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I think Gurren Lagann is really good because of the over-the-top action. The way it comes off is that it's very aware of this. I don't really know how to put it into words, but I never felt that anything they did was silly the way it would be in any other anime. Really a great watch from ambitious beginnings to bittersweet end.

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You are a better person than I for remembering this.
 

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KitsunetheFox said:
John Funk said:
Great show. One of my favorites.

Screw Kamina; Simon and Kittan were both better and I think that anyone who was all "THE SHOW WAS OVER AFTER EPISODE 8 RAWRRRRRR" was totally missing the point.

Kamina was okay, he just really annoyed me.
I thought he was pretty cool, but Simon's transformation from angry kid sad at the loss of his only father-figure to a noble warrior and then to total badass was awesome.
Kittan's crowning moment of awesome was damn cool though.
For me, the series kept getting better and better and better. Even if the villains were getting more and more over the top (if that's even possible).
Exactly! The awesomeness of TTGL was Simon's transformation from scared kid to impossibility-shattering leader. Kamina inspired the impossible; Simon and Kittan DID the impossible.

He was much better as inspiration than he was being on-screen and annoying the hell out of me. I'll take Simon/Kittan/Viral/Leeron/Yoko/Rossiu/Boota over Kamina any day.
 

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It simply got insane by the end. They just said fuck all and decided they could combine with everything.
And NGE didn't get insane by the end? It's just what Gainax does. Somebody just made the mistake of asking them to make a Saturday morning cartoon.
NGE was different. It turned out how it did because Anno recently got out of depression when he was put in charge of NGE and he wanted to share, more or less, how he got out of it.
That's beside the point, the end of NGE was just as insane as TTGL and FLCL, it's just what Gainax does.
The end of NGE was only so incredibly confusing and hard to understand because Gainax completely ran out of budget. The movie End of Evangelion is Gainax making amends for that and showing what the true ending is.
Again, beside the point. Even including End of Evangelion, it's still insane. Not in any "hard to understand" sense, but in just flat insanity. Just like FLCL and TTGL and presumably every other Gainax production.
You're just stubborn. Just because it's Gainax doesn't mean it has to be completely insane and undecipherable by human minds. I say the second half of NGE completely pounds TTGL into the dirt when it comes to making Freud turn in his grave though.
I never said undecipherable, I just meant over the top insane. Listen. To. Me. Not incomprehensible, just excessive. And both FLCL and TTGL get excessive by the end as well.
It wasn't really excessive. It was just a creation story starting anew.

Worgen said:

Oh wow, that's brilliant. Next time I get into Pokemon and I capture me a Beedrill, I'm totally referencing TTGL.
It wasn't excessive?!
A giant Rei turned everyone into orange goop! Shinji gets put into a positions of excessive power! You've seen End of Evangelion, don't tell me it's not excessive.
Creation story. I say it all just worked out.
Doesn't mean it's not excessive. It's just how Gainax does things.
 

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I think this about sums it up
i lol'd. Nice picture.

And i actually truly enjoyed the show. I think it's the best anime I've never watched( tough i haven't watched that much anime). It's the only series I've EVER watched two times. The music is epic, and ...well, i think I'm evolving into a fanboy. Every slightly negative thing someone said here about it made me frown. But still, it's my number one, barely beating Code Geass and Trigun. And other stuff.

Love the show.
 

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crimson5pheonix said:
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It simply got insane by the end. They just said fuck all and decided they could combine with everything.
And NGE didn't get insane by the end? It's just what Gainax does. Somebody just made the mistake of asking them to make a Saturday morning cartoon.
NGE was different. It turned out how it did because Anno recently got out of depression when he was put in charge of NGE and he wanted to share, more or less, how he got out of it.
That's beside the point, the end of NGE was just as insane as TTGL and FLCL, it's just what Gainax does.
The end of NGE was only so incredibly confusing and hard to understand because Gainax completely ran out of budget. The movie End of Evangelion is Gainax making amends for that and showing what the true ending is.
Again, beside the point. Even including End of Evangelion, it's still insane. Not in any "hard to understand" sense, but in just flat insanity. Just like FLCL and TTGL and presumably every other Gainax production.
You're just stubborn. Just because it's Gainax doesn't mean it has to be completely insane and undecipherable by human minds. I say the second half of NGE completely pounds TTGL into the dirt when it comes to making Freud turn in his grave though.
I never said undecipherable, I just meant over the top insane. Listen. To. Me. Not incomprehensible, just excessive. And both FLCL and TTGL get excessive by the end as well.
It wasn't really excessive. It was just a creation story starting anew.

