TRIGUN is the story of Vash the Stampede. A seemingly goofy clumsy amnesiac of a man who is wanted by bounty hunters for the destruction of the city of July. He's constanly on the run from bounty hunters leaving destroyed cities in his wake. (all caused by the bounty hunters, but he gets blamed for it.) But he's not the idiot he appears to be, he's a superb gunman with a pacisfist streak who hides behind his idiot persona to keep people from looking too deep.
He's being tracked by two Bernardelli Insurance agents named Meryl Stryfe and Milly Thompson who are trying to prevent him from causing anymore damage that their company has to pay out for. They follow him through everything and eventually figure out that it's not Vash causing the damage but the people chasing him. Their company ends up classifying him as the world's only Human Natural Disaster to prevent from having to pay out more money. Needless to say they end up quitting their jobs.
Vash also meets a man named Nicholas D. Wolfwood. He's a gunman and a Priest who travels the desert with a HUGE Cross strapped to his back. The relationship Vash has with this man is complicated. Even though Wolfwood is a Priest he has no qualms about killing. He believes that sometimes men have to become the devil themselves to save others, while Vash believes killing is wrong no matter what. Wolfwood's redemption plays a HUGE roll in the end of this series and comes at a very steep price.
At some point in this anime it takes on a dark tone as he begins to look for his brother, Knives who is sending his henchmen (The Gung-ho Guns) to torment him and cause as much death and choas as possible. The series ends with Vash and Knives facing off.....(i am not going to spoil it for you if you haven't seen it.)
The original Manga was done by the wonderful Yasuhiro Nightow. The manga was serialized in Tokuma Shoten's Shōnen Captain from the series debut in 1995 until the magazine's demise in 1997. The series continued in Shōnen Gahosha's Young King Ours magazine, under the title Trigun Maximum where it remained until finishing in 2007.
I have nothing bad to say about this series. I love everything about it. Post-Appocalyptic Westerns are always fun. It was one of the first series that I sat through that I enjoyed every episode. There is something to be said about a series of anything that makes you smile just thinking about it.
It's most definitely in my top 10 favorite. A series that any person who claims to love or hate anime needs to watch and if you haven't then SHAME ON YOU.
2 comments:
I kinda have a love/hate relationship with Trigun. The characters were great but the storyline ended up going by really slow. I really liked the episodes when Knives and Vash were little with Rem.
honestly i love the manga more lol but i still love the anime.
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