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[🤞🏽Lux ✨ @Cxdenza]

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[🤞🏽Lux ✨ @Cxdenza]

Also Wolfwood just doesn’t matter in this show, they might as well have went on killing him because his presence means nothing

As a Wolfwood fan, there isn’t even happiness that he’s alive to spend his tomorrows with Vash, cuz Vash himself doesn’t seem to care that he’s alive

[🤞🏽Lux ✨ @Cxdenza]

Knives died for nothing all because Vash suddenly wanted to make a suicide pact and I hate that so much

[NORESWHO @Noreswho]

Im mentally still on that one vial scene bro hold on...
#TRIGUNイラコン #ww

[🤞🏽Lux ✨ @Cxdenza]

Please just read Trimax

I haven’t even gotten to why this episode/series isn’t what almost anyone wanted

The misogyny and glorification of abusers while belittling victims is really something

But the core of the story is also so terribly different from its source material

[🔞 🌺 @BlushGeranium]

stargaze really said apologize to your abuser cause you dont know what theyve been going through and everything they did to you was for your own good

[Star || #notmyvash @new_groundz]

sure vash and ww can share their tomorrows but the way that finale was looking it doesnt seem like they wanna even share a beer and talk about sports let alone sloppy makeout anymore because why the hell do they stand like 50 ft apart and barely utter a word to eachother

[Nico ✝️ Trimaxxing •°★* @SweetxTeasx]

My BIGGEST gripe is that Wolfwood literally saved his ass, fought battles for him, and confessed something deep AS HE WAS DYING and there was absolutely NO reciprocation on Vash's part. WOLFWOOD HAD 2 LINES IN THE LAST EPISODE.

[🤞🏽Lux ✨ @Cxdenza]

Really hate that Conrad died peacefully btw

Just glorifying abusers all over the place in the terrible adaptation

[🤞🏽Lux ✨ @Cxdenza]

So Wolfwood and Vash didn’t talk for like 4 episodes but yeah they’re great friends lmao

[Lady 🍉 @holdmagun]

(2/2) In Trigun Maximum, Vash never tried to deny Knives that knowledge. Even when he briefly thought it might be better for him to remain unaware—since his mind had already blocked that memory—Vash still believed he had the right to know.

When the story was from Vash’s perspective, he gave Knives the chance to hear the truth from Rem, because that’s who Vash is at his core. He believes in choices and second chances. Because yes, Rem sinned—but she also tried to redeem herself with the twins and do right by them, at least in Vash’s eyes.

But because Trigun Stampede and Stargaze are more focused on Knives’s side of the story, the outcome is different.

Here, Knives takes control of everything. He decides what Vash should and shouldn’t know. He chooses to keep him in the dark, carries the burden alone, and shapes the narrative around his own suffering. And because of that, the story leans toward him—frames him as the tragic savior, the one who bore everything for over a century alone.

Knives tried to shoulder everything alone in the manga too, but my issue is the lack of balance between the two. Let me explain!

In the manga, both brothers carried their own burdens and their own sins. They were both, in their own way, the heroes of their own story. Their divergence came from how they responded to the same truth—not from one being denied half of it. They equally carried the knowledge and the weight of that trauma.

But here, Knives is given more narrative weight. His suffering is explored, emphasized, it even almost feels justified. Meanwhile, Vash is… softened.

Even when Vash has JuLai and the Fifth Moon sit heavy on his back, the narrative didn’t sit with it the same way it does with Knives.

And I understand where all of this is coming from. It comes from the idea that Vash is surrounded by people who love him, who are welling to share his burdens with him because he’s no longer alone. He has friends now who care for him and who forgave him. Unlike Knives who is alone. So the story compensates—it gives Knives more depth, more attention, more emotional focus.

But in doing so, it creates an imbalance. Because now, when you compare them, Vash’s suffering feels smaller. Lighter. The one who carries scars not only on his heart but on his body ends up feeling like he carries less, simply because his ignorance spared him from the other half of the truth.

And Vash saying “I didn’t even try to understand” doesn’t help at all.

