| Kill la Kill | |
 International promotional artwork, featuring Ryuko Matoi (foreground, wearing Senketsu) and Satsuki Kiryuin (background, wearing Junketsu) | |
| キルラキル (Kiru Ra Kiru) | |
|---|---|
| Genre | |
| Created by | |
| Anime television series | |
| Directed by | Hiroyuki Imaishi |
| Written by | Kazuki Nakashima |
| Music by | Hiroyuki Sawano |
| Studio | Trigger |
| Licensed by | |
| Original network | JNN (MBS) |
| English network | |
| Original run | October 4, 2013 – March 28, 2014 |
| Episodes | 24 + OVA |
| Manga | |
| Written by | Ryō Akizuki |
| Published by | Kadokawa Shoten |
| English publisher | |
| Magazine | Young Ace |
| Demographic | Seinen |
| Original run | October 4, 2013 – March 4, 2015 |
| Volumes | 3 |
Kill la Kill (Japanese: キルラキル, Hepburn: Kiru Ra Kiru)[b] is a Japanese anime television series created and produced by Trigger. The series follows vagrant schoolgirl Ryuko Matoi on her search for her father's killer, which brings her into violent conflict with Satsuki Kiryuin, the iron-willed student council president of Honnouji Academy, and her mother Ragyo Kiryuin's fashion empire. Ryuko, Satsuki, and others obtain martial arts superpowers from their clothes, which appear to have a will of their own.
The series is Trigger's first original anime television project, directed by Hiroyuki Imaishi and written by Kazuki Nakashima, both of whom had previously worked together on Gurren Lagann in 2007 and would go on to work on Promare in 2019. Kill la Kill was broadcast in Japan on MBS' Animeism programming block between October 2013 and March 2014. An original video animation (OVA) was released as a 25th episode in September 2014. A manga adaptation by Ryō Akizuki began serialization in Kadokawa Shoten's Young Ace magazine from October 2013 to March 2015. A video game adaptation, titled Kill la Kill the Game: IF, was released in July 2019, with slight deviations to the main storyline of the anime.
In North America, Aniplex of America licensed the anime for a simulcast with a home video release starting in July 2014. The series premiered in the United States on Adult Swim's Toonami block in February 2015.
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