TRIGUN

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MANGA ActionTrigun
MOVIE ActionTRIGUN: Badlands Rumble
MANGA ActionTrigun Maximum
ANIME ActionTRIGUN STAMPEDE

REVIEWS

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  biogundam

  73/100
  beast space western of the 90s

  waring this review may contaon spollers
  First impression, so my first thoughts while going into this show. Where along the lines of man this is going to be a pretty decent sci-fi western action show that was a staple of the late 90s and for the most part it was.

  Story, 6/10
  So the story of Trigun is fairly straightforward and simple.
  It pretty much much starts out about the cool and wacky adventures of Vash the stampede Who is a super hack gunslinger that goes for pacifism and who has a reputation for being the most dangerous person alive on the planet, while being flowed by a duo of girls from an insurance company who are reporting on his activities while trying to make some money on the side?
  So during the 90s, quite a few anime had this space western theme and Trigun is one of the more well-known ones and I guess during the 90s a lot of people in Japan must have of had some crazy nostalgia Bonner for Neil Armstrong and Clint Eastwood because quite a few series had space or the wild west for a theme and I guess a few people wanted to see what happened if they fused them together in order to make a peanut butter and jam sandwich of a genre called space western for anime after it had fallen into disfavor with westen viewers some decades precendently.
  Now The narrative of Trigun is pretty much split into three totally different arcs which I am going to talk about individuality because Trigun tone and atmosphere change quite a bit throughout the story.
  The first third is pretty much of Trigun is pretty much happy to go lucky adventures of Vash and if you like space Dandy or cowboy bebop you will love this first part.
  Becuase its very action packed and it does a good job of setting up and establish characters. But the problem is if you're not into episodic shit or episodes where Vash is literally running around to eat doughnuts then it's going to get boring really fast.
  The second half is more about exploring the setting and sci-fi concept of how there were some human colonists that came to this planet.
  It also talks about the origins of vash and why he is so infamous along this society.
  This part is pretty good if you wanted to learn how exactly this post-apostolic society was made and learn more about Vash because he has a mysterious past and slight amnesia.
  The third part is very dark and intense it's kinda like a cold war take for vash as a character because he now has to confront his past along with his evil elder brother knives and his forces. Which had a lot of tension, tragedy and some really good fights? But the problem is that despite the build-up and everything that happens, the payoff is about the equivalent of having family members walk into to your room while you're midway watching porn because the ending is very anti-climatic and what makes it worse is that you watched 26 episodes to get to that epic conclusion to vashs journey that ends in a whimper with a big explosion.
  So as an action, rule of cool kind of series as a whole I feel that Trigun hit all the right notes it needs to be even considered decent. But I do feel some of the individual parts that make up Trigun do hold it back a bit.
  Like the random comedy moments, this series has i find every obtuse
  and it details some of the seriousness and grittiness that the series has in certain scenes.

  Characters, 7/10
  The main character Vash is somewhat interesting.
  Because even though he seems to like this happy go lucky dude at first.
  You come to find out that isn't exactly the case when you find out there a side to him that isn't the most positive. He is kind of two-faced and not two-faced with the fact that he is a bad guy or him full of evil intent. it's more like the under his happy and goofy nature lies a darker side to him and you don't really know what Side is the real one. Becuase of how they portray certain scenes with vash having glowing eyes and a intimidating arua. Which I think is intriguing But one downside to him is that his dual nature does come off as a bit disjointed at times.(edited)
  The side characters are all very interesting well, even though that mostly applies to the core side characters.
  They Are all two-dimensional character pretty much and for the most part, they add
  all to the rule of cool aspects to the series with there personalities and skill sets.
  But like the main character, they are also two-faced in some shape or form which I feel its more realistic and makes the characters feel more human. With the added bonus of showcasing the duality of human nature while not being pretentious about it like some series are guilty of. Becuase every one and I mean everyone even the nicest or nastiest of people have masks or personas that they showcase in public and its cool for a series of acknowledge this fact and present it a simple way.
  The villains in this show are also pretty cool and have decent personality and presence. Like for example, you got a person who uses a saxophone as a weapon.
  And person that can use psychic powers. So when it comes to action the villans add a lot of diversity because it not just gunfights or bar fights that destroy half a town, its more like psychic powers, cybrogs and people who are crazy as fuck with there choice and skill with weapons.
  But the rest of them are ever one dimensional in person or folder for cash to wipe in the blink of an eye.
  Which I found kinda disappointing because the setting that Trigun takes place in could breed really good antagonists.
  Even the main antagonist knives just seem to fall flat and feel like a worse version of vigil from devil may cry. He just evil and psychotic for the sake of being evil and psychotic for the very valid reason for humans are weak and they need to be killed because of reasons. Like why should he be the judge, jury and exquisite of humanity when he does, even more, fuck up things. Like there is a scene where he kills entire towns full of people for the reason of humans must burn.

