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Dog this made me cry twice. I really needed to hear a lot of this shit. Thank you so much for sharing and for being vulnerable with us internet strangers. Love ya
This is legitimately the best RUclips video I've ever watched. I watched it 3 years ago, and i could stop crying during it. Today, I rewatched it because of how much of an impact it had on me, and I cried again. I hope you always stay creating!
"but I promise you, we're gonna get back up, It's an obligation, it's part of us, we're too stupid not to" I honestly dont know why, but I cried a little litsening to that
Don't you dare tell him to relax! A victory sip of the vino, sure, but never relax. It's when you're at the top that you have to keep most vigil to not sink back into complacency.
An absolute King indeed, fantastic work Breadsword. Absolutely brought me to tears a few times, thanks for putting it all out there for us. Have a great day everyone, best wishes ❤️
im glad other people come back to this masterpiece as much as i do. i feel like, with every revisit, your video becomes so much more relatable. i love how you respond to gurren lagann not with an in-depth analysis, but a heartfelt, emotional, personal conversation. thats really the only way you can analyze gurren lagann. im going through a lot of shit rn and some of the things you said hit me in a way they didn't before, now that im actually creating videos. that feeling of rationalizing every reason why you shouldn't make what you want to make and having all the fun sapped away from what you're doing is something ive never seen anyone else talk about. and the fact that you followed that feeling up with one of the best videos ive ever seen on youtube gives me hope to keep pressing forward. i dunno if you agree, but you've done something amazing, man. keep doing what you're doing.
I watched Guren Lagen with my son a couple years back and struggled with it. My dad passed before my son was born and never got to meet him. I didn’t expect to shed a tear watching this video. I will watch Guren Lagen again. Keep up the great work.
"Don't believe in yourself, believe in the me that believes in you" was the thing that got me through my Junior year of college "We have to get back up, we're too stupid not to" is the thing that will get me through the rest of 2020
In a way it's so contrived perhaps. But I agree it stirs my soul to this day in a way that is irreplaceable.... I love so much that point which kamina describes how simon is the one that really gives him strength....that his seeming arrogance is confidence in a person that doesn't even yet know his preservenece etc... I love it....I love every bit of it
“Let me see you grit those teeth” my favorite line in the entire anime. I had recently finished watching Gurren Lagann with my friend and I instantly fell in love with it. It quite literally made me rethink my entire outlook on life and about myself. I only wish I had found it sooner
when i first watched Gurren Lagann, i think i was too nihilistic to truly understand the message or really anything about the show, i didnt feel motivated at the end of it. i felt sad that i would never get the chance to do anything of worth with my life like Simon did, honestly thats how most endings of stories go for me, i resign myself to the belief that i will never reach that moment where all of my suffering is vindicated. I now see that if i want to be vindicated for my suffering, nobody else can do it for me. I have to be the one to slug myself in the face, what the fuck am i doing with my life? nothing, absolutely nothing, so i should just give up then? my younger self would have said yes, but now after watching this video that showed me the true meaning of this show, i am mad, furious, enraged that i have wasted so much time watching others get what they want in life. Its my turn. you have no idea how much this video has impacted me, i cried at the end of the video, they are not tears of sadness nor joy, just tears of pain. thank you for slugging me. I needed it.
This video has the most Gurren Lagann energy ever: it’s chaotic, it’s nostalgic, it’s heartbreaking and heartwarming at the same time. You do such a great job and I really hope you continue along this way.
I can’t describe how wonderful this video is. I lost my mother and was abandoned by my father my senior year of high school. Entering college without a family was terrifying and disheartening but every time I felt horrible and defeated I would watch the entire show over and I’d feel rejuvenated. I cried when you said “let me see you grit those teeth”because my mothers last words were “I’m not worried about you” and I think she said that with the same energy.
"Hopelessness is inevitable. But... to give in to hopelessness is a betrayal." ... Wow. Not even 10 minutes in and striking me at the core. EDIT: After watching the rest of it... I needed this. I needed this so much and I don't even know what to say or do about it. But this video may honestly change my life, and certainly will change how I think about it for a while.
Hey Breadsword. Just wanted to return on December 22, 2021 and let that I haven’t given in or given up yet. I hope you have been staying strong my friend! Thank you for making such an amazing video on such an amazing series! I know for a fact your father is so freaking proud of you and all you have accomplished! So keep digging until you finally break through the heavens! Because that’s how team Dai Gurren rolls! 😎😎😎
I've watched this video about, four or five times now since I first saw it... and this has done more for reminding me that we *can* do something about our lives, more than any motivational video I've watched has... Because while those only seem to talk about how to build yourself up... Breadsword here showed us how easy it can be to fall into a hole that seems to have no end, and no escape... and that sometimes, it's not logic, it's not thought... it's not planning or habits that get us out... it's, letting ourselves be *human*, to be flawed, to be messes, to be emotional, that can help us get out of that hole. And I think him for it. Every time.
It has been 3 years since i last watched this, a lot has changed, finished collage, started working, yet i still cried to this masterpiece of a Vidoe, and i wish the next time i go through tough time, I'll come back here and enjoy this vid again
I know I’m not the first to say this and I won’t be the last. But I’m gonna be a bit selfish here and just say, this is unironically and unabashedly, one of the, if not, the best video essay I have ever seen. I know this will most likely be a comment tucked away somewhere maybe to never be seen by anyone besides myself, but as someone who consistently comes back to this video time and time again to pick myself up, I needed to just let you know. And thank you
I've watched this video 3 times already and me and a friend was just discussing how great it is. He has also watched it multiple times so you're not alone here
Every time I watch this video and you say “let me see you grit those teeth” it makes me cry because every time I watch this is when I find my self at the bottom of the well giving up and it makes me fight all the harder to climb out
It’s weird that this video has become both my go to video whenever I feel like I’m hitting highs in life and also lows. As I get older I become to understand just a bit more while also somewhat questioning this crazy thing I call life. It’s comforting hearing these words from someone who let their guard down to express their love letter to their dad and beloved anime. Thank you
I don't know if you could have ever predicted how much this video has meant to people. This video has meant the world to me. I've watched it over and over, and I keep watching it each time I need a reminder.
Yeah i didnt know for months after i first watched it but i was too young to appreciate the ending without the after credits scene so for a while i just thought the ending sucked and was really unsatisfying... i still kick myself for that because it had one of the best endings possibly ever
This video keeps me coming back every now and again. Never once has a message resonated with me and kept me going like Gurren Lagann's. This video perfectly captures the feeling when you finally get what it means to row and row and fight the powers that are in opposition to your dreams. Believe in everyone who believed in you. Recently I moved out on my own and the only way I have been able to navigate this new experience has been believing my parents when they said they believed I could do this. Thankyou Breadsword for opening up my eyes years ago.
I revisit this video every so often, specifically to listen to the ending part. It's such a moral boost. Thankyou for this video, you have no idea how many nights you've saved from being nothing but sulking.
Fucking right?? I have a coworker who is a negativity denier-love that energy--but don’t think I can tell him the direct quote ahaha. It’s not toxic positivity - it’s cum denial but for negativity which makes it 👌🏼👌🏼
As a new-ish dad, I just wanted to tell you, that if my children ever did half of the amazing work that you have done, I would be immensely proud of them. I am proud of you.
RUclips is like the value discount bin of DVD movies. It's a chaotic dump of random content where you're dropped right in the storm of anarchy. There's no real curation of content, other than the algorithm but even that's not as consistent as a channel on TV would be. It can be possible to have a favorite RUclipsr, or RUclips channel, a favorite TV show, or even a favorite episode of a TV show but it's very, very, very difficult to solidify a favorite video on RUclips for anyone. That's like choosing a favorite grain of sand out of the 7.5 sextillion on Earth from all the beaches and deserts... but this... This video is my favorite. Out of the absolute chaos that is RUclips, out the of endless pouring of human creativity, and bots dumping content, this is my FAVORITE. I hope you make more. Even if they are not this, I do not care what you make, I'm just excited to see more.
Same, I have so much content that I love on this site, and a whole bunch that I dislike, but I watched this and my immediate thought was, "this is my favorite".
"Let me see you grit those teeth" has never hit harder. This made me realize that I'm in a hell of a slump myself. Honestly made me cry on multiple occasions throughout. This must have taken so long to make but it is so inspiring and emotional. Thank you for this..
@@pancakecommanderandbowser2279 I actually hated Episode 8. To me, it felt like the fact that Simon had feelings for Yoko and then their relationship never happened felt really disappointing to me. All it showed me was that Kamina was really just teaching Simon to take women against their will. Simon then does the same thing with Nia by taking her to his home world after stealing her from The Anti-Spirals and then she died because she didn’t deserve to be with him. Gurren Lagann is insane, poorly written trash. I know that’s just my opinion but I appreciate being able to understand and respect where I was coming from. Thanks guy. Thanks for respecting my opinion and I respect yours.
@@lordartoriuscollbrande7434 yes fair point but at the same time I feel as though there relationships never were meant too be taken any farther there love was just a background prop which I think episode 8 demonstrated horribly although I don't see the issue with nias relationship with Simon sure it does jist do the damsel in distress trope but it never felt.like thats all her character was the biggest issue with episode 8 was definitely how there relationship seemed shoe horned in
@Lord Artorius Collbrande ain't gonna respect your opinion, because it belongs in the trash you'd rather let Nia stay in. "she didn't deserve to be with him" she had her own will and could have left simon at any time. Yoko had OBVIOUS feelings for Kamina, and she didn't have the same feelings for Simon. If your just going to ignore women's agency within the show then all agency must be ignored.
