Ryūko Matoi

Ryūko Matoi
Ryūko Matoi Life Fiber Synchronize Senketsu Senjin Senketsu Shippu Berserk Form Senketsu Kisaragi
Series	Kill la Kill
Age	17
Birthday	June 27
Sex	Female
Species	Unknown
Height	5'3"
Weight	117 lbs.
Alignment	Chaotic Good

“	To hell with your opinion! I'll take my own path, no matter what anyone else says!	„
	~ Ryuko Matoi

Ryūko Matoi is the protagonist of the anime Kill la Kill produced by Studio Trigger.

Background[]

Ryūko is the daughter of Ragyō and Soichiro Kiryūin. From birth, she was experimented on by her mother and infused with Life Fibers, parasitic alien life forms that were responsible for humanity's evolution. However, once the experiment was deemed a failure, Ragyō was going to throw Ryūko out. To save his daughter, Soichiro saved her and went into hiding under the name Isshin Matoi, sending Ryūko to boarding schools and building weapons to counter Life Fibers and stop Ragyō. When she came home from school one day, Ryūko found her father dying. He told her to take the Scissor Blade he had invented and find the person who owned the other blade, who would also be the person who killed him. Ryūko tracked her father's killer to the militaristic Honnonji Academy, where the higher ranking students wore uniforms infused with Life Fibers to increase their power. After finding Senketsu, a living uniform made of Life Fibers, and bonding with him, Ryūko decided to stay at the academy in hopes of finding her father's murderer.

Powers & Abilities[]

Superhuman Physicality: When she was infused with Life Fibers, Ryūko became much stronger, faster, and tougher than most humans, and when she activates Senketsu, her physical abilities gain an even bigger boost.
Healing Factor: Due to the Life Fibers inside her, Ryūko can heal from most injuries. She can heal from having her heart ripped out, being split in half, and having several holes stabbed through her.
Willpower: Ryūko has an incredibly strong will, so much that she can create shockwaves through her willpower alone.
Gets Stronger When Near Death: For some reason, the closer she gets to death, the more powerful Ryūko becomes.

Equipment[]

Scissor Blades: Ryūko's signature weapons are the Scissor Blades invented by her father, swords made to resemble two halves of a large pair of scissors. Made of Life Fibers, they are extremely sharp and nearly indestructible. They are the only things that can stop Life Fiber regeneration. Both blades can shrink to the size of normal scissors to make them more portable. One of the Scissor Blades can also change into a double-bladed scythe.
- Decapitation Mode: Extends the Scissor Blade into a two-handed longsword that is double the length and range of its normal form.
  - Fiber Lost: Ryūko's signature finishing move, a forward thrust with a Scissor Blade in Decapitation Mode that can immediately destroy a Goku Uniform in one strike.
- Alumni Mode: Blades expand to massive scale.
- Rending Scissors: The original form of the Scissor Blades, which can be used by Ryūko to sever Life Fibers and prevent their regeneration. They can also enter a Dual Decapitation Mode, doubling their range and power.
  - Final Address Mode: Makes the Rending Scissors grow to a massive size, around double the size of the S.S. Naked Sun, for greatly increased power.
    - Decomissioned Mode: Acts like Decapitation Mode for Final Address Mode, doubling the size of the enlarged blades. In this mode, the Scissor Blades are so big that they dwarf Honnoji Academy.
Kamui Senketsu: Senketsu is a Kamui, a piece of clothing made entirely of Life Fibers, invented by Ryūko's father for her to wear. Senketsu is sentient, and can provide advice to Ryūko.
- Life Fiber Synchronize: By feeding Senketsu her blood, Ryūko can activate Life Fiber Synchronize, transforming him into skimpy armor that boosts her abilities greatly. Initially, Ryūko's embarresment over Senketsu's skimpiness prevented her from properly utilizing him, forcing him to drain far more blood from her than necessary to maintain the form, though she eventually got over it and accepted him, letting him drain as little blood as possible and letting Ryūko keep it active for much longer than usual.
  - Shapeshifting: While using Life Fiber Synchronize, Senketsu can transform parts of himself to attack foes. He's been able to make his eye grow out to crush an entire arena, remove parts of himself and send them at opponents, and form a blade around Ryūko's arm.
  - Regeneration: As a Life-Fiber Hybrid, Ryūko can heal so fast her body starts regenerating before a blade has finished cutting through her, unless someone is quick enough to cut through her body before this regeneration begins, she can survive almost anything. She survived getting sliced and stabbed multiple times, including completely in half, and even once had her heart ripped out of her chest.
  - Thread Manipulation: Senketsu can extend threads from himself for many uses, such as anchoring Ryūko to the ground by shooting the spikes on her skirt off on threads, binding opponents, or wrapping them around the Scissor Blade to make a makeshift grappling hook.
- Infinite Absorption: An ability of Senketsu's that lets him absorb Life Fibers to increase his and Ryūko's power.
- Absolute Submission: A power Senketsu absorbed from Ragyō, which lets him and Ryūko control and subdue any nearby Life Fibers.
Seki Tekko: A glove given to Ryūko by her teacher Aikurō Mikisugi, which lets her safely feed blood into Senketsu without harm to herself.

