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| July 27, 2010 It was brought to my attention last week (and unfortunately I didn't have enough time to post anything about it) that OneManga is closing its doors for good very soon. There are a few other scanlation websites out there that are taking down the vast majority of their scans as well, and a few of the posts of Kekkai Sensen as well as the Trigun Badlands Rumble scanlations have disappeared (or will be shortly). Now...what does that mean? Well, for now you can read them all at MangaFox.com, but that might be short-lived as well. I have gone ahead and changed a few of the links to that site on here so you can still access the manga at this point in time. HOWEVER - be aware that at any moment these pages might disappear as well, so make sure you read up now before it's too late! The scanlaters probably will still have the manga available if you know their IRC channel (I know Illuminati did some of them) but they change their names pretty regularly, so you'll probably have to do some searches once these websites disappear. I will eventually have access to some of these scanlations in the future, although I don't have permission to post them since I wasn't the scanlator, nor the scanner. There's a possibility I may have them available, but with this recent crack-down on posting scanlations, they probably won't be posted any time soon. My apologies. As you may have noticed, once the official books have been published in the USA, I've taken down any raws that I had as well (at least of Trigun, though I still have descriptions and some irregular translations as you may have noticed). Those are about as far as I'll go lately, I still feel a bit odd posting pictures sometimes because of the crack-downs. Speaking of which - on a personal note, I do request that no one ask me for links to scans of Trigun and Trigun Maximum. Those books have been out for awhile now and even if you can't afford to buy the books, many local libraries have it available to borrow, and there are still quite a few bookstores that will let you read them while you sit in their store for free...so check it out. And save up your money to buy the real thing!! (maybe eventually we'll have some legal websites where you can download them for a few bucks like these book-readers are offering) ^_^ I can't say I don't blame the companies who are cracking down on internet scanlators because I've always been a strong believer in buying manga and anime. Sure, I admit I've downloaded it when it's unavailable to purchase, but as soon as it is, I'll save up for the real thing. It's a tough business being a manga-ka and they deserve the payment that trickles down to them from our sales even thousands of miles away. They get a lot less credit than you might think! Remember, manga-ka and animators in Japan work long, hard hours for very little pay and very little credit in Japan, even if you and I love to read their stuff, they might just be 'the creepy guy who never leaves his shack down the street' to his neighbors, so remember that the next time you're jonsing for your favorite manga/anime fix for free! Only maybe 1% of them are actually wealthy enough to do good in their trade, and you're taking just that little bit more away from them! *climbs off soapbox* Anyway, that's all I have to say about that! I guess I just come from the era when it was a rare thing to find translated manga (in fact, I was one of the first scanners of Trigun for just that purpose, long before Dark Horse got the license!) so I understand how it can be waiting for your next fix of that favorite series from Japan. And I realize how expensive it is. Everything changes and I've seen how much it can change in less than 10 years - where you had to go to an underground comic shop to get good manga to where you can buy manga anywhere and find it online anywhere, to it now going back underground! Just be glad you got to experience a time where it was easy to get. ^_^ I sure am! And now...I shall go and search out new Trigun information...I hope. ^_^ Love & Peace! |
| July 9, 2010 OOops! I knew I was missing something in my updates the other night, but of course I just couldn't wrap my brains about what ELSE awesome Trigun stuff there is out there until one of YOU wrote me to remind me! So thank you! Metalman311 (I'll use your screen-name if that's okay) reminded me that Jesuotaku posted the continuing reviews called "Inbetweens" of the Trigun series. Jesuotaku Trigun Inbetweens Here's a list of what's up so far and I'm sure you can keep checking back as she posts more. Mangatoshokan -here's an alternative website where you can read the 2-pt Trigun manga, link thanks to Dilly-oh! ^_^ This one shows the manga in a lot larger files so it looks prettier too. Listening to this a bit, Jesuotaku speaks of Wolfwood not being on Knives' payroll at the beginning, which, I think is true - but he was raised (against his will) by Chapel, who are part of the Eye of Michael who were created to worship the plants - aka Knives. As shown later on in the manga, the group wants to be on Knives' payroll. But then, guess what happens? He finds Vash and then kind of follows along, perhaps even thinking that if he plays his cards right, he can free the rest of the orphanage which actually supplies the Eye of Michael. But...since there isn't much proof of this besides my own errant rambling, I'll leave that up to you! It makes me want to do one of these commentaries myself...heh heh heh...too much work - I'll let Jesu do it! ^_^ As for my usual mantra in these updates - if YOU have any information about Trigun, drop me a line via email, deviantART or Facebook (links are conveniently located at the top of the page!) and I'll credit you the information...that reminds me, I'm missing some credit where it's due. AineofKnockaine first supplied me the Mangafox link, Azalea, NashtheStampede and Little Meesh supplied info about Funimation announcing they're going to release the movie to theaters. ^_^ LittleMeesh also supplied the lovely link to the review on the action figures - hopefully coming to a convention near you soon... I ordered mine through Righstuf, and hopefully they'd have told me by now if I wasn't going to get it because of too many orders...The Wolfwood figure is still available most places around the web, I guess there are more people like me who think he looks a bit 'off'. Ah well, since we've been waiting for years for a new poseable figure to come out, it's worth waiting just a little bit longer. It's just sad that since Knives and the other GHGs that we haven't seen but in the manga would have been in the movie and maybe we could have had figures of those as well! ARG! No fair! Oh...and as for some of the other memorabilia from the movie, I haven't found links to ordering any of those Japanese items here... *sigh* I really kind of wanted to get my hands on the gun collection. |
