OG trigun loveblog

[kradeelav]

"... THAT- that- promiscuous-looking donut freak of a man???!" ("....and we can hear every word.")
fuCKIN HOWLED lmao. marathoning OG trigun during a day my brain's half out (ty for chira convincing me to try it :D )

bullet list of thoughts as I work through ep 1-2, no spoilers:

• it's really obvious that hirano-san lovingly cribbed/ganked half of alucard's design off of vash, down to the glasses. it's not a question of who wore it better because honestly, both are pretty iconic looks (and alucard's got half a dozen other iconic looks down to bondagecard, suitcard, girlycard, vladcard that it kinda works for both of them.)
• i'm always weak for the trope of the 'self aware villain' and while vash isn't a villain in the least, he sure does attempt to frame himself as one in a tounge-in-cheek way during these first few eps which is a really cool subversion/inversion of that trope i don't think i've seen, at least longer than a one-off gag or something.
  
  • it's actually ironic that alucard kinda sorta does the same thing. he loves to go full ham as a villain, and is certainly less of a strict pacifist than vash is (understatement of the century lol), but one gets the sense he really could do a lot more damage than he actually does.
• i'm going in vaguely aware that wolfwood (and spoiler) exists (read lightly through the tvtropes page), and also fully expecting wolfwood is going to be my fave, lol. lmao even. milly is so far my fave on screen tho ~ she crafty.
• while the anime looks dated a bit, i really love this style? for the longest time i wasn't a fan of how late 90's anime looked with the funky exaggerated eyes and intentionally off model expressions but trigun is probably the first anime that truly makes it work in motion for me. at least for the first episode, it's interesting how notably a notch above in terms of animation quality the first episode is vs the rest.