  Art, 7/10
  The animation is pretty gritty it kind of fits with the whole post-apocalyptic setting.
  But on the bad Side the animation is a little dated by today's standards, but even if is a little dated it still looks pretty decent even by today's standards but I am guessing it the madhouse magic that played a role in this.
  It has a very retro style to it because in case any didn't know space westerns where very popular in the west until they fell out of favor for a bit and I really like this mix of late 90s animation with and this old western aesthetic.
  The character design is also very dated as well, but they look cool and they remind it reminds me of mad max, fallout and the good the bad and the ugly.

  Sound, 6/10
  The op is quite nice it really does fit the tone of the show, but don't really give a shit about the ending.
  The ost was also pretty good as well. It pretty much fit really well with a very scene in the show. If you like Wild west music I think you will like Trigun ost because it reminds me of the old cowboy movies I would watch
  The ost was done by tsuneo imahori.
  Who has also worked on the soundtrack for cowboy bebop?

  Enjoyment, 7/10
  So the thing I enjoyed about Trigun would be quite a lot Of things. But guess I will mention a few.
  One of the things I quite like about Trigun is the all the characters good or bad where quite fun and interesting.
  I also like the action scenes with all the gunfights.

  Overall, 7/10

  So overall Trigun is pretty much a classic 90s show with good characters good story and pretty good ost as well. So pretty if you're into retro then you will love this show.
  But if you're into the more modem anime then you will find Trigun to be very dated by today's standards which can really bring the show down a bit.

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  SMSWTA

  75/100
  As a time-capsule of the 90s, Trigun is worth the watch. SMSWTA? Yes.

  Trigun is probably the most popular show that I knew nothing about. I knew about Vash, his looks, his weapons, but beyond that, I knew nothing. Normally, with a show that is twenty years old, some spoilers would have sunk into the zeitgeist and made it back to me (see Cowboy Bebop), but here I was truly surprised with how little I knew going in.

  It is also worth noting that I watched Trigun almost as a challenge to myself. On one hand, I had been rooted heavily in the modern, and I wanted to look a little further back into history. I could have done something tired like rewatch ¬Ghost in the Shell, and I will someday, but something I had not seen seemed more critically interesting. On the other, after Island, after venting my displeasure with science fiction shows, there was a fair critique: try watching good ones.

  Knowing nothing about Trigun, other than what I’ve said so far, I figured it was a good piece to give me a chance to reconsider my position. I was wrong.

  Trigun is a good show, let me get that out from the jump, and it avoids a lot of the foibles of bad science fiction. For one, it is science fiction compared to the audience, not compared to the characters. The world the characters exist in is futuristic, and they understand the rules, even if we don’t. While this maybe, and is at times in Trigun, frustrating for the watcher, everything feels grounded. We just don’t know the ground. An apt analogy may be visiting a foreign country. I may not understand all the customs and quirks, but the locals do, and that is reassuring and comforting.

  So, unlike Island or Kiznaiver or Dimension W, Trigun holds together as a sci-fi show narratively. The characters are real and likeable (or hate-able when appropriate).

  Without reservation, getting 80% of the way through, I will say that Trigun was vying for a top spot, and then things got a little off. Skirting spoilers (I’ll rattle them off at the end) as best I can, Trigun has a pacing problem. It is good enough to keep you from noticing until the end, but it is definitely there. Things go along in a fairly SoL fashion before ramping up with very few episodes left to plumb the depth of the implications set up. I want to spend more time with end-half Vash. By the time he appears, fully formed, we have already seen first-half Vash go through a lot of the same plot threads two or three times. Vash goes into a town; stuff gets a little sideways; Vash resolves the issue. It takes a while for these to mean anything. These twenty-six episodes feel like they could fit in thirteen.

  I can’t blame the show too much, though, because I feel like it is a product of its time.

  The art is nice, and at times, breath-taking, but mostly it is, though I have no frame of reference, what I would think of as 90s cheap. Nothing against it; it was the style of the era across the board, but looking at it now, it looks old always, and cheap often.