Worgen said:

Oh wow, that's brilliant. Next time I get into Pokemon and I capture me a Beedrill, I'm totally referencing TTGL.
It wasn't excessive?!
A giant Rei turned everyone into orange goop! Shinji gets put into a positions of excessive power! You've seen End of Evangelion, don't tell me it's not excessive.
In a series talking about Gods and Angels, and ultimately, the recreation of Earth, I don't believe Rei turning into a giant white Goddess-type creature capable of turning everything on earth into 'tang' is excessive at all.
 

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John Funk said:
KitsunetheFox said:
John Funk said:
Great show. One of my favorites.

Screw Kamina; Simon and Kittan were both better and I think that anyone who was all "THE SHOW WAS OVER AFTER EPISODE 8 RAWRRRRRR" was totally missing the point.

Kamina was okay, he just really annoyed me.
I thought he was pretty cool, but Simon's transformation from angry kid sad at the loss of his only father-figure to a noble warrior and then to total badass was awesome.
Kittan's crowning moment of awesome was damn cool though.
For me, the series kept getting better and better and better. Even if the villains were getting more and more over the top (if that's even possible).
Exactly! The awesomeness of TTGL was Simon's transformation from scared kid to impossibility-shattering leader. Kamina inspired the impossible; Simon and Kittan DID the impossible.

He was much better as inspiration than he was being on-screen and annoying the hell out of me. I'll take Simon/Kittan/Viral/Leeron/Yoko/Rossiu/Boota over Kamina any day.
LordGenome in the end. Definitely LordGenome. He could punch through mechas. And yes, Kamina was inspiration.

To all of those who say that it was too over the top:
Gurren Lagann knows it's over the top, it's intentionally over the top. TTGL is what it is because it's so over the top. If it wasn't over the top, it wouldn't be TTGL.
 

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It simply got insane by the end. They just said fuck all and decided they could combine with everything.
And NGE didn't get insane by the end? It's just what Gainax does. Somebody just made the mistake of asking them to make a Saturday morning cartoon.
NGE was different. It turned out how it did because Anno recently got out of depression when he was put in charge of NGE and he wanted to share, more or less, how he got out of it.
That's beside the point, the end of NGE was just as insane as TTGL and FLCL, it's just what Gainax does.
The end of NGE was only so incredibly confusing and hard to understand because Gainax completely ran out of budget. The movie End of Evangelion is Gainax making amends for that and showing what the true ending is.
Again, beside the point. Even including End of Evangelion, it's still insane. Not in any "hard to understand" sense, but in just flat insanity. Just like FLCL and TTGL and presumably every other Gainax production.
You're just stubborn. Just because it's Gainax doesn't mean it has to be completely insane and undecipherable by human minds. I say the second half of NGE completely pounds TTGL into the dirt when it comes to making Freud turn in his grave though.
I never said undecipherable, I just meant over the top insane. Listen. To. Me. Not incomprehensible, just excessive. And both FLCL and TTGL get excessive by the end as well.
It wasn't really excessive. It was just a creation story starting anew.

Worgen said:

Oh wow, that's brilliant. Next time I get into Pokemon and I capture me a Beedrill, I'm totally referencing TTGL.
It wasn't excessive?!
A giant Rei turned everyone into orange goop! Shinji gets put into a positions of excessive power! You've seen End of Evangelion, don't tell me it's not excessive.
In a series talking about Gods and Angels, and ultimately, the recreation of Earth, I don't believe Rei turning into a giant white Goddess-type creature capable of turning everything on earth into 'tang' is excessive at all.
Stupid Escapist eating my posts. Anyway, yes that's excessive. Excessive in the same way as
An human/alien dual wielding classic guitars pops out of a robots head is excessive. Or a robot the size of an entire galaxy is excessive.
 

