I’m sure that if it was more like Gurren Lagann, more people would share my love. As it stands, it’s hard to think of two mecha shows which have less in common – well, OK, it isn’t really THAT hard, but the point is really that they are just very different. Whilst one is all about crazy, psychotically paced, GAR-laced action, the other has an approach about as, errr, “deliberately paced” as possible. Then there is the fact that one of the shows levels up its mecha with GUTS and PASSION, whilst the other attempts it with, errr, stripping…

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