Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagan Review

Yo, today i will also be reviewing this anime and eventually upload the episodes but in the meantime i will only post the link to a page in where you can download the episodes , the host is Media Fire so if you have a download manager you can download the entire series in about and 1 hr or so.

Ok, so where do i start? this anime is really different from the others, is a little old, its been out for awhile but it remains relevant even now; Gurren Lagan is essentially an anime with "Mechas", giant ass robots like the ones in Gundam Wing with the exception that the mechas here look like animals, yu know Transformers look like cars here they look like animals, anyway at the beginning of the story we meet a little kid named Simon, he lives in a small town underground, just like all the humans, yes for some reason the humans are bound to live underground forever with no sun or glimpse of the sky whatsoever, so what they do is they dig, they dig in order to expand their towns underground, Simon job is that and he comes with a treasure during his digging, a little drill that looks like a keychain, eventually he meets with Kamina a very energetic guy that acts like an older brother to Simon and his only desire is to go  to the surface and join his father in father adventure he is in so Kamina and Simon along a group of guys come uo with a really stupid idea to go to the surface long story short it didnt work out and Kamina got arrested and sent to jail, Simon on the other hand goes back to digging in order to find more about the drill he found, he then goes to kamina and rescue him from jail so he could see what Simon had found But a big eartquake comes and teared the "roof" of the city, a big mecha comes in or "Ganmen"  as the anime calls them, and starts making a ruckus, Kamina is a very brave guy and tries to face it but is not enough so out of nowhere a chick named Yoko comes out firing a sniper, Simon takes everyone to his finding wich ended up being a smaller version of a Ganmen, defeats the enemy big explosions and all and they end up on the surface.

That´s roughly the first episode, the anime focus on the Rebelion that Kamina starts against the human-beast(the ones piloting the Ganmen) so the humans can live on the surface again.

The anime is very very unrealistic, a lot of fantasy and silly attitudes, nevertheless is worth mentioning the fact that it has won several awards so people actually enjoyed this anime, but unfortunately im not one of them.

this is only MY take on the anime, there are three main characters, Yoko, Simon and Kamina, Yoko is very useless she does practically nothing throughout the whole series, she only uses a Ganmen about three times and shes not particulary outstanding at it, her rifle becomes harmless to the Ganmen at episode 3 or 5 and never cares about it, she becomes only the eye candy for the male audience wich is very frustrating giving the fact that there was potential for her; Simon on the other hand is better he is a very easily scared kid but he overcomes that very nicely, Kamina is very reckless and i didnt really care much about him, i like him but not enough to feel something genuine for him.

The anime has two arcs the first one goes from episode 1-15 and is focus on the rebelion and the second arc is from episodes 17-27 and is seven years after the rebelion, episode 16 being a mashup episode, once you start the second arc everyone is different is almost like watching a whole different anime, Simon is no longer a scared little kid and Yoko left town to do God knows what, this is where i realised how much i dislike this anime, with two of the main characters being left out the anime fell flat Simon alone cant carry the whole show, Yoko is "MIA" and when she comes back is almost the end of the series and again she is useless, the fighting scenes become so unrealistic and so stupid (a ganmen inside a ganmen inside a ganmen inside a ganmen?! really?!) , the side characters have no personality or very little of it that you dont even care who is who, the only thing that is good about the anime is the plot once you get the whole explanation.

Overral this anime is praised by many mainly because it gives the message "if you try your hardest everything is possible" and i agree with that but the way that is portrayed comes out as stupid and so over the top with characters that feel flat and useless i give this a 4/10.

Heres the link if you want to download the anime:

http://www.animextremist.com/foros/index.php?showtopic=33022