Screw you Gainax, screw you…

A movie adap­ta­tion lacks the time for details that a series enjoy. With that in mind, the sec­ond movie of Ten­gen Toppa Gur­ren Lagann: Lagann-hen was as good as it gets. Yes, it skived out a lot of the details from the early parts of the TTGL episodes range that it’s sup­pose to cover, but the bonuses it did add in totally destroyed any com­plaints I would have had. Seri­ously, the cli­matic bat­tle of Lagann-hen makes the final boss fight of Gur­ren Lagann TV series look like a cat­fight in com­par­i­son. Not to men­tion they did a bet­ter job clar­i­fy­ing the Spi­ral Neme­sis, and Lord Genome’s lit­tle Tron adven­ture were both brick-shitting and hilar­i­ous at the same time (screen­cap, 2).

WHO THE HELL DO YOU THINK WE ARE!?! –is some­thing I want to say to Gainax

My beef with the movie how­ever, lays in how badly Gainax’s mood pac­ing ruined my emo­tional con­trol for an entire night, and not in a good way. Deliv­er­ing absolute despair to your fan is not cool. I guess they’ve accom­plished their objec­tive: I can never for­get this movie now. But that still doesn’t mean I want to watch it a sec­ond time; at least, not all of it.

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So Honya finally started the sec­ond round to the anime fam­ily project. Yay! It also means it’s time for me to pub­lish this post that I started two months ago. About time. There’s been quite a few changes in my anime fam­ily, reflect­ing upon how my views have shifted over the two years since Honya’s first anime fam­ily project startup. But I think this time, a few more of the char­ac­ters have entered the frame to set­tle down permanently.

The bestest true end I wish for

The anime fam­ily project is, in a nut­shell, a selec­tion of char­ac­ters from anime, manga, vis­novs, et cetera, that are assigned to roles in your ideal fic­tional family.

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