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Fields	USA Info	Japanese Info	Image
Title	Gurren Lagann	Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann(天元突破グレンラガン)
· · ·		Break-Through Heaven Gurren Lagann
Released	27 TV Episodes	27 TV Episodes
Dates	February 26, 2008	April 1, 2007–Sept 30, 2007
Company	ADV Films, Bandai Ent.	Gainax/Aniplex/Konami/TV Tokyo
Creator		Kazuki Nakashima, GAINAX
Director		Hiroyuki Imaishi
Genre	Action, Adventure, Comedy, Mecha	Action, Adventure, Comedy, Mecha
Characters	Ailac	Ailac
· · ·	Boota	Boota
· · ·	Darry	Darry
· · ·	Dayakka	Dayakka
· · ·	Enki	Enki
· · ·	-- more listed below --	-- more listed below --

Last I checked, this anime seemed to be unavailable, but you could check again at the online stores to be sure.

In the future, mankind has been reduced to living underground, establishing villages beneath the surface. Contact between other villages or the surface is non-existent, and because of constant earthquakes, the villages has to expand deeper underground. This is a task left to special people known as "diggers".

Simon is a 14 year-old digger, an orphaned boy who is employed by the elders of his underground village. When he rescues another orphan named Kamina, he discovers a special key that gives him access to a robot that enables him to reach the surface – which just happens to be inhabited by mutants bent on wiping out all of humanity!

However, with the help of a busty sharpshooter from another village named Yoko – not to mention stealing one of the mutants' battle machines, Simon not only stops them – but enables humanity to once again gain control of the surface. But no sooner than the humans establish themselves again that Team Dai-Gurren, Simon's group, has to defend them against a new threat!

Note: ADV Films lost the license to Gurren Lagann when it dropped in from their inventory in mid 2007 (and added it again in late 2007), and awarded it to Bandai Entertainment. It is unclear as to what will happen to the dubs that were done.

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In a bleak future where humanity has been driven to a life underground, humans have no contact with each other or any knowledge about the outside world. Gurren Lagann tells the story of an orphaned boy named Simon, a digger who lives in Jiiha Villiage. His liFe changes when he meets a energetic and eccentric man named Kamina. Befriending him and calling him his "brother" he learns of Kamina's dream to one day travel to the surface world.

Soon enough his dream is realized when Simon digs up a mysterious robot named the Gurren Lagann. Together, with Kamina and the sharpshooter Yoko they travel throughout the surface world, learning of existence of the Beastmen, the threat that has forced humanity underground.

With the massive power of Gurren Lagann, they gain more and more allies as they fight against the Beastmen and their powerful robots known as Ganmen. However, Simon will soon learn of the great destiny that lies ahead of him, in which will one day decide the very fate of all life itself.....

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• Sorairo Days- Opening theme by Shoko Nakagawa