#kamui senketsu

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A concept: Doggo!Senketsu. He's grumpy and will fetch balls.

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Ryu + doggo!senkets fanart I've been working on for months now (click for full res)

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Ryuko Matoi....again!

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Senketsu concept art!! This is also a very unsubtle reminder to one of my friends to WATCH KILL LA KILL!!! Concept art from @setteidreams website!

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I love Kill la Kill. But one thing that shocked me greatly once I watched the anime for the third time (for my thesis) was the fact how it can be a possible analysis of the anime to consider how Ryuko may sometimes actually be more disempowered than empowered. despite being a complete badass that eventually overthrows the regimen of Honnoji academy and saves the world from becoming solely life fibers, it felt as if it was her destiny to do so; as if many factors were propelling her in this direction from birth.

Her father makes her senketsu to fufill a specific purpose. she has a destiny that she can fulfill with her blood, almost as if her existence has been made specifically for the life fibers battle. And her vengeance, she carries the will of her predecessor on her shoulders; fulfilling her father's wishes in his place.

Aikuro Mikisugi knows way more about Ryuuko's situation than he lets on, and she's constantly left guessing what his intentions are.

Tsumugu's backstory emphasises how life fibers can completely and utterly devour their wearers, but luckily in the case Ryuuko and Senketsu they actually get along pretty well.

Ragyo and Nui, when they force Ryuuko into Junketsu; and how it completely assimilates her identity...

man just considering her blood and how she's part life fibers herself. don't get me wrong i think she's epic af however once i rewatched the anime it really gave me the feeling that a lot of Ryuko's path was predetermined. actually wait they said the anime was 'nonsense' so whether this was intentional, me projecting or something else altogether will be hard for me to know XD

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i'm one of those fucked up twisted evil degenerates who actually like the rap part from before my body is dry but even i think it sounds like the fucking dk rap to me

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Unreleased WLCM tee featuring a hand drawn design of "Lady Satsuki" the strong leader, with swordsmanship of a thousand men! 

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WELÇOME©: HAND DRAWN GRAPHICS

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ok sequel post to the it's cool how obvious mako's crush on ryuko is from day one post from a couple hours ago bc I wanna talk about them more

ryuko takes a bit longer to warm up to her, but honestly? not by much. ryuko has a protective streak in her that lets her befriend people who need her pretty easily, and she's endeared to people relatively quickly if they don't piss her off (i.e. the mankanshokus, senketsu, maiko, eventually satsuki). she really does like people, even if she can be a little standoffish at first

ryuko's a little taken aback by mako's immediate strong affection, but she quickly adapts (very clear in how her approach to mako trying to tackle her changes from dodging to catching her and setting her down gently in only a few episodes). she doesn't get mako at first, but figures her out pretty quickly and adjusts. that's just mako, y'know? plus mako's just very kind to her in a way most people aren't. ryuko, too, wants company. she wants a family, she wants friends.

plus, her protective nature is fed a lot by the other students kidnapping mako so much and mako's dependence on her in those moments. mako is something precious to save and ryuko's weakness, but she also gives her strength. her support means a lot to her and mako comes to her rescue often (in the bathroom with tsumugu, de-monsterifying her, standing up to her family and fighting her demons in the fight club episode, etc etc). ryuko's fight against satsuki is one that feels very solitary. it's emphasized a lot just how many people satsuki has willing to fight for her, and there's just one ryuko. she has backup via mikisugi, mako, and senketsu, but what they can do for her is often pretty limited by their circumstances. again, mako's the one who calls her back from the edge multiple times. she's the key to calming her down. she's the one she staggers home to, the one she celebrates with, the one she spends her free time with. she chooses her company because she likes it. a lot.

there's a lot of moments where ryuko's like yep that's mako :) she's sillyyy. she brightens up immediately around her and often sours when other people enter the picture. she's the one good thing about honouji academy, y'know? she gives in to her a lot, letting her come along on her return to the ruins of her house, letting her come to honouji for the cultural festival, etc. she has an "aww i can't say no to you" thing going most of the time. mako's resolve and persistence is what bores through ryuko's walls and lets her get close to her. it's what she mentions when, after the wedding scene (and we'll get to that, trust me) she says mako and senketsu are more than friends. mako's surprised at her inclusion (again, she tends to slot herself as #2 to senketsu, her sunday best) and ryuko cites that persistence. mako was not only there for her, but stuck around, even when ryuko pushed her away, and that means something to ryuko. ryuko who people always misjudged or sent away or avoided or fought. ryuko who was lonely, whom no one fought for but herself. mako was there, and mako feels the same (as she says running in the naked sol's generator very near the end which. the sheer joy with which they say each other's names there is just. waaaaaaa)