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if you're going to praise gurren lagann, praise to the heavens!

seriously, i want to be kamina when i grow up.
 

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Exactly! The awesomeness of TTGL was Simon's transformation from scared kid to impossibility-shattering leader. Kamina inspired the impossible; Simon and Kittan DID the impossible.

He was much better as inspiration than he was being on-screen and annoying the hell out of me. I'll take Simon/Kittan/Viral/Leeron/Yoko/Rossiu/Boota over Kamina any day.
Still, tell me you didn't explode with glee when...

The "real" Kamina returned in Episode 25 to kick Simon out of the trap existence.

I suppose that's the final word on his inspiring presence though.
 

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crimson5pheonix said:
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It simply got insane by the end. They just said fuck all and decided they could combine with everything.
And NGE didn't get insane by the end? It's just what Gainax does. Somebody just made the mistake of asking them to make a Saturday morning cartoon.
NGE was different. It turned out how it did because Anno recently got out of depression when he was put in charge of NGE and he wanted to share, more or less, how he got out of it.
That's beside the point, the end of NGE was just as insane as TTGL and FLCL, it's just what Gainax does.
The end of NGE was only so incredibly confusing and hard to understand because Gainax completely ran out of budget. The movie End of Evangelion is Gainax making amends for that and showing what the true ending is.
Again, beside the point. Even including End of Evangelion, it's still insane. Not in any "hard to understand" sense, but in just flat insanity. Just like FLCL and TTGL and presumably every other Gainax production.
You're just stubborn. Just because it's Gainax doesn't mean it has to be completely insane and undecipherable by human minds. I say the second half of NGE completely pounds TTGL into the dirt when it comes to making Freud turn in his grave though.
I never said undecipherable, I just meant over the top insane. Listen. To. Me. Not incomprehensible, just excessive. And both FLCL and TTGL get excessive by the end as well.
It wasn't really excessive. It was just a creation story starting anew.

Worgen said:

Oh wow, that's brilliant. Next time I get into Pokemon and I capture me a Beedrill, I'm totally referencing TTGL.
It wasn't excessive?!
A giant Rei turned everyone into orange goop! Shinji gets put into a positions of excessive power! You've seen End of Evangelion, don't tell me it's not excessive.
In a series talking about Gods and Angels, and ultimately, the recreation of Earth, I don't believe Rei turning into a giant white Goddess-type creature capable of turning everything on earth into 'tang' is excessive at all.
Stupid Escapist eating my posts. Anyway, yes that's excessive. Excessive in the same way as
An human/alien dual wielding classic guitars pops out of a robots head is excessive. Or a robot the size of an entire galaxy is excessive.
Nah, that's different. NGE falls into the realm of very slight possibility in the universe it takes place in. FLCL can get you contact high if you watch it all in one sitting and TTGL starts getting overly excessive soon after Simon combines with the ship, and it just gets more and more and more...
 

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EDIT: the hell... I'm sorry, this is the first double post experience I've had...i feel dirty.
I wonder why did it take so long to load my post up ? well anyways, i might as well not waste the space this post takes. Or will the mods delete this post? who knows?

I might as well say: it was quite funny how the enemies got bigger and bigger, and at first when I saw the huge boatrobot, i was amazed and felt sorry for Simon and his tiny robot head. And then came a bigger one. And a bigger one.
And then the moon was a huge robot. And it went bigger and bigger.
It made me giggle a bit, but it also made me felt despair for the current state of the good guys.
But it was also just...awesome. What can i say, I'm a sucker for super-ultra-big robots throwing
galaxies around. At least i think they were galaxies.
 

