Someone wrote in [community profile] wankgate 2013-10-19 07:25 pm (UTC)

The argument never ends because people on both sides are clamping their hands over their ears at anything the other side expresses. Look, you don't have to like it and you're entitled to your opinion but this is Studio Trigger, using ludicrous, over-the-top anime cliches to get across a metaphor is what they do.

Gurren-Lagann cranked giant robot cliches up to eleven and used it as a metaphor for breaking down the obstacles that life throws at you and continuing even when it gets tough. Kill la Kill is cranking fanservice and ecchi cliches up to eleven and using it as a metaphor for doing what you want despite the judgement and ridicule it might earn you from society.

Hell, I totally understand why people feel iffy about this show and I know the content carries a lot of baggage. I side-eyed the hell out of it for most of the first two episodes but I felt like they were going somewhere with it, and they are. I know that there are basement-dwelling neckbeards who just want it for fap bait and nobody likes those guys, but watching it and either accepting or dismissing it because of what's only on the surface is a shallow way of thinking no matter which side you're on.

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