My almost 15 month wait is over....

[tiggymalvern]

I have right here in my trembling little paws, Trigun Maximum volumes 10 and 11, all shiny and wonderful and sad.













This may be the last you see of me for a while....

EDIT: The longer comments at the end of this post now include big spoilers for these volumes, so don't read those if you don't want to know stuff like that. Stop when you hit April!

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[tiggymalvern.livejournal.com]

Hey, I'm not buying platonic either. Not at all XD. I'm just thinking that it must look odd to those people who do insist on seeing it that way.

I love Nightow for the way he handled the Wolfwood thing. I am an unrepentant worshipper of understatement and subtlety, and that death scene in the anime really bugs the hell out of me. I knew Wolfwood was going to die in advance, and I was waiting for it, expecting it to really get to me, and then it didn't because it was so overblown. Wolfwood dying repenting at length in a church? Please! He may not have liked the way his life went, but I can't believe he would have done it differently a second time around, because every choice he made was the lesser evil facing him at the time. What could he have changed?

Translating and scanning Maximum 10 made me sob every day for about a week! Vash isn't ever going to find another Wolfwood, someone who knows it all and is strong enough to deal with it both physically and emotionally. If Wolfwood can't survive his association with Vash, who possibly could?

I can't wait for TriMax 10 to come out in English. It should finally kill dead once and for all that awful genre of stories where Wolfwood and Vash tearfully declare their undying love for one another. *This* is the reality of these two guys - Wolfwood starting to say something the slightest bit sentimental because he's dying, and Vash telling him to shut up. These two really don't need to say that stuff, because they both already know it, and neither of them wants to hear it.