Kill la Kill-Episode 25 Recap and thoughts

Well folks, episode 25 is out. Yup, the last actual Kill la Kill episode. And I've got to say at least for me it was vastly unimpressive or maybe a better term would be it just didn't feel like a good conclusion overall to the series.

So here's a basic recap and my thoughts on this episode, so if you don't like spoilers best to stop now.

The episode starts with the tearing down and graduation of Honnouji Academy and then leads into Satsuki getting kidnapped by none other than Rei Hououmaru, who was left alive after the final fight with Ragyo (even though she was inside Ragyo while she was in her Shinra Koketsu form).

Well turns out Hououmaru is pissed at the fact that Satsuki and the Elite Four and plans to kill them and destroy all that the Kill la Kids worked for into creating a world without COVERS. So the Elite Four fight copies of their old selves made real by remnant life fibers and the memories of the no star students. Which obviously those who aren't in power fear those who are; which was Hououmaru's driving point behind this, that the Elite Four and Satsuki we no better than anyone else because they dominated those without power by fear.

Fighting of course ensues, Tsumugu brings custom DTRs for the Elite Four, he gets jobbed as usual; fighting all around. School turns into a giant robot (just like 4chan and other people predicted) and Mako gets captured...Because of cheese.

I kid you not, this legitimately happens. We don't get to see it though, but Mako confesses herself to Satsuki that she got captured because she saw some cheese and wanted to eat it.

More fighting happens, Ryuko harkens back to her memories of Senketsu and then scissors fall from the sky. Ryuko turns them into giant scissors and talks about everyone graduating from Ragyo and eventually about her graduating from wearing her sailor uniform.

Everyone goes there separate ways and bam. The end. Obviously you need to watch it of course to get the feel of it and see what parts are missing but that was the episode in a nut shell.

They did do one thing though interesting that harkened back to the whole Kill la Kill; clothes vs fascism. And that was brought up by the point of graduation.

Graduation is a rather unique social phenomenon in Japan regarding subcultures but also ones that also involve fashion. It is the point where you put away your childhood and then go to the adult world and become a normal member of society. The most common subculture fashions who have these sort of graduations tend to be ones that go against what the typical Japanese stand for, a homogenous society. Though as of late, the younger Japanese are realizing though that they may be adults that doesn't mean they have to sacrifice their individuality and become normal.

Which ties back to one of Kill la Kill's themes in the second half of the anime, that crazy people are crazy and they do what they do, and are needed in the world just as much as everyone else.

While we may not have another episode of Kill la Kill ever again, I wish it didn't end like it did here with episode 25, it just felt empty and added a whole bunch of crap that they weren't able to fit into the main story at the time.