Supp guys back at you with another review here. Now before I get into things I will give you guys a quick rundown of the plot.
Our MCS Kamina and Simon are raised in a deep underground village thats hidden and basically people have been told that going to the surface is dangerous and so they must stay inside and live dull boring lives without a sky to look up to. Kamina however is a free-spirited loose cannon bent on making a name for myself while Simon is a timid young boy with no real aspirations, while digging he comes across a an ancient war artifact of war which duo calls lagann. Using their new weapon they defeat an enemy that suddenly attacks their village and a long with this enemy comes another character Yoko Littner who is a pretty good female character in my opinion. After the three defeat the enemy they escape the village and behold fly onto the surface as their jaws drop hanging because of the beautiful blue sky while the sun sets and thus the journey of the gurren lagann brigade begins!
Now Gurren lagann is a action mecha comedy anime. The anime has a pretty unique art style and actually consists of a lot of shounen elements like power of comrades and never giving up strong MCs and such. But gurren lagann uses these shounen typical elements very well to make the anime shine by making the viewer feeling attached to characters through not just badass fights and victories but also through tiny things like quotes a good example being: “Believe in yourself. Not in the you who believes in me. Not the me who believes in you. Believe in the you who believes in yourself.” - Kamina. On the other hand the anime actually spares no mercy in killing major characters of the anime but in perfectly good scenarios where you expect them to not survive as you would in a shounen anime, wont be going into much detail of who dies and not as that will just spoil it for you souls. As for other elements of the anime TTGL had decent soundtrack which I think could had been done better but the animation during the fight scenes was very good and entertaining to see. Finally the anime had romance elements which were quiet key to the anime in my opinion as our main characters use their feelings of their loved ones to grasp on to a better tomorrow and move on in the future rather than dwelling and crying over their loved ones.
However TTGL does have its weak points and lets dig right into it. First off from episode 1-8 Simon is a complete worthless drone and has zero personality always relying on Kamina to help him, motivate him and keep fighting him. Also I feel like episodes 1-7 were very dull and boring as it was the same thing happening over and over again and there was no real character development it was more of introducing different characters and a build up for one of the main events that would change the entire anime in just one episode. I feel like gurren lagann is a bit too heavily focused on fighting spirit nakama and never giving up as I would had loved to see Simon go on his journey and come back to save mankind from being extinct but the way how Simon evolves in the anime was much more fitting to a good dumb action anime.
Lastly, even if you are not into mechas I highly recommend it as TTGL is different from other mechas and has its own unique but over the top flashy way of grabbing viewer into its world, so you can together with the characters experience joy,sorrow,love,hate,despair and a fight to the end where humanity stands on their own two legs and uses their own two arms to fight against the evil that awaits them!
Thanks yall for reading the review...until next time!
Ciaoso!!!
