I don’t think Gurren Lagann is meant to be taken seriously; it struck me, when I was watching it, as a reductio of the old-style mecha genre (a loving one, one done by fans of it, but still a reductio). It’s a funny quip because it’s so contradictory to the usual believe-in-yourself spiel, is all.
I don’t think Gurren Lagann is meant to be taken seriously; it struck me, when I was watching it, as a reductio of the old-style mecha genre (a loving one, one done by fans of it, but still a reductio). It’s a funny quip because it’s so contradictory to the usual believe-in-yourself spiel, is all.