Trigun Stampede | Whose side are you on?

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Hi, I edited another Trigun video (!)
I have few motivation and energy to do things most of the time, for editing as well… I’m reeeeally slow 🐌 (and it’s ok, it’s ok to take your time I think 🐌🐌)
I started this project around March, the series was still on going 🐌🐌🐌 (I miss Stampede Saturdays a lot.)
(Colorings hate me, also YT quality, so sorry.)

Some notes:
• The video starts with the quote “Who are you running from?” with a scene of young Vash, it ends with adult Vash running;
• The lyrics “There are two sides of every story” (0:10) together with the scene of Vash in front of the two plants, the red one on the left and the blue one on the right, I found it pretty cool/clever to use it this way 👀 Also, we have the scene of young Vash before this one, the footprints of Knives on the left and young Vash on the right? THE PARALLELS! (love some good parallels.), if I want to stretch it a little further there’s also the scene of young Vash and young Knives playing the piano together and again, we have two sides, Vash on the left and Knives on the right;
• The lyrics that gave me inspiration for the whole video and for choosing this song, “Whose side are you on?” (0:53), it’s a recurring theme/quote throughout the whole series, we have Knives asking this to Vash at least two times, Roberto asks this, also Nebraska (the father of Gofsef) I think (?). Really thought-out thing, I put this scene/quote right before the chorus, when the song asks the same thing;
• Vash is being called in different ways from different people, I tried to focused on this as well, it starts with “Humanoid Typhoon” (from humans in general) and “monster” from Knives, but people close to Vash see him for who he really is? They care for him obviously and this is reflected on the way they call him too, so we have the “tongari/Spikey/Needle-noggin” used by Woolfwood, a more formal “Vash(san)” by Meryl, and then “Vash” by Rem.
I didn’t write subtitles for “Nai” and “Vash(san)” but I wrote the “Vash” by Rem at the end, because I think it’s basically the answer to the main question and focus of the video, “Whose side are you on?” // Vash is on Rem’s side and also on humans’ side, the humanity that Rem has sacrificed her life for;
• Another parallel, I used the scene where Knives slices the military’s bodies followed by the scene where Knives slices Rem’s head 🙃
• There’s the scene where Vash has a red geranium petal on his palm (01:14), I used the quote “I won’t kill anyone again” because that petal rapresents Rem, the geranium is her flower, and of course Vash doesn’t want to kill anyone because for her (not the only reason but it’s the most important one probably, it all started because of her);
• Who’s going to read all this (..), hello?

Info
– Editor: me (YamashitaAsuka)
– Song: https://youtu.be/uVlS4tleolw
– Series: https://myanimelist.net/anime/52093
– Programs: Sony Vegas, After Effects

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