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  • Acting for Two: Ayumi Fujimura provides the voices of Matarou Mankanshoku and Rei Hououmaru.
  • Anime First: The tie-in manga debuted on the same day as the anime.
  • Blooper: In episode 16, Ryuko is seen reverse sitting on a chair, her legs through the holes under the arm-supports. Then she violently stands up, grabbing said chair and lifting it above her head. However, there is no scene of her pulling her legs out from under the arm supports. It's pretty much like they phased through her legs when she was standing up. Can be seen here and here.
  • Breakthrough Hit: For Studio Trigger. Granted, the two big names behind the project (Hiroyuki Imaishi and Kazuki Nakashima) were already noted for Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann; Kill la Kill was just their breakthrough for their new studio (which had already done a few things like animation for Project × Zone).
  • Completely Different Title: The series' Chinese title, which translates to both The Girl Who Cuts Cloth and The Girl Who Cuts by Dual Wielding.
  • The Danza: Suzuki was named after his Japanese voice actor, Chihiro Suzuki.
  • Denial of Digital Distribution: While the series itself is available on several digital platforms, the OVA/25th episode, "Goodbye Once Again", is only available through physical media via the Volume 9 DVD/Blu-ray or the Complete Series Blu-ray and has never seen an official digital release.
  • Edited for Syndication:
    • The broadcast version of episode 9 that aired on Toonami has the scene in which Gamagoori whip Ryuko's expose butt cropped so that way viewers don't see all of her bare butt (though they still managed to show her getting whipped). The part after where Ryuko hangs from the edge by the straps of her uniform and the crowd (including Mako) getting nosebleeds and going wild over her underboobs being shown on the jumbo screen was also cut.
    • Toonami's version of episode 11 cropped Ryuko's jiggling underboobs when she tells Jakuzure to "blow it out [her] ass" after Jakuzure knocks her down for trying to attack Satsuki, which really made no difference. Ryuko's jiggling underboobs (this time, shown from underneath) were censored again later in the same episode when Jakuzure attacks her and Sunkestu with Beethoven's "Symphony No. 5: Fate", only here, they replaced the scene with an extended close-up of Sunkestu's eye while the audio played as normal.
    • The broadcast version of episode 16 cut Satsuki and Ragyo's bath scene to remove some of the more sexually explicit details (mostly nudity and scenes that make it obvious that Ragyo is bringing Satsuki to orgasm). Despite this, the Parental Incest implications are still there.
    • In the broadcast version of episode 19, the scene where Ragyo has Satsuki captured cuts away just before the former puts her fingers down the latter's crotch. Despite this, it is still shown in a way that makes it obvious what Ragyo is doing.
  • Keep Circulating the Tapes: Good luck trying to obtain the DVDs/Blu-rays containing the English dub, with the OVA included, as Aniplex has made obtaining them very expensive, forcing fans to have to buy five separate individual volumes instead of a box set. It's possible to get the whole series, sans OVA, on digital home release via iTunes, but it's only subbed. To really add insult to injury, Kill la Kill's home releases have gone out of print. This has become somewhat alleviated as Crunchyroll and Hulu offer the English dub while the box set is available on Right Stuf's website, albeit at an expensive price.
  • Meme Acknowledgment: The Trigger Twitch stream page have acknowledged the My Little Pogchamp meme.
  • No Budget: In spite of the series' stellar Animation Bump and Awesome Art moments, the series was made on a rather tight budget compared to similar series that premiered around the time, resulting in numerous Limited Animation moments. Nui Harime actually uses this to show how inhuman she is.
  • Playing Against Type:
  • Symbolism: This is a good run-down of much of the mythological symbolism used in the series. It involves The Four Gods (The Kiryuin Conglomerate, though there seems to be no one for Seiryu), The Four Devas of Hinduism (The Elite Four), Chakras, some Japanese history (which puts Satuski in Oda Nobunaga's role of attempting to unite Japan), and the placement of the REVOCS building (Tokyo) and the academy (where Tokyo's three rivers converge).
  • Throw It In!: According to Ryoka Yuzuki, Satsuki's Say My Name moment during the finale was improvised. There wasn't anything written in the script, but Yuzuki's mind was screaming that Satsuki had to catch Ryuko at all costs and she couldn't help but cry out Ryuko's name. Given that said moment is featured in the Awesome, Funny and Heartwarming sections, it's probably safe to say that fans are glad she did.