Words seriously cannot express how big of an impact this video had on me. This is the first and only time a RUclips video has made me cry. Gurren Lagann has been the best piece of media I had consumed for years now. I related to it. In my sophomore year of high school my friend I had known since second grade had become addicted to drugs and had become an alcoholic. He disappeared and later found out he was kicked out of his house and was in a mental hospital. I haven't seen him since he disappeared. One of the reasons this video hit so hard was because it came out of nowhere. I was listening to the Gurren Lagann OST when I saw this video out of the corner of my eye. I clicked on it expecting it to be a tribute to how good the show is. Instead I got a new outlook on life. I just graduated high school a couple of weeks ago I have no idea what to do with my life, but I think I'm finally ready to dig out of this tunnel.
This is exactly why Gurren Lagaan is my favorite anime. I believe it has similarly motivated me to follow my dream of learning computer programming to develop video games. I went to college for a degree, but ended up flunking. Not because I wasn't trying, but I think because I was trying in the wrong way. I was trying to just copy what my professor was typing during lecture and getting assignments done on time rather than just messing around with code and seeing what happens. I would get super frustrated that I would spend entire days on a project yet make little to no progress, and got a bit depressed when I had to drop the final class I needed to graduate. Now I am following Udemy tutorials and will start taking what I learn to create simple arcade games, which I think will yield much better results. I'm gonna grit those teeth. Also, very sorry for your loss. I'm sure your dad would be very proud of you.
You probably won't see this, but I just wanted to say this video really resonated with me. We are around the same age, and based off what you said we lost our fathers around the same time. Mine passed in a motorcycle accident and I have been struggling with finding things to funnel myself into ever since then. I just realized after watching your video that you were right. I never got mad, and upon doing my **th watch of Gurren Lagann, but the first one since my dad passed, I stumbled across this video. Shortly after I reached the episode 8 and everything after, and I actually got it. I finally genuinely felt what Simon felt and now I get it. I think this video helped me realize that the anger I was feeling was justified, so from the bottom of my heart I just want to say thank you for helping me. I found a new resolve after watching this video, and I'll do my best to grit my teeth and make the impossible happen.
This, this so much. This resonates they my soul right now, and everything that’s going on. We can choose our approach to all the struggles going on, Shinji or Simons approach.
"I didn't like being me. I didn't want to be. Which was of course maddening to the people that *did* like me." Had to pause the video and take a moment after this line. I'm at that point right now, and it's easy to forget that other people feel or have felt that way, and that it's possible to drill your way out of that whole. I clicked on this video just because I was excited to watch a video about my favorite japanese cartoon, but I'm really happy you made it into something so much more.
3 years later, I've finally moved out of my parent's house, sharing an apartment with one of my coworkers. I've been promoted to assistant manager, I'm getting out of the house more, going to the comic book shop and seeing my friends, and I'm surrounded by wonderful people. Im drawing again, even if just a few doodles here and there. I watched Gurren Lagann again when I moved, as is my personal tradition. Last week I was in a car accident. My 2013 Nissan Maxima, affectionately named Wheeljack, shielded me from the impact of a Ford F-150 on my driver's side. My insurance company will not return my calls. No more comic shop for a while. I am still surrounded by wonderful people, including a friend who is lending me his truck, parents who drove an hour to bring me home from the accident, and boss who helped me get the wreck out of the tow yard and store it somewhere without holding fees. I watched this video again tonight, and I'm reminded of how far I've come since I made my first comment. I won't go back into the hole. I've broken through so many ceilings these last 3 years, and I'll continue to drill through every new obstacle in my way. The lights in the sky are stars, and they're still calling out to me, even now.
This video made me cry man… because this show is so special to me for these exact reason… all the pain and grief we go through is important to mould and shape us but it’s all for nothing if we don’t grit our teeth and get back up… Gurren Lagann has pulled me out of so many depressive episodes because ever since the first time I watched it I got it what it was about… and even when I was loathing myself I’d get really angry seeing Simon or Rosyu be depressed because it mirrored my own feelings… but sometimes you need someone or something to sock you in your face and remind you to grit your teeth… so Thank you Breadsword for making this video and Thank you Gurren Lagann for always being there when I needed something to punch me in my fuckin face ♥️
All my friends ask me why I love Gurren Lagann so much and I didn’t know how to explain to them without going off the rails, this video sums up my entire reason for loving the show and how it has helped me to “go beyond the impossible and kick reason to the curb”
@asian dude idk how to say this man but you just might not have a soul if you didn't think this story of masking your own personal grief and desperately latching on to messages present in the world around you isn't special.
@@MrSomnix faux deep and introspective video essays are a cliched cliche on youtube and this video isnt any different its pretty cringey hearing the breathiness and tenation from an untalented speaker and low tier YA novel writing
this video brings nothing new to the table, I've seen it before and I'll see it again, a ~50 minute analysis on a mediocre piece of media that spends all their time trying to convince the viewer that long video + good mic + wordy, boring cliches means they are good at analyzing anything but their own shit in the toilet bowl
i was expecting a video about my favorite goofy mech anime and did not expect to come out the other side with my eyes leaking and my nose dripping with snot. 10/10
Thank you for making one of the videos I come back and watch quite often. I listen to it any time I need to feel something. I hope you continue to make amazing videos.
I REALLY APPRECIATE THE STYLE OF YOUR REVIEWS. ITS LIKE YOU PUT LOFI INTO AN ESSAY AND IT MAKES IT REALLY NICE TO LISTEN TO, UNTIL YOU EARRAPE WITH SUDDEN CRUEL ANGELS THESIS BUT I RESPECT THAT.
Dude, he talks way more about Neon Genesis Evangelion than he even focuses on what he’s supposed to talk about which is Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann. This video sucks and feels disjointed in multiple areas. No offense to anyone.
"I didn't learn that Gurren Lagann had an epilogue for seven years!!!" > Me, only now finding out that Gurren Lagann has an epilogue for the same reason 👁️👄👁️
Yeah, Gurren Lagann's epilogue showed that the team could tell a tight cohesive story that got to the fucking point... but up until that point, they chose not to. Fuck that dog shit of a show. Absolute waste of time.
Here again after a couple years. Thank you again. I'm doing better now. I can finally start taking care of myself. I've got good friends. I've got good family. And I'm moving. Thank you for helping me get here. This is a part of my foundation.
Every couple months I decide to rewatch this, I thought eventually I'd cry less, but I just cry more. Hands down this is the best video on youtube, every time I watch it I want to somehow click like again, do something more. I sadly haven't been able to watch any of your other videos, because every time I click on the channel I find myself crying as I watch this again. legitimately I can't think about a song skipping, or Kittinger's balloon, or our friends at Big Robot without starting to cry because of this. Every moment of this is perfect
As i sit here under this ceiling I engineered for myself coming up on two years since i lost my own father to cigarettes... and a week before I lost my father I had lost my brother... And then the day after my father's funeral, I lost my woman... I find myself realizing that some kid nearly 15 years my junior made this video for me... I'm crying and for the first time since i lost everyone... I just can't begin to describe how much you touched my heart tonight and how much the answer you provided really means to me... I'll get mad but first i just really needed to take the moment and say to you: sincerely, from the bottom of my heart, THANK YOU 😭 You're Father has all the reason in the world to be extremely proud of his son. You really earned my sub. It isn't nearly enough to repay you for what you did for me by making this video... Thank you so much
@@homerola2 I am happy to let you know I have and life is more amazing than ever! I hope this video inspires many more people to make the changes in their life to get to the place they want to go it certainly helped me!
Can I just say it's been right about a year since I saw this video the first time and when I watched it it totally changed my attitude and my life I didn't just break my ceilings I found ceilings to start smashing I'm smashing ceilings so hard. Now I'm looking to start a family making amazing money and LOVE my NEW career. It's no exaggeration to say that this is my very favorite video on the internet ever. Thank you so much for making this video I'm sure it took forever and not only does it have a perfect message it's so well researched open honest completely optimistic and the bar in my book for the best video. If someone asked me my favorite video I would tell them a story about this random kid who was going through some hard times made a beautiful video and healed me from an injury I did not know I sustained. Yesterday I even made my own first RUclips video and if that video isn't exactly the kind of anger he talked about in this video I didn't even realize it till I got a like on that comment and I decided to watch again. Thank you sincerely man I'll sub your channel forever the internet can be an amazing place I don't know where I would be if I hadn't come across this video I'm so thankful for it.
thank u for making this video. although the results havent been realized yet but i know it will and has change the course of my life forever. i just relapsed in a depression episode thats been going on for a couple yrs now and i looked to gurren lagann for inspiration today. this video is what i needed, it was exactly what i needed. thank u for making this :))
Your ability to weave together your deepest personal experiences and anime commentary, bouncing between the two, is godly. So good. You should be incredibly proud of your accomplishments. Thank you as well for the punch in my own face that I needed
Every month or so I find myself coming back to this video. It's beautiful and necessary for my feelings. I've choked up every time. Breadsword forever!
I hardly write comments on youtube, I've considered them to be kind of irrelevant, you know, like I never considered my voice to be something worthwhile. Wandering through youtube finding something to distract my mind from lashing out at myself again, I found this video. And it punched me in the face in the way I needed it the most. You see, I love stories, I how can they touch your heart in ways you don't expect them, I love writing, I love drawing, or at least I tell myself that. because, the thing is, I never write, I never draw, I never do much, I have bullied myself into submission. My art is never good enough, I AM not good enough, this is why I stopped writing, drawing. Why try something I know I will fail, why keep banging my head against the invisible wall when not even I can bring myself to look at why I create? So, another night was passing where I was trying to run from this. If I waited for my anxiety to calm down, maybe I’d find some motivation tomorrow, I just needed some distraction and I’d be okay. And then, I got mad. I finally got mad. I finally hated how I made myself miserable for about a year. I thought myself as someone positive, I always support my friends and people around me, but when it comes to myself, I am the harshest. But man, I’m so mad right now, and for the first time in a while, not at myself, but at the ceiling I so carefully created above me, I’m bursting with anger at the complacency I buried myself with, telling myself daily that I was just not cut out for art. Scared because I thought I’d look stupid if I kept trying. This was the last straw. When I clicked this video, I’d never thought I’d learn such a valuable lesson. And I want to thank you Breadsword. Because your story was finally the punch in the face I needed to be so fucking mad about my situation. I know that I’ll probably doubt myself sometime in the future, but now I know that I need to be mad. And this time I will retaliate, this time I will finish the novel that I’ve had in my head for two years. Because I’ve had enough. I finally had enough. Thank you.
