Trigun maximum: 7

Trigun Maximum #7

by Yasuhiro Nightow

Un uomo tranquillo, un ragazzo innocuo. Eric non è altro che questo per tutti i suoi concittadini, ed in particolar modo per la giovane Rina e l'anziana Sheril che lo hanno adottato. Ma quando la vita di Rina è minacciata da una banda di malviventi, il giovane ed inetto Eric non esita a rischiare la vita pur di salvarla. Nessuno si sarebbe mai aspettato una cosa simile da lui. Nessuno tranne forse un misterioso straniero, un uomo che dice di essere un sacerdote ed insiste nel chiamarlo Vash…

Genres: Manga, Science Fiction, Comics, Graphic Novels, Fantasy, Seinen, Comics Manga

Kindle Edition

First published August 7, 2002

About the author

内藤泰弘. Traditional transliteration would be Yasuhiro Naitou. Author uses "Nightow" for better pronunciation by English natives.

Reviews

[bea ♡]

it's so interesting to see how the backstory of knives and vash impacted them in such different ways that made their beliefs and morals completely opposites. i want to bang my head against a wall

[Zach Sparks]

Slowly but surely, the flow of the story arcs is improving. I wish it hadn't taken me nearly a year between volume 4 and 5, because it is finally starting to make sense. While I did enjoy the anime, it left a lot of questions for me, questions which I'm finding answers to in the manga. I hope that the pace and cohesiveness continue.

Also, here is a mild SPOILER alert, Volume 7 seems to be the divergence point between the anime and the manga, at least for the main plot.


MAJOR SPOILERS: OMG, KNIVES' HAS AN ACTUAL BACKSTORY FOR WHY HE IS SO INCREDIBLY MESSED UP AND AGAINST HUMANS!? WHAT!? The anime just made him psychotic without a real reason. He was deprived of his right to be a meaningful villian, at least, that's the way it felt to me. This is what happens when humanity finds a new lifeform and their first impulse is to dissect it and then some of it's relations find out what you did. They go insane and start trying to commit genocide. ALSO, HUMANS CREATED THE PLANTS!? HOW WAS THAT ANSWER NOT IN THE ANIME!? It's like they were being deliberately obtuse! I do hope the manga actually goes into the how of creation a little bit, right now it feels a little obtuse too, but at least I'm getting something out of it.

[Juho Pohjalainen]

A good bunch of backstory, fleshing out characters, greying the morals - which is great. On the other hand, this sort of superpowered DBZ-esque slugfests can't hold my attention nearly as well as when Vash fights other humans.

[ju]

“i cant do anything about my regrets…
……
but for now, my hands still work.
it’s only when i’ve eased someone else’s sorrow…
…that it becomes easier to bear.
tomorrow…
…and the day after tomorrow.”

“upon this scorched earth…
…i shall unleash a darkness the likes of of which has never been seen since the dawn of time.”

the duality of these twins

[kazra]

happy days for who i ask

[Emma Ann]

This volume contains a few of my girlfriend’s favorite chapters, and I see why.

[Mel]

“If you hadn’t stopped me then, I would never know that when you cry, it looks like you’re laughing.” If that’s not an apt description of Vash’s bright smiles hiding his pain, what is.
Knives was actually a sweet kid…both anime adaptions show him as more unfeeling even as a child, so it was interesting to see him express wanting to understand other peoples hearts… well until :(
Poor Tessla
So many feels

[Miss Ryoko]

The intensity is picking up as Vash heads off to confront Knives...

and I may have shouted out "Oh hell no!" on page 181 ^_^

Unfortunately, I was still a little confused as to what was going on, but its getting better, so that's a plus!

On to volume 8!

[Cat]

Awesome learning about the backstory. This is wrapping up to such a climax...

[María Ferre]

¿Qué fue lo que pasó en el pasado de los gemelos para que Knives tomara como objetivo de su vida destruir todo atisbo de humanidad? ¿Y por qué Vash no tomó ese mismo camino? A pesar de que la experiencia fue exactamente la misma, la manera de racionarla y experimentarla difiere de uno a otro.
Entiendo a Knives perfectamente, lo que dice tiene sentido, pero quiere opacar el dolor con más muerte y destrucción que, al final, no le va a dar la felicidad que tanto busca (sobre todo porque eso significaría perder a su hermano y todos sabemos que eso es lo último que quiere). Por otro lado, también empatizo con la bondad de Vash y las ganas de querer ver siempre lo bueno en lo que la humanidad tenga que ofrecer. Sin embargo, tanta pasividad en un mundo tan caótico no es bueno ni para él ni para el planeta en general. Los dos son extremos demasiado exagerados de un medio que podrían lograr juntos si se lo propusieran. Dentro de su pesimismo, Wolfwood es el más coherente de todos.
Este tomo por fin se entiende en condiciones, no como los anteriores.

[Sunny]

I would never have thought that Tessla’s reveal to the twins would be so tragic. In the current Stampede adaptation it was very short, brushed off as one of Vash’s memories but in this volume it shows how deeply impacted they were by this discovery. How it crushed their hopes of getting along with humankind and increased their feelings of being different of others. Loneliness is what I think this volume really centered onto, of how a burden it can be to someone.

[una]

i don't think i'll ever get over vash's sheer brutality towards rem... how kind knives used to be in comparison... the most incredible chapter of all time. i'm hoping vash is an unreliable narrator of his memories in trigun stampede and that his memories of his youth and his shared time with rem and nai is distorted, it would play well into the depiction of knives as an abused becoming abuser that they're tapping into (and really well too, i'll admit).

[Nickonero]

Hablemos de plantas o de ¿seres multidimensionales?
¿Por qué nadie me había dicho que esto se volvía tan lovecraftiano y bíblico?
Yo sé que esta serie viene del boom que tuvo cowboy bebop y berserk, pero los niveles de 90's que hay aquí dentro me están rompiendo por dentro.
Es una obra maestra y sólo vamos por la mitad.
Que no se acabe.

[Jim]

jesus CHRIST

[Sol]

Esto ya ha salido en Stampede y la verdad es que muy parecido a lo que se ve en el manga. Y Wolfwood y Vash no pueden estar mas casados.

[⋆ ࣪˖ ִֶָ sel ་༘࿐]

I'm in shambles, no one talk to me.

[merlin513]

rating this one a 4 for the backstory, the artwork is still gorgeous and the action scenes are still as confusing as ever.

[baillie ★]

3.5 🌟

[Maggie]

"For tomorrow, and the day after tomorrow."
I need to lay down.

[Sof]

4.5/5 ⭐

Okayy this was my favorite one so far

[Alex]

Still think one of my favourite volumes

[Morgan]

Lots of backstory, lots of sad, and we cap it off with Knives and Vash together.

[Abby]

my girl rem

[meru]

"because there's no difference between human hearts and ours. right, vash?"

nos vamos pa'l hoyo pero de ya

[ღC.Tski ࿐]

This one broke me. Thanks a lot, Nightow. 🥲❤️

[Senia]

so fucking cool i say as i weep

[Dalton Scott]

So beautiful

[Dana]

Rem and Tessla backstory
Overhaul Text

[cj n]

oh so that’s why he’s like that

[Para (wanderer)]

Ooof this one was heartbreaking. The "happy days" part is a LIE. Some pretty big revelations and more of Vash's guilt. Nice to see where some stuff in tristamp comes from too.