*Spoilers for Gurren Lagann*
One of my favourite anime of all time, Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann has some of the most interesting, unique and even stylish characters in any anime ever! Let's take a look at our main characters firstly, we have Simon, who is symbolized by his red glasses, Boota and mainly for his symbol. We have Kamina, Simons "bro" who is symbolized by his blue hair, red glasses (they're not fucking orange) and his katana. And lastly, we have Yoko, who is symbolized by her rifle, her mini skull, and those booobies (c' mon guys don't deny like there were not the first thing you noticed) Anyways, what I wanted to get across here is how Gurren Lagann use their characters differently than in other shows, and what anime that will come in the future can learn from Tengen Toppa (i will call the anime sometimes Tengen Toppa instead of Gurren Lagann). But for today, I'm going to ignore those three characters and talk about the diverse, cooperative and unique supporting cast of the show. I will also try to focus on just the characters alone while not trying to mix other factors from the show because there would just be soooo much to write about. And I already have a review on the whole anime which you can find here: https://myanimelist.net/profile/Krav40/reviews
The eccentric supporting cast of Dai-Gurren gets introduced just within the first 8 episodes. All of Dai Gurren makes the show even cooler, like f.ex Kittan who had this alpha tough guy approach but who has a heart and cared for all of his sisters. Before Rossiu, he was the coach/leader for Dai Gurren who made sure that everyone was doing what they were supposed to do. What makes him so likeable is that he doesn't take things too serious and that he can joke around from time to time, like f.ex he also cares deeply about his sisters and makes sure that no one upsets them, that's why him and Kamina had a mini-fight in the infamous episode 4( don't worry, I will sometime talk about this episode) . And then you have a guy like Leeron, I mean how many times do you see a homosexual character in a non-yaoi show like Leeron who is this interesting. While being the "brains" of Dai Gurren, he was all around the smartest character in the show and he made Dai Gurren work in terms of the mechanical and technical stuff. Then you have Rossiu, and he also has the leader aesthetic to him but without the macho or humorous style that Kittan has. What makes Rossiu so interesting is that his leadership is way more serious and authoritarian then Kitttan. Actually, later in the series is that he makes these quick decisions like f.ex imprisoning his friend Simon and taking over as the official president of the country. But while all of these decisions working, his mental state got worse and in episode 22 he went so far as to attempt suicide. Rossiu seems to be the only character that dislikes action and conflict. F.ex when he got asked to join Dai Gurren for defeating the anti-spirals, he said no and wanted to stay at the planet (even though he had no reason really). Gimmy & Darry were enjoyable because we got to finally see other characters come out of the surface, and we get to see these two be amazed by just everything around them like Simon was in just the first episode. They gave blood to the series and it was so fun to see the after the time skip and what their personalities had developed to. F.ex before Darry was just a deadpan girl, but then she grew to be quite helpful towards Simon. They also kinda felt like Simons disciples, which was fun to see because Simon deserves all the disciples for just being so amazing (dude deserves at least 100 000 disciples). Anyways, all of Dai-Gurren help out each other one way or another. F.ex Leeron notices an attack and reports it to Kittan. Kittan alarms everyone to get ready to fight and gets everyone into position and sends out f.ex Simon, Yoko, Darry & Gimmy, all strong and motivated fighters. After that, Rossiu comes in and gives orders to everyone on the battlefield what to do in order to win, meanwhile, Leeron analyzes the fighting field for other threats and challenges along the way.
Like another one of my favourite anime, Nagasaraste Airanto, Tengen Toppa uses talking animals as characters. Some of my favourite moments from the show were actually just where the animals where involved, like t.ex when Boota transformed into a human, when Viral and Simon were fighting and some random chicken interfered or when Nia was captured.
Also, the amount of character development that all of these people go through in this show is insane. F.ex Gimmy & Darry go from clueless kids too hard-working adults, Yoko becomes a responsible teacher and Simon.. This guy goes from being an outcast in his mine with no family, friends or ANYTHING (except Kamina) to becoming the saviour of the universe.
That's all, for now, folks, I hope you enjoyed this train of thought I had about Dai Gurren. I will write about more aspects of Gurren Lagann so stay tuned for that :D
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