Kamina

Kamina, also known as Fearless Demon Leader and Aniki, is one of the main characters from the Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann series.
== Charactah Account ==
Kamina is a young man from Jiiha village who dreams of leaving the village and go to the surface, which he saw as a kid. He's very passionate about his goals, expressing his wishes through energetic speeches, which seems to affect all those who hear him. He convinces Simon to help him with his plan to drill through the roof of the village and get to the world above, but the plan failed and he was put in prison. He left the village shortly thereafter with the help of Simon and a young girl named Yoko, as a result of fighting a Gunmen, who broke into the village from the surface.
After he, Simon, and Yoko break through, they meet many enemies and friends as they go, to the point of building up a resistance force, the Gurren Brigade to fight in their war against the Beastmen Empire who hunt on human beings who live on surface, and becoming their leader.
Kamina gets fatally injured during the battle to capture the enemy’s moving fortresses belonging to one of the Four Divine Generals, Thymilph. Heavily wounded Kamina combines with Simon to form Gurren Lagann and defeats the Beastman General with his signature move: "Giga Drill Break." Kamina dies in the cockpit, leaving Simon with this: "Don't believe in the Kamina who you believe in. Don't believe in the Simon that I believe in. Believe in the Simon who believes in himself."
Kamina is buried in the battlefield where he died, his nodachi stabbed into the ground and his cloak tied to its sheath.
== Appearance ==
=== Anime ===
* Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann
* Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann Movie 1: Childhood's End
* Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann Movie 2: The Lights in the Sky are Stars
* Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann Movie Special: Viral's Sweet Dream
* Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann: Kirameki★Yoko Box - Pieces of Sweet Stars
* Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann: My Gurren is Sparkling!!
* Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann: Parallel Works
* Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann: Parallel Works 2
* Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann: There are Some Things I Just Have to See!!
=== Light Novels ===
* Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann
=== Manga ===
* Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann
* Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann: Gurren School Edition
* Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann: Spiral Boy
* Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann: Yoko's Belly Button
=== Video Games ===
* Dai-2-Ji Super Robot Taisen Z Hakai-hen
* Super Robot Wars Operation Extend
* Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann
== Trivia ==
* Kamina's catch phrase, "Just who the hell do you think I am?" (Ore wo dare da to omotte yagaru?) has been said by many of the show's characters. Simon was the first to start saying it, followed by Kittan, and eventually every single protagonist present during the final battle.
* The first 8 episodes are titled by a line Kamina says within the episode with a font that looks like a carving. He narrates the episode previews for episodes 2 to 7.
* Despite dying in the eighth episode, Kamina is mentioned (whether directly or indirectly) in almost every episode of Gurren Lagann.
* Of all of Kamina's dynamic actions, his famous "Towards-the-Heavens" pose (with him pointing his finger to the sky) has become extremely popular; so much so that it has even been done by Simon, Nia, Kittan, and by Gurren Lagann and King Kittan when doing the Giga Drill Break.
* Of all of Gurren-Lagann's characters, Kamina is considered by far to be the most popular, even after his death.
* Kamina's parents official names are Joe and Wenny.
* Kamina is also an expy of Sanson, a character from another Gainax anime called Nadia: The Secret of Blue Water.
* In the movie adaption Gurren Lagann The Movie: The Lights in the Sky are Stars, it is revealed that Simon himself carved the statue of Kamina in Kamina City.
* Kamina or at least someone greatly resembling him makes a cameo appearance in Episode 2 of a fellow Gainax series, Panty & Stocking with Garterbelt. Simon, Viral, Nia, Yoko ,and Attenborough make cameos in the same scene.
** Also, Mahibi Moji from the anime adaptation of Medaka Box, which was also produced by Gainax, greatly resembles Kamina, and is also voiced by the same voice actor. Furthermore, his hair color is dark red in the manga, while it has been changed to blue (like Kamina's) in the anime.
* While Kamina and Nia never meet in the official series, they get along quite well in the Otoko series. Furthermore, he is the only person besides Simon who enjoys her cooking.
* If anything, Kamina gets into even more trouble in Super Robot Wars Z2: Hakai-Hen: Arm-Wrestling Kallen Kozuki over the fact that they both have Mechs named Gurren, trying to get Zero's helmet from a cat to force Zero into owing him a favor (and dragging the entire gang plus Kouji Kabuto (Mazinger Z) into a fight with the Black Knights), and other shenanigans.
* The staff have stated that the Super Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann is actually a reincarnated Kamina.
== Gallery ==
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== External Links ==
* Kamina at Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann Wiki
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