I was so excited waiting for Trinity Blood volume X, but today's browse through it killed that. It's interminable boring talk talk talk and the presentation throughout of Esther as a very special star snowflake. Only Brother Petros brought things to life once in a while. Also, I wonder at Tres' reaction to something the pope does near the end
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I really wish someone else on my f'list was following the Trinity Blood manga, because I'm dying to discuss volume IX's "Gunmetal Hound" chapters with someone. I love Tres, but "Gunmetal Hound" turned my brain inside out. ( How it seemed to me (spoilers) )
Volume VIII of Trinity Blood was a big letdown for basically following the same basic range of plot points the anime did, and I didn't like this part of the anime series either. Kyujyo's art isn't enough to make up for that, or for how there's no Tres and Abel is basically a cameo. She expresses a longing to get back to the Vatican, and I really
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Volume VII of Trinity Blood isn't a favorite, but I'm still enjoying this version better than what the anime did with this arc. Much less getting moony-eyed over one another and far more of the Empire's culture and class systems. In the anime I reached some points where it all went on so long that it started to sound like "blah blah blah." Still,
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The Trinity Blood manga is continuing the rise in quality that started with volume III. Volume V has plot, drama, humor, and big things at stake for almost all the characters involved. I still want to punch Esther, though.
A list of my year of writing would have been much longer in the past, dammit. Pain, concentration issues, and life drama have gotten in the way of my ability to write.
*sigh* I'm looking for interior art for the Trinity Blood manga but my google fu is feeble. Tres in particular looks really different between the anime and the manga, though Abel also has some variances.