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cadillacaro and justholdstill!
I'm still watching and enjoying Trigun and savouring the differences between English (or Western) and Japanese animations. It seems to me (excuse me for stating the bleeding obvious, but I am a newbie and coming to this at least 20 years after most of you) that western cartoons explain it all at the beginning (this is A character, this is B character and this is what they do,fight crime, or solve mysteries or whatever) and then after that they do the same bloody thing week after week a la Scooby Doo. From what I've seen of Trigun (and what little I have been able to find of FMA) they start out to tell you precisely nothing, and you are drip fed facts week by week. I'm up to episode 10 and it's only just really coming out that's there's something not quite right about Vash and that the new preacher guy isn't all he pretends to be. Of course this is a generalisation, as I know that there are western animes that explore characters (one of the reasons I got hooked on X-men when it was running) but god - there's so much home-made crap and even more imported crap (can we say Totally Spies anyone?) that I don't understand why Trigun wasn't shown here. You can't even say "It's too violent" because they try and NOT kill anyone at all (the evil guys murder, but that's what evil guys do!)
Anyway, as I say - stating the bleeding obvious but I'm enjoying myself. Of course I was hooked on them after reading Tina Anderson's stellar fan-manga so I know I'm going to be so disappointed that Vash and Nick aren't shagging like bunnies and Legato ISN'T Knives' sex-slave.
Darn it.
I've also put a bid on some The Authority graphic novels over on ebay because I've just been introduced to Apollo and Midnighter. Wow! Out gay superheroes. Where have I BEEN?
cadillacaro and justholdstill!I'm still watching and enjoying Trigun and savouring the differences between English (or Western) and Japanese animations. It seems to me (excuse me for stating the bleeding obvious, but I am a newbie and coming to this at least 20 years after most of you) that western cartoons explain it all at the beginning (this is A character, this is B character and this is what they do,fight crime, or solve mysteries or whatever) and then after that they do the same bloody thing week after week a la Scooby Doo. From what I've seen of Trigun (and what little I have been able to find of FMA) they start out to tell you precisely nothing, and you are drip fed facts week by week. I'm up to episode 10 and it's only just really coming out that's there's something not quite right about Vash and that the new preacher guy isn't all he pretends to be. Of course this is a generalisation, as I know that there are western animes that explore characters (one of the reasons I got hooked on X-men when it was running) but god - there's so much home-made crap and even more imported crap (can we say Totally Spies anyone?) that I don't understand why Trigun wasn't shown here. You can't even say "It's too violent" because they try and NOT kill anyone at all (the evil guys murder, but that's what evil guys do!)
Anyway, as I say - stating the bleeding obvious but I'm enjoying myself. Of course I was hooked on them after reading Tina Anderson's stellar fan-manga so I know I'm going to be so disappointed that Vash and Nick aren't shagging like bunnies and Legato ISN'T Knives' sex-slave.
Darn it.
I've also put a bid on some The Authority graphic novels over on ebay because I've just been introduced to Apollo and Midnighter. Wow! Out gay superheroes. Where have I BEEN?
