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thank you for this video, as a 16 year old with a lot of similar struggles this helps a lot😭

Bro you spoke with my heart... i saw my own story in yours. Mass Effect... Hopelessness... Gurren Lagann... Yeah, i've been through it all and i can relate a lot. In different ways of course, but still... i feel deeply touched by it. The phrase that stood with me was: *Who the hell you think i am!?* That is my saying when i need to move those cheeks out of excuses or hopelessness.

Amazing video man

Gurren Lagann is so amazing man

Is 3 am in the morning, couldn't sleep because I was feeling down. This video felt like something I had to watch no matter what. And after watching through all the video, that final "Let Me See You Grit Those Teeth" felt hard, I feel like I can really get out of this well that is drowning me every day.

Hey, this gave me a boost i needed thank you very much. Take care!

Great video. This deserves more attention especially people who are struggling to get they're footing on things

The TRUE male power fantasy, being a mentor so good that even in death people look to you for guidance

THANK YOU FOR THIS

You've put into words what I've only ever felt all these years a couldn't express.

Pushing 31 and my first introduction to Gurren Lagan was watching it on ScFi channel during anime showings. That shit is up there with Dbz when it comes to overcoming odds and brotherhood.

quite a nice vid

The editing, script, and delivery of your essay were incredible, and had me tearing up. I believe in you, and can't wait to see what you make next! Welp, time to go rewatch Gurren Lagann again.

I resonate with this show, just like you and everyone else who commented here. The first time I watched TTGL was the last time I was happy before The Bad Times hit me. I watched it shortly after it came out at 19, I was in the military living far away from my family, nearly friendless, no S/O, little self-esteem, and my boss was just starting to turn the screws on me. Over the next few years I spiraled (heh). My boss succeeded in giving me a bad reputation that stuck around with management for years, and I was often treated worse than my peers. I got a girlfriend who turned out to be a manipulative, disloyal abuser. I got saddled with being the sole provider for a family. I got in trouble as my mental health slipped. Even as I gained friends in the workplace, I was extremely often isolated from them. I picked up smoking. I even came close to losing the ultimate game by the end of my contract, since there was literally nowhere I could go to get respite in my life. Then I got out of the military, and fell into poverty -- and still was the sole provider. I lost whatever self-respect I still clung to. I started becoming a worse person, and any time I went to a therapist or counselor to fix myself and get guidance on my relationship I didn't really get anywhere -- and in one instance straight up told I was in the wrong in my relationship and that I needed to work things out with my abusive gf. I started college, but was too depressed and in denial of it to put in the effort and was academically suspended with tens of thousands of debt. I worked low paying jobs with long commutes, keeping me away from home longer and longer. I witnessed people I loved try to self-extinguish and personally intervened -- or saw them after they were admitted to the psych ward for thinking about doing it. Other loved ones died due to illnesses and age. I had to rejoin the military to pay the bills and my debt, and my very next command was almost as bad as the first. I'm married by then, and feeling myself return to those worst of times before. My wife was initially not very supportive, for various reasons both good and bad. I've looked back at 15 years of my life and saw little beyond the mere struggle to survive, the hope of one day being able to actually feel happiness. But this show still told me it wanted to see me grit those teeth through it all. It wasn't just Simon, but ME who had to learn not to believe in my own Kamina that believes in me, but in the me that believes in myself. I'm a Digger. If I find myself in a hole, I will thrash and claw and scratch my way out with my drill. I might need to rest every now and again, I might feel down, I might even want to give up entirely, and I might even need to get belted; but once I've caught my breath I'm back in the fight. Our drills will all pierce the heavens. But until then, we need to fight against our adversity, and even if we only move forward a little, that's okay. That's how drills work, after all. Now let me see you grit those teeth.

I think this is sooooo goooood, this resonated with me. Thank you so much for this, i am actually struggling a lot with finding a jobs as a front-end dev. I was about to give up, but it is not because i don't have this job that i am not a worthy person. Thank you for waking me up and helped me grit those teeth :)

this was profoundly moving, in such a simple way. Thank you for telling me, and all of us, to grit those teeth. You should check out Breadsword's essay on TTGL.

thank you so much for doing this video. i felt deeply understood :). this anime is my soul, and simon and kamina are both parts of myself that keep me being me. i knew this was the piece of art that most resonates with me and literally put me on my own path on life, but i realized in my heart that simon is me, too, and that made me so happy. have a great day if youre reading this man :)

Thanks man :)

Mass effect. Gurren Lagan. Kotor 2. My favorite things in the world

Amazing. Fantastic work.

