Trigun98 Dealing Me The Mortal Blow Of Silly Times Followed By Heartbreak

trigun98 dealing me the mortal blow of Silly Times followed by Heartbreak

though the implications of the changes are really interesting. i just finished episode 6, Lost July, so I got to see 98's version of events. in the manga, we get the detail that One Hundred Thousand people were caught in the explosion

100,000 people dead in an instant. he killed them, straight up. He Killed Them. the manga never shies away from this fact.

in the anime, they establish that it was One Million people caught up in it, but he didn't kill them. somehow, he absolutely destroyed everything, but No One Died.

though one million people stuck without shelter or resources eventually led to a similar result. lots of people died. but the key thing is that not EVERYONE died. in the manga, the only way people didnt die was if they just were lucky enough to be out of the city at the time. everyone in the city was obliterated.

i'm also fascinated by their decision to give him a wider span of amnesia. in the manga, he doesn't remember july, but it's a localized amnesia. he has no idea what caused the explosion, doesnt remember even Being in july, just remembers waking up in it. but he remembers the stuff preceding it, enough to know in painful detail every one of the 150 years he's been alive.

in the anime, if he doesn't remember anything prior to july aside from his "early childhood", what exactly does he think happened in the time since? does he Know he's over a hundred years old? which on that matter, when exactly did July happen in the anime? because in the manga, it starts up 6 years after & then spans to 10 years after (by the end of trimax), but in the anime we see this woman who was three years old back then, but is Presumably at least 18, probably over 20 years old. for simplicity's sake, maybe we could say she's ~23, aka it's been 20 years.

6 years to 20 years passed. that's an interesting time difference to set. it's a succinct way of letting the viewers know that Things Are Not Normal with him. earlier in the episode she says he's got no known age, which he doesnt try to contest, but the viewers could just assume that's the general confusion of his identity with the public's knowledge. we've seen Time After Time that a lot of people have no idea who he even is, up to and including confusion about what he even Looks like.

but then we see he looks the same between now and when this woman was a small child. some twenty years passed, and yet he looks the same.

adding in the moment of communication between him and the plant, calming her down... which ON THAT NOTE, earlier in the episode where he's up on the stand & he pours a drink for her and says "You were just tired, weren't you?" it was so Unexpectedly sweet. a moment of connection that would probably gain confusion for someone who doesnt know, but i had to literally pause it bc i was just. floored. by how sweet it was. we are sorely lacking direct interaction between Vash and the plants for most of the manga, so i really appreciated seeing him treat her with that kind of compassion. so, so sweet...

this episode also has me wondering what they're going to do for the next arc, since they Already had him do the Calm The Plant Down thing and Also had the reference of someone wanting revenge for July. will Neon still want revenge for July too? it would feel a little redundant though, so are they going to do something different?

i'm just gonna have to find out later :P probably tomorrow lol