Gurren Lagann episode five is available from Anime in Action here in Torrent form. Anime in Action right now is the #1 fansubber for Gurren Lagann with Kamina being second, anon being third, and nyron being fourth. So as of right now go with AiA’s releases of Gurren Lagann.
Episode Summary
While traveling through the wastelands of their planet they accidentally fall down a hole into another village. The village is just like theirs, except their supplies are even worse off. Not only that but they have a very zealous religion going on worshiping none other then a ganmen! It’s up to Kamina and Simon to help this village from their cult like attitude… but is that the best thing for them? Are they really going to throw people out of their village for over population?
Episode Review
This episode was just after the “travesty” that was episode four. By “travesty” I really mean alright episode. Anyway, it was rather good. The episode style was dark… very dark. A change from last episode’s wacky wild animation fun time and the previous three’s quality standard animation. What does this mean? Nothing much, other then the fact they were in a dark underground area and the dark drawing style kind of gave off that vibe.
You meet three new members of the gurren-dan this episode. Rossiu, Gimmy, and Darry. Excellent members, although lacking a ton of Burning Justice. There is some hardcore sadness involve when they go into detail about their situation and how they are unable to feed but so many people and any above that have to be thrown out of the village.
The darkness of this episode kind of forshadows that Gurren Lagann isn’t just happy funtime stuff. It’s a serious tale of men fighting for survival with Kamina and Simon at the lead.
Based solely on Kamina this gets a max rating no matter what.
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