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[Spoilers] Trigun Stampede - Episode 11 Discussion
Wow, what a good episode. What are your thoughts?
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id like to take this weeks episode as confirmation that theres gonna be a s2 because i feel like theyre setting up Vash's amnesia and the fall of july, theres likely going to be a time skip and s2 will go on from there.
other than that this was a mindfuck of an episode holy shit i lost my mind when the giant plantlady giant thing had fuckin,,, glowing flower eyes??? its alive??? the cinematography in this ep was sooooo good
I'm ill and it's hard to think. When Zazie asked whether humans or plants would be better fit for the planet, was asking a rhetorical question or a genuine one? A human is cultivating a garden, and Knives wants to impose a "new order" upon the planet. Zazie is a free agent; no way are they dumb enough to not see where Knives wants to take this.
When I get better, I'll add more, but this episode doesn't really cover much ground; one event happens in total and that is Vash's baptism. I like the scene where Wolfwood takes some cigarettes from Roberto's corpse; it's a nice callback to the information we've gathered about his character over the series, i.e. he still exists even if he died.
Everything is so perfect. Bgm, next level story, character development, villian, powers, million knives is ruthless villian that I want he just kill anyone who's in his way and it's shows he fuc***g villian do not mess with him, world building, animation can be more better but it's good I'm used to it and now I'm thinking how dark is going to be. It is for me second best anime of winter after Vinland. ?????????
Why it is that all the times people mention animation they talk about visuals?...
TRIGUN STAMPEDE #11: To a New World
SB: Tomohiko Ito
Enshutsu: Minoru Yamaoka
Finally, we now know the entire truth. Nai wants to grant all the plants souls so that they can become independents. We also got an explanation of the gate and the dimension it gives access to.
The memory sequence was fascinating, showing the difference between Vash and Nai. Also a fan of the boarding, it created an ominous/threatening tone.
Nai in the end won, wishing his now-emptied brother a happy birthday. His affection for him was twisted from the get-go but it’s still somewhat morbid. Wolfwood also got confronted by Meryl. The finale is next week.
If STAMPADE ends next week I will be like: Well this is better than the OG Manga set-up for Maximum but there is no Maximum so for whose sake is this preparation? A good anime indeed, but a weird Trigun work. At least they made Knives a better villain but... at what price?
If there is another cour, and surely I hope so, I think this can become the definitive Trigun anime reinterpretation. And if you like it, you can always check OG anime or both mangas since all the takes add to the overall experience.
Time will tell.
"at what price?" is an interesting question, even though measuring Stampede against its older siblings seems redundant. What's clearest to me is that the pacing for Stampede is sometimes flawed, but in a different way than the older adaption's pacing was flawed. The older adaption was a little too slow and this one's a little too fast, both only sometimes and not enough to ruin them.
I think one really interesting character in Stampede is Rollo, who completely changed up Monev the Gale. Monev previously had little character and his episodes were a drag when I originally watched them. However, him breaking and also the way Vash responded to him was decent.
There's something interesting in Monev that was absent in Rollo, but the reverse is also true. Rollo actually had more backstory; his character was changed but I can't tell if it was more or less boring; either way, if you compare Rollo's character arc with like, anybody in Trigun, it seems pretty run of the mill, besides the "Vash knew him as a kid part" (though this was present in Brad's other incarnations.)
Stampede needs more than 12 episodes to finish what it's started. I'm with you on this one and the "definitive Trigun" part;
Stampede has generally gone in the opposite direction of its older counterparts. This is completely okay; I like Stampede, but it feels like part of the process of Trigun in general trying to find a good balance (much like the 1998 adaption). Stampede has probably been a learning experience for many people, both watching it and creating it and that is never a loss.
Granted I'm waffling on but the lattermost point still stands regardless. Also, I don't really understand what makes Knives "better" or worse in Stampede; he's changed but not improved or suffered for it.
Oh no, I will apologize if I wrote that badly, when I mean "at what price" I talk only about what STAMPADE itself offered, there is no need to compare it to the other works. What I mean is if it will be worth being so focued on Vash/Knives story when many characters have been left unfinished (for now at least) and if next episode is last one, I see many others that end way too open, or just not used.
About Knives, for me he is simply better when he is at least hiding his personal desires into making others believe he has morals, looks way better to my eyes than the "superior being" which was made in originals. Just a personal preference.
Why is no one talking about that sound design!? That shit was saucy delicious
