A Beginner's Guide to Studio Trigger
Anime can be a pretty chaotic medium. While it’s true that anime has a wide variety of more relaxed slice-of-life, romance, and light comedy offerings, no consideration of anime is complete without taking into account the over-the-top action, fighting, and comedy. With this in mind, one studio has made frenetic, nonstop action into not just a feature, but a defining characteristic.
Headquartered in Tokyo, Studio Trigger has produced some of the most intensely entertaining and popular anime content in recent years. For its combination of artistic stylization, intense action, and offbeat comedy, Trigger has become a household name in the anime world. With several iconic productions as well as a healthy spate of more niche cult classics, there are multiple good ways for getting into one of the anime industry’s most idiosyncratic yet iconic studios.
RELATED: A Beginner's Guide to Studio Ghibli
Technically, Tengen Toppa Gurrenn Lagann (often just shortened to Gurren Lagann) isn’t a Studio Trigger production. Although the 2007 action-comedy series was animated at Studio Gainax, from which Trigger was founded by several of its leading animators. The series director, Hiroyuki Imaishi, went on to become one of Trigger’s co-founders, and the aesthetic and humor of Gurren Lagann has played an indelible role in setting the fast, stylized, irreverent tone that would dominate many of Trigger’s formal productions later on.
Gurren Lagann is a sci-fi comedy set in a dystopian future where humanity is forced to live in brutalist mining villages. When a shy youth in the village, Simon, is roped into joining the ranks of a charismatic drifter Kamina and his excitable girlfriend Yoko, the team goes forward to “pierce the heavens with their
Read more on gamerant.com
