After recently rewatching Kill a Kill in a (partially failed attempt) to try to uncover some of the hidden meanings and messages in the series, I ended up with some basic outlines for a theory about it.
It's not the biggest secret that Kill la Kill has something with fascism. After all, the series starts with a Hitler reference. However, it is unclear what exact role this plays through-out the series.
My interpretation is as follows:
By mention the story of Adam and Eve and their original sin of eating the forbidden fruit, the series gives a twist to the fact that they desired to cover themselves up in clothing after this sin. Wearing clothing itself is here mentioned as the result of this sin, but also some form of sin in itself.
The next part that is important, is that the clothing is quite literally alien. To me, this somewhat odd choice is meant to signify that the result of the original sin is not something that is part of human nature itself. Wearing clothing is something we don't do as a result of our own nature. This idea seems strengthened by how the show portrays clothing as the driving force between the evolution of humans.
In my opinion, the clothing itself is fascism. Some 'cheap' pointers, is the obvious evil role it plays as something that wishes to control the earth (cover it) and than bring it down in order to find even more places to bring under control (exploding and going to other planets in the galaxy to repeat this process). It's the endless the desire to increase power and to assimilate everything into a singular group (while rejecting everything else) that seems to be overwhelmingly present in both the Life Fibers (clothing) and in fascism.
Going with the assumption that clothing is fascism, however, seems to bring forth the following conclusion: Some parts of fascism are necessary. After all, the protagonist and her clothing are both hybrids, both human and clothing. (Are parts of fascism needed to stop fascism?) Furthermore, people still end up by wearing clothing (even though it aren't life fibers). They don't become Naked Nudists, but they go back to their original sin of covering themselves up in clothing.
When the tea drinking girl (I'm horrible at remembering names) says that humans are pigs in clothing, and when the series shows how easily they are manipulated (the family changing incredibly much from getting to live in a better housing, people willing to give their lives for money, people being easily manipulated by fear, etc.) it seems to suggest that people are so incredibly susceptible to these things that fascism (the desire to wear clothing?) cannot be banned out entirely.
However, another thing that is stressed is how much 'not making sense' is their thing. Maybe the series is an existential crisis between what aspects of fascism are unavoidable and which parts of the 'senseless' human nature should be left free of it?
Regardless, at the very least I believe the series is very involved with fascism in a way that both strongly disapproves of it, yet still finds it hard to entirely discard it. If others have more information on important characters like the Grant Courtier (of whom we only knew that she was born in a 'womb of Life Fibers', which would hear mean that she was created by the purest of Fascism), we might be able to figure out more connection. For example, the Grant Courtier moves very unnatural for an anime character (spinning, suddenly appearing, moving between boxes, etc.), which seems to suggest that fascism defies common sense when practised purely, that it is impossible to comprehend.
Anyhow, that was all I had to say about it (for now). |
