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Apr 25, 2009 · Seven years after the defeat of the Spiral King, Simon and the Dai-Gurren brigade must set out to the vastness of space to defeat a new threat and save the universe. The last high-stakes battle for Simon and his team is about to begin.
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Gurren Lagann the Movie - The Lights in the Sky Are Stars (2008) View more photos Movie Info Synopsis After the Spiral King's defeat, humans reclaim the surface of the Earth and...
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(known in Japan as 劇場版 天元突破グレンラガン 螺巌篇 (Gekijōban Tengen Toppa Guren Ragan Ragan Hen) or Film Version Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann: The Spiral Stone Chapter), or simply Lagann-hen, is the second Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann movie and the sequel to Gurren Lagann The Movie: Childhood's End. It is based on the second half of the series, from episodes 15 through to 27.
The Japanese DVD release of Gurren Lagann The Movie: The Lights in the Sky are Stars contained as one of its Special Features, the final chapter of the Otoko Series, Otoko-gumi dayo! Gurren Lagann.
Fall of the Spiral King
The film begins with Spiral King Lordgenome telling Simon and Nia that although they feel they are on the side of righteousness, that he is the true protector of humanity. The Battle for Teppelin has been ongoing to the seventh day now. The battle unfolds around Dekabutsu. Nia, her hair shorter now than at the end of Childhood's End, is awoken by Boota licking her. Looking up, Simon in Lagann is being beaten into the ground by her father Lordgenome. Simon cannot produce drills anymore; his Spiral Power is exhausted. Despite Nia's pleas that Simon win because she believes in him, Lordgenome rips of Lagann's arms with a crazed laugh. In the past, Simon lets Nia jump into Gurren Lagann's palm. Aretenborough fires all of Dai-Gurren's turrets at the countless enemy Gunmen being dispatched by Dekabutsu. All of Team Dai-Gurren's Gunmen are dispatched, as well as the numerous Dai-Guns hijacked since Childhood's End. Kittan is overwhelmed in his King Kittan Deluxe, but Yoko in her Yoko M Tank tells him that they cannot back down; they must press on to honor the lives lost. Simon agrees. In the throne room of Teppelin, Viral wonders why the humans don't fear death. Lordgenome asks if Viral fears humans. Viral says that he does not, and merely wants to know what humans are. Apparently, Lordgenome made Viral immortal, but not to battle, as seen when Viral in Enkidudu attempts to defeat Gurren Lagann, but is swept aside all too easily. Lordgenome attacks in Lazengann, but when Simon drills apart one of its hands, Lordgenome drills through Gurren's chest. Rossiu, having narrowly avoided being impaled, tells Simon to attack now. Lagann jettisons from Gurren, and attempts to Lagann Impact into Lazengann. Matching Lagann Impact with a tremendous drill formed from his own Spiral Power, Lordgenome attempts to pull out all the stops to crush Simon. Simon shouts that everyone in Team Dai-Gurren believes in him, the him that his Bro believed in, the him that he believes in, so he can't possibly lose to the likes of Lordgenome. Sure enough, Lagann's drill shatters Lazengann's and impacts in the chest of the Spiral King's personal Gunmen. Lordgenome, infuriated that Lazengann failed to do its job, stomps out and punches Lagann off. Back in the present day, Lordgenome grabs the seemingly unconscious Simon by the head to put him back in the dirt. Nia calls out to Simon, who pulls the Core Drill out of Lagann and impales it in Lordgenome's chest. Calling himself Simon the Digger, leader of Team Dai-Gurren, Simon says that anyone who becomes a wall to him will have a hole punched through them by his drill. Twisting the Core Drill unleashes a torrent of Spiral Power through Lordgenome, tearing a hole through his chest. His Spiral Power outstripped by someone else's, Lordgenome's dying words are a warning: when the apes pierce the heavens and reach outer space, the Moon will become Hell's messenger and destroy the world of the Spiral. Nia runs up to her father as he falls from the wrecked throne room. Bidding farewell to her father, Nia vows to head towards tomorrow. Dekabutsu, its master passed on, collapses. Gurren Lagann returns to Team Dai-Gurren the victor. Humanity is free from the Spiral King's oppression.
