1. Gurren LagannCopy !req
2. This is the tale of a man who continues
to look for his own path,Copy !req
3. even while being
betrayed by fate.Copy !req
4. It has been seven years
since Teppelin's fall.Copy !req
5. Human civilization has evolved
at an astonishing rate.Copy !req
6. As Lordgenome predicted, the instant
that the one millionth human was born,Copy !req
7. an unknown destructive
weapon suddenly appeared.Copy !req
8. The declaration of war against humanity
came from an unexpected person.Copy !req
9. Attention, humans of Earth.Copy !req
10. We, the Anti-Spiral races,
have determined that humanity...Copy !req
11. has achieved Spiral Power
danger level two.Copy !req
12. We hereby activate the
Humanity Annihilation System.Copy !req
13. Is that Nia?Copy !req
14. Episode 18:
Tell Me The Secrets of This WorldCopy !req
15. I say again...Copy !req
16. The Humanity Annihilation System
has been activated.Copy !req
17. What the hell is our little
princess talking about?Copy !req
18. Hurry, pinpoint the
transmission origin!Copy !req
19. It's no use! It's using an encryption
I've never seen before!Copy !req
20. Find a way!Copy !req
21. Rossiu! Where's Nia?Copy !req
22. That's what I'd like to know!Copy !req
23. She's not answering
her cell, either.Copy !req
24. Is it really Nia that's saying
all that crazy stuff?Copy !req
25. It shut off...Copy !req
26. Yeah, that's right! Trust your friendly
New Government Council!Copy !req
27. How could something wipe out
the whole human race?Copy !req
28. Huh? What's that? Reimburse you
for your burnt-out house?Copy !req
29. You stupid bastard! Gurren Lagann
was fighting to protect the city!Copy !req
30. What's going on?
It's chaos in here!Copy !req
31. Where have you been, Dayakka?Copy !req
32. My apologies for calling you in,
Provisions Bureau Chief Dayakka.Copy !req
33. That's okay, there's nothing
a new father can do right now.Copy !req
34. What are all these
calls about?Copy !req
35. The citizens are nervous about
that declaration of war.Copy !req
36. Speaking to executives of the
New Government, core Team Gurren members,Copy !req
37. will go far in alleviating the
worries of the general public.Copy !req
38. That is Chief Advisor Rossiu's
thinking on the matter.Copy !req
39. I'm getting more gripes about
smashed houses than nervous citizens.Copy !req
40. Everybody's real attached
to their new lifestyles.Copy !req
41. - Listen, we tough!
