I was browsing through Netflix and happened on BNA (Brand New Animal) and from just watching it for a second, I thought "This is Kill la Kill... but it's not."
To give a short review, BNA is a great watch, it really typifies everything you'd love about a Trigger production. It just isn't as good as many previous Trigger works.
It's about a world where there's humans and beastmen, which are animal people, and the beastmen are ruthlessly discriminated against by the ruthlessly racist humans of the world. The beastmen are forced into their own self-governed city, and their position in the world is rocky at best. The whole plot, as you can guess, is a very blunt take on modern race relations; but I wouldn't consider the show to be a good metaphor in this respect, so I wouldn't judge it in that regard.
The main character, Michiru, is a human girl that has turned into a tanuki beastman and now has to suffer the same racism that they experience. She goes to the Beastman city and has to make a new life there. She immediately befriends Shirou, who is a questionably moral, and highly wrathful, vigilante of justice in the city. From this point she is hurtled into a series of events, which segue into one another very quickly (as you'd expect from a Trigger production), and Michiru uncovers more and more beast powers as a coincidental side effect of her adventures.
I won't spoil anything, but I thought that the show's largest failing was that it was simply too short. BNA progresses along its plot as quickly as Kill La Kill did, but it's half as long; so at episode 12, it's around the point that Kill La Kill is ramping the stakes up to new heights, whereas BNA is just ending. On the one hand, the opportunity to completely reuse KLK's plot structure was there, and you can't blame them for not wanting to just copy the same dramatic ups-and-downs that KLK used; but on the other hand, I'd have loved it if they did cause it KLK was really good and I loved it.
I'm not saying it should have copied KLK, but I am saying that the plot had a lot of potential to ramp up in any number of directions, but it just didn't, which I found kind of weird for Trigger, who love ramping shit up to absurd degrees. I was really fond of the characters too, it's a shame that their story just ends right at the point where it was getting really good.
I feel another re-watching of Kill La Kill is necessary, I just feel so blue balled by BNA.
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