This episode was primarily focused on explaining much more of the past that led to Lord Genome’s suppression of humanity. From what I gathered, the gist of it is that the ‘Rasen’ (humanity) lost an intergalactic war against the ‘Han-Rasen,’ who feared their power, and Lord Genome was one of the Spiral Knights who tried [...]
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Just copying colours from the official images right now. Will adjust them later to my own tastes.
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Photo because I don’t feel like scanning this monster yet. Going to fix some things post scan. Things such as Yoko’s body (oh god the curves are all wrong), fix Rossiu’s eyes and probably nix Leeron all together to make more room for Kamina. Probably going to have to fix the robot, too.
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[ Episode 17: You Don’t Understand Anything] Seven years has passed…what awaits the newly revitalized human civilization now that Simon is Supreme Commander? New OP Sequence The new opening sequence is spoilerific to the maximum. I’m glad that the song isn’t different but rather they used a different verse of Sorairo Days. There’s some pretty interesting stuff in [...]
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Yep, this was as far as I got before the show got licenced. I particularly enjoyed the character interactions between Simon, Nia and Yoko in this episode - it highlighted the issue of how Simon has to step out of his brother’s shadow and become not a carbon copy of Kamina, but a ‘badass dude’ [...]
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  So we finally arrive at the post time-jump part of the series. Seven years is a long time, and naturally many of the characters have changed significantly. The writing of the show seems to have grown up with the characters: the rather simple-minded “conquer the bad guys” premise of the first part of the series seems [...]
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[ Episode 16: Summary Episode] A decent recap? :O I have to give it to GAINAX for being creative with this summary/recap episode. They could’ve easily just throw some clips together, change around some music, and call it a days work done but they went further than that. They did things like live-action sequences of sketches and [...]
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Recap Episode. But it got me to think. Oh yeah, also there was a pretty awesome ending sequence.
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Cospa announced over the weekend the preorder availability of a hug pillow featuring Yoko, the feisty, well-endowed heroine of Gainax's latest giant robot anime, Gurren Lagann. It's standard Cospa pillow dimensions (150 cm x 50 cm), and will retail at 9,450 yen with release set for late August. Preorders should be up soon at Hobby Search and other sites that carry Cospa goods. Sniper rifle not included, but insert obligatory phallic reference here... orz (no more)
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As far as recaps go, this is quite possibly one of the best I've ever seen. They got creative by using flashes of live-action writing to precede characters' lines and accompanied it all with great music, so it was actually pretty fun to watch. Since this is a recap, what you see above are images from the special ED and preview for episode 17. Lots more images after the jump....
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[ Episode 15: I Will Face Tomorrow] Will Simon and the Dai Gurren Dan overcome Lordgenome and Teppelin? This episode nearly left me totally speechless. I don’t know how GAINAX does it but they made an episode that surpasses even the episodes before this. This episode was set up so much like a finale with how Simon [...]
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I watched episode 15 of Gurren Lagann last night. Put simply, it was awesome; the best episode so far, I can't emphasize that enough. I wanted to blog it right there and then, but threw in the towel after two hours worth of typing had produced little more than a couple of paragraphs lined with superficial hyperbole. I must admit, even now - the morning after, I'm still struggling to come up with the words to explain exactly why it is so much fun; my only answer is to say that "it just is".Poking around the interweb, it's b..
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Summary: Dai Gurren Brigade vs Tepperin! Gurren Lagann vs Razengan! Spiral King vs Lagann! Who will win?
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And so the first portion of this amazing series comes to an end. And what an end it was. The episode was pretty much the same formula as the past few episodes: opening with a TOTALLY AWESOME large-scale battle between swarms of combatants on either side (not going to lie, I am a total sucker [...]
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[ Episode 14: Nice To Meet You, Everyone] ADRENALINE RUSH! Action, action, and more action! There was no resting in this entire episode. Simon and Yoko visited Kamina’s grave at the beginning and from there we plunged straight into the action. I was surprised at first to see that one month had passed though. In that amount [...]
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Gurren Lagann continues to be awesome every week. The animation is pretty well done also in this episode. Well, it should be, since they take out the last 2 generals in one episode. I kind of like how fast they are moving, unlike some other animes that drag battles out for 15 episodes when Namek [...]
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Awesomely epic battle this time. Always great to see Gurren-Lagann take out a hundred enemies at once, especially with its own Ideon drill spam. The deaths of Cytomander and Guame were both great. One, because I hate them both, and, two, they were just inventive ways to kill someone. Tackled by the point of the [...]
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