Alternate Forms[]

Senketsu Senjin Mode[]

A form of Senketsu that lets Ryūko form blades and spikes from her uniform. At will, Ryūko can make blades sprout from Senketsu, ranging from swords to spikes to even buzz saws.

Senketsu Shippu Mode[]

Turns the bottom half of Senketsu into a jet-like form, granting Ryūko high-speed flight.

Senjin Shippu Mode[]

A combination of Senketsu Senjin and Senketsu Shippu.

Berserk Mode[]

When Ryūko gets extremely angry, her blood will become so hot that Senketsu will morph her into a berserk form, merging the Scissor Blade with her arm, making her limbs unproportionate to her body, and making her much larger. In this state, Ryūko is stronger than she is usually, but she is unable to think rationally or tell friend from foe, and since the form continously shoots out blood, using it will eventually cause Ryūko to die of blood loss.

Senketsu Kisaragi Mode[]

By absorbing hundreds of Life Fibers, Ryūko gains access to Senketsu Kisaragi. In this form, her abilities gain a massive boost, she gets the power to fly at even higher speeds than Senketsu Shippu, her healing factor becomes enough to heal from being repeatedly stabbed and torn apart by Ragyo, and she can breath in space.

Feats[]

Strength[]

Without Senketsu, she beat a couple of street punks
Without Senketsu, she smacked down seven one-star students effortlessly
Without Senketsu, took out a group of COVERS with one slash.
Without Senketsu, sliced two buildings from afar.
Without Senketsu, can swing her Scissor Blade hard enough for the shockwave from her slash can cut down a skyscraper.
Can leave depressions in stone and send people flying with her punches.
The shockwaves from her slashes can slice through concrete.
Sent multiple skyscrapers into the air while clashing with Satsuki
Wields her Scissor Blades even when they turn into their Alumni Mode, which makes them so big, they eclipse half the earth.
- Scaled to Ryūko, her normal Scissor Blades are about 2.5 feet long, scaling up to the Alumni Mode, makes the Scissor Blades 1,017x larger, weighing well over 3,340,073.09 metric tons (or over 50 billion normal pairs of scissors).
Pummeled a 2-Star
Threw a man from the schoolyard to the top of the school building
Smashed a 2-star with her tennis serve, hard enough to send her flying into a wall hard enough to shatter it
Blocked a hit from a non-Junketsu-wearing Satsuki Kiryuin
Kicked a whole row of desks at Satsuki
Created a massive shockwave by facing off with Satsuki
Sent Nonon’s mech crashing down
In her Berserk Mode, managed to create massive explosions in her fight with Satsuki (1.4 gigatons of TNT)
Sliced apart Ragyo Kiryuin alongside Satsuki
Could harm Nui & COVERS; the former said she’d sink the S.S. Naked Sun and the latter caused damage to it (1.78 Petatons of TNT)
In her Kisaragi form, she dispersed a massive hole in Ragyo’s Life Fiber Cocoon over Japan (658.72 Exatons of TNT)
In the OVA, even without Senketsu, she was capable of holding up this massive scissor blade, which destroyed the S.S. Naked Soul and Rei Hōōmaru’s school mech.

