Is Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann good to watch with a friend?
A couple of weeks. Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann (Heaven-Piercing Gurren Lagann) is a TV series from Spring 2007 by Gainax Co., Ltd.: 27 episodes, about 11 hours in total, finished, 8.49/10 across the listing sites.
Watching it together: a couple of weeks. 27 episodes is about 11 hours: 14 evenings at two a night. Agree on a pace before you start. Rule: 13–99 episodes without a lighter tag → a couple of weeks.
This verdict comes from rules over the title's format, length and tags, not from a review — the rule that fired is named above.
The facts
- Type
- TV series
- Episodes
- 27
- Episode length
- 24 min
- Total time
- about 11 hours — a weekend
- First aired
- Spring 2007
- Status
- Finished
- Studio
- Gainax Co., Ltd.
- Score
- 8.49/10 across the listing sites
- Tags
- action, adventure, aliens, comedy, coming of age, drama, dystopian, ecchi, found family, love triangle, mecha, military, politics, post-apocalyptic, robots & AI, romance, sci-fi, shounen, space, swordplay, tragedy, violence, war
Data from anime-offline-database (ODbL) as of 2026-07-04; the score is the median of the scores the anime listing sites give it, on a 1–10 scale.
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More like this: action · adventure · aliens · comedy · coming of age · drama · dystopian · found family · love triangle · mecha · military · politics · post-apocalyptic · robots & AI · romance · sci-fi · shounen · space · swordplay · tragedy · war.
Quick answers
- How long does it take to watch all of Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann?
- About 11 hours for all 27 episodes at 24 min each — a weekend; at two episodes a night that is 14 evenings.
- How many episodes does Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann have?
- 27 episodes of 24 min.
- Is Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann finished?
- Yes, Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann is finished (27 episodes), so you can watch the whole thing at your own pace.
- Is Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann good for a group?
- Yes. Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann is tagged action, comedy, the tags that survive a room full of people talking over the screen.
- Where is Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann listed?
- Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann is on AniList (id 2001) and MyAnimeList (id 2001); Queue Up keys it by its AniList id and shows it when it is on either of your lists.
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