Vash Shoots Knives and Destroys July

Flashback from episode 26 of Trigun.
Trigun is owned by Yasuhiro Nightow.

[@planetaryequinox8949]

“I’m just gonna go ahead and blast your arm off and then turn your other arm into a mega cannon. Wait, why are you pointing it at me?” - Famous last words

[@lewa3910]

I'm a genius, OH NO!

[@edgeninja]

The English voiceactor for Knives sadly just passed away from lung cancer. His name was Kirk Baily (credited in Trigun as Bo Williams). He had extensive voiceacting credits going back decades.

[@amuroray9115]

RIP. He was a GOAT

[@thezenitsufan1249]

He was also Ug on Salute Your Shorts

[@rm2kking]

Oh wow… as a cancer survivor myself, I’m very sorry to hear that. Rest In Peace.

[@jmonie02]

Rip. Thanks for sharing.

[@shiroutheherotraceon3313]

Rest in Peace.

[@MrThirtyH]

"Are you seriously going to shoot me again?" -Quote from man shot

[@kylej9759]

again

[@ElegeantFencer]

"HUAAAAAAAAGH!!!!!!"

[@Princeofgames37]

Aaahahahaha 🤣🤣🤣

[@mightsaber]

Why'd he activate the gun if he didn't want to be shot at lmao

[@sorbetandgelato4284]

@@mightsaber I dunno

[@HeruruMeruru]

"Things will be better by July" July:

[@atombombdolphin96]

2020 be like

[@TheAceLewis]

Damn

[@rnick123]

Lmao

[@poloman3754]

0:40 When you leave your house in 2020.

[@epautrat3515]

You lie!!!! xD

[@4nyth1n94]

Lol Knives actually thought that he wasn't going to get shot again. *Again*

[@pearljaime2]

Blonde guy with funny hair shoots kitchen utensils and destroys a month.

[@ibis03]

Average day in July

[@lovetownsend]

"ARE YOU ACTUALLY GONNA SHOOT ME AGAIN, HHHHHUUUHHHH!?!" so good

[@ZenkaiGamingZ]

BOOM!

[@betaraytasty5109]

I love how he says it all smug at first, then loses his composure saying it a second time.

[@seancoleman1896]

I think he says "VASH" instead of "HUH" but still one of my favorite lines

[@TazHall]

Knives is such a gaslighter, poor Vash.

[@WeslleyCavalcanti]

@@seancoleman1896 In the japanese version he says "Vaaaaashhuu"

[@pookiebearv2859]

The Original Dante and Virgil

[@MaximilianoAedo]

Seeing Knives humiliate Vash and then try to force him to kill innocents with the Angel Arm, only for Vash to aim the Angel Arm at him is the most memorable moment of the anime for me. The most amazing part is that Knives actually went into a coma for 23 years because of this.

[@zaire3786]

What's a vash

[@waskowcreationsart9639]

@@zaire3786 a humanoid typhoon

[@Esoteric-maiden]

@@waskowcreationsart9639 a $$60 billion one too 😏

[@jmonie02]

lol i love this anime

[@hcnye]

@@zaire3786 Funny

[@elkin2567]

The music in this scene really brings it home. Like a dream

[@R0-83-RT]

Interestingly enough the music track here is called "Not an Angel", which leaves many implications that can be read into.

[@blazingkhalif2]

@@R0-83-RTthanks for the name king

[@frogglen6350]

That "Hey there Vash" sounds so generous

[@Max25670]

The somber-melodic music makes this scene even more intense. The scoring for the Trigun anime is 10/10.

[@tuilleri]

What other tracks sound like it ?

[@MB-oq9px]

The scene:🗡🩸⚰️🪦💀 The music:🏖🏝🏜☀️

[@joshuak5958]

"Are you actually going to shoot me again? HUAAAAGGH!?" To a guy you shot less than forty-five seconds ago.

[@THEdudeproductions]

It's "Are you actually going to shoot me again?! VAAAASH!!?"

[@THEdudeproductions]

Took me a min to pick up on it.

[@kujojotaro1395]

"Are you actually going to shoot me again?!" To the man whos whole arm he just shot off

[@Z.O.1991]

Johnny Yong Bosch's very first voice acting job

[@stupidthehedgehog3266]

Really?

[@foodforthought92]

Trigun was before Akira?

[@Fuchimy18]

What about zeo

[@katakurifan5213]

Fuchimy18 That wasn’t voice acting .

