Is Kill La Kill a Warning about Wearable Technology? - [2014, PBS Idea Channel]

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There's a lot to talk about when discussing the anime series Kill la Kill. If you're not familiar with the show, the lead character, Ryuko Matoi, searches for her father's murderer; there's an academy ruled by a powerful student council; and there's a class system where more powerful students wear extraterrestrial clothing which give them special powers… you should just watch it. It's these uniforms, called Goku, that are particularly interesting, and specifically how the wearers unitize them. Could Goku be considered technology? And how does FASCISM play a role in all this?!?! Watch the episode and find out!

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ASSETS
2:10
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5IuRz...
5:13
Paul Rudd's Computer
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XWX4G...
5:21
A First Drive
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CqSDW...
5:23
M4SONIC - Virus (Live Launchpad Original)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yXLL4...
6:21
Fitbit Force
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vG3fL...
6:23
http://www.europeanreseller.com/index...
6:28
NIKE+ FUELBAND - THE INSIDE STORY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dG0vL...
6:34
http://www.kurzweilai.net/the-world-o...
6:37
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AjcHz...

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DOOBLYDOO Links

Kill La Kill: How the year's most polarizing anime became a smash hit - http://bit.ly/1z2nraA

Fashion, Femininity, and Fascism, but Family Foremost: The Themes of Kill la Kill - http://bit.ly/1z2nt2e

Kill La Kill Is A Rare Breed Of Anime - http://bit.ly/1z2nx1Y

Kill la Kill: The Fashion of Fascism - http://bit.ly/1z2nAuD

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"Level 5" by Room for the Homeless (http://bit.ly/10N0Ykm) 
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"Squarehead" by Roglok (http://www.roglok.net)
"Number Cruncher" by Roglok (http://www.roglok.net)
"Little Birthday Acid" by Roglok (http://www.roglok.net)
"Topskore" by Roglok (http://www.roglok.net)
"Anti Vanishing Spray" by Roglok (http://www.roglok.net)
"Tarty Prash" by Roglok (http://www.roglok.net)
"Carry on Carillon" by Roglok (http://www.roglok.net)
"Uptown Tennis Club" by Roglok (http://www.roglok.net)
"Squarehead" by Roglok (http://www.roglok.net)
"Dream Of Autumn" by Night Shift Master
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"Insert Toy For Coin" by Eatme (http://eatme.pro/music/)
"Dizor" by Outsider
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"Lets go back to the rock" by Outsider
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Kill La Kill - Gamagoori & Mako Moments - [Studio Trigger]

Kill la Kill (Japanese: キルラキル Hepburn: Kiru Ra Kiru) is an anime television series produced by Trigger. It follows vagrant schoolgirl Ryuko Matoi on her search for her father's killer, which brings her into violent conflict with Satsuki Kiryuin, the iron-fisted student council president of Honnouji Academy, and her mother's fashion empire.

The series is Trigger's first original television anime project, directed by Hiroyuki Imaishi and written by Kazuki Nakashima, both of whom had previously worked together on Gurren Lagann. It aired in Japan between October 3, 2013 and March 27, 2014.^[a]

Aniplex of America licensed the anime for a simulcast, with a home video release starting July 2014. The series premiered on Adult Swim's Toonami block on February 8, 2015.^[6][7][b] A manga adaptation by Ryō Akizuki began serialization in Kadokawa Shoten's Young Ace magazine from October 4, 2013. A follow-up anime episode was released as an OVA on September 3, 2014.

Kill La Kill - Ragyo´s End & Senketsu´s Goodbye + Satsuki catches Ryuko [Studio Trigger]

Kill la Kill (Japanese: キルラキル Hepburn: Kiru Ra Kiru) is an anime television series produced by Trigger. It follows vagrant schoolgirl Ryuko Matoi on her search for her father's killer, which brings her into violent conflict with Satsuki Kiryuin, the iron-fisted student council president of Honnouji Academy, and her mother's fashion empire.

The series is Trigger's first original television anime project, directed by Hiroyuki Imaishi and written by Kazuki Nakashima, both of whom had previously worked together on Gurren Lagann. It aired in Japan between October 3, 2013 and March 27, 2014.^[a]

Aniplex of America licensed the anime for a simulcast, with a home video release starting July 2014. The series premiered on Adult Swim's Toonami block on February 8, 2015.^[6][7][b] A manga adaptation by Ryō Akizuki began serialization in Kadokawa Shoten's Young Ace magazine from October 4, 2013. A follow-up anime episode was released as an OVA on September 3, 2014.

