7.624 minSeason 1 • Episode 24
LatestThe final confrontation is at hand! Will Ragyo and Nui bring on the end of the world, or will Ryuko and the others be able to stop them?
Honnouji Academy is forcefully ruled by the iron-fisted control of its student council and its president, Satsuki Kiryuin. Transfer student, Ryuko Matoi, arrives on campus carrying a giant sword, that is actually half of a scissor. She is looking for the woman who holds the other half of her sword who killed her father. It is said that Satsuki Kiryuin knows the identity of the killer but when Ryuko confronts her she is beaten by the student council and their powerful "Goku Uniforms" whom she cannot match in strength. However, once Ryuko receives her own "Kamui" by the name of Senketsu, the odds are lifted in her favor.
Direction
Hiroyuki Imaishi's ADHD visual language on maximum overdrive
Score
Hiroyuki Sawano drops bangers that make laundry feel apocalyptic
Writing
Somehow sticks the landing on 'clothes are evil actually'
Ami Koshimizu
Ryuko Matoi (voice)
Ryoka Yuzuki
Satsuki Kiryuin (voice)
Aya Suzaki
Mako Mankanshoku (voice)
Akio Nojima
Mitsuzo Soroi (voice)
Katsuyuki Konishi
Tsumugu Kinagase (voice)
Hiroyuki Yoshino
Hoka Inumuta (voice)
Tetsu Inada
Ira Gamagori (voice)
Romi Park
Ragyo Kiryuin (voice)
Yukari Tamura
Nui Harime (voice)
Yuji Ueda
Shiro Iori (voice)
Mayumi Shintani
Nonon Jakuzure (voice)
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
The show is a deliberate satire of 'magical girl' and 'henshin hero' tropes where the skimpier the outfit, the more powerful—which it then weaponizes into commentary on exploitation and choice.
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