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Matsumo
07-29-2007, 04:17 AM
zomg, whos heard of this anime? Its the best anime ive ever seen! :O

I literally watched up to episode 16 in one day!

Its made by Gainax (same guys who made Neon Genesis Evangelion) and they even have high definition episodes @ 720p widescreen!

Taken from Wiki:

Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann takes place in a fictional far future where human beings have been forced underground and thrive in isolated subterranean civilizations. These "villages" have no contact with the surface world nor other villages. Since frequent earthquakes damage infrastructure, the villages must constantly expand deeper into the earth — individuals designated to this task are known as "diggers".

Jiiha Village is the home of Simon, a fourteen year old digger who was orphaned when his parents were killed in an earthquake. He is respected by the village elder as the best of the diggers, but is ostracized by his peers. After discovering a special drill key deep in the ground, he is recruited by an eccentric fellow orphan named Kamina into his group, the "Gurren Brigade". Kamina dreams of the surface world, which he visited as a child with his father but had to return home because he was too weak to survive.

After a failed attempt at reaching the surface, Kamina is jailed by the elder and Simon resumes digging, only to discover "a big face" deep in his tunnel. As he excitedly fetches Kamina to show him the discovery, he is caught by the village elder, but Kamina's punishment is interrupted by the ceiling of Jiiha Village collapsing as an enormous robot falls into the cavern. A fourteen year old girl named Yoko appears and tries to fight the robot with a large rifle, but initially cannot do much. Simon takes Kamina and Yoko to the "big face" he found earlier and discovers that the small drill key can be used to activate the small robot which he uses to end up destroying the much larger robot and effectively break through to the surface.

It is on the surface that Simon and Kamina discover that 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 and Kamina takes one for himself, naming it Gurren. Eventually, Simon and Kamina decide that they will go on a journey to end the constant struggle between Beastmen and humans. Simon and Kamina are initially accompanied by Yoko and a mechanic from Yoko's village named Leeron as they head out to find the Beastmen's Human Eradication Army main head-quarters.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tengen_Toppa_Gurren_Lagann

Id recommend this to those who are trying to find a new awesome action packed mech anime. Its seriously, the best ive ever seen.

Mobius
07-31-2008, 07:29 PM
I'm bumping this topic due to the fact that Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann is the best god damn anime ever made.
(+ I have some new info :x)

Kay so
they been making these short paralell videos of Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann.
Check them out here
http://gunota.info/index.php/2008/07/22/gurren-lagann-parallel-works/

Basicly they give 4-5 minutes to determined director/animator and tell him to do a short film based on Gurren-Lagann.


Aaaand there's also a movie on it's way :0 Though, that's all the info I have on it.

Discussage please!

Grega
07-31-2008, 07:51 PM
Ill give you some more info them.

Apperantly the movie will be about Kaminas father.

Mobius
07-31-2008, 08:05 PM
Ah, yeah I remembered it as I read it lol :p

I'll go on a little search for more info on it. I'll edit any thing I find in to this post.

edit:
And of course wikipedia has answers :0

"An animated movie entitled Movie Version Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann: Gurren Chapter (劇場版 天元突破グレンラガン 【紅蓮篇】, Gekijōban Tengen Toppa Guren Ragan [Guren Hen]?), once again directed by Hiroyuki Imaishi, and written by Kazuki Nakashima, will be produced by Gainax and released on September 6, 2008 in Japanese theaters. The movie will be a compilation of the events of the first arc of the series (episodes one through fifteen) with some newly animated scenes. In conjunction with the release of the movie, Gainax has released series of music videos entitled Gurren Lagann Parallel Works which contains alternative stories of Gurren Lagann set to songs from the original soundtrack.[16] A second movie has been announced."

Movie site
http://www.gurren-lagann-movie.net

Matsumo
08-07-2008, 01:07 AM
Definitely looking forward to the new Gurren Lagann movie.