Alternative titles: Synonyms: Tengen Toppa Gurren-Lagann, Making Break-Through Gurren Lagann, Heavenly Breakthrough Gurren Lagann, Gurren Lagann, TTGLJapanese: 天元突破グレンラガン
Type: TV
Episodes: 27
Status: Finished airing
Airdate: 1 Apr, 2007 to 30 Sep, 2007
Genres: Action, Comedy, Mecha, Sci-Fi
Duration: 00:25:00 per episode
Rating: PG-13 - Teens 13 and older
In a far away future, mankind lives underground in huge caves, unknowing of a world above with a sky and stars.
In the small village of Jiha, Simon, a shy boy who works as a digger discovers a strange glowing object during excavation. The enterprising Kamina, a young man with a pair of rakish sunglasses and the passion of a firey sun, befriends Simon and forms a small band of brothers, the Gurren Brigade, to escape the village and break through the ceiling of the cave to reach the surface, which few believe exist.
The village elder won't hear of such foolishness and punishes the Brigade. However, when disaster strikes from the world above and the entire village is in jeopardy, it's up to Simon, Kamina, a girl with a big gun named Yoko, and the small yet sturdy robot, Lagann, to save the day.
The new friends journey to the world above and find that the surface is a harsh battlefield, and it's up to them to fight back against the rampaging Beastmen to turn the tide in the humans' favor! Pierce the heavens, Gurren Lagann!
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Simon Main | Tetsuya Kakihara Japanese Yuri Lowenthal English Fabian Hollwitz German Alessandro Rigotti Italian |
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Viral Main | Nobuyuki Hiyama Japanese Sam Riegel English William Coryn French Davide Lepore Italian |
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Kamina Main | Katsuyuki Konishi Japanese Kyle Hebert English Cédric Dumond French Vittorio Guerrieri Italian Jaron Löwenberg German |
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Yoko Littner Main | Marina Inoue Japanese Michelle Ruff English Geneviève Doang French |
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Nia Teppelin Main | Yukari Fukui Japanese Hynden Walch English Adeline Chetail French Bridget Hoffman English |
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Cytomander Supporting | Akio Suyama Japanese Steve Staley English Dirk Stollberg German |
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Guame Supporting | Kiyoshi Kawakubo Japanese Doug Stone English |
| Narrator Supporting | Takayuki Sugou Japanese Tony Oliver English | |
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Anti-Spiral Supporting | Takaya Kamikawa Japanese Dave Mallow English |
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Old Coco Supporting | Nobuyuki Hiyama Japanese |
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Hiroyuki Imaishi Director, Episode Director, Storyboard |
| Toshiya Shinohara Episode Director | |
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Osamu Kobayashi Episode Director, Storyboard, Animation Director |
| Shouji Saeki Episode Director, Script, Storyboard | |
| Shin Itagaki Episode Director, Storyboard, Key Animation | |
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Tadashi Hiramatsu Storyboard, Key Animation, Animation Director |
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Afromania Theme Song Performance |
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Megumi Hinata Theme Song Performance |
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Shoko Nakagawa Theme Song Performance, Inserted Song Performance |
| Akira Amemiya Key Animation, Animation Director | |
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Yoshihiko Umakoshi Key Animation |
| You Yoshinari Mechanical Design | |
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Yoshiyuki Sadamoto Key Animation, Animation Director |
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Taku Iwasaki Music |
| Keisuke Watanabe Key Animation | |
| Ryouji Masuyama Key Animation | |
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Satoru Nakamura Key Animation |
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Ryousuke "Ryo-timo" Sawa Key Animation |
| Hirokazu Kojima Key Animation |