#unfortunately lab reports won't write themselves if you're mentally screaming about trigun :(

[hektor-apologist]

okok so i finally got home and can properly write down my thoughts on the tristamp season finale

gonna put it under a cut bc i KNOW there will be spoilers for both tristamp season finale AND trigun in general bc THOUGHTS (TM) u know?

i've been thinking about it for a while but tristamp really felt like a prequel to the actual trigun storyline (which was made obvious by the fact that july was still standing lmao) BUT this means that the next time we see knives it'll be after he's been in a pod for a while to recover from the angel arm which MEANS long hair knives (potentially. please. please i will go feral. PLEASE)

also on the line of that - it was 20 years between july's destruction and when knives finally shows up again, but the timeskip here is only 2 years so that either means tristamp knives has a super good healing pod thingy or he's just built different lmao

obligatory OH MY GOD THE ANGEL ARM IN TRISTAMP OINIGSRNEKGIN I LITERALLY STARTED SCREAMING WHEN IT SHOWED UP I WAS LIKE AAAAAAAAA

THE FIGHT SCENE TOO LIKE BRO THE ANIMATION BLEW ME AWAY IT WAS SO GOOD EVERYTHIGN YOU COULD WANT OUT OF A FIGHT SCENE THE BITING THE GUN THE AOGINFJLRENAGTRSHIGNRAIGOKL

ANOTHER THING: THE DESIGNS. the entire design of the angel arm was so cool it looked so good i love how the power core in the middle WAS the cube holy shit literally made me gasp and then start coughing ontrjgsnhyjs. and then VASH!!!! his og hairstyle!!! even if just for a second!!! it looked so good omg i really hope after the timeskip when he gets the haircut it'll go back to that style (plsplspls)

ALSO!!! VASH IN BLACK!!!!! i know nightow has really enjoyed doing the palette switches esp for vash (and esp with the hair color lol). but with the coat itself becoming black it was like red was his tie to humanity and during the fight he just let go of it and accepted the plant part of himself (seen through the colors and the wing (omg the wing)) BUT he still never let go of his love of humanity the whole time (screaming sobbing pounding on my desk)

another thing that really interested me was the whole like innate power thing itself bc in the manga it is said that vash has a LOT more than knives (no inferiority complex food there for knives absolutely not) but it was REALLY interesting how the angel arm was tied (?) to the higher plane cube rather than knives and vash themselves

i'm sure plenty of other people have said enough abotu the whole "knvies went to the higher plane for the plants' souls even tho it's been shown/we know the plants have souls in THIS plane" thing so i'm just gonna brush by that...

WOLFWOOD. how did he get to the literal outskirts of july in such a short amount of time. and how did he get back to the TOP of a building in the middle of july in an even shorter amount of time brqrwmaflglng. did he ask zazie for a ride?? can he teleport in tristamp for some unknown reason??? idk man

(TIMESKIP TIME WAHOOOO)

WE'RE DEFINITELY GETTING MILLY I'M SO EXCITED I LOVE HER OMG LITERALLY GOING TO CRY I FORCED MY FRIEND TO WATCH THE FIRST EPISODE OF '98 TRIGUN AFTER WE FINISHED THE FINALE JUST SO THEY COULD SEE MILLY HNIHGSNKJB

ERIKS!!! ERIKS!!! OH YM GOD I LITERALLY LIKE YELLED WHEN HE CAME ON SCREEN I WAS LIKE "AAAAAAAA MY BOY" I'VE WANTED TO SEE HIM SO MUCH ESP WITH THE STUDIO ORANGE DESIGNS BEING SO GOOD I JUST AAAAAA