[@richardsmith9519]

@@katakurifan5213 kinda was since they dubbed over the Japanese footage

[@doctorquack1399]

It always confused me as to why Vash pointed his Angel Arm at Knives, being pacifist and deep down still caring for his brother and all. Maybe at this point in time he really considered taking revenge for good. However now I think I get it. He didn't intend to kill Knives, which he shows by not pointing the cannon higher where it was sure to be fatal. Vash pointed his Angel Arm at Knives in a bid to make him turn it off. However, Knives saw through Vash, and instead seemingly welcomed this opportunity to twist him further, taunting Vash by reminding him of the first time he shot Knives.

[@ThisBruh]

I think Vash just simply hit his boiling point, was sick of knive's shit and snapped

[@1986Hikaru]

Nah, Knives is a dumb MF in this anime and f-around and found out.

[@scarlightemperor3410]

​@@ThisBruh that seems the general Consensus. But Vash still loves his brother and love and peace. So it's hard to tell if he did break.

[@ThisBruh]

@@scarlightemperor3410 I feel like he broke to a certain point, and when his angel arm activated for the first time he’s like “WTF” making his emotions even more in a spiral so he doesn’t know what to think and just reacted by pointing it at the person who caused him to feel this way without really thinking

[@GT_rising24]

I think Vash realized He couldn't turn the blast off so He decided to point it at Knives knowing that Knives' plant body can contain as much of the raw energy as possible to avoid more damage from being caused

[@Shirraz87]

That scream from Knives NEVER fails to give me chills.

[@ifu138]

Randomly decided to watch Trigun again for the first time in years and it's so sad and strange to find out that Kirk Bailey/Bo Williams died just a few weeks ago.

[@c.galindo9639]

This is some really intense stuff. With how they make the scene seem so realistic in their disagreement with each other. This show is phenomenal

[@RSA548]

Are you seriously going to shoot me again vaaaAAAAAAAAAASSSSSSHHHHHHHHHHHH

[@Sitruk86]

1:15 one of my favorite scenes in anything ever

[@lovetownsend]

Agreed, the voice line is delievered perfectly.

[@poloman3754]

same

[@hamburgerdog25]

I love how hes not even scared, hes just pissed that hes getting shot again

[@macobeid1943]

Knives is such a great villian

[@blackbulls8783]

Legato is a better villain

[@leo0117]

@@blackbulls8783 but legato was a tool, yet no one made vash suffer more

[@johnm9489]

Spittin

[@Kosthoms]

When I was young I used to compare Knives and Vicious from Cowboy Bebop

[@sideeggunnecessary]

Not a very smart one lol

[@WaywardRobot]

I don't know what is it about Trigun that makes the most serious moments kind of funny as well, but it doesn't fall flat on its face, and you can actually take it in. Like when the girls see his scars, but then he gets comically embarrassed, good writing imo.

[@rahn45]

It's so weird to compare this scene to how it's presented in Trigun Stampede...

[@capedluna]

even more if you look at the manga.

[@91Definite]

It's sad how his brother made such a awful weapon to his arm smh

[@Constantine7]

91Definite Rip good anime

[@ChickenScratchComedy]

You spelled awesome wrong

[@thisguy9733]

It's kinda strange knives healed his missing limbs

[@keithfilibeck2390]

@@thisguy9733 he used the body of other Plants, in the Manga.

[@thisguy9733]

@@keithfilibeck2390 thank you other people have been telling me in other videos that a plant can just heal themselves from any damage this guy went all corpse walker

[@justfuzz8796]

At first the background music sounded unfitting but I watched this scene again a few times and it grew on me

[@lordblazer]

it's pretty fitting when you watch this episode in its entirety.. Vash found his connection to Rem, her uncle. And Knives takes that from him. Vash hasn't seen his brother in 100 years and the first time he sees him, he has yet again betrayed Vash.. The music is perfect, it's sentimental.

[@trashboat6215]

the way Knives casually greets Vash as he enters the room with a wave and a smile as those bright synthesizers begin humming while Vash is immediately on the verge of tears, trembling before another human life cut down by his own brother, is really disturbing to me. that light hearted music really made this scene very unique, unsettling, and almost creepy even.

[@MrHigherplane]

Are you stupid? Its perfect!

[@xetchrono2034]

Its perfectly fitting. As mentioned before its sentimental. It makes the scene even more sad than if it played a typical disaster sort of theme

[@ghostflask]

It’s my favorite part

[@poloman3754]

Music was a nice addition to this scene.

[@Vikashar]

Rest in peace Kirk Bailey 💔

[@Hatychify]

“Hey there Vash!”

[@clairenime]

The scene 💀 the music 🌸🤗🌸

[@mrmorgangatsu]

"What's the use of growing up if the only thing that grows, is your useless sentimentalism?" A quote so applied to real life.

