![]() But it’s then that Nui finally appears–but she’s not alone. The fight ends with Ryoko standing victorious, ready to finally take her shot at Satsuki. In the game, however, Ryuko’s duel with Sanageyama is not interrupted. This revelation causes Ryuko to go berserk–transforming her into an eldritch monster of wanton destruction, battling both Nui and Satsuki before Ryuko’s best friend is able to calm her down. Nui easily dispatches Sanageyama and then offhandedly reveals the truth: she was the one who killed Ryuko’s father, not Satsuki. In the anime (episode 11 for those interested), Ryuko and Sanageyama’s duel is interrupted before it can even begin by Nui, the enigmatic, eccentric, right-hand of Satsuki’s mother. It’s not until Ruko faces off against Sanageyama, her last opponent before Satsuki, that the game and anime timelines diverge. The story continues more or less in tandem with the anime: Ryuko tears her way through, Gamagori, Inumuta, and Jakuzure. Following the student council election, Ryoko has only to defeat Satsuki’s champions, the Elite Four, to get her shot at beating the truth about her father’s murder out of Satsuki herself. The game itself begins in medias res at episode eight of the series. To learn the truth about her father, Ryoko will have to fight through them all. But Satsuki has a magical girl outfit all her own–and an entire student body with similar uniforms at her command. To aid her in her revenge, Ryoko dons a sentient school uniform that turns her into a (scantily clad) magical girl. The trail leads her to a high school run by student council president Satsuki Kiryuin–the young woman that Ryoko has come to believe is guilty of the crime. New game Kill la Kill – IF takes the story of the anime, changes one little detail, and explores the new way that the story unfolds.īoth the anime and game follow schoolgirl Ryoko Matoi who is hunting for the person who killed her father. The result was nothing short of glorious. ![]() With the creators of Gurrenn Lagaan behind it, Kill la Kill did for magical girl anime what Gurrenn Lagaan did for mecha anime: took the inherent absurdities in the genre, mixed them up with some Japanese puns, and dialed everything up to 11. Kill la Kill was one of 2013’s most popular anime–and for good reason. ![]()
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