#(and fyi it has one of those og m/f ships i actually liked...seeing it now and OH yeah i remember why)

[the-nysh]

nysh is a fan of trigun?? 👀👀 ohoho i knew you've got excellent taste~ who are your favorite characters and arcs? :D personally, i'm a big fan of millie for being an incredibly rare type of anime woman!

*me in the middle of a 200k fic* oh wai-OOOH omg, ahaha you saw that! Geezus, it's been like 20 years - truthfully I saw a new fanart reblogged by someone and I was like '...huh, this feels like it might reawaken something, lemme go revisit something to check...[several days of binge watching + reading later] oh good goddd my tween self was RIGHT; I REMEMBER now!'

Ahaha oh man, anyway re-looking at it with older eyes, yeah there were some outdated 90s filler gags that prob wouldn't fly now, that I'm glad the actual manga (barring the pilot ch) and new anime don't have those, as they didn't serve any purpose for the mc, who's practically an undying saint walking that lone, suffering road of redemption under the biggest stepford smile of pain & loss I've seen. I was also pleased the manga went pretty hard (seinen levels) expanding and committing to things that the old anime just didn't have enough info to do (both character + deep lore wise, esp for Wolfwood and the villain Knives, which the old anime kinda shafted), so I enjoyed that a lot - I was INVESTED to learn about all those traumatic scars and lost history! (Which imo surprisingly felt more like Xenogears/saga with the crash-landing mysterious 'alien' origins, psychotic evil twin, religious imagery, and deep space/sci-fi tone, rather than as a gunslinging spaghetti western.) Also noteworthy how each iteration of the story is completely doing its own separate thing now (the arcs and progression's all different, so beyond the lost July city and Fifth Moon incidents releasing his planet buster against his will, it's hard to choose a 'fav arc')...so yay 3 cakes!

I'd say that whenever shit got real though, the moment my mind started to wonder like '...wait, where are the girls? are they okay, what happ-' BOOM, they'd bust out saving the day or turning the tide in the most awesome way, full rejoicing and *whew* relief on my part!! (Ex, a fav manga moment: [spoiler] when Meryl burst out of his biblically accurate angel wings, understandably scared but with guns blazing, breaking the villains' locked stalemate, that was soooo fucking cool. ;o;) So yes, that was a lot of fun - and oh yes Milly!! She's like...if a classic himbo were female: large, sweet and strong and dopey, but also sharp, dependable, competent and so wholesome. :'3 Extremely good vibes to have her around~ (That I guess, the current speculation's how the anime's new guy might get fridged for Meryl's development, to take up his guns and meet her partner Milly later...but we'll see!) Other than that, I'm interested to see where the new anime takes things, as I can already recognize they're spinning in manga elements that were only introduced Very Late in the game - flipping the order around for what purpose, unknown yet, so hopefully they get enough real estate to properly cook things!