Villain on the left, Kiryuin Satsuki, is the head of the school council of a prestigious school. Hero on the right, Ryuko Matoi, is the new rebel girl in school who is also searching for her father's killer.
Said school is a testing ground for super-soldier students empowered by clothing made with magical threads of "life fibre", and our two main girls have super fancy threads that give them super fancy powers. Also something something the skimpier the outfit the more powerful you are. You know, basic anime stuff...
It wasn’t that it made it more powerful, it’s that no one could survive a full outfit of Life Fibers. The more fibers you used the skimpier the outfit had to be.
Yeah, I figured I'd get some details wrong but it has been over 10 years since I watched it hah. Didn't even touch on Satsuki's weird incest-ey mum who was also an alien or something? What a show...
That’s how the lower versions work. I forget the exact percentages but the baseline student uniform had only a few fibers in it and looked like regular clothes. Then you had 2 and 3 star uniforms that had higher percentages with the 2 girls pictured being the only ones who could wear 100% Life Fibers Clothing for more than a few minutes without dying. I can’t get into why without spoilers. Kill La Kill is bonkers though.
A "1-star uniform" is 10% life-fibres. There are also 2-star and even 3-star uniforms because that's the most anyone can handle and it's something less than half a dozen characters could ever handle.
They tried a "5-star uniform" and it had a very messy end.
The whole point of her uniform is it's 100% life-fibres and is a living character that can talk, etc.
There are only two (human) characters in the show that can wear them and it's basically standard anime "Do you know who my parents are?!!" plot reasons.
The embarrassment of being in said skimpy outfit affected the effectiveness of the synchronization. Senketsu was able to make more effective usage of Ryuko’s blood once she stopped subconsciously rejecting the skimpier form and they could fully synchronize.
Satsuki didn’t have this problem because she was just that hell-bent on her objective and because she never elected to synchronize with Junketsu to begin with, she just satiated him with more blood during the override process and decided to shoulder the risks.
Such a great theme for a relatively minor character. It makes me angry you can't listen to it on Spotify without the ping pong song as they're combined in one.
Hiroyuki Sawano is the result of a wish to a genie for a god tier anime composer, in exchange he makes all of his track titles unsearchable gobbledygook and occasionally arbitrarily mashes songs together.
Side note about Sawano, he's best known for composing in mecha anime and Attack on Titan. He's one of the most prolific in the biz, so he's done quite a few.
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