  It is also weird that there is a recap episode. I don’t feel like I see that much anymore in a two-cour show. Maybe I am an idiot, though (I know there are “recap” movies, but they are separate products. I think Monogatari has had some, in its run, though). That is always an option. Again, though, I can’t hold it against the show. This is before Netflix, Crunchyroll, and DVRs. You could set a VCR to record, I suppose, but it stands that recaps make sense to fill in stuff for viewers who missed a few episodes. Now that I mention that, maybe the pacing makes a touch of sense now, too. Repeat the same beats a few times so people can definitely see it and understand the story.

  The pacing may also be chalked up to filler to keep pace with a manga. I don’t know. I know DBZ fell prey to that as it went. They had to spend some time doing non-manga stuff to let the manga catch up. That may make the most sense given how out-of-left field some of the later plot points come.

  If there was a 2019 redux of Trigun I feel like it would nicely fit into one-cour and tell a tight story about a man grappling with his present and former demons and trying to move past them.

  That all being said, though, I believe anything of this vintage deserves to be taken, in part, as a product of its time. So, taken as an anime divorced from time, Trigun is okay. Taken as a relic of an older age, it is very good and worth a watch.

  Should my sister watch this anime? For the first time, yes.

  Spoiler-y gripes:

  Towards the middle, we get a look at Vash’s scarred body, and that tells the audience that, while we see his as invincible, he is constantly taking damage, but Wolfwood’s death still feels cheap after watching the two of them dodging bullets by not moving for twenty episodes.

  Knives is seemingly a non-existent final boss. After Legato exits the story, we are expected to care about this grudge (we know Vash does, but more time could be dedicated to Knives over Elgato as the big bad).

  Milly and Wolfwood’s romance, in so much as it is one, is so subtly done it is almost masterfully done but too subtle so it seems weird when they consummate before his death and that she is destroyed after it.

  A lot of the Gung-Ho Guns fights seem anti-climactic. They just end. In fact, the earlier ones seem more threatening than the later ones.
  All of theses are issues of pacing, as mentioned above. Similar to the plot holes in Star Wars before it became Star Wars Episode 4: A New Hope, it seems like they stumbled into plot points. Like they were writing it and having to go back and make connections later.

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  GintokiPotato

  70/100
  Will you go to any lengths to save yourself from the burden of lives you have taken?

  Trigun definitely came in the era where the cowboy and gunfights were famous. It was the period where everyone wanted to experiment on the anime they are presenting to the audience, at the time of 1998 where the mecha genre or pokemon was the highlight among popular shows this isn't exactly a hidden gem, but it's a golden anime which makes you stick to the screen until the end.

  Trigun starts as a funky protagonist known as Vash the Stampede who finds himself in tough situations or getting dragged into problems of the common people. No one ever believes that a goofball could be worth $$ 60 bn. With him are two Bernadelli Insurance agents Meryl Strife and Milly Thompson who either stick to him or just get stuck unknowingly. And on his journey, he meets many bounty hunters who have an eye for him making him the center of attraction.

  The anime setting is of a future one in a distant planet with two moons and two suns. The anime focuses on common problems like water monopoly, or bandits constantly looting and terrorizing common folk, people immigration. The planet is a desert where people live in small settlements a very few in number.

  We're nothing like God. Not only do we have limited powers,
  but sometimes we're driven to become the devil himself

  The whole anime is centered around Vash's pacifist philosophy, who hates wars and killing. He doesn't want to hurt even the worst enemies and goes to any length not to kill. He believes in this philosophy because of a certain friend who believes in the same and influences him. His actions are questioned by Nicholas D. Wolfwood or the Priest. A rather interesting character who believes in what he does is right, he will not hesitate to kill, to take the situation into his hands.

  The anime starts to pick pace after 11th episode, despite it will entertain you to the fullest. From 14th episode we are thrown light onto Vash's past and how Vash adopted the philosophy from Rem his caretaker. Vash also has a brother who is the leader of the Gung Ho Guns 11 who attempt to destroy Vash mentally and physically. And Vash isn't a human.

  The anime had done fights right, Vash vs The Gung Ho Guns are unique and one of a kind.

  The anime has deep philosophy, yet somehow towards the end watching pacifist Vash somewhat ticks you, it's a feel-good show. The fights are pretty awesome for a time like 1998, the characters who had their depth were Vash and Nicholas, the duo shined great.
  So sit back enjoy this humorous anime.

  There is also a movie after this, it doesn't have anything to do with the anime.

  Thanks for reading my review.
  Sam Senpai.

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