TriMax 8 Chapter 2
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Chapter Two - Silent Ruin
Sumire's back with me for this one, but Nightow has made changes.
Page 41 (Sumire's p131). Knives stands on the Ark as before, remembering Vash's words, but the dialogue's been edited for the tankubon. "Knives!!! Don't repeat the same mistakes." (Then "Who alone... it isn't coming back!"? Confusion from me on that line - is he saying that one person can't fix everything?) Knives has his line about this reality being warped, then, "Now, in this moment, I'm just rescuing our imprisoned people. If that results in the death of the imperfect beings..."
Pages 42-3. "...after all, it's been said they're a limited species(?)." (Interesting that Nightow has really toned Knives down here, made him more sympathetic - Knives is actually taking the trouble to justify to himself what he's about to do. Seems like Vash can still get through a little.)
Then we're back with Sumire with Livio standing among the dead soldiers, and Wolfwood commenting that he's changed.
Chapel's dialogue on p45 (135) has been amended slightly, or Sumire translated fairly loosely, but the gist is much the same.
Page 46 (Sumire's p136). Chapel finally baits Wolfwood into attacking him, but Livio stands between them. Wolfwood appeals to Livio, but Chapel says Livio can't betray him (seems he learned his lesson after Wolfwood....).
Pages 48-9. Knives launches himself from the top of the Ark, shedding his cloak as he falls, and Vash screams out, "KNIIIIIVES!"
The rest follows Sumire's translation, as the military finally cross the bridge-less gorge to the town near Knives' now abandoned hide-out.
Page 56 (Sumire's p146). The place is full of reeking corpses. There's narration here that isn't in Sumire's version, explaining that everyone died of hunger and thirst. They'd even started eating one another (I kind of hope I'm translating that wrong, but it's Nightow, so I'm probably not!)
Page 57. The Plant Bulbs are all shattered.
Page 59. And we see all the Plant Angels flying upwards to meet the falling Knives.
Page 60. Knives and the Plants all merge.
Page 62 (Sumire's p152). That is an awful lot of Plants Knives has collected. Doesn't look like their conditions are much better than when they were in the Bulbs, really, does it?
Page 64. Elendira fends off the military's attacks on the Ark. Legato, the imprisoned Vash and the battle of wills.
Page 65. Zazie and her sandworms watch as more of the planet goes to hell. Wolfwood depressed and frustrated.
Page 67 (Sumire's p157, though the last section of narration from her p156 is now here). What little semblance of law and order the planet had collapses.
There are a couple of extra pages added with more images of death and doom-and-gloom narration just to press the point home a bit more. Empty desert and skeletons - 'The world dried up. That situation was surprisingly peaceful.' Everything returning to how it was 150 years ago when the humans first fell.
Page 72 (Sumire's p160). Seven months later, Meryl and Milly arrive at the Seeds ship and are greeted by Luida.
And the final slide of Trigun into unrelenting misery is here....
Sumire's back with me for this one, but Nightow has made changes.
Page 41 (Sumire's p131). Knives stands on the Ark as before, remembering Vash's words, but the dialogue's been edited for the tankubon. "Knives!!! Don't repeat the same mistakes." (Then "Who alone... it isn't coming back!"? Confusion from me on that line - is he saying that one person can't fix everything?) Knives has his line about this reality being warped, then, "Now, in this moment, I'm just rescuing our imprisoned people. If that results in the death of the imperfect beings..."
Pages 42-3. "...after all, it's been said they're a limited species(?)." (Interesting that Nightow has really toned Knives down here, made him more sympathetic - Knives is actually taking the trouble to justify to himself what he's about to do. Seems like Vash can still get through a little.)
Then we're back with Sumire with Livio standing among the dead soldiers, and Wolfwood commenting that he's changed.
Chapel's dialogue on p45 (135) has been amended slightly, or Sumire translated fairly loosely, but the gist is much the same.
Page 46 (Sumire's p136). Chapel finally baits Wolfwood into attacking him, but Livio stands between them. Wolfwood appeals to Livio, but Chapel says Livio can't betray him (seems he learned his lesson after Wolfwood....).
Pages 48-9. Knives launches himself from the top of the Ark, shedding his cloak as he falls, and Vash screams out, "KNIIIIIVES!"
The rest follows Sumire's translation, as the military finally cross the bridge-less gorge to the town near Knives' now abandoned hide-out.
Page 56 (Sumire's p146). The place is full of reeking corpses. There's narration here that isn't in Sumire's version, explaining that everyone died of hunger and thirst. They'd even started eating one another (I kind of hope I'm translating that wrong, but it's Nightow, so I'm probably not!)
Page 57. The Plant Bulbs are all shattered.
Page 59. And we see all the Plant Angels flying upwards to meet the falling Knives.
Page 60. Knives and the Plants all merge.
Page 62 (Sumire's p152). That is an awful lot of Plants Knives has collected. Doesn't look like their conditions are much better than when they were in the Bulbs, really, does it?
Page 64. Elendira fends off the military's attacks on the Ark. Legato, the imprisoned Vash and the battle of wills.
Page 65. Zazie and her sandworms watch as more of the planet goes to hell. Wolfwood depressed and frustrated.
Page 67 (Sumire's p157, though the last section of narration from her p156 is now here). What little semblance of law and order the planet had collapses.
There are a couple of extra pages added with more images of death and doom-and-gloom narration just to press the point home a bit more. Empty desert and skeletons - 'The world dried up. That situation was surprisingly peaceful.' Everything returning to how it was 150 years ago when the humans first fell.
Page 72 (Sumire's p160). Seven months later, Meryl and Milly arrive at the Seeds ship and are greeted by Luida.
And the final slide of Trigun into unrelenting misery is here....
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Date: 2005-05-23 03:58 pm (UTC)Nightow is brilliant with the emotional stuff. Well, it sure as hell works on me, anyway!
I agree with you on Livio - Nightow does seem to reuse his character designs a bit. That girl in Gungrave was very much Meryl with light hair. And as for the thomases in Gungrave, I never did figure out what they were doing there!
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Date: 2005-05-23 10:52 pm (UTC)Exactly. Cliched tricks just don't work on me (Wolfwood's long, drawn-out repenting-in-a-church death left me utterly cold in the anime, and wondering when the hell he was gonna shut up and die already), but Nightow has made me sob buckets over the manga because he knows how to make an impression through subtlety. I worship that.
Someone told me there's something about SEEDS in the Gungrave game
I don't know anything about the game, beyond hearing that it wasn't very good! :-(
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Date: 2005-05-24 05:29 pm (UTC)From discussions I've had with other people, quite a few someones do. Or maybe I just acquire extremely tasteful friends XD.
The anime really does go the melodrama route - it's all extremes and over-reaction, with nobody ever really willing to stop and think and be practical. The anime grabbed my interest enough to prod me into looking up the manga, but if the anime were all there was I'd have wandered off into another fandom long ago.
I've only seen the first 17 episodes.
I asusme you don't have too many hopes pinned on a happy ending... XD
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Date: 2005-05-24 11:42 pm (UTC)I agree, I can't see how Vash can have lived the way he has for so long and not have adapted his views. He's obviously deliberately ignoring reality, and that's not a trait I can admire.