#i find the 98 cameos so fucking interesting. i wonder if Nightow just forgot they werent in the manga or if he was making a statement

[orcelito]

one thing i noticed looking back at the start of trimax volume 12... we get that whole sequence where Vash is standing at the precipice & thinking about his past

i'd like to draw attention to This bit:

i didnt notice it when i first read it, but... that sleeve bit there? he's holding his arm. we don't get to see what he's actually thinking, but he's holding the bicep of his left arm - the arm he lost. considering he's standing in wait of Knives for their final battle, he's clearly remembering the time he lost it. to Knives.

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he proceeds to think through the mistakes he's made and the people he's met... but something noteworthy that I find really interesting is that anime-only characters are present in the lineup.

take these two pages.

it's the sheriff lady and the rich dude from 98 episode 2

the plant engineer from Lost July, episode 6

the fake Vash the Stampede & Frank Marlon (not the other Marlon we meet in the manga, who's his grandson) from episode 3

the boomerang guy (who is in the manga Technically, though we didnt see vash meet him) & the blonde gunman from episode 1. and the dancing girl & her guy friend from episode 11.

all "filler", supposedly, but Vash knows them. the implication of this being that Vash has had some amount of those adventures even in the manga (though the different Marlons makes that part a little more muddied - maybe he knew Frank Marlon in a similar way to the anime, though the girls couldn't have been there in this version if he's the current Marlon's grandfather).

also please just admire this pic of meryl and milly bc i love them so much

anyways.

the spreads continue until we reach this iconic page:

Vash went through his memories of all the people he met to steel himself for the battle to come, but these are the last two he thinks about. The two he arguably holds dearest in his heart, and the two whose losses hurt him the most. He remembers Rem as she was, smiling lovingly down at him. He remembers Wolfwood as he left him. Just a grave.

Their memory calms him. He's thinking of the reasons he's fighting, and they're the most important ones.

Bolstered by the memories of the people he loves and the mistakes he's made, he's ready to face his fate.

(all pages from @trigun-manga-overhaul)

#speculation nation #trigun #trigun meta #A Little Bit. this is half me pointing out things i didnt notice my first time reading #& half me motioning towards the overall scene like 'isnt this cool??? isnt this Cool?????' #i just love this scene. so fucking much. definitely one of my favorite scenes in the whole manga. #id in alt #for all but the pics that are just head shots of characters. i didnt ID those bc i state who they all are beneath them #fanny reads trigun #fanny's trigun analysis #also special thanks to Cee for pointing out that he was holding his arm in that first bit there. i hadn't picked that up until u said it #i realized it was weird. too low for him to be holding his heart. but the angle makes it hard to see it's on his sleeve rather than chest #i find the 98 cameos so fucking interesting. i wonder if Nightow just forgot they werent in the manga or if he was making a statement #regardless. this entire section is just... one of the best parts of the manga. really drives everything home. makes it feel like The End. #trigun spoilers/ #trimax spoilers/