Another crazy thing is that I was totally expecting to hate Nia, just because she was cute and loveable and loliriffic, which normally does not belong in a shounen series. But lo and behold, the writers surprised me again: I actually like her. Even though she's a princess and cute-tastic and all that jazz, which is normally kind of a turnoff to me, I still somehow manage to love her character. Weird.Yes, I felt the same about her, she did come off as surprising!
It's very fun, but that's really it. I may watch more episodes sometime.So far, it's almost the reason to watch the show. Most of the time, I prefer to watch something for an intriguing story or gorgeous animation, however Gurren-Lagann doesn't always have either of these. It's just so undeniably fun that it's easy to get caught up in the moment with an episode and think: "I don't know exactly what I watched, but it was.... :incred:"
I used to dislike this' date=' but then I realized I should be watching it as a mecha parody and have come to thoroughly enjoy it. Its less mecha (and less comedic) elements are really well executed, though.[/quote']
It's true. The show feels like it is a mix of parody and tribute to other periods of mecha anime. I'm not really a fan of the mecha genre myself, but I liked Diebuster and watched Geass recently. Aside from those and G-Gundam (Ridiculous premise), I never could keep up with anything in the genre. It was usually too boring to me.
Episode 15 was amazing. I love this show.Episode 15 didn't actually impress me as much as 13 and 14, but that was mainly because I was hoping for more exposition about humans and beastmen.
I'm really looking forward to the major timeskip, which would hopefully be next episode now that this arc is over, but judging by the preview it's probably just a recap episode. Just in case anyone hasn't seen the timeskip scans yet, here they are (http://miezaru.donmai.us/post/show/126955). Simon has a different outfit and looks a little younger than in the prologue of the first episode, so does that mean there will be more major timeskips in the next arc?.Perhaps it's possible that What we saw as a prologue was in fact something that happens near the very end of the series. I'm not sure how soon outer space comes into play, because the next several episodes supposedly deal with new challenges that arise on the surface. Aside from that, Gainax has commented they would be willing to do multiple installments of this new franchise if Gurren Lagann did well enough to begin with.
I suppose I didn't realize they came out because they didn't show up on Baka-UpdatesYou could check TokyoTosho every sunday or monday for the raws and new .ass files that are being released. It's probably the only anime tracker site I visit.
IMO It's pretty obvious Spiral King created the Beast men artificially... You know, Lord _GENOME_ and all that?
Obviously, but why in particular create inferior beastmen? He's already shown that he can create 'humans' like Nia. Why not give the generals immortal bodies? And how is filling the surface with beastmen different to filling the surface with humans, in terms of the moon and Spiral Star? Of course, the show isn't going to answer all that immediately, but I was hoping Lordgenome would spill out a little more than DOOM PROPHECY before he died.Isn't Nia his actual daughter and not just another of his creations though? They explained that sometime the king would take human women to him to pleasure himself, and all the discarded princesses are apparantly mistakes resulting from that, unless I understood it wrong.But yeah, he probably should have answered a little more.
It is hilarious how EPIC Gurren-Lagann became during these last few episodes. Looks like Gainax really wanted to show everyone up with the MECHA SHOW TO TOP ALL MECHA SHOWS EVER. Looks like the Spiral Nemesis really is something to worry about!
The ending was very enjoyable, but I do have quite a few milor slighs with the plot resolution. For instance, I'm a bit disappointed about Nia and Viral as well. I was expecting the whole final quarter of the series for Viral and the other beastmen to develop Spiral power so we could see his dream in episode 26 realized in the epilogue. LOOKS LIKE NOT. Even Boota reverted back to his Mole-Pig form (though his human form did look really stupid.) And in spite of everything they did, they couldn't save Nia -- but I suppose the point here was that even Spiral power cannot change who you are and you better roll with it.
Not that I'm entirely comfortable with the series's aesop, either. No matter how I try, it always comes off as "the less thought and more blind faith you put into your actions, the better everything will go!" I am tempted to illustrate this notion with an unwanted teenage pregnancy.
Also everyone looked pretty ugly in that 20 years later epilogue :(. Did they really age that much? Except for Leeron, who seems to be just as immortal as Viral.