GURREN LAGANN to Debut on TOONAMI Starting August 2014

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That’s right folks, Gurren Lagann will be debuting on the Toonami lineup on August 16th @ 2 am ET/PT. From the team that brought you Kill La Kill comes the story of a man who has yet to realize what destiny holds in store for him.

In the distant future, mankind has lived quietly and restlessly underground for hundreds of years, subject to earthquakes and cave-ins. Living in one such village are 2 young men: one named Simon who is shy and naïve, and the other named Kamina who believes in the existence of a “surface” world above their heads. The destiny of these two starts moving drastically when the ceiling of their village falls in, and a gigantic “Gunmen” and a beautiful girl named Yoko, wielding a superconductive rifle, come from the surface. Together, Kamina, Simon and Yoko ride the mecha “Lagann” that Simon digs out of the ground, and fly up to the surface!

 

STAFF

Original Story: GAINAX

Director: Hiroyuki Imaishi

Assistant Director: Masahiko Ohtsuka

Series Structure: Kazuki Nakashima

Character Design: Atsushi Nishigori

Mechanical Design: You Yoshinari

Design Works: Shigeto Koyama

3D Mecha Design: IMAITOONZ

Art Director: Yuka Hirama

Color Setting: Harumi Takahoshi

Director of Photography: Toyonori Yamada

Editing: Junichi Uematsu

3DCGI: SANZIGEN

Sound Director: Tohru Nakano

Music: Taku Iwasaki

Animation Production: GAINAX

Produced by TV TOKYO, DENTSU, Aniplex

CAST (Japanese / English)

Simon: Tetsuya Kakihara / Yuri Lowenthal

Kamina: Katsuyuki Konishi / Kyle Hebert

Yoko: Marina Inoue / Michelle Ruff

Nia: Yukari Fukui / Bridget Hoffman

Boota: Shizuka Ito/ Julie Ann Taylor

Leeron: Masaya Onosaka / Steve Blum

Dayakka: Daiki Nakamura / Doug Stone

Viral: Nobuyuki Hiyama / Sam Riegel

Kittan: Kisho Taniyama / Christopher Smith

Rossiu: Mitsuki Saiga / Johnny Yong Bosch

Lordgenome: Narushi Ikeda / Jamieson Price

Check out www.AniplexUSA.com/gurrenlagann for more info and where you can also buy all sorts of Gurren Lagann merchandise.

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