Complete Gurren Lagann Filler List (OFFICIAL)

Updated April 19, 2022 by

Many of us are aware of adventurous fiction anime like Fairy Tail, Hunter X Hunter, and the ever popular One Piece. For the longest time, we focused on the series airing with episodes past 50 or even 100, or those with so many seasons. We practically breezed past the one-season-only anime series.

Okay, we tend to be picky when it comes to the genres of series, but who on earth doesn’t like adventure? To those who, like me, love adventure anime, now is your chance to shine! Please welcome, Gurren Lagann.

Now, Gurren Lagann used to be popular, but that doesn’t mean that it was dragged under the rug. In fact, fans still continue to bring this anime back on different social media sites like Reddit, Tumblr and Instagram through different forms, be it posts, memes, or even fanarts. To be honest, the shounen MC as a little kid reminded me a lot of that guy who punches like Saitama from One-Punch Man but with green hair. Anyway, Anahori Simon, the MC, became a hotshot among many others because of his growth sometime later in the series.

Before this humble weeb starts muttering up a storm about it, here is the COMPLETE Gurren Lagann Filler List! It will guide you in focusing on the main plot of the series and ignore the filler portions. Give QuoteTheAnime a round of applause for that and let’s go begin our adventure!

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FILLER LIST

HISTORY

Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann (or Gurren Lagann for short) Season 1 started airing from April 1, 2007 to September 30, 2007, having a total of 27 episodes, each lasting 23 minutes. It was animated by Gainax and co-produced by Aniplex.

You might know Studio Gainax for producing the Neon Genesis Evangelion of 1997. Sure, it’s old, but for the past few years, they have been scattering and expanding all over Japan.

Apparently, there were several changes to the setting of the events, and a lot of additional backstories filling the gaps in the anime, but otherwise, Gainax did a pretty good job sticking to the manga’s plot. No one would really want to know what I’d do when I find an anime that doesn’t stick to the original plot.

Maybe hide in a bunker or burn my books to ash, including schoolwork. Moving away from all that morbid, dangerous thoughts and ideas, take a look at the complete and seemingly harmless filler guide for Gurren Lagann Season 1!

PLOT

Once you’re done staring at Gurren Lagann’s table, you might want to take a sneak-peak at the plot. Don’t worry, for I am here to save you from boredom! Take a look into the adventures of Gurren Lagann.

Lo and behold, this is how the story of Gurren Lagann began. The World was ruled by a tyrannical ruler called Lordgenome, the Spiral King. Under his rule, people were persecuted, and in their desperate need to survive, they came up with a solution that will keep them safe. They created villages underground, scattered on various locations of the World. I know, it sounds dangerous, but how else are they supposed to survive?

Definitely not on the Surface where it was far more dangerous and chaotic than the peaceful safety of the land below. Going back to the Surface would be considered a suicide mission. Among the citizens of one of these villages, a lonely orphan searched for ancient objects – really, this is his only way to pass the time. He is a teenager called Simon the Digger.

In the future, he would eventually have a growth spurt and evolve into a powerful and well-loved man, praised for being like a machine – no, not a mecha, more like a hardworking person that works so hard he’s like a machine. He would become popular—esteemed even, because he became a hero whose story will be passed on like a legend, maybe even a myth, to generations after his days. He became a hero because he fought and gained victory against the impossible brought down upon and against him by other, universal Worlds.

Another teenager in the story, Simon’s self-appointed brother called Kamina, is a warm-headed badass that dreams of going to the Surface, following the same dreams as his father. Yeah, of course, why wouldn’t there be another character that follows their father’s dream.

Anyway, going back to the story, both Simon and Kamina wanted to go to the Surface after spending their childhood years living in their underground village.

On their insistence, the villagers consistently – to the point of exhaustion, even – say that the Surface does not exist. Now, the idea of going back to the Surface was not on a childish whim. It had to come from somewhere. A few days before the idea and a plan was formed, Simon found a strange, drill-shaped key on one of his daily look-outs for ancient objects.

He and Kamina looked at every nook and cranny for something that would connect or at least react to the key. Day after day, night after night, there was none.

When they were close to giving up, several days after finding the weird key, something reacted. Neither of them expected such a thing to react to the key in their possession – a pint-sized mecha. Curiosity getting the best of them, they went to their village elders to know where the mecha is connected to, which led to the idea that maybe, it was from the Surface.

Back to the present, the village elders continued to insist that the Surface does not exist, and that there is no reason for them to believe that it DOES exist. There is definitely no reason for such a weird construct as a “mecha” reacting to the weirder appearance of the drill-shaped key.

They were shaken out of their stupor when the roof of the village began falling. No, not the village – the very ceiling of the underground space their village is situated in. Debris and destruction lit the village ablaze as further collateral damage was placed on it. Lives were lost.

More children became orphans, wives becoming widows. “BANG!” came the sound of a—wait was THAT A GUNSHOT? Someone – or rather something, a huge something, shot a young woman on a street in the village. That something had a gigantic, terrifying, robotic head. If the size of the head was gigantic, who knows how much bigger the main body was.

CONCLUSION

Alright! All that is over, and it makes me want to watch Gurren Lagann all over again. I hope you like the tidbits of exaggeration, but that’s how I normally react to anime – EXAGGERATED. Let us know if you liked our Gurren Lagann Filler List and how it was written out. Or else I’m gonna—NOPE! Going to stop right there. We don’t need a traumatized audience with that. If you liked this filter, please let us know, and be sure to share it to your friends if you are impressed! Go on! COMMENT NOW!

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