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[Character] Kamina
[Age] 17
[Canon] Tengen Toppa Gurren-Lagann
[Point of time in canon from which the character is taken] Between episodes 5 and 6, after picking up Rossiu and before the whole hot springs incident
[Background info] Kamina comes from a small village that lives underground, but he dreams of escaping his mundane life and break through to the surface, an idea that is complete forbidden by the elders and other inhabitants. He believes he had seen the surface once before with his father, who had left the underground to journey the surface.
He later forces persuades Simon to join him in his endeavors, having already called his little group Gurren-dan. He sees the younger boy’s drill as “the drill that will pierce the heavens”, a saying that he will say a lot and becomes one of his many catch phrases.
After the failed attempt with the use of a shitload of pig-moles to make a living tower to break the surface, Kamina is locked up in their little prison system while Simon is sent back to drilling. However, Simon later finds this strange thing with a HUGE face and scurries tunnels up to Kamina’s cell and they “break out”.
However they get caught, but as the chief of the village is about to bring it down on Kamina, this giant monster FACE thing comes crashing through the earthen ceiling, making all of the villagers go “OMGWTFBBQ” because they had never seen anything like it before. Kamina, however, takes the chief’s sword and after a ridiculous outrageous over the top speech and challenging it head on.
…Right. Puny human with a dinky katana/nodachi against a giant huge monster face thing.
…Riiiiight. Luckily for Kamina, a girl, Yoko Ritona, falls down soon after, firing multiple shots at it before landing all stylishly and badass looking. Of course, Kamina’s a guy, and Yoko has a rack, so yeah checkin’ that baby out :O So they’re running around and almost get pulverized but Simon later saves them from doom by…digging a tunnel. This happens often. But that’s Simon, not Kamina. As Simon tunnels them to the giant machine with a huge face on it he had found, Yoko explains to them that those things with the HUGE faces are Gunman/Ganman (I gave up on the spelling, I’ve seen it both ways and I’m probably going to go with “Gunman” since that’s what wiki has until told otherwise) and that they came from the surface, which really gets Kamina fired up.
They soon reach the strange machine, and after some encouragement from Kamina, Simon uses the little drill he had found earlier and seeing that both the little drill and the eyes of the Gunman were glowing in sync, he pushes it in and turns it, bringing the Gunman to life.
Long story short, they fly out of the ground into the open, Kamina dubs it “Lagann”, and after a bit of a tussle, and much spirit power backed by Kamina, they literally drill through the monster dude and soar out over the planet. Much “ooooh~” and “aaaah~” happens.
AND THUS. The epic saga of Kamina’s and Simon’s journey through the surface world begins. They later learn about the Beastmen, who were the original pilots for the Ganman (the mechs) and were the ones who basically oppress the humans to live underground. Of course, Kamina is not one to just let this stand, so he sets out to fight against the Beastmen and, though difficult, proves successful, and his little troop grows as the series progresses.
He later (like, episode 2 >_>) obtains his own Ganman, and names it Gurren. It’s of course large. And a bit over the top. And when he and Simon combine via slamming Simon’s Lagann into the Gurren’s head in which the pointy drill is like only a foot or so above Kamina’s head, they form a super, epic, outrageous, ridiculously powerful Ganman called…Gurren-Lagann.
Also, the main reason they combined was because they come up against a strong beastman named Viral. And his Gunman has a helmet thingie, but it makes it look like it has two faces. So Kamina always calls it two-faced. And to make things even, and to show Viral that his “two faces” aren’t really all that, he and Simon “combine” as stated above. Needless to say, everyone went “WTF” at that. But it worked. Despite what everyone expected.
SPOILER ALERT. SPOILER ALERT.
Kamina also dubs his little army as Dai Gurren, and will continue to lead them on victory to victory, until facing one of the four main generals of the beastman. However…though they are victorious in the battle, it was at a great price. Kamina suffered a fatal injury, and though he ignored it and battled on to perform one last epic attack (GIGA DRILL BREAKER) that will destroy basically everything…he is then later found dead with a grin on his lips in the cockpit of Gurren.
His legacy and his words and spirit continues to push the group, however, and are often rephrased and said in many episodes, and he makes cameo appearances, including in the final episodes when the group really needed him to help pull them out of a tough challenge.
END OF SPOILERS.
[Personality] Kamina is overconfident, arrogant, loud, and stupid. HOWEVER, he is very passionate about his goals and beliefs, and he believes in people, people that he trusts at least. He will more than once let his life literally be at the hands of Simon or other people, believing that they will succeed and that they will pull through.
One of his most often quoted catchphrases is “Believe in me who believes in you”, which reflects this train of thought. In essence, it’s a cycle of trust. Past that, my brain starts to explode.
SPOILER ALERT SPOILER ALERT
He does change it, however, after he dies. He tells Simon, “Don't believe in the you who believes in me. Don't believe in the me who believes in you. Believe in the you who believes in yourself”, which is a way of telling Simon that he should be able to move on and grow and stand on his own.
