One of the most EPIC anime of the century. If you didn't watch this anime, you have not lived a complete and whole life yet! Once you're done with this anime, you will never be the same again and will strive to get Kamina glasses that are never able to fall off!!
This is The Heaven Reaching Gurren Lagann or in Japanese:
TENGEN TOPPA GURREN LAGANN.
Story (Source: Wikipedia.org):
Gurren Lagann takes place in a fictional future in which human beings have been forced under Earth's surface and live in isolated subterranean civilizations. These "villages" have no contact with the surface world or other villages. Because frequent earthquakes damage infrastructure, the villages must constantly extend deeper into the earth — individuals relegated to this task are known as "diggers".
Giha Village is the home of Simon, a fourteen-year-old digger who was orphaned when his parents were killed in an earthquake. Although Simon is respected by the village elders as the best of the diggers, he is ostracized by his peers. Simon discovers a special drill key deep in the ground and is soon recruited by an eccentric fellow orphan named Kamina into his group the "Gurren Brigade". Kamina dreams of the surface world, which he once visited as a child, though he had to return home as he was too young to survive there.
After a failed attempt at reaching the surface, Kamina is jailed by the village elder. Simon resumes digging, only to discover "a big face" deep in his tunnel. As he excitedly fetches Kamina to show him the discovery, Simon is also caught by the village elder. Fortuitously, Kamina's punishment is interrupted by the collapse of the ceiling over Giha Village, as an enormous robot falls into the cavern. A girl named Yoko appears and tries to defeat the machine with a large rifle, but to no avail. Simon takes Kamina and Yoko to the "big face" he found earlier and discovers that the small drill key can be used to activate a small robot, named "Lagann", which he uses to destroy the invading robot and effectively break through to the surface.
Once on the surface, Simon and Kamina discover there are more large robots known as "Gunmen" (piloted by "Beastmen") that terrorize the surface dwellers during the day. Simon and Kamina help Yoko and her village destroy three more Gunmen of which Kamina takes one for himself, naming it the "Gurren". Eventually, Simon and Kamina decide to embark on a journey to end the constant struggle between the Beastmen and humans, and are initially accompanied by Yoko and Leeron, a mechanic from Yoko's village. As they head out to find the headquarters of the Beastmen's Human Eradication Army, the group encounters various Beastmen warriors including the vicious Viral.
Along the way, Simon and the others are joined by more humans, including the "Black Siblings", led by Kittan, and Rossiu, a strict young man from an underground village, to form 'Team Dai-Gurren'.
KoSho's Review:
This is one of my all time favorite anime that I've seen in my life of 14 years. When I finished watching this anime, I cried, laughed, and started inserting disk one again to watch the whole series all over again. There are a lot of absurd moments like when Gurren Lagann's drill becomes this titanic spinning mountain to preform the notorious "Giga Drill Breaker" move that is used throughout the series, but as you are watching, you can't help but suspend your belief!
Gurren Lagann was created from Gainax that brought you FLCL and Neon Genesis Evavongelion, so you can expect really great animation and storyline. One could say that it's a mixture of the strange things of FLCL, but the drama of NGE. Another notable thing about this is that it, despite being a mech anime, seem to be in its own genre... Even me who typically hates very big robots with big guns, loves Gurren Lagann and LOVES their meisers.
The characters are really crisp and within a few episodes, you become really attached to several characters and really care for them. This also makes it hard when they are going through rough times and when they are near death and still trying to push through for their ultimate goal of resting in peace under the infinite blue skies.
I really recommend this anime and I really hope you know you'll enjoy it.
This is The Heaven Reaching Gurren Lagann or in Japanese:
TENGEN TOPPA GURREN LAGANN.
Story (Source: Wikipedia.org):
Gurren Lagann takes place in a fictional future in which human beings have been forced under Earth's surface and live in isolated subterranean civilizations. These "villages" have no contact with the surface world or other villages. Because frequent earthquakes damage infrastructure, the villages must constantly extend deeper into the earth — individuals relegated to this task are known as "diggers".
Giha Village is the home of Simon, a fourteen-year-old digger who was orphaned when his parents were killed in an earthquake. Although Simon is respected by the village elders as the best of the diggers, he is ostracized by his peers. Simon discovers a special drill key deep in the ground and is soon recruited by an eccentric fellow orphan named Kamina into his group the "Gurren Brigade". Kamina dreams of the surface world, which he once visited as a child, though he had to return home as he was too young to survive there.
After a failed attempt at reaching the surface, Kamina is jailed by the village elder. Simon resumes digging, only to discover "a big face" deep in his tunnel. As he excitedly fetches Kamina to show him the discovery, Simon is also caught by the village elder. Fortuitously, Kamina's punishment is interrupted by the collapse of the ceiling over Giha Village, as an enormous robot falls into the cavern. A girl named Yoko appears and tries to defeat the machine with a large rifle, but to no avail. Simon takes Kamina and Yoko to the "big face" he found earlier and discovers that the small drill key can be used to activate a small robot, named "Lagann", which he uses to destroy the invading robot and effectively break through to the surface.
Once on the surface, Simon and Kamina discover there are more large robots known as "Gunmen" (piloted by "Beastmen") that terrorize the surface dwellers during the day. Simon and Kamina help Yoko and her village destroy three more Gunmen of which Kamina takes one for himself, naming it the "Gurren". Eventually, Simon and Kamina decide to embark on a journey to end the constant struggle between the Beastmen and humans, and are initially accompanied by Yoko and Leeron, a mechanic from Yoko's village. As they head out to find the headquarters of the Beastmen's Human Eradication Army, the group encounters various Beastmen warriors including the vicious Viral.
Along the way, Simon and the others are joined by more humans, including the "Black Siblings", led by Kittan, and Rossiu, a strict young man from an underground village, to form 'Team Dai-Gurren'.
KoSho's Review:
This is one of my all time favorite anime that I've seen in my life of 14 years. When I finished watching this anime, I cried, laughed, and started inserting disk one again to watch the whole series all over again. There are a lot of absurd moments like when Gurren Lagann's drill becomes this titanic spinning mountain to preform the notorious "Giga Drill Breaker" move that is used throughout the series, but as you are watching, you can't help but suspend your belief!
Gurren Lagann was created from Gainax that brought you FLCL and Neon Genesis Evavongelion, so you can expect really great animation and storyline. One could say that it's a mixture of the strange things of FLCL, but the drama of NGE. Another notable thing about this is that it, despite being a mech anime, seem to be in its own genre... Even me who typically hates very big robots with big guns, loves Gurren Lagann and LOVES their meisers.
The characters are really crisp and within a few episodes, you become really attached to several characters and really care for them. This also makes it hard when they are going through rough times and when they are near death and still trying to push through for their ultimate goal of resting in peace under the infinite blue skies.
I really recommend this anime and I really hope you know you'll enjoy it.
