[Shin Henshin]

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Originally Posted by Locke

I'm gonna disagree strongly too, as I don't feel Kill la Kill is a touch on TTGL. TTGL may have been overhyped to ridiculous levels, but it's also one of my favourites, it appeals to me who doesn't even particularly like anime and on the purist levels of emotional engagement and fun I'd call TTGL a masterpiece. Other than Bleach which was the first show I really got into as a young teen, no show really grabbed me by the balls in the way TTGL did.

Chances are lack of exposure to other anime from all different genres is probably why you don't like it as much as others. Kill la Kill touches the comedy anime base, the action anime base and the drama anime base it a way that makes it its own thing. A viewer who knows how crazy one show can get or how insane the action in another could be probably wouldn't have any problems with it. Not saying that you're the problem here, I'm saying that's probably why it doesn't click with you which, again, is cool.

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I just could not stand the way Kill la Kill gripped so tightly to its goofball comedy routes even as the plot blew up to a scale unimaginable in the first few episodes. I'm not a "grimdark" fan, but the tone of the whole show was pretty much entirely wrong for the last pretty much three quarters of the series. TTGL was silly too, but it knew that silly all the time is unengaging and recognised you'd need a serious moment peppered in now and then. The fact TTGL's serious moments were so rare is part of what made them so incredibly memorable, and part of the reason why the show stuck in my heart as long as it has done. Kill la Kill has no real memorable moments, because even its darkest most bloodiest scenes are played for shits and gigs gags. That kind of stuff is just not for me at all.

Gurren Lagann had a constant tone. The first half was mostly light-hearted with serious moments, the second half was a reversal, mostly serious with light-hearted moments. Kill la Kill was never even trying to do it like that. Instead it mixes it. It lets itself be serious during funny moments or funny during serious moments to keep things interesting which makes it stand out a bit more from shows with Gurren Lagann's tones, which are plentiful. Does that make it better than them? No, of course not. But that doesn't make it bad, either.

And as for memorable moments, maybe none exist for you but stuff like Gamagoori's first appearance, Ryuuko and Satsuki's first duel, the tri-states field trip, their duel in Osaka, Senketsu threatening Tsumugu, Sanageyama's fights with Ryuuko, all of these things I still remember fondly.

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It was mostly well paced, the acting was pretty meh across the board but I adored the central chemistry between Ryuuko and Senketsu (they deserved to be in a better show) and the soundtrack was GREAT but I don't think any of these outweigh the negatives and ultimately I'd say the show is just sorta average to borderline bad.

From how you described it, it's more that it wasn't to YOUR specific liking, which is totally fine. Does that mean it's bad overall and no one else will like it? No, because we don't all share the same tastes.

No anime is bad,...unless it's universally panned in which case it IS bad, whether it's liked or not depends on the viewer. Especially for shows like this, that have such a specific formula to them that recommending it to others or telling people to steer clear of it based on word alone won't do it justice.