Trigun Maximum 11
Posted: March 14, 2007 Filed under: Trigun Maximum Leave a comment »I didn’t really want to read this volume. The series could have ended on the last page of volume 10, with loose threads galore, and I would have been happy. Following up the pure awesome of last volume with another made this one leave a bad taste in my mouth, but it was a bad Trigun taste, which is something I’m willing to put up with considering the next volume probably won’t come out until the end of the year.
Though Nightow has given us a few red herrings concerning the end of the series, it looks like it may have pretty well wrapped up with the most recent issue of Young King Ours, and the last chapter will probably come out at the beginning of March. Which means that we’ll either get a large volume 14, or I’m completely wrong and there’ll be another volume’s worth of chapters, and we’ll get 15 volumes total. There’s my prediction. 12 came out in Japan in July, but Shonen Gahosha just seems to be slow about releasing graphic novels, as what should be in 13 has completed serialization some time ago and there’s no coming soon for that one. But yes, the end. How exciting.
Mostly this is more exposition, and we learn that the fleet from Earth is indeed on their way, know more about the planet’s situation than you’d think, and that Vash and Knives also aren’t that unique. The coin set is complete save for one coin, the one Gung-Ho Gun that is not dead or converted, and this character comes back to have a chat with Knives that does not end amiacably.
Also, my predictions about Legato Bluesummers was wrong. He is much more… durable than you’d think. Also very loyal. Characters like Legato Bluesummers only exist in the crazy, insane, ultraviolent world that series like Trigun and Jojo’s Bizarre Adventure and Hellsing live in. Only the best series, yes, and they exist in a kind of manly paradise, perhaps where they watch Road Warrior with Kenshiro from Fist of the North Star all day. Those four series serve to put the appropriate amount of hair on my chest, I suppose.