Getting a tattoo of the Team Gurren flag, with "Let me see you grit those teeth" under or around it. By far my favorite anime, it hits so hard I routinely cry at the end of it. Happy tears ofc

What teeth do I have left to grit? I live in a small flat, I make just enough to eat even chicken and rice except when I spend months saving up to buy some new stuff to elevate my suffering. My tv is from 2012. My console, at least, is from 2020. I buy a game now and then, but most come from game sharing friends who pity me. A generation ago my family owned 50 acres of land, only 5 acres of which they cleared for self interests which was mostly horse riding for their own interest and a small degree of vegetables and chickens as meat. They sold this farm when I was 11 to a trucking company to make a depot on the land off the highway. My parents used this sales money to live lavishly for a few decades and now themselves are poor again and begging their kids for money. I'm now 30. I've had a series of jobs. I've worked Security in other truck depots (the irony killed me daily) for people so much richer than me. I've worked as a Nurse for the elderly and disabled and while this was emotionally fulfilling work it was not enough to pay my rent and food and so on. What teeth do I have left to grit? I'm grinding chipped fragments on gums and spitting up the blood. I don't want to be Kamina or Simon... I want to be one of the farmers Simon saves at the end. I just want to live on some land and produce and contribute to my fellow brothers and exist as a member of society. Now I feel like filth clinging inexorably to the soles of my betters with no concept of advancement. What will I do at this pace..? I will spend most my day doing my job, which I do not mind, then I will return home and play these games I've barely held an interest in since like maybe 2016? I will play play absolute trash I hate will all my soul my friends buy. I will play easy arcade games my friends buy... If I have a sole commodity It's friends. But genuinely happiness and enjoyment out of life? That's bee about a decade off.

Thank you for making this. Pierce the heavens, brother.

This came at a good time for me. I just crawled out of my hole last week, and I've been genuinely happy every day since. It can't last forever, but dropping all the weight from my shoulders hanging onto that bitterness and anger has left me feeling lighter. I went from "who suffers as well as I?" to "I don't need to suffer at all".

Thanks for the video man. I'm going through a dark phase of my life right now and your video touched me, inspired me, lifted me up. Hope you're doing great now ! By the way the presentation of your video was really neat visually and musically, so... hey, it seems like your dream is on the right tracks ! Lots of strenght and love. Do the impossible and see the invisible ! Fight the power !

This is beautiful. Ive always wanted to make an analysis of the "Parallel Universes" scene from this show, and I would be honored to make something even half as good as this video. Phenomenal work.

Your editing is really striking! Just from the way the clips were re-layered and timed… I can tell Gurren Lagann means a lot to you. What a humble reflection, and smartly delivered in just 11 minutes. Thanks for sharing!

I love to see others find their own meaning in this show I love so much. I personally love Simon's growth after Kamina, and him never giving up on human connection despite loss. Thanks for the perspective, keep turning that drill.

So proud of you Caleb, this is beautiful

Dude this overall quality made me think you would have way more subs. Easy sub keep up the great work man.

Much like you, I can't express all the feelings I have for this show and its story. Thank you for making and sharing this. I really needed it today. 😉

Not me crying deeply on a Thursday night. WOW. I’m so glad that someone understands and is inspired by and driven by the anime in the same way I am. I identify with you in so many areas. We were the same ages and similar situations and everything. I’m so glad someone understands. I’ve been really really struggling today. I think I needed the reminder. Thank you.

I fucking love gurren lagann

I just finished watching Gurren Lagann earlier today. No story has ever pierced my soul quite like Gurren Lagann has. Thank you for sharing your story and how "Let me see you grit those teeth" has affected your personal life, Caleb.

Awesome job bro. Absolutely relatable

Any video that can make me cry always earns a sub, VERY good job.

Grind on my friend. Great video. I love that anime.

This deserves way more attention then it's getting. I'm in a similar position, struggling with self worth and finding myself. This video has comforted me in a way, continue like this and it'll all be worth it 😼

ARHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!! FUCK YEAH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! The one thing you chose for yourself... That is the truth of your universe.

No question. Earned a subscription my man. 3 Minutes in. Takes a lot to get that from someone like me. So you earned it my dude.

This video hit me, and you are definitely a storyteller a great one on top of that. Thanks.

Well said, blood brother! I'm currently doing my best to climb out of the pits of addiction personally. We're going to fight, all of in these comments, and if we all fight and kick and scream and ask for help from each other, we will win!

I want to thank you for sharing the battle is tough im doing my best but its never enough thanks for the story it warms my heart thank you🫵

here for when you make it big, great video

Hey man thanks. I needed to hear a lot of what you said in this vid. Going through a pretty dark place right now but I guess I’ll just have to grit my teeth and keep on pushing through.

Amazing video bro good luck

7:50 song?

Great video. Gurren Lagann changes my life or more, only two quotes. “This drill, will open a hole in the universe. And that hole will be a path for those behind us. The dreams of those who have fallen!” "Don't believe in yourself! Believe in me! Believe in the Kamina who believes in you!"

I…I didn’t expect this video to resonate with me as hard as it did. I never thought I needed to hear those words and really know the depth of them. Thank you for that.