- Quit bitching and let us do job!Copy !req
42. Where is he?Copy !req
43. Considering how to deal
with the situation.Copy !req
44. Please leave all of that
to the Chief Advisor.Copy !req
45. In other words, keep us old-timers
busy fielding the complaint calls.Copy !req
46. Sounds like something that smartass
Rossiu would come up with.Copy !req
47. It's a success. We've activated
the bio-computer.Copy !req
48. Very well. Good work.
Now, everyone leave the room.Copy !req
49. No one is allowed in
until I give authorization.Copy !req
50. Very good, sir.Copy !req
51. Now, then. This time, you will tell me.
Tell me all this world's secrets.Copy !req
52. Wake up, Lordgenome.Copy !req
53. Nia, are you here?Copy !req
54. Old Coco?Copy !req
55. Have you seen Nia?Copy !req
56. Well met. This is Nia.
I can't come to the phone right now.Copy !req
57. When I said I can't come to the phone
just now, I CAN, I'm just not near mine.Copy !req
58. And when I do come home, I prefer to use
the home phone than my cell phone.Copy !req
59. Nia, please come home...Copy !req
60. We finally found you,
Supreme Commander Simon!Copy !req
61. Where do you think
you're going?Copy !req
62. Out of my way, Gimmy!Copy !req
63. Gurren Lagann has been
ordered back to base.Copy !req
64. Besides, all combat has been
prohibited except by Grapearls.Copy !req
65. You two were no match
for that thing!Copy !req
66. We could have beaten it
by ourselves!Copy !req
67. I'm searching for Nia!
This is an emergency! Stand aside!Copy !req
68. I won't!Copy !req
69. That's an order from the
supreme commander!Copy !req
70. Gunmen dispatches fall under
Chief Advisor Rossiu's purview.Copy !req
71. Not even the supreme commander
is allowed to ignore the rules.Copy !req
72. You little—Copy !req
73. The citizens are worried.Copy !req
74. Gurren Lagann is no
ordinary Gunmen.Copy !req
75. It's a symbol of the retaking of
the surface. A symbol of strength.Copy !req
76. If people see it flying around, they might
worry that another big battle is coming.Copy !req
77. That isn't something
you would do, Simon.Copy !req
78. You sure can make a
persuasive case these days, Darry.Copy !req
79. You win. Take Gurren back with you.
I'll go in Lagann.Copy !req
80. I won't draw any attention
in this, right?Copy !req
81. Commander Simon!Copy !req
82. Gimmy, don't bother. Nobody can
stop him when he gets like that.Copy !req
83. I swear... I wish he'd hurry up and
realize that the times have changed.Copy !req
84. Maybe he doesn't WANT
them to change.Copy !req
85. That's just thinking
of himself.Copy !req
86. Well, well.Copy !req
87. Hi, Leyte. Makken.Copy !req
88. Simon?Copy !req
89. So, I guess she didn't
come here, either.Copy !req
90. I'm sorry we couldn't
be of more help.Copy !req
91. That's okay, I just came on
the off chance she was here.Copy !req
92. Simon, is everything okay?Copy !req
93. They saw the broadcast on TV?Copy !req
94. Nia's transmission.Copy !req
95. Yeah.Copy !req
96. Don't you worry!Copy !req
97. No matter what happens,
we'll come up with something!Copy !req
98. I don't know what this Humanity
Annihilation System thing is,Copy !req
99. but it's nothing
to worry about!Copy !req
100. YOU'RE the one we're worried about.Copy !req
101. He looks pretty depressed.Copy !req
102. Shame he's not a mecha...
THAT, we could fix.Copy !req
103. Nia, where are you?Copy !req
104. Was that really you, Nia?Copy !req
105. Nia!Copy !req
106. Gurren LagannCopy !req
107. Gurren LagannCopy !req
108. Where am I?Copy !req
109. It has been seven years
since your death.Copy !req
110. No, it wasn't YOU that died.Copy !req
111. Lordgenome's knowledge and
memories are preserved as data.Copy !req
112. We didn't go as far as reproducing
his personality, as well.Copy !req
113. So, you would dig up a coffin and
drag out the corpse inside, eh?Copy !req
114. You have an odd notion of fun.Copy !req
115. We had to because you died
without telling us anything.Copy !req
116. This time, you can't get away.Copy !req
117. Now, tell me. What are Spiral Power
and the Anti-Spiral?Copy !req
118. What do they have to do
with humanity?Copy !req
119. I've been looking everywhere!
Where have you been?Copy !req
120. A place unknown to you.Copy !req
121. Because I have learned.Copy !req
122. L-Learned what?Copy !req
123. That you and I are
completely incompatible.Copy !req
124. The Spiral Nemesis will bring about
this universe's destruction.Copy !req
125. We Anti-Spirals exist to
prevent that event.Copy !req
126. D-Do you have a fever or something?
I understand you even less than usual.Copy !req
127. Simon, the Core Drill you carry
is the very symbol of the Spiral Nemesis.Copy !req
128. Its power, the power of the Spiral,
will destroy the universe.Copy !req
129. Spiral Power is the
power of evolution.Copy !req
130. Lifeforms that carry helical DNA,
galaxies that take spiral shape,Copy !req
131. they are amplified to infinite levels by
Spiral Power, which magnifies everything.Copy !req
132. That is the underpinning
of this universe.Copy !req
133. However, there arose a group
who feared that power.Copy !req
134. That group is the Anti-Spiral races.Copy !req
135. My original body, Lordgenome,
was once a Spiral Warrior...Copy !req
136. who fought the Anti-Spirals
in order to protect the galaxy.Copy !req
137. Spiral Warrior?Copy !req
138. Lazengann, the gigantic Teppelin,
even the Gunmen,Copy !req
139. were originally weapons
to fight the Anti-Spirals.Copy !req
140. Wait, are you telling me
that Lagann was also a—Copy !req
141. Exactly.Copy !req
142. It was one of our most
powerful weapons.Copy !req
