[Anime] Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann

Aye, I'm definitely with you there. One of the more enjoyable animes I've watched and if Gainax doesn't screw up it'll definitely be in the "best ever" list I've got in my mind.

Also, the raws are in HD, so I'll definitely be holding onto them since the chances of it coming over at that resolution are pretty low.

Jam it back in, in the dark.

Wow, just caught episode 24. This show has become absolutely insane and when I think back to where they were, it makes me laugh. Episode 25's preview has me worried, but if what I think will happen actually occurs, wild shit is basically guaranteed.

I can't wait to cringe when the inevitable GL dub pops up in a while.

There's nowhere I can't reach.

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If you've seen episode 25, go ahead and check out the image. If not, go see the episode or catch up. This is getting ridiculous, and I was right back then about 25 being something crazy.

Here's to hoping they end the show well.

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I'll keep an eye out for the OST, there's a ton of tracks I'd love to get my hands on.

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The one that plays when he's talking in Space King Kittan's (love the name) cockpit, and when he's doing that dive towards the machine. Did anyone notice he got the spiral eyes like Lord Genome? Makes me wonder if the flaming hair thing he had back then was overflowing spiral energy.

Well, it seems like we're gonna get that green background in 26 that we saw way back in the first episode.

Goddamn it, I thought GFF was safe from the believers of Doombitch

I am a dolphin, do you want me on your body?

I wonder if it'll be up the same day so I can leave it overnight. Anyway, I found the other eyecatch to episode 25.

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There's talk of Boota talking on a humanoid form to look like that guy from episode one, and that might be possible since Guame was apparently Lord Genome's "Boota". Something to do with absorbing enough spiral energy to evolve.

I was speaking idiomatically.

Yeah, it was pretty nice.

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Interesting to see that Yoko really did feel something towards Kittan since it showed up in that dream world of hers. Viral's was really out of the blue, though it was touching that he wanted such a simple life. Also, seeing Kamina and the other folks again was great.


And the professor + Genome as teachers got a chuckle out of me.

What kind of toxic man-thing is happening now?

Originally Posted by Rocca

Seriously, to think they topped episode 25 is ridiculous. One more left!

Yeah and they did it rather unexpectedly too.

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I was expecting them to chock this episode full of action to surpass the last one, but the alternate realities thing was an awesome idea. We got to see Kamina and the dead folks again.

Though Nia's awesome can't be denied, that part made me grin from ear to ear. Episode preview looks wild, first mecha on mecha battle for quite some time.

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FELIPE NO

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Yeah, it's been pointed out for a while now that in the intro there was a mech that dwarfed CGGL and had mouths everywhere. And now we get the episode preview and there we see it, hellish mouths (one large one for the torso, kind of like the Lasengan that Genome piloted). I'll see if I can upload my picture of it.

Here it is, apparently it has a flaming cape or fire coming out of it. Either way, it looks wild and in the preview it also shows it uses Yoko's rifle which lends some credence to the idea that it might be the specialties of Yoko+Attenborough+Gimmy+Darry along with Simon.

IT FIRES NONOS!

What, you don't want my bikini-clad body?

Originally Posted by packrat

Gainax seems to have a problem with believable scale.
Now I understand that the current version of the Gurren Lagann is on a celestial scale and all, what with it once being the fucking moon; and I get this whole exponential-growth/spiral thing they're implying; but man, this is fucking ridiculous.

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Definitely, you can tell they're really aiming for larger than life sizes here. I seriously don't know how they're going to top size like this in some as of yet unannounced anime, without jumping to universe sized mechs. Only thing I can think of that's probably larger is Getter Emperor and that "wins" the scale competition because it keeps absorbing getter rays and growing.

Doesn't bother me, as long as the anti-spiral fights with his own huge machine and pulls some godlike moves.

Ah, looks like I wasn't seeing things when I mentioned the fire/flames behind it. Seems like they're a different color, though can could be due to to a number of things (it could just be like that for the initial transformation, for example). Another thing that I seem to have overlooked, since I started wondering if they had overcompensated for CGGL by removing the drills, but the body itself is made of them. Legs and arms are pretty obvious.

