Guess what I saw...
Guess what I saw a couple of weeks ago at the Japanese book store?!
IT'S AKIZUKI-SAMA! ZOMG!!!!!
Friday, October 5, 2007
Tuesday, October 2, 2007
Why I think there's more to Gurren Lagann
The show ended last Sat. The ending is not horrible.
Although it seems like it tied everything up on the surface with the epilogue... I think there's a big possibility that we will see more Simon and Co. in their former glory.
Something about the epilogue just didn't feel right to me.
What stuck out in the show for me is how Simon is able to repeatedly change impossibility into possibility. As he said very confidently in an earlier episode, "If it's not 0% then it's 100% to me."
That is the show's reoccuring theme but the ending seems to compromise that. Having Simon to just travel alone forever (and never visiting his old friends other than those who are dead?!) makes him seem too resign for his own character. And to make it worse, he just had to say something along the line of, "Who do you think I am?! I am... it's not important." That just kills all the "garness" that he processed throughout the last 1/4 of the show. Where is that Kamina's spirit?!
What I thought may be clues of a possible continuation are:
1. Viral is heading to a galatic peace conference, if things are really as peaceful as they implies in the epilogue, you don't need a peace conference.
2. In the opening squence, Boota was an adult, but in the show, when Boota took on human form he was just a kid.
3. What Simon said in the epilouge about the stars clearly mirrors what was said by "Simon" in the opening sequence.
4. One of Simon's eyes in the epilogue looks very special and I don't think it means he is blind.
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