2008 · mecha · gainax · action
Gurren Lagann the Movie: Childhood's End
Directed by Hiroyuki Imaishi1h 52m2008
Simon and Kamina live in an underground city monitored by the village chief. When Simon stumbles upon an artifact and beastmen invade from the surface, Simon and Kamina rebel against them.
Our read: Gurren Lagann the Movie: Childhood's End (2008) reads as a warm, breathless, inventive mecha · gainax · action entry — extreme in intensity, epic-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, redemptive in outlook.
Warm, breathless, extreme mecha / gainax, inventive in texture. Redemptive, epic, measured.
- warm
- kinetic
- extreme
- inventive
- redemptive
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