Ryuko Matoi from Kill la Kill stands in side profile with her scissor blade held low in emerald green light.

Ryuko Matoi Cosplay — Neon Classroom Set, Photo 8

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Side-on to the camera, Ryuko Matoi stands in profile and turns her head back to look over her shoulder into the lens. One hand sits at her waist; the other holds the Scissor Blade low by her hip in a red glove that matches the weapon. The frame cuts at about the ankles, shot from waist height, with her weight shifted into the hips.

Emerald green washes over the chalkboard of formulas and lights a cactus in the same color, while framed portraits, desks and stacks of books sit farther back. The red streak in her bangs falls across part of one eye, a spot of red high in the frame that answers the glove and blade below.

Green lights two frames of the set: this profile and the overhead-blade frame that follows it.

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