If you loved Gurren Lagann the Movie: The Lights in the Sky Are Stars, try Gurren Lagann The Movie: Childhood's End
A bridge between a film you've already seen and one most people haven't. Here's what they share, and what the second one does that the first one doesn't.
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What they share
Both films are directed by Hiroyuki Imaishi, and they both carry the foreign gem, playful mood tags, and they sit in Action / Animation territory. If that's the register that drew you to Gurren Lagann the Movie: The Lights in the Sky Are Stars, the second film will land in a comparable space — through a different lens.
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What Gurren Lagann The Movie: Childhood's End is
The eternal promise of anime: teens will save us. Two subterranean orphans discover a mecha and fight their way to the surface. It's a classic hero's journey, rendered at a velocity that may cause nosebleeds.