Freedom on the Surface
Time passes. A montage ensues. Dekabutsu's remains have become monuments to humanity's victory; the main body becoming the Parliament Tower of the city being built there. Stolen Gunmen are used to build the city. A young Guinble and Cybela yell after Leeron and Rossiu, apparently eager to help. Rossiu pores through book after book. Simon becomes the Supreme Commander of the capital of Earth, Kamina City. Gunmen are re-engineered into cars, buses, boats, trains, planes, and other forms of transport. Mass-production mechas, based off of research on Gurren Lagann, called the Grapearls, are created, with Gimmy and Darry, now adolescents, having distinct models. Simon begins drilling away at a massive block of stone in the center square of Kamina City. Dayakka and Kiyoh get married, though he embarrasses her with a face someone drew on his belly during the reception. The Grapearl Squadron track down Viral in Enkidudu, defeat him, and take him and several renegade Beastmen into custody. Simon has crafted a distinct hand, pointing towards the heavens, out of the top of the granite block. Humanity has developed phenomenally in such a short span of time. Simon's statue, now complete, is of Kamina himself, pointing towards the heavens Simon was meant to pierce. A Moon probe Gun-rocket takes off from a launch pad, moon-bound. The title Lagann-hen appears. Seven years have passed since the fall of Teppelin, and Kamina City has expanded greatly. Nia is writing a letter to Kamina in her diary, even though he is dead (which she acknowledges). She always feels like talking to him when she sees his statue in the middle of Kamina City. She explains that Simon is doing his best as Supreme Commander (though he looks distinctly weary of all the paperwork to sign). She mentions Rossiu getting angry at the Team Dai-Gurren members who are in the New Government, and she says that he can occasionally get irritating with his seriousness. Yoko, it seems, left a year after the fall of Teppelin, and told Nia (and apparently, only Nia) that she is now a school teacher, teaching children about hope for the future. Makken and Leyte have gotten married and had three kids, and Leyte is still as strong as ever. Also, Dayakka and Kiyoh also got married and had a little baby girl. Nia concludes her letter by asking Kamina if this city, named after him, has lived up to the dreams he had for humanity, and if his dreamed future and their actual future are the same. In his Supreme Commander office, Simon tells Nia that perhaps it is time to live the same life together; to see the same things, hear the same sounds, and share the same laugh. His eyes will be her eyes, and her ears will be his ears. Simon pulls out a ring set with a small emerald. He has proposed to Nia. Nia's response is a warm smile, and two words: "No way!" Kiyoh and Kiyal, having been told this by Nia herself, demand to know why she turned Simon down. Nia explains that she thinks two people couldn't really become the same person. Frustrated by Nia's literal interpretation of Simon's proposal, Kiyoh explains that it was just a figure of speech, and how Simon's words made her feel is what's really important. Nia looks at the ring on her finger.
