theredgunslinger
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Post by theredgunslinger on Apr 27, 2013 0:35:34 GMT -5
1. Did you first read the manga or watch the anime?
Anime first for me... well, actually, not quite. My first introduction was through Jesu Otaku's "Inbetweens" series. I got really fascinated with the clever storytelling as she decoded it, and some time later, I found a full boxed set of the anime. And then my obsession began. XD
2. What was your first impression? I remember really being wowed that what looked like such a silly little show had so much thought in every shot and scene and word said. I was really enthralled by the cinematography in particular, especially after I learned the development hell that the series was created under. And then Legato showed up and I went "THIS SHOW IS MESSED UP AND I LOVE IT" (you see she goes into detail about all the dark and terrible rumors about Legato during inbetweens, and... ehehe, a story for another time.) I'm a huge fan of dark narratives and themes, so that was the moment I was absolutely SOLD on the series.
3. Did you experience it alone or with someone else? Well, I suppose I technically first experienced the first half with JesuOtaku. XD But really, I watched the whole thing alone.
4. Have you introduced anyone else to Trigun? I've shown it to pretty much any friend who will watch, honestly! I managed to drag a couple friends into the fandom with me. Still trying to convince one of them to maybe RP Milly or something. Still no luck, but I might get her to join us here on the forum!
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Jeredu
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Post by Jeredu on Apr 27, 2013 0:51:41 GMT -5
Hello, I'm Jeredu! I'm an artist, currently working on a Trigun crossover comic.
1. Did you first read the manga or watch the anime? I honestly don't remember which one I first stumbled across, since I found both at roughly the same time. I was shown an episode of the anime (12, Diablo, another favorite episode of mine later on) before I really knew what Trigun was, but I later found it again on my own. I decided to watch the anime first, seeing that it was much shorter and I wanted to get acquainted before I settled in for the long haul!
2. What was your first impression?
Oh I loved it! It's rare that I can think of a show where I actually LIKE the "filler" episodes, and that's because they really aren't filler! They all serve to develop the characters and really round them out even when they aren't necessarily related to the overarching plot. And the characters are so lovable and HUMAN. They're beautiful and flawed. I then devoured the manga afterwards and loved it even more. Trigun, the anime, is fantastic, but it is a candle to the SUN that is the manga!
The one thing I say it does better (by virtue of the medium) is that it has a soundtrack. xD But I just pop that in if I need to.
3. Did you experience it alone or with someone else?
I experienced it alone, sadly, but I have since REVISITED it with friends who are new to it!~ It's like experiencing it again for the first time, but with someone to discuss things with, it's a million times more exciting!
4. Have you introduced anyone else to Trigun? Yes! In various ways! Though my art, I've managed to drag some new fans into the series, and I have more formally introduced it to some friends and we're going through the series again now! It's something I never get tired of, since I keep discovering new things and developing new theories with each read-through.
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Post by sabishiisamurai on Apr 27, 2013 4:04:50 GMT -5
1. I watched the anime first and ended up loving it so much I started the manga! I've yet to finish all the manga though. 2. I loved Trigun when I first saw it. I thought it was hilarious! 3. Alone 4. I have not, although if I meet someone who I think would like it, I'd recommend it without hesitation.
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crazzity
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Post by crazzity on Apr 28, 2013 4:39:02 GMT -5
I'm actually a newcomer to the fandom, only watched the anime in the end of February this year... But I'm gonna put it like this, as my friends have told me. "Trigun really caught you, didn't it?" Yes it did, indeed.
1. I saw the anime before the manga. Is now in the middle of the process on throwing money at people to gather the manga.
2. The first time I got to know the existence of the anime was while watching some video of some persons top ten animes or something. I don't quiet remember, but I did found what I saw of Trigun there interesting, however, it never lead me to watch it as I thought it maybe wouldn't be of my taste. But when I did watch it it I found it so purely funny, and different to what I'd seen before and the first episode just made me curious to see what the rest had to offer. Vash was such a extraordinary character. He was clumsy, weird, hilarious; all the while he was the real deal! And he was so pure. He wasn't sparkly, bishie, or overly attractive, like most other anime/manga characters stereotypes. And that made it just so perfect!
