10 Second Anime - Kill la Kill - Episode 2

Kill la Kill - Episode 2

In tennis, when you've got nothing, you've got love. Heh. Introductions and origins this week, and all the older guys want to take Ryuko's uniform off.

With all the names, even with those big, red, blocky characters, they're still going to need name tags. Ryuko is looking for the person who killed her dad, who only left half a pair of scissors, so she has learned how to use the scissor blade in battle. Even to play tennis? Well, when the tennis ace keeps breaking regular rackets, why not?

Before we get to the villain of the week, which I really hope won't be the format for this show, but I won't care all that much, since the visuals, humor, and action is great anyway, we have a hero who doesn't know how to use her special sailor uniform. Don't you hate it when these magical girls get their new outfits, and they just start spouting off these very specific names for their attacks? I hate it. When did they learn all that stuff when they just transformed? Did they magically download the manual into their brains? Kill la Kill doesn't go for that stuff. Also, our hero spends a lot of her time running away, because the uniform feeds off her blood, so, duh, she's going to pass out soon. But someone has to teach her how to get the suit into battle mode: enter Aikuro-sensei, who knew Ryuko's father too. Quite a fabulous introduction too, after he takes off his sunglasses. A little sumthin' sumthin' for the ladies, I guess. For the uniform to awaken, which she has named Senketsu (fresh blood), it has to absorb a bit of her blood. Aikuro provides a glove for this purpose. Now she can take on the tennis ace, who was harassing her new friend Mako.

I wonder if Ryuko will be staying with Mako's family now, the Mankanshoku's who run a back alley clinic. The big neon sign even says so. Oh, Mako's dad took off Ryuko's uniform too... to treat her wounds, of course. The uniform looks pretty normal when it's not feeding off of blood, I have to say, but it also looks a lot like Ryuko's dad, eye patch and all. Hmm, is Ryuko's dad really dead? Anything is possible in this crazy world of Kill la Kill.