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Gurren Lagann Eyecatch Parodies

Added 13 years ago by Trololo • Updated 8 months ago by mona_jpn
Added 13 years ago by Trololo • Updated 8 months ago by mona_jpn

Gurren Lagann Eyecatch Parodies
Gurren Lagann Eyecatch Parodies
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Category: Meme Status: submission Year: 2007 Origin: pixiv Region:
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Tags: gurren lagann anime japan deviantart niconico douga pixiv gainax

About

Gurren Lagann Eyecatch Parodies is a series of illustrations inspired by the style of eyecatches[1] or still images used to begin and end a commercial break in a Japanese TV anime Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann. It's a popular subject of mimicking in online illustrators communities since after 2007.

Origin

Gurren Lagann aired from April to September 2007 has a unique style of eyecatches which are drawn in hard contrasts, emphasize solid black shadows, and always feature a large cross-shaped reflection of light. Moreover, because staffs prepared all different still images for eyecatches of each episodes, it was one of the highlights in this TV anime.



Spread

During the airing period, the style of those catchy illustrations soon became to a subject of mimicking in deviantART[2] and particularly a brand new illustrators community pixiv[3] launched on September of that year. In addition, dozens of parody videos posted to the Japanese video sharing service Nico Nico Douga (NND) after 2008 take the form of compilation of illustrations.[4]

Notable Examples



Left: THE iDOLM@STER | Right: Durarara!!

Left: Persona 4 | Right: Code Geass

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Search Interest

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External References

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[1] Wikipedia – Bumper (broadcasting) # Japan

[2] deviantART – Search results for gurren lagann eyecatch

[3] pixiv – Search results for the tag グレンラガン風

[4] niconico Douga – Search results for the tag グレンラガンパロ

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Comments ( 13 )

  • Sweatie Killer - 13 years ago

    @Trololo

    Row row fight tha mellow!

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  • Liveels - 13 years ago

    I must be missing something. Snnxxxx

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  • Memelicious - 13 years ago

    Don't think it's a real meme…

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  • DaDewd - 13 years ago

    Gurren Lagann is a great show!

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  • Trick Lobo - 13 years ago

    I've seen tons of these on dA.

    I even have quite a few wallpapers of these.

    The best ones are for Persona4.

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  • Trick Lobo - 13 years ago

    I'll see if I can find the Persona4 ones I found and post them here sometime.

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  • Xenocore - 13 years ago

    +1 Work, or DEADPOOL

    This all looks like commercial influence and not internet. Where are all of these coming from, where is the path of trending…

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  • kouyamiaura - 13 years ago

    +1 work
    Dunno if meme, prove it's more of a meme~ more widespread… um… spread!

    YOU CAN DO IT.
    DON'T BELIEVE IN YOURSELF.
    BELIEVE IN THE ME THAT BELIEVES IN YOU.

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  • riceboy569 - 13 years ago

    If you're willing to go there, they have a whole pool of images parodying these eyecatches on danbooru http://danbooru.donmai.us/pool/show/758

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  • mocksheeps - 13 years ago

    this eyepatch parody needs patching up.
    ZING!

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  • Krazy-Chibi - 12 years ago

    Needs some work, but I can definitely see this becoming confirmed someday!

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  • romantiCaveman - 10 years ago

    ROW ROW, FIGHT THE POWAH! [Commercial break]

    +2
  • mona_jpn - 9 years ago

    I finished rewriting. Sadly, many of illustrations in the gallery aren’t given an appropriate sourcing. We’ll have to do it for great justice.

    +1
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