[Locke]

Any other current season anime worth checking out? In a blink I realised I'm actually almost completely caught up with this show and by the time I do that I'll probably also be watching the last episode. And after watching this show, I have hope for anime again.

Kill la Kill 18.

Only in a show this consistently insane, can a twist like this actually work so well. Kill la Kill may not have been the best anime I've ever watched, but when it works it REALLY works. And that says a lot, as I don;t usually like it when silly shows suddenly go all dark and brutal, but damn.

Plus man the action this week was AMAZING. I just think Ryuuko is great, massive crush over here, but I also think it's handled really well too. It'd be so easy to make someone as powerful as Ryuuko boring, but somehow she's always brilliant to watch because this is just such an insane show.

There are some parts of this show which I feel just a little too juvenile in the "edgy" department, though, and this was especially true of this episode as the focus really shifted onto Ragyou. I hate pretty much everything about Satsuki's mother, not because of the intentional stuff, but because it appears in an otherwise pretty intelligent show, she was written but a horny 14 year old who has never left their house. And somehow her juvenile, gratuitous immaturity seems to rub off on the immediate show around her. How do we defeat Satsuki? Let's have her Mum rub her crotch, making the fourth incestuous moment so far, because mmm incest, so damn sexy! Just no.