Reviews

Alright where to start, epic, bloody epic. Its an all out hype up action mecha anime done right. Personally I see this anime as a product of everything awesome Gainax can offer, its like evangelion, flcl and abenobashi blended together and fused with more greatness and the result is this, gurren lagann. Yes I enjoy this anime very much and this maybe exaggeration in my part but this anime will absolutely not disappoint any mecha fans out there who are unfortunate to have not experience the joyride this anime has to offer. What convince me to realize my love for gurren lagann is the effort poured into its production. Watch the 1st episode and you will realize it is a beautiful anime, the overall art, character design, the sound, the amount of soul the animators try to inject into the characters is just so right. Honestly I was hesitant when I first saw the cover art for gurren lagann, I thought the mecha looked ridiculous and I completely underestimated it until of course after watching the 1st episode. The story and the action in the anime just goes so well together, often you will come across anime with good action with an unfitting story line, but this, this is good. You have awesome action, some comedy to relieve the intensity of the drama and a pinch of romance. The secret to a successful anime, in my opinion, is how you can balance out action, drama, comedy and romance along the storyline, and gurren lagann did just that. So more on the characters, I will just mention the few main characters to avoid excessive exposure of any spoilers. Alright, so you have simon, kamina and yoko. Simon is a typical low self esteem kid but can be surprisingly resilient and his enthusiasm just separates him from his wimpy self, completely, that is when you will like him, his confidence is usually driven by kamina who holds as the character you find hard to hate because he is awesome. Kamina is the eccentric and too big of a optimist type of guy, and that is fine, perfect actually, together with simon you will acknowledge and learn to accept the differences and the similarities along the way and then you will understand why they both have such good chemistry with each other. And now yoko, one of the primary female protagonist in the story, a girl that is kick ass, kind, and very well composed when face to face with serious situations. She will be depicted as the love interest of both simon and kamina in the beginning but there is more to it and I will just leave it at that. Please note, these are very brief and obvious depiction of the 3 characters mentioned, you will get the impression from the very beginning, just want to give an rough idea on what sort of characters you will be expecting from the anime, perhaps it is too vague from my description, the point is watch the anime and you will find a barrage of interesting characters. Again I would like to emphasize on the hype up action you will get from this anime, it is wonderful, if you are the sort of person who pays attention to tiny details during action sequences you won't be disappointed. The mechas may not be the prettiest, but it suits the gurren lagann theme and during the action sequences you will be impressed, nothing less. gurren lagann also feature a pretty decent soundtrack, and the sound effects are properly done. Overall this is definitely a high grade anime, its an anime with sufficient budget injected into it and the result is evident. Finally, do not judge this anime before you watch it, I did, and I hated myself for that because I simply love gurren lagann.