TriMax 5 Chapter 4

[tiggymalvern]

Chapter Four - 'KYOU HITO' (WICKED MAN)


Sumire's translation is here for the details.

Page 93. Vash in the ruins of July.


Page 95. Meryl screams as Vash's feathers reach her, and she too gets a dose of Vash-memory. It's all about the guns and the death....


Page 99. Wolfwood tries to get Milly to leave as Hopperd triggers the pre-placed explosives and everything starts to come down.


Page 103. Midvalley finds Hopperd lying on top of the rubble. Interesting that Midvalley had his chance to leave and has stuck around.


Page 105. Wolfwood's back, and it's daggers drawn again.


Page 106. I love that close-up on Wolfwood at the bottom when Midvalley calls him Vash's friend, all the lines round his eyes....


Page 107. And then feathers start pushing their way out of the rubble, and a whole giant wing....


Page 110. Midvalley talks to Wolfwood about their long-standing plan to get rid of both Vash and Knives. Midvalley's lowered his gun by now, but Wolfwood's is still right there.


Page 115. Legato arrives on an enormous crazy bike, driven by his Bearer.


Page 118. Midvalley looks from Legato to Wolfwood and makes his decision.


Page 119. Midvalley turns, ready to blast Legato.


Page 121. Legato freezes Midvalley and forces Hopperd to shoot him.


Pages 122. Hopperd screams 'STOP!' through the repeated gunshots as Legato smiles and blood splatters everywhere.


I really like manga!Midvalley. He's such a non-entity in the anime, he's far more interesting when he hates Legato and Knives and is plotting to bring them down. Pity he died right after we got to know all that really. Might have been fun to have him stick around a while longer.

Comments

[sara-tsuzuki.livejournal.com]

ah!! Midvalley was cool. Really more interesting, a very complex character, the only one who tried to rebel to his fate.

[tiggymalvern.livejournal.com]

Heh, not the only one! The Gung-Ho-Guns in the mangaverse are a duplicitous kind of bunch XD

[glass-bullet.livejournal.com]

I've found that most characters are better in the manga. (People I usually hate, like Midvalley, for instance, become worth writing about) The manga is so much more fucking exciting than the anime. Legato on a bike, giants wings, letters with exploding blood - it's just so cool. I wish I owned some of these. Lol.

[tiggymalvern.livejournal.com]

Yeah, the manga makes the anime look so very pale and one-note. They took all the layers out of the anime and made it about a moral message. Pffft to that.

[tiggymalvern.livejournal.com]

Both Vash and Wolfwood have the fine art of the pissed-off glare down in style - all part of the reason I love them :-)

[tiggymalvern.livejournal.com]

The anime Midvalley is just too much Legato's yes-boy for me to find him interesting. He does as he's told, that's all. It's interesting here that after they've been shooting at one another, Midvalley is willing to lower his gun and talk - he knows Wolfwood very well, and assumes he can still trust him even though they haven't met up in a while and things have changed.

Legato's up and about as of part way through TriMax 11. It's certainly beyond the realms of an ordinary human, but the Trigun manga is full of crazy medical technology. Wolfwood can sustain multiple chest wounds and be fine in a couple of days, and then there's Livio. I wouldn't say it's beyond the technology that Knives has access to to fix Legato. In fact, I'm sure he could have fixed him much sooner, but chose not to as punishment.

[knives-gurl.livejournal.com]

Omg poor Middy! O_O

I admit I wasn't really a fan, but when I look back at the first time he met Knives to the end, Oh my god.... O_O

*Legato is such a sexy sick bastard XD*

[tiggymalvern.livejournal.com]

Hmmm, I've got to say Legato leaves me completely cold in both anime and manga. I just don't see the appeal.

[tiggymalvern.livejournal.com]

I can't know? HAHAHAHAHA!!! That's my evil plan, bitch!!!!

[tiggymalvern.livejournal.com]

Mmmm, I always like a challenge ;-)