[@MrInuhanyou123]

Note that knives is a psychopath who wants to genocide the human race

[@CloudyWolf713]

Everything alright?

[@edwardknox9269]

The way they amplify that yell at the end is perfect

[@TheTitandragon100]

1:25 EXTREME CLOSE UP!!!!

[@note4note804]

Vash loved life so much that when he had the choice to aim a doomsday weapon up to avoid collateral damage to a town or at his hated brother, he killed everyone just for the chance to kill someone.

[@eduardmazilescu3846]

Well he didn't know what it was at first and he couldn't control it. Besides, nobody died directly because of vash in july, his angel arm doesn't seem to damage organic material(according to the wiki), the samurai dude also survived while in range of the blast.

[@pg8835]

@@eduardmazilescu3846 unfortunately tho the july incient led to widespread famine and destitution since any form of infrastructure was obliterated, so hundreds of thousands of people died from starvation, dehydration, violence upon one another.

[@eduardmazilescu3846]

@@pg8835 that's true, but he didn't kill everyone

[@predeterminedmeat5024]

@@eduardmazilescu3846 actually in the manga everybody died in July

[@trunkskoolkid]

@@predeterminedmeat5024 incorrect, the events of July played out the same in both manga and anime.

[@photonbritside1760]

R.I.P Kirk Bailey counselor Ug...aka he voiced Knives

[@howlbigbadwolf]

Of all the times he can dodge gunfire, this is the one incident that he didn't that cost him the most at the time imo.

[@andruism7]

It was a shitty time of year anyways, I say skip straight on 'til August.

[@OfLanceTheLonginus]

Underrated

[@jmonie02]

Regardless how you feel about them, they are living beings. They deserve to live.

[@cleangoblin2021]

I blame that plantphobic bastard on their spaceship. Knives could have been a good guy. Well i guess with Knives knocked out again, when he wakes up, maybe Vash has changed the world and Knives reconsider being a good ruler to the world they were destined to save

[@jmonie02]

@@cleangoblin2021 it was because the plants were being used. Of course that plant hater made it worse. Knives wanted to save the plants. Vash wanted to save both somehow but... Oh well. Knives was trippin

[@capedluna]

Honestly, I can see Knives reason. Especially the manga reason and Trigun Stampede reason. Humans did some real shit. And humans barely learn mistakes without several lessons. I would love to have Vash's outlook on humans, I try to keep it positive.

[@josephmclaughlin6191]

"You should have aimed for the head"-Knives

[@evilbutterfly8]

Vash: AGH! Call an ambulance!!...But not for me *shoots Knives again*

[@atoner8771]

Knives' primal scream at 1:24 always gets me. RIP Kirk Baily.

[@ImmaNort]

Knives: Umad bro?

[@gideonmeyer7862]

"Vash, take care of Knives...!"

[@kidneystone1345]

I think the voice and dialogue of knives is way better the first time this scene appears at ep17, this is the ep26

[@galevisarah]

Agreed

[@THEdudeproductions]

Glad they improved on it.

[@BaoGiang114]

0:34 " I am the bone of my sword 　　Steel is my body and fire is my blood 　　I have created over a thousand blades 　　Unknown to death 　　Nor known to life 　　Have withstood pain to create many weapons 　　Yet those hands shall never hold anything 　　So, as I pray, Unlimited Blade Works "

[@yungspidey5827]

Archer? Lol

[@gooddoggo2831]

I think it’d be really funny if during the last fight between knives and vash knives every time vash fires a shot at him he asks that

[@stupidthehedgehog3266]

Top 10 Anime Bromances.

[@brandonogc8936]

Rogue one's death star in anime form

[@mangakey]

Later Knives is actually surprised Vash shot him......

[@trashboat6215]

one of the most profound shows ever made

[@dotsdot5608]

DID YOU JUST SHOT AT ME!!1!

[@jeremytung1632]

Seriously you name someone Knives and are surprised when he grows up to be a psychopath?

[@jmonie02]

I can't understand how Vash's arm popped off like a cricket's leg

[@OfLanceTheLonginus]

I love knifes va Rest easy man, rest easy

[@someguy8627]

Nice black humor , Knives.

[@unchartedterritory4743]

Vash didn't destroy July knives did. Vash didn't even know that he had that type of power and when Knives activated that light Vash could not control it. He held onto all that guilt over something he wasn't even responsible for. At that moment Knives used Vash as a weapon. It's odd how people can fall into such a trap, I found myself in that same trap but I had to understand what was my baggage and what baggage belonged to other people. If allow others to blame you for their shortcomings or mistakes you'll carry that undue burden with you. It's okay to say and to let others know it wasn't your fault. Also it's okay to get away from toxic people even if it's your family.

