I'm not like, IN LOVE and going to marry Spiral or anything, but I don't hate it. It's good when you're in the right mood. It's like...angsterific in a different was from Fullmetal Alchemist. like...Um...Angtsy like Weiss Kruz kinda.. Something someone who likes Gundam SEED would REALLY enjoy (Again, don't hate it, but I won't go all...Otakreg over it ^_^. Man, he practically died when I gave him that pretty boy SEED doll. It was funny)
Pretty Boy angst with lots of childhood drama and family issues. Most likely in control of Dangerous weapons （Or Brain weapons, like, from the pretty boy evil brain fund or whatever） and the prettiest ones will be in some sort of World ending Doom organization. ^_^
Much Doujinshi ensues >_<
I think these series are MADE for Doujin. And Pencil Boards <3.
Anyway, Kino's Journey is something Americans find REALLY REALLY REALLY boring.
I love it, but I would. It's really slow, but it's contemplative. Something you watch when you have time on your hands and want to see good art、And think about like…life and….motorcycles <3. There's an OVA of it too (I think).
The manga is really really long, and even prettier (<3).
Art is just fantastic, but I SWEAR I can't tell Kino's gender. I've heard it both ways and I don't think it was ever stated ANYWHERE. Like Kurapika.
RAUGH.
<3
But anyway, the anime for Trigun did Horribly in Japan. It didn't sell AT ALL. Granted, it was a time when OVAs were A lil’ more popular, and no one was buying TV. stuff, but it STILL did badly.
About the same time as Cowboy Bebop and Outlaw Star Came out. Lots of Sci Fi westerns, and it did the WORST in Japan out of all of them that came over, which is sad, because it's my favorite.
Here Outlaw star did the worst....because well....Ugh.
The kid's cute. <3
Anyway, I think the manga did all right, it's like, one of those series that a lot of people bought the manga for, but the manga and anime differed SO MUCH, that the people who bought the manga fist didn't bother with the anime, and it didn't do well on it's own because it was hard to make sense out of unless you seriously paid attention. Something Japanese people don't seem to like doing. Different from EVA, because that's not actually SUPPOSED to make sense. Gainax likes it that way <3.
But, the manga did o...kaaaay, but no awesome. What allowed it not to die painfully was it's INSANE popular-ness in the states. Apparently, they did a Mini re-released in Japan for it, after all the money they made from America, and it did a little better (At least they had figures and toys made this time. Not a ton, but a few. ^_^)
Still didn’t do great, as well, it wasn’t the first time, and things never do as well the second time.
I think trigun just came out five years too early for itself in Japan. They weren’t ready for it. I mean, I think it was just putting too many different things in there for them, Comedy, romance, Sci Fi, western, mastcots,…Just too much for them to deal with at that point、When even the whole Cowboy thing itself was new. At that time, there were lots of Space things, and they were gearing up For the Cutesy Revolution. .They didn’t see where it was going, and it took too much out of them to think about it. Plus, it was SO drastically different from the manga, they just got totally lost。That’s happened a few times with good series. Where like, the re-release does A little Better , just because there’s more of that type then, so it’s not as alternative. Like How Ozzy used to be what freaks liked, and now everyone and their parents like it.
And...Wow, that's a lot of ramble.
