Q 01/05

In Gurren Lagann, which celestial body do the Anti-Spirals send on a collision course with Earth?

A) Mercury

B) The Moon

C) The Sun

D) Halley's Comet

Answer · why

B) 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 dimensi...

Q 02/05

A Gurren Lagann-inspired design won a newspaper reader contest to redesign which country's flag?

A) Australia

B) New Zealand

C) Britain

D) South Africa

Answer · why

C) 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 fr...

Q 03/05

Which tool did the director of Gurren Lagann choose as the giant robot's main weapon?

A) A chainsaw

B) A drill

C) A pickaxe

D) A hammer

Answer · why

B) 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 s...

Q 04/05

In Gurren Lagann, Nia is revealed to be the abandoned daughter of which tyrant?

A) Guame

B) Cytomander

C) Antispiral

D) Lordgenome

Answer · why

D) 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 05/05

Gurren Lagann mecha designer Shigeto Koyama later did concept design for which Disney character?

A) WALL-E

B) Stitch

C) Baymax

D) Olaf

Answer · why

C) 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 opene...