everyone always talks about That One panel of Trigun: Multiple Bullets, but i havent seen anyone talk about how fucking BATSHIT INSANE the surrounding fight is
like
Vash & Wolfwood fighting back-to-back, both using the punisher as a shield
(the rest under a readmore bc this accidentally got LONG...)
Vash seeing the shots coming from behind & purposefully not moving bc he knows if he does, Wolfwood would get hit
Wolfwood getting injured too, but not moving from Vash's back. the way he's stanced, it looks Protective. he's doing what he can to keep Vash out of the direct line of fire.
even when he's getting shot up for it, he Doesn't Move. (this also seems to be the moment he got hurt, which leads into the panel later)
& throughout this whole scene, we are only seeing Wolfwood's reactions.
until the girls give them an opening, and they burst out with THIS:
Wolfwood injured, so he can't properly aim the punisher... and he gets around this by sticking one of the leather straps in his Mouth
and then we FINALLY get to see Vash's face again as he grabs the punisher (with a "GAN" sound effect, so he fuckin SLAPPED that metal hand on the punisher).
Wolfwood trusts him enough to just do what he says in the thick of battle, so we FINALLY get to the iconic panel:
which brings us to the aboslute insanity of what Vash is actually Doing.
"DON DON" -> two shots fired for two missiles launched. he literally manages to TURN THEM AROUND MID-FLIGHT (interesting to note that they seem to have internal propulsion, rather than simply being fired by Wolfwood. how many of these does Wolfwood have? they seem heavy.)
he manages to avert the third missile from hitting the dude directly, and instead makes it land Behind him. then the other two missiles, he rests his arm on Wolfwood's shoulders to hit them and direct them behind the other two enemies
Boom.
killing no-one, but showing an INSANE level of fine control AND teamwork.
and in the end, Wolfwood's arm is in a cast, Vash seems either unhurt or hurt but unbothered by it (typical Vash). And Life Goes On.
(forgot to mention before, but all panels are from @trigun-manga-overhaul! thank u for the beautiful pages)
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Oh man... just realised that when og shen qingqiu left the caves and immedietly had to deal with the whole ass demon attack by himself he had also just finished watching liu qingge kill himself in qi deviation after trying to help him not die, knowing everyone was going to blame him anyways.
Like, failing to save your rival, knowing you're going to be blamed for his death, being the only person with the power and responsibility to defeat an entire demon army while in a presumably delicate place with your own cultivation and physical ability, watching the little sister of the rival you just failed to save lose her fight and apologize to you, and then the brat you stole from your dearly departed rival wins his match instead of dying like you maybe set him up for
That's rough buddy
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ok back on my hater grind I cannot stress enough how much I hate the “characterization” that Blake has gotten for the last few volumes. Like. I’m gonna say it, she’s pretty much just been rendered to the “other half” of bees, when even THEN yang gets more stuff to do than she does. She barely gets to interact with anyone else. Stuff is thrown in about her last second without any foreshadowing. (Looking up to ruby…Her being a bridge… her having a fucking culture? Um nooooo….?) Girlypop can barely fight on her OWN anymore. Where’d that shoulder strength you showed in the V5 ending go girl? And now all she does is act as her GF’s arm candy y and cower behind her, cower away from the person she supposedly looked up to who is also their youngest team member.
Idk I just don’t think revealing a character to have been a victim of abuse and then for the next three volumes they’re the helpless meek shy one is very empowering girlboss of them
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