Dark & Brutal Moments in Trigun Manga Thread 🧵 (PART 1)
Warning: Violence, body horror, bloody/gory depictions! ⚠️
Part of Trigun's charm indisputably lies also in its "horror" elements. I'd like to take a moment and go through some of the scenes.
If I counted how many times I caught myself staring in awe at Vash's beauty while the poor guy was going through pure hell, I'd certainly be in hundreds.
In Trigun, there are two characters doomed by the narrative.
One is doomed to die—young in an old crumbling body, full of love yet to give, things left to do.
The other is doomed to live—an ancient mind trapped behind the mask of youth, his only desired future now unreachable.
Listen. I know Nightow's not consistent with Vash's scars but this one being WHOLLY around his healthy arm—as if someone attempted to chop or tear it off completely, haunts me. All of his scars do. One day, I want to sit down and write origin horrifying story for each scar...
Dark & Brutal Moments in Trigun Manga Thread 🧵 (PART 3)
Warning: Violence, body horror, bloody/gory depictions, s*xual assault for
#51
! ⚠️
(This part is TRULY very heartbreaking and gruesome, be warned.)
>> THE FINAL PART <<
The true winner to me is Trigun Stampede. Studio 🍊 actually did the designing by themselves and didn't already have the designs from manga or other material. I don't really understand the nominees for this category tbh.
Trigun Stampede should've been nominated in
#AnimeAwards
for the best cinematography. The camerawork is superb and every still shot looks straight up gorgeous. And it definitely should've won best character design.
Not to take away from this show or anything, but I'm majorly pissed that y'all act like this with this thing now but absolutely slandered and ignored Trigun Stampede year ago, whose 3D animation is EONS better. F you and shame on you, hypocrites.
Faces that Vash makes when he first sees Wolfwood freshly run-over and bleeding out on the ground are the funniest shit ever.
When I see this one, all I can hear is the audio "Oh mAh god, what IS that???"
I love the fact that Vash was given his aquamarine/greenish eyes behind the scenes. It looks so right on him. He's so darn cute (���º‿º灬)♡ (I still ADORE his big blues 🔵◡🔵 in Stampede, no worries, but I can't help but feel wistfully nostalgic)
Gather around my dear Trigunners, the time has come.
"Please, O mighty Orange, accept this humble sacrifice and let the news about the season 2 of Trigun Stampede come to us very soon."
I remember someone pointing out in the server that WW's Punisher is just painted black, its real color being that rare blue-green which lost technology is known for. So I looked at Livio's guns closer as well, and they seem to be painted too. Such a cool detail 💥
I know that at this point all of them know that Vash is a PLANT but it's still hilarious how Wolfwood this whole time really couldn't give a shit about playing unaware, surprised etc. trying to make himself seem less suspicious pfff 😭😭😭
Only the Plants and people somehow connected to the Plants (the experiments which most likely got into contact with Plant DNA etc.) having very visible sharp fangs. 😏 👁️👁️ I see you, Orange.
Dark & Brutal Moments in Trigun Manga Thread 🧵 (PART 2)
Warning: Violence, body horror, bloody/gory depictions, animal cruelty! ⚠️
>> THIS IS NOT THE FINAL PART! <<
'Every time Vash is silly in the manga' THREAD 🧵🍩
>> PART 1 <<
[Including: Trigun, Trigun Maximum, the 'joke' covers, Badland's Rumble part 1 and 2 from Multiple Bullets]
I saw an abnormally small specimen of this rare species crawling out of my paper bag with donuts! Sneaky little fella. I decided to capture it and study its behavior. What should we analyse first? 🤔
You handsome, handsome man... The iconic spikes on top, the profile, the piercing eyes, the charming grin, the way you hold your cigarettes... TriMax Wolfwood's just perfect to me. Peak Wolfwood.
"My friends?" This tells you so much about just how alone Vash has been this whole time and how he perceives his relationships with Wolfwood, Roberto and Meryl. They're not his friends in his mind, not *yet* at least. He probably thought that they'd be gone after they saw—
It's super cute how one of the early designs had Vash wear stemless glasses that had this pad (that almost looked like a band-aid) on the bridge of a nose to keep them there.
