Impressions from the pre-screening of the Gurren-Lagann movie. Brief because Gainax asked them to not make the full reveal until the actual release date is due in 6 days. Mostly talks about changes the new scenes.

- Prologue now features Genome fighting against the Anti-Spirals. Very intense animation.
-First eight episodes are now presented like a continuous struggle. They?re not as episodic. Kittan introduced differently. Rossiu is still the same but more foreboding and obviously much faster. Pink furry balls are still in the movie, but they?re not ?monster of the week? but rather just another. Episodes 4 and 6 are gone. Episodes 2 and 3 were mixed up. Episode 7 is almost gone, it?s now tied up with episode 8. Features very, very, few instances of new animation, mostly for Kittan and the sisters.
-Kamina dies right before middle of the movie. It?s exactly the same sequence.
-Nia is introduced slightly differently. Simon actually runs away in Gurren-Lagann after Kamina dies, he swears to kill all beast by himself until he loses control and the events of the show take place.
-After Yoko and Kittan arrive to rescue Simon and Nia, everything else is completely new. The only reused sequences were some of Nia confronting Adiane in episode 10. The film covers until Lord Genome?s death. It?s very well-animated and exciting, with more ship-to-ship battle to make the combats faster.
-Second half focuses on Simon, Nia and Yoko? specially when speaking of the most impressive sequences. Everyone else is sadly a background character. Kittan gets a new very cool scene, though. Cytomander barely lasts anything, but Adiane and Guame get slightly bigger roles? relatively speaking.
-A second film, Lagann Chapter will open in Spring 2009 and will cover the second half of the TV show. The writer describes this new movie as Simon and Nia's story. Lagann Chapter will have plenty of newly animated parts too, even more than Gurren Chapter.

Claro, que para eso, deberían pasar... 11 ó 12 años