#and yes i recognize that anime from japan is not tapped into the american zeitgeist but we live in such a globalized society now | Explore Tumblr Posts and Blogs

andromeda3116 · 1 year

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you know i wonder where the essay is, i certainly don't have it prepared, what it reflects about society, that the '99 trigun was a fun action western-sci-fi anime with a plot that wove itself out slowly and had plenty of heart that got serious eventually but was also a quirky romp through most of its run

and the '23 trigun stampede is a dystopian sci-fi set in a crumbling desert that can barely support life with a dark plot that drags you under immediately and also does have a lot of heart but ultimately appears to have the theme of scavenging that heart from a place that gives you no reason to believe it exists

like, as time capsules i feel like it's unintentionally saying something about us, about where we've come to and come from, that the same basic story is told in two such wildly different ways, after less than a quarter-century

#trigun #trigun stampede #i know that this is reductive but the tone of the two is just so *insanely* different that it's shocking #like the new version is gorgeous and i'm really liking it but you cannot view it from the lens of the og anime #they are essentially two entirely different anime #and yes i recognize that anime from japan is not tapped into the american zeitgeist but we live in such a globalized society now #that things seep through and things like the economy and constant streams of bad news and global wars affect all of us #do i think that it has something to do with the former american president specifically? of course not.#do i think that maybe it could reflect the growing global tide of fascism and authoritarianism and the helplessness that #many of the below-40 generation feel almost as a matter of course? perhaps.#that's something that absolutely is unfortunately transcending borders and cultures in a way that would take three sociologists #and a bar's worth of wine to describe #the same disease and sense of being abandoned or even betrayed by the people who were supposed to save you #and the deep desperate human urge to scrape together all our stupid little fragments of stupid little hope to keep us going #i haven't finished it yet so i can't say where it's taking this setting #but i find it very interesting how the two versions are so wildly divergent in tone and priorities

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