Gurren Lagann Characters

A shy fourteen-year-old orphan and a gifted digger in Giha village, who calls Kamina his Bro although they are not related. When he digs up the Core Drill and the little Gunmen Lagann, Kamina drags him up to the surface. Kamina's death sends him into despair, but with Nia's help he finds his own courage and takes over as leader of Team Dai-Gurren. Seven years later he is supreme commander of the new government in Kamina City, and he asks Nia to marry him.

Simon's loud, fearless big-brother figure, who saw the surface as a child with his father and has dreamed of going back ever since. He founds Team Gurren, steals a Gunmen he names Gurren and, with his speeches and his catchphrase, "Just who the hell do you think I am?!", inspires people everywhere to fight back. He dies in episode 8, after the battle that wins the team the Dai-Gunzan, but his last words, telling Simon to believe in himself, shape the rest of the story, and the new capital, Kamina City, is named after him.

A sharpshooter from Littner, the village next to Giha, who first appears chasing the Gunmen that crashes through Giha's roof. She introduces Simon and Kamina to the surface, joins Team Gurren and fights with a long-range rifle rather than a Gunmen. She falls for Kamina, and after his death she becomes a calm, sisterly support for Simon. When the war is over she turns down a post in the new government and goes to teach at a school on a remote island, until the crisis of the second half brings her back.

A sheltered, polite and endlessly curious girl whom Simon finds asleep in a capsule thrown into a valley. She is the daughter of the Spiral King, Lordgenome, who abandoned her, but Team Dai-Gurren takes her in, and her honest advice helps Simon recover from Kamina's death. She goes with Simon to face her father at the end of the first half. Seven years later she agrees to marry Simon, but when the human population reaches one million she turns into the cold messenger of the Anti-Spirals.

A proud Beastman officer under the general Thymilph and Kamina's first great rival, who fights Team Gurren in his Gunmen Enki and wants back the helmet Gurren Lagann took from it in their first fight. He lives by a warrior's sense of honour and refuses to finish off a helpless Simon even when ordered to. Lordgenome gives him an immortal body. Seven years later he ends up in the same prison as Simon, and he joins Team Dai-Gurren as Gurren's pilot against the Anti-Spirals.

A serious, intelligent boy from Adai, an underground village whose people worship Gunmen as gods. When the orphans Gimmy and Darry are chosen to be sent up to the surface, he goes with them and joins Team Gurren, where Kamina teases him as "Forehead Boy". After Kamina's death he pilots Gurren. In the second half he is Simon's second-in-command, and when the Anti-Spirals' attack turns the city against its leaders he has Simon arrested and takes charge himself, believing hard choices are the only way to save as many people as he can.

The hot-tempered eldest of the Black Siblings, a band of Beastman hunters made up of him and his three younger sisters, Kiyoh, Kinon and Kiyal. He first mistakes Kamina's Gunmen for an enemy, later arrives in his own Gunmen, King Kittan, to help against Thymilph, and leads the team for a while after Kamina's death before handing over to Simon. After the time skip he heads Kamina City's Legal Affairs Bureau, but he resigns over Rossiu's evacuation plan and carries Simon's Core Drill back to him.

Littner's clever mechanic, nicknamed Ron, and the first to join Kamina, Simon and Yoko on their journey. He repairs and studies every Gunmen the team gets hold of, coordinates the pilots by radio in battle and explains how their strange machines work. After the war he becomes chief of Kamina City's Science Bureau, where his team sends a rocket to the Moon to test Lordgenome's last warning, and he hardly seems to age at all over the course of the series.

Simon's pet pig-mole from Giha village and the unofficial mascot of Team Dai-Gurren, recognisable by his sunglasses and the star pattern on his tail. He can only say his own name, but he understands people almost perfectly and rides on Simon's shoulder into nearly every battle. Late in the series he shows that humans are not the only creatures who can produce Spiral Power.

The Spiral King, who rules from his capital, Teppelin, and has used his Beastmen to keep humanity underground for more than a thousand years. Long ago he was a warrior who fought the Anti-Spirals, and he is strong enough to hold his own against Lagann with his bare hands. Simon defeats him at the end of the first half, after a battle with his Gunmen Lazengann, and his last words warn of what will happen when humanity reaches one million. Seven years later Rossiu revives his mind as a bio-computer.

The true enemy of the series: the leader and collective mind of the Anti-Spiral race, aliens who gave up their own Spiral Power because they believed its endless growth would end in the Spiral Nemesis, a catastrophe that would destroy the universe. Long ago he defeated Lordgenome's army. He planted a safeguard that wakes when Earth's population reaches one million, uses Nia as his messenger and sends the Moon towards the planet.

Thymilph the Crasher, the first of Lordgenome's four generals the team meets: a gorilla-like warrior who commands the eastern branch of the Beastman army from the land battleship Dai-Gunzan and is Viral's superior. He is a careful tactician with a warrior's sense of honour and fights with a huge iron hammer. Team Dai-Gurren seizes the Dai-Gunzan from him in episode 8, and Kamina and Simon defeat him and his personal Gunmen, Byakou, with the Giga Drill Break.