Random anime I love [1]

[rex_sun]

Trigun. Classic! Has anyone NOT seen Trigun? It would weird me out because Trigun was so incredibly popular around here. All the kids watched it when it was running on TV. Even the kids who never watched another anime ever-- those kids watched Trigun here where I live.

Trigun? It makes me want to be a better person.

A lot of it is dumb shit, stupid action, blowing stuff up, and Ridiculous Feats of Badassery. It's shonen from the 90s, what can you do. But of all the other anime that follow this stupid shonen model and try to teach you morals and whatnot-- Naruto and Bleach and whatever --none of them really touch Trigun in that regard. Naruto doesn't make me want to be a better person. Trigun does.

Goofy shonen hero who, despite badassery and the devil's reputation, refuses to kill. Rurouni Kenshin? I think Trigun is better than Rurouni Kenshin. Kenshin is repenting for his crimes of the past. Vash has never killed in his entire damn life. Put that way, Kenshin is more selfish than Vash. Vash is so good and pure that it hurts you and makes you feel ashamed that you aren't as good of a person as you could be.

Also... Knives vs. Vash-- the greatest anime adversaries of all time?! Like, don't get me wrong, the only reason I ever gave two shits about Naruto was Naruto and Sasuke because omg, those two are lovely. But Knives and Vash top it. Top it soooo much.

Go, Vash, go! Save Gunsmoke with your LOVE AND PEACE.

I want to write for Trigun, I honestly do, but plot-wise it is very neatly tied up by the end. There's only one "big" avenue to explore once it's over so of course it's played out.

...also, lololol, English dub for Vash = Johnny Yong Bosch. So of course I have my moments of rofl'ing while comparing Lelouch and Vash and trying to imagine Lelouch making a peace sign and saying that the world IS MADE OF LOVE AND PEACE.

[/just got done rewatching after many years. No one to express feelings to.] This isn't me reccing because I think it's obscure or something, not by any means. This is just me venting the awesome. ...but if you haven't seen it, omg that's weird, but also, go watch it! Gee!

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First off, I didn't know you read Naruto XD. Or knew it at least. I used to be a fan of it until Kishi went all action. Not that I ever thought Naruto was a masterpiece by any means XD.

Trigun does make me want to be a better person. I found Vash, in general, to be a very refreshing sort of hero. Because he really means what he says, and LIVES by it. The stuff Legato and Knives do to him are rather cruel because it nearly manages to break him. But yes, I love it and it's a pet fandom of mine. Something I loved writing and reading fic for and always see myself returning to.

And yes, it's a bit of a silly series. The first few episodes are your usual action shounen thing, and it's a bit lolweird to see the latter episodes get so serious and distressing. But still, the show is good, and I don't regret having watched it.

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Yeah, Naruto. For a while it was my #1 fandom. I got into it when I was very young. Monthly Jump, which I happened to spy in the store and picked up to pass the time, was running chapter 45. ...that was a looooong time ago, wasn't it? (This issue also contained Hikaru no Go, which is one of my favorites to this day.)

I stayed with Naruto sooooo long. It gradually got worse and worse. The art lost all individualistic style. I missed Naruto's squinty eyes-- now he's typical handsome shonen hero. I just got angrier and angrier with the series. I finally stopped reading it about the time Pein was introduced. "THIS IS THE DUMBEST SHIT I'VE EVER SEEN."

...I also felt this way about Bleach, which I got into much later. Bleach was never a high-ranking fandom for me. I read about ten novels, I think, and watched the anime while they were saving Rukia. (Dunno if you know anything about Bleach...) Then I was like, "Oh, they're stretching the fights this much this early? Fine, I am so not wasting my time on this."

Same with Rurouni Kenshin, except I got into it even younger than I got into Naruto. I actually finished reading it because I liked Enishi's character and the Tomoe story, but again, the fights were so goddamn stupid that I found myself skipping over a lot of them.

...and Inuyasha as well...

I dunno if you know these series, but basically... The whole shonen shebang irritates the shit out of me. I almost always end up hating shonen because none of them know when to quit and they go on for fucking ever and the fights just escalate into retardation and pissing contests.


Trigun? ..........well. It is indeed very shonen at times. I was annoyed by a few episodes because some of them were a bit repetitive.

--but I have loved no other hero like I love Vash. He is the epitome of cool IMO. I think he might be my favorite main character of all time, even over Lelouch and Sai and Touya and definitely over Harry and maybe even over Jean Luc Picard and hey, possibly even tied with Data. [/tangent. Lists off various characters you may or may not know about]

...Vash is just forever a hero. He doesn't accept evil within himself at all. There is nothing shameful about Vash, nothing he does makes me embarrassed. There is nothing about him that "could be better", if you know what I mean. (Like Naruto could be less stupid and Kenshin could be less holier-than-thou and Harry could be less reckless...) No, I wouldn't want Vash to change at all.

But yeah. Trigun. Classic. I think anyone who likes anime should watch it. It ended in good time, the themes were wrapped very nicely, and I liked many of the stories. (though the manga fleshed them out a bit better... Though I didn't have the patience for the manga, because the action scenes are very confusing and the art style is pretty ugly.)

