17 Facts About Gurren Lagann

Gurren Lagann takes place in a fictional future where Earth is ruled by the Spiral King, Lordgenome, who forces mankind to live in isolated subterranean villages.

The Sci Fi Channel acquired the broadcasting rights of Gurren Lagann and began airing the anime in July 2008, as part of Sci Fi's Ani-Monday anime block.

Gurren Lagann has received several awards, including the 7th Tokyo Anime Awards, the 12th Animation Kobe and the Excellence Prize at the 11th Japan Media Arts Festival.

Gurren Lagann takes place in a future where Earth is ruled by the Spiral King, Lordgenome, who forces mankind to live in isolated subterranean villages.

Kamina encourages Simon to join his gang, Team Gurren Lagann, to help him achieve his dream of visiting the surface world.

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Team Dai-Gurren Lagann is initially distrustful of her but they allow her to join them when it becomes apparent that she was abandoned by her father, like many who came before her.

Nia helps Simon come to terms with Kamina's death, and the rest of Team Dai-Gurren Lagann prompt him to take up the role as the team's leader, leading them and other teams of humans, who had captured other Gunmen and Gunmen fortresses, to Lordgenome's palace.

When both Lazengann and Gurren are damaged, Lordgenome fights Simon in Lagann with his bare hands, and emerges victorious, until Simon uses his Core Drill to defeat him once and for all.

Gurren Lagann was first announced in July 2006 with Aniplex and Konami assisting Gainax in its making.

Gurren Lagann occasionally pays homage to Ishikawa's Getter Robo, particularly towards the end of the series, where the scale becomes absurd, with the robots steadily becoming bigger and bigger, much like Getter Robo more specifically, the manga version of Getter Robo Go.

Akai and another Gainax employee, Keiko Mimori, made disparaging remarks about comments criticizing the animation style of the fourth episode of Gurren Lagann, which was completely directed by guest and friend Osamu Kobayashi.

Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann Character Song was released on July 25,2007, by Aniplex, including image songs by the main voice cast, with songs sung by Tetsuya Kakihara, Katsuyuki Konishi, and Marina Inoue, the latter of which is a playable song in Dance Dance Revolution SuperNOVA 2.

Influences from and references to Gurren Lagann can be found in popular culture ranging from Japanese anime and video games, to American comics and animation, as well as politics in Europe.

Gurren Lagann has had an influence on the Transformers franchise, with the creators of Transformers Animated citing it as an inspiration.

Success of Gurren Lagann led to the creation of Studio Trigger, founded by director Hiroyuki Imaishi.

Mecha designer Shigeto Koyama, who did design work for Gurren Lagann, later worked on the concept design for Baymax in the 2014 Disney film Big Hero 6.

Gurren Lagann is frequently referenced in the 2016 video game Kirby: Planet Robobot.