3. I saw it with a bunch of friends over a weekend, which only one of them had seen Trigun before. We were supposed to watch five episodes of different animes, but we ended up watching the whole of Trigun instead~ And we all loved it, but I think it was only me and another friend that became really hooked up.
4. Well... Many of my fiends have heard me tard about it, so I suppose they have heard about it, but they haven't seen it. It's not their kind of anime/manga... But that was what I thought at first too!! So I'll eventually push it in their faces!
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Post by fantardism on Apr 28, 2013 9:55:39 GMT -5
Anime first for me... well, actually, not quite. My first introduction was through Jesu Otaku's "Inbetweens" series. Slightly OT, but that is a brilliant analysis of the show, incomplete as it sadly is. Watching it made me realize just how much thought and effort Madhouse had put into Trigun, even though the budget was obviously less than adequate for an action-oriented anime. Also, as much as I love the manga, I can't help agreeing with Jesu that Nishimura was on to something when he decided to play up the mystery factor where Vash's past and identity were concerned. That's easily what made the anime for me the first time I watched it.
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Post by amandathestampede on Apr 28, 2013 16:14:30 GMT -5
I first saw Trigun on adult swim back when they were running pretty much all anime. I had been watching and enjoying lupin the 3rd and one night Trigun came on instead and I was like WTF is this, I want my lupin!! But after that episode, I was wanting mooooore Trigun! I believe the episode was demon's eye. I watched and taped a few of the episodes, and got my nerdy friends to watch it with me. Eventually they replaced Trigun with Lupin again and I was heartbroken. my mom ordered a bootleg boxed set for me, and I watched them all in consecutive order quickly, seeing a few that I never realized I hadn't seen before like between the wasteland and sky, and hang fire. Funny story about hang fire, I saw the second half of it at my friend's house who lived 4 hours away, we had planned to watch Trigun together that night but I ended up falling asleep, and she woke me up in time for the second half. As I was watching it on DVD, once the episode got to the second part, it clicked and brought back a rush of memories from my trip. BUT ANYWAY. Vash was pretty much my boyfriend from the time I was 13-17. I had tons of trigun merch and was always carrying around a volume of the manga at school hoping that someone would see it, recognize it, and I could talk to them about it, it happened with at least 2 people. I got at least 2 people from HS obsessed with trigun. muahaha! But I finally hooked myself a guy, and it was a little embarrassing to admit to him the extent of my trigun love, but I was able to, and we actually started watching it together around 2010.. and he loved it. YAY~ ♥ in a weird coincidence, today, he sent me a text saying "bad times are here, la la la la la la la~" after we had not watched trigun for a while. he decided to watch a few episodes today (that quote is from the second episode ) sorry for the novel of a reply... >_>
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Post by mooglevoodoo on Apr 28, 2013 22:24:11 GMT -5
1. I started with the anime. When I was around 12 years old, I saw an ad for it in an issue for Wizard Magazine. My friend noticed me looking at it and said "I have the first volume on VHS if you wanna borrow it." Which I gladly did. 2. I was quite surprised that Vash was first portrayed as this goofy guy. The ad I saw made him look all badass. But I grew to love it, I laughed so much. 3. All by myself 4. I tried, but most of the people have already watched it XD
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Post by Deleted on Apr 29, 2013 11:13:09 GMT -5
1. Did you first read the manga or watch the anime? Anime. I wasn't into manga when it first ran on adult swim. I was young and was watching inuyasha and rurouni Kenshin and pretty much anything between toonami and adult swim.
2. What was your first impression? I was completely taken off guard. I turned the tv on waiting for something to come on and saw this weird looking man in a red coat running through the dessert and screaming his face off. I was confused and therefore couldn't peel my eyes off lol! It turned out to be the first episode and I was in like 5th grade at a sleepover so I made everyone watch it with me.
3. Did you experience it alone or with someone else? My best friend at the time got into it as well. Then I got onto neopets and discovered role playing and met people through that as well.
4. Have you introduced anyone else to Trigun? Many! If I have a friend that hasn't seen it ill force them to sit and watch it with me. Then I convert them and they love it. My boyfriend, his friends, my friends.
