Ryuko Matoi and Satsuki Kiryuin by Diana Naitari@DNaitari

Shoutout to Sushio for drawing them like a post-canon, clothes-swapping couple.

drop to your knees and worship.

thanks to octobers' patrons for voting on this satsuki pinup.

arguing with my straight guy friend right now cause he didnt realize ryuko and mako were gay

bro what about the scene where ryuko is being mind controlled and in her subconscious she's paralyzed in an endless wedding with a faceless husband and mako enters her dream and kills the husband thereby metaphorically freeing her from the concept of heteronormative happiness and opening the possibility for sapphic love. and then ryuko lashes out and slashes at mako but realizing she tried to hurt mako is what snaps her out of her trance because she realizes she cares so much about her

Do you think Kill la Kill could've benefited from being less horny and over the top, or would it just be more boring?

I mean, the excessive juvenile horniness of the show is definitely a valid reason to dislike it, and not to want to engage with it, but if you get rid of it you basically get rid of its reason to exist.

KLK is about sexuality, shame, body acceptance, coming of age, puberty, and how especially teenagers' bodies are structurally commodified and abused by systems of social control. You kinda can't cut the horny, fucked-up sexual weirdness out of that without fundamentally altering what the thing is.

There's a serious critical discussion to have about building a church with the devil's tools - whether or not the visual language of horny-ass ecchi anime can meaningfully be deployed to tell KLKs story without fatally undercutting it. KLK wants to comment on the commodification and hypersexualization of teenage girls' bodies, but it also very gleefully indulges in those tropes as spectacle, and positions appropriation of them as a form of empowerment, and while I think that on balance it ultimately does work as a story, and I find it compelling, that's also a valid place of criticism, and a valid reason to reject the story or find it distasteful or beyond the pale.

ryuko

girls who like girls with swords

Kill la Kill 10th anniversary illustration by Sushio

TRIGGER's first TV anime “Kill la Kill” has reached a fantastic 10th anniversary thanks to all of you!!

Ryuko and Satsuki (Kill la Kill) by Rei Hiroe

KI⭐LL by AetherionArtOG

RYUKO YOU WILL ALWAYS BE FAMOUS!!!!!!!!

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GIRLFRIENDS POST-UHAUL (uhaul the second, i guess)

Look at em Cuddle Art by Sushio