[@khaosApophis]

Knives is wild my boi definitely top tier villain .

[@Mars_over_seer]

A thing I never realized until after reading the manga, is how Knives is blown up here. In the manga, it explains that Legato and some scientist are reviving him after the incident. But the anime, his revival process and cut that plot line out entirely. Eventhough the manga was completed. Maximum however, was still ongoing.

[@Devilman6066]

An anime lost in time, and rarely on the lists of top 90's anime. I own the entire manga, and this is one of the few cases where the anime actually manages to beat the original manga. It did the humor way better and tightened up the pace. After nearly twenty years, it's still my favorite.

[@ifu138]

I might be wrong but doesn't the anime have the original story/ending since the manga got cancelled due to the magazine going bust or something so they finished the story up with the anime instead? Even though the manga was later continued I just never liked how it ended up compared to the anime.

[@greylark2759]

@@ifu138 idk how to explain it but I like certain parts of each more. Like I prefer Wolfwood’s manga death cause it’s so heartbreaking the fact that he’s beside Vash. And I prefer the anime ending of the gunfight. I also prefer the fact that the anime gave the insurance girls a bigger role.

[@greylark2759]

It’s insane that you actually have the full manga set. I have the original 2, the trigun max from 1-9 and then the omnibus that has 10-12. I’m going insane looking for 13 or 14. You are one lucky guy

[@capedluna]

Gonna disagree. I find the manga just a bit more interesting. I really wish the manga got more love . I prefer Wolfwood's death in there as well as his backstory and Livio and Razlo's fight. Zazie as well,hell the anime was just dipping into the plot.

[@nootnoot7088]

@@capedluna Agreed, I also prefer the manga over the anime. For me, the manga's emotional moments made me cry more than the anime did, like Wolfwood's death. Plus the manga made the characters more complex, especially Vash and Knives. Like I love how they showed that being a pacifist is an active choice Vash makes every time and is not because he's naturally good-hearted (in fact, I would argue that Manga Vash isn't even naturally good-hearted. Being extremely kind to humans was just something he learned or internalized). And that Knives didn't always hate humans and was in fact very excited at first to befriend them.

[@RukudoSage69]

I would REALLLY like to know how they both survived that...but unfortunately we never will...

[@RukudoSage69]

João Pedro So who exactly are the plants? Mutants, aliens, genetically engineered humans?

[@ozaybooze2498]

trigun

[@Justino172]

João Pedro but not the humans discover this beings? And not create them?

[@marcjanverdelantar9605]

they are humanoid creatures that was born out of a spaceship's powerplant, and they themselves are like batteries. The color of their hair represent the remaining energy of themselves as plant, it turns white as they deplete their plant reserves.

[@ThyFloorestFloor]

It is implied that Vash's angel arm can only harm inorganic materials, and whatever harm it does occurs of you're shot directly.

[@jmonie02]

I watch this from time to time. Jesus talking to satan.

[@Under_Sky_Third_Gaia]

It do be like that sometimes

[@joehand2156]

Can't believe this is ug lee from Salute Your Shorts who does knives voice

[@MrFlame2906]

Should've aimed for the head ✨👌😎

[@zeuqramaicrag]

At the time, I had no particular complaints about this content, but when I see the new one, I still think to myself, "This is old content. The manga doesn't seem old at all.

[@ivaldo300]

soundtrack perfect

[@PS3PS2fan]

I'd say the dub version in this scene was better since there was a lot of emotion. But I'm no elitist.

[@robertdenniston5858]

Vash aimed it at his brother who he hated and loved to try to save lives. He knew at that moment Knives could not change just like he did all those years ago in the desert the 1st time he shot him. I think Vash knew the power of the angel arm, knew there were going to be innocent victims one way or another with how devastating of a weapon it is, and so his only choice was to aim it at the producer of his pain and hatred. In my mind this whole story is Vash accepting his power, and accepting that he is a weapon. But that he can be a weapon for good, used against those that are evil. Which til the very end he; did not, could not, or would not, see. As obvious as it was to us watching that taking out the evil men was the only choice. Right and wrong don’t matter when faced with malice and hatred for life.

[@dakotacummings2699]

We need a live movie starring Charlie hunnam and Travis fimmel

[@Megamibunny]

Kirk Baily rip and thank you.

[@cleangoblin2021]

Music is amazing

[@sorbetandgelato4284]

Knives ARE U GONNA SHOOT ME AGAIN ?? me: WHAT THE HELL DOES IT LOOK LIKE ????

