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Picture of Gurren Lagann Archives

Translate: “Kamina followed Shak’s gaze. In the center of the village, amidst the fallen rubble, something was writhing. (It’s huge…) That was Simon’s first thought. Compared to the villagers who had been jolted awake by the tremors and deafening roar and had rushed outside, its size was all the more apparent. It stood more than ten times the height of an adult. As for its width, he couldn’t even begin to imagine how many people would have to join hands to encircle it. And that colossal something was moving beyond the cloud of dust.”

Size comparison using photomeasure

We talk a lot about Tengen Toppa or Super Tengen Toppa, but I’m wondering what the size of a standard Gunmen should be. The Gurren Lagann Archives artbook seems to provide some interesting measurements, such as Gurren being about 9.6 meters tall and Gurren Lagann being 14 meters tall (assuming Simon is at least 1.60 meters tall).

But then there’s the Gurren Lagann novel, written by Kazuki Nakashima, who states that Gozu, the Gunmen that appears in the first episode, is more than 10 times the size of an adult human, which is over 17 meters. Gurren Lagann dwarfs this Gunmen by a huge margin, so its size could reach up to 20 meters.

But this would clash with what we see in Gurren Lagann Archives. Honestly, I believe the author’s words carry more weight, so I’m in favor of using the sizes given in the novel, but if we do that, we’d lose the ability to accurately use the size comparison provided by Archives.

So I thought it would be better to compare the sizes of the Gunmen using what Gurren Lagann Archives gives us but using the value from the novel as a reference, leaving Lagann/Simon out of the equation. This gives us a Gurren Lagann measuring 32 meters (I think that's even bigger than the normal Mazinger Z, wow). I have no problem with an exaggeratedly large Gurren Lagann, but I feel like this is too much, WAY TOO MUCH.

So I thought it would be better to ask: what do you think? Which do you think we should use? Just the artbook, or the statement from the novel?

(first time posting something on Reddit, lol)