| July 7, 2010 My apologies for being so late on updating with news! I have lots, and in fact, I've had it all for awhile now, but have been too...lazy...busy...tired...working...well, you get the point! First course of business was that Funimation released on Anime News Network that they're going to be bringing the Trigun Badlands Rumble movie to theaters. When? Not sure, they only released this tidbit of news at AX this last weekend, so there aren't any details yet, but I'm sure ANN will probably keep us updated on that! My theory is that they might just not get a hold of it until all of the Japanese Roadshow is completed, and that's still got a few dates throughout July, so keep your fingers crossed it will be by Christmas maybe, and maybe even translated by then! I'm kind of up in the air about whether I'd like to have it dubbed or subbed at the theater, because I really like all of the voice actors. Hopefully Funimation will do it justice and get all the original crew back - otherwise they'd might as well just leave it subtitled if you ask me! In other news, the Trigun Badlands Rumble special manga that Nightow drew earlier this year for Young King Ours has finally been scanlated and you can find it on MangaFox (link above) - I will warn you though, before you dive into MangaFox make sure you've got a good virus/worm checker on your computer because I had quite a few pop-ups spring up on me and some of them pretend to be virus checkers. I'd really love for the chapters to be on a different website, but, without doing it myself...what can I do? But it was definitely a cute read and you should check it out! In other 'stuff' news, if you need your Trigun movie fix, the Trigun soundtrack is still available through Play-Asia, and they actually posted the review that I gave it. ^_^ I feel special. Unfortunately I had written two different reviews and the first one was really well-written and then they thought I'd copied it from somewhere so I had to write a different one... *sob* The second one was the one they posted and it doesn't really do my first one justice! Arg! More stuff news - if you're trying to get a hold of the Revoltech figures, my best advice is to pre-order it somewhere! I didn't pre-order it from the Asian companies so I didn't get it as fast as the reviewer Meesh posted on the dArt fan-site about (you can find the link above as well) - but I've got one one order right now myself, just waiting patiently for Vash to arrive. For the record, I thought about ordering Wolfwood, but he looks rather silly (or at least sillier) than the previous version that was released years ago. I have that version, so I'm content in just getting the new Vash. ^_^ As for other news... the Trigun DVD boxset that came out in Japan is available for ordering...if you have a Region 2 (Japan) DVD player. *chuckles* It could be yours for only...$261! I think I'll stick to my Geneon release...heh heh. Oh - and more Japanese stuff... On the "Official Trigun Blog" you can find lots of pictures from AX...some odd ones too. >_< |
| June 13, 2010 Thanks to a fan of the website (Adrielle-226), I have something very interesting to post today. Apparently a regular video-reviewer/blogger on That Guy With the Glasses - Jesuotaku - posted this very interesting review about Trigun. Although...I want to state that Milly isn't ditzy... okay, maybe in the anime that's true, but she's much smarter in the manga. Anyway...sorry, I got off track. Anyway, I hate to admit this, but this clip is one of the smartest and researched reviews on Trigun that I've ever seen (actually, the only one using video). Strangely it sounds a lot like me, but it isn't, and that feels odd to me. Some of the bits that she brings up are things that I myself have talked about on this website (the 'toma', 'tomas', 'tomases' talk). I'm actually REALLY jealous that I wasn't the one who actually created such an awesome video - and if Jesuotaku happens to see this - please email me! I'd love to interview you about this awesome video! Sorry I haven't been posting much about Trigun lately, I've been on vacation, which is a large part of the reason, but also that I haven't seen anything extremely interesting about Trigun lately. I have been watching the movie website, but mostly it's random blogs and updates on where they're showing the movie in Japan, which really doesn't help us in the least. BUT...if YOU have seen anything interesting out there, then let me know, and I'll post it! ^_^ Anything Trigun...anything at all...in the meanwhile there's been some really awesome posts on the Trigun Maximum fanclub on DeviantART so be sure to check some of that awesomeness out. Yeah. ^_^; I feel like I haven't blogged in so long that my blogger's out of whack. I think I have lost my blogging mind...heh heh heh - you know when this website was first started that I didn't even know what the word "blog" was and quite possibly the word didn't exist yet? Well, possible. Anyway, to rectify this mistake just a wee bit, I thought I'd write a little bit about Vash's coat. Geez, this seems way behind the times I suppose, and really I haven't counted his coat designs in quite some time (Although I had at one time) and at first many of his coats were basically just red versions of some kind of strange, form-fitting duster that leaves lots of openings for Vash's maneuverability. Why do I say this? Well, you've seen him, he jumps, kicks, ducks, shoots his gun, falls down holes...well, you get the point - you've got to have clothes with a lot of 'give' to them when you're Vash. Plus, it needs to be somewhat bullet-proof (although we know that's not entirely necessary) but also breathable (it's a desert after all), needs easy access to one's gun, also more bullets (as we've seen in the manga) missing one sleeve for access to his gun arm, and I'm thinking also could work as a coolant system...but I think that's something I saw in a doujinshi once, so who knows? |
May 14, 2010
