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It would appear that I still have a bit of humanity left within me... I'll just have to rid myself of it!
~ Ragyo taking pride in her inhumanity.
Humans are such fragile things, aren't they? And when they're naked like this, it makes them so uncomfortable. They're overcome with the urge to cover themselves with the miracle of clothing. That is instinct, my dear. But if a species should defy it's instinct... it will eventually meet with extinction.
~ Ragyo talking to Satsuki while "purifying" her.
Ryuko Matoi... don't you see? Your body is one with the Life Fibers, like mine. I thought you were dead, but now I know: You are my daughter!
~ Ragyo revealing herself as Ryuko's mother after ripping out Ryuko's Life Fiber heart.

Ragyo Kiryuin is the main antagonist of the Studio TRIGGER anime Kill la Kill. The CEO of REVOCS company and the chairwoman of the Honnouji Academy, she is revealed to be the representative of the parasitical alien being known as the Life Fibers and is fanatically devoted towards their goal in order to annihilate humanity. She is also the perverted, abusive and rapist mother as well arch-nemesis of both the Honnouji Academy student council president, Satsuki Kiryuin, and the main protagonist, Ryūko Matoi.

She was voiced by Romi Park in Japanese and Laura Post in English.

What Makes Her Pure Evil?[]

  • Is a raving egotist that fused with the life Fibers and surrendered her humanity, and that if she has any sort of lingering feelings of humanity, she will seek its destruction.
  • Marrying a scientist, Soichiro/Isshin Matoi, not because she genuinely loved him, but so that she could have a child in order to experiment on.
  • Experimenting on both of her daughters to test the Life Fibers. When one of her daughters failed to endure the experiment of her mother, she callously throws her away, not even bothering to give her a name.
  • Orders a hit on her husband when he was disgusted by Ragyo's cruelty to their daughters, and upon faking his death, Ragyo then sends Nui Harime to track down and kill him.
  • In the present day, it was soon revealed that she sexually abuses and rapes her eldest daughter, Satsuki Kiryuin, since she was 5 years old either by groping her in the bath, either touching her crotch or even spanking Satsuki for betraying her.
  • She ripped Ryuko's heart out with her bare hand painfully to taunt Ryuko of her true identity to be her long-lost daughter.
  • For the sake of power and satiating her ego on being the one that brings forth the end, she attempted to wipe out all of humanity by them all as energy sources to the Life Fibers by trapping them in COVERS to be enslaved mindless shells, before having the entire planet be covered by Life Fibers, eventually resulting in the planet blowing up to spread the Life Fibers, all which Ragyo is clearly aware of.
  • Gleefully sacrificed all of Honno Town to be consumed by COVERS, consuming and enslaving the entire population.
  • She brainwashed her second daughter, Ryuko by forcing her to wear Junketsu into becoming her brainwashed servant and apparently raped her after she spoke ill of Soichiro towards Ryuko. If she didn't rape Ryuko, then she implanted a false memory of said event.
  • She claims of sparing her daughters out of maternal feelings twice and both aren't mitigating for different reasons:
    • She notes this is why she spared Satsuki for her betrayal and had her captured itself, but she then calls out how its false and it is just so she can be used as a living battery for the Shinra-Koketsu and then proceeds molest her.
    • She notes that because of certain "maternal love" for Ryūko, her attacks were non-fatal, other than it being obvious lies and it was just so she can further toy with her sadistically, she then proceeds to say she will destroy those feeling and kill her.
  • She only cares about herself, she never cared about her subordinates Nui and Rei nor her own allies regardless their loyalty to her. She instead treats them as pawns to boost her power rather than seeing them as actual people. She simply ignores the deaths of her allies whenever they're killed during battles. During the final moments of her life, she didn't bother saving Nui when she was defeated by Ryuko. On the contrary, she instead backstabs Nui and leave her to die, so Ragyo can simply save her own skin for her own personal gains and goals.
  • When offered a chance to surrender peacefully and a reconciliation by Ryuko, her arrogant and stubborn demeanor has caused Ragyo to scoffed at this and spitefully rips out her heart and crushes it, committing suicide while coldly and wrathfully taunting Ryuko that the Life Fibers will return to doom humanity again.
  • Despite the flamboyant and hammy nature of the series, Ragyo lacks any genuinely comedic quirk every other character has, even Nui whose humour is more sadistic, and her crimes being taken with dark gravity.

Trivia[]

  • She and Nui Harime and the Sapphire version of the original Life Fiber are the only two Kill la Kill villains to be Pure Evil.
  • She is the first ever Pure Evil villain from Studio Trigger as a whole.
  • Due to her abusive and raping methods towards both her daughters, she is widely considered to be the worst mother in the series and one of the worst mothers in fiction.

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The original Life Fiber (Sapphire)

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