Simon Get Your Drill! Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann Burning Attack Chapter Coming to Stage This Fall!

 

Gainax is putting Gurren Lagann on stage as the new compilation play Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann ~Honougeki-Hen~. Of all the things you could make into a stage play, GL is not among the first things to come to mind, but whatever you have to do, company of weirdo anime nerds that make up Gainax.

There’s unfortunately not much information on this other than it exists. The front page links are all currently gray including cast. But that makes sense because the one link that does work is open auditions. If you ever wanted to be part of a robot show and happen to be in the right part of Japan, you have a chance. You have to submit this application with a bust shot and a full body shot. They are currently looking for men between around 18 to 35 and women between around 18 to 30.

You can keep up with the play production on the main site here. I hope this is a musical.

Aim for Surpassing God or Devil of the Heavens! Mazin Lagann Buster!

A little bit ago back in October, there was a new set Soul of Chogokin figure set of Gurren Lagann and Gunbuster. The best thing about these is that their parts were interchangeable with each other and with some older Chogokin figures, so you’d get awesome things like this.

Looks like the concept was in good hands because this Tamashii interview with Gurren Lagann animation director and key animator Akira Amemiya and another artist/designer for Bandai whose name I can’t translate to save my life shows that they’re interested in making a new figure and maybe a show based on that idea.

It’s a pretty good poster. A lot of the interview talks about design and and drawing, how drawing Gurren Lagann after so many years feels nostalgic, designing how Mazinger parts like the Scrander would be used, even at one point talking about a Mazinger Weapon Set. It’s really cool that this is getting considered because I’ve wanted a Gurren Lagann 70s style team up movie forever.

Yes, like this, but with the above robots and made during a time when studios had money.

If it gets off the ground, you can be sure we’re going to be all over this.

Getter Robo vs. Gurren Lagann.gif

Whoever made these gets the highest praise for the effort alone, and it’s cool on top of that. Somebody made me aware of this little series of .gifs where Ryoma and Simon duke it by turning into Getter 1 and Gurren Lagann. Check it out the album here, and check out the guy’s totally sweet Tumblr with this and other totally sweet things here.

Ryoma strikes me as a chamomile man.

The mystery creator of these has my thanks for letting me show them and may now step forward and claim their “Pretty Cool Dude” prize, because that’s totally sweet. Ideally, it’ll lead to increased interest in this idea and we’ll finally get that 70s style movie, “Getter Robo tai Gurren Lagann.”

It lives on, if only in my heart.