I haven't been on much lately, but there's still been plenty going on in the Trigun front lately - so there's plenty to update about! Blame me for being lazy I guess! First off, for those of you who don't know, Little Meesh started a Trigun Maximum fanclub on DeviantART - please join us! Lots of awesome categories between fan-art, collections, desktops, and more - might even throw some cosplay in there eventually too. Trigun Maximum Fanclub @ DeviantartUnfortunately I've been a bit behind, but others are picking up the slack there at the fanclub, mentioning the new covers being released in Japan. You can find the "Neo" releases at: SasugaBooks at least for now. What we haven't been able to determine (but hopefully after this weekend we will) is why the price is so much higher on these releases. The theory is because they are possibly joined books (maybe two in one?) and I'm thinking this might be the case since book 4 has Rem and the boys on the cover (which normally happens in book 7) so if 1=1+2, 2=3+4, 3=5+6, 4=7+8...etc. which adds up about right. The Trigun series (not Maximum) has two books, one which has Vash on the cover, the second has the Insurance girls...which of course is my favorite cover at the moment. Book 3 (which I don't have on this page) has Legato on the cover and you can find in full-color glory on the Trigun covers page: Here. I went through the trouble of searching out the largest versions I could find online (without actually buying them myself and scanning them) so you have pretty clear versions to look at! In other news, the second part of Yasuhiro Nightow's Trigun short was printed in Young King Ours June issue. There's one more chapter coming that's Trigun related in YKO, drawn by Boichi - the style is very unsual. I'm not bothering to buy that issue, but I did get both of Nightow's. If there's anyone out there who would be willing to do scanlations if they had a good scan of this chapter...let me know. If anyone finds these chapters scanlated online, please let me know, I'll post a link for everyone else! The Trigun short was actually very interesting in the way that Vash and gang have to fight cyborgs - which, for the record - means that Vash can actually SHOOT them.... O_O It took me a little while to realize that yes, Vash wasn't holding back as he was fighting alongside Wolfwood. (I may have to scan the two-page insert where Wolfwood's cross-punisher opens up for some kick-butt action). I'm crossing my fingers that during these re-releases of the Trigun manga that maybe someone would be so kind as to include these chapters so that they'd be in book form at some point. I'm just kind of worried we might not get official English re-releases of these. In other news, I got my hands on the Trigun: Badlands Rumble OST! Whoot! It actually resembles the music from Gungrave quite a bit, adding in some of the flavor from the original Trigun soundtracks. The main reason I compare it to Gungrave is that I'm thinking it's more of a 'polished' sound from Imahori than we heard with Trigun. I don't know this for a fact, but Imahori was working with Yoko Kanno on Cowboy Bebop around the same time as Trigun, then he got to split off and write the rock-and-roll kind of feel to Trigun (there's actually quite a few similar musicians on both soundtracks) and then after Trigun he did other songs for Kanno - a song in Ghost in the Shell:SAC and played guitar on some others as well before going on to do the Gungrave video games and anime and now returning to do Trigun: Badlands Rumble. I think now he's pretty well-established a certain quality to his music so you can tell it's him. I love the redo of H.T. and would love to have it as a ring-tone someday. But there's other flavors in this soundtrack I enjoy - some sound Italian almost, some more of a Mexican feel and others are just hard-rocking...others very soft and flute-like. Okay, I'm rambling now - but if you have the money to spare, you won't be disappointed by getting the soundtrack! I guess that's about it for news of Trigun at the moment. Oh...but I will share a nice surprise since I was wandering into a local anime store the other day and there, hidden amongst all the other stuff was a collection of the clear Trigun busts. I had Vash and Milly (Meesh picked up Legato at that time) but now I managed to finish off with Knives, Legato and Dominique the Cyclops (as well as another Vash and Milly). What's amusing to me is that back in I believe 2002 or '03 (right around the time I started this website) I went to Ohayocon in Milly cosplay and walked into the dealer's room. Immediately upon my entering I got stopped by the guy who owns this anime shop who said, "I know EXACTLY what you want." And pulled out a set of the busts and one of the mini-trigun figures (to this day I'm still looking for the gatchapans to finish that collection...) and I immediately dropped nearly all the money that I had for that weekend on those figures! Some $45+ on just two collections. Now, 8 years later I got all of those figures for only about a buck a piece - from the same guy. Go figure. Weird how things come back around! And that's my rambling for the day. ^_^ |
April 21, 2010
As we are quickly coming up on the official Japanese release of Trigun, I thought I'd share some pretty awesome pics that some of my Trigun buds have been sharing with me on Facebook. (If you have a Facebook account - friend me!) Some of these pics have come from Nash the Stampede, some from Demon Brandon, and a few from Puchiko and a few other names you might recognize from fanart/fiction around this website. A few of the other images that I've been securing come directly from the Trigun Movie website and their blog which is mighty awesome when it comes to pictures. By far some of the coolest stuff comes from this site and I think between the figurine to the right here and the awesome Trigun keychains to below. Yup...there's some drool factor going on with these proto-types, namely I think the mace from Legato and the Double Fangs. I've always been a big fan of Livio's weapon of choice (not counting Razlo's three cross-punishers) and just seeing them in the beginning stages makes me smile. Now, there's also a few more gun-related items going to go on market, including more Vash guns and a canister that looks like Vash's revolver case and a bullet. It's interesting how much gun-related stuff is appearing for the movie... I just wish they'd have Milly's stun-gun... or a figurine maybe? *begs* In other news the Trigun Movie OST (original sound track) was released today (thanks for reminding me Nash!) and it's available through Play-Asia.com - kinda on the costly side but seeing as though you're ordering it from Hong Kong I believe...I guess the $30 price tag isn't too horrendous (I've spend more on CDs at conventions!) The movie comes out on Saturday. SPOILER ALERT - DON'T READ ON IF YOU DON'T WANT TO HEAR A BIT ABOUT THE MOVIE!!!!! Really, I don't have much to say right now that's a true spoiler, but I've been going around the internets a bit and searching for information about the movie. My friend John who went to see it at Sakuracon said it was sort of less action-packed than he was expecting. And other people as well around the web who said they saw it said it was something of a bland reproduction of just another episode of Trigun. Now...don't get me wrong, but for some reason I wasn't expecting anything earth-shattering from the previews (I have a feeling many of you super-fans might agree) especially once we found out