END SPOILER.
He is pretty much 99.9% positive energy. And he has plenty of it to spare. He’s a fun-loving, party type guy, willing to give his support, and though he doesn’t show it, he can be serious when he’s like out alone and thinking about what needs to be done. Still, he’s definitely one for the overdramatic speeches, never hesitates, and just pushes on forward (like literally. He would never back down when a sane person would and just plows through danger like it’s a field of wheat or something). Another one of his catchphrases: “Who the hell you think I am?!”
Basically he has a sort of loud older brother lookin’ over you leader personality. I mean, he does tell Simon to call him “aniki” even though they’re not blood related.
[Abilities] Can fight, a powerful speaker, make people feel confident or feel like there’s hope when there apparently isn’t any, and is brimming with so much spirit power he can do craaazy things in a Gunman.
[Other important facts] He has these tattoos all over his body, and they’re all spiraly and cool :O
He also uses a katana like sword called a nodachi.
OH! HOW CAN I FORGET. HE WEARS THESE FREAKING AWESOME SUNGLASSES AND HIS SWORD IS ACTUALLY A NEVER-ENDING SWORD
>O> first like 8 seconds, it’s all the sword. Srs.
[Sample post] *in the train* What kind of Gunman is this? Where’s the pilot? I’ve walked through this whole thing ten times and I can’t figure out where the cockpit is.
...Huh? We stopped? And those were doors? Couldn’t really tell...
…Where the hell am I?
Oi, Yoko! Leeron! Dekosuke! Simon! Where are you guys?
*sees parrot*…Is that a beastman? It’s a rather small little thing…
…
Now I see! So you managed to take us into your base…but that was your greatest mistake! For now you have come face to face with the GREAT Kamina-sama, leader of the Gurren-dan, slayer of beastmen!
SIMON!!
Come out of hiding! We’re going to do that!
…Simon?
*silence*
Aaaah, where is he?! For that matter where’s my Gurren??
…Don’t give me that look, you puny, tacky feather covered beastman!
WHO THE HELL DO YOU THINK I AM?!
*nodachi drawn and have the KAMINA FOREHEAD TO FOREHEAD SMACK, BIRD (ie, he headbutted the parrot.)* I’ll just plow right through you and destroy this Gunman and show you all the might of Kamina, leader of the Gurren-dan!
[Read the rules much?] Yeeeeeep :O
[Further questions] BELIEVE IN ME WHO BELIEVES IN YOU.
[Age] 17
[Canon] Tengen Toppa Gurren-Lagann
[Point of time in canon from which the character is taken] Between episodes 5 and 6, after picking up Rossiu and before the whole hot springs incident
[Background info] Kamina comes from a small village that lives underground, but he dreams of escaping his mundane life and break through to the surface, an idea that is complete forbidden by the elders and other inhabitants. He believes he had seen the surface once before with his father, who had left the underground to journey the surface.
He later forces persuades Simon to join him in his endeavors, having already called his little group Gurren-dan. He sees the younger boy’s drill as “the drill that will pierce the heavens”, a saying that he will say a lot and becomes one of his many catch phrases.
After the failed attempt with the use of a shitload of pig-moles to make a living tower to break the surface, Kamina is locked up in their little prison system while Simon is sent back to drilling. However, Simon later finds this strange thing with a HUGE face and scurries tunnels up to Kamina’s cell and they “break out”.
However they get caught, but as the chief of the village is about to bring it down on Kamina, this giant monster FACE thing comes crashing through the earthen ceiling, making all of the villagers go “OMGWTFBBQ” because they had never seen anything like it before. Kamina, however, takes the chief’s sword and after a ridiculous outrageous over the top speech and challenging it head on.
…Right. Puny human with a dinky katana/nodachi against a giant huge monster face thing.
…Riiiiight. Luckily for Kamina, a girl, Yoko Ritona, falls down soon after, firing multiple shots at it before landing all stylishly and badass looking. Of course, Kamina’s a guy, and Yoko has a rack, so yeah checkin’ that baby out :O So they’re running around and almost get pulverized but Simon later saves them from doom by…digging a tunnel. This happens often. But that’s Simon, not Kamina. As Simon tunnels them to the giant machine with a huge face on it he had found, Yoko explains to them that those things with the HUGE faces are Gunman/Ganman (I gave up on the spelling, I’ve seen it both ways and I’m probably going to go with “Gunman” since that’s what wiki has until told otherwise) and that they came from the surface, which really gets Kamina fired up.
They soon reach the strange machine, and after some encouragement from Kamina, Simon uses the little drill he had found earlier and seeing that both the little drill and the eyes of the Gunman were glowing in sync, he pushes it in and turns it, bringing the Gunman to life.
Long story short, they fly out of the ground into the open, Kamina dubs it “Lagann”, and after a bit of a tussle, and much spirit power backed by Kamina, they literally drill through the monster dude and soar out over the planet. Much “ooooh~” and “aaaah~” happens.
