Firefly = Trigun?
POSTED BY: jealousghost
UPDATED: Wednesday, February 11, 2004 13:27
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If you like anime, you've most likely seen "Trigun". If you like Trigun AND Firefly, you've probably seen the similarities. So, what do you think?
Mal = Vash?
Book = Wolfwood?
Meryl = Inara?
Milly = Kaylee?
Legato = Niska?
futuristic space shootin' em up goodness for all 
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Hello, first time posting. I think it's a little more like the cowboy bebop show. With the dark past and blues themes. There is a lot of fist fights and gun battles too :)
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The scene with River in the box was VERY remenicient of Outlaw Star. Very fun anime, btw.
Jayne: "How big a room?"
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It's been said there are only five basic plots in all of human literature (and life). I'm sure that even with thousands of varients within those five basic plots, there are still only so many stories that can be told.
A good story-teller doesn't tell a new story - there is no such thing (only people who are young enough for it to be new to them).
A good story-teller tells a new spin on an old story.
"What has been will be again, what has been done will be done again; there is nothing new under the sun."
-Ecclesiastes 1:9
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Originally posted by Tom:
Hello, first time posting. I think it's a little more like the cowboy bebop show. With the dark past and blues themes. There is a lot of fist fights and gun battles too :)
That's true too. I love Bebop. Thanks for your insight
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actually...if you look
Firefly has elements from Cowboy Bebop, Serial Experiments Lain, and Outlaw Star...
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*shivers happily with the mention of Lain*
My fave anime :) tell me, what do you find similar, Rekka2? I'd love to hear
*wanders off and tries to stop making useless posts*
Just a humble supplicant in service to all things Joss
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Love Firefly. Love Bebop. Own both Boxed sets (The Bebop one cost me around three hundred bucks...limited edition and all that jazz...and worth every penny of it)
I think Im drawn by the idea that these people are stuck on a ship, relying on no one but themselves, overcoming (sometimes) all kinds of obstacles.
The music on both shows is fabulous (Dont speak a word of Japanese but I've bought more Bebop cd's than of any other band) and the characterization and storylines are addictive.
Its funny. I actually pity those who have no idea of what they are missing and who sit in front of the tv watching back to back reality shows.
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Well, the characters of Lain and River I guess is the more obvious one. River seems kinda divided into multiple people just as Lain was divided into three people. You have the normal river, the calm, serene, "all your secrets are belong to me" river, and the "chaos has returned, jayne looks better in red" river. The whole concept of "2 by 2, hands are blue." The "men in black", as they are called, in Lain come after her the same way. And I'm not sure if you remember, but Lain's Dad's password for his computer was "One Tow Count Bule", which is a reference to a line from a book thats "One Two, Count Blue".
Theres a great site called Thought Experiments Lain that explains a lot of the hidden meanings and references in the anime...a guy wrote his senior thesis on it.
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