Gurren Lagann Eps 16-21 - Summary

[xyzzysqrl]

A long time in the future, on Earth...

PREVIOUSLY ON GURREN LAGANN

It was a period of really goofy war. Human rebels, striking from a giant battleship with legs, had won a major victory over the evil Spiral Empire. During the battle, our hero managed to punch the empire's leader, Lord Genome, with a drill pendant so hard he exploded. This of course bought about a period of peace and prosperity, marred only by Lord Genome's dying words: "When one million monkeys walk the earth, the moon will become a DEATH STAR and totally kill the hell out of you all."

SEVEN YEARS LATER...

It is EVEN MORE the future. Humanity has built KAMINA CITY, where refuges are herded into. They have rediscovered LOST TECHNOLOGY like BUILDINGS (which have faces) and CARS (which have faces) and CELPHONES (which have faces) and VIDEO GAMES (seriously the entire city is watching you it's creepy).

They have also rediscovered OPPRESSIVE GOVERNMENT.

Rossiu: "That one was mine!"
Simon: "Yep. Everyone is living happily in peace. I've proposed to Nia! By the way, are we close to one million people aboveground yet?"

Elsewhere, baby #million is born.
Nia: "Ohsh..."
Nia becomes EVIL because of the awakening of a THING on the Moon. The thing on the moon then sends EVIL POLYGON ROBOTS through a portal to blow up Kamina City.

Kyttan, other Gurren Brigade members who are now the Government: "CRAP! Under attack! Where's our giant robots?"
Rossiu: "Old and busted. I had 'em thrown out. Behold: The new hotness."

The -new- giant robot brigade is sent out. It includes those two adorable kids from way earlier, you remember, the cute.. oh, watch the series. Anyway, everybody except them is blown up.

Kyttan, squinting at monitor: "The new hotness kind of blows."
Simon: "GURREN LAGANN, GO!"
Rossiu: "...what. HEY. You're not supposed to have that!"

Simon blows up ALL the alien invaders.
Population below: "YAY! WE LOVE YOU, SIMON!"
The pieces of the alien invaders fall to Earth and blow giant hunks out of Kamina City.
Population below, same breath: "SIMON, YOU ASSHOLE! GO TO JAIL!"
Rossiu: "Hey, you heard 'em. We need a scapegoat and you'll have to do. Kangaroo court sentences you to die rotting in jail."

Rossiu then goes out to make a speech about how awful Simon is and how they're all going to have to move off planet because he has a genius plan to not die. People throw rocks at him. I am probably not supposed to wish that people actually reacted to governmental authority this way.

Rossiu, sulky, returns inside and goes to talk to the only person who really understands him: His disembodied, reanimated head of Lord Genome. This is probably supposed to be shocking, but really explains a -lot-.

MEANWHILE, down in the Science Room, Attenborough and Leeron are inventing AWESOME CRAP. I love you, Attenborrough. Have my deformed muppet babies. They'll make our dreams come true.

Simon shows up in prison to find VIRAL. Remember Viral? There is NOT actually any hot prison mansex, but there IS a mostly-naked shower room fistfight, which I will accept instead. Then Nia shows up in Evil Glowing Tron form to mock the hell out of Simon, because she's working for the Anti-Spirals now. Viral seems vaguely amused by this.

Then, YOKO shows up! You remember Yoko? She went off and became a teacher, and was the awesomest grade school teacher ever! Then she breaks Simon out of prison. I am glossing over a LOT of stuff here because I want this goddamn summary OUT.

FINALLY:

Viral: "Huh. Well, bye."
Simon: "Wanna break out of jail with me?"
Viral: "Meh. What would I do out there?"
Simon: "Wanna co-pilot Gurren Lagann and beat the living shit out of a bunch of bad guys?"
Viral: "..."

IN SPACE:

Rossiu: "...sigh. Everyone left on Earth is going to die. Only the people we crammed onto the Ark will survive. Life sucks. Even my talking Genome head seems vaguely pissed at me. And now, we're being ambushed as we leave orbit by a MASS of Anti-Spirals. What could happen next?"

Simon: "Hu--"
Viral: "Beast--"
Both: "--MAN AND MACHINE - POWER SUPREME! WE COMBINE TO FORM A SHINING BEACON OF AWESOME."

Gurren Lagann promptly punches the hell out of the enemy ambush.

Rossiu: "...maybe I'll overlook the "escaped from jail" thing."



THERE. Now I can get back to actually WATCHING anime. Woohoo!

Comments

[relee.livejournal.com]

Yaysauce! Finally! It's awesome! Enjoy Anime!

So are you going to do it for the remaining episodes?

[xyzzysqrl]

Yep.

[fandomgreen.livejournal.com]

Evil Tron-Clothed Nia is MINE.

YOU CAN'T HAVE HER, WORLD

[xyzzysqrl]

You can have her! Yoko's more my type. Or Super Science Garage Lady.

[fandomgreen.livejournal.com]

You can have her!

YAY!! XD

[bossgoji.livejournal.com]

People throw rocks at him. I am probably not supposed to wish that people actually reacted to governmental authority this way.

Three cheers for Bruce Ironstaunch!