Promare

  Couple years ago a particular Anime Movie by Studio Trigger called Promare popped up out of nowhere with tons of merchandise. The only thing I remember is that the blue haired Main Protagonist got that same attitude like Kamina from Guren Lagann. I finally decided to give Promare a watch since it was part of Super Mecha Champion collabs for some reason while the latter appear to meet its demise in near feature. Overall Promare is what you will expect from a product made by former Gainax animator team which are never short of Over the Top Mecha series with some attitude. And this movie is the testament that Studio Trigger proves themselves to be capable of thriving without the popular IPs squatted by the Gainax boomer Execs.

 Promare is what you get if Guren Lagann series are mixed with Fire Force and X-Men where Kamina decided to be a Firefighter while Simon become the charismatic Freedom Fighter leader for the oppressed people with Pyrokinesis ability.  All in all Promare did its job properly for a Movie length anime though it will take some more effort to have this series still remembered in the years to come. But if we don't have any legal BS, we could expect Promare will have a good tag team with Guren Lagann in future SRW titles. Wouldn't mind some Pop Up Parade for Lio de Galon though kinda hard to expect one given the time windows has passed. Promare definitely will find a place for Gurren Lagann fans as Lio and Galo's bromance is very similar to Kamina and Simon. I even see many influences in Promare that will carry over in Cyberpunk Edgerunners like the Adam Smasher.