Gurren Lagann

Gurren Lagann (2007), known in Japan as Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann (天元突破グレンラガン Tengen Toppa Guren Ragan, literally "Heaven-Piercing Gurren Lagann"), is a Japanese mecha anime television series created by Gainax and co-produced by Aniplex and Konami. It takes place in a fictional future where Earth is ruled by the Spiral King, Lord Genome, who forces mankind to live in isolated subterranean villages. These villages have no contact with the surface world or other villages, and are under constant threat of earthquakes.

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• Do the impossible, see the invisible. / Row! Row! Fight the power! / Touch the untouchable, break the unbreakable. / Row! Row! Fight the power!
  • Gurren Lagann OST, "Libera me from hell", disk 2 track 22

• Rappu ha Kan no Tamashii da! Onore wo Shinjite Ten wo Yubisasu Dotou no Otoko Kamina-sama no Teema wo Mimi no Ana Kappojitte Yo~ku Kikiyagare!
  • Rap is a man's soul! Perk up your earholes and listen real close to the theme of Lord Kamina, the man of raging billows who believes in himself and points to heaven.
    • Title of disc 1 track 3 Gurren Lagann OST

Kamina

• Listen up, Simon. Don't believe in yourself. Believe in me! Believe in the Kamina who believes in you! (Episode 1)

• Your drill is the drill that will pierce the Heavens! (Episode 1)

• Huh, yea whatever now dig the wax out of your ears because I've got something to say! He takes the blazing sun in his bare hands and endures the searing heat. A mans man sustained by strength of will. When you hear of the great Kamina they're talking about me! You'd best remember that. (Episode 7)

• You know why people have eyes in the front? Because they have to move forward to see the landscape in the distance. If you had eyes in back all you could see is your home town getting farther away; you can't move forward like that. If your eyes are in front what you see in the distance keeps getting closer. That's what lets people move forward.

• Whenever I feel weak or lack confidence, I remember Simon's back as he dug tirelessly. I wanted to become a man whose back would never break! (Episode 11)

• Who-the-hell-do-you-think-I-am-kick! Hands-off-my-beloved-little-brother-puuuuuuuunch!...Finishing move! Perfect combustion of manly souls cannonball attaaack! (Episode 2)

• Who the hell do you think you are? Isn't your drill the one that will pierce the heavens, the earth, and through to tomorrow? (Episode 8)

• Listen Simon... Don't forget. Believe in yourself. Not in the you who believes in me. Not the me who believes in you. Believe in the you who believes in yourself. (Episode 8)

• Don't be held back by someone else's bullshit in fake memories.The one path you chose for yourself, is the truth of your universe. (Episode 26)

• Ore wo dare da to omotte yagaru?!
  • Who the hell do you think I am?! (Episode 1; repeated throughout series by him and other characters)

• Go beyond the impossible and kick reason to the curb! That's how Team Gurren rolls! (Episode 1)

• A true man never dies .. even when he's killed (Episode 6)

Simon

• If you're gonna dig, dig to pierce the heavens, even if it's my grave I'm digging, I'll keep going! When I break through, it means I've WON! Who the hell do you think I am? I'm Simon. I'm not my Bro. I am myself! Simon the Digger! (Episode 11)

• I'm Simon...The Great Gurren Brigade's Leader, Simon the Digger! If you become a wall blocking my way...I'll drill a hole in you and blow you apart anytime! That is...my drill! (Episode 15)

• Our dead friends...the sorrow of the spiral race...we'll take in all their regrets. We'll take it and turn it into power! (Episode 25)

• The hopes of my friends are etched upon its body; turning the infinite darkness into light. Unmatched in heaven and earth. One soul, one body. Super Galaxy Gurren Lagann! I'll show you... the power of the human race. (Episode 25)

• Never afraid of what the future holds, never regretful of the present. That's who we are! The Dai-Gurren Brigade! (Episode 26)

• Don't underestimate us! Whether it be time, space, or alternate realities, they mean nothing to us. We will pierce the path and methods you've chosen! That is who we are, the Dai-Gurren Brigade! (Episode 27)

• The tomorrow we're trying to reach is...not a tomorrow you've decided on! We...by ourselves...choose our tomorrow from the infinite universe! We will fight through it. We will fight through it and protect the universe! We'll show you we can do it! (Episode 27)

• We evolve beyond the person that we were a minute before. Little by little we advance with each turn. That's how a drill works! (Episode 27)

• That is your limit! In this space full of turmoil, you act like a king and seal other lifeforms, and that is your limit! (Episode 27)

• Remember this! This drill will open a hole in space. And that hole will become a road for those that follow! The hopes of the fallen and the hopes of those to come...Combining these feelings into a double-helix, I'll dig a hole to the future! That's Tengen Toppa! That's Gurren Lagann! My drill is the drill that creates the Heavens! (Episode 27)

• Even so, I will...! I will believe! I will believe in the me that believes in us, humans and the future! The drill is...my SOUL! (Lagann-hen movie)

• Believe in us humans. (Lagann-hen movie)

Nia

• Goodbye, Father. I will face tomorrow. (Episode 15)

• If people's faith in you is what gives you your power, then I believe in you with every fiber of my being! (Episode 15)

• The Human spirit is infinite! I've also bet on that greatness! (Episode 27)

Kittan

• When you're scared, it's all the more reason to move forward! (Episode 25)
• "I borrowed one of Gurren Lagann's drills as a good luck charm! And believe me, I'm gonna put it to good use...!"

— Kittan, just before the following quote.

• (wielding one of Gurren Lagann's drills) "This is Simon's soul! Team Dai-Gurren's soul! Humanity's soul... and actually, it's MY SOUL! Do you seriously think it's gonna be wiped out by the likes of you?! King... Kittan... GIGA... DRILL... BREAK!!!"

— Kittan in episode 25, performing a Giga Drill Break of his own.

Leeron

• I can't miss out on something this interesting, can I? It could be that these two will change something. (Episode 3)

• When objects revolve at a high speed, even if force is applied, the axis of revolution will always remain in a fixed position. This is one of the laws of the universe. That's right. The faster you spin, the faster you free yourself from Earth's gravity, and seek the heavens. (Episode 22)

Dayaka

• I've got the best wife in the universe swing!! (Episode 27)