#kiryuin ragyo

Ragyo is known in the Kill la Kill fandom as the worst mother in anime. And not without good reason. She experimented on both her daughters and tossed her newborn infant out like a piece of trash after she was presumed dead from the testing. The surviving daughter, Satsuki, was molested by her for years of her childhood and continued to sexually abuse her in the current series.

She only married Soichiro for his skills as a scientist to experiment with Life Fibers and only considered her daughters as test subjects. This is shown when she dumps her infant daughter out like a piece of trash once she dies in the experiment. In the dub she says, “How could something with my genes be so weak?” And her tone of voice in both the dub and the original was that of indignation and frustration rather than the voice of a mother who just lost her child. Noticing how cold-hearted she was, Soichiro wasn’t happy in the slightest. So she has him assassinated to prevent him from letting anyone find out.

She is obsessed with dominating and controlling others. Sexually abusing her daughter is one of the more personable ways she does this. On grander scales, she is the CEO of a very lucrative clothing company known as REVOCS which serves to be a front for her more sinister plans. And that’s not to mention how she literally turns people into puppets using the life fibers.

And she is not above beating the ever-loving crap out of Satsuki once she tries to rebel. And after that, she finds her long lost daughter (the one who died) and then proceeds to rape and brainwash her into her servitude - which included sewing Junketsu into her skin. She is a stone-cold sadist and does not care one bit about even her own flesh and blood.

There seems to be an exception though with Nui. She seems to view Ragyo as a mother figure, and for the most part, tends to reciprocate that feeling. However, it’s rather ambiguous. Though you could say that she actually does think of her as her daughter since Nui also joined in raping Ryuko. She tends to engage in a lot of inappropriate behavior with her daughters.

However, that aforementioned threesome is implied to be an illusion implanted into Ryuko’s mind, much like the childhood memories she implanted while brainwashing her. But that does bring up the question as to why the heck a mother would want to implant a memory like that in her own daughter’s mind.

On the whole, she is incredibly cruel without batting an eyelash and does not give half a crap about other human life.