143. It's a Core machine that is
activated by Spiral Power,Copy !req
144. one which can control whatever
mecha it combines with.Copy !req
145. Who would have imagined that something
sealed away underground...Copy !req
146. would be discovered
by humans?Copy !req
147. The hand of fate at work again.Copy !req
148. But why?Copy !req
149. If you were one of these Spiral Warriors,
why would you subjugate humanity?Copy !req
150. Why force us underground?Copy !req
151. We had lost.Copy !req
152. The Spiral races were left with no choice
but to flee to their various homeworlds.Copy !req
153. Earth is one such world.Copy !req
154. After the Anti-Spirals
conquered the galaxy,Copy !req
155. they installed Spiral lifeform
annihilation devices...Copy !req
156. on any world where they detected
a Spiral lifeform signature.Copy !req
157. When the above-ground lifeform
population exceeds a set limit,Copy !req
158. the device detects this,
then activates.Copy !req
159. And that's why you drove
all humanity underground?Copy !req
160. Think what you will of me, but I was trying
to preserve humanity as a species.Copy !req
161. I did this by maintaining a bare
minimum population underground.Copy !req
162. Why didn't you just come out
and tell us this?Copy !req
163. Why did you use force
to subjugate us?Copy !req
164. It wouldn't have worked.Copy !req
165. Foolish lifeforms that are driven
by the Spiral instinct...Copy !req
166. blindly strive to
reach the heavens.Copy !req
167. Words and reason alone are
insufficient to curb that drive.Copy !req
168. The only thing that can...
is fear.Copy !req
169. And even so, you rebelled
against me.Copy !req
170. Even as a thousand years of
boredom weighed down on me,Copy !req
171. my will was strong enough to keep
the Spiral instinct bottled up.Copy !req
172. And yet, your rebellion broke
my control and made my blood boil.Copy !req
173. That is the terror of the
power of the Spiral.Copy !req
174. Not even Lordgenome was able
to curb his instinct to fight.Copy !req
175. That's crazy!
I won't accept that!Copy !req
176. How could my and my Bro's fight
be the result of that?Copy !req
177. It has been seven years
since you came to the surface.Copy !req
178. How far has human civilization
advanced in a mere seven years?Copy !req
179. Don't you find the speed
somewhat suspicious?Copy !req
180. That is the potential
of Spiral lifeforms.Copy !req
181. Having passed one million, human numbers
and civilization will advance explosively.Copy !req
182. They will become a power that
will be a threat to our own.Copy !req
183. And so, we will destroy you
before that can happen.Copy !req
184. That's what the Humanity
Annihilation System is?Copy !req
185. That mecha earlier?Copy !req
186. No matter what comes, we have
Gurren Lagann! We'll beat them!Copy !req
187. So please!
Snap out of it, Nia!Copy !req
188. That isn't possible.Copy !req
189. I am the messenger
of the Anti-Spirals.Copy !req
190. A virtual lifeform that lay hidden
in helical genetic code,Copy !req
191. awakened when the Spiral Lifeform
Annihilation System was activated.Copy !req
192. Please, Nia! I'm begging you!
Talk to me in words I can understand!Copy !req
193. You never talked using words
like that, remember?Copy !req
194. When you talked, it was rambling
and incomprehensible...Copy !req
195. But it was warm,
and sweet, and...Copy !req
196. Aw, I can't explain it, but
you know what I mean, right?Copy !req
197. You didn't used to be like this!Copy !req
198. What you see now is the real me.Copy !req
199. Please, Lordgenome, you have to tell me!
What is the Humanity Annihilation System?Copy !req
200. What does it do to
annihilate humanity?Copy !req
201. In three weeks' time, the moon will
leave its orbit and impact the EarthCopy !req
202. And that will be
the end of it.Copy !req
203. T-The moon?Copy !req
204. Word of this can't get out
to the populace!Copy !req
205. There'll be a huge panic
in seconds!Copy !req
206. Lordgenome, this is top secret.
Discuss it with no one but me.Copy !req
207. Rossiu! This is where
you've been?Copy !req
208. Don't enter
without permission!Copy !req
209. Dumbass! Who cares
about that?Copy !req
210. The moon probe Gunmen
has been destroyed!Copy !req
211. That ain't the half of it!
Check out the TV! The TV!Copy !req
212. Why, that's—Copy !req
213. It's been running live on TV
for a few minutes now.Copy !req
214. She says the moon
is gonna fall.Copy !req
215. Impossible...!Copy !req
216. The little princess said it
plain as day!Copy !req
217. It's hard to believe, but after what
happened to the moon probe, who knows?Copy !req
218. Can we believe her, Rossiu?Copy !req
219. We were driven underground
because of some war...Copy !req
220. between the Spiral
and Anti-Spiral races.Copy !req
221. It's just like Lordgenome predicted.Copy !req
222. The moon will become
Hell's messenger.Copy !req
223. It's coming down
on top of us!Copy !req
224. I was too late... My worst fears
are coming true.Copy !req
225. What the hell is this?Copy !req
226. I've seen this guy
before somewhere.Copy !req
227. I'll explain later. Let's go
to the Defense Planning Room.Copy !req
228. It's ironic that the human whose genes
contained the Anti-Spiral factor...Copy !req
229. would be born as
Lordgenome's daughter.Copy !req
230. However, now that is has activated
and I have become an Anti-Spiral,Copy !req
231. I can never be made
human again.Copy !req
232. Nia!Copy !req
233. Nia, where are you going?Copy !req
234. Nia!Copy !req
235. Hey! What's going on?Copy !req
236. Mugann have appeared again.Copy !req
237. - Mugann?
