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@smokeelement replied to your post “More seriously, as much as I enjoy that Kill la Kill chooses to...”

i hate the fanon that every senketsu gijinka is this big buff scruffy manly man and then ryuko just gets portrayed as this damsel like NO THATS NOT THEM AT ALL!!! ik its kinda petty but like its just so BORING when every male coded nonhuman is portrayed as this stereotypical hypermasculine guybro ): senketsu is my small son. hes literally shorter than everyone and look at his gangly sleeve arms i love that boy

I mean, I’m not trying to discredit fan designs. As I wrote before, I think there’s an appeal to “big buff manly” Senketsu because it is kinda totally just about 100% against what you would expect from his character. He’s all sensitive and emotional, so to see him portrayed as a muscleman makes an amusing contrast.

And Senketsu is a character all about contrast! So much of his story focuses on how he’s 100% not the evil monster people think he is. 

But if nothing else, I think muscly designs aren’t actually that typical when it comes to gijinkas? Aren’t they usually Once-ler lookalikes? All tall and skinny with suits and top hats? I don’t think I’ve ever seen Senketsu portrayed that way, lol.

Plus, Senketsu is shown working out in concept art. Senketsu works out. Not only does he want to be strong to protect his loved ones, but he’s also super vain, y’all; he gets jealous over Ryuko’s pajamas and completely loses his cool when she calls him “ugly” when she’s utterly out of her mind. He would totally try to get ripped if he were human.

Anyway, my beef is with the way his personality vanishes. 

Like, one example: if Senketsu were to ever try to make his relationship with Ryuko go the lovey-lovey route with a Revealing Kiss, I have a hard time imagining him ever pulling the kinda Romeo x Juliet kiss where he just grabs Ryuko and shoves his lips onto hers (and can we please stop acting like this is romantic?) If Senketsu were going to kiss Ryuko for the first time to make his feelings clear, he’d be awkward as hell about it. He’d ask Mako for advice, and she’d be watching the whole time to make sure he gets it right. He’d get all red and stuttery and Mako might just have to go in there with a “Hallelujah” to encourage him. He’d ask permission and probably cry.

I mean, I just can’t see this, “Rarrr I love you so much Ryuko kiss me now!” thing at all.

It just feels... really stereotypical, when Ryuko and Senketsu are anything but! Sure, they may not be “appealing” in the usual sense, but heck with it, I think sweet, consensual, loving, healthy relationships are the most appealing romances out there. Senketsu doesn’t have to become this “Rarr I’m a man I get what I want!!” thing to make a good romantic partner for Ryuko or anyone else. (Especially because Senketsu is a sexless alien whose gender identity can be literally anything, but that’s a whole ‘nother conversation.)

Like, no, Senketsu isn’t “cool” or “hot” in the ways most people probably think of, but that’s okay! Let’s celebrate emotions and sensitivity and sweetness in “men” instead of removing these qualities for aesthetic appeal!

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smokeelement replied to your post:good morning btw y'all are beautiful !

UR BEAUTIFUL TOO!!! thank u!!!

thank u !! i hope u find $20 on the ground today and the cog invasion u need happens for an hour and a half <3

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um.. this isnt abt anyone specific but the community so far has been rrlllyy warm nd welcoming to me and i appreciate it a lot ;_x i feel like i dont give everyone enough attention bc everyones so talented and skilled and great but this goes out to everyone who ive interacted w so far ;wx you guys are so so awesome and have compliments to spare and i hope i can live up to the great content and attitude everyone puts out for the toonblr community (from toon-ager)

Please don’t be hard on yourself! You are full of potential- the fact that you sent this shows how much you care. I’m glad you’ve felt so welcomed! We, too, hope that you have a lovely time here. Stay cool!-mod sugar

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@smokeelement replied to your post “Q: What were your first impressions upon hearing the plans for KLK? S:...”

frankly, i like klk not only for its strong themes of friendship but its dark and emotional plot so i dont think it wouldve packed the punch it did and had me on the edge of my seat as much as it did the whole time but maybe i just wouldnt know until i saw it? while i dont care about the sexualization being removed tbh i feel like making it friendly to kids takes away a lot of what makes for klks plotline. it isn't GRITTY, but it doesnt hold back either 

again maybe thats just me. i totally didnt know that though ohhh 

See, but you can—and totally should—have dark and emotional plots directed at a more general audience. Kids don’t need to be talked down to and babied all the time. They’re smart and deserve stories that delve into deeper, real issues.

