Comments on: Trigun Maximum 14

By: Bink

Bink — Tue, 09 Nov 2010 15:20:59 +0000

Hey, I’ve been reading your reviews and I feel the pain of loving Trigun, yet not knowing what the hell is going on, so I made a website that chronicles what is going on basically panel-by-panel. Check it out if you’re still interested in understanding the fight scenes in Trigun and Trigun Maximum.

By: Connie

Connie — Mon, 11 May 2009 07:34:59 +0000

Yeah, actually, it was kind of strange the way he just sort of gave them a role/appearance at the end of the story. I was pretty excited when she started helping Vash, because it was kind of awesome that all these horrible things were happening and it was a regular person coming through in the end, and the scene where he promises to come back was awesome. But then… yeah, there wasn’t a lot of follow through on that. And I was kind of disappointed with their tacked-on appearance at the very end, but I suppose it was fitting.

By: Lynn

Lynn — Sat, 09 May 2009 16:04:56 +0000

As a Meryl fangirl, I was both pleased at the way she was involved in the solution and really let down by the way she was dropped in this volume.

It’s not like I was hoping she’d get shipped with anoyone, I just wish the girls weren’t dropped as soon as they’d fulfilled their purpose.

By: Connie

Connie — Fri, 08 May 2009 07:26:01 +0000

Yeah, I figured part of my enjoyment was handicapped by the gaps between the volumes, since I would forget a lot of the subtleties of the situations when the new volume came out. I’ve never been more compelled to re-read a series than I was when I finished this volume, simply because I knew there was a ton of stuff I’d pick up on with a second go-through. I know I didn’t have this much trouble with the early volumes, but that may be because I did read those ones over and over again. Of course, that may also be because those volumes made more sense and came out before the series was popular, so Nightow was probably allowed to do less of whatever he wanted. I’m still not entirely clear on what Knives is doing to Legato that put him in the coffin, but I’m pretty sure it involved folding him in half.

I liked Wolfwood, and I had a hard time reading these later volumes, but I can’t imagine reading the series for that long and then giving up before getting to the conclusion. It’s pretty clear before Wolfwood dies that some epic stuff is going to go down, I don’t know how someone could quit after enjoying the story for so long.

By: Joshua

Joshua — Fri, 08 May 2009 00:20:29 +0000

Well, if you’d been paying attention up to this point, and to the dialogue: A) you’d realize Nightow is a fucking madman and draws the most insanely arbitrary fights. (I still don’t know what Rai-Dei the Blade is doing in their fight) and B) the tipped wings have been in effect since at least volume 6, it’s Vash’s angel abilities manifesting themselves and purely reactionary, purely defensive. Like his philosophy. In contrast to Knives’ killer philosophy and his use of his angel powers to make energy to destroy.

A re-read IS in order, but EVERY volume of T. Max requires a re-read. I love the story, but Nightow really does need to be less subtle. Once you get it, it’s very fun. But Wolfwood fanboyism will never let some nerds enjoy the series past volume 10.

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