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crimson5pheonix said:
Oh wow, that's brilliant. Next time I get into Pokemon and I capture me a Beedrill, I'm totally referencing TTGL.
if you're going to put pokemon and gurren together, might i suggest this instead?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mq_TTppKVJ8&feature=related
 

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Aby_Z said:
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Aby_Z said:
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Aby_Z said:
It simply got insane by the end. They just said fuck all and decided they could combine with everything.
And NGE didn't get insane by the end? It's just what Gainax does. Somebody just made the mistake of asking them to make a Saturday morning cartoon.
NGE was different. It turned out how it did because Anno recently got out of depression when he was put in charge of NGE and he wanted to share, more or less, how he got out of it.
That's beside the point, the end of NGE was just as insane as TTGL and FLCL, it's just what Gainax does.
The end of NGE was only so incredibly confusing and hard to understand because Gainax completely ran out of budget. The movie End of Evangelion is Gainax making amends for that and showing what the true ending is.
Again, beside the point. Even including End of Evangelion, it's still insane. Not in any "hard to understand" sense, but in just flat insanity. Just like FLCL and TTGL and presumably every other Gainax production.
You're just stubborn. Just because it's Gainax doesn't mean it has to be completely insane and undecipherable by human minds. I say the second half of NGE completely pounds TTGL into the dirt when it comes to making Freud turn in his grave though.
I never said undecipherable, I just meant over the top insane. Listen. To. Me. Not incomprehensible, just excessive. And both FLCL and TTGL get excessive by the end as well.
It wasn't really excessive. It was just a creation story starting anew.

Worgen said:

Oh wow, that's brilliant. Next time I get into Pokemon and I capture me a Beedrill, I'm totally referencing TTGL.
It wasn't excessive?!
A giant Rei turned everyone into orange goop! Shinji gets put into a positions of excessive power! You've seen End of Evangelion, don't tell me it's not excessive.
In a series talking about Gods and Angels, and ultimately, the recreation of Earth, I don't believe Rei turning into a giant white Goddess-type creature capable of turning everything on earth into 'tang' is excessive at all.
Stupid Escapist eating my posts. Anyway, yes that's excessive. Excessive in the same way as
An human/alien dual wielding classic guitars pops out of a robots head is excessive. Or a robot the size of an entire galaxy is excessive.
Nah, that's different. NGE falls into the realm of very slight possibility in the universe it takes place in. FLCL can get you contact high if you watch it all in one sitting and TTGL starts getting overly excessive soon after Simon combines with the ship, and it just gets more and more and more...
What does that have to do with anything? Just because NGE isn't as surreal as FLCL doesn't mean it isn't excessive. And if we're going by that, the whole TTGL universe runs off the rule of cool, everything they do is within the logic of their universe. They all get excessive and over the top by the end, the only difference is the mood between them.
 

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I wouldn't say it was the best I've seen but it certainly was very good. What I found really hilarious was what Kamina says to Simon "Believe in yourself, who believes in me, who believes in you" just an outrageous quote.
 

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crimson5pheonix said:
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It simply got insane by the end. They just said fuck all and decided they could combine with everything.
And NGE didn't get insane by the end? It's just what Gainax does. Somebody just made the mistake of asking them to make a Saturday morning cartoon.
NGE was different. It turned out how it did because Anno recently got out of depression when he was put in charge of NGE and he wanted to share, more or less, how he got out of it.
That's beside the point, the end of NGE was just as insane as TTGL and FLCL, it's just what Gainax does.
The end of NGE was only so incredibly confusing and hard to understand because Gainax completely ran out of budget. The movie End of Evangelion is Gainax making amends for that and showing what the true ending is.
Again, beside the point. Even including End of Evangelion, it's still insane. Not in any "hard to understand" sense, but in just flat insanity. Just like FLCL and TTGL and presumably every other Gainax production.
You're just stubborn. Just because it's Gainax doesn't mean it has to be completely insane and undecipherable by human minds. I say the second half of NGE completely pounds TTGL into the dirt when it comes to making Freud turn in his grave though.
I never said undecipherable, I just meant over the top insane. Listen. To. Me. Not incomprehensible, just excessive. And both FLCL and TTGL get excessive by the end as well.
It wasn't really excessive. It was just a creation story starting anew.