ok the wedding scene. the wedding scene. not gonna go too crazy here bc I don't wanna detail the post but I'll say this: junketsu is frequently referred to as a wedding dress, and the fantasy/hallucination it forces upon ryuko (as the kamui itself was forced on her) is one of a normal-girl, average kinda life. one where she has a mother who's always there for her, she grows up normally, and she's happy. and she's happy because she has a family. she's not fighting all the time, she's in her place in society, she's having a wedding. of course, who she's marrying is irrelevant, even to junketsu. the man is faceless and unacting. he's not what makes this fantasy appealing. it's the assimilation, the acceptance of her by a greater society and authority structure (in this case ragyo). when mako and senketsu burst through the door, its handle flies off and knocks over the groom, stiff as a board, and he is forgotten. mako walks down the aisle to her, to call her back to her senses. ryuko says this is what she needs to be happy, that she'll kill mako to get it. mako says this isn't her or what she wants, pulling the "the ryuko i know" thing from before. but she's always been right. she knows her well. ryuko thinks she hurts mako/senketsu, and that realization lets her break out, lets her flay herself ripping junketsu off. she says she's getting out of that damn wedding dress even if it kills her. this is all to say that that scene is one of the most lesbian-coded things I've ever seen. mako's like you don't need to conform or marry a faceless groom or have a normal life to be happy, and i don't think you're truly happy or yourself like this. and ryuko realizes she's right. she doesn't want to marry a faceless groom, she feels trapped and changed by the wedding dress, by its ceremony and expectations. it's something that has a lot of similarity to a lot of lesbians' experiences of the expectations the world puts on them to marry men, to fit into this role. the joy of having a wedding vs the indifference to actually being married to someone. it's something that resonated with me a lot, having figured out i was a lesbian only a few months prior to seeing it for the first time.

it's after this that she says mako and senketsu are something more than friends. the exact nature of her and senketsu's relationship is unclear to me and debatable, but her and mako's take a very definite romantic shape by the end when mako asks her out, her hallelujah moment featuring them kissing and holding hands, with ryuko in a boy's highschool uniform, evoking heterosexual imagery to imply romantic intent ("I want to go on a date like a boy and a girl would go on a date" is kinda the effect). I think ryuko kinda figures it out then. she wants to go out with mako. she wants to be something romantic to her, something romantic with her.

ryuko lets her in. it's clear to everyone that mako's managed a closeness with her that no one else has (they don't acknowledge senketsu as a person/friend for a long time). they'd move mountains for each other. ryuko, who always had to fight everything alone, finally has someone who's willing to wade through all the bullshit life and ryuko herself give her because she believes in ryuko, because she thinks she's worth it.

my point is ryuko's into mako as much as mako's into her, she's just a bit quieter about it

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//omg i just noticed

Ryuko wearing the red glove again and a sukeban-style Kamui Senketsu is basically her channeling this old movie called Sukeban Deka II

I DIDN'T EVEN KNOW THIS SERIES EXISTS OKAY LIKE HOLY SHIT THE COINCIDENCE IS UNCANNY

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I was born capable of evolution. And one day, I developed a will of my own, and was able to convey my thoughts to people!

Indie | Semi-selective | Side-blog (follows from @vagabondfromkanto) for kamui Senketsu from Kill la Kill

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EVERYONE STOP WHAT YOU'RE DOING AND LOOK WHAT I MAAAAAAAADEEEEEE

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Some Kill la Kill x Nausicaa I drew whilst hanging out w @dulaman-na-farraige on magma

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My UPDATED version of my Kill La Kill spoof.

SYNOPSIS: The story you know and the characters you love gets a character-recasting makeover in a whole new way in an epic, thrilling remake/character-recasting spoof of Studio Trigger's original hit anime from 2013 of the same name that shook the streets of Honno City, Kill la Kill. Experience and relive the saga of Ryuko Matoi (Go Go Tamago/Lady (Devil May Cry)), a fierce, vagrant woman who crosses paths with the undisputed, iron-willed Student Council president and ruler of Honnoji Academy, Satsuki Kiryuin (Fa Mulan/Xu Xialing). While transferring to the academy and searching for the murderer with the Scissor Blade who killed her father, Ryuko demands answers from Satsuki, but she is chased away by the students equipped with Goku Uniforms that are infused with mysterious alien-like material called Life Fibers. Just when Ryuko was at her lowest and at wit's end, she awakens a living, sentient uniform called a Kamui that may be the key to humanity's future. Sensing Ryuko's anger toward everything, the wisecracking, larger-than-life Kamui bonded with her and the two became the most unexpected, lethal roadblock Honnoji Academy has ever seen (Like Venom).

