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Gurren Lagann Design Wins Informal British Flag Poll
posted on by Egan Loo
Not-So-Daily Link of the Day: A design inspired by the Gainax's Gurren-Lagann series won the poll with 55% percent of the votes.
According to the skull flag's designer "Anonymous of Norway," "[The design] represents shouting "UNION!" and ing together; kicking reason to the curb and doing the impossible; fighting the power, and piercing the heavens." (The wording of the quote, particularly "piercing the heavens," includes references to phrases in Gurren-Lagann.) The design is one of many submitted to the newspaper site after its call for reader design submissions was relayed to the Japanese 2channel and the international 4chan online bulletin board systems.
Another design (pictured above left) features the character Louise, of Strawberry Marshmallow manga and anime franchise. The website's poll is non-binding, and the Parliament has yet to act upon the flag redesign suggestion of Lucas.
Thank you to quikbeam1, Angieness, Gunnar René Øie, ty love, and apparently 1/7th of the British anime fandom for the news tips this past week.
