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50 free Gurren Lagann trivia questions with answers — trivia quiz, new questions added Oct 2026.
Gurren Lagann starts small, with two boys in a cramped underground village, and keeps escalating until the fight is for the whole universe. That climb, packed into 27 episodes, is why fans still rank it among the great mecha anime. This quiz covers the story and the people in it: Simon, Kamina, Yoko and Nia, the misfits of Team Dai-Gurren, the Beastmen generals and the Anti-Spirals. It also goes behind the scenes, to the director, the writer, the voice cast and the music, and to the odd places the show has turned up since. The early questions suit anyone who has watched the series once. The later ones are for viewers who know their Gunmen by name and remember what happened after the time skip.
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Q 01In Gurren Lagann, which celestial body do the Anti-Spirals send on a collision course with Earth?
The Moon
The Moon they send is a fake: it is the Spiral King's old flagship, reprogrammed by the Anti-Spirals. The real one had been hidden in a pocket dimension.
Q 02A Gurren Lagann-inspired design won a newspaper reader contest to redesign which country's flag?
Britain
Britain was debating whether to add the Welsh dragon to the Union Flag, so the Daily Telegraph invited reader designs. The anime-styled entry, sent from Norway, won with 55% of the vote.
Q 03Which tool did the director of Gurren Lagann choose as the giant robot's main weapon?
A drill
A drill is the show's emblem, and Lagann sprouts them whenever it reacts to Simon's fighting spirit. The director kept them even though he knew they strained belief.
Q 04In Gurren Lagann, Nia is revealed to be the abandoned daughter of which tyrant?
Lordgenome
Lordgenome, known as the Spiral King, rules from a fortress that is itself a giant Gunmen. Simon finds Nia asleep in a capsule at a dump site.
Q 05Gurren Lagann mecha designer Shigeto Koyama later did concept design for which Disney character?
Baymax
Baymax, the huggable robot of Big Hero 6, came partly from Koyama's concept work. Japanese audiences compared the 2014 film to the anime when it opened there.
Q 06Each Gunmen robot in Gurren Lagann is built with a body that resembles what?
A face
A face stares out of every machine's torso, from the tiny Lagann to the Spiral King's whole palace, which is one gigantic Gunmen.
Q 07Which Japanese studio, famous for Neon Genesis Evangelion, animated the mecha series Gurren Lagann?
Gainax
Gainax made the series in 2007, and its director had started there as an in-between animator on Evangelion. He later left to found a studio of his own.
Q 08Konami cancelled a Gurren Lagann online game in beta because installing it did what to players' PCs?
Crashed Windows for good
Crashed Windows for good is no exaggeration: Konami had to mail 500GB external hard drives to testers so they could back up files and reinstall their systems.
Q 09Instead of piloting a Gunmen, which weapon does Yoko Littner fight with in Gurren Lagann?
A rifle
A rifle is Yoko's trademark, and she uses hers to disable the giant Gunmen that crashes into Simon's village at the start of the series.
Q 10Which Beastman rival of Kamina later pilots Gurren alongside Simon in Gurren Lagann?
Viral
Viral starts as a proud enemy officer whose mecha loses its helmet to the newly formed Gurren Lagann. By the epilogue he captains the flagship as an emissary for Earth.
Q 11What job does young Simon do in his underground village at the start of Gurren Lagann?
Digger
Digger suits him: Simon is mocked as timid, yet he is prized for his tunnelling, and it is on a dig that he unearths the tiny Gunmen Kamina names Lagann.
Q 12What kind of creature is Boota, the pet that rides on Simon's shoulder in Gurren Lagann?
A pig-mole
A pig-mole from Simon's home village, Boota understands human speech and can tear off his own tail as emergency food for his friends.
Q 13In Gurren Lagann, the tattered cape Kamina wears into battle once belonged to whom?
His father
His father had gone above ground years earlier, and Kamina finds the skeleton during a fight, buries it and takes the cloak. Simon ties a torn scrap of it around his arm.
Q 21Which director of Gurren Lagann went on to make Kill la Kill, Promare and Cyberpunk: Edgerunners?
Hiroyuki Imaishi
Hiroyuki Imaishi made his series-directing debut with the show and won an individual award for it at the Animation Kobe festival. His style is fast, frantic and punchy.
