-EDIT- Now that I’ve finished the episode, my original intro seems wholly inappropriate for this ridiculous tone. SO FUCK THAT LET’S KILL LA KILL.

Episode 4

0:30 – The rarely-witnessed quantum fanservice 

4:13 – Dear god I love this show. When the student council aren’t busy actively murdering students, they’re preoccupied being petty dicks to the students their president doesn’t like

4:40 – This all seems remarkably mean-spirited 

4:58 – Because obviously this outfit is much less tolerable than Senketsu. Also all of Mako’s faces are the best

5:10 – The title dude agrees 

5:36 – Oh my god these two are the best how could I not see it before 

5:42 – HOW COULD I NOT SEE IT BEFORE 

6:05 – Goddamn do these people know how to have fun 

6:51 – He looks so adorable in his little gondola. More Mako faces

Jesus this episode is the best. Actually the best. It might get more “epic” from here out, but I have no idea how they’d top this as far as my personal amusement goes. Fuck yeah

7:35 – The absolute lack of anything resembling animation actually makes it even funnier. She’s like a sad puppet on a stick

More great over-the-top music too. Over-the-top: not just for action scenes anymore!

8:12 – It’s all so beautiful 

8:30 – Ryuuko’s got this 

9:44 – How the fuck did we get from last episode to this. Trigger you beautiful bastards

10:29 – YES MORE GUTSERVICE 

10:50 – They’ve invented a whole new set of architecture for this ridiculousness 

11:09 – This episode is making comedy look really, really easy 

11:46 – All this glorious budget 

12:18 – Everything is just so, so beautiful today 

12:34 – Of course we have a scheming control room scene for this ridiculous scenario 

12:55 – These faces so expressive 

13:41 – Man, they even have the song. It’s still Kill la Kill, but it’s Kill la Kill as some kind of ridiculous slapstick western cartoon hybrid

14:17 – Trigger’s done it again 

14:18 – I can’t breathe this is so ridiculous. This song is so good for this too

14:51 – NO GUUUUUUUTSSSSS 

14:59 – MAIKO? BUT WHY?!? 

15:08 – NO THEIR FRIENDSHIP 

15:29 – Yes of course. The trap development club 

16:37 – Goddamn this show and its disgusting fanservice 

17:29 – Fortunately it’s made up for with all this incredible animation 

17:49 – Ryuuko makes the worst face 

18:00 – This is the new face of anime 

18:24 – Theirs is a strange relationship 

18:34 – Senketsu just hopping along on his skirt-edges 

This whole thing does feel like a really great episode of Looney Tunes spun through a self-aware shounen meat grinder or something. Kind of at a loss for words

19:49 – These kids sure do have their fun 

21:12 – Hard not to love this show 

22:19 – The rest of the class was apparently unimpressed with the morning’s hellish obstacle course. So many classic gags here, too. The last-second crash landing as class begins: good for school bells, elections, or weddings!

And Done

Ahahaha that was fuckin’ brilliant. Kill la Kill, you definitely win this round. We have two seasons and zero budget – what do we do? We put on a hilarious obstacle course slide show, using our mastery of comedic timing and love of classic gags to just barrel the fuck on through. Wonderful performance, Trigger. You’re doing god’s work.