#and speaking of additions they made the EoM characters sexualized. that did happen lol

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I saw someone say how trigun stampede is a massive improvement from the 98 anime in terms of female characters and they're glad they can watch stampede instead, and while 98 absolutely has misogyny all throughout it, I feel like just getting rid of vash being a womanizer, the girls getting in hostage situations, and the rest of it isn't enough? vash was definitely annoying in terms of his 98 characterization, and they also gave Milly the ditsy personality and is a love interest to wolfwood, but I don't think stampede is that much different? stampede in fact outright removes a good amount of female characters: milly, dominique, jessica, and basically elendira's character. meryl's has been turned into a novice, luida is cute and motherly, and... tbh I don't really remember anyone else.

tristamp seems like it can't afford characters (like how w my criticism of how marginalized people in trigun's manga are shown seems to be related to the fact that there are way more relevant antagonists than protagonists), but they still just took parts of these characters away, watering them down, making them one dimensional, or gone completely. I think adding more positives to a character is better than just taking away what they don't like. Sure, meryl isn't in a hostage situation in ep 11, but she just stood there the whole time and did nothing (and no i don't believe its some intentional metaphor for witnessing a "feminine" person's agency taken away 🙄 what would we even get from that), and wolfwood will most likely come and help somehow.