Kill la Kill is set at Honnouji Academy (本能字学園 Honnōji Gakuen), a fictional high school situated in Tokyo Bay, Japan on the island of Honnō City. The school is dominated by its fearsome student council led by Satsuki Kiryuin. Its students wear Goku Uniforms (極制服 Gokuseifuku, from gokusei (極製, "finest quality") + seifuku (制服, "school uniform")) which give their wearers superhuman abilities because they are constructed with a special material known as Life Fibers (生命戦維 Seimei Sen'i, lit. "Life Battle-Fibers"). Transfer student Ryuko Matoi, who wields a scissor-shaped longsword that can cut Goku Uniforms, challenges the council as she searches for her father's killer. Although she is initially easily defeated, she finds a sentient sailor uniform that she names Senketsu, a Kamui (神衣, lit. "Godrobe") which is completely made of Life Fibers and transforms her so that she can face Kiryuin and her trials and obstacles. She is befriended by her hyperactive classmate Mako Mankanshoku and lives with her family.

When Satsuki reorganizes the allocation of Goku Uniforms through a battle royal and king-of-the-hill event known as Naturals Election, Ryuko faces the members of Satsuki's Elite Four, who wear powerful Three-Star Goku Uniforms, in a series of duels. Her final fight is interrupted by Nui Harime, the wielder of the other Scissor Blade and the murderer of Ryuko's father. In the ensuing fight, Ryuko transforms into an uncontrollable monster.

With the Tri-City Schools Raid, Satsuki annexes the major schools in the other regions of Japan, and quashes Nudist Beach (ヌーディスト・ビーチ Nūdisuto Bīchi), a paramilitary organization led by Ryuko's homeroom teacher Aikuro Mikisugi. She arranges for a festival that will host her mother Ragyo, the academy's director and the CEO of REVOCS Corporation (REVOCSコーポレーションRibokkusu Kōporēshon), a clothing manufacturer that has dominated the world-wide market. Mikisugi reveals that the Life Fibers, which have been woven into all REVOCS clothing, are actually aliens that consume their wearers. When they devour the festival audience, Satsuki turns on her mother, revealing her end goal has always been destroying Ragyo, but the rebellion is short-lived as Ragyo has fused with the Life Fibers to attain tremendous power. Ragyo recognizes Ryuko as her own daughter and Satsuki's younger sister, who survived the termination of a Life Fiber experiment and was raised in secrecy by Ragyo's missing husbandIsshin Matoi.

A month later, Ragyo and the Life Fibers have devastated Japan and have captured Satsuki, leaving the Elite Four without Goku Uniforms and forced to hide out with Ryuko and the others at Nudist Beach. When they rescue Satsuki, Ragyo captures and brainwashes Ryuko into fighting her. After Ryuko frees herself, she and Satsuki challenge Ragyo, who plans to detonate the Earth in order to propagate the Life Fibers throughout the universe. After taking down the transmitter and blasting the cocoon that houses the Original Life Fiber, Ryuko chases Ragyo into space and defeats her, causing the Life Fiber clothes to perish.

In a follow-up OVA episode, Ragyo's aide Rei disrupts Honnouji Academy's graduation ceremony, but Satsuki convinces her to abandon her struggle. Honnouji Academy is shut down during the sinking of Honnō City and everyone leaves to live out normal lives.

Kill la Kill - Ryuko VS Satsuki - FULL FIGHT

Kill la Kill (Japanese: キルラキル Hepburn: Kiru Ra Kiru) is an anime television series produced by Trigger. It follows vagrant schoolgirl Ryuko Matoi on her search for her father's killer, which brings her into violent conflict with the iron-fisted student council president of Honnouji Academy, Satsuki Kiryuin, and her mother's fashion empire.

The series is Trigger's first original television anime project, directed by Hiroyuki Imaishi and written by Kazuki Nakashima, both of whom had previously worked together on Gurren Lagann. Kill la Kill's 24 episodes aired in Japan between October 3, 2013 and March 27, 2014. Aniplex of America has licensed the anime for a simulcast and a home video release.^[2] A manga adaptation by Ryō Akizuki began serialization in Kadokawa Shoten's Young Ace magazine from October 4, 2013. A followup anime episode was released as an OVA on September 3, 2014.