Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann, Zetsuen no Tempest Recommendations
Let's put aside the differences first of these equally awesome and emotionally touching animes:
- Lagann focuses on mechas, beasts and the spiral powers
- Tempest has focuses on Shakespeare, magic and time travel
-Lagann focuses on 'Rejecting common sense to make the impossible possible' - the show's characters completely ignores logic and limitations
-In Tempest logic plays an important factor to the characters - the impossible and possible are thoroughly considered
-But this could be a similarity as both shows focus in some way or another, on logic.
-In Lagann, the show's setting varies from the small scale (caves, small civilisations) to the universal scale (planets, galaxies)
-In Tempest, pretty much
most if not all of the setting is set in modern Japan or contemporary Earth
-Most importantly Tempest takes a much more serious tone and realistic feel, whereas Lagann is all out brawling.
-Lagann takes on a simple plot in a straightforward way; due to time travel elements Tempest's plot may be a little more complex.
Putting those aside, here are the similarities:
-In both shows, the main characters are presented with a global threat that they are pitted against. The first half of both shows focuses on our main characters dealing with this threat. However, after the initial 'threat' is defeated, the second half of the show portrays the global consequences of removing the initial 'threat'. It raises such questions to the main characters - "Was the bad guy really a bad guy?" "Were we really doing something beneficial to the world?". Good guys become bad, bad guys become good.
-In both shows there is a point (mostly in the second half of both shows), where the main characters begin to antagonize each other.
-In both shows there is a fair bit of sci-fi; obviously Lagann has heaps more focus on the sci-fi but Tempest has its moments of sci-fi too.
-Both shows feature characters who ACTUALLY undergo CHARACTER DEVELOPMENT (Two words probably foreign to many animes these days)
-Hints of romance in both; more in Tempest than Lagann.
And basically if you like Lagann or Tempest for any of the shared aspects, you should definitely try the other. Both shows do exceptionally well with what they have started with and both shows left a massive hole in my soul when I finished watching them.
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