TriMax 7 Chapter 4

[tiggymalvern]

Chapter Four - 'Good-for-Nothings and the Blues'


Sumire's full translation is here.

Page 96. Vash is being all moody, so Wolfwood flicks him with a rubber band. So. Much. Love. XD. (Vash is smiling a little on the next page when he bitches at him :-) )


Page 98. A group of people are holding themselves a lynching party.


Page 100. Vash doesn't like lynchings much.


Page 101. Someone recognises Vash from the bullet-catching incident last volume. Vash isn't even having fun rescuing people any more, he just looks so sad.... *sniff*


Page 103. Vash hits the bar with the almost-lynchees while Wolfwood watches from the doorway. Vash is all forced smiles again.


Page 104. Vash goes on a bender, so Wolfwood gets to be all sober and responsible. That line of Wolfwood's at the top of the next page - 'Oh, well. This might be the last time. He might as well enjoy it.' Ouch.


Page 106. And the drinking goes on for quite a while....


Page 109. Vash suddenly looks awful and runs high speed out of the bar, but he's not throwing up, he's sprouting feathers again. "Wolfwood... you... really are... my guide, aren't you...." (You can just pick me up off the floor from my oozing mass of love for these two now....)


Pages 110-1. And then there's a sudden flash of bright light way out across the desert. I see Vash has been taking lessons from Wolfwood on what to do with his hips when posing dramatically XD


Page 113. And all the satellites start to go dead, one by one....


Pages 116-7. Knives sits on top of a tower, with a massive Angel Arm.


Page 121. Vash figures they have to keep moving, and says goodbye to his drinking buddies.


Page 122. So Vash and Wolfwood head off again, towards Knives.


This chapter and the next make my little fangirly heart all dribbly with the Vash and Wolfwood love. They're just so sad and fatalistic about it all - they know this is going to pretty much suck, but they have to go anyway. Poor guys....

I'm going to be away from home for a few weeks from later on today. I will have internet access, but I probably won't have much time, so can't say how often I'll be around. I do have a bit more stuff scanned and uploaded, and I might make a post or two, but no guarantees.

Comments

[glass-bullet.livejournal.com]

Well, have fun whatever you're up to. ^-^

[tiggymalvern.livejournal.com]

Some of it will be fun. Sadly, some of it involves cleaning :-(

[tiggymalvern.livejournal.com]

And what is it about Wolfwood this issue?

I love the way he's being so incredibly supportive of Vash, here and in the next chapter too. The rubber band bit is just gorgeously playful, with that underlying serious note of trying to distract Vash from his misery; we don't see much of that sort of thing between them, because everything's usually so concentrated around the action, but I imagine there was a lot more of this earlier 'off-screen'.

[tiggymalvern.livejournal.com]

I try to be vaguely amusing here and there, nice to know someone thinks I'm succeeding and not just looking like a moron XD.

I think the cleaning here is going to be my quota for the year....

[yma2.livejournal.com]

Aw, that one is quite sweet! I especially love the bit with Vash on a bender. So cute and funny! And the part were Wolfwood flicks him with the rubber band is cool too, again with the cuteness. Awww.

[tiggymalvern.livejournal.com]

This whole chapter just makes me feel for these guys in so many ways....

[tiggymalvern.livejournal.com]

Wolfwood surely can't be that old (I'd say mid-late 20s maybe)

Read Sumire's translation of TriMax 10 chapter 7 again. And then revise that estimate down some. Sad is not the fucking word when you start doing the maths.

They're the Dark Horse translations, because frankly, I'm way too old to be learning how to read Japanese.

It also helps to have a lot of spare time XD. I started buying the Japanese manga before Dark Horse got the English licence, though to be honest, even if the translations had already started, there's no way I would have been able to wait so long to see this artwork.

Knives looks seriously odd at the start there - what an entrance, all naked with the trailing seaweed hair! That must be quite a moment for Legato, yeah, given how long it's been since Knives was injured.

[tiggymalvern.livejournal.com]

It's more clear in the book because of some of the pages I didn't scan, but judging by his height compared to Chapel at the time he leaves the orphanage, I'd take that back a couple of years further still. It was definitely before his main teenage growth spurt. I come up with a Wolfwood who was probably only about 17 when he first met Vash and about 20 in TriMax 10.

It doesn't get much worse than that.

[tiggymalvern.livejournal.com]

In the mangaverse, you can certainly justify that age. I find it really hard to think of Wolfwood as the age he really is, though, because he looks and acts so much older. It's the jaded attitiude as much as anything that makes it so hard and unpleasant to parse.

A big 'word' to that last paragraph. Wolfwood got a seriously rough deal, but at least not everything about his life sucked. He knows what he's got with Vash - he's willing to die for it, and not only that but to risk the kids and everything else he cares about for it. By TriMax 7, there's just no way to prise those two guys apart emotionally. It makes me feel really bad for Vash, because he can't ever think beyond, 'I'm sticking with you for as long as we've got, and I know that's not going to be long.' One way or another, he's always doomed.

[sara-tsuzuki.livejournal.com]

I like your comment about Wolfwood. Yes, he always loks sooo cool. But Vash in that picture looks not only cool, he looks so sexy...with that leather stuff and things...Sad chapter, really. But comments like this put a bit of light in

[tiggymalvern.livejournal.com]

Oh, it's always good to get a look at Vash's leather XD.

This chapter, like most of them to be honest, really needs to be seen. It makes such a difference seeing all their expressions as opposed to just reading Sumire's translations.

[sara-tsuzuki.livejournal.com]

Oh!! Good luck, and thanks for your posts.

Hi there. . .

[millyfan.livejournal.com]

I don't think I've ever told you how much I love these scans and translations. Your work really is a service to the fandom, and I see you as an inspiration. *glomps you*

Re: Hi there. . .

[tiggymalvern.livejournal.com]

Thanks! But really I'm doing it all for me - I love the Trigun manga, therefore I pimp it, and try to make everyone else love it too. I want more people writing me fic, dammit! XD. I just can't help being a total obsessive....

Re: Hi there. . .

[millyfan.livejournal.com]

I am obsessed too, except with mixed universe for now. ^_^