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 Beneath the mega-roids, the ultra-weapons and the none-too-catchy name... this guy's actually a big wimp.

Episode 13. I should’ve known it’d be a recap. I figured it’d come a little later on, but we are at the halfway point already. I’m sure these probably would’ve been drag if you were watching this when it first came out and looking forward to new content every week, but I have to say these kind of episodes have always been helpful to remind me of just what the hell I’ve been watching. Maybe I haven’t been watching these as attentively as I could, but I find it a lot easier to remember what’s come before when I’m reading something serialized as opposed to watching it. You’d figure it’d be the opposite, what with your auditory memory being more lasting than your visual memory…

I’m starting to wonder if there might be some earlier anime that TRIGUN’s goofing on, because Vash sure as hell feels like a spoof of your average stone cold bad ass. Meryl speculates that all the foppery might be a calculated cover to hide his sinister nature, but man, I don’t figure a demon would ever act that ridiculous. Then again, if John Wayne Gacy spent a lot of time dressed as a clown…

I don’t know if any guy can properly have a reputation for womanizing when he never actually gets any women. For all his pick-up lines, the only action Vash has gotten so far is the kind involving diving for cover. Then again, they do start dropping hints that Meryl’s got a thing for him in this one - - she has that Freudian slip, her eyes drift down to his package, and so on - - so maybe this is a case of her “protesting too much” and projecting a possibly non-existent reputation on Vash.

Then again, maybe that’s giving this show a little too much credit when it comes to psychology. It’s not like it’s EVA...  

Watch this episode, “Vash the Stampede,” below and decide for yourself, then read my comments on the previous episode here.      

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" Oh no not the recap!! No!!! "

No this isn't eva but I don't think your reading gives the show to much credit.  I mean most all anime gets at least that deep.  But no this show isn't eva (though it does get deeper) 

What redeems this episode was some of the more subtle touches it gives, such as Meryl's little slip up. We also see the price not killing anyone has cost Vash on his body.

" Actually, the part of the rumor of Vash being a womanizer was based off thee man we met in the first episode. The one Milly and Meryl first met and mistook for Vash. 

I've never been a fan of the recap. It's time wasted watching stuff I already saw once before. It's one of the herdles preventing me from watching Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood. I already watched one version of this anime, and Brotherhood starts off the very same way. I can't just avoid several of the first episodes. 

" @zaldar said:

No this isn't eva but I don't think your reading gives the show to much credit.  I mean most all anime gets at least that deep.  But no this show isn't eva (though it does get deeper) 

Deeper psychological profiles doesn't necessarily mean better, but it is worth noting that, at least so far, this doesn't look like it'll get into all that talk of hidden motivations and so on like EVA did. "