It makes it feel like Vash’s life is lighter in comparison—that he spent his time as a happy-go-lucky guy who sometimes attracts trouble while wandering around helping others, but he keeps being kind and pure no matter what humans throw at him, while his brother has been planning and working for over a hundred years to build his own version of paradise.

It’s true that Vash’s side gets more screen time, but when it comes to narrative weight, Knives gets the better treatment. He’s the one with clear goals and a purpose that the narrative prefers. He’s the one with more conflict.

I can roll with the fact that this is a new direction and the studio is using the freedom that was given to them. I can accept a version that centers Knives more. But at least give me something balanced. It feels unfair for Vash at this point. He’s just there because he’s the only one who can stop Knives.

What made their story powerful in the first place… was that they stood on equal ground—and still chose different paths. But the equal ground in this show is just about the fact that they are both independent Plants.

And I know I’m not imagining things here or that I got things wrong, because this aligns with director Mutō vision. He focused more on Knives and wanted him to be more than just a villain, but I find Stampede more balanced than Stargaze.

That’s it for now and I’m keeping the rest for later!

[🤞🏽Lux ✨ @Cxdenza]

This Vash is such a shell of a character

Even 98, which has its own myriad of problems, does a better job, and I never thought I’d say that

[🤞🏽Lux ✨ @Cxdenza]

Haven’t even touched upon Legato yet, that was DIRTY what they did to him

Like I don’t think he should’ve been saved by Knives, but even that rings so hollow if he just goes and kills him 2 seconds later in the SAME WAY HE KILLED LEGATO’S ABUSER IN TRIMAX OML

[🤞🏽Lux ✨ @Cxdenza]

Also the way they just brushed over Wolfwood makes me sad too

Like I knew he wasn’t dead but we heard his neck snap and we just get a “oh he’s fine don’t worry”

That’s my favorite character and he’s just being used as fodder and comic relief, I’m tired

Why is he even here

[🤞🏽Lux ✨ @Cxdenza]

What’s the finale even gonna be??

There’s too much to resolve in 25 minutes??

Are they even going to fight AT ALL??

I don’t think so actually, it feels like they’re going for a knives redemption because he was “sad and lonely’

[🤞🏽Lux ✨ @Cxdenza]

This is the understanding and forgiving Knives show now.

Also, Knives knowing Rem’s involvement with Tesla but not forgiving her and recruiting Conrad, the spearhead of the operation??? Who he killed in the manga for less??

The misogyny running rampant in this adaptation
(3/3)

[🤞🏽Lux ✨ @Cxdenza]

What are we doing here??

Vash not knowing Rem’s involvement with Tesla’s torture until now really belittles him as a character.

Has he just been going off vibes this whole time instead of understanding that humanity is inherently flawed but can strive to be better?
(1/3)

[🤞🏽Lux ✨ @Cxdenza]

That he actively forgave her is a part of his character, it makes him so much more compelling because he knows what humanity is capable of but still chose to forgive because of Rem.

He is not an active participant in his own story.
(2/3)

[kiky☁️ @kikynium]

vash hesitating on pulling the trigger to save wolfwood...... yknow who would never do that ⁉️

[SPOON 🌈 artfight @spaltedrat]

ok so what im getting is that vash hesitated to kill legato to save. WOLFWOOD. NOT EVEN LIVIO IN WOLFWOODS HONOR. WOLFWOOD HIMSELF. what is this show bro who are these guys i knew they werent my boys anymore but i didnt expect it to be THIS bad

[🤞🏽Lux ✨ @Cxdenza]

@rangersvzombies He’s such a different Vash🫠

And I guess it just stings more in this because there hasn’t really been many instances where his ideals were challenged in this version, but like… it’s ww

Also watching him get freakin choked out is just kinda awful? And he calls out to Vash too😭

[🤞🏽Lux ✨ @Cxdenza]

Yes, Vash has always struggled with the idea of taking a life. Yes those are the core ideals of his character.

But WOLFWOOD was supposed to be the exception. Always. That was the point.

When WW dies in Trimax, Vash, who hates God, prays.(1/5)