I rewatched Trigun stampede after reading the manga and I geeked out because there is a scene where Vash is preparing to go up against Knives and he starts altering/modifying his bullets using his angel arm powers. I want to believe that this little detail in the show is a reference to that 😩👌🏻
Ah, so I noted something, forgive me if this has been pointed out before- I haven’t seen a post touching on this.
Here in episode 1 we see Vash load a single “man made” bullet into the cylinder (the individual slot is the chamber).
These man made bullets have shells (technical term is cartridge casing). Later you can see him ejecting the shells in episode 3 (this gif is kind of dark, you have to look closely, but it’s there), before he reloads. He then reloads 8 bullets in ~1.1 seconds in episode 3.
In episode twelve he is again shooting and reloading what I believe are man made bullets a number of times (sometimes he loads a single bullet, then he starts loading all eight). You can again see the shells flying as they’re being ejected right as he opens to reload.
But then, THEN he begins to create/use “void” bullets (the ones with the same plant designs that you see on Vash and Knives).
When he goes to reload - there’s no empty shells to eject. You can see it pretty well in the gif above, after this he takes eight shots, and then uses the speed loader- I watched it a couple times and I’m not seeing that he has to empty the shells.
* there’s a lot of moving and action and scene cuts in this episode, so I may have missed something but I’m fairly certain the void bullets don’t have shells (correct term - cartridge casing). Which is just… kinda cool?
He’s also spinning the cylinder here - which shortens the reload time. ~.8 seconds for 8 bullets, based on my crappy video editor.
You guys ever start drawing or rendering a sketch late at night and then wake up the next day and it’s either the most beautiful thing you’ve ever created or it’s something that makes you question whether or not you should call yourself an artist?
I’m almost done with two of the art pieces I’ve been working on (both Trigun / Arcane) related) but in the meantime here is a self portrait I did last semester that is my profile pic right now!!
I might do another one since I don’t have pink streaks in my hair anymore and it is longer
Also I’ve been finding myself opening tumblr more than instagram. I wish I would’ve downloaded it sooner 👀