Gurren Lagann

Overheal

This was on the sci fi channel on monday (animonday) and its a bit out of the norm in regard to a mech oriented series but my got the art is just great in places. And its humourous.

Wondered if anyone else had stumbled on it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HAAOQHhoyzA

robby^5

Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann is awesome, like one of the best anime I've ever watched.

completey forgot it was on scifi now, was interested to see if the english dubbing was anywhere near as amazing as the original.

SmileyPaul

that looks sweet...

Cravez

Iv been watching it but havent finished it, very funny series

K.O.Kiki

A series composed of Awesome.

Except I'm not too hot on a dub.

corkstudent

If you like Gurren Lagann, you really need to watch Gunbuster, Diebuster, FLCL, Re: Cutie Honey, as well as New Getter Robo as it borrows a lot from Getter Robo(Spiral energy = less dangerous version of Getter Rays).

Varkov

The dubs are pretty blagh I thought. Kamina definatly wasn't as shounerific as he should be.

Great show though, ranked number one on myanimelist.com. Beating Naruto, Bleach, One Piece, Death Note, DBZ.

fitz0

Its easily one of the best anime I have seen anyway. First half of the series is awesome then the second half slows down a bit but the end definately doesnt disappoint.

Ive never heard of New Getter Robo, whats it like?

Zeouterlimits

I consider TTGL to be the best anime from 2007, it's so amazing.
*hearts Gurren Lagann*

Overheal

just got up to ep6. t'was gas.

Cy_Revenant

Don't believe in yourself! Believe in me, who believes in you!

robby^5

Cy_Revenant wrote: »

Don't believe in yourself! Believe in me, who believes in you!

ROW ROW FIGHT THE POWAH!

Zeouterlimits

robby^5 wrote: »

ROW ROW FIGHT THE POWAH!

Kick reason to the curb and surpass the impossible!

Zen 2nd

robby^5 wrote: »

ROW ROW FIGHT THE POWAH!

Oddly enough they are actually singing "RAW RAW"

Overheal

First half had all the humour and the second half just reminded me of Katamari. Not that it wasn't good it just scrambled my head a bit.

I didnt like how the first episode FFW intro wasn't lived up to. It would have been important to me to have that same clip replayed somewhere in the last few episodes

Zeouterlimits

Overheal wrote: »

First half had all the humour and the second half just reminded me of Katamari. Not that it wasn't good it just scrambled my head a bit.

I didnt like how the first episode FFW intro wasn't lived up to. It would have been important to me to have that same clip replayed somewhere in the last few episodes

Good Simon > Evil Simon (imo). That opening scene was cool, but good Simon kicked ass in his own way. Made for a great ending to the series {a la Nia}, bittersweet.

Cy_Revenant

You might also check out the series of of Parallel Works music videos released in the run up to the movie.

I quite like the first, fourth and last in particular.

Overheal

oh yeah theres a movie I have to find isnt there.. has it a special name?

DingChavez

Cy_Revenant wrote: »

Don't believe in yourself! Believe in me, who believes in you!

That quote is completely wrong.

Overheal wrote: »

oh yeah theres a movie I have to find isnt there.. has it a special name?

Nope, its not out yet.

Moneymaker

Varkov wrote: »

The dubs are pretty blagh I thought. Kamina definatly wasn't as shounerific as he should be.

good dubs are pretty rare though.

and on topic its a pretty solid show i enjoyed. will buy again.

Cy_Revenant

DingChavez wrote: »

That quote is completely wrong.

I wasn't aware it was [edited] season yet.

That quote is right by the sub I watched. But you have my apologies sir.

K.O.Kiki

Gurren Lagann Parallel Works just wrapped.
GARlock (super-manly man from ep1 opening) is

Lord Genome, from when he first took the fight to the Anti-Spirals. Except when he saw that he could unleash the Spiral Nemesis, he didn't have a Nia-class love to fight for -- instead, he destroyed all the Spirals on his side, created the race of Beastmen, and prevented humanity's evolution for over 200 years to protect them.
Also, Guame can be seen in his original armadillo form.

DingChavez

Cy_Revenant wrote: »

I wasn't aware it was [edited] season yet.

That quote is right by the sub I watched. But you have my apologies sir.

Considering he said "Believe in yourself" in two different ways I'm guessing you didn't check if you were wrong.

randomcountdown

The movie was shown at a convention in Germany last week.
Some fat aspie spacker asked if they were ever going to release the songs without "that gay Row Row Fight The Power rap **** over them".

The creators on the panel just scowled at him.

Brian

Omae wo shinjite, omae ni shinjiro!

I think that's close ¬_¬

Art_Wolf

DingChavez wrote: »

Considering he said "Believe in yourself" in two different ways...

I must agree that the subs I watched had "Don't believe in yourself! Believe in me, who believes in you!" and a quick google seems to agree that those are correct *shrugs*

Zeouterlimits

randomcountdown wrote: »

The movie was shown at a convention in Germany last week.
Some fat aspie spacker asked if they were ever going to release the songs without "that gay Row Row Fight The Power rap **** over them".

The creators on the panel just scowled at him.

I would have grabbed him by the collar and thrown him out.
I'm not a fan of rap (not my thing), but Row Row Fight the Power is awesome in all it's iterations. 'Libera me from Hell' is one of my favorite songs right now.

