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dangit, there are nothing like enough chapters of this (so far, at least)
"Potatoes are a compromise, not a food."
I'm so glad Woolie's finally getting fully on board with Hunter Saltire Hunter, completely and totally of his own volition.
Add in some interesting narrative choices that have been made in order to set up this genocide-flavored trolley problem (decolonization as an act of racial self-genocide, history lessons about colonial atrocities being part of a campaign of repression, tying the rise of fascist movements to a genuine 'cycle of violence' in which oppressor and oppressed apparently take turns,...), and it's no wonder that people raise an eyebrow at the series.
So like, Chainsaw Man is good, huh?
If only someone had said something!
You've all failed me for the last time.
Like that’s a side character archetype that everyone begrudgingly tolerates in most shows
It's also refreshing to have a protagonist that is more selfish than most virtuous shonen guys
It's not like the writer just thought that would be a funny thing to do!
There wasn't a writer's room, it's a direct adaptation of a manga written by one guy. It's also very weird to suggest you'd need to be high to write a story where a person with no social development might have an immature set of goals and ways he relates to people (that develops as they mature).
technically denji still wants to touch boobs, but I mean, whom'st among us?
he just thinks anemones are cooler now
I can get behind that, yeah.
yeah I think it comes across pretty clearly, like "so you're saying my basic survival needs are no longer my only concern? well, I guess what do people do after that?"
it's hard to tell that from the tone of your post. sadly the text-tone devil is still active in the world
that's fair, it certainly wasn't a good joke. I actually am just now watching the episode where he does touch boob and the resulting existential crisis is pretty great
I've spilt plenty of digital ink on it, so I won't rehash it, but it's given me an extremely satisfying answer to What Makes Us Human?
Some examples of what I mean:
-Because they're rushing through the plot, there hasn't actually been a competent debate about pacifism vs. violence yet. People are like "I'm gonna kill you, Vash!" and he goes, "Naw, I'm good." In one episode, the townspeople wanted to kill the armed terrorists who came to their town to kill them and also steal the only thing that keeps them alive. Vash's argument against doing that was literally a Kung Pao style "I implore you to reconsider!" Because he fires his gun in the very first episode, there isn't even a sense that he's EXTREMELY hesitant to resort to doing so (he didn't fire until episode FIVE in the original). Instead, you get the sense that he's cheap or lazy instead (OG Vash implied these traits on purpose, but they were a smokescreen for his deeply held belief in nonviolence).
-To create the character of inexperienced, naive Meryl, they have her get ANGRY that Vash is attempting non-violent solutions to problems. This could work if she was desperate for a cool story to report on and she was being ghoulish in service of that, but she's frankly played off as childish to the point of being an idiot. Like, she's never seen a person get shot to death in front of her, and it would clearly upset and disgust her (we know this by that being her reaction when similar things happen because of the villain's actions), but she is also literally demanding that outcome anyway.
The original show spent some time building the legend of "Vash the Stampede", letting you see how he behaved in different situations and what his contradictions and pain points might be. Most obviously, here's a Gunman who enters life or death situations on purpose, frequently, but seems emotionally unprepared for people on EITHER side to die. And he certainly doesn't want to hurt people. So when a MONSTER of a killer shows up and makes the situation "Kill him or watch as he kills a TON of people", that instantly upped the stakes as we already were invested in Vash saving people without killing anyone. The Stampede version has introduced a ton of complications (Rem) that we are not invested in, and with that lost time we're less invested in the core, moral conflict of the show. It's probably fixable, but this is certainly no Brotherhood style fixing of the original show. It strikes me as just worse.
It's pretty, I'm enjoying watching it, don't watch it as your first experience with Trigun.
That said, I also recently watched the movie Trigun Badlands Rumble. That movie really puts it into perspective how different Stampede is from the original. The characterization, the setting, the vibe, a lot of the unique hooks, all switched up. They're doing something quite different and while I enjoy the result I can see why people would bounce off Stampede.
Eeeeeeeh.
I kinda feel like the whole story could end right here.
I haven't had the chance to watch any of S2 yet but I've been reading the manga for some time so... would you mind putting in spoiler tags where the story is at?
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It's a real good episode.
Ah, yeah...
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