Kill La Kill

Kill la Kill is seinen?

Like I said, in terms of the way the characters act and the way the story is told, it has more in common with most shounen works, even the violence isn't really that excessive compared to something like Berserk or Zetman. The themes of the series on the other hand (sexuality, meta-commentary on faservice, etc) are not really something you're gonna find in shounen.

But they're demographics. Either it's aimed at young boys or it's aimed at men. The themes are a footnote. Death Note is shonen, even though its themes and subject wouldn't be out of place in seinen.

While shonen isn't entirely devoid of parody and satire, KLK has more of that than is typical for such a work. It also has a cast that, while fairly gender-even, is focused much more on female characters, including a female lead. While not unheard of in shonen, it's quite unusual.

I was just talking about general trends and things people associate with the demographic. Death Note would have probably fit in a seinen magazine fine, but it's in the shounen demographic because it was published in a shounen magazine. I'm not really sure how you could go about classifying KLK that way unless it aired late-night in an adult block or something.

Kill la Kill does use a lot of traditional tropes but it seems avoid many of the traps.

I guess I was wrong about Kill la Kill.

KLK is absolutely aired in late-night time slot, for the record.

Probably safe to call it seinen, then.

Dragon Ball Z is aired in a late-night time slot, too.

In america. Its aired around 8:30 or 9:00 in the morning in japan.

I was just wondering where to put it in

You were wondering where to j-j-j-j-JAM IT IN!

DBZ wasn't late night in America; it's currently running right now like extremely close to the end of CN regular times.

And at midnight when Toonami starts.

... no.

DBZ is only running at midnight on Saturdays in the USA at the moment.

Trigger's new short project, Space Patrol Luluco, is definitely set in the KLK universe. Not only they all have those lo-fi pixelated displays everywhere, but the new character introduced (Luluco's Mom) has very clearly Life Fibers in her coat. Plus the light effects that follow her are similar to Ragyo's light beams.

Or it could just be a sight reference? When Supernatural Battles Become Commonplace used a lot of visual references to KLK as well, and that's a Light Novel adaptation.

Or the same artistic crew members like to use those things again and again??

Technically, DBZ Kai also airs at 8pm.

It's likely a homage. After all, the same show has Inferno Cop as the Space Patrol chief. (Actually, it's apparently Inferno Cop's boss) Also, Luluco is great.

To be honest I don't know if I like Imaishi's style too much, he seems to enjoy putting in as much as he can in one episode.

That's exactly what I like.

This article hypes up that KLK Season 2 release date has been announced! Unfortunately it turns out to be clickbait, as it's only a RUMOR, and you gotta navigate all the way to the FIFTH LINK in this article to discover it. Ugh.

edited 10th May '16 12:38:22 PM by kyun

So it's basically nothing.