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i wanted to do some drawing tonight, but unfortunately i decided that while i did i'd put trigun stampede on since the dub finally hit hulu
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i'm not finished with ep2 yet and i've already put my tablet away
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people weren't kidding about the animation on this show, it's really good
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its SO good
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i'm a little surprised how quickly it's getting into knives stuff, but i'm chalking that up to it being a new story
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i'm definitely down to see where this ride's going
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millions knives really showing off his million knives
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wolfwood's voice'll take a little getting used to, but if the old series had been dubbed now for the first time it's the kind of voice you'd expect him to have
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i wonder if these flashbacks are 2d animation or if studio orange is just really flexing with them
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so, it was definitely 2d, but a neat change-up of style to express a different mood
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i'll definitely get to the last five episodes tomorrow, and maybe be able to draw after that
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Ooh I should watch it soon then
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it's good! definitely worth the watch
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Stampede is awesome
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brad being an adult from the start like oh how the tuntables
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there's kni's problem, he was reading too much bible
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one-winged angel arm
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yeah, he would go ericks
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very glad that milly'll be there for s2
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so now i don't feel like rewathing the whole old series, but maybe the back half
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you know, knives didn't really have like, a grand plan or anything in the 98 anime
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like at best it seems like he planned to use the angel arms to just blow humanity the fuck up, but when vash took both the revolvers he...didn't do anything for 100 years?
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and then after july he had to spend a few decades healing because his entire lower half was missing
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like the only thing we really hear about is entire towns disappearing, and that's mostly legato taunting vash into a confrontation
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so because vash isn't necessarily really stopping knives from doing anything, the final shootout feels more like an ideological battle, which is...i guess it makes it feel more like a western in that way
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the stakes are close, it's just between these two brothers and their clashing perspectives, all themes no plot
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and that's definitely because the manga was super unfinished at the time, i think nightow even used the anime being in production as leverage to get a new magazine to launch maximum when the last one shut down
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so the overarching plot probably wasn't developed to the point it could be reflected in the anime
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still, it's part of what makes both 98 and stampede stand on their own without overlapping enough to make the other redundant
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i love when there are multiple adaptations of a thing that both do things differently enough that they can comfortably coexist
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Yeah and it feels so nice and solid
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I truthfully don't remember enough of 98 and I never read Maximum but this stands well on its own
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having read the majority of maximum there are def changes but stampede is very much manga flavored
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yeah i haven't read the manga but that's the impression i get, while also definitely playing around with the and putting in their own spin
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meanwhile i'd rewatched 98 just a couple years ago so a lot of that was still fresh
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the manga is very good i highly recommend
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the backstory volume in the manga is still one of my absolute favorites