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* [[Hey, It's That Voice!]]: Numerous examples resulting from a slew of talented, popular voice actors.
** In the dub, [[Yuri Lowenthal|Simon is Keigo]], [[Michelle Ruff|Yoko is Rukia]], and [[Kyle Hebert|Kamina is Aizen]]. All from ''[[Bleach (Manga)|Bleach]]''.
*** However Aizen doesn't sound much like Kamina. A better comparison would be Simon is Teen Ben from ''[[Ben 10 Alien Force (Animation)|Ben 10 Alien Force]]'', and Kamina is Teen Gohan: or to be more precise Saiyaman from ''[[Dragonball]] Z''
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*** This could also be how Kamina came up with the name in the first place...
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** The show starts right off on an [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZuxgU2RMGiU homage to Arcadia of My Youth.]
** When {{spoiler|Yoko}} becomes a teacher during the [[Time Skip]], she takes the name (Yomako) and outfit of [[Read or Die (Anime)|another]] [[Action Girl]] teacher (if only substitute).
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*** Also, the {{spoiler|hidden teeth on Lazengann's abdomen}} may be referencing the Eva units {{spoiler|being organic under their armor}}...
*** Lordgenome himself being this blended with [[G Gundam|Master Asia]]. Originally {{spoiler|humanity's greatest champion, he [[Fallen Hero|became its worst enemy]] upon realizing their impact on the world.}} While never a mentor to [[The Hero]], he was his predecessor and pilots the [http://img210.imageshack.us/img210/5999/lazengundam.jpg dark, scary counterpart to his robot], and is just as powerful with or without it in combat. They also [[Lampshade Hanging|hung some lampshades]] on the [http://img43.imageshack.us/img43/1535/mastergenome.jpg source] [http://img705.imageshack.us/img705/5684/simonkasshu.jpg material].
** Nia does not just have decorative eyes and [[Hey, It's That Voice!|the same voice]] as [[Diebuster|Nono]], but is her dark parallel. She {{spoiler|awakens to her destiny to gain sci-fi tights, [[Flight]], [[Transporters and Teleporters|the ability to warp]], and controls swarms of mindless robots... except as a [[Manchurian Agent]] with the [[Earthshattering Kaboom|exact opposite goal]]. Underneath it all, they both just wish they were ordinary girls.}}
** [[Gun Buster]]'s shortlived comic sequel, ''[[Next]] GENERATION'', was full of epic concepts even for Gainax. Among them were {{spoiler|the heroes traveling to a space between dimensions to battle [[God Is Evil|God]] using a [[Humongous Mecha|giant robot]] of [[Up to Eleven|infinite power]]}}. It looks like Gainax waited til it was financially stable and the [[Super Robot|trends]] regained freshness to bring back those ideas. They finally got to animate some of them for [[Diebuster]] and Gurren Lagann.
** In episode 11 of ''[[Gao Gai Gar]]'', take a look at what a particular robot's wielding as part of its [http://i46.tinypic.com/s5i5j9.png signature attack]. Coincidence? I think NOT.
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** In Episode 2, there's a "Blink And You'll Miss It" reference to Dragonball Z. When the two green Gunmen are stretching out before combat, it looks very similar to the Fusion-dance from DBZ. Especially with the powerful flash of light when they hold their hands together. In Dragonball, they'd fuse and thus create a flash of light to save animation-money. Here, the light is created by the Gunzan crashing to the ground behind them.
** Judging by the length of Kamina's katana in episode 3, during his on-foot fight with Viral, one can argue that the sword may be a homage to Sephiroth from ''[[Final Fantasy VII (Video Game)|Final Fantasy VII]]'', one of the most famous villains in Final Fantasy history, known for wielding a 3-4 meters long katana. Sometimes even in one hand. The rest of the time, Kamina's katana is only regular length.
*** Kamina's katana constantly changing size may also be a [[Shout
*** The overly long Katana Drawing scene is pretty simmilar with the drawing of Final Kaiser Blade of [[Mazinkaiser]]
** Lordgenome after the Time-Skip is a blatant reference to Zordon from Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers.
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* Small, but the outfacing part of Yoko's scope has a three scope combination that look just like the eyes of [[Armor Trooper Votoms|the Scopedogs.]]
* The Arc-Gurren is essentially the mecha equivalent of [[The Bible|biblical]] Ark Noah used to gather two of every animal with his loved ones and escape the floods God rained down upon the world for 40 days & nights. Here, Rossiu does the same, gathering animals and attempting to rescue the entire planet's population on a space colony ark before {{spoiler|the moon plummets into the Earth}}.
* ''[[Transformers Animated]]'' production staff drew inspiration from ''Gurren Lagann'' for plot material. There are two noteworthy references to Lagann- a villian named the Headmaster who pilots a [[Mini
* Nia ending up naked in the finale is a [[Stealth Pun|stark]] equivalent of Rei's lengthy state of undress throughout the ''[[Neon Genesis Evangelion|End Of Evangelion]]''- even down to the [[You Gotta Have Blue Hair|hair color]].
* ''[[Sayonara Zetsubou Sensei]]'' pays tribute to the moment Simon slams a punch into Rossiu's cheek in Episode 23, with Nozomu being the victim. It even copies the exact same frame-by-frame animations... until Nozomu unexpectedly crashes into a fence headfirst. [[It Makes Sense in Context]]- ''CLAMP'', the studio collective who produced this anime, did much of the cleanup animation work on Gurren Lagann.
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