BREADSWORD always amazing content. Such a smooth and passionate video every time. Your videos are always amazing and I look forward to it each notification
Literally one of my fav videos i have ever seen. a goddamn journey of a video while also learning about story telling, anime comparisons, this channel...and myself
Your videos bring such comfort to me. This one is one of the few that I've seen more than a handful of times, but all of them touch something inside of my heart. I appreciate your craft and your thoughts. thank you.
"My bro is dead. He's gone! But he's right there on my back, and here in my heart! He lives on as a part of me!" I lost my grandfather a few years back. He was really important to me. He was always around and helped take care of me when I was little. There is this local restaurant chain where I live called Goldstar and one of these Goldstars in particular was a place that he took me all the time. He called it "The office" because he would go there every day to drink coffee and do paperwork for his job at the train terminal. So naturally that's where he brought me to eat 9 times out of ten. He was so full of life back then and was the life of whatever gathering he was at. These were some of my favorite memories from that time in my life. Then years later I would have to slowly watch him die by becoming, something that I couldn't recognize. He was bedridden and, within a few months, he lost almost all brain activity. But he was still Alive, and that was the hardest part I think. And it fucked me up for a long time. I rewatched Gurren Laggan about 3 weeks after the funeral. The thing that helped were those words that Simone said. Because he's right, it's cliche but god dammit it's true. His memory, the memory of a man full of life who taught me so much is what carries on, not the corpse that was at the end. And he will always be a part of who I am. I doubt there will ever be a quote from anything that will mean as much to me as that one. In short. Yeah dude, I know how you feel.
My grandfather has ALS and was just diagnosed with cancer and the end is near. This comment really hits home for me, thanks for sharing. I need to hold on to the memory of the man who held me as a child, not the man paralyzed in a wheelchair.
I think I have to say that this is my favorite RUclips video I've ever watched. The way I can partially connect the themes and my own memories stays with me and just the struggle of getting up again moves me. I hope things are going well with you and your career and that you keep drilling through every ceiling.
"I didn't like being me... I didn't want to be. Which was of course maddening to the people who DID like me." I don't know how to respond to this. It feels almost like I'm being called out. Um, that is all. I just hope you're one of those creators who reads all their comments so you can know that line in particular has given me a lot to think about.
"It feels really stupid when you realize you aren't having fun anymore with the only thing you're ever sure you wanted to do." I had to pause this video a few times to just sit and think. As someone who's always been decent at what they've been told to do but mediocre at something they want to do, and is waiting for something to disrupt their daily life enough that they find some sort of backwards reason to commit to a passion of theirs, this video kind of hit different. Someone needs to punch me or something, what am I waiting for? I'm starting to feel a little mad - I should just be drilling away at this thing. Either way, this was a fantastic video and I commend you for your style and clear passion for what you do. Your library/collection of clips and knowledge of your select works are always really impressive to me. I'm sure your dad was proud of you long before you felt you had to complete a project that would make him express it outwardly. Keep at it! I'm gonna work on getting mad.
man i was looking at the comment while watching the video and the second i read you comment the video read it for me wtf man what is this kind of matrix bs im in right now help
*Lachesism* - _n._ The desire to be struck by disaster-to survive a plane crash, to lose everything in a fire, to plunge over a waterfall-which would put a kink in the smooth arc of your life, and forge it into something hardened and flexible and sharp, not just a stiff prefabricated beam that barely covers the gap between one end of your life and the other.
I now just realized that I only got about halfway through Gurran lagann but that’s ok I think I got what I needed from it thanks for the video I really loved it. this shit slapped harder then a masayoshi takanaka song. I hope someone sees me achieve my dream what ever that is. Thanks for the vid dude
This is by far my favorite video on the internet. The aesthetic, the narration, the story, the heart, the ideology and two of my favorite shows that were part of my life in my most vulnerable years all wrapped into one hour long video. Every time I feel depressed, I come back to this. I listen to you say "what the fuck is that?" When referring to your dad dying and the feeling hits me like a truck all over again. Truly, this is a masterpiece and I really want to thank you from the bottom of my heart for creating this.
As someone who lost his father the last december 24th. The phrase "We said goodbye on christmas eve" absolutely destroyed me. Not to mention "I never got to show him something that i was proud of" and "He never saw me come into my own I mean, what the fuck is that?" This video was terribly hard for me to finish, but I push through and I feel a sense of kinship with you. We'll probably never speak or interact with one another, but through our similar, painful experience with loss, there something that connect us on a fundamentally human level. I like to think that every person has a connection like that with everyone else, even though they might not know it. And hopefully a not so tragic one at that. And I know this is all corny and cringe af, but I'm much too stupid not to post it anyway. Have a great life man, It's what he would've want for you.
Dang, I was expecting a fun little look into and dissecting of the uplifting messages of Gurren Lagann. What I got was both that, and someone bearing their entire soul and heart out in the open and sharing possibly some of the most personal and emotional things in their life. Part of this seems almost too intimate, like its somehow wrong or intrusive to be able to stare this far and deep into the emotions, sorrows, and struggles of someone else, especially in regards to the passing of a loved one. Yet at the same time its also the most endearing aspect, the most humbling, the most honest and true it could be, and because of that it becomes the most inspirational aspect. This video kicked in the heart like an ornery mule of pure emotion and honesty, it brought feelings of hype, sorrow, sympathy, and finally exultation that not only mirrored perfectly that of the show, but somehow overcame it and went beyond it. The only words that are be left to say in response to this, that can be said are this: Thank you. Thank you for the amazing video. Thank you for your words. Thank you for your work. Thank you for your efforts. Thank you for your heart and emotions. And, most importantly, thank you for being you in all that it means to be you. Thank you.
I was about to leave a similar response to this video when i realized that you had completely captured what I wanted to say in an admittedly better way than I ever could. So ill just repeat what you said.. "The only words that are be left to say in response to this, that can be said are this: Thank you. Thank you for the amazing video. Thank you for your words. Thank you for your work. Thank you for your efforts. Thank you for your heart and emotions. And, most importantly, thank you for being you in all that it means to be you. Thank you. "
Thank you for such a great video. Right now, im laying down in my room too upset about what I’ve done in my life to be where i am and also what i haven’t done to move forward with it. This video was such an eye opener and i cant thank you enough for simply just sharing it with the world. Keep doing you.
I was feeling nostalgic and was searching for the final fight of TTGL and some how stumbled onto this gem. I’m so glad that I did. It was such a well researched, well structured, and heartfelt video. It felt like I could feel all the effort and emotions put into it. I’m a freshman in college and I’ve been recently feeling like I don’t belong here and been having rlly bad days where I feel like I can’t do anything and don’t even recognize myself. I feel like watching this vid gave me hope to do better and to keep moving forward. Thank you. I’m def subbing and excited to see more of your work. Keep doing what your doing!
"he never got to saw me come into my own" that's exactly how i feel about my dad ... that part of the video put me in tears cause i knew what you were gonna say before you said it.. thank you for making this , watching this on fathers day did numbers to me and i kinda needed this for *this* exact day.
This is my favourite video on the internet bar none - I always come back to it. I love your story and could listen to it forever, plus it's an amazing video essay on my favourite anime and it always makes me feel super motivated :)
Wow, it's going to be hard move forward watching RUclips the same way haha. You've absolutely raised the bar. I want to find every bit of passion you have in your videos in others I watch. Thank you for all your work.
the part about the cd skipping at the begging reminds me too much of my first car (a 94 honda) it had only a cassette player and was way too hard to attempt to replace the stereo. i had two cassettes for it a cassette of my favorite pink floyd album (wish you were here) and i was driving home from work after one of the most annoying shifts at my job at a local fast food place. it had only been around a month after one of my closest friends had taken his own life and we always listened to pink floyd and had a shared love for the band, it was snowing that night, we would scream the so you think you can tell part together when we rode around in my car together, my stereo randomly got really loud at that part. i pulled over and cried in the side of the roads for like 30 minutes straight while listening to that album on repeat. i miss him.
I love this show and this video, they’re both such a direct shot of hope. It’s like I know my life won’t instantly take a turn for the better after watching them but I know for a fact it will if I keep working on it everyday. I’ll always come back when I need that reassurance, which will probably be a lot, thank you breadsword
The fact that BREADSWORD, someone who's videos I love and who's channel has helped me find love for media I've already seen for media I've never heard of, admitted that he had a really rough time of being 19-20 honestly makes me feel a lot better about the fact that I'm currently having a shit time at the same point in my life. And in many of the same ways. I know that watching Bread's videos won't necessarily help me be less broke, less depressed, or less aimless, but they definitely help me cope with those realities, and I'm super appreciative of that. Even more so now that I know he like, had similar experiences. Thanks Bread.
I hope you find the strength to get mad and break through the goddamn ceiling of whatever is hanging over you, and really start the life out there that's waiting for you. I hope it gets better for you. Now let's see you grit those teeth.
