Gurren Lagann

Gurren Lagann is Gainax's hyper-kinetic super robot anime — a series of such relentless, escalating ambition and emotional grandeur that it became an instant classic upon its 2007 release and remains one of the most electrifying viewing experiences in anime. Simon, a timid underground digger, teams up with the impossibly hot-blooded Kamina and the brilliant Yoko to break through the surface world and discover a universe locked in an endless war between humans and the Spiral King Lordgenome. Then the scale escalates. Then it escalates again. Then it escalates to a degree that defies description — galaxies are thrown like shuriken, the human spirit is expressed as a physical force of creation, and the final arc achieves a kind of operatic excess that no other anime has matched. Hiroyuki Imaishi's direction is pure kinetic energy. Gurren Lagann is the most enthusiastic, most inspiring, most BELIEVE-IN-YOURSELF anime ever made. Drill through the heavens.