Speed[]

Easily out-sped Nui Harime.
Moved fast enough to make a tornado.
Effortlessly made hundreds of afterimages.
Can dodge and out-speed Satsuki's attacks.
Kept up with Ira Gamagoori who could swing a student across Honnouji Academy (Mach 170.33)
Sliced dozens upon dozens of tennis balls into strings (1,658 mph/Mach 7,779.3).
In Shippu, flew fast enough to dodge and catch up to Symphony Regalia’s missiles
Produced many explosions in quick succession while Berserk in her fight against Satsuki
Blitzed Nui after taking off Junketsu
After getting cut in half by Ragyo was able to regenerate under the ocean and fly up the height of the primordial life fiber without being noticed
Kept up with Mako, who could easily catch cards flying at Supersonic speeds.
Flew from the Earth’s surface into the outer atmosphere in a few seconds (Mach 500 in terms of flight speed).
Caught her Scissor Blade which flew from outer space

Durability[]

With Senketsu activated, her skin is as hard as steel.
Tanked an attack that brought down a tower.
Easily survived an attack meant to destroy Life Fibers.
Withstood attacks from Three-Star Goku Uniforms.
Survived a fall from orbit.
Survived losing large amounts of blood while in her Berserker form.
Took an explosion over twice as powerful than the Tsar bomb.
Survived ripping off Satsuki’s Kamui, which had been stitched onto her body; despite losing massive amounts of blood, Ryuko remained conscious (this feat is likely helped somewhat by her regenerative capabilities, but she still withstood the pain and blood loss)
Survived being knocked into a building by Satsuki
Tanked a beating from Fight Club Uniform Mako for almost a day. Mako was capable of creating a massive crater (4.208-13.052 kilotons of TNT)
Was still conscious after a brutal beating by Mark 2 Goku Uniform Sanageyama
Survived Nonon’s incredibly loud music, which could affect an entire stadium
Tanked Symphony Regalia’s musical explosions with no visible damage
Survived having her heart ripped out of her chest by Ragyo
Survived a massive explosion that destroyed a dome (52.58 megatons-1.15 petatons of TNT)
Survived being cut in half by Ragyo. Both halves fell into the ocean separately and she was only able to regenerate because her life fibers weren’t completely cut
Took plenty of nasty beatings from Satsuki and Ragyo.

Skill[]

Despite lacking formal training, sword-fought with Satsuki.
Fought off an army of One-Star Students without Senketsu.
Found and easily defeated Nui Harime around three times.
Destroyed the original Life Fibre.
Fought and won against Ragyo Kiryuin.
Defeated many club presidents at Honnouji Academy, including the boxing club president Takahara Fukuroda, the tennis club president Omiko Hakodate, and many other miscellaneous minor characters
Star member of the Fight Club.
Defeated three of the Elite Four, who were some of the most powerful Goku uniform users at Honnouji
Stalemated Satsuki during the Tri-City School Raid Trip
Overcame Ragyo’s mind-stitching and reclaimed the second scissor blade
Helped to almost destroy the Primordial Life Fiber
Saved the Earth from being blown up by Life Fibers, absorbing Shinra Koketsu defeating Ragyo Kiryuin in the process
Helped stop the Honnouji Defense Apparatus, which was created to defend against the PLF
Easily defeated a clone of Satsuki Kiryuin

Weaknesses[]

If she gets embarrassed of Senketsu's skimpy appearance, Ryūko's power will weaken and she will lose blood faster while using him.
Berserk form is more of a hinderance than a help, since it makes her lose blood so fast when she uses it.
Ryūko isn't good at planning, and relies on Senketsu to assist her in that regard.
Ryūko angers easily and is very reckless when it comes to fighting.
Senketsu has several threads called Banshi Threads that, when all of them are cut, make him fall apart.

Fun Facts[]

Her name translates to "The Exile Child Who Will Settle Everything".