Trigun Maximum Volume 2: Death Blue (Trigun Maximum)

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Summary: Short summary
Review: A fitting title, since Trigun is getting gradually darker as the series progresses, much like the hyped anime series.

This volume probably has the best chapters so far in Trigun. It starts out with Legato mudering some fools who dared to defy him, as usual. Then, Vash vs. Rai Dei the Blade, the best fight so far, followed up with some real conflict between Vash and Wolfwood.
The only flaw is that the volume ends with an unbearable cliff-hanger that will make you shout a string of expletives.

On a side note, that throw-away character at the beginning with the boomerang, was used completely differently in the anime series, as some bounty-hunter after Vash in the first episode. Weird.