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! If you're gonna dig, dig to the heavens. No matter what's in my way, I won't stop! Once I've dug through, it means that I've won! ... Just who the hell do you think I am? I'm Simon. I'm not my Bro! I'm me! Simon the Digger!
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~ Simon
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Mark my words! This drill will open a hole in the universe! And that hole will be a path for those behind us! The dreams of those who've fallen! The hopes of those who'll follow! Those two sets of dreams weave together into a double helix! Drilling a path towards tomorrow! And that's Tengen Toppa! That's Gurren Lagann!! My drill is the drill... that creates the heavens!!!
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~ Simon
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Of course you can. The lights in the sky are stars. The stars where our Spiral cousins await us.
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~ Simon
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Breaking through karma and fate, the screams of life echoing through the galaxy! The union of Raging Billows, ARC-GURREN LAGANN!
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~ Simon
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Our friends' hopes and dreams are etched into its body, transforming the infinite darkness into light!
Unmatched in Heaven and Earth, one machine equal to the gods!
SUPER GALAXY GURREN LAGANN!
We're gonna show you the power... of the human race.
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~ Simon
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Even if we were enslaved in the Galaxy's cycle of rebirth, the feelings we left behind will open the gate! Even if the infinite Universe were to go against us, our burning blood will cut through Fate! We'll break through heavens and dimensions! We'll show you our path through force! TENGEN TOPPA GURREN LAGANN! JUST WHO THE HELL DO YOU THINK WE ARE?!
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~ Simon and his crew
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We evolve beyond the person we were a minute before. We advance a little further with each turn. That’s how a drill works!
Simon (シモン Shimon?) (pronounced like "Simone" or "sea-moan" in English, and "Shimon" in Japanese), also known as Simon the Digger (Anahori Shimon in Japanese), is the central protagonist of the anime and manga series, Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann. He begins the story as a short, unassuming and lonely young boy, but grows up into a commanding and well-loved man. Hailed for being like a drill (a dynamic he explains at the top of this article), he became known as a legendary hero who overcame impossible odds both personal and universal and now stands eternally as a beacon for the good of all man and Spiral kind.
Age: 14 pre-timeskip, 21 post-timeskip, 41 by the end of the series
Classification: Human, Spiral, Digger, Former Commander-in-Chief of Kamina City, Leader of Team Dai-Gurren, Pilot of Gurren Lagann, Supreme Commander of Earth
