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Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann

Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann

Alternative Titles

Tengen Toppa Gurren-Lagann; Making Break-Through Gurren Lagann; Heavenly Breakthrough Gurren Lagann; Gurren Lagann; TTGL

Information

Type: TV
Episodes: 27
Status: Finished Airing
Aired: Apr 1, 2007 to Sep 30, 2007
Duration: 25 min. per episode
Rating: PG-13 - Teens 13 or older
L represents licensing company

Statistics

Score: 9.021 (scored by 13643 users)
Ranked: #12
Popularity: #20
Members: 22,100
Favorites: 3,068
1 indicates a weighted score
2 based on the top anime page.

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action adventure comedy mecha sci-fi

Synopsis

In a far away future, mankind lives underground in huge caves, unknowing of a world above with a sky and stars.

In the small village of Jiha, Simon, a shy boy who works as a digger discovers a strange glowing object during excavation. The enterprising Kamina, a young man with a pair of rakish sunglasses and the passion of a firey sun, befriends Simon and forms a small band of brothers, the Gurren Brigade, to escape the village and break through the ceiling of the cave to reach the surface, which few believe exist.

The village elder won't hear of such foolishness and punishes the Brigade. However, when disaster strikes from the world above and the entire village is in jeopardy, it's up to Simon, Kamina, a girl with a big gun named Yoko, and the small yet sturdy robot, Lagann, to save the day.

The new friends journey to the world above and find that the surface is a harsh battlefield, and it's up to them to fight back against the rampaging Beastmen to turn the tide in the humans' favor! Pierce the heavens, Gurren Lagann!

Related Anime

Adaptation: Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann
Side story: Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann OVA
Alternative version: Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann the Movie
Alternative setting: Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann Parallel Works

Characters & Voice Actors

Simon
Simon
Main
Kakihara, Tetsuya
Japanese
Kakihara, Tetsuya
Lowenthal, Yuri
English
Lowenthal, Yuri
Kamina
Kamina
Main
Konishi, Katsuyuki
Japanese
Konishi, Katsuyuki
Hebert, Kyle
English
Hebert, Kyle
Littner, Yoko
Littner, Yoko
Main
Inoue, Marina
Japanese
Inoue, Marina
Ruff, Michelle
English
Ruff, Michelle
Teppelin, Nia
Teppelin, Nia
Main
Fukui, Yukari
Japanese
Fukui, Yukari
Walch, Hynden
English
Walch, Hynden
...

Staff

Nakagawa, Shoko
Theme Song Performance
Iwasaki, Taku
Music
Imaishi, Hiroyuki
Director
Nakagawa, Shoko
Inserted Song Performance

Recommendations

Both Gurren Lagann and Eureka Seven center around young boys who are developing into brave young men. Both series include a strange girl that makes the young hero blush, and characters with similar personalities (i.e. Talho and Yoko, or Holland and Kamina). They also both have to do with mecha and alternate worlds. Beings other than humans exist in these worlds. E7 is the longer series.
reportRecommended by SweetlyKaoru
Both are pieces of work from GAINAX, have similar art styles (though TTGL's style is a little less polished), and share similar themes. They both deal with humankind's external struggle with a mysterious, alien enemy as well as the internal struggles of the characters as they develop and deal with confidence and identity issues.
reportRecommended by Brian333

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Overall 9
Story 7
Animation 8
Sound 9
Character 10
Enjoyment 10
Oct 3, 200727 of 27 episodes seen
Only on the rarest of occasions does an anime come along that truly grabs me and elevates itself above mere entertainment and into the realms of gripping television. Gurren Lagann did this with frightening ease, not with complexity or depth of its storyline, nor with its technical excellence, or innovation, but with its boldness, energy, sense of humour, and heart. Some people may be put off with the degree of silliness the show never ceases to deliver, or at least be deterred from becoming deep... read more
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Overall 10
Story 10
Animation 10
Sound 10
Character 10
Enjoyment 10
Oct 19, 200827 of 27 episodes seen
It might seem a bit pretentious if not outright outlandish to award Gurren Lagann a perfect 10, but meh, I'm doing it anyway. Just simply put this is a masterpiece of animated storytelling. Everyone, regardless of whether or not they're an anime fan, owes it to themselves to see Gurren Lagann before they die.

Story: 10 (Outstanding)

The story is deceptively simple yet simply hits all the right notes where it needs to. Kamina and Si... read more
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Overall 9
Story 10
Animation 9
Sound 9
Character 8
Enjoyment 10
Sep 19, 200827 of 27 episodes seen
"Who the hell do you think I am?!"

A now famous quote that is Kamina's battle cry, Simon's battle cry, and arguably the show's battle cry. Gurren Lagann is a show that screams this in every way, shattering all limitations placed upon the constraints of its world. In doing so, it becomes what is arguably the most epic anime on the map today, in every sense of the word.

Gurren Lagann is an epic story, because the narrative actually is the layout of classic e... read more
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Opening Theme

"Sorairo Days (空色デイズ)" by Shoko Nakagawa

Ending Theme

#1: "Underground" by High Voltage
#2: "Happily Ever After" by Shoko Nakagawa (ep 16)
#3: "Minna no Peace" by Afromania

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