Trigun
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| Original Manga | Yasuhiro Nightow |
| Director/Artist | Satoshi Nishimura |
| Format | Anime (TV) |
| Made By | Madhouse |
| Episode Length | 22 minutes |
| # of Eps/Volumes | 26 |
Contents
Genre
Comedy, Drama, Sci-Fi, Action, Western
Sum it up in a Sentence:
An amnesiac outlaw gunslinger with a hefty bounty on his head and an unusually high respect for human life, wanders the world and resolves conflicts with non-lethal force.
Main Description
Set on a dustbowl of a planet called Gunsmoke, Trigun is a low-tech Sci-Fi anime following the adventures of one Vash the Stampede, and two insurance workers who follow him and try to minimize the damage his appearance inadvertently causes. Vash himself is a happy-go-lucky gunslinger, who refuses to harm anyone, preferring peaceful (or failing that, nonlethal) methods of dealing with adversaries, even when they’re after the hefty bounty on his head. The mood of the series shifts toward the more dramatic, as the amnesiac protagonist catches up with his troubled past.
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Personal Opinions
iddqd
One of the Space Western classics, Trigun starts out extremely silly, which is all a façade used to disguise how serious it really is. And despite what turns out to be a battle between two equally flawed mentalities, Trigun is still worth a watch, I think.
TannhauserGate
Trigun is one of the few anime shows that might actually be better dubbed than subbed- the English voice acting is fantastic. And the show does start out incredibly silly, to the point that fans sometimes force people through a couple episodes until they realize what's really going on. Minimizing spoilers, the main character of this show is the sort of person who laughs to hide his pain, and early on he's one of the zaniest characters ever animated. Events proceed quickly down a dangerous slope as you start to see the man and the events behind the facade. By the end of the second act this is perhaps the best anime series out there, and things get incredibly dark without losing that laugh-through-the-pain feeling. The ending is a tad weak, with two flawed ideaologies pursuing a predictable conclusion, but overall I'd put Trigun in any list of top series all-time.
