Recently, @callmepo had opened up his commission list and I so wanted to have him do something that had been at the back of my mind for a loooong time. It’s been there ever since I had finished watching the last episode of “Kill La Kill”. Given the setup and story of the anime I started to wonder what it would be like if Ryuko Matoi were a Green Lantern. At first I had done a single chapter as a fan fiction but then I shoved it aside and forgot about it. But then I started sketching out a design for Ryuko’s Green Lantern uniform. 

If you read the comics, a lot of the time you get Lanterns who do a traditional type of uniform but there are those that change theirs to suit their tastes in style. An example of this is Kyle Rayner in the late 90s and onward. The inspiration for Ryuko’s came to me when I looked at her original Senketsu outfit and I used the basic shape to make that as an outline. 

When it was being done, I had shown CallMePo the sketches I had done of Ryuko and he really took to it. In fact the construct of the Scissor Blade was all his idea and I think its a marvelous one at that. 

As for the background I knew that I had to do a space background. And thanks to a lot of youtube tutorials out there I managed it but….initially I wanted to make it accurate to what space is actually like and keep space without stars. But when I did it was completely boring and so I buckled and threw in stars anyway. 

Another aspect that I kept fighting over was Ryuko’s hair. For those of you who haven’t seen the series, whenever she transforms, she gets these red hair highlights. But being she’s a green lantern I had the notion of making those highlights green. When I did it, I was fighting between using red or green. So I ran it by my girlfriend who voted red. So I stuck with that. :-)

But now that this is done, I wish I had the animation skills, and equipment, to redo her transformation sequence but as a Green Lantern. Even have it end on a scene where she’s striking a pose and those big-ass “Kill La Kill” style letters come up saying something like, “RING SYNCHRONIZATION! GREEN LANTERN!”

Here’s the original line art: StarDragon77 Commission Green Lantern Ryuko

My thanks again to @callmepo for all your hard work. 

Note: All character(s) depicted here are 18 years of age or older.

© Green Lantern - DC Comics

© Ryuko Matoi - Kill La Kill - Trigger

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