucking weirdos who belong on a sex registry. It's like with troons: it's better to just assume they're a broke-brained deviant and be surprised when they aren't. (I have yet to be surprised.)

I don't give a shit about nudity -- Japan is a bit more loose culturally about it and I view gags or whatever as similar to Yank cartoons where the character is suddenly in their boxers. I don't know a thing about this show so I dunno where it falls, but generally anyone getting irritable or defensive about the age of cartoon characters usually is doing so for another reason.

 

[Wendell X]

We'll never be appreciated for it, but we're willing to go out in disgrace for the sake of humanity. There is a way to do it with that kind of feeling (laughs)."

For God so loved the world, that he gave us anime titties

 

[More AWS-8Q Than You]

I don't know a thing about this show so I dunno where it falls, but generally anyone getting irritable or defensive about the age of cartoon characters usually is doing so for another reason.

Fanservicey in a legitimately ridiculous way as part of the plot. It's meant to be dumb fun and that's really all it is. The brokebrain gooners and such don't actually need the fanservice for their fixations, they'll commission someone to make it for them if they need to. Just like the Furries do. Puritanical Moral Panics are as American as Apple Pie it's just weird to see the people who are cool with chopping the dicks off of children freaking out about animated 16-to-25 year olds. It's like the age gap thing, everything is fine as long as there's consent, until it's a 21 year old woman with a 30 year old guy and then it's screeching harpies.

I just remember when no one really gave a fuck unless it was obviously predatory and everyone seemed a lot happier.

 

[Party Hat Wurmple]

It's more the people who unhealthily fixate on the 14 year old magical girl protagonist or the 'ackshully, she's a 6000 year old dragon who just looks like an 8 year old' are invariably fucking weirdos who belong on a sex registry. It's like with troons: it's better to just assume they're a broke-brained deviant and be surprised when they aren't. (I have yet to be surprised.)

Nothing will be worse than what Ikemoto does to Sarada in Boruto. If you aren't familiar, read the original Boruto manga Chapter 13. That one has gotten infamous for making everyone want Ikemoto's hard drive examined by the FBI. She's 10 years old by the way. What he does is weird even by Japanese standards.

Hell when they started the time skip and switched to Two Blue Vortex's, the very first page is a full body shot of Sarada's new design as a 13 year old. Now with less clothes than her old design. They put that before the fucking title page.

Seriously I am 100% convinced that Kishimoto's assistant, Ikemoto is a 1000% bonafide pedophile.