ANIME: First Look At 'GURREN LAGANN' Creator's 'KILL LA KILL'
Check out the five main characters in Studio Trigger's follow up to the jaw-dropping epic, "Gurren Lagann." Will you be giving "Kill La Kill" a watch during the Fall anime season?
From the makers of 'Gurren Lagann," comes "Kill la Kill" a new anime set to debut this October in Japan. Yesterday, a glimpse of the 5 main characters leaked online from the August issue of Kadokawa Shoten's Newtype magazine. From left to right, the above image reveals:
- Satsuki Kiryūin - Honnōji Academy student council president
- Nonon Jakuzure - Culture Club control committee chair
- Hōka Inumuta - Intelligence Strategy Club committee chair
- Ira Gamagōri - Public Morals Club committee chair
- Yamauzu Sanage - Exercise Club control committee chair
The story told in "Kill la Kill" takes place in a hyper fictionalized high school setting where its enrolled students wear school uniforms that bestow super powers upon its wearers. Student council president Satsuki Kiryūin rules the school with an iron fist but trouble soon arrives in the form of transfer student, Ryūko Matoi and her giant scissor sword.
Animation studio Trigger, is led by acclaimed director Hiroyuki Imaishi (Gurren Lagan), character designer Sushio (Panty & Stocking with Garterbelt) and writer Kazuki Nakashima (Nodame Cantabile: Finale). The first footage should debut online in the coming weeks.
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