Finished trigun episode 23. I thought this show was a comedy but this joint getting
depressing
Every anime
@42 Monks watches/rates just hits the FEELS train after a certain point. First penguindrum now this.
This episode gives a backstory of a reckless person named Wolfwood who grew up rough. He then became a preacher with a cross-machine gun (dualities) and started an orphanage. The person who helped him survive ended up being a gungho gun which means he was vash's enemy all along. He had the orphanage taken from him as a bargaining chip to cooperate against vash.
He threw Vash in the bushes to save people before it makes sense for his character. The previous episode they made the guy who's whole mantra is running an orphanage to save the innocence of kids have to murk a kid (which is wild to think a protagonist would do) in order to save vash. They spent half of episode 23 grieving on the decision and not knowing what was right.
When he finally is forced to make a decision, he helps vash and fights his mentor instead. He could have bodied his mentor too but to decided to show mercy. Instead of finishing him, he took his apple from him and ate it referencing the garden of eden. The one time he shows mercy instead of just ending the person immediately (like he would if vash didnt get in his head) it doesn't work out for him and hes fatally injured himself.
He talks to vash like a preacher would to a person (which is flipped since its usually vash preaching to him) and goes off to a church
He bears his cross-weapon in a church (with his shadow looking like hes on the cross) and gives a confessional saying he understands everything now after his last encounter with his mentor (where he bit the apple of knowledge) but its too late. He contemplates his life decisions and dies.
Also managed to squeeze time in to smash Mellie
Powerful episode