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teep_ posted...

Is the animation bad on purpose?

Trigger runs on shoestring budgets. KLK was, IIRC, their first major anime project as a studio after they left Gainax. Before that they had only done short-form anime (that looked like South Park) and OVAs of their Little Witch Academia property. They were maintaining a patreon for a while to try and raise additional funds. So if KLK looks weirdly "budget" at points it's because it is.

Also the entire series was conceptualized based on puns and wordplay:

According to director Imaishi, much of the plot is based on his observation that the Japanese manner of pronouncing "fascism" (, fassho) is nearly the same as the word "fashion" (, fasshon), his observation that the pronunciation of the Japanese words "school uniform" (, seifuku) and "conquest" (, seifuku) are identical, and that the titular kiru may mean "kill" (), "to cut" (), or "to wear" ().[9]