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Progression
After evading being actually tagged as Vash: the Stampede, our hero (such as he is) is revealed and even Merril is convinced, though not exactly happy about it. Thus revealed an entire town tries to kill him, one family with a combined height of 40 feet shows up, another beautiful woman who manages to sweep Vash right of his feet, and the dark side. Vash has a past that is starting to catch up with him. Things just get even more topsie-turvy in this installment, but what can you expect with $$60,000,000,000 on your head.

The humor is just as good as the in the first volume and the action is even more fun to watch. To tell you the truth I'm a little upset because now I'm going to buy the rest of the series. It isn't exactly cheap at [price] a DVD, and now there are only three epsiodes per DVD until the finale in volume 8, or so I hear. Either way, if you've got the coin and you loved the first one, the second one won't let you down.

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Begins to evolve into the "Trigun" I know and love
This video contains episodes 5-8 of the series. Essentailly, it contains two two-parters that begin to open up the continuity of the series. These episodes also begin to take on a darker, more sinister tone.

The first two episodes revolve around an entire town that sets out to capture Vash and collect the reward on his head in order to save their town. The writing is very good, drawing the townspeople as good people put into an impossible situation. The real Vash begins to emerge here, as well - the good-hearted wanderer who lives to promote love and peace and takes pains to avoid hurting anyone. Part one ends with a wonderful action sequence and Vash declaring the world made of 'love and peace.' One of the memorable moments of the series.

Part two, "Lost July" is one of my favorite episodes. Vash's mysterious past begins to unfold when a woman from his past (sort of) comes to get revenge on the man who she believes destroyed her town. The episode ends with her weeping in Vash's arms, unable to reconcile the destroyer of July with the gentle, unselfish man she meets. Emotionally satisfying.

The other two episodes detail Vash's confrontation with Brillance Dynamite Neon and his gang. That BDN is not one of the strangest villians in this show says quite a bit about the level of creativity here. Not as good as the previous episodes, but better than the first batch. This two-parter is essentially Die Hard on a train, serving up some nifty action sequences and situations, and giving us our first glance of Rem Savrem. Reccommended.

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Love and Peace!!
The only thing that I even slightly have a problem with is that there are only three episodes on this DVD! Kind of makes me wonder why, especially since Vol. 1 had four.

But this is a very small bone to pick with the second installment of-hands down--one of the best Anime series ever. Gotta love the wandering samouri looking for redemption--a redemption that, at this point in the series, is still a mystery.

Usually slow frame-by-frame motion of a climatic scene really drives me nuts. However in the episode "Hard Puncher," it's handled with a great finesse--the sheer beauty of the animation itself. It would have been very easy to mess this scene up, but they pulled it off. Good job!

Since the series has very fine threads of information that are slowly woven together throughout the series, I highly recommend starting at Vol. 1 and going all the way in chronological order to enjoy Trigun at its finest.