Tengen Toppa Gurren-Lagann (General Discussion thread)

[Schneizel]

Originally Posted by Junpei

VLC is hardly an outdated player. It's pretty inconvenient to have to boot into Windows (I've got an Intel Mac) and install a codec pack just for one release (but I'm not here to argue).

Uh, VLC is both an outdated and shitty player in the subtitle department. It's extremely easy to break too.
Try MPlayer.

Edit: Refer to, http://forum.videolan.org/viewtopic.php?t=31824
In this thread, the site admin j-b admits the subtitler is weak. I can probably get your IRC logs too of him confessing it's the players fault and not the subtitle groups fault. VLC spoke to asa people about asa implementation, but j-b said something about them being short staffed, so god knows when they're actually going to do something.

[Zarifus]

Lol, I think I found a funny coincidence

Spoiler:

When Kamina gets inside Gurren it pops up the red symbol with a face wearing V-sunglasses. Then when he gets slammed into the mountain his sunglasses fall off and he can pilot it a moment later. Maybe the machine just doesnt' like humans with sunglasses ^^
Coincidence? or will he always have to take his sunglasses off XD

[PyTom]

Did anyone notice that Lon's computer screen in episode 2 appears to be displaying cyphered english text? (Sorta reminds me of the similar code used in Futurama.)

First screen:

Top: Ragan Front
Left: Ragan Side
Right: Dorill Power
Center-Bottom: Result (numbers?)
Bottom: Power Measurement

(I can't make out the rest of the symbols well enough to translate them.)

Second Screen:

Top: Dictionary
Center-Top: HoshiStar
Center-Bottom: TsukiMoon
Bottom: Text Input

[wrex_japan]

Looks like the show is getting even better and better... episode three was cool as the fighting escalated. Animation continues to be fluid and of a high quality. Kamina's fight was pretty cool as was the mech fights.

Spoiler:

And they combine the Gurren and the Lagann to power up

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[iwubanime]

Just finished watching episode 2, it was great.

A question for everyone, what do you think causes Simoun to be able to use the drill?

They say fighting spirit, but I think it has more to do with love or strong feelings. Just a guess. Because he was able to use it both when he looked at Yoko and when he thought about his dead parents...

[Maids! Maids! Maids!]

[Omniscient]

Episode three was just pure adrenaline and completely cool action. I loved watching every minute of it.

[iwubanime]

thanx again maids maids maids...

you make me want to make a yoko wallpaper...

[Windragon]

Hi all ^___^
I saw first two episodes and I fall in love with this anime.
Kamina is god!!
http://www.gainax.co.jp/anime/gurren...n/gallery.html
I found this gallery wonderful!!
I want big scans of those pics ;___;
Please can you post also pics of Kamina?
Please :P:P

[mangasuki]

I also love this anime. but the fansubber Leon Jenkins's translation sucks. I'm not good at English but I could get the fact they have many mistakes and bad translation.

[Kamion]

Episode 3 was great. I didn't think Gurren-Lagann could be any more fun to watch than it was before. The action was breathtaking, the animation superb (it's GAINAX after all) and well, there was enough comedy to make me smile ("Gattai" :P)
I surely hope they'll keep up this pace, because if they do, it has the potential to be the best anime this season, if it isn't already.

Oh and thank you for these Yoko pics Maids!³, they're awesome and saved

[Skane]

Watching this series is a bit like watching 300. You feel like beating your chest after viewing it. Lots of hot-blooded fun in Ep03. Looking forward to the future episodes.

Cheers.

[Sonhex]

GATTAI!!! That was a moment of pure Kamina logic i.e.stupid cool that somehow works in the end. Ep 3 really is pure action from beginning to end, with some incredible animation, chiefly the...

Spoiler:

...Viral/Kamina duel and the battle between Enki and Gurren-Lagann. The brilliance of that was pure joy - especially how Gurren-Lagann smashes off Enki's helm, then steals it and assimilates it for himself. Awesome!

Also I detected that Yoko was trying to...

Spoiler:

...steal some 'quality' time with Kamina and was a tad miffed when he dragged Shimon along too.

The ep 4 preview looks kind of fun, with the arrival of the three 'K' girls .

Originally Posted by Skane

Watching this series is a bit like watching 300. You feel like beating your chest after viewing it. Lots of hot-blooded fun in Ep03. Looking forward to the future episodes.

Cheers.

Oh yeah, I know how you feel. It's silly but I have such a stupid smile on my face watching this show. It's a great antidote to reality

[Shiroth]

Originally Posted by Sonhex

Oh yeah, I know how you feel. It's silly but I have such a stupid smile on my face watching this show. It's a great antidote to reality

Its the kind of show that would make any boy into a real man.

