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> that group was still technically employed by Gainax when Gurren Lagaan came out

Huh, TIL.

Gurren Lagaan is surprisingly meta. One of the big problems with the fight-focused anime formula is that they constantly one-up themselves, eventually power spiraling to unsustainable levels. So Gurren Lagaan's plot revolves around an energy literally called "spiral power" and how unsustainable it is.

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There's a physical limit as to how well one can fight, but competition and growth is just as limitless in the business world as in anime. The top people in early Dragonball make six figures, late Dragonball if you don't have 100 billion you don't qualify for screentime.

That's why you need jojo's route where it's not about who has the bigger number but who can use the skills better

or just who is weirder

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