Gurren Lagann Mayhem

Keeping with news stories, Bandai entertainment has announced that it would be airing Gurren Lagann on the Sci-Fi channel. This actually surprised me, not because the show would be shown on American television, but because Bandai is the one doing it. I first watched the series as it was being aired on Japanese TV. By the end of the series, ADV had it licensed and was making it available to watch on there website. After that I pretty much stopped keeping up with the news.

Today on the other hand, I read that Bandai Entertainment (There will soon be no Bandai Visual USA) has licensed it. While the show will be shown in a dubbed format, they have yet to reveal who the voice actors will be, but they promise that Simon will be pronounced correctly with a short i.

In other Gurren Lagann News, Gainax has announced that they will make two (yes thats 2, not 1) Gurren Laggan Movies. The reason is that they cant fix the entire story into one film. I am assuming that the end of movie 1 will include up to the defeat of the Spiral King, and the second movie will conclude the story.

Good job Gainax. Unlike the new Eva movies that Gainax has made, I am sure that I would love to re-watch the Gurren Laggan story. More on the Eva Movies in a future post.