I can't believe the amount of hot raw action that we got in the third episode --- also, like its been said before, so much has happened in this series in such a short amount of time. Of course thats not a bad thing, but its been done the best way possible --- this easily has the makings of being the best show ever. :3

Originally Posted by Sonhex

Also I detected that Yoko was trying to...

Spoiler:

...steal some 'quality' time with Kamina and was a tad miffed when he dragged Shimon along too.

Spoiler:

Indeed, and i can see some Simon/Kamina conflict later on in the series over Yoko --- FLCL style if you get what i mean. :3

[outlaw97]

Man, I'm going to feel torn when the show shifts to Simon - Kamina is having so many great moments!

It's going to be fun seeing if any sparks develop between Yoko and Kamina - I'm actually relieved that they made it pretty clear her interest in Simon is of the big-sister type.

It seems the next episode will tone slow things down a bit, makes me wonder if the next few episodes will be more character development as opposed to hot-blooded action. But as long as they keep with the hilarious looking animals, it's fine with me

On an unrelated note, I know there was an edited full-version pic of Yoko from the OP - has there been on done of Kamina? I have an idea for a wallpaper...

[Shinndou]

Episode three was A-W-E-S-O-M-E.

I guess it's more than safe to say that this is my favorite show of the season and I guess I'm becoming more and more of a fanboy as each episode airs. This show just proves that even the usual "hot blooded shounen" type of serie can be really fun and captivating when things are done right: fluent and stylistic animation, nice characters, storyboarding and even a good musical score. This serie is so well composed together by all these elements that it's really hard so far to find a real flaw in it unless one doesn't really like this kind of shows in first place.

And, on episode three....

Spoiler for episode three:

Well it was still pretty damn nice. This one felt as fast paced as the first episode. Kamina keeps emanating his badass aura with his over-the-top attitude, and thankfully even Simon is beginning to grow some spine as well. And I agree that the gattai scene was quite hilarious, but this was so much better than your usual average "gattai-sequence-with-lightning sparks-and-magnetism".

As for Viral, well so far he seems like an ok villain, and since they're showing him up so soon I don't expect him to be the "final boss" of this show. Heck I even have a feeling that he might somehow end up joining the Gurren-dan and help them out in the late episodes, or somehow aid them with a tsundere/rival like attitude (a la Ray from GUNxSWORD, if you get the idea).

[nubby]

looks like a Yoko and Kamina pairing! they didnt show Yoko with the supposed future version of Simon so I wonder if they died together....

[7Th]

Gurren-Lagann 3 was really, really impressive. It was not only one of the most accomplished depictions of pure adrenaline in the medium but also a fully functional chapter that as part of a broader storyline advances the plot in a frenetic fashion. There's nothing to complain here, everything was perfectly aggressive in every single sense: a still brilliantly crazy direction, a script that oozes coolness, an OST than enhances the extreme pace, and pretty much the manliest mood We finally get a definite proof of Gainax ability when they flex their creative muscles.

The animation surprisingly, or not, kept it up and in some particular scenes it even surpasses that premier with a kinetic geniality of it's own. This undoubtedly remains one of the only series this season whose visuals are worth the adjective of amazing. Not only on the enormous strength of it's stylish and aggressive management of movement, a laid-back yet serious attempt at achieving the intensity of youth that a manages to feel natural and enchant the viewer with it's incredible charisma, but for the cinematography and scene composition were also equally great and injected with force. My inner sakuga-fanatic, adventurer kid, manly persona and pseudo-film snob were smiling the 22 minutes.

Next episode preview looks intriguing to say the least, the "K-Team", both the three girls and the blond guy have names starting with K, finally makes it appearance and the graphic motion in the little fragment we were able to see looked charming, Nishio again?

[SinsI]

A question to native speakers -

Spoiler for episode 3:

Does "gattai" have some sexual meaning? Why was Yoko blushing?

[Sonhex]

Originally Posted by 7Th

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Next episode preview looks intriguing to say the least, the "K-Team", both the three girls and the blond guy have names starting with K, finally makes it appearance and the graphic motion in the little fragment we were able to see looked charming, Nishio again?

Certainly looks like a change of pace, though it's always hard to tell with these things. For some bizarre reason I keep thinking the Mad Hatter's Tea Party

One thing I've been wondering about Viral, he's not entirely human is he? He's got claws and fangs, so I wonder if he's a mutant or a hybrid of those wierd hairy mole monkeys piloting the enemy mecha