Don't believe in yourself, believe in the me who believes in you. After all this time, the greatest fascination about.. consciousness, I've experienced; is how old perspective, always, gives way to new. If, you keep drilling. The experience of 'breaking through a ceiling', really does exist. I personally only, really, experienced the sensation after 20+ years of struggle, but it does happen. Regardless of how unhelpful that statement is previous to personal realization(I know it was for me). There's always a new ceiling, there will always be struggling. But it's amazing how, sometimes seemingly small(it doesn't always come from some profound insight or major events), shifts in perspective, habits, experience; can make such sweeping changes to your life or state of mind. As long as you stay alive, keep going and doing your best(whatever that is, at the time). Gigadrill.
You know it hits. I lost my nephew after 1 year and 4 months with him. I raised him like my son. He had a disease called pulmonary hyper tension where he had a hole in his heard and one failed lung from birth for being born prematurely. 23 weeks. He was way under developed but he made it. He grew up. We took him and nurtured him. We had hope. Yeah his doctor visits hurt every time to see him get those needles. But he made it. He always made it. Right. I went to every doctors meeting he ever had I was always there for him. The last time I saw him was before he left on his helicopter ride to Ohio for his heart lung transplant surgery. The last thing I said to him was it’s gonna be okay I love you. The next time I heard about him was through a call in the middle of school on December 8th saying his heart stopped. I couldn’t cry. I held it in. In front of everyone I held it in for so long telling my friends I’ll be back I gotta go right now. I was lying to myself I was saying he wouldn’t go like that right. He never would he was the strongest. He held on through so much and inspired my whole family for a year and a half. He helped us. He wouldn’t leave like that. I realized he was on the car ride to Ohio. The silence killed me. It broke me down and tore at me. I couldn’t help but break down. It’s been three years since he passed and it’s gotten a little easier as I occupy myself but I still have this overwhelming guilt inside me because I didn’t go to Ohio the week before his surgery to see him because I had mid terms that week and wanted it be able to do my school work and study for test. I feel self absorbed disingenuous I feel selfish I should have been there to talk to him and hold him one last time. I don’t know I feel like I could have been there and it change the tide of it. I know it wouldn’t have. It hurt. I feel lost still and I occupy myself still and have his new brother here to help me cope but I’ll never feel the same I’ll never stop loving him. I wanted to see him grow up and accomplish great things. I wanted him to get off that oxygen he so badly depended on so he could feel Normal. I wanted to be there to in courage him to follow his dreams like the father he should have had. But I can’t. And I get that. I have to accept that and I have. It just hurts. I know that. I live in the moment now. I live for him now. I will achieve great things in his name now. When you get dug that deep in that pitless hole you have to grab hold and pull yourself out. You can do it no matter what is happening. It’s okay to cry it’s okay to hurt it’s okay to be sad and hate and be regretful. But don’t let it run your life because whoever you have lost wouldn’t want it to. It always hits. Thank you for the video.
But did you have the power to change his fate? Of course not. Your nephew's death was the luck of the draw. And as the Joker said, "The thing about chaos... it's fair " Simon however did have the power. He chose to allow Nia to die when he could have saved her. It's why Gurren Lagann and everything it stands for is total bullshit.
Thank you for sharing your story, and I'm so glad that you found the strength to try and live as your Nephew would've wanted you to-happily. I wish you all the love in the universe.
I know you put this out a year ago, at least that’s what RUclips says, but I just wanted to say how amazing this is. It’s brilliant, touching, and heartbreaking mixed with heartfelt. It resonates with me so much as a person who seems to have led a similar life to yours. It’s also the thing I needed to see and hear at the point I’ve been stuck in in my life at this time, so thank you. I hope you continue to make inspiring, thoughtful, touching essays/projects like this.
You had no right to deconstruct my emotional ceiling and slap me across the face like that... I probably really needed it, but I wasn't prepared to try and reconstitute my life at 8:30 in the morning... I work a 3rd shift and I need to sleep, so I guess I'll just rewatch when I wake up again, cry my eyes out in the silence of the night, and see where this rocketship of feelings takes me.
Every time I stop by this video, it still hits me where it hurts... I'm still not sure why or how, but it really does. Sitting here on my work lunch break with swollen eyes and a brain that has checked out... I... I still feel like I'm missing something, maybe it's because I'm having trouble getting angry, but I'm still here, and I hope I'll get there someday.
"I know how easy it is to stay in despair." (50:24) is so powerful. The entire closing dialogue was incredibly beautiful and profound. I keep commenting this but you are so very great at this and I know one comment 3.5 years later won't fill you with reassurance and/or impact you the way you impact others with your videos. However, I found your work while in despair when I couldn't drown in my favorite shows and films anymore so of course I looked for analysis videos on them. What I found in your videos is hard to explain but I pray you keep going because you deserve that.
In which I overshare! Hope everyone is doing well and I love y'all a lot. I promise the next billion zillion videos I drop will be wwwwwwway more lighthearted LMFAO
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I cried way too much watching this vid
Take care of yourself, Breadsword. We are rooting for you.
Please make me cry more
Dog this made me cry twice. I really needed to hear a lot of this shit. Thank you so much for sharing and for being vulnerable with us internet strangers. Love ya
I fucking love you breadman
"I'm really smart, and this is Gurren Lagann and getting it."
tough flex but also true
NOT NEARLY AS SMART AS YOU THOUGH BRO!!!
Two of my favourite RUclipsrs watch each other? Glad to know so many people whose tastes and analytical abilities I admire share my tastes.
I have learned of a new channel to binge watch at some point o3o (I have ADHD, so don't be angry if I don't go all out.....OOH, SQUIRREL! O_O!!)
Hi Raz! Hope you are doing well!
@@BREADSWORD Your intro has the same energy and TTGL, which is probably the point. Wow.
Eva tells you not to run away from your problems meanwhile gurren tells you to punch your problems in the face and move onwards
eva is a deconstruction of mecha anime while gurren is a reconstruction
Gurren lagann tells you to 1v1 fist fight a literal god
Put like that, they're basically steps 1 and 2 of doing anything in life, huh?
@@VoidRAZ the step back and the counter punch of the fight of life
"When life gives you lemons... you squeeze them right back in life's eyes!"
This is legitimately the best RUclips video I've ever watched. I watched it 3 years ago, and i could stop crying during it. Today, I rewatched it because of how much of an impact it had on me, and I cried again. I hope you always stay creating!
Same exact situation.
I rewatch this once every few months and it never fails to make me cry
@@ItsReallyColdOutside Same
how can you watch a video that long with this guy's voice
@@Socrates526 he has a nice voice? Tf?
"but I promise you, we're gonna get back up, It's an obligation, it's part of us, we're too stupid not to"
I honestly dont know why, but I cried a little litsening to that
oh to be kissing beadsword on the forehead and telling him "good work, now relax king"
Don't you dare tell him to relax! A victory sip of the vino, sure, but never relax. It's when you're at the top that you have to keep most vigil to not sink back into complacency.
Love you King
You forgot to say "No homo"
If I was a youtuber and I got this comment on one of my videos, it would be my least favorite comment of all time.
An absolute King indeed, fantastic work Breadsword.
Absolutely brought me to tears a few times, thanks for putting it all out there for us.
Have a great day everyone, best wishes ❤️
I never thought I'd cry from a video that earnestly says "its like cum denial, but for negativity."
Life changing shit.
im glad other people come back to this masterpiece as much as i do. i feel like, with every revisit, your video becomes so much more relatable. i love how you respond to gurren lagann not with an in-depth analysis, but a heartfelt, emotional, personal conversation. thats really the only way you can analyze gurren lagann.
im going through a lot of shit rn and some of the things you said hit me in a way they didn't before, now that im actually creating videos. that feeling of rationalizing every reason why you shouldn't make what you want to make and having all the fun sapped away from what you're doing is something ive never seen anyone else talk about. and the fact that you followed that feeling up with one of the best videos ive ever seen on youtube gives me hope to keep pressing forward.
i dunno if you agree, but you've done something amazing, man. keep doing what you're doing.
Just cried in the middle of the dining hall watching this for the 5th time, just one of those days
Hey fam one love and hope you are doing good
I've made it a tradition to revisit this video every year on todays date as a reminder to keep on. Much love fam
@@Meheecan13 it just has that healing property
i come back to this video just like he comes back to the last epp of gurren lagann.. in much the same way i didn't know there was a song at the end.
I watched Guren Lagen with my son a couple years back and struggled with it. My dad passed before my son was born and never got to meet him. I didn’t expect to shed a tear watching this video. I will watch Guren Lagen again. Keep up the great work.
"Don't believe in yourself, believe in the me that believes in you" was the thing that got me through my Junior year of college
"We have to get back up, we're too stupid not to" is the thing that will get me through the rest of 2020
Whats the second quote from?
@@highlion8998 Breadsword says it at some point in the video
In a way it's so contrived perhaps. But I agree it stirs my soul to this day in a way that is irreplaceable....
I love so much that point which kamina describes how simon is the one that really gives him strength....that his seeming arrogance is confidence in a person that doesn't even yet know his preservenece etc...
I love it....I love every bit of it
so who was the person that told you to not believe in their self, but believe in them believing in you?
yep, that shows quotes are so good.
This is the most human I've seen anyone talk to people with depression and talk about a great anime.
Same. It's personal on a level I don't have words for.
Right? It’s amazing.
I don't have enough thumbs to give our boy. 👍
Damn... in all this time. I figure I'd feel it again. But damn. im angry at myself. Time to get back up. Thanks man
“Let me see you grit those teeth” my favorite line in the entire anime. I had recently finished watching Gurren Lagann with my friend and I instantly fell in love with it. It quite literally made me rethink my entire outlook on life and about myself. I only wish I had found it sooner
when i first watched Gurren Lagann, i think i was too nihilistic to truly understand the message or really anything about the show, i didnt feel motivated at the end of it. i felt sad that i would never get the chance to do anything of worth with my life like Simon did, honestly thats how most endings of stories go for me, i resign myself to the belief that i will never reach that moment where all of my suffering is vindicated. I now see that if i want to be vindicated for my suffering, nobody else can do it for me. I have to be the one to slug myself in the face, what the fuck am i doing with my life? nothing, absolutely nothing, so i should just give up then? my younger self would have said yes, but now after watching this video that showed me the true meaning of this show, i am mad, furious, enraged that i have wasted so much time watching others get what they want in life. Its my turn.
you have no idea how much this video has impacted me, i cried at the end of the video, they are not tears of sadness nor joy, just tears of pain. thank you for slugging me. I needed it.