The Descent of the Anti-Spiral
That night, Nia and Simon meet near the now-derelict remains of Dai-Gurren. She likes how the Moon looks tonight, and Simon said that Kamina wanted to go there. Now that they are, Kamina's dream has come true. Nia explains that her dream is to plant flowers all over the world, so that small animals and bugs will have a nice, green place to live. Simon wants to help her, but she insists that Simon has his own things to do, being a different person from her. But, she says warmly, different people try to understand each other, and she wants to know more about Simon. They will always be together, and she will always want to know more about him. She wants Simon to want to know more about her, too. Nia then thanks the stunned Simon for the ring, for which she is very happy. Simon asks if this means she will marry him. Nia has a warm smile, and one word: "Yes!" Looking happier than ever before in his life, Simon embraces Nia, then reaches down for a kiss. The Anti-Spiral's face appears on the Moon, and the Gun-rocket explodes. Nia jolts, and looks at the Moon. Circuits appear under her skin, and Simon backs away in alarm. Nia screams in horror at what is happening. At Parliament Tower, Rossiu demands to know how the Moon probe Gunmen could have been destroyed when the screen is engulfed with a shadowy image of Nia, standing before the Moon. The same image appears on every TV on Earth, even on Yoko's TV in her small teacher's home. Nia announces that the Anti-Spiral have determined that, by going into outer space, humanity has reached Spiral Power danger level 2, thus activating the Humanity Annihilation System. Nia explains to Simon that the overuse of Spiral Power will cause the death of the universe, the Spiral Nemesis. Simon's Core Drill is the symbol of that destruction. She coldly places the blame for the Humanity Annihilation System on Simon's shoulders; if humanity had stayed underground, the system would not have been triggered. Despite Simon's desperate protestations, Nia explains that the Moon will crash into the Earth in three weeks, and that that will be the end of it. Her dress disintegrates, to be replaced by a black skin-tight bodysuit with glowing circuits. Nia muses on the irony of the Anti-Spiral messenger being born as Lordgenome's daughter, but states that having become an Anti-Spiral, she can never be made human again. A digital portal opens, allowing the entry of a bizarre, faceless mecha into Kamina City. Nia floats back into it, ignoring Simon's pleas. A second, identical mecha descends from another identical portal into the streets of Kamina City, wasting little time before beginning to blast apart the streets. The Grapearls are dispatched to face these Anti-Spiral mecha, which Gimmy dubs Mugann, since they have no faces (mugan is Japanese for faceless). However, Grapearl Blasters and the Grapearl Blade are ineffective, and soon, Gimmy and Darry's Grapearls are the only ones left. Back at Parliament Tower, the Team Dai-Gurren members who piloted Gunmen lament their Gunmen being scrapped; otherwise, the Mugann would have been taken down. Darry tries to sneak attack the Mugann, but they fire at her. Gurren Lagann's drill deflects the blast, saving her, Simon arriving into the battle. Rossiu tries to convince him to fall back, since this isn't the Supreme Commander's job. Simon retorts that his #1 job is to protect the people of Kamina City.as kittan and a few members of Dai-Gurren shout out "Woo hoo, finish him off!" His drill begins to absorb power from the Mugann's energy beams. Bolting forward, Simon destroys one Mugann, then the other. Their remnant polygons descend to the city streets and detonate. Gut-punched, Simon can only watch as fire-emergency Grapearls are dispatched to deal with the blazes. Looking up, he sees the Anti-Spiral Messenger Nia hovering in the distance. Arriving at Parliament Tower, he sees riots of people telling him that the Moon falling is his fault, that he should either go away or deal with the Moon. Rioters pull down Simon's statue of Kamina.
•Kinon is seen smiling in the background just after Gurren Lagann shows up to face the Mugann for the first time.
•In the scene where the Anti-Spiral begins analyzing Nia's data, scenes from Childhood's End can be seen on the Anti-Spiral's body, as can scenes from Episode 12 of Yoko cutting Nia's hair, implying that Nia perhaps had it cut after the defeat of the Do-Ten-Kai-Zan.
•While Super Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann is active, Yoko and Nia's nipples are plainly visible. Apparently, the production team realized that Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann would possibly end up being the only Gainax anime not to show female nipples plainly onscreen, so they presented them as is.
•You Yoshinari did not do designs for either Super Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann or Super Granzeboma before he started animating the final battle. He designed them one frame at a time as he animated the sequence.
•When the Super Tengen Toppa Giga Drill Break and Anti-Spiral Giga Drill Break collide, an infinity symbol (a sideways number 8) appears briefly when the Anti-Spiral universe collapses.
•Lagann-hen is a pun on the name of Simon's Gunmen, and perhaps reflects on how Kamina named it. The first kanji in the "Ragan" of Lagann-hen means "spiral", and the second means 'stone'. Basically, Lagann is a mecha that was unearthed with a 'spiral' (the appearance of a drill from head-on) from the 'stone'.
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