Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann Episode 27 Discussion

@WIIXAnd
Ok I get what you meant now, I just felt that comment was a bit excessive ahahah.

As for why Gurren Laganna is so well recieved there are many different reasons:

-it’s a love letter to the Super Robot genre, very popular in the 90s, so most people that liked that style probbaly appreciate GL.

-many people probably watched when they were around the same age as the mc or when someone important went missing, so they probably found it very easy to relate.

-it’s not about the “power of friendship”, it’s about self confidence that in the case of mc was misplaced in other characters instead of himself up until ep 11 if I remember correctly.

-most people don’t start with the expectations of great twists or complex plot, GL wants to tell the story of a mc influenced by others’ ideals. Don’t get me wrong there are twists and plot but they are more in the form of characters death or expansion of the lore rather than something like Code Geass.

-the structure of the show and the symbolisms fits very well what it wants to convey, there are some themes related to maturity in facing dreadful situations, the responsabilities of humanity, the convergence and acceptance of opposite ideals.
But all of this is wrapped in an over the top action show, if this first layer isn’t your cup of thea is hard to appreciate the rest of the show, it makes everything less belivable.

-production value is high, there’s no denying here, besides 1 or 2 episodes the show is well animated and it has its own unique style. It still looks quite new despite being from 2007.

There is more probably but right now that’s what come off the top of my head.
As for me, I liked all of the elements above, plus I appreciate when a series has big tonal shifts but can still keeps its ground on emotional moments when necessary.
I even knew what the final battle was going to look like (spoilers usually are a big deal to me, as they lower my enjoyement) but I was still captured by the characters, the lore and the weird over the top feel of the world.

On a side note, yeah Ichigo wasn’t bad, and about the mystery of DITF… weren’t those aliens just a cheap copy of Anti-Spiral that came out with no build-up? I thought they should have kept things more grounded that times around.

@Spiral26
I see
tbh most of these reasons have no value to me or make me hate it even more like I already said I hate mecha and it doesn't matter if its quality was considered good in its year, I watched this in 2020 not 2007, I hate symbolism and lack of sense/logic so it's certainly not for me.



well, this probably could mean that it's oriented toward younger audiences? I already said it was childish in my og comment xD

and for ditf, I wasn't talking about the villains, there was some cool mystery around ep 13-16 I think but it doesn't really matter.
and even If I was talking about them, I watched ditf before kill la kill and ttgl so for me it was the first one to have this idea :D