it had nothing to do with the manga! But still, just the feeling of seeing Vash on the screen again, and our other characters (of course I still love them all) just makes my heart skip a beat! Knowing that non-super fans were a bit disappointed...no, that's not a good word for it, they were happy but it failed to impress I suppose... that makes me feel a bit saddened. Why? Because if the movie isn't earth-shattering, what's to say we're going to have many new fans to the franchise and a possible second series? I seem to think that it should have been Bebop quality or Conquerer of Shambala good (although, now that I've seen FMA: Brotherhood...whew the old series isn't anything in comparison!) but anyway, I suppose maybe just a taste might help. Maybe bring people back. And if they're re-releasing the Trigun manga, maybe that'll bring new people in and suddenly there will be renewed interest. Already I've seen it. END SPOILERS Meanwhile... if you're a Deviant (www.deviantart.com) please join Meesh's (and my own) Trigun-Maximum-FC (fanclub)!! Submit new or old drawings, and participate in some of our fun activities! ^_^ Heh heh. See what I mean by people getting renewed interest? A brand new Trigun club! Yay! Love & Peace, Friends! Oh...and in website update news (since I haven't had much news of that lately) do you like the new look of the blog? I've moved some of the old ramblings off to their own page so now this page basically just covers everything since the first movie trailer. Also...probably no one has looked at the old archived blogs - but I fixed the links to them just in case you're a first timer and you're curious to see how far we've come over the last few years. Plenty to read and probably quite a few things still to look at (and lots of blathering to weed through - heh!) Changed the bars to fit the new theme I've got going as well. Did you ever wonder why I use so much aqua on this site? Vash's eye color of course! And the red is always around because of Vash as well. ^_^ You learn something new every day! |
April 16, 2010 Howdy everyone! I've got some great news - of course, I'm still working on it at present - but I'm excited to say that I've got a new YKO chapter in the process of scanning, drawn by Nightow in YKO - whoot! Now, they've already had one chapter from a different artist (I posted the link before) but aparently this one and the next chapter are both drawn by Nightow. Whoot! So far it hasn't been translated...but I have a strange feeling that someone will soon post it, if it isn't already (and somehow I missed it looking today) - but I'm excited and that means I'm posting a little bit of it today, at least the pretty colored pages. ^_^ I HAD to scan the drawing of Milly because she's just so PRETTY - the kind of Milly that I've always imagined her to be! And of course, Vash isn't bad either. *GRINS* (Don't let my husband here me say that!)Anyway, it's a brand new chapter, sort of an 'untold' story that takes place before the 5th Moon incident when Vash still has completely blond hair, the girls and Wolfwood have both joined him, and of course Vash is still getting into trouble and they're still having to get him out of it...but it's nice to see how they all relate to one another, because even though there was some of this play during the anime, it was virtually non-existant in the manga until this point. To point out, this chapter is "TRIGUN" - NOT Maximum. This, to me, is extremely exciting stuff!! Of course I'd love to see a LOT more of this going around - but for now I'm content with just the promise of a couple chapters and a new mini-story (and of course I had to own it for my own because this might never get to American shelves unless Nightow does enough to fill another book... *crosses fingers*) Come on Nightow-sensei - please draw more Trigun!! I'll post pages here shortly, but I wanted to do a couple more scans and do it sort of as a package deal you can download all at once - check back to this particular post for the links to appear! "Trigun Rising" - Nightow pgs 1-9 - Right Click and save .RAR file to open! |
| April 4, 2010 Happy Easter everyone! Hope everyone had a great day and those of you who made it to Sakuracon had a great time as well! I didn't make it but a friend of mine did, saw the Trigun movie on Saturday, and although I haven't had time to talk to him to get all the juicy details...I'm kind of thinking I won't get them anyway since they didn't translate it - no dubs and no subs. I'm sure the Japanese-speaking Otaku were thrilled though! *grins* Apparently they had a lot of fun though and the movie was really great. There's a short clip of before/after of one of the audiences on the Trigun movie website, that was interesting to see people's reactions. I really truly missed going to see it, but unlike my friend who got up and decided one random day a week or so ago that he was going - I can't do such a thing! Apparently if you didn't pre-register the lines were really long to get in, so I guess it's a good thing they played it all three days! As I get more details, I'll be sure to post them - or be sure to hop on the forum if you yourself saw it and would like to share - I'd just ask that you'd warn us about spoilers ahead of time if you do. ^_^ YAY!! The Trigun movie is out!! (Lucky west-coast ducks!) |
March 31, 2010 
It's just been so cool lately, actually having multiple reasons to update this website again! Not only is the movie just about a week or so away from being shown, but there's new manga coming out, YKO is advertising for it, all of the DVDs are being re-released as well as the Japanese version manga is getting an over-haul on their covers - speaking of which, I have yet to actually post what those look like. To the right you'll see the brand new cover for Trigun Maximum No. 1 - I'll probably have to dig out No. 2 for you as well, it's got Wolfwood on the cover... (goes to look)Ah, here it is - in fact, now that I've been digging a moment, they've redone both Trigun and Trigun Maximum #1 covers as well as two now, and at least those three books have been published in Japan with their new covers. Will I eventually buy them...? Hmmm... maybe. *chuckles* Then again, I'm not sure whether my husband would allow me to bring any more Trigun manga into the house besides anything that might be new, of course, because I already have about 3-4 versions of the original manga - the first three releases before Shonengahosha got rights to the series - then Trigun 1 and 2 in Japanese, then both in English and then also in hardback from B&N! Oh... forgot to to mention some of it in YKO form as well... >_<; Am I obsessed...hrm, maybe just a little! I'm going to try to order the new YKO that's coming out as well - I've emailed one favorite Japanese store, we'll see what they say.
