Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann

Robot with sunglasses/GAR shades?

Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann's genres are of Adventure/Comedy/Drama/Mecha/Science Fiction/Shounen (what's with the overabundance of genres?).The anime does not look as good as animes such as Gundam(?) or Code Geass at first glance, but once I started watching it I can't wait for the next episode.The plot starts off in a fictional universe where humans are forced to live underground and thrive in isolated subterranean civilization.In the underground villages, the people have no contact with the surface world.As occasional earthquake damages the infrastructure , the villages expand deeper into the ground."Diggers" are the individuals who do this job.Simon, a 14 years old "Digger", in Jiiha village digs to expand the village and the story continues from there.

Moles or Diggers?

The main characters are Simon , Kamina , Yoko Ritona , and Nia Teppelin(not sure).For people who likes character developments such as myself, sadly there are hardly any in this anime.But then, with the huge amount of characters in this anime, it makes up for the lack for character development.

Huge cast of characters! (OP song picture)

From left : Kamina , Simon , Yoko

Nia~

The animation art might not be that impressive but still it's acceptable as Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann's storyline is epic. As for the OP and ED song, "Sorairo days" by Shoko Nakagawa is used throughout the series and for episode one through to sixteen the first verse is used while the second is used from episode seventeen onwards.There are three ED songs used in the series, which are "Underground" by High Voltage from episode one through fiftteen, "Happily ever After" by Shoko Nakagawa for episode sixteen and "Everyone's Peace" by Afromania for episode seventeen onwards. The songs are not really that impressive, only "Sorairo Days" and "Happily ever After" appealed to me.

Galaxy-sized robots anyone?

Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann has everything (exaggerated) that mecha anime viewers want. As far as I'm concerned, people regard Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann as the best mecha-typed anime this year/2007 , unless Gundam 00 can do something about it.

Rating : 8/10

The pros :

- Interesting storyline.
- Galaxy-sized robots?
- Huge amount of likeable characters.
- Not bad soundtrack.
- Amazing way of telling the story/Good timeskip.

And the cons :

- Not that good animation art.
- Lack of character development.

The anime is a good watch and worth every minute of your time, if you are a mecha or comedy genre fan you can't miss this (I guess?).