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TRIGUN BOOKCLUB TRIMAX VOL12 PART1
Let’s get to the start of vol12! Trigger warnings for suicide mention/ideas within the analysis.
Chapters 1-3 of vol12. Geez, 9 chapters? That’s gonna take 3 parts again.
Oddly enough, the later the volume the less I know what to say (though this might be a misconception, I don’t think my posts are getting shorter), or hmm it’s more like…the later the volume, especially now past 10…I feel like…there’s so much I want to express, the pages and chapters are feeling so full of ideas, ideals, hopes, and stuff to analyze that it’s hard to know where to start?
EDIT from later: yeah that’s a misconception I’m already starting to ramble not too far down. I think that when I just looked at the first images of Vash standing there, it felt like the end of a journey to me as the reader as well…this manga is giving me emotions I cannot quite trace.
Chapter 1:
On my first two reads I kinda rushed these parts with Chronica and Domina (to quickly get back to Vash) but it’s good taking my time reading this again, because there’s so much cool valuable information here! They have already encountered similiar cases of Independants running amok, or fusing, as it seems, although this might be the worst case. How is life living as an independant on earth? How are the plants treated, any differently maybe? And are they seen more as living beings? There’s so many questions and stuff for speculation here. Had Knives and Vash been born on earth, who knows, they might have just lived their lives normally under humans (though probably working in some way for the facilities or smth).
His hair looks almost all black now…this is one of my fav Vash pages (there are a lot, but it’s pretty high). When you look at him like that and you have lived with him through these last volumes and seen what he had to endure…my heart is full of love and my body full of pain for him.
First, he thinks back to the damage they have caused the humans. Not voluntarily, but the desasters happened. It’s darkening his expression for a short moment here.
But then…he thinks back to all the people who, after his long and arduous journey, welcomed him in their midst. Their have been bad encounters as well as good ones, but he lived among them.
I’m a sucker for wrap ups like this. And, again, Vash is in this chapter the perfect example to show how Trigun doesn’t need lots of text to convey the message and the emotions. These pages are so silent but you could hear their laughter and voices in Vash’s head if you listened.
(I’m just spamming the whole chapter in this post but I want to have this as reference when I come back to my reviews to look smth up)
You probably read the post by @annaofaza about Vash picturing Wolfwood’s grave and not his face, cause it’s too painful, and there are no tomorrows anymore…and there was this other post by @anxiety-elemental-kay how Vash is just speeding up his death voluntarily after Wolfwood’s death. Yeah, those posts have ruined me now, thank you. For some reason I didn’t read it this way the first two times, but, I also didn’t think so much about Vash’s inner thoughts. Now? Now every face of Vash showing his resolution, every instance where he gets up again, it’s so much more devastating. Cause these pages are a flashback to all the memories he made…and they’re also a goodbye. That panel here where he opens his eye again…oh it looks so empty and old.
Isn’t that such a beautiful sentence, though?
I want to write about it but there’s nothing that I could add to that.
Oh Knives, my dear (genocidal) boy. There’s almost nothing left of your anymore…
Chapter 2:
This explosion here reads a bit like electric impulses spreading out from the impact side. They said it’s an anti-plant cannon so I imagine it’s a tiny bit different than normal lasers, so that would make sense!
Aaah Knives sccary jumpscare. If this were to be animated this could be SO damn creepy and cool.
They are running over military! Stampedes in training!
Of course the humans start shooting at the arc once it’s appeared above them. For real though, it really is understandable? After the 7 months of terror, and considering that they probably don’t even know that Plants are alive…
There’s no longer a really single “Knives” out there, so I like to imagine this is all the plants, this fused being, talking here. Or, especially the first lines sound like they could be coming more from the plants, and then the last sentence that is directed, that could be the Knives-consciousness talking.
Angel Horror Trigun! It’s so…uaaaah but sooo cool looking.
Epic Knives panel!
Is he talking to Domina and Chronica? Could be the only ones he means by “slaves of humans”
Chapter 3:
This is so sad, cause it looks like the humans play the role of making plants kill each other 🙁
On the other hand we’re still getting funny little moments like these here, hehe.
Also Luida being desceptive! I love her!
Va va va va Vash to the rescue! *waving my pompoms and doing a little dance for him in the distance*
Continuation in the next post!