Episode
Gurren Lagann: Having Lots of Faces Doesn't Make You Great!
Overview
Team Gurren must work together with the eccentric Black Syblings to take down a Beastman foe on empty stomachs.
Details
- Series
- Gurren Lagann
- Season
- Season 1
- Episode
- Episode 4
- Air date
- 2007-04-22
- Runtime
- 24 min
Episode context
Having Lots of Faces Doesn't Make You Great! is Episode 4 in Season 1 of Gurren Lagann. It aired on 2007-04-22. The runtime is 24 min.
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