PLANT LORE MASTER POST - including Studio Orange Momocon and Anime North panels, previous interviews with Nightow, and Studio Orange staff twts.
Regarding the origin of the Plants, do you have any settings or story ideas?
Nightow: The Plants are something created by Earthlings. There are many stories about killing or challenging God, aren't there? So, I thought, what about a story where the challenge is being made? I wanted to make a story where humans, standing in the position of the creator, are bitten, so the Plants are made. Comickers Art Style Magazine, 2007.
The anime also made the towns out of stone and didn't show any wooden buildings, since it was a desert planet.
Nightow: That's original to the anime. I felt that something like a wood-production Plant creating paper and lumber would be fine. Stone towns gave a more desolate feel though, which I thought was clever. Trigun Art Book, 1999. Translation by @cerealandchoccymilk.
Watanabe confirms that Plants in Trigun Stampede created raw materials. Source twt.
Much more under the cut!
Anime North Studio Orange Panel, 2023
*Initial question that spurred the discussion of Plant lore by Studio Orange.
MusEq Meg: My question for you is something I noticed about the plant markings and the character design... and I'm wondering if you guys based that off the Chladni's plate experiments and the vibrating frequencies to communicate with the plants?
Watanabe: I need to re-look at the original source material, not the source material, the design works that we did. We had a sci-fi writer basically develop all the plants. How their development was, scientific approach, to develop that technology. Organically, plants actually started out from being excavated on Earth. It was actually mummified. They thought, they called it the "angel mummies," but it was a very fragmented mummy and... they basically from there, they excavated genetics. And we engineered them as plants. So they actually don't, humankind actually doesn't know how this technology works, but it works. So that's how they use the technology of the plants.
For the resemblance of plants and and actual (Chladni's) plates, there's actually a lot of thoughts that went into... I actually don't remember off the top of my head how that exactly was was so let me look it back and post it on Twitter or something."
Source: @museqmeg on tumblr. Source twt.
Momocon Studio Orange Panel, 2024
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There was supposedly an old interview that Nightow had discussed something similar to this, but I have only heard about it - have not found the source, yet. Source twt.
We learned nothing from Jurassic Park. Source twt.
This fits with the idea that plants are organic but also production plants. Source twt.
*I’d just like to add I had a theory there was stem cell research involved and this sounds similar to:)
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This fits with an old post from Nightow’s website blog, Electric Flier. The blog is no longer available, but the post is archived on Trigun Wiki - Plant Physiology.
"The plant can control Planck -like uncertainty and manipulate energy, materials, and dimensions, but it can also collapse and create causality, extending to the multiverse including all time axes, and even higher dimensions.. What can be called the origin of the plant is the higher dimension itself far above the multiverse, and the beginning of everything itself.."
Nightow says Independents are natural to the evolution of Plants.
Are the independent species naturally occurring?
Nightow: Yes, I think they are an unforeseen evolution. Comickers Art Style Magazine, 2007.
Adding these to this massive post. I think they took information from Nightow and ‘98 and built a great explanation.
About this only thing missing is Studio Orange’s explanation for Independents, which I think they will follow Nightow’s “natural evolution” explanation.
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