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Post by motorcycle on Apr 30, 2013 21:23:41 GMT -5
1. Anime first. It was early 2006 and I was looking for some InuYasha AMVs when I saw one that had some scenes from Trigun too, I got curious about the goofy guy with a red coat so I've read some blog's reviews and then... Well, the show just aired in my country in 2008, so before that I watched it all online, in japanese. I got into the manga when it got published, in 2008 too. 2. I fell in love with Vash's character instantly, but the first episode was very crazy and I got a bit confused if I should keep watching or not. Good thing I chose to do it. 3. When I found the anime my brother watched the first episode with me, but then I passed to experience it all alone. 4. As I said above, I showed it to my bro first, and mentioned it to some other friends. Fun fact, one friend of mine that I wasn't even aware that he liked anime once got all excited when he saw I was wearing a trigun T-shirt and then we started to talk about it and stuff
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Post by NoSalt on May 15, 2013 13:01:54 GMT -5
Hi, I'm NoSalt! I do things and stuff! Like draw and... play Minecraft when I mean to do other things... Anyway! On to business!
1. Did you first read the manga or watch the anime? -Some years ago, I was in Suncoast, back when the local mall still had one, and my sister saw a Trigun box set, a dirty golden colored box with a general character collage on the front. She and my brother had seen it with my cousins when they went to go visit, a trip that I was too young to take at the time. I remember the characters on the box intriguing me, but knowing nothing about them, making up my own stuff based off a comment my brother made about it being in the same universe as some sort of Mecha Tank series. (I have no idea what he was talking about) Then it aired on Adult Swim and I suppose the rest is history.
2. What was your first impression? -It was a great change of pace, goofy heroes exist, like Goku or Gene Starwind, but not to the same degree. This seemed to actually care for each other.
3. Did you experience it alone or with someone else? -I'd say I was pretty much alone, even though my brother would watch it with me. He had already seen it, so he doesn't count.
4. Have you introduced anyone else to Trigun? -And here is where my nostalgia just decked my in the face. About a year or so after my first viewing, I got my best friend at the time hooked. I would have told he about it earlier, but I was still young, and I couldn't tell her I was watching [AS], that block says bad words! So, at a summer camp be attended, I found another who had seen Trigun, and we three became buddies. After that, my bestie watched the series and got into it even harder than me. She found the comics and fanfics and we took on character nicknames for other summer camp sessions (She was Vash and I was actually Ed from Cowboy Bebop). A brilliant girl, I'm considering showing off one of her old Trigun based creations. I think we had a thing for Legato. I need to catch up with her...
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Post by NoSalt on Jun 2, 2013 20:00:40 GMT -5
Hi, I'm NoSalt! I do things and stuff! Like draw and... play Minecraft when I mean to do other things... Anyway! On to business! 1. Did you first read the manga or watch the anime?-Some years ago, I was in Suncoast, back when the local mall still had one, and my sister saw a Trigun box set, a dirty golden colored box with a general character collage on the front. She and my brother had seen it with my cousins when they went to go visit, a trip that I was too young to take at the time. I remember the characters on the box intriguing me, but knowing nothing about them, making up my own stuff based off a comment my brother made about it being in the same universe as some sort of Mecha Tank series. (I have no idea what he was talking about) Then it aired on Adult Swim and I suppose the rest is history. 2. What was your first impression?-It was a great change of pace, goofy heroes exist, like Goku or Gene Starwind, but not to the same degree. This seemed to actually care for each other. 3. Did you experience it alone or with someone else?-I'd say I was pretty much alone, even though my brother would watch it with me. He had already seen it, so he doesn't count. 4. Have you introduced anyone else to Trigun?-And here is where my nostalgia just decked my in the face. About a year or so after my first viewing, I got my best friend at the time hooked. I would have told he about it earlier, but I was still young, and I couldn't tell her I was watching [AS], that block says bad words! So, at a summer camp be attended, I found another who had seen Trigun, and we three became buddies. After that, my bestie watched the series and got into it even harder than me. She found the comics and fanfics and we took on character nicknames for other summer camp sessions (She was Vash and I was actually Ed from Cowboy Bebop). A brilliant girl, I'm considering showing off one of her old Trigun based creations. I think we had a thing for Legato. I need to catch up with her... About to add two more to the herd, aaaaaawwwww yeeeah. (Watching the series with some friends who haven't seen it before)
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Post by detroittotadfield on Jun 4, 2013 22:41:11 GMT -5
1. Did you first read the manga or watch the anime? 2. What was your first impression? 3. Did you experience it alone or with someone else? 4. Have you introduced anyone else to Trigun?
