The Gattai Mugen Gattai Gurren Dan Lagann Review

 
 A short review featuring my collection from 2 years ago from Gurren Lagann series. I might not be particularly big Gurren Lagann fan mainly due to obnoxious fanboy I encountered during my younger times, but I do admit the merit of the series as well-made Super Robot series despite I find some of the aspects were way too over the top.As such I consider Gurren Lagann to be worthy to join my mecha collections and in the end I picked The Gattai Gurren Dan Lagann.

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.

February 2023 Loot

  I think this month is one of my most active period over past few years, and to close it off here is my haul for February 2023. Another big catch since my long due 52Toys and Goodsmile preorder finally arrived. Fistly got myself some Rozen Maiden Pop Up Parade as my way to get back in touch with this series and also some Genshin Acrylics which are quite cheap for the character rarity. Obviously the biggest catch of this loot is The Gattai Guren Lagann which is definitely the right choice for me over CCS Toys option. I am not really into FGO anymore since I am already very fed up with the game but i will still support the series a little bit even though i think Typemoon deserve to be bankrupt for making FGO so stagnant. Lastly I am happy that my Nendoroid Skadi finally arrive and I don't think even think that Slyhe soyboy is willing to buy this one.

The GATTAI Mugen Gattai Gurren Lagann

  A surprising entry for Guren Lagann but a welcome one nonetheless! Recently there have been some movement for Guren Lagann series indicating something will be up for the series once again. Sentinel did their part with Riobot Guren Lagann costing whopping 32000 yen and then GSC followed up with Mugen Gattai Guren Lagann which appear to be better bargain. Scheduled for November release with 24900 Yen price tag, Mugen Gattai Guren Lagann feature 8 Ganmen robots including Guren Lagann that has awesome gimmick of combining into one Giant Robot.

At one glance Mugen Gattai Guren Lagann reminds me of Bandai's particular combiner robot from Doraemon and Disney series, serving as better application of the concept. In terms of design this version of Guren Lagann are somewhere in between Guren Lagann and Arc Guren Lagann. As long as Guren Lagann unit articulation is good enough, Mugen Gattai will be a valuable collectible for the fans considering Sentinel's pricing are pretty much unaffordable except for High-end dedicated collectors. I am quite sure Bandai will have something in response for this move by GSC since their last contribution for the series were SRC and NXEdge.

Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann

Great anime but Overrated