Beyond The Grave - Blog Posts

Grave looks too funny 😭 (Made this in October a while back but saw someone post a Jyuji one lol)

despite everything...

it's still you

Beyond The Grave Moodboard

With some vampire goth stuff and guns, coffins themes

I begin to watch the series and I love it, Beyond/Brandon is so cuntyy

I love how messy this looks. Very loose!

I feel art block creeping up my back aaa

Basically graveyard

Finally got these fuckers done yeah!!! It’s been a while since I put any effort into really drawing, especially for characters that I love. Because of Nightow’s character designs already being so shaped for me I decided to simplify their designs even more. This is also the first time I experimented with line weight and I only screwed up a few times :)

Here are the original sketches for funsies!

(I tried to simplify the designs as much as possible. I started drawing Bunji but I haven’t finished yet.)

Right? I think the funniest thing about the anime is the implication that Dr. T is the reason why Grave looks like that and it’s so funny. Why did he make him dress like a goth cowboy?

Love how everybody in the Gungrave anime still refers to Grave as Brandon. It’s like everybody heard Doctor Tokioka’s idea for “Beyond the Grave” and were like that’s stupid we’re not calling him that. Harry and the other upper echelon of Millenion still call him Brandon Heat, call that deadnaming or something.

Love how everybody in the Gungrave anime still refers to Grave as Brandon. It’s like everybody heard Doctor Tokioka’s idea for “Beyond the Grave” and were like that’s stupid we’re not calling him that. Harry and the other upper echelon of Millenion still call him Brandon Heat, call that deadnaming or something.

Sketch dump

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Oops, I forgot to post it! Here’s the drawing I did:

emoji...만들고 싶다...

일단 나 혼자 쓸려고 그리는중

Very epic actually. Love dragon versions of things I like.

Had a dream recently in a rpg concept where grave could heal others with a use of cat ears and paw gloves. He also could turn into a dragon. How epic is that

Do you ever think about how Brandon Heat felt about people trying to get closer to him? Starting with Widge and Gary who helped him become more familiar with being a new member of Millenion and sort of becoming his mentor figures which would then be filled by Big Daddy. Do you think that when Harry introduced him to Lee and Bob that he felt an ache in his heart as he witnessed them joking and talking with another because it reminded him of the gang he used to have a similar bond with? Do you think Brandon eventually started to push away Maria and even newcomers like Bunji who so desperately wanted to have a relationship with him because he didn’t want to go through that loss again? Because he couldn’t bear to lose anyone like he lost his old friends?

And since Overdose is implied to be a direct follow up to the Gungrave anime do you think Beyond the Grave feels a sense of deja vu when he sees how Juji, RB, Spike and Mika interact with each other? Does Grave have vague memories of him and the others Jolice, Nathan and Harry, how could he forget Harry would tease Kenny constantly as well as give each other shit just to mess with one another? Does he remember those days where he didn’t feel the need to constantly hide his true emotions from his closest friends? Did he remember the numerous arguments that Nathan and Kenny would have that made Harry and him separate them to prevent a brawl as Jolice laughed at their antics? Do you think that, for just a day, Beyond the Grave felt he still had a reason to continue his existence besides a promise he made to a woman he didn’t allow himself to love? That for the first time in what felt like an eternity whatever left of Brandon Heat experienced that connection to others that he used to have? That maybe Grave wouldn’t have to fight alone anymore now that he had others to watch his back?

Much to think about.

Ideas that I want to discuss on this blog

This isn’t in any order or anything this is just a bunch of thoughts I’ve wanted to talk about regarding this lovely series.

Trigun/Gungrave narrative & themes comparison: On a scale of "love and peace" to "kick their ass"

Brandon Heat is a combination of both Vash and Wolfwood

Is Bunji Kugashira similar to Nicholas D. Wolfwood in certain aspects besides appearance?

Vash & Knives vs. Brandon & Harry: Expectations of trust/loyalty

Bunji Kugashira's hangups about brothers (first Juji then Brandon?)

What's the history between the Kugashira brothers?

How canon is the Gungrave anime to the first Gungrave video game? Was Overdose supposed to bridge the two (appearance of Sherry???)

