TriMax 6 Chapter 4

[tiggymalvern]

Chapter Four - 'Shi Chou'  (DEATH OMEN)


Sumire's full translation here.

Page 96. Flashback to Knives recruiting himself a Plant engineer. I don't often like Knives, but he looks pretty cool here. Damn, this engineer must be seriously old - he was on the ships, remembers Knives as a kid!


Page 99. Current time - Knives, Elendira and the engineer pay a visit to the town's huge Plant complex. I don't think I want to ask about the blobs being poked around in the pipes. They look like giant chicken carcasses ready for roasting!


Page 100. Flashback to the Engineer studying Knives and the Angel Arm. Interesting Xray that shows an obvious blob in his forearm. The focus of everything, I assume.


Page 102. One of the Plant Angels. Knives can feel that she's dying.


Page 107. The weakening Plant Angel is deliberately drained of the last of her power by the town's engineers. The Angel screams and her hair turns black.


Page 108. She dies, her body already starting to shrivel and fall apart.


Pages 110-1. This makes Knives most unhappy.


Page 113 He slices apart everyone working at the Plant with Angel blades, destroying parts of the structure too as he lashes out in rage. He's got those blank eyes like lethal!Vash had....


Pag 116. His blades break through the Plant building, ready to attack the town itself. There's a flash of light and then Knives collapses with a brand new streak of black hair. The engineer happily explains that he's starting to burn out his Plant power and will die when it's all black.


Page 118. Knives asks Elendira if Vash has any black hair. I'm not sure how she managed to notice, given the distracting version of Vash she saw, but she's obviously the observant type, because she knows the answer.


Page 120. And five volumes after Vash suddenly turned up with the two-tone hair, we finally find out why.


Gotta love an author who plans ahead for the long term plot! I adore this manga, I really do XDDDD

Comments

[tiggymalvern.livejournal.com]

Can you imagine the reaction to that when it came out? *boggle*

[yma2.livejournal.com]

Oooh, cool. I love this long term plot thing. And the black hair concept is great, wonderful twist. I'm looking forward to seeing where it's gonna be taken, to tell you the truth.
Day-um, there's some good stuff in that issue. I love Knives expression as he watches the Plant Angel die. He seems so... sad and horrified, you know? And yeah, that first picture of him is cool, but I'm a Knives Junky.
Great stuff all round, anyway. It's really cool to see some of the Manga like this.

[tiggymalvern.livejournal.com]

I'm looking forward to seeing where it's gonna be taken

Given the latest pics of Vash, I have my suspicions on that one....

Yeah, stuff like that with the Plant Angel would almost make me sympathise with Knives if he didn't take it a little too far. And if he didn't end up using them so obviously himself.

[jaina.livejournal.com]

Vash's black hair is cooler than Knives's. This is how you know he's the good one.

[tiggymalvern.livejournal.com]

I don't know, I'm quite fond of the lengthwise streak look. I thought the ring around the back seemed a bit odd when I first saw it, but I seem to have grown used to it. He looks hotter with more of it black, sadly.

[jaina.livejournal.com]

I like both brothers' black (hee, alliteration) but I think Vash's looks cooler. And he is FINE with the black black hair. Now he matches his true love! Whichever you want that to be!

[sara-tsuzuki.livejournal.com]

the black hair means...that Vash is going to die soon! sh**. ;_;
By the way....prettyprettyprettyprettypretty Vash in the last picture. I love this manga too!!! makes me sad and makes me drool, all at the same time >___

[tiggymalvern.livejournal.com]

What more can you ask for in a fandom? Gorgeous drool-worthy guys, bucket-loads of angst and a long term plot that's actually been figured out in advance, that actually makes sense, and isn't been randomly invented as the author goes along, leaving gaping loopholes and inconsistencies everywhere. *Much* Nightow-love from me for all of it :-))))

[sara-tsuzuki.livejournal.com]

Ah...When he re-born??

[tiggymalvern.livejournal.com]

I think Psykaos is referring to the years Knives spent healing after Vash shot him with the Angel Arm in July. Which is why Knives has such very long hair when he first turns up in Trigun vol 2 (or 3, depending which edition you have), because he's only just got out of bed, effectively XD

[jaina.livejournal.com]

Whoa. The question being, is there any way to reverse the process?

Arafel came up with her own (het-centric) answer to that question. It is a good fic, so I pimp it.

[tiggymalvern.livejournal.com]

I don't think it's any time they use it. They can use it a small amount without obvious harm (or maybe that's just because a couple of extra black hairs won't be noticeable). But burning too much power at once is killing them, yeah.

The question being, is there any way to reverse the process?

Not that we know of. Knives certainly has some double standards regarding the Plants from here on in, now he knows the limitations on using his own abilities....

[mistressrenet.livejournal.com]

I don't think Knives ever wants Vash dead; he wants him incapacitated.

[tiggymalvern.livejournal.com]

He certainly doesn't want him dead. He has ample chance to kill him, and he doesn't. He just wants Vash to stop getting in the way while Knives wipes out the humans.

[tiggymalvern.livejournal.com]

He's not trying to kill him through TriMax 11, I can't speak for what's been in YKO beyond that. I haven't seen it, I only know hearsay. I wouldn't be totally surprised if he did go that way, though, because Knives' choices seem to have been driving him ever crazier ever faster.

[sara-tsuzuki.livejournal.com]

Here are some scanlations of the lats YKO, very interesting!! http://www.redeyecat.com/wolfwood/ykoscans.html

[tiggymalvern.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I check out that site periodically. That latest pic of almost-completely-black-haired blood-spattered Vash, oy-eeeee! *So* hot ::drools::

[sara-tsuzuki.livejournal.com]

YESSSSSSSS!!

[glass-bullet.livejournal.com]

Aww, you cut out the part where Conrad dies I like that panel. lol. I'm such a slut for Knives. :(

[tiggymalvern.livejournal.com]

I miss out lots of pages I like, sadly. I like Knives' blade hanging over the town, too, and Knives menacing Conrad back when he first recognises him and is contrasting him with chibi!Knives. It's always so hard to choose!