This video has the most Gurren Lagann energy ever: it’s chaotic, it’s nostalgic, it’s heartbreaking and heartwarming at the same time. You do such a great job and I really hope you continue along this way.
You took my feelings and made them words, yo.
This Anime has all emotions. That's why it's so damn good.
@@PsychoDiesel48 yo I just got through the first 8 episodes again, my bad for not replying an hour ago.
I FEEL THAT. This ugh...this is so true.
man where are all the enlightened commenters from this channel elsewhere on the ‘net? some real humanity-reinforcing people in here
Came here to hear someone talk me into rewatching my favorite anime.
Now I'm gonna hug my dad?
This is exactly what I went through with this. What a legend.
Damn…
I can’t describe how wonderful this video is. I lost my mother and was abandoned by my father my senior year of high school. Entering college without a family was terrifying and disheartening but every time I felt horrible and defeated I would watch the entire show over and I’d feel rejuvenated. I cried when you said “let me see you grit those teeth”because my mothers last words were “I’m not worried about you” and I think she said that with the same energy.
i believe in you❤️
"Hopelessness is inevitable. But... to give in to hopelessness is a betrayal."
... Wow. Not even 10 minutes in and striking me at the core.
EDIT: After watching the rest of it... I needed this. I needed this so much and I don't even know what to say or do about it. But this video may honestly change my life, and certainly will change how I think about it for a while.
You passed down the lesson of your father to hundreds of people, i bet hes lighting one up for you in heaven
fr thank you bro
0:00: hell yeah a video essay on one of my favorite anime, gurren lagann
54:36: *unconsolable sobbing*
Brah, you made it to 54 minutes? 15 in and I'm not fit for public.
@@torymiddlebrooks watch it all its amazing
This video broke my 3 year long brake of crying... and I didn’t realize how much I miss this
@@TheNinjabob01 dude, crying is great, ain't it?!
@@torymiddlebrooks worth asking why we consider it not fit for public. And same.
This might just be the greatest youtube video ever made. Thank you for that journey.
Hey Breadsword. Just wanted to return on December 22, 2021 and let that I haven’t given in or given up yet.
I hope you have been staying strong my friend!
Thank you for making such an amazing video on such an amazing series!
I know for a fact your father is so freaking proud of you and all you have accomplished!
So keep digging until you finally break through the heavens! Because that’s how team Dai Gurren rolls! 😎😎😎
April 30th, hope you're still on the fight!!
Here on May 9. Keep digging bozos, we ain't made it through the heavens yet!
@@mobiusblitz3470 Got my drill in my hand an nothing will stop me! Onwards and Forwards We are going to punch through! it together!
Howdy from 2023! Still committed to the fight
Keep moving forward.
The unique and indescribable emotion that Breadsword captures so perfectly; exactly what I needed to get me through another samey quarantine night.
BLESS YOU THANK YOU SO MUCH BRO I APPRECIATE IT IMMENSELY
I've watched this video about, four or five times now since I first saw it... and this has done more for reminding me that we *can* do something about our lives, more than any motivational video I've watched has... Because while those only seem to talk about how to build yourself up... Breadsword here showed us how easy it can be to fall into a hole that seems to have no end, and no escape... and that sometimes, it's not logic, it's not thought... it's not planning or habits that get us out... it's, letting ourselves be *human*, to be flawed, to be messes, to be emotional, that can help us get out of that hole. And I think him for it. Every time.
Your dad sounds like he was a really great guy.
not going to lie bro that hit way to close to home with myself... way to close...
XxAutomedicxX Same, I'm fucking crying
he was
@@BREADSWORD :,D
@@BREADSWORD is* he still with you in spirit
I watch this video quarterly. From my remote location, somewhere in Kenya. It is an immense creation. Increasingly meaningful.
It has been 3 years since i last watched this, a lot has changed, finished collage, started working, yet i still cried to this masterpiece of a Vidoe, and i wish the next time i go through tough time, I'll come back here and enjoy this vid again
Came here to reaffirm my love for Gurren Lagann, left with so much more. Who the hell do you think you are making me feel this kinda way
YOU HAVE TO SAY IT LOUDER TO REALLY SHOW YOUR EMOTION
I know I’m not the first to say this and I won’t be the last. But I’m gonna be a bit selfish here and just say, this is unironically and unabashedly, one of the, if not, the best video essay I have ever seen. I know this will most likely be a comment tucked away somewhere maybe to never be seen by anyone besides myself, but as someone who consistently comes back to this video time and time again to pick myself up, I needed to just let you know.
And thank you
You are seen. You are noticed. Your experiences, thoughts, and feelings are valid.
I am the SECOND COMMENT?? And hey, guess 41 people agree with you
I've watched this video 3 times already and me and a friend was just discussing how great it is. He has also watched it multiple times so you're not alone here
Witnessed.
yes thank you, I agree! This video is a work of art that carries the spirit of the material that inspired it!
Every time I watch this video and you say “let me see you grit those teeth” it makes me cry because every time I watch this is when I find my self at the bottom of the well giving up and it makes me fight all the harder to climb out
Keep it up, bro. You're gonna make it!
It’s weird that this video has become both my go to video whenever I feel like I’m hitting highs in life and also lows. As I get older I become to understand just a bit more while also somewhat questioning this crazy thing I call life. It’s comforting hearing these words from someone who let their guard down to express their love letter to their dad and beloved anime. Thank you
Peak RUclips. Analysis? Sterling. Sincerity? Present. Editing and Presentation? Tantalizing. Art matters, thank you for putting that on full display.
And some people will still say no anime and call me weirdo or less human
Truly great, i need more videos like this
Okay, but next time I watch this, I'm gonna try not to cry.
And spoiler:
I'm sure your dad was already proud.
aaaaaaaaaa thank you so much!!!!
You are absolutely right, he raised an absolutely magnificent son
I don't know if you could have ever predicted how much this video has meant to people. This video has meant the world to me. I've watched it over and over, and I keep watching it each time I need a reminder.
Gurren Lagann Is the type of story that when I finished it make want to stop a train with my bare hands
"I didn't learn Gurren Lagann had an epilogue for seven years."
Me: What...a WHAT?!?
Yeah i didnt know for months after i first watched it but i was too young to appreciate the ending without the after credits scene so for a while i just thought the ending sucked and was really unsatisfying... i still kick myself for that because it had one of the best endings possibly ever
@@butterman59 is the epilogue the part with all of them older, or is it something more ?
baciu14 there’s an after credits scene at the end of episode 27
WAIT THERES AN EPILOGUE?
@@monkebrando6779 yeah it's an after credit scene if I remember correctly
50:25
"...I promise you, we're gonna get back up.
It's an obligation...
It's part of us...
We're too stupid not to."
This video keeps me coming back every now and again. Never once has a message resonated with me and kept me going like Gurren Lagann's. This video perfectly captures the feeling when you finally get what it means to row and row and fight the powers that are in opposition to your dreams. Believe in everyone who believed in you. Recently I moved out on my own and the only way I have been able to navigate this new experience has been believing my parents when they said they believed I could do this. Thankyou Breadsword for opening up my eyes years ago.
I revisit this video every so often, specifically to listen to the ending part. It's such a moral boost. Thankyou for this video, you have no idea how many nights you've saved from being nothing but sulking.
TTGL:
"It's like cum denial, but for negativity"
.....that is not a phrase I've ever expected to hear (much less resonate with) in my entire life...
Same but its so damn right
Had to google what cum denial was and then realized I've done it before and never knew it had a name.
Fucking right?? I have a coworker who is a negativity denier-love that energy--but don’t think I can tell him the direct quote ahaha.
It’s not toxic positivity - it’s cum denial but for negativity which makes it 👌🏼👌🏼
when he said it I was like wait... did he really just say that? lol
As a new-ish dad, I just wanted to tell you, that if my children ever did half of the amazing work that you have done, I would be immensely proud of them. I am proud of you.
RUclips is like the value discount bin of DVD movies. It's a chaotic dump of random content where you're dropped right in the storm of anarchy. There's no real curation of content, other than the algorithm but even that's not as consistent as a channel on TV would be. It can be possible to have a favorite RUclipsr, or RUclips channel, a favorite TV show, or even a favorite episode of a TV show but it's very, very, very difficult to solidify a favorite video on RUclips for anyone. That's like choosing a favorite grain of sand out of the 7.5 sextillion on Earth from all the beaches and deserts... but this... This video is my favorite. Out of the absolute chaos that is RUclips, out the of endless pouring of human creativity, and bots dumping content, this is my FAVORITE. I hope you make more. Even if they are not this, I do not care what you make, I'm just excited to see more.
Same, I have so much content that I love on this site, and a whole bunch that I dislike, but I watched this and my immediate thought was, "this is my favorite".
yoooo the blown out anime OP bit gets me and gets funnier every time
"Let me see you grit those teeth" has never hit harder. This made me realize that I'm in a hell of a slump myself. Honestly made me cry on multiple occasions throughout. This must have taken so long to make but it is so inspiring and emotional. Thank you for this..
I can relate xD didn't think that watching this video would make cry and maybe finally get angry :D
This is beautiful. Thank you.
