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Why do American movies and tv shows have the freshmen really hot
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Have you ever actually seen a 14 year old boy
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Ok so in the kill la kill script book (that contains the full script of kill la kill, including all it’s episodes, the ova and the drama CDs) I’ve noticed there’s also some extra information. There was apparently several scenes that were supposed to be before the Satsuki + Uzu fight scene in the beginning of the ova, and the script for it is in the book. I couldn’t translate the entire thing since it is pretty long, but I did do this one bc the E4 were involved and I love them. My Japanese isn’t the best so if you find mistakes feel free to correct me on it!

It’s a small thing, really, but this part where Senketsu assures Ryuko “I’m here” always gets to me. It really, really stings.
So much of this story is about Ryuko and Senketsu being with one another. “I had to do something to get the two of you together,” Aikuro says in episode 3. Episode 4 has a B-plot gag about the Mankanshoku boys trying to get Senketsu back to Ryuko and messing up a billion times along the way. Whenever they get separated–whether it’s a psychological separation, as in episode 13 when Ryuko is forlorn and distraught over her actions that led to her going berserk against Nui, or a physical separation, as when Senketsu is torn up at the end of 13, or when Ryuko leaves him at the start of episode 20 upon learning her true nature–the plot dedicates itself to bringing them back together. There is no narrative here about how they’re better off alone, or that they’re no good for each other. The message is, unambiguously, They belong together.
And they want to be. Ryuko says in episode 22 that she “ain’t gonna take Senketsu off ever again.” She has a recurring nightmare about losing him, where he’s torn to bits and crying for help, and wakes up multiple times throughout the series screaming his name. She’s horribly, terribly afraid of a day where he’s not there, where she won’t look down and see him, where she won’t hear his voice assuring her that he’s with her.
Senketsu, meanwhile, also blatantly says that he wants to be with Ryuko when he tells her that it’s his wish to be worn by her in episode 13, and he is a character rather defined by his loyalty. Though it may be more for show than anything, Ryuko makes a good point in episode 16 when she rages at Nudist Beach that it’s not fair to force Senketsu into a world-saving battle without asking his feelings about it. He really has no reason to stick with Ryuko and fight this fight with her. He could take blood from anyone, be the monster that so many think he is. But he doesn’t do any of that. He sincerely cares for Ryuko, and is practically the only one in the series that doesn’t toy with her, betray her, or abandon her in some sense; after all, Ryuko is left alone by her father, tricked and used by her sister and the Elite Four, abandoned and betrayed by Mako and her family when they grow rich and greedy, used by Maiko, toyed with by Aikuro and Nudist Beach (to the point where Ryuko thinks that Aikuro knew everything about her and was just laughing at her for being a “freak” the entire time)… but never Senketsu. He stays by her side, always.
So what we end up with are these two characters who we’re told constantly should be together, who both desire to always stay that way, where one is horribly afraid of a time when they’re not and the other wants more than anything to be with her no matter the hardships and battles that even she thinks he shouldn’t have to take part in… and the conclusion of their story has them torn apart. Ryuko’s worst fear, her terrible nightmare–it comes true. The one who never left her finally does. When she looks down to smile at him, to say, in essence, “You know me better than anyone,” in a scrapped piece of the OVA, she finds that he’s not there. There is no one to reassure her anymore.
Senketsu was apparently planned to die from one of the earliest drafts of the show, and even in a very early script for episode 1, there’s this thread of Senketsu assuring Ryuko, “I’m right here,” and that she needn’t be afraid. So when I see this sentiment reflected in the actual episode 5 (and to a lesser extent, episode 14, when Ryuko wakes up screaming for Senketsu and hears his voice assuring her that he’s not gone), it all feels to me like this really heartbreaking, deliberate way of emphasizing that Senketsu won’t always be there with Ryuko. “Death flags,” as it’s termed.
It gets to me.