I admit that Kill la Kill is a little complicated for me, since I would love to see explorations of its story both as a kid-friendly anime and as something darker and grittier than it is, but the point I was getting at is that there are so many wonderful things in this show that would be wonderful for kids, but the nature of the series makes it pretty off-limits for them. And I wish that wasn’t the case!

Because I don’t think anything here really needs to be for older people exclusively, you know? Themes of friendship, family, and acceptance are all ages. The power of love is more than welcome in kids’ stuff. Even “darker” topics that Kill la Kill has, like war, loss, and abuse—and heck, even genocide—can be found in children’s fiction.

Avatar: The Last Airbender, for instance, has Aang dealing with the death of his entire culture in the third episode of the series, while Steven Universe has a whole war in its backstory and pulls no punches about how awful it was, complete with some pretty harsh explorations about it, including (but far from limited to) Steven grappling with his mother’s war crimes. Hey Arnold!, meanwhile, touches on parental abuse and neglect with its presentation of Helga’s family, while weighty concepts like asking what it means to be human are examined in the television adaptation of Cybersix. Kids are more than capable of having these kinds of narratives in the stories they consume, and they deserve them.

And, to address the elephant in the room, regardless of how well you think it does so, Kill la Kill does grapple with the presentation of women in the media, and has a whole cast of interesting, complex ladies who prove themselves to be far more than just pretty objects and nice things to look at. This is a great thing to get out there for kids—and especially for young girls—and it’s far from an alien thing in kids’ shows. 

Gravity Falls, for example, destroys the idea that women are nothing more than pretty “prizes” for male characters multiple times across its story, but perhaps most notably in “Boyz Crazy,” when Dipper and Stan reveal to Wendy that her boyfriend is no good and cheer. Dipper then takes the opportunity to ask Wendy to hang out, but instead of just going with her “heroes” to celebrate, she berates them for not considering her feelings because the reveal isn’t great for her—it hurts a lot. Similarly, the aforementioned Avatar also discusses these things, especially in “The Warriors of Kyoshi,” where Sokka mocks the titular makeup-heavy, dress-wearing Kyoshi Warriors and believes they can’t be fighters because of their gender and appearance, only to learn that they are powerful warriors regardless of what society has told him to believe.

Both series received a lot of praise for taking on these issues and talking about them because it is so great to have kids’ media include such things, and I know that Kill la Kill’s dealing with it would have to be, well, severely reworked to fly with a more general audience. But as these examples show, it’s way more than possible to explore the poor treatment of women and girls without all the boobs, butt shots, and gratuitous camera angles, and I do feel that’s the meat of it. 

Plus, Kill la Kill’s take on these issues could have been such a welcome thing to see, partly because it’s actually rather complicated! Ryuko’s embarrassment about an outfit is more than just that, as her outfit is actually a person, which brings in those messages about love overcoming prejudice that I spoke of before. Which, again, would be great to see reflected more in stories directed at younger audiences.

Anyway, this is getting long and unwieldy. I know inevitably that you’d have to tone down and cut out tons of Kill la Kill’s content for something like I’m suggesting, and I also know that some might feel that making it kid-friendly would absolutely take away from its point. But Kill la Kill has always been to me a story about friendship more than anything else (remember, the final volume cover and what the show ultimately wants you to take away from it is an image of a girl tenderly hugging her friend), and you wouldn’t lose that at all if you shifted the demographic.

And I will say this: I think the fact that Sushio actually believed he could make a “kid-friendly anime” from Kill la Kill’s original concept is rather telling.