TTGL is the deepest and more mature anime of all time.
The intense, powerful truth of it's themes is masterfully concealed to the majority of viewers - hence why it's "deep" it requires the viewer to "dig".
It's not just "dumb fun", that's a trojan horse, to create occult and changes to the subtle body of the viewers following an hidden magican chain that as far as I know is at least 5000 years old, if not older. I guess the "dumb fun" components serve not only as an artistic choice to make the product more enjoyable, hypnotic, and break unconscious barriers, but also to avoid censorship by the powers that be.
What’s it about
See for yourself.
Overcoming odds with mechs powered by will power. Many plot twists. You can watch the 2 movies if you don't wanna watch the tv series.
If you end up liking it I would start with the tv show. Since that will be more immersive with cliffhangers and stuff. It's my favorite anime to this day, but my friend who likes moe shit said it was boring. Probably because he's low test and don't understand MASCULINE WILL POWER.
Yoko's breasts and midriff and hips and navel
Spirals.
The final battle likens the "spiral power" which got the main characters to where they are today to both DNA and Galaxies. It went full "as above, so below".
big robots
Neon Genesis
As a lagann fan I never understood the appeal of eva
I had a ayuhasca trip a couple of months before watching Neon Genesis Evangelion.
The final 2 chapters, while incredibly hated by the fandom, is the best visual description of "ego death".
I fucking love gurren lagan too.
>The final 2 chapters, while incredibly hated by the fandom, is the best visual description of "ego death".
this. the last two episodes + EoE (they are companion pieces) perfectly encapsulate ego death. Since I learned that magic mushrooms were available in japan in the 90s, I'm like 99% convinced it was inspired by psychedelics, and imo no other piece of media captures the feeling better
rejecting the false dichotomy of runaway advancement at the expense of everything else vs rejecting modernity and resetting everything to return to simpler times
man must be in a constant battle to be on the right path, always holding the reins of progress and steering it in the right direction instead of letting it drive itself or rejecting it all out of fear
same can be seen across the getter robo franchise
it's kind of poetic that the main series is never finished, there is no ending because it is a constant struggle to stay on the right path, just like how in some of the spinoffs it ends with the heroes sacrificing themselves to be locked in an eternal battle of holding the villain back
Now watch non-Toei Getter Robo excluding Getter Arc
I read getter robo. He was literally gonna reveal the secret of reality then the author died.
this a copy pasta?
No but it should be.
Okay. Now watch Gridman.
Damn sure would be crazy if these were all made by the same core studio.
>sorry but that goes to Evangelion, which is literally the single most relevant piece of media to our current age
Made by the same people lol. Eva is just way more up front about the occult stuff than any other Gainax/Trigger property
row row fight the powa i guess
i always heard that as
>row row white power
>what are ya a man or mouse!?
Is this probably the most historical truth ever placed in animation?
>I too have seen basedjak's video essays on [Insert XYZ Anime]
sorry but that goes to Evangelion, which is literally the single most relevant piece of media to our current age
big if true i have been "schizing" out, to use the parlance of our times about the hidden truth in NGE for a long time but how do you just hit somebody with "eva is real" lmao who would believe you
yeah, Eva is genuinely very close to the truth of our predicament. but it's built up too much meme status for people to take it too seriously.
dUrR dUrR Shinji Hospital scene luuul!!!!
lol
Lain is up there with Eva too. the japs were onto some real shit in the 90s.
Evangelion but for kids.
Evangelion is also for kids
literally baby’s first “deep” anime
eva unironically becomes more relevant every day
Drills are euphemisms for punishes and growing into being a man
Shout out to Kado: The Right Answer and Shin Sekai Yori
Best gnostic anime
how is it gnostic?
It isn't, they just think that any bad guy bent on keeping mankind down is their demiurge.
Gnostism is a parasite idiology that co-opts imagery from other religions and philosophies and call them their own after intentionally twisting it.
Seele are gnostics in evangelion and are the bad guys, don't fall for their rhetoric.
made in abyss is better
TTGL is a show that's great to grow up with. You get different things out of it at different points in life.