- That machine from earlier.Copy !req
238. That type has been
codenamed Mugann.Copy !req
239. Move it, Gimmy, Darry!Copy !req
240. Commander!Copy !req
241. Simon! If you attack it and aren't careful,
it'll cause another big explosion!Copy !req
242. We need a plan!Copy !req
243. I'll come up with something
while I'm fighting!Copy !req
244. This is what I was
talking about!Copy !req
245. Leeron, have you found an effective
means of attacking it?Copy !req
246. This is data we got from
Gimmy and Darry.Copy !req
247. It looks like a powerful energy field
is erected around the body.Copy !req
248. That energy barrier
neutralizes our attacks.Copy !req
249. Then we just need to hit it with
more power than it can handle!Copy !req
250. We can't do that.
You saw that huge explosion, right?Copy !req
251. A Mugann is essentially
comprised entirely of explosives.Copy !req
252. When the energy field goes down
and it stops functioning,Copy !req
253. the entire body converts into
energy in a split second.Copy !req
254. Its molecular structure
is that unstable?Copy !req
255. That would make spatial transference
easier, don't you think?Copy !req
256. What the hell are those two
talking about?Copy !req
257. Don't look at me.Copy !req
258. Out of the way!Copy !req
259. Oops!Copy !req
260. Don't say oops,
you bastard!Copy !req
261. Don't you think you've
done enough damage?Copy !req
262. Normal attacks aren't effective... When it's
destroyed, it goes up in a huge blast...Copy !req
263. What are we supposed
to do?Copy !req
264. Quit that whining. Our first order of
business is to halt their advance!Copy !req
265. Simon!Copy !req
266. Simon, wait a minute!Copy !req
267. At least draw it out
of the city first!Copy !req
268. We can't wait!Copy !req
269. Gimmy! Darry!
Shoot down the fragments!Copy !req
270. All of them!Copy !req
271. - Roger that!
- Roger!Copy !req
272. One down, one to go!Copy !req
273. - Simon!
- Thanks!Copy !req
274. And that's how it's done.Copy !req
275. Now I get it! We just need to detonate
them before they get to the city!Copy !req
276. I knew Simon could do it!Copy !req
277. Assuming they only come
at us in pairs.Copy !req
278. What's wrong?Copy !req
279. If they appear in larger numbers,
that won't be a viable method.Copy !req
280. Besides... It'll have the opposite
effect on the populace.Copy !req
281. What's going on?Copy !req
282. Dumb bastard! Is trashing stuff
all you're good for?Copy !req
283. It's all your fault!
Get away from us!Copy !req
284. The moon's gonna fall on us!
What were you thinking?Copy !req
285. Go away! It's your fault
they're attacking us!Copy !req
286. I can't believe it...Copy !req
287. He should have listened...Copy !req
288. This is...Copy !req
289. This is what my fighting
has caused?Copy !req
290. Remain calm, everyone!
Please listen to your government!Copy !req
291. - Look, guns!
- They're gonna shoot us!Copy !req
292. No, you're wrong!
We have no intention of—Copy !req
293. Stop that.
No guns.Copy !req
294. - Are you trying to kill us?
- Get them before they get us!Copy !req
295. Chief Advisor!
Are you all right?Copy !req
296. It's not serious.
I'm fine, Kinon.Copy !req
297. An injury is an injury.
You should get it treated.Copy !req
298. I certainly hope
that this doesn't spread.Copy !req
299. It will. Human impulses catch fire
and spread in the blink of an eye.Copy !req
300. Just like they did when we
defeated Lordgenome.Copy !req
301. But in this case, those impulses
are directed somewhere else.Copy !req
302. Chief Advisor Rossiu...Copy !req
303. Someone must be made
to take responsibility.Copy !req
304. That is how a government functions.Copy !req
305. The Anti-Spiral...Copy !req
306. Who in the world
are they?Copy !req
307. Nia...Copy !req
308. What's all the ruckus, Rossiu?Copy !req
309. Rossiu?Copy !req
310. Supreme Commander Simon.
I hereby place you under arrest.Copy !req
311. To Be Continued...Copy !req
312. Next TimeCopy !req
313. The million apes pray in unison,
asking for three things.Copy !req
314. Prosperity, happiness, and...
No, now it's simply for survival.Copy !req
315. Next time on
Gurren Lagann,Copy !req
316. We Will Survive,
By Any Means Necessary.Copy !req