  • Trolling Creator:
    • Episode 15 ends with yet another victory for Satsuki, along with the promise of a much-needed Info Dump in the next episode. Episode 16 opens with Senketsu stating that it's time for a Recap Episode! Just before the audience can get too angry, it becomes apparent that the recap will be a Motor Mouthed crash course that doesn't take a full minute. The episode proceeds as it should from there:
      Senketsu: Haha! I'm sure you groaned when you heard me say "recap episode", but have faith! Thanks to Kill la Kill's lightning pace, our recaps fit in the prologue! Now, let the episode proper begin!
    • Fans have been predicting Mako's death since the series began; episode 21 just takes this and runs with it by putting her into so many near-death experiences. Unsurprisingly, she survives the episode. Episode 22 follows suit and she still survives.
  • Underage Casting: Laura Post, who voices Ragyo Kiryuin, is actually seven years younger than Carrie Keranen, who voices Satsuki.
  • Unspecified Role Credit: After being listed as "?" in the credits, Guts' Japanese voice actor revealed himself two days after the finale aired:
    Katsuyuki Konishi: "...Let me give you two pieces of information. One, our DVDs and Blu-rays are selling like hotcakes; Two, I'm Guts, GATTSU-GATTSUU~!!"note 
  • What Could Have Been:
    • Originally, the anime was supposed to be titled The Crimson Garment and the animation/art style was to be similar to Panty & Stocking with Garterbelt.
    • In the earliest scripts, Ryuko was supposed to be a bounty hunter with a price gun as her weapon. However, while the original script was scrapped for being too dark, the price gun concept was recycled into Tsumugu's sewing machine and the Osakans' money guns, and Ryuko's original bounty hunter concept was recycled into Tsumugu. Also, Tsumugu's mohawk was supposed to be pink.
    • Ryuko's original design was supposed to resemble Satsuki's. The fact that Satsuki wears Senketsu later on in the series is a Call-Back to Ryuko's original design.
    • Originally, Ryuko didn't have any transformations. In fact, transformations were added very late into the series' development.
    • Senketsu's mouth was originally green and in his transformed state, the middle exposed area between the straps was going to have a transparent stocking-like material. This was scrapped because Trigger thought it made Ryuko too sexualized.
    • Mako was originally going to have either a ponytail or pigtails, along with having black hair, and Goku uniform was originally going to be able to transform into what Wakabayashi described as a "giant Hulk-like Mako". The transformation would have been named, "The Invincible Mako" or "The Unbreakable Mako".
    • Jakuzure was originally going to be a punk rocker wielding an electric guitar and would use guitar riffs. However, this design was scrapped in favor of the the marching band look and classical music since they better fit the high school theme of the series.
    • The Elite Four was supposed to be all girls and Houka was originally supposed to have black hair.
    • Aikuro Mikisugi was originally going to have red hair along with the idea of possibly making him one of Ryuko's few blood relatives; this was originally going to be one of the many plot twists in the series. Due to his nature, this was dropped for obvious reasons.
    • Nui's parasol was supposed to be a pink lightsaber.
    • Takaharu Fukuroda was originally going to have a larger role in the plot. Additionally, the series was initially going to have a greater focus on boxing, from which he was left over.
    • Senketsu and Junketsu were going to become mechs in their transformations. Apparently, Trigger has a "NO ROBOTS" policy, although recycled and reintroduced introduced in some of their transformations.
    • Ryuko's transformations was originally written to be triggered by her running her bloody thumb down the stripes of Senketsu's collar. The sequence itself would have Ryuko doing a henshin pose before Senketsu engulfs and transforms her similar to the real time version in episode 2.
    • Originally, Ragyo was going to be a man and Satsuki and Ryuko's father. However, Nakajima decided that Raygo should be a woman and the mother because he didn't want the story to become "murky" and he figured the protagonists could fight to their fullest. The semblance of her old designs can be seen in the designs for Isshin and Aikuro.
    • Apparently, Soichiro was supposed to have a more major role in the plot according to some concept art, particularly where he's with Mako and there is some dialogue. Likewise, he was also supposed to be in a wheelchair and bald.
    • The Anime Expo 2018 panel for Kill la Kill the Game revealed that there was a scrapped episode that involved Senketsu and Junketsu being at the cleaners at the same time and focused on the two communicating with each other.
  • Word of God: What isn't said in the series (or the supplementary materials), it's said on Studio Trigger's social media pages and/or shown on Sushio's Twitter or Instagram account.
  • Working Title: In the original drafts of the script, the series' title was The Crimson Garment.

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