But just as Ryuko and the Kamui she named Senketsu (Bruno (Marvel's Future Avengers)) form an unlikely, symbiotic bond, Satsuki has also awakened and bonded with a Kamui of her own as well -- Junketsu (Namaari (Raya and the Last Dragon)). Soon, Ryuko and Senketsu are dragged into an epic battle for Honnoji Academy and the fate of mankind that is ravaged with rebellion, action, drama and heart, ultimately resulting in Ryuko and Satsuki's rivalry, the shocking truth about their connected past, and the war against the Life Fibers.

With the help of their friends and allies, including the energetic, hyperactive Mako Mankanshoku (Sofia the First) and her family (Wreck-It Ralph, Adult Wendy Darling, Timothy Templeton, and Dante (Coco)); the Elite Four of Honnoji Academy's Student Council (Joshua Sumter (Me), Aladdin, Tony Stark, Vanellope Von Schweetz); and the anti-Life Fiber organization Nudist Beach led by undercover homeroom teacher Aikuro Mikisugi (Flynn Rider), Ryuko and Satsuki - with both their bonded Kamuis - will have to figure out how to put aside their differences...and reunite as long-lost siblings to stop and foil the plot of the sinister CEO of REVOCS and the director of Honnoji Academy herself -- their birth mother, Ragyo Kiryuin (Eris (Sinbad: Legend of the Seven Seas))

CAST:

Gogo Tomago (Big Hero 6) with Lady (Devil May Cry) as Ryūko Matoi

Fa Mulan (Mulan (1998)) with Xu Xialing (Shang-Chi: Legend of the Ten Rings) as Satsuki Kiryūin

Sofia the First (Sofia the First) as Mako Mankanshouku

Bruno (Marvel Future Avengers) as Senketsu

Namarri (Raya and the Last Dragon) as Junketsu

Joshua Sumter (ME!) as Ira Gamagōri

Aladdin (Aladdin (1992)) as Uzu Sanageyama

Tony Stark (Iron Man: Armored Adventures) as Hōka Inumuta

Vanellope Von Schweetz (Wreck-It Ralph) as Nonon Jakuzure

Hiro Hamada (Big Hero 6) as Shirō Iori

Wreck-It Ralph (Wreck-It Ralph) as Barazō Mankanshoku

Adult Wendy (Return to Neverland) as Sukuyo Mankanshoku

Timothy Templeton (Boss Baby) as Matarō Mankanshoku

Dante (Coco) as Guts, Mankanshoku family's pet pug

Flynn Rider (Tangled) as Aikurō Mikisugi

Jann Lee (Dead or Alive) with Ichiban Kasuga (Yakuza: Like A Dragon) as Tsumugu Kinagase

Alfred Pennyworth (DC Universe/Batman) as Mitsuzō Soroi

Eris (Sinbad: Legend of the Seven Seas) as Ragyō Kiryūin

Larxene (The Kingdom Hearts series) as Nui Harime

Nebula (MCU/Guardians of the Galaxy) as Rei Hōōmaru

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Do Kill La kill 😂😍

buy me the kamui senketsu version and u just got urself a deal :3

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I gave Kill la Kill a second chance a few weeks ago, and I'm so glad I did. At first I had mixed feelings for I guess obvious reasons (skimpy suits...) but I ended up absolutely loving the anime AND RYUKO AND SENKETSU TOO.

I just wanted to let you know how much your blog means to me while I cope with Senketsu's death and his relationship with Ryuko and nedless to say I ABSOLUTELY SHIP THEM I DON'T CARE WHAT PPL SAY TO ME! D:

Words are not enough to describe and I simple feel that I'm writing gibberish (plus english is not my main language), but I just wanted to thank you from the bottom of my heart.

(silently leaves while having "Till I die" on repeat, proceeds to cry in a corner)

(May I recommend Mica Caldito's rendition of "Till I Die"? It's my absolute favorite version 🥺)

Thank you so much for your kind words. It also took me a while to get into Kill la Kill, but Ryuko and Senketsu convinced me. It's something I've harped on a lot, but the fact that the Kamui Bansho, the official Kill la Kill guidebook, devotes a "best 3" section to only one relationship, in which there's a photo caption that reads, "Senketsu was always by Ryuko’s side, always supporting her. Ryuko tries to hold her one and only 'partner' close, but her hand only cuts through empty space," speaks absolute volumes. No matter how you interpret it, Ryuko and Senketsu have so much love for each other, and I genuinely believe that that love is the heart of the series.

I'm touched and flattered to hear that my work had such a positive effect on you! Thank you so much!!