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Oh, I'm familiar with all three. Actually, all four. I'm a huge fan of the Kenshin OVA 1 (it's significantly darker in tone than the series and I just love it).

Oh, Naruto. I loved the series a long time ago. When I felt that Kishi still fleshed out the characters, and didn't *sighs*. I actually preferred the earlier art too. Among with the older arcs and all. Ugh. Pein. That was beyond stupid yes. Be glad you're not still reading. Just a pain XD.

Ah yes, I read up until the Rescue Rukia arc too. Loved it at first because the action scenes weren't as dragging as in Naruto. But meh, it got worse. Much worse and someone told me people turned into butterflies in the manga some while ago o.0

I only read one volume of the manga and watched the anime. I loved Kenshin. But yhea, the fight scenes :/

Oh Inuyasha <3. Was my first manga love. And I adored the series but it got DRAGGING ): But it's one of the few series I intend to re-read.

Shounen. I'm picky with it. I prefer seinen because it has darker, edgier storylines with good battles sometimes.

Vash is very special and dear to me too. [LOLZ, I know Picard, I know Harry too! XD]. Yes, he's definitely a hero. I wouldn't want him to change either because he's just so lovely and <3. Vash is the sort of hero that you really can admire.

The manga did flesh things out better. It had some lovely scenes. Hmm, some of the things were confusing in the manga, but it is worth reading through IF you have the patience XD.

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Naruto........ *tear* Will you let me know when Naruto and Sasuke resolve their shit? That is the only thing I am interested in. I don't give a shit about Madara, I don't give a shit about Kabuto, I don't give a shit about anyone but Naruto and Sasuke (okay, and maybe Gaara, and the last time I skimmed a chapter there was something about a zombie Itachi).

Bleach manga was very cool and stylish, with a lot of minor characters (which I love, minor characters tend to be my favorites). I was disappointed when it left the supernatural/creepy/dead people realm and devolved into more senseless shonen pissing contests. (This is also why I stopped watching Yu Yu Hakusho. Should've stayed about ghosts.)

I watched quite a bit of the Kenshin anime at the same time I was reading the manga. Then someone tipped me off that the story of Kenshin's wife was manga exclusive and I was like OMG KENSHIN HAD A WIFE and went with the manga after that. So what was this OVA about?

Inuyasha, yeah, probably my first big anime/manga love, too. Idk, it's hard to tell, I watched/read RuroKen, YYH, and Inuyasha around the same time... Tender age of 7 or something? And Inuyasha just went on FOREVER. Like... 150~ episodes, or 600~ chapters? Something like that? I just can't do it, I can't. Code Geass is long to me at 50 episodes. Trigun was the perfect length at 26. Things like FLCL (6 episodes) and Paranoia Agent (13) are good, too.

The Trigun manga... I've heard things about it that make me want to reread it. I think I got until the first volume of Maximum and stopped. All the characters are so bulky in the shoulders, it's really ugly. But I think I'll have another go at it. I heard Knives dies in the manga, which I wouldn't like... One of the coolest themes to me in the anime is that Vash and Knives, good and evil, outside of time, never one totally triumphing over the other. The eternal struggle. ...course, I haven't read yet, so idk if that's true. Don't remember where I read that.

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I'll let you know. The way I'm still part of that fandom is one stupid tale of LOLdenial and fkfjkfwhatamIstilldoinghere. Zombie!Itachi is fun actually XD. Ah, Naruto and Sasuke -- I still love those boys, even if I want to a) shake some sense into the former, and b) shake even more sense into the latter. But yeah, I won't deny that their relationship was interesting, intense -- and that in /canon/. Not the fanish version that turns Naruto into 'crying Naru-chan' and Sasuke into a super!seme ._.

...Yeah that killed Bleach for me to. I loved the stylishness of the manga. I loved the whole supernatural/creepy stuff. But then it just became Ichigo fights this, Ichigo fights that.

The first OVA is about Tomoe and Kenshin. I think, with some deviations from the novel. BUT recommended. Heavily recommended.

Oh, I know. I want to read Inuyasha because I really liked the manga ): YYH is something I intend to watch one of those days (who knows when that will be :/).

I really don't like long anime either. Maybe cause I get bored easily, and I think you can always tell a story smoothly in fewer chapters/episodes. Code Geass was perfect to me at 50 episodes too.

Hmm, be prepared that the manga is a bit different. Darker, for one. And yeah, Knives characterisation is different. I don't wanna spoil. Personally I like the manga, I think it's worth reading, but if the style doesn't appeal to you, don't. I felt that, towards the end, things got very messy and convoluted. I didn't hate it, but I wasn't all too impressed either.

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Argh. Guess I'll have to start reading Naruto again... I want to see zombie!Itachi !!! ;___;

And yeah. Naruto/Sasuke is gayer and more canonically supported than Lelouch/Suzaku. Which is, uh, really saying something.

YYH? ...eh. I suggest reading it, if anything. The manga dwells slightly longer on the paranormal stuff than the anime. But myself I never finished the series.

[/puts Maximum on reading list] Eh. If I don't like the ending of the manga, I can say fuck it and just pretend I have only ever seen the anime, which has a fantastic ending IM(seemingly-not-widely-shared)O.