Post by Falciferum on Feb 23, 2009 18:50:15 GMT
Whoever said I'd absolutely love Gurren Lagann were absolutely right - it's everything a 15 year old boy could possibly want out of an anime and more. (note: I'm not actually 15 as some of you may have noticed, but you understand my assertion).
If I may, I'd like to adapt a review written for one of my favourite band's albums from a prolific writer on a heavy metal reviewing site as it describes my sentiment exactly. *ahem*
In the beginning, there was nothing. A swirling maelstrom of gases and light. Then there was Gurren Lagann. And Gurren Lagann rocked. Really, really, hard. All things sprung forth from Gurren Lagann...all things flow into Gurren Lagann, and inevitably, all things will eventually return to Gurren Lagann. Ashes to ashes, Ganmen to Ganmen.
It puts the AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA! back into mecha. What does it mean? Only Gurren Lagann knows. Watching Gurren Lagann will make your girlfriends boobs bigger, and your food will no longer taste of semen. Gainax have created an anime that's like looking into the face of God and having him say "you are my greatest creation, and I am real love." Gurren Lagann is also like then rebeling against that very same God and being cast down from his realm and out of his light. It's a fucking dichotomy, man! Gurren Lagann is like Family Matters, except Erkel is banging Laura. Hard and raw. If you ever wanted to see what happens when a man who has lived underground all his life suddenly encounters a massive robot and a girl with a huge gun and tiny clothing smashing into his home, and then immediately decides to take them all on with only his sword, then Gurren Lagann is your anime. If you ever wanted to see what a Yamato-sized warship, on legs, looks like administering a flying kick to a Nimitz-class sized aircraft carrier, that flies, looks like, you need to watch Gurren Lagann. If you ever wanted a fail proof litmus test to prove whether or not you had good taste in anime.....Gurren Lagann. Gurren Lagann is like Voltron, but better. Many parts combining to form the greatest visual experience known to man. Gurren Lagann is like giving your mother the finger because she tells you to move out of her basement and get a job. Gurren Lagann is like receiving a blowjob from a really hot transsexual. Gurren Lagann is like every power metal band playing live all at once in an endless desert during a thunder-blizzard with infinitely loud amps. Gurren Lagann is like staring into the face of a baby deer - then punching that bitch in the face. Because you've just watched Gurren Lagann, and that deer can't hold you down. Gurren Lagann is like stuffing your face with the entire wedding cake of your enemy while he and his fiance are taking their marital vows, then later, throwing that wedding cake up just to spite him even worse. Gurren Lagann is like taking a shit in your friend's bathtub simply because it's close to the toilet.
Remember Mr. Big? They call him Mr. Small now because Kamina beat him up.
Sorry it's taking so long to say what I think about this anime, but here's the thing - everyone who has watched this anime died from advance stages of awesomeness. These words speak not only for the glory of Gurren Lagann, but in commemoration of our fallen comrades. From now on, instead of using words like "good", they will be replaced simply by "ganmen", as Gurren Lagann is the essence of all that is grand. All other forms of anime have been rendered obsolete, and will now be called..."the anime that be not Gurren Lagann". Trust me, Gurren Lagann won best character design at the 2008 Tokyo Anime Fair. And those guys know more about anime then any members on this forum, what with them being Japanese and running an anime fair. So go. Watch Gurren Lagann. It's ganmen as fuck.
(Alright so a large amount of intellectual material, from sources other than myself, was plundered and massacred without permission in order to write this - and if there are any requests to remove it then I shall do so. It is however fully intended to be nothing more than an appreciation of both the aforementioned anime and of the original writer from whose words this was adapted ).
On one more note,
If I may, I'd like to adapt a review written for one of my favourite band's albums from a prolific writer on a heavy metal reviewing site as it describes my sentiment exactly. *ahem*
In the beginning, there was nothing. A swirling maelstrom of gases and light. Then there was Gurren Lagann. And Gurren Lagann rocked. Really, really, hard. All things sprung forth from Gurren Lagann...all things flow into Gurren Lagann, and inevitably, all things will eventually return to Gurren Lagann. Ashes to ashes, Ganmen to Ganmen.
It puts the AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA! back into mecha. What does it mean? Only Gurren Lagann knows. Watching Gurren Lagann will make your girlfriends boobs bigger, and your food will no longer taste of semen. Gainax have created an anime that's like looking into the face of God and having him say "you are my greatest creation, and I am real love." Gurren Lagann is also like then rebeling against that very same God and being cast down from his realm and out of his light. It's a fucking dichotomy, man! Gurren Lagann is like Family Matters, except Erkel is banging Laura. Hard and raw. If you ever wanted to see what happens when a man who has lived underground all his life suddenly encounters a massive robot and a girl with a huge gun and tiny clothing smashing into his home, and then immediately decides to take them all on with only his sword, then Gurren Lagann is your anime. If you ever wanted to see what a Yamato-sized warship, on legs, looks like administering a flying kick to a Nimitz-class sized aircraft carrier, that flies, looks like, you need to watch Gurren Lagann. If you ever wanted a fail proof litmus test to prove whether or not you had good taste in anime.....Gurren Lagann. Gurren Lagann is like Voltron, but better. Many parts combining to form the greatest visual experience known to man. Gurren Lagann is like giving your mother the finger because she tells you to move out of her basement and get a job. Gurren Lagann is like receiving a blowjob from a really hot transsexual. Gurren Lagann is like every power metal band playing live all at once in an endless desert during a thunder-blizzard with infinitely loud amps. Gurren Lagann is like staring into the face of a baby deer - then punching that bitch in the face. Because you've just watched Gurren Lagann, and that deer can't hold you down. Gurren Lagann is like stuffing your face with the entire wedding cake of your enemy while he and his fiance are taking their marital vows, then later, throwing that wedding cake up just to spite him even worse. Gurren Lagann is like taking a shit in your friend's bathtub simply because it's close to the toilet.
Remember Mr. Big? They call him Mr. Small now because Kamina beat him up.
Sorry it's taking so long to say what I think about this anime, but here's the thing - everyone who has watched this anime died from advance stages of awesomeness. These words speak not only for the glory of Gurren Lagann, but in commemoration of our fallen comrades. From now on, instead of using words like "good", they will be replaced simply by "ganmen", as Gurren Lagann is the essence of all that is grand. All other forms of anime have been rendered obsolete, and will now be called..."the anime that be not Gurren Lagann". Trust me, Gurren Lagann won best character design at the 2008 Tokyo Anime Fair. And those guys know more about anime then any members on this forum, what with them being Japanese and running an anime fair. So go. Watch Gurren Lagann. It's ganmen as fuck.
(Alright so a large amount of intellectual material, from sources other than myself, was plundered and massacred without permission in order to write this - and if there are any requests to remove it then I shall do so. It is however fully intended to be nothing more than an appreciation of both the aforementioned anime and of the original writer from whose words this was adapted ).
On one more note,
