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β οΈ Trigun Maximum and Trigun Stampede are mature works with explicit content.
TRIGUN MAXIMUM CONTENT WARNINGS
Trigun Maximum contains a significant amount of blood, violence (gun violence especially, of course), gore, body horror; some of it implicit, but a lot of it explicit and gratuitous. There are instances of self-harm.There's a character whose gimmick involves bugs (no spiders); these bugs are often involved with body horror. There are multiple instances of casual transphobia and transmisogyny being thrown toward a character as a means to define her as transgender. I haven't fully read the Dark Horse translation, but my friend tells me they use outdated language at worst.
Characters can be cruel, manipulative, and abusive; they commit atrocities. They can be misogynistic; verbal harassment toward women happens as early as Milly and Meryl are introduced. People, usually women and sometimes children, are often taken hostage. They are often at the mercy of others and often in distress.
Without consent, a character has his repressed traumatic memories forcibly re-experienced by another character's volition. Without consent, some characters are made to experience others' traumatic memories of abuse. A character intentionally overdoses on a drug and dies.
Religion, specifically that of Christian iconography, and religious trauma are central elements of the story. There are depictions of religious fanaticism, cult worship, and extremism. Partially related to that: child harm, abuse, and experimentation are also central to the story.
There are multiple instances of slavery and sexual assault. There is blatant visual imagery for sexual assault between blood-related family members; that of Knives assaulting Vash. At its extremes, there are pages depicting a child undergoing sexual slavery and being raped as punishment.
There's also a racist comic relief caricature of a black man who shows up after a certain character's death i literally don't know why no one talks about this it's so fucking weird.
Characters are made to starve to death. Characters are mentioned to suffer radiation poisoning. Characters are mentioned to resort to cannibalism. A character becomes an alcoholic; though this is quickly glossed over, attention is called to it.
TRIGUN STAMPEDE CONTENT WARNINGS
Similarly to Maximum, Trigun Stampede contains a significant amount of blood, violence, gore, body horror, torture, and death shown on-screen. In Trigun Stampede, child harm, child abuse, and especially human experimentation on them is shown frequently, and to extremes. There is a major, constant thematic focus on children suffering and being abused all throughout the show.The same warnings for Maximum apply here for religious trauma; Religion, specifically that of Christian iconography are central elements of the story. There are depictions of religious fanaticism, cult worship, and extremism.
There is blatant visual imagery for sexual assault between blood-related family members; that of Knives assaulting Vash. Knives, the main antagonist, is an ecofascist whose motivations and iconography are accordingly and blatantly fascist, although the depiction does not directly correlate to instances of real-world fascism.
β οΈ For more detailed warnings (as in, where and when any of the above occurs), ask people who've read/watched the according media and are willing to check for you. This is not an exhaustive list, although I sure did try. I've intentionally refrained from seeking out every instance and marking which volume/chapter/episode of its occurrence because I think it'd take away from the coherence of the warnings.
Value safety above spoilers, and please care for each other.
hi. the (NEWβ) links below are entries in the Trigun category of my blog. it's a bit of a mixed bag. you'll find media and character analysis, visual fanart that i've made, maybe an AMV or joke post here and there. probably a wealth of Hot Takes, though i'm not trying to be tendentious with what i say (literally it's just that this is my blog). i'm not doing any of this shit professionally, so keep in mind that what you'll read is not formatted for a grade or for a profit lol.
for writing, this means: informal tone, lack of citation, lack of images and video, depending on whether i feel like implementing any of that. i honestly might just start typing in all lowercase like this and not hitting the enter key enough and wouldnt that just be the worst?
for drawing, this means: that i'm sick of formatting for social media platforms and performing like 8 rituals to ensure my colors don't get compressed and bled out to death.
basically, expect shit to be messy. contents are subject to change anytime i feel like it. also don't read any of it if you're not fully spoiled on both Trigun Maximum and Trigun Stampede and plan on tackling either of them. otherwise enjoy
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even at a glance anyone can tell that the Vash from Maximum and the Vash from Stampede are not meant to be the same guy. by far, what they wield & how they wield it for the sake of peace is the biggest indicator of their differences.
00. - these vashes aren't the same. - media analysis, character analysis, gun talkπ― "[...] weapons reflect much of their wielder's identity; they are [...] nearly a step beyond representative."
fanart i made. pixel art based on unused concept art for the finale episode of Trigun Stampede, and a late panel of Trigun Maximum.
01. - simple gunman. - visual fanart, pixel art by me, behind the scenes π― "I MADE A VOW TO SAVE EVERYONE. NOW, YOU'LL SEE... JUST WHAT I'M WILLING TO DO TO KEEP IT."