Worgen said:

Oh wow, that's brilliant. Next time I get into Pokemon and I capture me a Beedrill, I'm totally referencing TTGL.
It wasn't excessive?!
A giant Rei turned everyone into orange goop! Shinji gets put into a positions of excessive power! You've seen End of Evangelion, don't tell me it's not excessive.
In a series talking about Gods and Angels, and ultimately, the recreation of Earth, I don't believe Rei turning into a giant white Goddess-type creature capable of turning everything on earth into 'tang' is excessive at all.
Stupid Escapist eating my posts. Anyway, yes that's excessive. Excessive in the same way as
An human/alien dual wielding classic guitars pops out of a robots head is excessive. Or a robot the size of an entire galaxy is excessive.
Nah, that's different. NGE falls into the realm of very slight possibility in the universe it takes place in. FLCL can get you contact high if you watch it all in one sitting and TTGL starts getting overly excessive soon after Simon combines with the ship, and it just gets more and more and more...
What does that have to do with anything? Just because NGE isn't as surreal as FLCL doesn't mean it isn't excessive. And if we're going by that, the whole TTGL universe runs off the rule of cool, everything they do is within the logic of their universe. They all get excessive and over the top by the end, the only difference is the mood between them.
I didn't find NGE insane at all and the original ending is excusable by EoE. If you find it insane, that's up to you and your own mind.
 

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I don't know if I would call it the best, but I think you would be hard pressed to find a more fun and entertaining series to watch.
 

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Aby_Z said:
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It simply got insane by the end. They just said fuck all and decided they could combine with everything.
And NGE didn't get insane by the end? It's just what Gainax does. Somebody just made the mistake of asking them to make a Saturday morning cartoon.
NGE was different. It turned out how it did because Anno recently got out of depression when he was put in charge of NGE and he wanted to share, more or less, how he got out of it.
That's beside the point, the end of NGE was just as insane as TTGL and FLCL, it's just what Gainax does.
The end of NGE was only so incredibly confusing and hard to understand because Gainax completely ran out of budget. The movie End of Evangelion is Gainax making amends for that and showing what the true ending is.
Again, beside the point. Even including End of Evangelion, it's still insane. Not in any "hard to understand" sense, but in just flat insanity. Just like FLCL and TTGL and presumably every other Gainax production.
You're just stubborn. Just because it's Gainax doesn't mean it has to be completely insane and undecipherable by human minds. I say the second half of NGE completely pounds TTGL into the dirt when it comes to making Freud turn in his grave though.
I never said undecipherable, I just meant over the top insane. Listen. To. Me. Not incomprehensible, just excessive. And both FLCL and TTGL get excessive by the end as well.
It wasn't really excessive. It was just a creation story starting anew.

Worgen said:

Oh wow, that's brilliant. Next time I get into Pokemon and I capture me a Beedrill, I'm totally referencing TTGL.
It wasn't excessive?!
A giant Rei turned everyone into orange goop! Shinji gets put into a positions of excessive power! You've seen End of Evangelion, don't tell me it's not excessive.
In a series talking about Gods and Angels, and ultimately, the recreation of Earth, I don't believe Rei turning into a giant white Goddess-type creature capable of turning everything on earth into 'tang' is excessive at all.
Stupid Escapist eating my posts. Anyway, yes that's excessive. Excessive in the same way as
An human/alien dual wielding classic guitars pops out of a robots head is excessive. Or a robot the size of an entire galaxy is excessive.
Nah, that's different. NGE falls into the realm of very slight possibility in the universe it takes place in. FLCL can get you contact high if you watch it all in one sitting and TTGL starts getting overly excessive soon after Simon combines with the ship, and it just gets more and more and more...
What does that have to do with anything? Just because NGE isn't as surreal as FLCL doesn't mean it isn't excessive. And if we're going by that, the whole TTGL universe runs off the rule of cool, everything they do is within the logic of their universe. They all get excessive and over the top by the end, the only difference is the mood between them.
I didn't find NGE insane at all and the original ending is excusable by EoE. If you find it insane, that's up to you and your own mind.
Cop out >.> But okay, whatever. It's opinion.
 

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I saw the first few episodes after a friend of mine insisted on it. It didn't have anything that interests me and if further episodes go along that remote direction I don't think I would have come to like it at all. Again I'm basing my opinion only on a couple of episodes but BEST ANIME EVAR? No I don't think so.