List of Kill la Kill characters
Honnouji Academy (本能字学園, Honnōji Gakuen) is a fictional high school situated in Tokyo Bay, Japan.
[ep 1] Despite having a strong temper, she forms a friendship with Honnouji student Mako Mankanshoku, who supports her emotionally and calms her down when necessary.
[ep 13] Ryuko is later revealed to be Satsuki's younger sister, who was presumed dead during the battle at the Honnouji Academy Cultural & Sports Grand Festival, and became a human infused with Life Fibers as a result of being experimented on as a newborn baby by their mother Ragyo.
"bind/cut"), administering Goku Uniforms to students using various hierarchical schemes such as a no-late day event and battle royale-esque tournaments such as the Naturals Election.
[ep 1] When Ryuko arrives to Honnouji Academy, Satsuki decides to don the Kiryuin Family's kamui Junketsu (純潔, lit.
But unlike Ryuko, who established a symbiosis with Senketsu, Satsuki is unable to use Junketsu's full power and can only use it effectively for short periods of time.
[ep 16] Satsuki serves as a major opponent to Ryuko for most of the series, utilizing Honnouji Academy as a means to eliminate her mother and the Life Fiber threat.
Satsuki makes her move to assassinate Ragyo during the Honnouji Academy Cultural & Sports Grand Festival to celebrate the schools’ subjugating, but is captured while learning Ryuko is her younger sister, who was presumed dead.
[ep 7] She later gets a second copy of it to wear to help defend the Naked Sol with the Elite Four and other club presidents during the final assault against Ragyo.
[ep 3] Mikisugi later reveals that Issei Matoi designed Senketsu from Ryuko's DNA to enable her to fight against the propagators of the Life Fibers.
himself specializes in kendo and possesses the three-star Goku Uniform, Blade Regalia (剣の装, Tsurugi no Sō), which takes the form of a large armored bōgu.
His three-star Goku Uniform, Probe Regalia (探の装, Saguru no Sō), allows him to quickly calculate attack trajectories and use optical camouflage to hide from his opponents.
By enduring such masochistic attacks, he can activate its second transformation, Scourge Regalia (死縛の装, Shibaki no Sō), which covers his body in thorny whips.
[ep 1] Voiced by: Katsuyuki Konishi[note 1][4] (Japanese); Derek Stephen Prince[5] (English) Guts (ガッツ, Gattsu) is the Mankanshoku family pug.
[ep 3] Aikuro reveals to Ryuko the existence of Nudist Beach and his being one of its members (though she did not believe him due to the organization's ridiculous name).
[ep 17] His weapon is a sewing machine pistol that fires needles which severs the connections between the Life Fibers in kamui and Goku Uniforms and their wearers.
[ep 16] He is actually Soichiro Kiryuin (鬼龍院 総一郎, Kiryūin Sōichirō), Satsuki's father and Ragyo's husband, who faked his death and took on a false identity to raise Ryuko.
Voiced by: Romi Park[11] (Japanese); Laura Post[8][12] (English) Ragyo Kiryuin (鬼龍院 羅暁, Kiryūin Ragyō) is Ryuko and Satsuki's mother and the main antagonist of the series, being both Director of Honnouji Academy and the CEO of the Revocs Corporation which manufactures and supplies a preponderance of the world's clothing with her product laced with Life Fibers.
[ep 18] She eventually dons the wedding dress-like ultimate kamui, Shinra-Kotetsu (神羅纐纈), gaining the Absolute Domination (絶対服従, Zettai Fukujū) ability which allows her to manipulate anything made of Life Fibers except Senketsu.
While Shinra-Kotetsu was originally powered by Rei Honoumaru, Ragyo had it absorb Harime and the Primordial Life Fiber commence her end game.
[ep 24] Voiced by: Yukari Tamura[13] (Japanese); Stephanie Sheh[8] (English) Nui Harime (針目 縫, Harime Nui) is the Grand Couturier (High Order Tailor) of the Kiryuin family, initially appearing as a petite twin tailed girl with a parasol and wearing an eyepatch.
She has sociopathic tendencies, smiling and acting cheerful even when revealing to Ryuko that she killed her father and stole half of his Rending Scissors, at the cost of her eye.
[ep 11] Rei originally lived in a wartorn African village whose inhabitants were said to have a unique resistance to Life Fibers, saved and adopted by Ragyo.
[ep OVA] Believing humanity deserved to be consumed by the Life Fibers, Rei willfully offered herself as a sacrifice to activate Shinra-Kotetsu before being forcefully removed from it.
Following Ragyo's death, Rei attempted to exact revenge by using Life Fiber-based clones of Satsuki and her Elite Four to disrupt Honnouji Academy's graduation ceremony.
Though it failed thanks to the efforts of the Elite Four and Ryuko, Satsuki is able to convince Rei to let go of her vendetta and instead help her make the world a better place.
Rei joins Satsuki as they flee the sinking island that the academy and city stood on, giving it one final salute with the Elite Four, Iori, Mitsuzo, and the students as it goes to the bottom of Tokyo Bay.
[19] Voiced by: Makoto Awane[20] (Japanese); Ben Diskin[21][ep 15] (English) Kaneo Takarada (宝多 金男, Takarada Kaneo) is a money-crazed student council president of Naniwa Kinman High School in the Osaka region, his family's wealth rivals that of the Kiruyins as he secretly funded Nudist Beach.
Takarada uses his Takarada-printed money to have locals fight Kiryuin's forces for him when they arrives to both conquer his school and destroy the Nudist Beach base located in the city.
[ep 15] After Ragyo and the Covers take over Japan, Takarada spends his remaining fortune to complete Nudist Beach's battleship Naked Sol.
