The 5th Day of Christmas - Gurren Lagann
Posted by 0rion on December 5th, 2007 - 10:00 am
On the 5th day of Christmas my true love gave to me…
5 GIIIIGAAA DRIIIIILLS!!
4 metatags
3 rain charms
2 Guchuko’s
And a cruise on a nice boat for free!
The fifth day is always the part of the song filled with the most gusto and over-the-top theatrics; people who up until that point had been otherwise minding their own business will come over just to sing that one line.
So of course there’s only one show that can appropriately fill such a role…
Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann. Piercing the heavens with its drill since ever.
The Giga Drill Breaker is itself an attack that epitomizes the entire theme of the show. Impossibly, comically huge, it just brooks no arguments, spares no time for pointless scientific analysis, and pierces everything that stands in its way.
The whole series is just one big frenetic rock out. As Hige so aptly put it, it’s like air drumming so enthusiastically that you end up smacking yourself in the chops. It’s eating the entire tub of ice cream in one sitting and feeling no guilt afterwards.
Awesomeness for the sheer sake of awesomeness, with no greater purpose needed beyond that.
What more could you ask for?
You know, I really can’t ask for much more. Thank you for putting Gurren Lagann in the most spectacular part of the song.
That’s possibly the most succinct overview of this show I’ve read yet. It’s just over-the-top fun for its own sake - Gurren Lagann is the pure essence of ‘Huerrgh!’ painted in letters ten planets high, in seven shades of win. It also marks Gainax’s return to form…at last!
It also makes bloggers rave in over-enthusiastic, hyperbolic fanboy mode afterwards…how many shows elicit such an overwhelming reaction?
@ DTZ
Oh no, the pleasure is all mine.
@ Martin
Absolutely concurred. It’s not often that a show receives such near-universal acclaim among the war-hardened blogging veterans. That’s definitely something to be said for the series, when it can make even the most jaded old-timers forget their elitism for a moment and just have fun.
What a great anime. A true class act.
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