Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann – Episode 23
3 September 2007
Simon, Simon…!!!!!
Simon….oh my god….
Everybody!! O_O!!
How do they do it? How? I just can’t understand, how the hell do they do it?! How the hell did they come up with some as brilliant and as amazing as Gurren Lagann!? Heh, the proper response to said question would be, “Who the hell do you think we are!?” Gainax is genius, Gainax is genius.
Spirit and love, spirit and love makes the universe go around. The end of this episode, actually this entire episode, from Rossiu and Kinon to old Coco and Dayakka (poor guy, I think I spelled his name wrong), to the new uniforms and the flag from the capture of Teppelin, just everything. Just watching everything come together, everyone on the bridge of the Cathedral Terra, the Chouginga Dai Gurren, God, this is why life is worth living.
I’m fickle and capricious and I love Rossiu, how can I not? That scene was just perfect, you saw the whole thing coming but it was just executed perfectly. The talk with his old village leader, how the scripture was actually a prank, trying to commit suicide and atone for all his sins, only to be saved at the last second by Simon, Kamina style with a punch to the face. Then, Kinon runs to him from the cockpit of the Gurren Lagann. Having Rossiu piloting the Gurren Lagann with Simon was just a bit nostalgic, just a bit.
In the end, it’s a lot about what the show makes you feel, and a lot of what I feel I have a hard time putting into words. Brings me back to episode fifteen and the defeat of Teppelin. But now, Lord Genome and Viral are working with Simon and the Gurren Dan, launching in a giant flagship to warp across space and fight the Anti-spiral. One of these days I’m going to figure out why this show kicks so much ass and why this show is so amazing and why it makes me want to jump up on a table and express my love for humanity through over the top speeches.
They’re going to warp across space, warp. Not only did they break time and space itself, now they’re going to warp across the universe into a ring, the Anti-Spiral home world, and it’s not even about saving humanity anymore, it’s about everything! Seeing old Coco and that flag really got me, the symbol of the Dai Gurren Dan, Gimbley gawking at it, Gurren Lagann flying off and Kamina’s cape flapping in the wind…
For all its complexities and all its techno jargon, quantum mechanics and fancy words, life really is just about love and spirit. That’s just how incredible Gurren Lagann is, everything, everything happened because of human spirit.
Oh God, four more episodes…