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| March 28, 2010 As we get ever closer to the movie premiere - new information and new clips arrive almost daily!! Sweet! Check out the brand new version of "H.T." trailer on YouTube - it's awesome! It's the same, and yet even cooler! Whoot! A few of us have been talking about the release of the OST for the Trigun movie - something to start looking forward to, indeed, I'd love to pre-order it, I need to get on the ball and start looking for a good place to get it. (4.21 release date) I'm curious as to whether now that Funimation has rights to Trigun whether they'll release the new slim-pack like in Japan with a jacket that unfolds to reveal new artwork of Vash. It's very cool. I love that Nightow has been doing new artwork for the anime covers and OST covers - check it out here: Trigun Goods. Now the only thing that's missing are new action figures...ah yes...that would be AWESOME!! |
| March 21, 2010 Happy Spring everyone! (In the Northern Hemisphere!) How's your spring going? Mine is pretty good - especially knowing that in just a little while we'll have our Trigun movie! I thought I'd pop on here even though there isn't much new news to report, but there is a really awesome new topic going on the forum right now - sharing your favorite Trigun AMVs - so check it out and post some of your own! Besides that I was at the bookstore the other day and saw some used Trigun DVDs (pity really) and a couple read off the name and my husband said, "you heard about the movie coming out soon, right?" And they were like yeah... I wonder who's bringing that out? I wanted to get into the conversation but I ended up drifting off because immediately they were on another topic. Bummer! It's such a pity that someone sold off their old DVDs, but I have heard that Funimation has rights to them so perhaps they'll be doing a new release eventually? My husband hopes they'd remaster it and put it on Blu-Ray (he's addicted to HD) - that would be cool. It would be nice to see another generation of fans. Anyway - just thought I'd share that little tid-bit because it makes me feel good to know that Trigun is still living on in many people - whoot! |
| March 18, 2010 Thanks to Aine of Knockaine we have news of a Trigun One-shot (three chapters) being translatede by Illuminati-manga.com (by Molokidan, our old translator) - this is what they have to say about it: "Trigun Rising (!Rising) - A 30 page oneshot to celebrate the release of the Trigun movie. It was authored and drawn by Takeyama Yuusuke. It's a short story that focuses on Rai of the Blade. There will be three more Trigun-related short stories to come out in the next two months. Two short stories by Nightow, the Trigun mangaka and a oneshot by Boichi. Assuming good raws are available and the kind people at www.raw-paradise.come don't put those disgusting watermarks on them, we'll be doing all three chapters." Right now you can find the first chapter here: MangaFox and I'll be sure to post links to the next chapters as they arrive. The special thing about this little manga is that it looks a lot like Nightow's work, although it isn't - the backgrounds are very similar but the people are distinctly Takeyama Yuusuke. Doesn't really have anything to do with the movie, which I was kind of hoping it would - but it does sort of touch on Rei-Dei before he meets up with Vash and Wolfwood, and that's kind of cool in itself. In other news, don't know if I said it before but there's a new preview for the movie on the Trigun movie website. AND there's a Japanese Twitter for Trigun... XD; (Trigun Movie Twitter) What will they think of next? ^_^ In even other news... My Whatcher Studio website has been updated - there's actual content! If not much... but I'm making a slow transition to putting stuff onto that website, it won't be Trigun, but I will probably start a blog on there eventually. I'm kind of proud at how it looks right now, I'm learning new website techniques that maybe someday in the future I can use here! That is, of course, if Trigun still stays popular... Don't worry, if this website ever starts to go away, I'll warn everyone before hand. I'll always have some kind of website out there. Anyway - no depressing stuff now! Onto more Trigun stuff! (In a few days, I hope, when there's more to talk about!) |
March 11, 2010 Can't believe it's been a few weeks since the Sakuracon announcement for the Trigun: Badlands Rumble premiere. Since then I've found out that they're playing it all three days of the convention, so I guess if you make it there, you'll be able to see it! I've heard a few people trying to go come hell or high-water but I think I'm adult enough to say that I might have to just sit this one out. However, I know that there's a few things we Americans (or those of us not in Japan, I know there are quite a few in Europe and Mexico who visit this site too) aren't going to be able to get our hands (at least without friends or Ebay) on these awesome Autographed pictures that they're going to be selling. I'm a big fan of pictures like this and of course I have my own stupendous autographs from Nightow, but these things make me excited because I just love his artwork. Found this picture as well as quite a few more on the Staff Blog section of the Trigun Movie website. Check it out, even if you can't read the language, there's quite a few pictures from conventions here in the USA as well as Japan and a few other photos that I found cool. You can find a couple of my favorites on the movie page HERE as well.A few of you have joined me on Facebook recently - yay! Thanks for adding me! I'd love to meet more of you and chat online about the movie (since I seem to be on there more than on my chats). It's also been a quick way of getting information to me that I can catalog on this site. I've also been having fun posting pictures of my "ultimate" Trigun collection! Actually, one of those I'd like to share with you right now: |
| February 23, 2010 That's interesting, it's been exactly a month since my last update! Well, special thanks to Edward Elric and Nash the Stampede for pointing out to me that Sakuracon is going to be hosting the WORLD PREMIERE of the Trigun movie in April!! ACCCKKK!! *clutches head* I can't get there!!! To all of you West-coasters, that means you're going to actually get to see the Trigun movie BEFORE Japan does on the 23rd of the month. I kid you not - this is HUGE!! It's especially awesome since Nightow loves American comics so much that they're going to do this. What's not huge about this is that...arggg!! Many of us fans won't be able to see it, those of us on the East coast - no faaaaiiiirrrr!! Sure...If I were single I probably would have flown out there for it...but alas...grownup responsibilities. ARG. But, at least someone will be able to tell me about it, right? And thanks again to my sources letting me know this outstanding news! |