[@IAEMThatIAEM]

This is supposed to be our origins of humanity. Knives is the devil, Vash is Jesus, and of course, our blessed mother is REM

[@Eleven217]

"What are you going to do, shoot me?" [ *shoots him* ]

[@starstuff5371]

That is the voice of Kirk baily who played Kevin Lee on salute your shorts as knoves

[@wolves_blade4788]

Always thought Trinity Blood main protagonist and villain and they're backstories were almost identical

[@Thomas-te2lg]

1:03 Your father to you during garbage day.

[@starstuff5371]

Knives looks like a animated version of Ken Osmond

[@thehulk86]

some 20 years after first seeing this anime I'm still wondering how Knives managed to shoot OFF Vash's arm with what looks to be a normal (i.e. non space magic bullshit techno) gun

[@MazingerDestro]

"But Eva is the deepest show" Me: Nope

[@jacoblarkins2185]

There fighting les to the explosion and destruction of a major city and vash moves away and they destroy a super mega city as well and there fight led to the deaths of millions

[@poloman3754]

Hey there Vash

[@lawrence2824]

Hey there!!!

[@rei2354]

"are you going to shoot me again?!" narrator's voice: he is going to shit him again

[@eveningstar4543]

Vash should have gone bankai!

[@MrZlocktar]

It was done infinitely better in Trigun Stampede. They did it justice. But we will still remember this version of Trigun in our hearts.

[@johndan1760]

def not

[@cafe5749]

NOT JULY! no my favorite month

[@Samurai_1010]

🔥

[@rocky_Sullivan_69]

tesla's death changed knive's life for the worst

[@galevisarah]

This scene is from the recap, and tbh I prefer the voice acting in the original scene better.

[@willjoyce5013]

Watching Stampede, had to go back for the OG. Still hate anime Knives over manga but here for the classic art and Vash

[@OfLanceTheLonginus]

Aye mang

[@matthewmammothswine4395]

Stampede was sooo good I hope you watched all 12 episodes. It’s not like the original anime, but it’s amazing in its own right.

[@willjoyce5013]

​@@matthewmammothswine4395 i did lol and while I love the original anime I preferred the manga so Knives being actual Knives and not some bitch punk version of Vash was great. The final fight was so much better too, they did the Angel Arms so well. The amazing part was how they tied it in as a prequel

[@matthewmammothswine4395]

@@willjoyce5013 I know right! I feel like that last few episodes really answered a lot of peoples critiques and questions about the show. Very excited for next season 👌

[@ProudLeader]

Ножи пытался сдержаться, но диалог с Вашем вывел в нем обиду которую он копил столетие. Странно видеть как лицо человека который не одобрял эмоции своих подопечных, искривляется в гневе

[@ryuuronin9852]

So are we not gonna talk about how Knives managed to sever an ENTIRE ARM with one bullet?

[@Dakayto]

It depends on the gun and the impact of the bullet, but it actually can happen in real life scenarios. I assume that Knives is also a professional gunslinger so he knew where to shoot to disarm Vash (no pun intended). The real kicker is that Vash can grow back a new arm at any given time with his plant like regenerative abilities, but he chose not to because it would make him feel less like a human.

[@nervling04]

@@Dakayto similarly to Knives having a fresh pair of legs by the final episode, after Vash blew them away in this scene.

[@theskipper7305]

So how did knives shoot Vash's entire arm off with just one shot from a basic revolver? And how did knives get the black revolver away from vash if he got blasted by the angel arm? I maybe remembering this wrong but wasn't he comatose from the blast?

[@Eric_Nomad_Hixtone]

Plants can put some of their energy into bullets making them a small black holes, but that was not explored in the animé, just manga. In the manga he had more abilities in general

[@born325]

What is the background music???

[@anticrissis]

+Chris Sebastion "Not An Angel", search the trigun ost

[@jns6320]

what is the music that plays?

[@anticrissis]

+JN S Not An Angel

[@zeroXshinobi]

Why didn’t knives move?

[@ashsama672]

Are you actually gonna shoot me again

[@Natef89]

Was never really cool with this scene due to the nature of his arm getting shot off so nonchalantly. I felt like it was kinda glazed over. Should have been a more dramatic method to remove his arm.

[@SpaceGhostFan]

Does anyone know the ost used in this particular clip?

[@anticrissis]

"Not An Angel"

[@SleepyRickyC92]

@@anticrissis Was this music actually playing during this scene, or did you add this for comedic effect?

[@anticrissis]

@@SleepyRickyC92 It's the original soundtrack.

[@SleepyRickyC92]

@@anticrissis got it thanks. Strange music choice