"Gurren Lagann" On Sci-Fi's Ani-Monday Block - Talkback *MAJOR SPOILERS*

There's a million things to comment on, so much happened... definitely will be buying the dubbed boxset.

Poor Yoko, I hope one day she will be able to kiss a guy without him exploding shortly afterward.

And Poor Viral too.... I found his "sappy" dream of a little ranch in a field with a wife and kid cute, then remerabered the part about beastmen not being able to have children (only spiral-beings can).

It was kind of neat how we got to see the characters grow up over the series, both in age and in wisdom and power.

Other than that, yeah, epic fights were EPIC.
 
Kaminaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa. ;_;
Seeing it once was enough, seeing it a second time was heart shattering. Kamina's death is one of those in anime that, even though I absolutly hated it, it wasn't pointless or done up for show. It meant something, he meant something as a character. I think it was eluded too since the beginning that this would be his fate.
Long live, dude.
 
Man...Viral is awesome did anyone get a Ichigo/Grimmjow vibe when him and Simon were fighting in the shower? And damn Kittan and co. kick ass!!! Rossiu is still a ******..but hey he's trying to appeal to the citizens...And why, must Kinon continue to ride his pony baloney? Geez, did anyone get a Tron vibe when all the mugan surrounded Gurren Lagann?
 
If I'm missing important cut stuff, then I'm pretty peeved.

The real Kamina mentally appears!

Them both being grown up together is pretty awesome.
 
That's how government works my man. Even in a hardcore anime, there has to be some ground rules on who's responsible for the destruction of peace.
 
He's gonna fight a giant mecha thing with a sword......he's either an idiot or a badass. I'm betting on the latter.

Yep. He even says he's badass. That's the proof I need.

Well you know what they say about women with big sniper rifles......
 
The irony Yoko. The irony.

Is anyone else creeped out that so many guys seem to take interest in an innocent underage girl wearing a swimsuit?

HundreRAB of years after the world was conquered and devastated, lacking in oceans with much knowledge lost...

And somehow, the tradition of Watermelon smashing still goes on.
 
Viral again? He never gives up, doesn't he.

What's with the with shots up Yoko's cleavage? I counted three so far.

So Viral doesn't know Kamina's dead. This guy is also slow.
 
Apparently old school fans haven't liked how they've treated him in the sequels after the original Mazinger Z.

I think the big difference between GL's interpretation of hot-blooded manliness and old-school hotblooded manliness is the source and politics behind the decade they were produced. GL's interpretation of hotblooded masculinity is pretty much a "meathead" type of positive-thinking, can-do attitude in the face of impossible odRAB. In Go Nagai's day, his heroes were generally pissed off all the time, and they didn't so much have a can-do attitude as more of a "Alien invaders are trying to beat up on my home? That friggin sucks, and it makes me so mad I want to get in a giant mecha and randomly break stuff!" Which is pretty in keeping with 60s-70s Japanese attitudes, who were mad about a lot of things politics and weren't going to take it anymore. America was all about weed-smoking hippies during that time, but Japan was full of Angry Young Men Railing Against the Establishment.

GL seems not so much a return to that time but more of a response to the recent era of wimpy young protagonists who have negative attitudes.

Not to read too much into things.
 
He's Dead Jim.

Or not quite. Wow, Kamina took an energy blast and lived. That's hardcore.

Poor Kamina. He never got a chance to hold Yoko's coconuts.
 
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