1: I watched the anime when it first aired on Tonnami, back when I was in middle/high school. I have to say I haven't read the manga until recently, and I am mildly disappointed in waiting so long so do so. 2. I thought it was a space spaghetti western, and then everything got painful. 3. Alone mostly. 4. I tried, only to reintroduce it to my partners, which lead to a rp that when AU/UA and spiraled out control from there.
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Post by redbirthday on Jun 16, 2013 7:15:37 GMT -5
1. Did you first read the manga or watch the anime? Back, many moons ago, when you could only find fansubs on VHS and store more or less refused to stock anime unless they were a specialty store, I got my hands on the first dvd. I watched it a couple of times, though I never seemed to be able to catch it on tv. I don't ever recall seeing copies of the manga for sale in our comic store, but everyone else seemed to know what it was, so I took their word for it when they said it was good. Aside from the first dvd, I really had to way of getting my hands on the rest. XD
2. What was your first impression? "Ahh--this Vash guy is kind of silly. BUT WHAT THE FUCK IS GOING ON." With only 5 episodes under my belt, I didn't have much to go on, though an older friend of mine kept jamming his fanart under my nose, so aside from my reaction over what I'd seem of the anime, all I had was his word to go on that Wolfwood had fiiiiiine abs and that Knives/Vash was totally a thing.
Now that I'm poking around again with the entire series having been watched, I'm trying to tackle the manga, which has come to me in hunks of recommendation via Detroit, who essentially goes "So-and-so is in these! Read these chapters!" and "You need to see this flashback! Read those ones!" So basically all I've read is heartache and death, so understandably, my reactions consist of a lot of screaming at the screen.
3. Did you experience it alone or with someone else? I didn't before when I first started poking around, but this past month or so, it's all been Detroit's fault. They drug me in head first and I'm pretty sure there's no leaving. XD
4. Have you introduced anyone else to Trigun? We've also kidnapped our other partner along for the ride and I may be entertaining fantasies of making her a Legato costume for a con some day, even if his coat's shoulder bubble makes no sense.
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yoshi
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Post by yoshi on Jul 3, 2013 19:52:27 GMT -5
1. Did you first read the manga or watch the anime?
anime. my sister and her boyfriend suddenly mentioned a cool, hilarious anime while i was hanging at their apartment one day, and i remember them talking about vash like oh man dude, you're gonna love this guy. i didn't really feel like paying attention at first, but we spent the rest of the night watching the first five episodes and by the end of the disc i was pretty hooked
2. What was your first impression?
i thought it was really funny!! vash's antics made me laugh a ton, and i also remember being just in awe of how awesome he was in episode five. i loved the beginning of the anime so much, i spent a month after that waking up at five each morning so i could watch an episode before school. wound up crying really hard when meryl read the letter aloud that bernardelli was going to become uninvolved with vash and then milly hugged her close and called vash a jerk.........
3. Did you experience it alone or with someone else?
other than those first five episodes i watched it alone. my sister and i quoted it a lot for months and months after that tho, so i'd say i wasn't REALLY alone in experiencing it. at least i had somebody to goof off with about it, ehehe
4. Have you introduced anyone else to Trigun?
yeah! heck yeah. i joined a couple of any-character-goes forum roleplays as vash way back in 2008, and now the few people i slowly became close with say trigun's one of their favorite anime. i've also tried to introduce some local friends but they generally weren't too interested. i think they consider it my thing and leave it at that. x3
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Post by visyolnayarusalka on Dec 9, 2013 23:02:56 GMT -5
1. Did you first read the manga or watch the anime? 2. What was your first impression? 3. Did you experience it alone or with someone else? 4. Have you introduced anyone else to Trigun?
1- Anime first. The manga didn't come out until I was in middle school, and by then I'd watched the series twice.
2- Since I was so young, I was confused and enthralled. When I started reading the manga, I was a little upset it wasn't exactly like the anime but I got over it by the time Knives showed up the first time, which was so weird and beyond anything I'd seen before I was instantly obsessed.
3- I first watched the anime when one of my older brother's friends lent him the first eight episodes. My brother was interested but not too much, whereas I loved it. Unfortunately, those eight episodes were all I saw until it ran on Adult Swim.
4- A couple friends. I'm the only one, though, that's still interested in it.
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