Oh hello gamechamp
Can you watch episode 8 of gurren lagann without crying
Mission failed
@@pancakecommanderandbowser2279 I actually hated Episode 8. To me, it felt like the fact that Simon had feelings for Yoko and then their relationship never happened felt really disappointing to me. All it showed me was that Kamina was really just teaching Simon to take women against their will.
Simon then does the same thing with Nia by taking her to his home world after stealing her from The Anti-Spirals and then she died because she didn’t deserve to be with him.
Gurren Lagann is insane, poorly written trash. I know that’s just my opinion but I appreciate being able to understand and respect where I was coming from. Thanks guy. Thanks for respecting my opinion and I respect yours.
@@lordartoriuscollbrande7434 yes fair point but at the same time I feel as though there relationships never were meant too be taken any farther there love was just a background prop which I think episode 8 demonstrated horribly although I don't see the issue with nias relationship with Simon sure it does jist do the damsel in distress trope but it never felt.like thats all her character was the biggest issue with episode 8 was definitely how there relationship seemed shoe horned in
@Lord Artorius Collbrande ain't gonna respect your opinion, because it belongs in the trash you'd rather let Nia stay in.
"she didn't deserve to be with him" she had her own will and could have left simon at any time. Yoko had OBVIOUS feelings for Kamina, and she didn't have the same feelings for Simon. If your just going to ignore women's agency within the show then all agency must be ignored.
I gotta leave a comment for engagement, but that honestly left me speechless. Thank you for sharing your creations, I'm really glad you did.
Words seriously cannot express how big of an impact this video had on me. This is the first and only time a RUclips video has made me cry. Gurren Lagann has been the best piece of media I had consumed for years now. I related to it. In my sophomore year of high school my friend I had known since second grade had become addicted to drugs and had become an alcoholic. He disappeared and later found out he was kicked out of his house and was in a mental hospital. I haven't seen him since he disappeared. One of the reasons this video hit so hard was because it came out of nowhere. I was listening to the Gurren Lagann OST when I saw this video out of the corner of my eye. I clicked on it expecting it to be a tribute to how good the show is. Instead I got a new outlook on life. I just graduated high school a couple of weeks ago I have no idea what to do with my life, but I think I'm finally ready to dig out of this tunnel.
"Also Neon Genesis Evangelion is in there somewhere as well" Accurately describes all 2000s Mecha animes.
IT TRULY DO BE LIKE THAT
"The last thing my Dad said to me-"
Oh jeez, look at the time, I have to stare at my ceiling and try not to shatter. Gotta run, bye.
This is the feeling counterpart to best guy ever's thinking on gurren lagann
And both are so perfect encapsulations of each respectively
This is exactly why Gurren Lagaan is my favorite anime. I believe it has similarly motivated me to follow my dream of learning computer programming to develop video games. I went to college for a degree, but ended up flunking. Not because I wasn't trying, but I think because I was trying in the wrong way. I was trying to just copy what my professor was typing during lecture and getting assignments done on time rather than just messing around with code and seeing what happens. I would get super frustrated that I would spend entire days on a project yet make little to no progress, and got a bit depressed when I had to drop the final class I needed to graduate. Now I am following Udemy tutorials and will start taking what I learn to create simple arcade games, which I think will yield much better results. I'm gonna grit those teeth.
Also, very sorry for your loss. I'm sure your dad would be very proud of you.
You probably won't see this, but I just wanted to say this video really resonated with me. We are around the same age, and based off what you said we lost our fathers around the same time. Mine passed in a motorcycle accident and I have been struggling with finding things to funnel myself into ever since then. I just realized after watching your video that you were right. I never got mad, and upon doing my **th watch of Gurren Lagann, but the first one since my dad passed, I stumbled across this video. Shortly after I reached the episode 8 and everything after, and I actually got it. I finally genuinely felt what Simon felt and now I get it. I think this video helped me realize that the anger I was feeling was justified, so from the bottom of my heart I just want to say thank you for helping me. I found a new resolve after watching this video, and I'll do my best to grit my teeth and make the impossible happen.
this means the world to me bro thank you so much for sharing
@@BREADSWORD thank you for making the video, keep up your great work!
@@dannydanza27 Good luck ma man
I wish you the best of luck man!
This, this so much. This resonates they my soul right now, and everything that’s going on. We can choose our approach to all the struggles going on, Shinji or Simons approach.
"I didn't like being me. I didn't want to be. Which was of course maddening to the people that *did* like me."
Had to pause the video and take a moment after this line. I'm at that point right now, and it's easy to forget that other people feel or have felt that way, and that it's possible to drill your way out of that whole.
I clicked on this video just because I was excited to watch a video about my favorite japanese cartoon, but I'm really happy you made it into something so much more.
3 years later, I've finally moved out of my parent's house, sharing an apartment with one of my coworkers. I've been promoted to assistant manager, I'm getting out of the house more, going to the comic book shop and seeing my friends, and I'm surrounded by wonderful people. Im drawing again, even if just a few doodles here and there. I watched Gurren Lagann again when I moved, as is my personal tradition.
Last week I was in a car accident. My 2013 Nissan Maxima, affectionately named Wheeljack, shielded me from the impact of a Ford F-150 on my driver's side. My insurance company will not return my calls. No more comic shop for a while. I am still surrounded by wonderful people, including a friend who is lending me his truck, parents who drove an hour to bring me home from the accident, and boss who helped me get the wreck out of the tow yard and store it somewhere without holding fees.
I watched this video again tonight, and I'm reminded of how far I've come since I made my first comment. I won't go back into the hole. I've broken through so many ceilings these last 3 years, and I'll continue to drill through every new obstacle in my way. The lights in the sky are stars, and they're still calling out to me, even now.
This video made me cry man… because this show is so special to me for these exact reason… all the pain and grief we go through is important to mould and shape us but it’s all for nothing if we don’t grit our teeth and get back up… Gurren Lagann has pulled me out of so many depressive episodes because ever since the first time I watched it I got it what it was about… and even when I was loathing myself I’d get really angry seeing Simon or Rosyu be depressed because it mirrored my own feelings… but sometimes you need someone or something to sock you in your face and remind you to grit your teeth… so Thank you Breadsword for making this video and Thank you Gurren Lagann for always being there when I needed something to punch me in my fuckin face ♥️
All my friends ask me why I love Gurren Lagann so much and I didn’t know how to explain to them without going off the rails, this video sums up my entire reason for loving the show and how it has helped me to “go beyond the impossible and kick reason to the curb”
This was really something special
@asian dude idk how to say this man but you just might not have a soul if you didn't think this story of masking your own personal grief and desperately latching on to messages present in the world around you isn't special.
@@MrSomnix faux deep and introspective video essays are a cliched cliche on youtube and this video isnt any different its pretty cringey hearing the breathiness and tenation from an untalented speaker and low tier YA novel writing
@@lukes.p.8940 you must be trolling. How is a true story of someone losing their father, "low tier YA novel writing"?
@@MrSomnix his dad dying is sad but it doesn't automatically make any of the writing in this video good, it makes it a sob story
this video brings nothing new to the table, I've seen it before and I'll see it again, a ~50 minute analysis on a mediocre piece of media that spends all their time trying to convince the viewer that long video + good mic + wordy, boring cliches means they are good at analyzing anything but their own shit in the toilet bowl
i was expecting a video about my favorite goofy mech anime and did not expect to come out the other side with my eyes leaking and my nose dripping with snot. 10/10
>soberly listens to Bread describing his dad
"Geez...poor guy..."
>he shows the snow scene from Ikiru
"Ohhhh, you sick son of a bitch..."
Thank you for making one of the videos I come back and watch quite often. I listen to it any time I need to feel something. I hope you continue to make amazing videos.
I REALLY APPRECIATE THE STYLE OF YOUR REVIEWS. ITS LIKE YOU PUT LOFI INTO AN ESSAY AND IT MAKES IT REALLY NICE TO LISTEN TO, UNTIL YOU EARRAPE WITH SUDDEN CRUEL ANGELS THESIS BUT I RESPECT THAT.
AAAA THANK YOU SO MUUUUUUUCH
@@BREADSWORD definitely chill loving tonepieces to relax/study to.
Dude, he talks way more about Neon Genesis Evangelion than he even focuses on what he’s supposed to talk about which is Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann. This video sucks and feels disjointed in multiple areas. No offense to anyone.
Lofi reviews to relax to👌🏽
"I didn't learn that Gurren Lagann had an epilogue for seven years!!!"
> Me, only now finding out that Gurren Lagann has an epilogue for the same reason 👁️👄👁️
My reaction was the same "hold up what!?! There's an epilogue!?"
Fucking right?! Me too!
Yeah, Gurren Lagann's epilogue showed that the team could tell a tight cohesive story that got to the fucking point... but up until that point, they chose not to. Fuck that dog shit of a show. Absolute waste of time.
@@jacksquatt6082 calm down
I always watched the outdo, so I knew the first time
Here again after a couple years. Thank you again. I'm doing better now. I can finally start taking care of myself. I've got good friends. I've got good family. And I'm moving. Thank you for helping me get here. This is a part of my foundation.
Every couple months I decide to rewatch this, I thought eventually I'd cry less, but I just cry more.
Hands down this is the best video on youtube, every time I watch it I want to somehow click like again, do something more.
I sadly haven't been able to watch any of your other videos, because every time I click on the channel I find myself crying as I watch this again.
legitimately I can't think about a song skipping, or Kittinger's balloon, or our friends at Big Robot without starting to cry because of this.
Every moment of this is perfect
As i sit here under this ceiling I engineered for myself coming up on two years since i lost my own father to cigarettes... and a week before I lost my father I had lost my brother... And then the day after my father's funeral, I lost my woman... I find myself realizing that some kid nearly 15 years my junior made this video for me... I'm crying and for the first time since i lost everyone... I just can't begin to describe how much you touched my heart tonight and how much the answer you provided really means to me... I'll get mad but first i just really needed to take the moment and say to you: sincerely, from the bottom of my heart, THANK YOU 😭 You're Father has all the reason in the world to be extremely proud of his son. You really earned my sub. It isn't nearly enough to repay you for what you did for me by making this video... Thank you so much
Did you pierce through your ceiling?
