Top 5 Gurren Lagann characters? ✨🌹
1. what happens when the DM rolls you a bard but you wanna play warrior
im just, like, a huge fan of his character arc, like he’s basically vegeta but feral i guess (i’ve never seen a single episode of dbz i don’t know what i’m talking about). also i’m a sucker for the whole “character is literally unable to use some kind of ability but does it anyway through sheer force of will” thing. and i love his post timeskip character design lmao
2. you only kiss once
fuck all y’all writing “strong” female characters whose only personality trait is feminism. this woman is fierce, this woman is kind, this woman stands up for herself and others and what she believes in, and she’s great with kids. oh and she’s literally the greatest fucking sniper in the universe. but nobody ever sees past her bra size enough to notice all of that and i will FIGHT EVERYONE WHO BADMOUTHS YOKO LITTNER
3. diggy hole
THE EVOLUTION. OF THIS MAN. FROM A TIMID LITTLE AUTISTIC DIGGER BOY. TO THE GREATEST FUCKING HERO IN ALL OF EXISTENCE *chef kiss*. who the HELL do you even think he fucking be. deku heroacademia ain’t got NOTHING on this specimen.
4. mr. genome was my father, call me lord
ok maybe i just like the heel face turn villains in this series a little more than i probably should, but like, i have a lot of appreciation for this dude especially after watching his parallel works episode. like he may have been the villain in the first half of the show but his actions well before the story and even during the story laid the groundwork for team dai gurren to succeed in the second half, and honestly he probably knew this? like, his oppressive ruling of all of earth was intended to protect its inhabitants from the anti spirals in the first place, and like arguably since the anti spirals were doing the same thing to all of space then you could say he was basically just a smaller scope version of them? and you can slowly see him as the supercomputer gradually regain his personality and yet he keeps helping team dai gurren anyway because he realizes that This Is It, these are the exact kind of people who can defeat the anti spiral, because they defeated him already. i think lordgenome more than anyone understood the fundamental nature of the world that he lived in.
5. antichrist
i just really like this fucker’s antics and aesthetic honestly. like, an omnipotent lovecraftian space hivemind represented by an astral projection of a Negative Human Person is in an of itself quite the concept for a villain, and in a series that doesn’t make sense (like franxx) they’d just stop there and call that a day, but they decided to give the anti spiral actual depth and complexity. while still making them act like the emotionless anime asshole villain who’s better than you because they just are. but you see that facade slowly fade near the end when they’re pushed to the edge of defeat and give in to their base spiral emotions and UGH it’s just SO FUCKIN- THIS IS MY FAVORITE ANIME OF ALL TIME FOR GOOD FUCKIN REASON.
