Tengen Toppa Gurren-Lagann Review

What better way to spend part of a four-day weekend than watching Gurren-Lagann?

I finished watching it on Friday, but spent the last two days randomly watching three or four scenes from the final three episodes because it was just that good. In fact, it left me with that empty, sinking feeling that happens upon the completion of a really, really good book, when it feels as though you can never read anything again and enjoy it because nothing can ever live up to what you finished. I can’t remember the last time that happened with anime. (Honey and Clover, maybe?)

In any case, that’s how good it was. I’ve waited a few days to really try to write up a review because I don’t think I could have summoned up the willpower to write anything even remotely objective earlier.

Spoilers ahead.

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