Return To The Hellsite

I'm back and I'm behind on 10 years of niche humor so please be patient as I catch up to all the cool kids

Aight fuck it, the squeaky hampster wheel that is my brain will not let me sleep until I post this. Will add on to this post as I think of things later! This is 1:30 am sleep deprived posting, at least on this first post, so BEAR WITH ME!!

To start off, this isn't me saying "Durr the original is BETTER" with no reason other than it's the original so I like it. That kinda talk always pisses me off. I gave Stampgaze every goddamn chance I could give it, but my patience... my goddamn patience found a limit.

To start off, idk if this is just a me thing, but the soundtrack was very... bla?

There are some stand-out tracks that I do very much enjoy and even have on playlists, like Puppetmaster and Guignol, Nai's theme is very effective... but that's really honestly it.

I think largely what the soundtrack missed was texture. Trigun 98's soundtrack was ICONIC and I have almost all of it on my drawing playlist. The soundtrack for 98 was way ahead of its time imo. It was gritty, it was a perfect mix of cowboy movies, sci fi horror, and jazz. It was experimental and rough around the edges, just like the world it helped bring to life. Some of the tracks are downright as feral as the people on Gunsmoke/Noman's Land.

Stampgaze had its moments- it dabbled with some jazz, some freeform sax, some glitchy sci-fi motifs... but it didn't... really hit. Not like 98. Back when Stampgaze was just Stampede, I liked it all save for a couple gripes- and the soundtrack was one of them. It was orchestral, polished save for some jazzy bits, and really just... clean. It sounded like anime soundtrack for p much any other anime I have heard. It was honestly a letdown.

I ESPECIALLY missed Sound Life. I understand it wasn't really a Thing in the manga, but it was so significant in 98. It's such a haunting, sad, pretty song imo, and I feel it would have been such a lovely nod to 98 while still largely being Trimax based.

I haven't watched it yet, but I heard some of Gachiakuta's soundtrack and oh my GOD. If Stampgaze wanted a more modern soundtrack that still kept the texture and grit of 98, they should have gone the Gachiakuta route. I couldn't help but think of Stampgaze and what it could have sounded like when I first listened to Gachiakuta's OST.

Last one for tonight, I promissssseeee

I generally was disappointed with Stampgaze, specifically the gaze half, but I still enjoyed it enough to make some art for it, especially id I had a strong idea in my head like this one. Legato is one of the most interesting parts of Trigun for me, excluding Vash himself. I felt like Stargaze did some cool things with him, but ultimately did not do him justice at all.

This is OLLLLD art waaa

my style's changed a lot since then (probably for the worst lmfao)

Still posting old art