The Anti-Spiral is a dark humanoid figure with white patterns around it. It was voiced by Takaya Kamikawa in the Japanese version and Dave Mallow in the English dubbed version. It is also the master of Lordgenome and the archenemy of Team Dai-Gurren. It is the collective consciousness and the ruler of the Anti-Spiral Race, who seeks to purge the universe of all Spiral beings in order to prevent them from triggering the Spiral Nemesis.
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The Anti-Spiral is the overarching antagonist of the anime series Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann. We halted our own evolution and locked ourselves away into this pocket universe! On our homeworld, we sealed away our bodies and any hope of evolution! This form is the symbol of our determination! Foolish creatures, drunk on Spiral Power! We defended the universe by killing our fellow spirals and halting our own evolution! Do you possess the sheer fortitude that is on par with that?! DO YOU?! WE SAY, NO, NO, NO, NO, NO, NO, NO, NO, NO, NO, NO, NO, NO, NO, NO, NO, NOT! AT! ALL! But when we learned that the evolution of Spiral Power would lead to the destruction of the universe, we annihilated all those who possessed the power of the Spiral and drove the few surviving life forms to the far corners of the universe. Worker ants are manipulated in this manner to evidence the personal worth and self-interested development of senior ants.We Anti-Spirals were once a Spiral race like yourselves. The worker ants are told “your highly sought-after place in the pile isn’t totally secure but, as it’s all warm and cozy, you would be well advised to keep quiet and get on with it.” When workers question the raison d’être of these senior ants they’re usually gagged. Senior ants fail to support their workers, they fail to brief and train them correctly and they also manipulate statistics and use PR sound bite opportunities for personal gain. Its symptoms manifest themselves in the following manner senior ants keep worker ants in the dark and feed them a constant diet of bullshit, with monotonous regularity. Many ants are ‘carriers’ of the bug, one which tends to proliferate with increasing seniority. The DBS virus attacks the ADC immune system of the ants. This highly viral bug, although carried by individuals, has a profound and debilitating effect upon the group of long-suffering ants. Pretty depressing stuff indeed… Unfortunately, the ‘ADC’ infection is usually compounded by a liberal smattering of ‘DBS’ virus. Maybe you’re an ‘ant’ trudging along within the circle, finding it difficult to break away from the norm but wanting to go and look for that pheromone trail. Because it’s how we do things round here. How often do we unquestioningly follow the ‘ant’ in front and do what we’ve always done, for that reason alone? Because it’s the policy. The powerful and emblematic image of the ant death circle made me immediately think of parallels in conventional performance management – the self-perpetuating downward spiral of targets, binary comparisons, internalised peer vs peer competition, and so on. The ants then blindly follow this circular trail until they die of exhaustion. Each ant then follows the ant in front and the group forms a continuously rotating circle. What happens is that ants sometimes lose the pheromone track laid down for them to follow, and veer off course.
On the train to work this morning, a friend told me about a fascinating phenomenon known as the ‘Ant Death Circle’ (also called the ‘Ant Death Spiral’ or ‘Ant Mill’).
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