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Anime DVD Review: Trigun 2 - Lost Past

Video:
As with the first volume, the video was quite disappointing overall. My main concerns were with the rainbows present through the whole disc. Once again the rainbows are frequent and quite noticeable and I thought really annoying. There’s the average amount of artefacts about the place, but they aren’t too bad. The aliasing throughout the show also seems to be quite frequent and noticeable in several spots also.

Packaging:
As with the first volume, this cover has a really good picture of Vash. This time the Humanoid Typhoon is sitting on a rock holding his gun under the moon while his sunglasses flash. It’s a great picture, though again it doesn’t look to be of very high quality. The back cover has a little information about the show and a few pictures and looks quite the opposite to the darker cover on the front. On the inside is a double-sided promotion for Steel Angel Kurumi.

Menus:
Using the same menu design from the previous volume, the menu starts up with a rusty screen that has a picture of Vash (from the cover) slapped onto it. The options then appear and several steel bars also get thrown onto the screen before the logo appears at the top. All content is easy to access from this menu and everyone comes up nice and fast, even with a transitional animation between the main the extras menus.

Extras:
The first ‘extra’ on this disc again is the Trigun trailer that is just there for the sake of filling up a spot on the list. Next up are some mechanical designs and an image gallery, providing 25 pictures of each. The final extra on the disc is the Madman Propaganda that has the trailers for: Spirited Away, Real Bout High School, Robotech, Excel Saga and Noir.

Content:

The second volume of Trigun begins with Vash in a bar that’s being held up by some robbers. Of course our brave hero steps in to stop the bandits in his own comical way, while the towns people are definitely thankful for what Vash had done, they put there guns to his head for they desperately need the money to fix the broken power plant in there town. Vash being the slippery weasel manages to escape and keep the whole town at bay for several hours until eventually a pair of goons’ show up and start destroying the town and risking the people’s lives. Vash steps up to fight these people and defend the very people trying to kill him. Defending the town from these people, Vash allows them to submit the villains to the authorities as they have a large bounty on there heads themselves and would cover the cost to repair the plant.

When the plant engineers eventually come in a giant steam tank, the main engineer is a beautiful women whom our girl crazy Vash of course falls for. While the woman is very sweet and kind overall (despite her calling Vash, Spot…) she hides a deep secret from Vash and actually is after his life at any cost, even the entire town.

The final episode is about Vash boarding the steam roller to move onto the next town, it’s the first of a two parter and shows Vash helping a boy who’s gone a little off the tracks in life and trying to save the roller full of passengers.

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