Q 22Which Japanese singer performed "Sorairo Days", the opening theme of the anime Gurren Lagann?
Shoko Nakagawa
Shoko Nakagawa also sang one of the ending themes and the theme songs of both compilation films. The opening switches to its second verse from episode 17.
Q 23The names of the Spiral King's four generals in Gurren Lagann are each partly derived from what?
DNA bases
Q 14The emblem of Team Dai-Gurren in Gurren Lagann is a flaming red skull wearing what?
Sunglasses
Sunglasses modelled on Kamina's signature red pair top the skull, a tribute to the team's founder. After the time skip most members wear a plain five-pointed star instead.
Q 15At the start of Gurren Lagann, which place does the underground rebel Kamina dream of reaching?
The surface
The surface is where Kamina believes he once stood as a child beside the parent who walked on without him. His village chief jails him for trying to tunnel up to it.
Q 16Kamina dies in battle against which of the Spiral King's four Supreme Generals in Gurren Lagann?
Thymilph
Thymilph, a gorilla-featured warrior, is destroyed in the same fight by Gurren Lagann's finishing move. The victory wins the team its mobile fortress but costs it its founder.
Q 17In Gurren Lagann, Kamina City is built on the ruins of which former Beastmen capital?
Teppelin
Teppelin was the Spiral King's funnel-shaped fortress and a hibernating Gunmen in its own right. The new city's giant statue of Kamina is later destroyed in a revolt.
Q 18After the war against the Beastmen in Gurren Lagann, Yoko moves to a remote island to work as what?
A schoolteacher
A schoolteacher called Yomako is the quiet identity she adopts on Koreha Island to leave her warrior past behind. She later breaks Simon out of jail, and ends up the principal.
Q 19What happens to Nia moments after she marries Simon at the end of Gurren Lagann?
She fades away
She fades away because her existence is tied to the Anti-Spirals, who have just been destroyed. All that remains of her is her wedding ring.
Q 20Which studio did Gurren Lagann's director co-found after leaving the company behind the series?
Trigger
Trigger opened in 2011 and carried the same loud visual humour into Kill la Kill and Promare. It later acquired the rights to the series itself.
DNA bases hide in all four: Adiane contains adenine, Guame guanine and Cytomander cytosine. Each name's other half comes from an elemental spirit such as Undine or Gnome.
Q 24In Gurren Lagann, the Anti-Spirals strike once the human population above ground hits what figure?
One million
One million is reached with the birth of a single baby, Anne, daughter of team members Dayakka and Kiyoh. Her arrival sets off the Human Extermination System.
Q 25Which Gurren Lagann character overthrows Simon and jails him after the seven-year time skip?
Rossiu
Rossiu makes Simon a scapegoat to calm an angry mob, then secretly regrets it. He later serves as the priest at Simon's wedding.
Q 26Which eldest of the Black Siblings dies destroying the Death Spiral Machine in Gurren Lagann?
Kittan
Kittan steals a kiss from Yoko before his final charge, then awakens Spiral energy of his own to destroy the machine's core. A sword marks his memorial beside Kamina's grave.
Q 27Which flamboyant mechanic becomes the main technician of Team Dai-Gurren in Gurren Lagann?
Leeron
Leeron repairs and scavenges every Gunmen the group captures, then runs the Science Bureau after the war. His team launches the rocket that confirms the Spiral King's prophecy.
Q 28What is the name of the underground village where Simon and Kamina grow up in Gurren Lagann?
Giha
Giha is ruled by a chief who jails Kamina for trying to break out through the roof. Simon breaks him out the same night to show off his find.
Q 29In the Japanese title Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann, the words Tengen Toppa are translated as what?
Heaven-Piercing
Heaven-Piercing was dropped for the English release, which is simply Gurren Lagann. The final robot of the series takes the full Japanese title as its name.
Q 30One critic traced the timid early Simon of Gurren Lagann to which Neon Genesis Evangelion pilot?
Shinji Ikari
Shinji Ikari shaped the first of Simon's three stages, in the reading of Anime News Network's Jason Green. The later stages echo the heroes of Gunbuster and Otaku no Video.