Gurren Lagann Forum

Boota, the adorable sunglasses-wearing molepig, is kind of an unusual specimen...even for a creature called a "molepig." He's smaller than the other molepigs we see, and he never changes appearance no matter how much time passes, whether the seven year timeskip or the decades-later epilogue. He understands what humans say, even if he can't talk himself. And-- spoiler alert! --during the final battle with the Anti-Spiral, Boota actually briefly becomes human!

The series explains that because Boota has spent so much time with the super-Spiral Powered Simon, he over time absorbed some of the spiral energy, which he expelled in a burst of will that made him temporarily human. But could this energy stunt his growth and/or prevent his aging? Simon and other humans have way more spiral energy, but HE ages like crazy.

So, what do you think? Is Boota just the victim of spiral energy radiation? Or is he something other than an average molepig?