King Kittan



King Kittan is the Gunman stolen, renamed, and piloted by Kittan Bachika of The Black Siblings.

During Beastman War Arc
During the Beastmen War, Kittan, inspired by Kamina's hijacking of Gunzar, hijacks a Gunmen of his own and customizes it, calling it the King Kittan. Kittan is rather proud of his Ganman, and is one of the first people to attempt hijacking one after the example set by Kamina. He would also gather other like-minded people, along with Dayakka, to help form what would be the new Team Gurren and leading to the creation of Team Dai-Gurren.



Kittan pilots the King Kittan through the entire first half of the series, up until the fall of Teppelin. During battles, he and King Kittan would serve as squad commander and deputy of Team Dai-Gurren, while Gurren-Lagann would sorte stronger targets. In the movie adaption of the series, Kittan works together with Kiyoh and Kiyal in the Dayakkaiser and Kiyalunga, respectively, to create the King Kittan's pseudo-combination called King Kittan Deluxe.

Before Anti-Spiral War Arc
It is scrapped along with the other original Gunmen under orders by Rossiu, making way for the adoption of the Grapearls by the human military.

During Anti-Spiral War Arc
The King Kittan, alongside the other Gunmen from Team Dai-Gurren, are reintroduced by Makken and Leite, who equip it with a spiral cannon on its right arm, as conventional weaponry were useless against the invading Mugann. It is soon found out that the King Kittan, like all other spiral king-era ganmen, were designed for space combat.

Space Ganmen


As the War took on a new front, the Ganmen themselves found that they were now dwarfed by their commander in the Arc Gurren Lagann. Thus, with the amazing manufacturing capabilities of the Chouginga Dai Gurren, Leite managed to produce Space Ganmen, Ganmen the size of warships, for use. Based off of the Arc Gurren, the Space King Kittan (like all other Space Ganmen) were piloted by a cascade interface, from Space Ganmen, to Ganmen, to Pilot. The Space King Kittan would fulfill the roles of the former, serving as field deputy and squad commander of the original brigade (the Grapearls being lead by the younger Gimmy and Darry), and remain as one of the only two space ganmen not destroyed in the initial battle. However, it was destroyed in a failed attempt to save the Super Galaxy Dai-Gurren from the Anti-Spirals' Galactic Death Spiral by destroying its core. But, before exploding, the normal-sized King Kittan ejected and through Kittan awakening his Spiral Power, not to mention the usage of its own variant of Gurren Lagann's Giga Drill Break attack, it achieved its mission before getting destroyed, as well, along with its pilot. This act, combined with the enormous amount of Spiral power surrounding the Chouginga Dai Gurren, allowed Simon to form the powerful Chouginga Gurren Lagann, as a final token to the memory of Kittan.

The Space King Kittan resembles the normal King Kittan, however it features more accented features, battle-ship class armor, and is on a grander scale (much like all other Space Ganmen). It was equipped with a Lance and a shield, both of which resemble the original King Kittan in Deluxe form (combined with Kiyal's ganman). The original King Kittan is situated in the Mouth of the machine, and can be launched via a eject feature. Despite the warship class armor, it is amazingly manouverable. It's armor is relatively thinner than most other ganmen of the same class. It could also be equipped with a Powerful Drill Missile and several missle pods, as when it tried to assault the Death Spiral Machine. Despite its strengths, it was destroyed when the Death Spiral Machine's energy field crushed it.

Powers/Moves


King Kittan Giga Drill Breaker: Kittan used this move to destroy the Death Spiral Machine. By taking one of Gurren-Lagann's drills, Kittan awakened his spiral power, and performed a Giga Drill Breaker of his own which was double the size of the Gurren-Lagann's.

King Kittan Splitter: Kittan's custom-made move which was only shown once. King Kittan's front and back horns merge and are forced into the mouth of anther Gunman, then snap back into place, splitting the other Gunman in half.