A roaring, drill-tipped mecha epic where defiance burns hotter than any sun, and a boy buried underground claws through the ceiling of the world, then of the universe, on pure spiraling willpower.
Gurren Lagann
天元突破グレンラガン
"Your drill is the drill that will pierce the Heavens!"
01 April 2007
— 30 September 2007
Japan
1 season
27 episode
Ended
8.2
(629)
Cast: Tetsuya Kakihara, Katsuyuki Konishi, Marina Inoue, Kiyoyuki Yanada, Nobuyuki Hiyama
Animation
Sci-Fi & Fantasy
Action & Adventure
Willpower and defying limits
Coming of age and inheritance
Belief in others
Grief and loss
Evolution, freedom and responsibility
Gurren Lagann — Movie Quotes
Memorable Quotes
Don't believe in yourself. Believe in the me that believes in you!
Context
Said by Kamina to Simon in the first season's opening episode, and later recalled by Simon as a mantra.
Meaning
The core of the series' ethic: faith can be borrowed from others until it becomes your own.
Just who the hell do you think I am?!
Context
One of Kamina's most famous lines, repeated throughout the early episodes and echoed by other characters afterward.
Meaning
A defiant assertion of identity and refusal to be underestimated, and the series' signature war cry.
Gurren Lagann, drill the heavens!
Context
The recurring battle cry tied to the series' spiral imagery; it is also the meaning of the title.
Meaning
A call to break through any limit.
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