what show better GURREN LAGANN or death note

what show better GURREN LAGANN or death note

I would have to say Death Note. Death Note has one of the best plots and plot development as well as character development in all of anime (can anime be referred to as a whole of the genre?). Something that immediately grabs your attention and continues to keep you hooked deep in the story throughout the entire anime. At the same time making you think about your views on matters. How you would deal with them and your view of what is right or wrong, just or unjust.

Oh and btw, this doesn't belong in this section. Should have went in general discussion.

Gurren Lagann. You'd be better off reading the manga for Death Note - trust me on that.

Death Note.

I've heard people explain why Death Note is good, but I've never heard a decent explanation of why Gurren Lagann is good. That's not a judgement, just an observation.



I watched the Death Note anime as it came out and loved it. After it was over, I started buying the manga, and a couple of months ago, I finished it. Now, I can't stand the anime. It's just too fucking stupid. Not the plot or anything, just the crazy fucking way that Light writes names down and eats potato chips and shit. I can't watch it.

Gurren Lagann. It has good animation and it must have great characters for so many people, including myself, to nearly cry over it. In all honesty, after watching Gurren Lagann it's pointless to watch any other shounen-action anime. The only thing that was good about Death Note was the moral ambiguity of Light, but then he got a God Complex a short while later thus killing that end, reducing it to eating chips and keikaku doori.

I thought Death Note had its moments. As for Gurren Lagann, I was flipping through channels on my TV then I noticed an anime show was on and I watched it, it turned out it was Gurren Lagann, but it was the last episode. So I didn't really have a full experience with that show.

Death Note. As good as Gurren Lagann was, in the end, it was all mindless fun. Death Note got you thinking about morals and the mind games were just awesome.


I do agree that the manga was better, but I don't think it's that big a deal since this is one of the better adaptations.


Well, there's your problem. Not all series has an explosive beginning to draw in a crowd. The anime actually picks up at around episode 8 or 9.

I could never really get into deathnote. I started reading the manga, got about 50 chapters in, and stopped. Didn't hook me in, and i thought the plot was rediculous.

Gurren Lagan on the other hand is fucking amazing. Hand down one of the best animes/ tv shows i've ever seen.

The characters were loveable and i felt attached to them.
The art designs were pretty sweet.
Battles were amazing. (i mean come on, they were the size of galaxies, and they were using them to attack. that shit was crazy!!!)
And on top of that, delicious Nia.

Overall, i thought it was an amazing show. I still get goosebumps when i think of the speech they gave when they went into Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann. And very few things do that to me.

tl;dr Gurren Lagann

How can we even be discussing (in a wrong section) superiority amongst two completely different shows directed at completely different audiences !?


Gurren Lagann

Death Note easily, it's one of the best manga-to-anime adaptions ever made, with both brilliant animations and an awesome soundtrack.

TTGL is good, really good even imo, but i'll never understand how people can think it's the best thing evah!
Probably the most overrated anime of all time.

I don't like the idea of two or more series being pit against each other but I guess I'd join along with this...

Overall Production: DN is like the anime of the year for 2 consecutive years! (2006-07)
* MadHouse > Gainax - MH, time and time again has shown their versatility in adapting any material into motion. Gx however... no comment; the way they ended Karekano was a slap in the face. It's been so long that I still haven't gotten over it! (it has nothing to do with the topic however)

Animation: GL - out of all Gx prodiuctions, this is their best and last, meaning to say that the quality of this series will never be duplicated ever again. (so I handed it over to them, not because DN is inferior)

Music: TIE - the difference in genres made it tough to decide...

Story/Plot: DN - The Tool that can make you GOD.

Originality: DN - GL may be one of its kind but Mechas aren't exactly new, are they? Death notes are.

Characters: GL - I admire KIRA/LIGHT a lot but YOKO and NIA (together) is simply way too much to handle.

Transition/Consistency from beginning to end: TIE - though leaning quite a bit towards GL. [FUCK YOU NATE RIVER! (Near)] :mad:

Ending: GL - DN definitely lost in that department; way too subtle, making up for a less fitting end. (I LOVE YOU NIA!) :cry:

Entertainment/Intrigue/Eagerness to watch: DN - always leaves you hanging off the edge of your seat.

Hentai material: GL - I just had to say that. :D

Director's Cut Rewrite 1&2 vs Guren-hen/Ragan-hen: DN - the scene where Light (ORZ) was literally defiling and mocking L six feet under the grave was beyond words to describe... speaking of which, I haven't seen R2: L's Successors, yet... downloading it now! :D (Guren-hen wasn't that bad at all)

Spoiler:

So with that, DEATH NOTE FUCKIN' WINS! Gurren Lagann was no doubt of high caliber but it only had a simplistic plot that the majority of young viewers could easily understand; mixed together with over-the-top mecha action sequences... which obviously ain't worth anything much for me. But this is only MY opinion of course.

ed: almost forgot about the...

Seiyuus/(JAP)Voice Actors: DN - Mamoru Miyano must most definitely be mentioned for doing a spectacular job of portraying KIRA's character. While I'm not saying that Tetsuya Kakihara did terribly as Simon, what he did (imo) was just more of shouting and less of acting.

Awesome. xD I don't feel very compelled to read the manga after i've watched the anime though. Maybe someday.


Yep, I also couldn't watch more than the 1st ep... Alot of poeple like it though somehow.


Seriously?.... I mean, I thought Beck took a lot of time to get into (around ep 3 or 4), but episode 8?! Thats torture.

I just have to point this out.

How is the plot of Death Note any more ridiculous than any other anime plot? In Hikaru no Go, a ghost is attached to a go board, and the ghost attaches himself to a boy so he can play go. That's fucking crazy, but Hikaru no Go is still a fantastic fucking series. And that's not even the most insane anime plot out there.

Also, fifty chapters of Death Note is almost half the series. Did you stop reading when that major thing happened, that people really hate?

Why isn't there a poll?

And to be honest, I think Death Note is more overrated than TTGL. I've watched a couple episodes of the anime, but it's exactly like the manga, and the manga goes much farther.

I do admit, the damsel-in-distress scenes in Death Note were delicious.

No surprise at who preferred Death Note here.

You really said that? Seriously? Half my friends don't know what TTGL, but proclaim to me that Death Note blows everything else out of the water.

Does Death Note have Kamina? No? Then I guess TTGL wins.

Anyone interested in anime and with an internet connection knows that TTGL is the most hyped show in recent anime history, Death Note doesn't even come close...

Lol hardly.

Oh really? How come I haven't seen that hype yet? Apart from the doujins they make of it, and the cool figures, I haven't seen nor heard from Lagann anywhere (just downloaded it out of luck).

Now Death Note has a lot of hype. I mean, it's getting even more famous than Naruto! xD