| January 23, 2010 Official Movie Character List - was just updated on the official page this week. I'm debating on whether to translate all of it or not, but you know the usual suspects, Vash, Wolfwood, Meryl and Milly, but there's also our new Gunman name Gasback and Amelia, who is the pretty redhead we see in the previews. Looks like Gasback - I may be wrong with his name, by the way, it's spelled in Japanese "Gasubakku" - is also legendary in his own right, he's got quite the mechanical right arm on him - maybe another outlaw who is mistaken for Vash often? I like Amelia a lot, she has that Nightow-esque feel to her. In the meantime, as you all may notice from looking at the character drawings, Vash's coat has changed, yet again. Heh heh. Milly's has changed as well, which irks me to no end because here I've been making fun of Vash cosplayers worrying about his coat changing and then they use the Trigun Maximum design but darken the original series' colors, making the coat almost a yellow with green highlights...and Milly's hair has gone dark blond again (but at least for me, who cosplays her, I've grown out the blond!) But it means I need to make yet another coat...arg! ^_~ Not surprisingly Meryl's outfit has remained pretty much the same, even the earrings look the same - and Wolfwood has his customary suit - and he looks waaay too skinny as usual. Awwww....this is making me so happy - Wolfwood is back!! I mean, really, what's better than that? (Except maybe the fact we're getting Vash again!!) As for Vash, his smile in the close up of his face is so forced. I can't even describe it properly, because we're talking about an anime character here, but the talent it takes to make a smile look forced is only something Nightow could come up with! Poor Vash, always hurting inside even though he's trying to be cheerful! His coat is sort of a mixture of Maximum and original anime. He's got the two little belts on either side, but the larger shoulders, interestingly enough his long sleeve has brown underneath which sort of balances out his gunarm - and his entire boots are more brown but for a silver toe, which is also a newer design. I like how the design combines sort of the best of both worlds but makes it updated and it's still recognizeable as VASH. In other news I've got some interest from our friend Fahji about doing some in-depth analysis of Trigun Maximum - so keep an eye out for some new articles, hopefully we'll get this rolling while we eagerly await the movie! If anyone else has some artwork, fanfiction, or cosplay photos - or you find a great fansite, facebook page, etc. that would be of interest to us Trigun/Nightow fans - please drop me an email or pop on Facebook/Twitter/DeviantART and we'll get it posted!! Hopefully our next update won't be too much later...oh, and look for more Dark Convergence coming soon as well! Love & Peace - OUT! |
November 20, 2009 Never fails, the first morning in like a week that I haven't checked Trigun first thing and there are updates! Well, thanks to Nash the Stampede (and my addiction to Facebook) we now have more news on the movie - a release date in Japan! April 24, 2010! From what I can tell with my limited Japanese, looks like there's going to be a limited release to the theaters, calling it a "Roadshow" and just a few different places will be showing it that day. There are a few more updates on the website, like cast and crew, although no pictures of the characters yet, they do have a link to a buffered all-Japanese preview. Pretty much the same thing we got here in America, a couple new clips, but overall not that much more information as of yet.I do think my favorite update to the movie website is the drawing that Nightow did for the front page. It's pretty cute (of course I've already stolen it - it's NOT mine! I DO NOT TAKE CREDIT!). I'll be posting the image on the movie page as well here shortly (since I already updated my front page, sorry if you happen to check it and it's not updated yet). Oh yes, and looks like Tsuneo Imahori is back as well - I'm excited for that (Nash pointed it out) so we'll have the same feel with the same musician doing the music! YAY! In other news...yes, I know, WHAT other news could there possibly be? *chuckles* Nothing in the way of the movie, I'm afraid, besides going there and checking it all out yourself! But Meteor Methuselah/Immortal Rain #10 was just released in Japan last month. I got my copy in the mail yesterday (because I'm crazy like that). I'm hoping that will mean #9 will hit the shelves here in the USA soon. Don't know why I've always been such a fan of Rain, maybe because he reminds me a lot of Vash and Machika reminds me of Meryl - and even though I've had quite a few people tell me they could never see a relationship between V&M (yes, crazy for me to hear too) there's a nice one between the characters of this series. Plus there's some surprises in #10, but if you're a reader, I won't tell you unless you email me to ask! In other personal news - I'm working on an art website of my own now. It's slowly getting off its feet...well, if you count me having a 'in construction' page up - Whatcher Studios - check it out once in awhile. I'm eventually going to have versions of all of my personal artwork, maybe a few fanarts here and there, links where you can find me and perhaps eventually selling some stuff as well. I DO have some art on deviantART for sale if anyone is ever interested! Hopefully by the new year I'll have some good stuff going...provided that I don't keep playing Cafe World on Facebook...speaking of which - if you're addicted to the game too, drop me a line and we'll be neighbors. XD I'm soooo pathetic! Heh heh heh. See you again with more information I hope soon! |
| October 16, 2009 Been doing a bit of housekeeping today around the site. Few things about the front page have been bothering me for awhile, namely the fact that not everything lined up properly...but I have that solved...I believe! New wording, plus quick links for things like my email, the forum, and different blog sites which you might catch me on. ^_^ I also updated the Movie webpage, so if you had any bookmarks set to that, you might want to update them (the change was from 2009 to 2010). So far there haven't been any updates to the Trigun site...guess I need to go to another convention. *bwahaha* Seems every time I go away something new pops up! If anyone spots broken links around the site, please let me know! I've been having trouble with finding rediculously old links that still point to Geocities - so if you get somewhere that doesn't actually go anywhere, please drop me a line! |
| October 14, 2009 Getting away from the Trigun movie for a minute...I know, it's hard to do...I wanted to introduce everyone to the brand new Trigun Mud site. I haven't joined yet (I rarely have time to get on Mud groups) but if you've been waiting to join a Trigun mud - now is your chance! *grins* Trigun Mud - check it out and tell them Milly sent you!! Back to movie news, looks like it's actually going to be released in Japan on the big-screen...oooooooh. Will that mean it'll come over here? So far I haven't heard of anyone picking up the original Trigun series from Geneon's old line-up (although maybe someone did...) so who will get the rights to the movie, and will they be in a position to release it on the big screen here as well? I guess we'll have to keep an eye out over the next year. Do check out the trigun movie website when you get a chance, they'll probably update it regularly adding characters and info - I'm looking forward to that! |
