im not even surprised my posts dont hit the top searches in the trigun tag
i am talking about history, massacres, imperialism and geopolitics on the pacific theater side. things that get reduced to metrics of how white or correct the cast are and how characters have been done dirty because the beats are not 1:1. not everyone can stomach the violence in the whole thing and ive even purposely omitted going into full details.
engage if you want to or don't. what i'm trying to do is interpretation, nothing else.
read Overseas Shinto Shrines: Religion, Secularity and the Japanese Empire if anyone wants more academically accurate and cited information. i'm just a nerd. also, please do not treat me as a monolith or the authority on this topic. i am at best 4th gen downwards of these events who knows some japanese and lives in the region.
asia is huge. the accounts and opinions are too numerous to sum up.
i might write how the current geopolitics in this region is where relevant, but seeing as it's only <2 days before the new episode hits (and surely the ensuing shitstorm plus ignorantly made racist comments against SEAsians/polynesians that will hit as people gather their thoughts) i'll hit the pause for now
in so far as to what ive vomitted out:
the echoes of eugenics and 731, and how knives and vash are standins for the 2 sides of the japanese society. also wolfwood reads like a darker skin asian
the ghg in stampgaze's iterations are quislings
stampede/ general
Wolfwood is an underdog character screwed by social hierarchy and Japanese cultural subtext more ways than one: a messy half-assed write up.
scattershot cultural elements present in stampede thoughts
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part 1: reading trigun in japanese - baseball and nuclear warheads thoughts
nuts reading trigun in japanese 2 - slight tonal change
nuts reading trigun in japanese 3 - "weirdo" and vash's pronoun switching
nuts reading trigun 4 - i sniffed out the spirit of leiji matsumoto and his galaxy express 999
nuts reading trigun in japanese 5 - vash is. super good with kids
nuts reading trigun in japanese 6 - kaite's foreshadowing. plant synchronization's downside
nuts reading trigun in japanese 7 - filial piety, and meryl
nuts reading in jp 8 - vash quacks like an old japanese man sometimes
nuts reading in jp 9 - introduction scenes of legato, rem.
nuts reading in jp 10 - i think vash is stressed + wolfwood's debut
nuts reading in jp 11 - wrap up for vol 2 + i can talk about TriStamp undertaker wolfwood a little!!! whooo!!!
nuts reading in jp 12 - trimax ch 1 and 2 time HBRBRHBRHBRHBR
nuts reading in jp 13 - woowoo is not beating the marriage proposal allegations, featuring @eldritchneuro
nuts reads trigun in jp 14 - trimax' vol 1 theme is big on family
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