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Man, all those fears about Gainax delivering one of their trademark crap endings have been laid to rest. That was fucking great, I especially like that last part. Definitely in my top 3, that's for sure.

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Fuck man, I just had to edit my post and mention this. The goddamn time skip really made the ending bittersweet on top of Simon losing Nia, but it was still great. Completely unexpected considering the ending some folks were expecting (complete mindfuck or 100% happy end).

There's nowhere I can't reach.

Originally Posted by Merv Burger

Oh quit BAAAWWWWWing about it and just accept that it wasn't even that bad of an ending (it's excellent in terms of Gainax endings.) It's not that hard to figure out the symbolism of the ending, fuck, even /a/ figured it out a few hours after it ended.

But not without a major shitstorm, bloating the GL sticking to 1000+ replies. Seems like some folks were desperately clinging onto GARlock from that first part in episode one

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even though it was already shown to be an alternate reality

. But I agree, thank goodness we didn't get a mindfuck or CONGRATULATIONS ending.

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You just wanted it to end all happy-go-lucky-everyone-is-hunky-dory and wanted to see some hot hot Simon on Nia action.

Now that kind of ending would've been lackluster, and extremely predictable.

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Originally Posted by Dave1988

I'd agree if it was done by any other studio. Here, however, this is not the case. I have yet to see GAINAX do a truly good ending.

That's because they're the masters of epic fail, so just getting something like the ending Merv thought up would be satisfactory from them.

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Originally Posted by Conan-the-3rd

Simply put: Mahoromatic Adventure Zero Two Ending is Mahoromatic Adventure Zeroooooooooooooooo Two ending.

I bought everything up to 8:52, still shows that Simon is unwilling to let the Sprial Nemisis happen just to keep Nia alive but doesn't show him as a down and out who had nothing to show for his (what I can only describe as LEGENDRY amount of) retraint.

Show ended before final time skip and that's where I put my foot down on the matter.

Ok.

Damn, the OST is pretty good so far.

I was speaking idiomatically.

Originally Posted by Conan-the-3rd

Euraka Seven's ending over GL's (and by saying that I've probably started WW3).

What. I hope the moon falls on you, heh.

Thanks Ashton for the tagged tracks. Track 204 (A Lament for Kamina's Old Man) is easily one of my favorites, along with Nikopol and the obligatory ROW ROW FIGHT THE NICE BOAT.

Where did you find that anti-spiral and his dis pear?

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Originally Posted by nabhan

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Massive lols

Holy shit, I haven't laughed that hard in a long time.

FELIPE NO

Wow, what the hell. I just checked my TV guide thing and apparently Sci-Fi's Ani-Monday block has Gurren Lagann's first two episodes airing, starting at 11:01 EST.

Just thought I'd let everyone know.

What, you don't want my bikini-clad body?

Originally Posted by Gechmir

Fuckin' FAST.

Also, Scifi has an anime day?... I remember the anime movies in the summer YEARS ago, but that was it...

They'll blur all of Yoko's body and all of the scenes with Boota hiding in her jubblies :x

Yeah, that's why I had to do a double check myself. They've given stuff like Noein, Toppo, Macross and some movies (Blood: The Last Vampire, some other weird thing I never caught the name of with some crow-guy). It's been going on for a while now. But this surprised me just as much as me flipping through the channels, and running into Code Geass in the block AS looked like it was going to axe.

BTW, I'm sure you folks remember when they used to give anime on Saturdays, right?

Anyway, here's what the guide says:

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11:01 EST - Gurren Lagann
Bust Through the Heavens With Your Drill.
Program Type: Series. New

11:31 EST - Gurren Lagann
I Said I'm Gonna Pilot That Thing.
Prgram Type: Series. New.

So if the dub is really bad, I guess I can use my drill to pierce my skull and end it all.

Edit: It wasn't so bad, though the first episode Kamina was stumbling badly. Anyway, there's some other anime on after called Now and Then, Here and There. Looks kind of old, anyone know much about it?

Jam it back in, in the dark.