@@homerola2 I am happy to let you know I have and life is more amazing than ever! I hope this video inspires many more people to make the changes in their life to get to the place they want to go it certainly helped me!
@@billschwandt1 FUCK YES BROTHER! WE WILL PIERCE THE HEAVENS! I’m so happy for you
Can I just say it's been right about a year since I saw this video the first time and when I watched it it totally changed my attitude and my life I didn't just break my ceilings I found ceilings to start smashing I'm smashing ceilings so hard. Now I'm looking to start a family making amazing money and LOVE my NEW career. It's no exaggeration to say that this is my very favorite video on the internet ever. Thank you so much for making this video I'm sure it took forever and not only does it have a perfect message it's so well researched open honest completely optimistic and the bar in my book for the best video. If someone asked me my favorite video I would tell them a story about this random kid who was going through some hard times made a beautiful video and healed me from an injury I did not know I sustained. Yesterday I even made my own first RUclips video and if that video isn't exactly the kind of anger he talked about in this video I didn't even realize it till I got a like on that comment and I decided to watch again. Thank you sincerely man I'll sub your channel forever the internet can be an amazing place I don't know where I would be if I hadn't come across this video I'm so thankful for it.
"Most popular mecha letter in history ... X"
G: Am I a joke to you?
G and X are anime rivals who fight in giant robots called the X-Tron and the G-Bot.
@@ethanhethcoat3144 in the new hit series, BotTronGX
thank u for making this video. although the results havent been realized yet but i know it will and has change the course of my life forever. i just relapsed in a depression episode thats been going on for a couple yrs now and i looked to gurren lagann for inspiration today. this video is what i needed, it was exactly what i needed. thank u for making this :))
Still coming back for the feels 4 years later
"I'm going to rob you with a real gun" I have just understood the severity of this threat
one of my favourite lines in anything ever is "this guy's angry.... good. angry gets shit done"
thanks, this made me cry a lot
BIG FACTS WE TAKING THE LEG WEIGHTS OFF LIKE ROCK LEE
Your ability to weave together your deepest personal experiences and anime commentary, bouncing between the two, is godly. So good. You should be incredibly proud of your accomplishments. Thank you as well for the punch in my own face that I needed
Every month or so I find myself coming back to this video. It's beautiful and necessary for my feelings. I've choked up every time. Breadsword forever!
I hardly write comments on youtube, I've considered them to be kind of irrelevant, you know, like I never considered my voice to be something worthwhile. Wandering through youtube finding something to distract my mind from lashing out at myself again, I found this video. And it punched me in the face in the way I needed it the most. You see, I love stories, I how can they touch your heart in ways you don't expect them, I love writing, I love drawing, or at least I tell myself that. because, the thing is, I never write, I never draw, I never do much, I have bullied myself into submission. My art is never good enough, I AM not good enough, this is why I stopped writing, drawing. Why try something I know I will fail, why keep banging my head against the invisible wall when not even I can bring myself to look at why I create?
So, another night was passing where I was trying to run from this. If I waited for my anxiety to calm down, maybe I’d find some motivation tomorrow, I just needed some distraction and I’d be okay.
And then, I got mad. I finally got mad. I finally hated how I made myself miserable for about a year. I thought myself as someone positive, I always support my friends and people around me, but when it comes to myself, I am the harshest.
But man, I’m so mad right now, and for the first time in a while, not at myself, but at the ceiling I so carefully created above me, I’m bursting with anger at the complacency I buried myself with, telling myself daily that I was just not cut out for art. Scared because I thought I’d look stupid if I kept trying. This was the last straw.
When I clicked this video, I’d never thought I’d learn such a valuable lesson. And I want to thank you Breadsword. Because your story was finally the punch in the face I needed to be so fucking mad about my situation. I know that I’ll probably doubt myself sometime in the future, but now I know that I need to be mad. And this time I will retaliate, this time I will finish the novel that I’ve had in my head for two years. Because I’ve had enough. I finally had enough. Thank you.
I get a BreadSword notification, I immediately click it
NOTHING LIFTS MY SPIRITS MORE BRO THANK YOU
BREADSWORD always amazing content. Such a smooth and passionate video every time. Your videos are always amazing and I look forward to it each notification
Damn straight! I stop everything for this man!
Literally one of my fav videos i have ever seen. a goddamn journey of a video while also learning about story telling, anime comparisons, this channel...and myself
Your videos bring such comfort to me. This one is one of the few that I've seen more than a handful of times, but all of them touch something inside of my heart. I appreciate your craft and your thoughts. thank you.
"My bro is dead. He's gone! But he's right there on my back, and here in my heart! He lives on as a part of me!"
I lost my grandfather a few years back. He was really important to me. He was always around and helped take care of me when I was little. There is this local restaurant chain where I live called Goldstar and one of these Goldstars in particular was a place that he took me all the time. He called it "The office" because he would go there every day to drink coffee and do paperwork for his job at the train terminal. So naturally that's where he brought me to eat 9 times out of ten. He was so full of life back then and was the life of whatever gathering he was at. These were some of my favorite memories from that time in my life.
Then years later I would have to slowly watch him die by becoming, something that I couldn't recognize. He was bedridden and, within a few months, he lost almost all brain activity. But he was still Alive, and that was the hardest part I think. And it fucked me up for a long time.
I rewatched Gurren Laggan about 3 weeks after the funeral. The thing that helped were those words that Simone said. Because he's right, it's cliche but god dammit it's true. His memory, the memory of a man full of life who taught me so much is what carries on, not the corpse that was at the end. And he will always be a part of who I am. I doubt there will ever be a quote from anything that will mean as much to me as that one.
In short. Yeah dude, I know how you feel.
My grandfather has ALS and was just diagnosed with cancer and the end is near. This comment really hits home for me, thanks for sharing. I need to hold on to the memory of the man who held me as a child, not the man paralyzed in a wheelchair.
"We're gonna get back up,
We're too stupid not to"
Needed this right now, thanks for the reminder
that's the way team Dai-Gurren rolls!
I think I have to say that this is my favorite RUclips video I've ever watched. The way I can partially connect the themes and my own memories stays with me and just the struggle of getting up again moves me. I hope things are going well with you and your career and that you keep drilling through every ceiling.
this is honesty the best video essay I've ever seen, in fact its the best video essay I've ever seen four times over.
"I didn't like being me... I didn't want to be. Which was of course maddening to the people who DID like me."
I don't know how to respond to this. It feels almost like I'm being called out.
Um, that is all. I just hope you're one of those creators who reads all their comments so you can know that line in particular has given me a lot to think about.
"It feels really stupid when you realize you aren't having fun anymore with the only thing you're ever sure you wanted to do."
I had to pause this video a few times to just sit and think. As someone who's always been decent at what they've been told to do but mediocre at something they want to do, and is waiting for something to disrupt their daily life enough that they find some sort of backwards reason to commit to a passion of theirs, this video kind of hit different. Someone needs to punch me or something, what am I waiting for? I'm starting to feel a little mad - I should just be drilling away at this thing.
Either way, this was a fantastic video and I commend you for your style and clear passion for what you do. Your library/collection of clips and knowledge of your select works are always really impressive to me. I'm sure your dad was proud of you long before you felt you had to complete a project that would make him express it outwardly. Keep at it! I'm gonna work on getting mad.
*agreeableness intensifies*
Let me see you grit your teeth
Ive been feeeling this for over a year man
man i was looking at the comment while watching the video and the second i read you comment the video read it for me wtf man what is this kind of matrix bs im in right now help
*Lachesism* - _n._
The desire to be struck by disaster-to survive a plane crash, to lose everything in a fire, to plunge over a waterfall-which would put a kink in the smooth arc of your life, and forge it into something hardened and flexible and sharp, not just a stiff prefabricated beam that barely covers the gap between one end of your life and the other.
I now just realized that I only got about halfway through Gurran lagann but that’s ok I think I got what I needed from it thanks for the video I really loved it. this shit slapped harder then a masayoshi takanaka song.
I hope someone sees me achieve my dream what ever that is.
Thanks for the vid dude
This is by far my favorite video on the internet. The aesthetic, the narration, the story, the heart, the ideology and two of my favorite shows that were part of my life in my most vulnerable years all wrapped into one hour long video. Every time I feel depressed, I come back to this. I listen to you say "what the fuck is that?" When referring to your dad dying and the feeling hits me like a truck all over again. Truly, this is a masterpiece and I really want to thank you from the bottom of my heart for creating this.
As someone who lost his father the last december 24th. The phrase "We said goodbye on christmas eve" absolutely destroyed me. Not to mention "I never got to show him something that i was proud of" and "He never saw me come into my own I mean, what the fuck is that?"
This video was terribly hard for me to finish, but I push through and I feel a sense of kinship with you.
We'll probably never speak or interact with one another, but through our similar, painful experience with loss, there something that connect us on a fundamentally human level.
I like to think that every person has a connection like that with everyone else, even though they might not know it. And hopefully a not so tragic one at that.
And I know this is all corny and cringe af, but I'm much too stupid not to post it anyway.
Have a great life man, It's what he would've want for you.
Dude... That was beautiful
fantastic comment mate, hope you are doing well
This comment resonates with my whole damn soul. Thank you
It isn't corny or cringe man, and if it is fuck it. Sincerity needs to come back
This is not corny and cringe at all and fuck the culture that says it is
Dang, I was expecting a fun little look into and dissecting of the uplifting messages of Gurren Lagann.
