Cool detail I noticed about Tristamp's Vash's shoes/boots (+ the opening/intro animation)
we can clearly see here that the footprints we see before we see the anime's logo is the same sole pattern matching Vash's shoes, right? (I had picked up on this a while back but decided against posting it cause I figured people already picked up on this)
It has a pretty unique/distinct look, right?
So I was listening to the Trigun OST and was looking at this iconic album cover and realized something...
I was like "oh those boots have the same little two divets at the top like Tristamp Vash... wait-"
THAT'S THE SAME FUCKING OUTSOLE
He even has the weird gray thing on the bottom as well! You can even make out the circle divets in the center of the sole but its kind of hard to see on this album cover.
I'M FLABBERGASTED??? Like DAMN I knew Orange did their homework but this is fucking crazy to me 😭
The Japanese VA of Alucard (Jouji Nakata) and Integra (Yoshiko Sakakibara) just met on the set of JJK and they greeted with the line of Alucard and Integra greeting at the ending of Hellsing:
maybe the real tragedy of alien stage round 6 isn’t that they’re in an idol death game or even the string of unrequited love here but rather that someone could believe the feelings he held for years and gave him the strength to go on were too shallow to ever express properly
[A sad violin song plays over an image of a sad hamster]
Pac: This doesn't have anything to do with me – I wear a blue sweatshirt, you're crazy, this mouse doesn't even have a sweatshirt, this hamster! [Reading chat] Am I a depressed hamster?
[ Transcript continued ↓ ]*
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Pac: Actually– that's fine! I embrace that idea – of course I'm going to be depressed, are you crazy? [He hits his desk, then starts counting off people on his fingers] Fit is gone, Richarlyson is gone, Ramon is gone, Bagi and Empanada who were always there when we were there are also gone, I haven't seen them! It's just me and Tubbo, and sometimes Philza shows up.
Pac: I lost Chume Labs, I lost the Favela, I lost Murder Mystery, I lost Ilha Chume Labs, it's crazy! Look at how much I've lost, and I've gained nothing! Of course I'm going to be depressed, are you crazy?! How am I supposed to be happy?!
Pac: [Reading chat] "You have us Pac," that's true, thank you. No, that's true, sorry.
* NOTE: Please note that this is an incomplete transcript, as I was primarily relying on Aypierre's translation mod at the time and if I am not confident of the translation, I do not include it. As always, please feel free to add on translations or message me corrections.
i love that the winged lion is essentially a parasite brought to this world by humans, which then went on to destroy the ecological balance. at first it was mere energy, with no reason or intention or form, simply going through the natural process of learning to interact with the new world it was brought into. so when that entity eventually came to learn of taste, of hunger, it was then given a name by humans. they made it a god and when it was no longer solely sustaining them but instead consuming, taking from them as well, they made it into a demon, though nothing had changed. this entity kept desiring to taste more and more, accepting of its hunger being regarded as satanic and evil; as it didn't have a concept of right and wrong to begin with. hunger has no concept of right and wrong. it completely gave in to a pleasure out of its world, just like humans did and do and will continue doing, no matter how much they try to hide their own hunger. so who are they to criticize it, when it's adopted the simple mechanism of every living being? there's only one glaring distinction between them: the winged lion does not consume to live. the endless power chose desires, despite all their limitations, despite knowing it might very well hunger for eternity. and in that lies its most human trait, what makes humans its greatest inspiration out of all the beings it came into contact with.
so i think laios's choice at the very end not to erase the winged lion's memory but embrace it is also a way of taking responsibility for humans bringing the "demon" to life and eventually taking everything back. it which was "born" from humans' desires was then returned to nothing and, fundamentally, everything. when you think of it that way it's as much a god as it is a worm. nothing and everything all at once, just like at the very beginning. just like humans.