One thing that can be said about Gainax is they weren’t particularly known for sticking the landing. The “Gainax Ending” became a trope unto itself,
Tag: Toppa
The penultimate episode of Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann is another epic affair, no question. It’s a serious contender for the best of the series (though
In the long annals of anime deaths, there have been some real standouts. Arguably, Kamina’s death in Episode 8 is one of the most famous
It sounds funny to say about a show that killed off its false protagonist (debatably) in Episode 8, but this was the ep of Tengen
I suppose I knew even when I watched Gurren Lagann the first time that a redemption sequence for Rossiu was inevitable. And even for TTGL,
Never one to take the expected path, Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann detours right when the danger is reaching its apex. Simon is about to die
I’d really meant to stretch these re-watches out a while longer. But with so much dead space on the anime schedule, something has to fill
My God, the rage – it’s all coming back to me now. I never forgot how angry this stretch of episodes of TTGL made me
I have very distinct memories of when this episode of Tengen Toppa Gurren-Lagann first hit. Especially the discussion of it, which got pretty intense. This
I have no idea if anyone is reading these posts, but I may as well stick with them. Tengen Toppa Gurren-Lagann is a very good
In hindsight of course, one understands that everything up to and including the current conflict in Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann has been a preamble. At
One thing that’s notable in re-watching Tenga Toppa Gurren Lagann is how deliberate its narrative development is. That’s in part a function of it being