Gurren Lagann (Season 1)

Gurren Lagann (2007) is the cult mecha anime from Studio Gainax you can watch online on iFILM. Humanity has spent centuries buried underground, digging tunnels and dreading the next cave-in. Then a young digger named Simon unearths a tiny drill, and that drill changes everything.

His hotheaded mentor Kamina is obsessed with a sky he's never seen. When the village ceiling collapses and war machines called Gunmen crash through, the two hijack one and punch their way to the surface. From there the show keeps raising the stakes, scaling from a backwater skirmish to fights where robots hurl galaxies at each other. It isn't afraid to kill off characters you love, and the gut-punch in its first act sets the tone. Voiced by Tetsuya Kakihara and Katsuyuki Konishi.

Across 27 episodes, director Hiroyuki Imaishi and writer Kazuki Nakashima built a loud, unhinged tribute to the super-robot genre, anchored by that battle cry: "Who the hell do you think I am?!" If you like your anime with the brakes ripped off, this one delivers. Stream every episode of Gurren Lagann online on iFILM.