| October 12, 2009 It never fails - I go off to a convention for a weekend and then breaking news on the Trigun-front happens and I don't even know about it until I get back! If you haven't heard it already, the Trigun movie now has a website! Trigun Movie" and they've changed the release date to 2010! On the plus side, at least there are updates on the website which we might be able to get translated as the days get closer and more information is updated. Plus, thanks to Nash the Stampede who emailed me this great information, Anime News Network posted this short article: Anime News that says all of the characters, Vash, Wolfwood, Milly and Meryl will have their original voice actors returning - and there's a short synopsis about the movie: "The story is set in Makka, a town surrounded by quicksand. With rumors spreading that the legendary robber Gasback has his sights set on the town, the mayor Kepler has brought together bounty-hunters to protect the town. These bounty hunters have been following Gasback from town to town in hopes of bagging the prize. Meryl and Milly, two characters previously seen in Yasuhiro Nightow's manga and the later television anime series, have come to town to assess the situation as insurance agents, but are shocked by this turn of events. Moreover, Vash the Stampede is also in town, along with the female bounty hunter Ameria and the fan-favorite character Wolfwood." - Anime News Network Sweet! But...are Milly and Meryl there for Vash or is the story created in a completely different way so that it can't fit into the original anime storyline? I guess we'll have to find out! So thanks to Nash here's the information I know you've been waiting for and now we can keep our eyes peeled on a real website - whoot! ^_^ I'm so excited! I had a panel this morning...no, Sunday morning, see how tired I am? About Trigun - unfortunately the only thing I was able to talk about much was the upcoming movie and talking about Vash, but people kept bringing their noobie friends and they didn't want spoilers! >_<; Ooh well...it was a good weekend. At one point I was bored at my artist alley table and set up a laptop to play the first few episodes of Trigun...which worked incredibly well surprisingly to sell Trigun fan art! BWAHAHA. Awesomeness! I sold prints of pictures I hadn't been able to move in years. Guess I'll have to do that from now on.... heh heh. I'll be back soon with more details when I'm a little less punchy and about to pass out! Thanks again Nash! I really couldn't keep up on all the information without my website 'peeps' like you! |
| September 28, 2009 Received an interesting email today requesting a page with all of the Trigun & Trigun Maximum covers since they weren't all found in one spot anywhere...So, since it was a relatively easy request, and I finally finished my artist alley preparation for Tsubasacon (Huntington, West Virginia - come and visit me Oct 9-11!!) and needed a break from all that artsy stuff... the page link is now located on the main page. The scans aren't very big since I actually got them elsewhere (and I'm lazy), but these should give you a good place to see them all at once. It's kind of a neat way to see the evolution of Vash too. ^_^ Thanks for the request - I hope this helps! Other than our cover update...I'm afraid I haven't had much news lately. It's starting to look more and more likely that we won't get the movie this year...however, I still haven't lost all hope - so keep your eyes peeled - we might still have this movie soon (I hope!). |
| September 13, 2009 Since I'm giving credit where it's due, this pretty cool blog about Trigun was supplied to me by my husband who reads Japanator on occasions: "My First Time: Trigun" Anyway, I got such a kick out of this story when I read it, although I think there's too much discussion of the getting to watch Trigun for the first time and not enough actual watching Trigun for the first time. *chuckles* But that's okay, anyone who 'popped their anime cherry' with Trigun is okay in my book!! In fact, I wouldn't be at all surprised if the author is someone who visits this website (if he still likes Trigun that is) so if you're reading this - kudos! Spreading the Trigun word one blog at a time. ^_^ Actually......I really don't have much other news that's Trigun worthy right now..... *sigh* |
| September 4, 2009 It's been sort of a slow end of summer for Trigun planet as I'm sure all you have noticed that the forum AND the site have been sort of dead in the water. I think we're all sort of holding our breaths for the movie to come out - or ANY information at ALL about it... which...I'm sorry to say I still don't have. However, I'm glad to say I have updated today - thanks to Rory who dropped me a line with some new "You-Know-You-Like-Trigun-TOO-Much" additions! We're almost up to a 100!! No kidding! It's getting even closer now! So maybe by the end of this year we'll top a 100. It's getting tougher to come up with new things for the list since there are soooo many things already up there - but I'm sure some of you are pretty creative, just like Rory and can come up with some new reasons we love Trigun so much. ^_^ At least it gives us something to do while waiting for the movie! In a last little bit of news, I did add a section in the forum so you can post your own links to websites and social networking sites. OR...if you're an artist or fanfiction writer, you can always email me directly and I'll post your links at the bottom of the main page! I'm always looking for new links that are from devoted Trigun fans!! ^_^ Love & Peace out! |
| July 31, 2009 Some minor changes to the website occurred today - basically background stuff, you probably won't notice too much except that the "Simplicity" series by Catherine is gone (the links were bad and I haven't heard from her in years) - as well as I took down a few other links (in "Links") which were bad also. The Guestbook links are gone - the guestbook will disappear with Geocities anyway - I may make a 'guestbook' on the forum. Added more Kuroneko 'bullets' and changed the size of the font in some sections to make it less bulky. I've also centered the whole kit-n-kaboodle so hopefully no matter which screen size you have (except maybe 800x600) it should look pretty good. I apologize to anyone who still has an 800 screen and has to scroll over to see everything. The updates were a direct result of me learning how to do little 'favicons' which - of course, if you noticed - includes a little kuronekosama now next to the title...it SHOULD work no matter which browser you are using, but if for some reason it does not, drop me a line with your browser name and I'll try to figure out what's wrong. Once I did that update I thought I'd better freshen up the site a little bit, although there are still a few image changes I want to do and possibly a few other page updates as well, which I'll mention here if I do later. I'd forgotten just how cool it was to be able to work on my own website and design it any way I wanted. Of course, you're probably thinking why do your own if you can just use Facebook or something - am I right? Well, the truth is, I really don't like the networking sites all that much, in fact, I've been considering getting rid of the majority of my sites on them - not this site, this one is my baby - I'm just talking about things like MySpace. It's almost as if people have completely stopped making websites about their fandoms just because they can host something cheap and fast on Facebook - put up all their pictures, etc, and never have to think a set-up through or anything. It makes me sad, really, because I'm still old-school enough to learn how to write all my own HTML (even my husband doesn't know how and he's a tech person!) But, maybe I'm just too old school myself...who knows. I think everyone still enjoys visiting this site, and I'm going to attempt to keep it freshened up for as long as necessary to keep you coming back! ^_^ So...I hope you enjoy! I love feed-back so if anyone has any, let me know. |