Why isn't there more Gungrave/Trigun crossover content?

Tsuneo Imahori is so good at music dude: How the Gungrave soundtracks create another layer of atmosphere & emotion

What the fuck was up with Gungrave VR & Gungrave G.O.R.E.?

How and why is Rocketbilly Redcadillac?

I want to see more hijinks with Juji and RB, they are sooooo

Why is Juji not in G.O.R.E.? (Sad but probably not canon idea that he was eventually overcome by the SEED in him)

What it's like to be a deadman aka why don't we let the Gungrave cast experience body horror too

Madhouse wanted the Gungrave anime to be a spiritual successor of the 1998 Trigun anime

Will there ever be another entry in the franchise after G.O.R.E.?

Trigun and Gungrave say aliens are real folks (maybe canon maybe not)

Beyond the Grave & Vincent Valentine: Two ultra sad goth bois that just want to take a nap in their coffins

Feel free to make your own post for any of these ideas or something. As I said before my activity on this blog is going to be pretty inconsistent so don’t expect anything from me anytime soon. Then again just last night I started writing a short little Juji story but I don’t know when I’m gonna finish it. I also plan to do fanart but motivation to draw has honestly become more evasive than wanting to write. If you have any questions or suggestions I’d love to read them in the comments or tags at least. See you guys later!

Gungrave fans are you out there

never must stop, it's stealing my heart

It's the fun kind of a character dynamic.

wowieeee gungrave brainrot

Wouldn't you, Harry?

Welcome to the internet stiffs! Expect all types of craziness in the future. In all seriousness, I do have one question. How did Billy set up a Tumblr account in the first place? He doesn’t have a physical body, Juji is blind so he wouldn’t be able to type let alone see the screen and Grave is…well. Grave.

RB: "About that... I used a bit of electricity on my guitar to set that up, quite strugglin' a little; besides that, Juji uses the mic instead."

Juji: "Yeah, right; surprised for a question that isn't horrible."

Grave: "..."

(OOC: How did Juji sees Fangoram not harmin' Spike, he's blind??? Quite confused on that part, the cutscene literally shows his POV? 🤔 Also about the guitar one, RB kinda controls it like the Wii controller.)

Aaaaah😫😫😫🥺🥺🥺

The real reason Grave drags his feet everywhere is because he wants to delay dealing with bullshit for as long as possible.

Now that Gungrave Tumblr has found me, I'm posting this silly little meme I made.

Like, can we talk about this one scene in G.O.R.E. where Grave just gave the hardest and sassiest judgemental stare? I know homedude wanted to say something so bad. 💀

ok ok editing is ok

the world just spins whilst mine stands still nothing's changed in your gravity grave

More unusual Grave screenshots because I can

people are designing modern manga characters thinking they should be animator friendly/not too complex/coherent,,,,,,,

meanwhile Nightow in the 1990s:

(This was an April Fools Joke) The old Gungrave games suck so much. I so HATE OVERDOSE!! The short runtimes, horribly written characters, terrible voice acting, and not to mention Brandon. Like Juji said, he’s just a puppet for Mika. And I also hate Juji. Oh, and the anime? Even worse. It was so lazy and not introspective. Ugh. I totally love Gungrave Gore. Like, the graphics and game mechanics are insanely intuitive. And the new soundtrack? Amazing. Ditch the old left-head and right-head album. The characters too and the pacing—-especially the pacing, is so action-focused and totally make everything believable. I hate divulging canon, too, like all my aus and headcannons? It was all I lie…. My favorite character is Spike! Obviously! 😡

Oh, and FF7? I HATE cannon divulgence. I like the cannon and I HATE any ships of the characters. And I HATE Cloud SO much—like—-so unrelatble and rude! I only draw Cloud because of the fans’ influence….and any Cloud head cannons will NOT be tolerated! I am a strict OG lover! 🫡

Gungrave doodles!

It’s kind of an AU timeline after overdose but before GORE, basically.

I know I just rewatched Overdose’s cutscenes and I was like “Oh yeah! Lol”

Yall forgetting that they have “super forms” in overdose