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Gurren Lagann
Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann · 天元突破グレンラガン · 2007
Dig through the ceiling, then punch through the sky.
StatusFinished Airing
SeasonSpring 2007
StudioGainax
SourceOriginal
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Simon and Kamina have spent their whole lives underground, digging tunnels in a cramped village that has forgotten the surface even exists. When they accidentally unearth a strange mechanical device and a giant robot buried beneath their village, they punch their way to the surface and straight into a war against a mysterious ruling force keeping humanity trapped below. What starts as a scrappy, hot-blooded coming-of-age story keeps escalating, and escalating, and escalating, until the stakes and the mechs both reach a scale that has to be seen to be believed. It never once apologizes for how big it gets.
⚠ Background — may contain spoilers
Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann is an original mecha series created by Gainax, directed by Hiroyuki Imaishi, and airing in 2007. It is widely celebrated as one of the finest mecha anime ever made, praised for its relentless energy, sincere emotional core, and willingness to let its scale grow more absurd with every arc rather than settling into a formula. Its themes of defiance, self-belief, and refusing to accept imposed limits struck a deep chord with fans, and it remains a touchstone reference point for anime that treats sheer, unfiltered ambition as a genuine storytelling virtue.
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41
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3932nd Key Animation43
ADR Director2
Animation Check4
Animation Director23
Art Director3
Assistant Animation Director4
Assistant Director1
Associate Producer1
Background Art8
Character Design3
Chief Animation Director1
Co-Producer1
Color Design1
Color Setting1
Director1
Director of Photography1
Editing1
Episode Director21
eps 51
eps 71
In-Between Animation26
Inserted Song Performance1
Key Animation174
Layout2
Mechanical Design3
Music1
OP 21
OP31
Planning2
Principle Drawing5
Production Assistant2
Production Manager1
Publicity1
Recording1
Script6
Series Composition1
Setting2
Sound Director1
Sound Effects1
Special Effects3
Storyboard18
Theme Song Arrangement2
Theme Song Composition2
Theme Song Performance3
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