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Rather than being a story that was engaging, or at least coherent, that was made much more interesting through what Trigger is best at, Kill la Kill and by extension what most Trigger shows feel like were instead a canvas to put everything Trigger was best at onto. While the most common complaint towards Kill la Kill was that it pushed your suspension of disbelief to such a limit that you had to ignore story flaws to enjoy it, the biggest problem I saw with it was that it didn’t know what it wanted to be. Trigger just manages to somehow take all of the higher ups that worked on one of Gainax’s most loved productions, Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann, and get them to create some of the worst plots in anime I’ve seen. This isn’t to say that anime must have a plot to be good, and in some cases a horribly un-engaging story doesn’t even subtract from a show enough for it to become horrible. Despite the only exception to this statement being the aforementioned Inferno Cop, the unfortunate truth is their shows do have plots and their shows do have characters that talk, and for some reason this studio cannot write an engaging story to save their lives. Even in disliking Kill la Kill, I can’t deny that when the characters stopped talking and the plot stopped being the reasons things were happening, the show was stunning to watch. If all of Trigger’s shows were nothing but visual masterpieces sans all story or plot whatsoever, I’d probably even like them. It’s that extremely talented staff of character designers, key animators, animation directors, and colour directors that actually get me to watch their shows in the first place despite knowing there’s an overwhelming chance that I’m going to dislike them. I’d go as far as saying they have some of the best animators and visual talent working for them second only to ufotable. Across all fourteen of those shows, they’ve managed to make each and every one as visually appealing as possible within the constraints of visual consistency. Since Trigger formed back in 2011, they’ve produced fourteen shows including the now airing DARLING in the FRANXX in collaboration with A-1 Pictures. Instead, I see Trigger as an absolutely amazing studio that just so happens to make really, really bad shows.
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However, that dislike isn’t as black and white as me just thinking Trigger is a bad studio that’s made a grand total of one phenomenal show in the six years they’ve been around, since every time I see a still from one of their shows or a clip of particularly outstanding animation from something they’ve made I get roped in again. While I’ve also loved shows from Trigger - Little Witch Academia being a huge highlight from them in my book - when looking at everything else they’ve produced, I can pretty safely say that they’re one of my least favourite studios.
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As time passed and as I grew apart from the community I first started watching anime with, I watched other things the studio produced such as Sex & Violence with Machspeed and Inferno Cop and without noticing, began to see Trigger in the same light I saw studios like Gonzo when I first started watching anime. While watching it, I tried my absolute best to find something I’d like about it, pointing out the positives to myself whenever I could, but in the end I heavily disliked Kill la Kill.
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So, having not seen it when it aired and only observing the fighting matches between the people I followed and having no experience with the studio behind it, I watched the show a handful of months after it aired to see what camp I’d fall into. The show, at least from my perspective at the time, was incredibly divisive with those who loved it seeing it as a fun show to turn your brain off for and those who hated it pointing out the same positive as a flaw - you had to turn off your brain to have fun with Kill la Kill. In this time of getting used to watching anime as it aired and developing the preferences I have now, even adopting habits like legal streaming and supporting fan artists, a certain studio released the (then) so-called “savoir of anime”, Kill la Kill. The very first anime I watched as it aired was Date A Live, falling in love with the medium through shows like Death Note, Clannad, and Soul Eater. I haven’t been an avid fan of anime for a very long time in comparison to the community I joined at the time of first getting into this medium.