Trigun Maximum, Volume 7: Happy Days Book

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.