What I got was both that, and someone bearing their entire soul and heart out in the open and sharing possibly some of the most personal and emotional things in their life.
Part of this seems almost too intimate, like its somehow wrong or intrusive to be able to stare this far and deep into the emotions, sorrows, and struggles of someone else, especially in regards to the passing of a loved one. Yet at the same time its also the most endearing aspect, the most humbling, the most honest and true it could be, and because of that it becomes the most inspirational aspect. This video kicked in the heart like an ornery mule of pure emotion and honesty, it brought feelings of hype, sorrow, sympathy, and finally exultation that not only mirrored perfectly that of the show, but somehow overcame it and went beyond it.
The only words that are be left to say in response to this, that can be said are this: Thank you. Thank you for the amazing video. Thank you for your words. Thank you for your work. Thank you for your efforts. Thank you for your heart and emotions. And, most importantly, thank you for being you in all that it means to be you.
Thank you.
I was about to leave a similar response to this video when i realized that you had completely captured what I wanted to say in an admittedly better way than I ever could. So ill just repeat what you said..
"The only words that are be left to say in response to this, that can be said are this: Thank you. Thank you for the amazing video. Thank you for your words. Thank you for your work. Thank you for your efforts. Thank you for your heart and emotions. And, most importantly, thank you for being you in all that it means to be you.
Thank you.
"
I cried.
Thank you for such a great video. Right now, im laying down in my room too upset about what I’ve done in my life to be where i am and also what i haven’t done to move forward with it. This video was such an eye opener and i cant thank you enough for simply just sharing it with the world. Keep doing you.
I was feeling nostalgic and was searching for the final fight of TTGL and some how stumbled onto this gem. I’m so glad that I did. It was such a well researched, well structured, and heartfelt video. It felt like I could feel all the effort and emotions put into it. I’m a freshman in college and I’ve been recently feeling like I don’t belong here and been having rlly bad days where I feel like I can’t do anything and don’t even recognize myself. I feel like watching this vid gave me hope to do better and to keep moving forward. Thank you. I’m def subbing and excited to see more of your work. Keep doing what your doing!
"he never got to saw me come into my own" that's exactly how i feel about my dad ... that part of the video put me in tears cause i knew what you were gonna say before you said it.. thank you for making this , watching this on fathers day did numbers to me and i kinda needed this for *this* exact day.
lol gayyyyyy
"We hit a bump. The music didn't skip."
Me, BAWLING: I-it hasn't even been four minutes yet and I've been *personally attacked--*
This is, genuinely, my most favorite video on RUclips, on my fifth rewatch, and I can't sing your praises any higher. Masterpiece, truly
This is my favourite video on the internet bar none - I always come back to it. I love your story and could listen to it forever, plus it's an amazing video essay on my favourite anime and it always makes me feel super motivated :)
"Let me see you grit those teeth", the way you ended the video just chilling great job
Wow, it's going to be hard move forward watching RUclips the same way haha. You've absolutely raised the bar. I want to find every bit of passion you have in your videos in others I watch. Thank you for all your work.
THANK YOU SO SO SO SO MUCH BRO I APPRECIATE IT IMMENSELY
@@BREADSWORD I meant every word! You have totally earned a new patreon supporter
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the part about the cd skipping at the begging reminds me too much of my first car (a 94 honda) it had only a cassette player and was way too hard to attempt to replace the stereo. i had two cassettes for it a cassette of my favorite pink floyd album (wish you were here) and i was driving home from work after one of the most annoying shifts at my job at a local fast food place. it had only been around a month after one of my closest friends had taken his own life and we always listened to pink floyd and had a shared love for the band, it was snowing that night, we would scream the so you think you can tell part together when we rode around in my car together, my stereo randomly got really loud at that part. i pulled over and cried in the side of the roads for like 30 minutes straight while listening to that album on repeat. i miss him.
I love this show and this video, they’re both such a direct shot of hope. It’s like I know my life won’t instantly take a turn for the better after watching them but I know for a fact it will if I keep working on it everyday. I’ll always come back when I need that reassurance, which will probably be a lot, thank you breadsword
The fact that BREADSWORD, someone who's videos I love and who's channel has helped me find love for media I've already seen for media I've never heard of, admitted that he had a really rough time of being 19-20 honestly makes me feel a lot better about the fact that I'm currently having a shit time at the same point in my life. And in many of the same ways. I know that watching Bread's videos won't necessarily help me be less broke, less depressed, or less aimless, but they definitely help me cope with those realities, and I'm super appreciative of that. Even more so now that I know he like, had similar experiences. Thanks Bread.
I hope you find the strength to get mad and break through the goddamn ceiling of whatever is hanging over you, and really start the life out there that's waiting for you. I hope it gets better for you. Now let's see you grit those teeth.
Don't believe in yourself, believe in the me who believes in you. After all this time, the greatest fascination about.. consciousness, I've experienced; is how old perspective, always, gives way to new. If, you keep drilling. The experience of 'breaking through a ceiling', really does exist. I personally only, really, experienced the sensation after 20+ years of struggle, but it does happen. Regardless of how unhelpful that statement is previous to personal realization(I know it was for me). There's always a new ceiling, there will always be struggling. But it's amazing how, sometimes seemingly small(it doesn't always come from some profound insight or major events), shifts in perspective, habits, experience; can make such sweeping changes to your life or state of mind. As long as you stay alive, keep going and doing your best(whatever that is, at the time). Gigadrill.
You know it hits. I lost my nephew after 1 year and 4 months with him. I raised him like my son. He had a disease called pulmonary hyper tension where he had a hole in his heard and one failed lung from birth for being born prematurely. 23 weeks. He was way under developed but he made it. He grew up. We took him and nurtured him. We had hope. Yeah his doctor visits hurt every time to see him get those needles. But he made it. He always made it. Right. I went to every doctors meeting he ever had I was always there for him. The last time I saw him was before he left on his helicopter ride to Ohio for his heart lung transplant surgery. The last thing I said to him was it’s gonna be okay I love you. The next time I heard about him was through a call in the middle of school on December 8th saying his heart stopped. I couldn’t cry. I held it in. In front of everyone I held it in for so long telling my friends I’ll be back I gotta go right now. I was lying to myself I was saying he wouldn’t go like that right. He never would he was the strongest. He held on through so much and inspired my whole family for a year and a half. He helped us. He wouldn’t leave like that. I realized he was on the car ride to Ohio. The silence killed me. It broke me down and tore at me. I couldn’t help but break down. It’s been three years since he passed and it’s gotten a little easier as I occupy myself but I still have this overwhelming guilt inside me because I didn’t go to Ohio the week before his surgery to see him because I had mid terms that week and wanted it be able to do my school work and study for test. I feel self absorbed disingenuous I feel selfish I should have been there to talk to him and hold him one last time. I don’t know I feel like I could have been there and it change the tide of it. I know it wouldn’t have. It hurt. I feel lost still and I occupy myself still and have his new brother here to help me cope but I’ll never feel the same I’ll never stop loving him. I wanted to see him grow up and accomplish great things. I wanted him to get off that oxygen he so badly depended on so he could feel Normal. I wanted to be there to in courage him to follow his dreams like the father he should have had. But I can’t. And I get that. I have to accept that and I have. It just hurts. I know that. I live in the moment now. I live for him now. I will achieve great things in his name now. When you get dug that deep in that pitless hole you have to grab hold and pull yourself out. You can do it no matter what is happening. It’s okay to cry it’s okay to hurt it’s okay to be sad and hate and be regretful. But don’t let it run your life because whoever you have lost wouldn’t want it to. It always hits. Thank you for the video.
Thank you for this.
But did you have the power to change his fate? Of course not. Your nephew's death was the luck of the draw. And as the Joker said, "The thing about chaos... it's fair "
Simon however did have the power. He chose to allow Nia to die when he could have saved her. It's why Gurren Lagann and everything it stands for is total bullshit.
Thank you for sharing your story, and I'm so glad that you found the strength to try and live as your Nephew would've wanted you to-happily. I wish you all the love in the universe.
You're doing good, brother. Lemme see you grit those teeth.
angryman yo
This should go down as the best hook of all time. The first 3 minutes are pure poetry
I know you put this out a year ago, at least that’s what RUclips says, but I just wanted to say how amazing this is. It’s brilliant, touching, and heartbreaking mixed with heartfelt. It resonates with me so much as a person who seems to have led a similar life to yours. It’s also the thing I needed to see and hear at the point I’ve been stuck in in my life at this time, so thank you. I hope you continue to make inspiring, thoughtful, touching essays/projects like this.
Lol, he said "It's like Evangelion, but good."
Hes right tho
Evangelion is ass
Very hot take.
Very, Very hot take.
Where did he lie
It's like code Geass but not as good
You had no right to deconstruct my emotional ceiling and slap me across the face like that... I probably really needed it, but I wasn't prepared to try and reconstitute my life at 8:30 in the morning... I work a 3rd shift and I need to sleep, so I guess I'll just rewatch when I wake up again, cry my eyes out in the silence of the night, and see where this rocketship of feelings takes me.
🦒
Every time I stop by this video, it still hits me where it hurts... I'm still not sure why or how, but it really does. Sitting here on my work lunch break with swollen eyes and a brain that has checked out... I... I still feel like I'm missing something, maybe it's because I'm having trouble getting angry, but I'm still here, and I hope I'll get there someday.
"I know how easy it is to stay in despair." (50:24) is so powerful. The entire closing dialogue was incredibly beautiful and profound. I keep commenting this but you are so very great at this and I know one comment 3.5 years later won't fill you with reassurance and/or impact you the way you impact others with your videos. However, I found your work while in despair when I couldn't drown in my favorite shows and films anymore so of course I looked for analysis videos on them. What I found in your videos is hard to explain but I pray you keep going because you deserve that.