| July 29, 2009 Today's awesome update is thanks to SpookyKatie who found a High Quality version of the Trigun movie trailer! WHOOT!!! ^_^ This one is soooo much better to watch than all of the others - so check it out, and thank SpookyKatie for sending this to us! In other news - still as exciting (maybe even more so) - someone's secured rights to make Gungrave into a LIVE ACTION movie - I kid you not - here's the link: Screendaily.com!!!!! The long and short of the article is that Twim Kwok's Convergence (Asia-based entertainment company) secured live-action rights to making a movie which will have around a $30-35 million budget (which, for an asian-film ain't too bad) and will go into production NEXT YEAR...which means... are we getting a live action film by 2012 or sooner?? OOOOOHHHHH!! XD I'm so excited - I've got to thank Nicholas Wolfwood (bwahaha - yup) for this terrific information! Two movies for the price of one!! Love & Peace everyone! |
| July 23, 2009 Thanks to a fan - Mandy - I've been able to sucessfully update the "You Know you Like Trigun Too Much" page to have a whopping 90 reasons!! In fact - I'm hoping that maybe we can get to 100 soon. Read the list if you haven't in awhile (I updated it today with a few myself) and then send me the reasons you know YOU like Trigun too much. Can we make it over a 100?? Make sure you don't copy any of the previous reasons...and there are a LOT of them!! Anyway - thanks again for your help with the list Mandy! No real news on the Trigun movie front I'm afraid. It's been awefully quiet since AX ended. There are still discussions going on about what they think the movie is going to be about from the trailer - and a lot of mixed feelings, good and bad, of what people think about what they see. My opinion is it looks a LOT like a doujinshi I have - well, in the way of having brand new characters we've never seen before and a whole new scenario. As I pointed out in one discussion I had with a Trigun bud of mine, the story almost seems as though it's Nightow's own doujinshi of a side storyline. It's been done before you know (the manga-ka who did Gravitation for example had a series of doujinshi almost as long as the manga itself just for the dirty stuf... *shudders*) But if Nightow's doing it...that's pretty cool if you ask me! That's all from me right now - I hope you enjoy the updated LIST! |
| July 9, 2009 Actually...I'm updating this on the 8th - but why split hairs? Anyway, today, long overdue, I've finally posted all of the links to Edward Elric's wallpapers - they're totally awesome so go to the Guest Fanart page and check them out! I can't really pick a favorite, but I had Kuroneko on my desktop for quite awhile. ^_^ (mainly because I love cats...) In other update news (this is weird...I actually have news!) I'll be posting more reports on AX as they roll in. Ed Elric sent me some cool quotes from Nightow that I'll be working into the full reports as they come in, but in the meantime, check out her report on her trip to AX on Trinut (the link is on the "Movie Info" page). I'm sure there's more out there too - unfortunately I've been working my butt off lately and haven't had much time to update, little lone get a good overall report for AX. If anyone else has reviews/reports/experiences they would like to share with everyone, please send me a link so I can post it! |
| July 6, 2009 Thanks to the power of YouTube and someone posting it thanks to their really awesome video camera - we have our first glimpse of the Trigun movie trailer!! Whoot! I'm sorry I missed out on going to AX myself, but this is almost as good as the real thing. Edward Elric, (not where I got the video though), said we'll be getting images and a report soon from AX, but until then, we have this trailer to peruse and see what's going on! From the trailer we can tell there is a new enemy - and they still say "Vash vs. Wolfwood" - but is it maybe that they're both going after the bounty of this new guy? Maybe? And who is this new girl gunwoman? Maybe the boys are both going after her? That sounds a LOT more like how the anime ran if you ask me. Poor Meryl, always getting shafted... One thing I did notice from this trailer (besides Meryl continuously grabbing her head - what's up with that???) is that Milly has her Maximum outfit - it's colored closer to the original anime, but the shape with the crosses is the same. Interesting! There's so much to digest in just this trailer - and I think it's pretty safe to say that it definitely fits in with the anime more than it will the manga. Is that okay? Yes, I think so - it's more like an 'untold chapter' as I've been hoping it will be, similar to what they did with Cowboy Bebop. I'm sure some people will be disappointed, but I won't - we get to see more Vash!! WHOOT! This YouTube link will appear on the movie page shortly - as will perhaps, actual footage I can keep up rather than just the embedded player...since you never know when that will disappear from the internets... I hope. And of course, as I mentioned, there's more to come! |
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HOWEVER...before you think I'm really the most obsessed fan out there (I'm not, I just realized a little bit ago) you should look at the girl who dressed as Vash who went to some Tokyo convention or another - look at the Movie website's blog and you'll see LOTS of pictures of her. What is it with female Vash cosplayers? Yes...I understand the allure of dressing as Vash - but guy cosplayers are just so much more... VASH. You know? I've seen some really good ones in my time! Ah well - I wish this website had been started back in the day when Nightow was doing more conventions around the USA a few years ago (back when I met him) it would have been cool to see them post pictures of our very own Stripper Vash and Voltz and all the other really excellent cosplayers here - heck, even some of the really good ones in Japan too for that matter. Not that I'm putting down cross-players! Don't get me wrong, I will say one thing, she's gotta be VERY devoted because it doesn't look like she's Japanese to me.
I've actually had this picture for a little while now and it basically includes only the majority of my figurine collection: original minis (a few missing) original busts (missing some clear ones) all of the newest figure collections, some assembled, some I had to, many of the poseable figures (never a red-coated Vash though...don't know why) and no fabric ones either. Also includes the fancy DVD sets, most of the keychains put out by Pioneer, lunchbox (from my husband) a few card decks, stuffed kuronekosama & vash, and tons of mini kuronekos - excludes doujinshi, posters, wallscrolls, calendars, drawings, other DVD sets, CDs, autographs, Young King Ours - all the manga, English and Japanese... well, you get the idea! I've talked about posting a full listing of Trigun stuff in the past but have never gotten around to it - this gives you a slight idea of what you can expect from a Trigun fan. Although...I really can't say I have the MOST stuff - but probably close since I've never seen any photos of people with more. BUT - if YOU happen to have more, drop me a photo! I'd love to see YOUR collection! In fact, I'd really love to make a page with collections - so if you have time, email me a photo, drop me a line and I'll post your collection as well!