Dont get me wrong here. The second Gurren Lagann movie recaps episodes 17 to 27 of the original series and includes some new stuff as well. As I said in my review of the first movie I wasnt a big fan of that. It felt rushed and I disliked the divergence from the original series. However in this movie the divergence was handled much better with an epic and mouth dropping final 10 minutes which was 100x better than the original ending. This movie succeeded in trying to do its own thing. Like the first movie it also succeeded at throwing new information like f.ex Nia writing a letter to the deceased Kamina Simon figuring out that she will die and Nia being much more of a badass Nia in this film got her own mech and she becomes way cooler and much less of a damsel in distress which she was a bit in the OG series. But just a bit she was still a fantastic character in that as well. But that wasnt the case with the other characters. Simon Yoko Kittan and Rossiu had the exact same things happen to them as it happened in the series which I felt they couldve given us more information about these characters. I wouldve really liked to know more about Simon and Kaminas deceased parents which they had given us no information about. I would also really like to have known more about that first scene in the OG series which I speculate is Kaminas father and Boota in the first war before the antispirals took over. However I think a prequel would be great because it would explain Kaminas father Lordgenome and the antispirals. Which we only got 10 minutes in the first film. Furthermore another issue that I had in this movie is that like the first one It feels way too compressed. Gainax couldve made these two movies a bit lengthier. To conclude this movie was great all around but couldve elaborated on some more things e.g antispirals most of the main cast Lordgenome Kamina Simons parents etc. But I highly recommend you watch this mostly for the new stuff thats added and for the final battle which was all around glorious. Still though its not as fantastic as the real thing and you have to watch the series before these movies It was still a tearjerker especially that wedding :