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I've been watching Kill La Kill.

So Honnouji Academy is an academy alright. Students go there.

But, why are entire families and neighbourhoods living in it? Is everyone in
there a prisoner? What happens when a student is expelled?


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What exactly is the Honnouji Academy?


Honnouji Academy is a school that rules over and entire city with the hands of
an all powerful dictatorship.

> Is everyone in there a prisoner?

You could call that, but they can get out anytime they want.

> What happens when a student is expelled?

His/Her family goes to the lowest social class or be killed, it depends on the
cause of expulsion.


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First things first, some background. In Japan, some high schools have
dormitories for students who would otherwise live far away. The living areas
of Honnouji Academy is an extension of that, a hyperbolic version of that if
you will. Keep in mind that everything in Kill-la-Kill is an exaggeration of
real life and a parody of older anime.

Now, there's a reason for all this in the anime itself however, as revealed in
later episodes. As to the students being prisoners, some spoilers:

> All the students there are originally going to be "cattle" for the life
> fibers. Life fibers require humans to operate without being connected to the
> original life fiber itself. We have to remember that Satsuki planned to
> rebel against her mother by training the academy's students to resist life
> fibers. She does this by making them wear one-star uniforms. As they get
> more resistant, more willpower to resist the life-fibers, they get promoted
> to two-stars and so on. Those who have no potential will not be permitted to
> wear the uniforms and it is likely that Satsuki would want to spare them
> from being involved in the her upcoming rebellion.

As for expulsion, expelled student are expelled normally in that, they are
removed from the academy along with their family. Of course there are some
exceptions. It's probable that the traitor in the first episode was killed so
that Satsuki's plans would remain a secret as he stole an important piece of
technology, but the traitor in episode 4 was spared because she would pose no
threat as she has not stolen any of the uniform technology.

In other words, yes they are all pigs in human clothing, but not exactly, and
when a student is expelled them and their family are kicked out unless they
are a danger to Satsuki's plans.


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