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[bluesummers-daily]

run by @canidaria and inspired by @daily-vash-panels

[saintprivateer]

yeeeIKES …

[magneto-burrito]

Trigun Stampede + @my-gender-is

Bonus because I couldn’t decide on just one for Vash:

[tristamp-gunpede]

Trigun as text posts 21/?

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[jacenbren]

More trigun nonsense for the masses

[merylmillys]

10/?

everyone say thank you to my gf because they’re the one who usually finds the posts for me. i just slap the silly little trigun guys on there

[dragonofeternal]

Legato shares some distressing biology facts :)

(text from this post by tumblr user bogleech)

[tititiri]

I decided to compare two translations of the Trigun manga. Specifically, the English translation done by @trigun-manga-overhaul and the Polish translation. One fragment caught my attention. Here it is:

Here the same fragment in Polish:

Let me rough translate this:

I admit. He is handsome. I wouldn't get him out of bed.

With such/this (Someone like Legato) you have no chance, naked.

Hey, boy! (He uses a phrase "Chłopczyku!", which is often used against adult men in an insulting way).

Is nice to do that?

We've already knocked our princesses' hopes for Prince Charming out of their heads. (Literal translation. Here we have a reworked idiom "wybić komuś coś z głowy" - put something out of someone's mind

Maybe I should translate it like this: We've arleady put hopes for Prince Charming out of our princesses' mind.

Be handsome somewhere else, eh?

Conclusion

I think the translators wanted to emphasize the rudeness of the language. However, I don't understand why the text : ...like a cold blooded lady killer was replaced by this: With such/this you have no chance, naked. Like in Polish, Lady Killer can be translated to kobieciarz, casanova, donżuan, flirciarz, uwodziciel, lowelas, kokiet, babiarz, czaruś, bawidamek, lew salonowy, bałamutnik and my favorite pożeracz niewiścich serc (Which can be literally translated as devourer of women's hearts).

So the translation should read for example like this: Zimnokrwisty pożeracz niewiścich serc.

This translation changes the context of the statement somewhat, making the character be gay towards Legato XD

However, I appreciate such playfulness in translation. It provides an opportunity to make nasty jokes:

❗Remember children to stay away from naked Legato otherwise you will have no chance with him! If you see Legato in your room and he starts to undress it's a sign to run away as soon as possible❗

I hope it didn't bore you. If I have made mistakes in translation, I apologize most sincerely. English isn't my native language😅

[whom-to-kill-whom-to-let-live]

I said I was going to write a proper post analyisng the different Legatos but the brain squiggles won't leave me alone for long enough to do it so I am going to make a silly post about it instead.

*Disclaimer: I made this while extremely sleep deprived so if some things feel wildly inaccurate that's because I did not use my brain at any point while making this.

**Apologies for how this looks, graphic design is unfortunately not my passion

First up is '98 anime Legato

I'm convinced the reason he only took big Ws in this anime is because Knives paid attention to him

He has a plant arm attached to him and knows enough about Rem to accurately insult her ideals in front of Vash

I'm just saying this is the most well adjusted Legato

This boy is so enriched I mean look how happy he is most of the time he's on screen committing his crimes

Living his best life and went out the exact way he wanted 10/10

Next is Trimax Legato

We could have had it aaaaalllllllll

That lack of acknowledgement from Knives really did a number on our boy

I'm just saying if Knives had like 10% higher emotional intelligence the manga would have gone very differently ok

Legato still caused problems and committed so many crimes

He managed to force Vash into killing him and I'll call that a win so 10/10

Lastly is Tristamp Legato

I'm sorry but that's a baby

He has basically no screen time in S1 so we just don't know a lot about his *waves hand* everything

He seems to be more into... proselytizing(?) here than straight up ending humanity? Maybe???

He does manage to torment Vash through bullying Wolfwood so I tentatively put in that check mark

Same with the freakishness, I feel like there was a least a hint of it

Someone please give him a hot dog he's so skinny he's not going to survive the winter

Overall we're going to have to wait and see what they're cooking with this boy so ??/10

[bluesummers-daily]

my header is like if boygenius sucked

[evershifting]

on my knees clutching my fist. I love trigun these guys are never not on mind i see them everywhere anyway enjoy some memes

[magneto-burrito]

Trigun + Text Posts

[tristamp-gunpede]

Tristamp as text posts 98 EDITION AGAIN! 11/?