I miss studio Orange's Trigun Stampede promo materials dearly 🥹😭 The idea... that we'll get that again once the S2 is about to air and WHILE it is airing... Can y'all imagine what new cool graphics we'll get??? (⬇️🧵 A little thread of some them from S1)
That flavor of Wolfwood when his eyes shine piercingly through the blood and shadows on his face like a wolf's ones in the dark... Silver-eyed Woowoo, my beloved.
Knives regenerating in the final showdown with Vash in the manga
VS
Knives burning away to reach his dream for himself and Vash in Trigun Stampede
I will stand by the fact that studio Orange honors the original work—the Trigun manga—until the very end because LOOK AT THIS!
This could've been both a coincidence or intentional, but when we're in Vash's mind and he's "remembering" the Big Fall... the windmills in the background really resemble crosses, with their shape. Which is definitely not an unfamiliar imagery—Vash being surrounded by graves.
I can't from the fact that we actually see Wolfwood's fangs BURY into the leather, they literally go through! He BITES through it ⁄(⁄ ⁄•⁄-⁄•⁄ ⁄)⁄ That's just how sharp his canines are.
HELLO THERE IT IS FCKING HAPPENING I CANNOT BELIEVE IT, I'M BURSTING THROUGH THE WALLS ALREADY. 4TH OF JULY CANNOT COME QUICK ENOUGH. SNEAK PEEK GUYS OF THE FUTURE, SNEAK...PEEK!!!!
With how FLUFFY he is (the absolute floofest floof of all floofs), he reminds me of those soft, fuzzy rugs and pillows in big furniture stores that you can't resist but touch and ruffle obsessively.
'My favorite Vash's lines from the manga—hilarious, badass and iconic' THREAD 🧵🌪️
(in chronological order + purely subjective)
>> PART 1 <<
"Right! I haven't introduced myself yet! I am but a man, a hunter of peace who continues to chase the elusive mayfly of love. You see?"
Trigun Stampede was the most underrated anime of 2023. Not only did it have a production that rivalled the likes of Tengoku, but everything from CDs to animation was some of the best from the year. People discounted it just because it is a fully 3D show.
Thinking again about Wolfwood's starstruck expression when he saw Vash and the plant interact on the sandstreamer. I would love to see the detail of his face when Vash turned around with his plant markings glowing (´ε` )
Is there anything more rawly romantic and heart-wrenching than adapting your homie's opposing ideology, successfully discarding for a moment all of your morals, ethics and beliefs you held onto your whole life?
One doesn't pull the trigger this time, but the other finally does.
I really wish we could've seen some more bonding between Roberto and Meryl. In this sketch it looks like he's teaching her how to shoot and my heart is already squeezing painfully. That would've been so great... 😭🥹 They deserved more, but alas, the episode number limit 😞
Vash purposefully not using Wolfwood's name after what happened is so heartbreaking. It causes him pain but at the same time he treasures it so much, it's something so precious yet heavy, that he doesn't want to speak it.
Remember this promo art? I just noticed... IS VASH NOT WEARING SOCKS?! MAN DOESN'T THAT HURT YOU IN THOSE SHOES??? SCRAPING UR SKIN? I'D PERISH.
Aha, so Wolfwood ain't the only one—meaning you can't throw shade at him only! We got two sockless dummies! I'm crying 😭
I guess this image needs to come back. YET AGAIN WITH THE WORD *SOON* 😭😭
(A reminder for the fans: This is in good faith. We should stay utmostly patient and supportive as studio 🍊 works its butt off. It won't come out any faster by being rude to the staff, don't you dare!)
So. Y'all.
On how many levels of f*cked up is it that the 7th episode of Trigun Stampede is titled "Wolfwood", just like the Trigun's Maximum chapter 7 of volume 10 is— aka the chapter in which Wolfwood breathes his last? THE COUCH CHAPTER.
There is NOTHING you can compare to what Vash and WW had between each other. Interpret it as you will, but the fact stands it was another level of understanding and connection. If two people can read each other's minds so clearly, what else would they be other than soulmates?
'Every time Nicholas D. Wolfwood is silly in the manga' THREAD 🧵🐺
>> PART 1 <<
[Including: Trigun, Trigun Maximum, the 'joke' covers, Badland's Rumble part 1 and 2 from Multiple Bullets]