AND THUS. The epic saga of Kamina’s and Simon’s journey through the surface world begins. They later learn about the Beastmen, who were the original pilots for the Ganman (the mechs) and were the ones who basically oppress the humans to live underground. Of course, Kamina is not one to just let this stand, so he sets out to fight against the Beastmen and, though difficult, proves successful, and his little troop grows as the series progresses.
He later (like, episode 2 >_>) obtains his own Ganman, and names it Gurren. It’s of course large. And a bit over the top. And when he and Simon combine via slamming Simon’s Lagann into the Gurren’s head in which the pointy drill is like only a foot or so above Kamina’s head, they form a super, epic, outrageous, ridiculously powerful Ganman called…Gurren-Lagann.
Also, the main reason they combined was because they come up against a strong beastman named Viral. And his Gunman has a helmet thingie, but it makes it look like it has two faces. So Kamina always calls it two-faced. And to make things even, and to show Viral that his “two faces” aren’t really all that, he and Simon “combine” as stated above. Needless to say, everyone went “WTF” at that. But it worked. Despite what everyone expected.
SPOILER ALERT. SPOILER ALERT.
Kamina also dubs his little army as Dai Gurren, and will continue to lead them on victory to victory, until facing one of the four main generals of the beastman. However…though they are victorious in the battle, it was at a great price. Kamina suffered a fatal injury, and though he ignored it and battled on to perform one last epic attack (GIGA DRILL BREAKER) that will destroy basically everything…he is then later found dead with a grin on his lips in the cockpit of Gurren.
His legacy and his words and spirit continues to push the group, however, and are often rephrased and said in many episodes, and he makes cameo appearances, including in the final episodes when the group really needed him to help pull them out of a tough challenge.
END OF SPOILERS.
[Personality] Kamina is overconfident, arrogant, loud, and stupid. HOWEVER, he is very passionate about his goals and beliefs, and he believes in people, people that he trusts at least. He will more than once let his life literally be at the hands of Simon or other people, believing that they will succeed and that they will pull through.
One of his most often quoted catchphrases is “Believe in me who believes in you”, which reflects this train of thought. In essence, it’s a cycle of trust. Past that, my brain starts to explode.
SPOILER ALERT SPOILER ALERT
He does change it, however, after he dies. He tells Simon, “Don't believe in the you who believes in me. Don't believe in the me who believes in you. Believe in the you who believes in yourself”, which is a way of telling Simon that he should be able to move on and grow and stand on his own.
END SPOILER.
He is pretty much 99.9% positive energy. And he has plenty of it to spare. He’s a fun-loving, party type guy, willing to give his support, and though he doesn’t show it, he can be serious when he’s like out alone and thinking about what needs to be done. Still, he’s definitely one for the overdramatic speeches, never hesitates, and just pushes on forward (like literally. He would never back down when a sane person would and just plows through danger like it’s a field of wheat or something). Another one of his catchphrases: “Who the hell you think I am?!”
Basically he has a sort of loud older brother lookin’ over you leader personality. I mean, he does tell Simon to call him “aniki” even though they’re not blood related.
[Abilities] Can fight, a powerful speaker, make people feel confident or feel like there’s hope when there apparently isn’t any, and is brimming with so much spirit power he can do craaazy things in a Gunman.
[Other important facts] He has these tattoos all over his body, and they’re all spiraly and cool :O
He also uses a katana like sword called a nodachi.
OH! HOW CAN I FORGET. HE WEARS THESE FREAKING AWESOME SUNGLASSES AND HIS SWORD IS ACTUALLY A NEVER-ENDING SWORD
>O> first like 8 seconds, it’s all the sword. Srs.
[Sample post] *in the train* What kind of Gunman is this? Where’s the pilot? I’ve walked through this whole thing ten times and I can’t figure out where the cockpit is.
...Huh? We stopped? And those were doors? Couldn’t really tell...
…Where the hell am I?
Oi, Yoko! Leeron! Dekosuke! Simon! Where are you guys?
*sees parrot*…Is that a beastman? It’s a rather small little thing…
…
Now I see! So you managed to take us into your base…but that was your greatest mistake! For now you have come face to face with the GREAT Kamina-sama, leader of the Gurren-dan, slayer of beastmen!
SIMON!!
Come out of hiding! We’re going to do that!
…Simon?
*silence*
Aaaah, where is he?! For that matter where’s my Gurren??
…Don’t give me that look, you puny, tacky feather covered beastman!
WHO THE HELL DO YOU THINK I AM?!
*nodachi drawn and have the KAMINA FOREHEAD TO FOREHEAD SMACK, BIRD (ie, he headbutted the parrot.)* I’ll just plow right through you and destroy this Gunman and show you all the might of Kamina, leader of the Gurren-dan!
[Read the rules much?] Yeeeeeep :O
[Further questions] BELIEVE IN ME WHO BELIEVES IN YOU.