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[jacenbren]

My favorite fucked up guy with blue hair and pronouns who WILL kill you with his mind

[ID: Screencaps of Legato from Trigun 98 and Trigun Stampede overlaid with text posts.

Legato standing with a cool expression in a bar: do you see this shit my liege

Legato kneeling deferentially: my wife can stab me a little bit i dont care

Legato with a dark expression: not funny, didn't laugh. tracking your IP and plotting revenge.

Legato smirking villainously: "i could fix him" good for you. im gonna join him in his insanity. End ID]

[vlasdygoth]

Ive been thinking about a trigun fantasy au basically since i first started watching the show and listen. Listen. I love an unhinged prince and a deathly loyal knight!! So understandably i kind of lost my mind with this

[mydetheturk]

your requested reminder to post knives going nuclear on zazie when you can :)

ok so im going to be reblogging this to the body horrors week later cause. uh. well. knives. quite literally goes nuclear?

all of these screenshots are from the overhaul project cause i haven't managed to catch the dark horse digital editions on sale yet, though i'll provide the dark horse translations where i can because i have physical copies, and the dark horse translations are imo clearer here.

there are ids in all the alt texts for the photos, it's why this took several days longer than i'd originally planned -finger guns- alt texts might look a little weird in the first set btw - tumblr started eating the photoset and i had to spend an extra half an hour fixing it -finger guns-

the pages are volume 11, pages 90-92, and 114-17, because a lot of the pages in between are leadup pages and also have the zazie control worm. thing.

pages 90-2 are the distant explosion (you can click on the first image and see it in the photo viewer, if for some reason it will not view in dashboard mode. But it does exist!)

(on page 90, dark horse is a lot more specific, with "the northeast sky is glowing" instead of "the whole sky is glowing". the other two boxes with text read "what is--?!" and "oh my..!" respectfully as if they were cut off mid sentence.)

so uh.

knives went uh.

literal "nuclear bomb exploded just above a town"

because he kind of did. Unlike a true nuclear bomb, he did not form a mushroom cloud, but the metaphor is still there. that is a nuclear metaphor

per pages 114-117 (pages are from left to right, read the pages right to left. sorry)

(legato's speech bubbles on page 114 in the dark horse edition read: Survival of the fittest is the law of nature. What is about to happen now is a just a logical extension of that. Be very afraid. You are in his presence. Did you not notice, Leader of the Sand Worms?

It reads very differently, imo, more like Zazie was caught up in their own plots and schemes to realize the control worm didn't work. Legato is also telling Zazie that Zazie should be afraid of Knives. Okay? Not asking if Zazie is afraid. Telling Zazie to be afraid. Like some sort of reverse "Be Not Afraid" from the bible.

Zazie's thought bubbles on page 115 are translated as "the dark hole is swallowing the poison" which reads more like knives made a black hole. given the visuals? that sounds more likely. Black holes, as a real life thing that we know about and have tried to study, are often referred to as swallowing things that pass too close. knives made a mini black hole to eat the poison from the sand worm venom. knives has consumed the dependent plants.)

the fact is, as a metatextual read, plants are nuclear reactors. independent plants are walking nuclear bombs. Nightow did this on purpose. We're meant to read them as something nuclear.

This is, as i was saying to @needle-noggins the other night when i was working on it in an attempt to get more of the alt texts written, a casual display of power. Knives is throwing a hissy fit! Knives is throwing a multi-megaton display of power because Zazie tried to take him over with the control worm. Page 91 had needle-noggins and i speechless because on the low end that tower of debris from the explosion is (if we did the very, very rough math right) THIRTY MILES TALL. Twice as tall as the tallest mountain in the solar system, Olympus Mons! or roughly five and a half times as tall as Mount Everest. On the outside, because we figured its anywhere from 25-30 times taller than the cloud cover, it could be up to thirty seven miles

Over halfway to space on earth.

like.

I know we love the independent plants and all. But Holy Shit. just.

holy shit