TriMax 7 Chapter 5

[tiggymalvern]

Chapter Five - "AND WHEN THEY ARRIVED, IT WAS ALREADY THE BEGINNING OF THE END"


Sumire's full translation is here. Note that Sumire got a bit confused with the names for a while - at this point she's referring to Chapel as 'Trip of Death' and Livio as 'Double Fang', whereas both of those names are actually pseuds of Livio's.

Pages 126-7. Vash and Wolfwood outside Knives' fortress.


Page 129. Even Wolfwood can feel something of Knives' influence. Vash is all going all feathery again, but both of them ignore that now.


Page 130. As they walk further in, Wolfwood gets an intense vision of himself being ripped to pieces.


Page 133. He pretends nothing's wrong, figuring Vash has enough on his plate to deal with.


Page 135. They reach the bottom of a long staircase where Elendira waits. She tells Wolfwood he can't go any further. Vash reassures Wolfwood he'll be okay, and tells him to take care of himself.


Page 136. Vash starts up the stairs. Wolfwood calls after him and goes to follow, but Elendira blocks his way, following Knives' orders.


Page 139. A short chat later, and Wolfwood goes for the Punisher. He barely manages to deflect another Punisher being thrown at him from behind.


Pages 140-1. And Wolfwood has his reunion with Chapel and Livio. Elendira's not too pleased by this development either. Chapel knows about the vision Wolfwood had, and seems a little bitter about Wolfwood having used his name for a while....


Page 147. Some bitching later, during which Chapel makes his hatred of Wolfwood pretty clear, Chapel and Livio retreat as Elendira wishes. Wolfwood reminds Elendira of what's likely to happen when the two Plants fight, and wonders why she seems so unconcerned.


Page 149. At the top of the stairs, feathery!Vash approaches Knives' hideaway.


Pages 150-1. Knives is asleep in a tangle of Plant Angels.


Page 153. Wolfwood staggers with the sensation of power as Knives awakes.


Page 154. Vash's glasses shatter away from his face under the force of emerging feathers, and a very creepily distorted Knives starts to emerge from the darkness....


And the two brothers face each other for the first time since Vash blasted the hole in the moon back in Trigun volume 2 (or volume 3, in the intial print run). Dramatic tension! XD

Comments

[yma2.livejournal.com]

Oooh, dramatic tenstion indeed! I'm excited! I love Elendra's get up, and that picture of Knives asleep amongst the plant angels is loverly and haunting. Really cool stuff! I can't wait to see the next issue.

[tiggymalvern.livejournal.com]

I love the way Nightow builds all this up, like it's going to be the big climax, and then ouch!

[mistressrenet.livejournal.com]

How many names does Livio have?

Also, yikes.

[tiggymalvern.livejournal.com]

Enough to keep most people's brain's busy XD. No wonder it was tricky trying to figure all this out as it was released, without the benefit of hindsight!

[jaina.livejournal.com]

Is it me or do sleeping!Knives and the plant angels look like they just finished a giant orgy?

[tiggymalvern.livejournal.com]

I think that's everyone! And the orgies only get bigger as the story goes on....

[andmydog.livejournal.com]

GoodBYE, glasses!
And that last panel is gorgeous.

[tiggymalvern.livejournal.com]

I'm so glad they lasted barely two books. And then he went back to the hot ones XD.

That last panel is freaky. With the hands. But beautifully drawn. Though I'm too busy drooling over the sad!feathered!Vash at the bottom of p129, and the whole of p149....

[tiggymalvern.livejournal.com]

Oh, I'm still in the abyss, just managed to get one of my basically pre-formatted posts up XD.

Yeah, I think Nightow came to the same conclusion as the rest of us about those glasses! Not sexy :-(

[hibem.livejournal.com]

That Nightow, man. He really knows what he's about. Between post-orgy-nap-Knives, creepy-emerging-from-darkness-Knives, the VWness and Wolfwood looking so freaking old compared to three books ago, I'm not sure what to start freaking out about first.

[tiggymalvern.livejournal.com]

He never holds back on the weirdness for us, does he? XD

Wolfwood's just being so protective of Vash this chapter and the last. I love the way both these guys are so careful about showing that stuff and yet so obvious. They work around one another's sensibilities so well ::happy sigh::

[sara-tsuzuki.livejournal.com]

Wolfwood's vision is creepy...>___<
Yes, Knives looks so amazing, but that makes me feel more worry about Vash...

[tiggymalvern.livejournal.com]

A lot of things get creepy from here on! Especially Knives XD

[glass-bullet.livejournal.com]

Knives' house = too cool.

[tiggymalvern.livejournal.com]

I like the way he has his little Plant love-in in this kind of over-sized garden hide-away XD

[glass-bullet.livejournal.com]

I know! It's so cute! xD

Maybe Vash would feel better if he got one @_@.?

[tiggymalvern.livejournal.com]

Dimitri (no, I don't know either) is an anime name that doesn't crop up in the manga. This place has a different name that is mentioned later. The 'peaks' I'm pretty sure are the remains of crashed ships.

I don't think Elendira lets herself be phased by anything. It would ruin her classy image XD.

Ah, but Knives is using the Plants in a good cause. He lives by Vulcan logic - 'the good of the many' and all that.

I'm not really back, just faking it temporarily, so there will be more delays yet, sorry. But at least when you get TriMax 5, you'll be able to see all that lovely stuff I've been leaving out :-)