Overheal

I think I've been hacked by Spiral Beings on this day. I was playing TF2 and I got an accheivment - but instead of the acheivments normal icon displaying, it was replaced with the Dai-Gurren Brigade Logo.

fitz0

Overheal wrote: »

I think I've been hacked by Spiral Beings on this day. I was playing TF2 and I got an accheivment - but instead of the acheivments normal icon displaying, it was replaced with the Dai-Gurren Brigade Logo.

Pics?

Overheal

I didnt get the screen cap sadly. but it looked like this - mind i only photoshopped this:

awhir

watched the first 2 ep's , dident really like it tbh , might give it a another go when i get time

Cy_Revenant

No Pics. => It didn't happen.

Overheal

It did too!

its not till the 4th episode or so that it really falls right into its groove.

Cy_Revenant

awhir wrote: »

watched the first 2 ep's , dident really like it tbh , might give it a another go when i get time

There may not be hope for you.

The first three episodes, I thought, were spectacular. It gets a little weaker until about episode 7. And then there is the explosively awesome amazing episode 8. Which I will never forget.

From that point it just keeps building up and up and up.

SmileyPaul

I just started watching last night
first 4 episodes
I see a great ammount of potential in it but it seemed to try and introduce too many characters in far too soon (important ones or not)
its nice and easy going so Im going to continue to watch for a while at least

Overheal

get used to it. its not some DBZ knockoff that makes an entire episode out of goku "powering up" - a lot happens in the end. And it has to: Where it all ends up at the finish is pretty amazing.

Dartz

Yeah.... It is awesome in the original language. But good God is the dub ****e. I would never have thought it possible for character to ruin a dub, but the American VA for Kamina massacres it. He doesnt sound manly, he doesnt sound GAR, he sounds like the lead from some 1980's cartoon. He's too clean in the dub, to goody-doody... too All-American... rather than being Kamina.

He's almost a parody of himself, which is insanely dissapointing, because the rest of the cast does a half decent job of it.

Brian

GAAAAAAAAAAR.

Archer kicks ass.

K.O.Kiki

Baza210 wrote: »

GAAAAAAAAAAR.

Archer kicks ass.

Simon would beat anyone in a fight.
Even Archer.
There.

SmileyPaul

Dartz wrote: »

Yeah.... It is awesome in the original language. But good God is the dub ****e. I would never have thought it possible for character to ruin a dub, but the American VA for Kamina massacres it. He doesnt sound manly, he doesnt sound GAR, he sounds like the lead from some 1980's cartoon. He's too clean in the dub, to goody-doody... too All-American... rather than being Kamina.

He's almost a parody of himself, which is insanely dissapointing, because the rest of the cast does a half decent job of it.

yeah subtitles rock :P

Overheal

I have this annoying problem now that everytime I see a login page for a website I think 'Lagann' - I'm sure within a month this will have developed into shouting Spin On when I check my email.

Prime32

I'm sure some of you have seen it already, but...


UNION FLAGANN, SPIN ON!

Varkov

Does anyone else leap into their car through the sunroof and turn the key screaming, "Peugot 206! SPIN ON!"

Overheal

Prime32 wrote: »

I'm sure some of you have seen it already, but...


UNION FLAGANN, SPIN ON!

You realise there are signature regulations on this website, yes?

oh wait, thats not a sig. carry on.

Prime32

Overheal wrote: »

You realise there are signature regulations on this website, yes?

oh wait, thats not a sig. carry on.

Pretty weird ones at that. I could see avs and sigs before I registered, then I was informed that they would be turned off until I made 25 posts, but there was an option to turn them on again.


Regarding the dub... there just aren't that many English VAs that can pull off "Hot Blooded". Seth Green is one ("DARK MAGIC ATTACK!"). Chris Sabat is another ("OVER NINE THOUSAAAAND!"). It's just not the same without all the ham (This is the kind of stuff I'm talking about).

Viral is particularly hard - not only does his voice jump back and forth between a roar and a whisper, but he's voiced by Nobuyuki frigging Hiyama. I would have cast Steven J Blum as Viral, but placing him as Leeron was genius. The guy doing Viral in the dub would be better suited for Cytomander, IMO. Likewise, I would have put Michelle Ruff (Yoko's VA) as Adiane.

The really weird thing, though, is how the actors in the dub stress all the wrong syllables. I don't mean different syllables to the original - I mean syllables no sane person would emphasise. Who's "Lajeho"? Oh, they meant Lord Genome...

AngryBadger

Started watching this over the weekend after a recommendation in this forum, (which also led me to "Godannar"! -Fantastic show!!! ), and I'm frigging loving it! Exactly the right amount of "MAD" mixed with Mecha

Varkov

I know what I want for Christmas anyways.

http://i41.photobucket.com/albums/e270/guywithgrin/GurrenLagann-Top.jpg

http://www.collectiondx.com/system/files/10072531a8.jpg

AngryBadger

Varkov wrote: »

I know what I want for Christmas anyways.

http://i41.photobucket.com/albums/e270/guywithgrin/GurrenLagann-Top.jpg

http://www.collectiondx.com/system/files/10072531a8.jpg

WAAAANNNNNNNTTTTTTTTTTTTT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Overheal

Nah:

http://www.animeoc.com/shop/product_info.php?products_id=112521

Varkov

Already has

Maybe a 1/100 overflag. Hmm?

Or a Tieren Taozi!

http://bandai-hobby.net/english/images/item/0801_04_02.jpg

AngryBadger

*Slobber*