Ranked #321

Trigun Maximum (Manga)

Having been an old Trigun fan (since they showed the anime in the old Adult Swim) this is such a great treat. I remember I once read the original Trigun manga but I don't remember it as well...

Moving on, Trigun Maximum is the best manga I've read in a long while. It's mostly good because we get to see the Vash/Knives fight work itself out and meet a good bunch of characters.

STORY: It mostly consists of Vash's vow to never kill another human being and having to go on about the world, spreading his "peace and love" routine while having enemies that randomly show up (because after all he is Vash the Stampede) or enemies that are thrown his way because they want to please Knives. The story is great! We get so many great comedic moments that leave you laughing for a long while and yet the fights draw you in so hard, it's pretty hard to put the manga down. It doesn't get too dark until the end... and even then, it's not extremely heavy. It's just the final fights that are like "WHOA!"

ART: Is good enough for us who know of Trigun to begin with. Lovely fight scenes with so much detail it kinda makes your jaw drop.

CHARACTER: The character development is great. As usual, Vash is the tranquil aloof good guy but it's fun to see his interacting with everyone else. There isn't much of a movement in his character until the very end unlike with the other characters (i.e. Wolfwood with whom we get to see a great deal of his struggle of Vash's idealism and his background story and all that is great to read upon). All the characters we encounter have a great background and it's great to read who they are, what they have done and what winds up happening to them in their end.

ENJOYMENT: As previously mentioned: I have not enjoyed a series as much as I did this one. It took me a few weeks to finish the entire series but it annoyed me so much that I had to wait for the rest of the books. *laughs lightly* Seriously, once you get a book, you don't want to put the series down.

OVERALL: This series kept me glued. The ending was nice and sweet... Kind of like the beginning. I was glad that by the end of it all, all was somewhat right with the world, plants and human beings lived in harmony and a certain someone who was causing trouble saw the right way to see life and gave them another chance. I really recommend this part of the series to all who have watched the anime and read the original manga. There's so much more to this one that it'll stick in your mind much more than the original and you'll feel grateful to put a great ending into a series that you have probably lived with for over 10 years.

Thank you, Yasuhiro Nightow.
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Man i hate MAL's grading system... I would consider this an "outstanding" manga, but not a 10, more like a 9.5.

I'm writing this review as Trigun+Trigun MAXIMUM, as they were pretty much supposed to be an unbroken story. Something about the magazine it ran in shutting down or something. i dont know the details exactly. This manga launched itself to my top 5 right after i finished it. I was very impressed and quite satisfied with the conclusion.

STORY: If i had to summarize this manga, i would say its about "breaking a pacifist". Vash is a wanted man with $$60,000,000,000 dollars on his head. Wanted for the obliteration of an entire town. (one of 6 or so in the Trigun world) He is a man packing some serious heat and his aim is god-like. But he's a pacifist? Trigun follows his story. He is joined by two insurance girls and a priest. (lol right?) The priest is his polar opposite on the morality scale, and that fact is a source of much tension between the two of them. Throw in around 12 or so huge fights with these insanely awesome human assassins, and add one of the most evil and underrated bastard villains probably EVER (Legato) and you've got one AWESOME manga.

The art was also awesome. Nightow LOVES action shots and the art itself is raw and energetic. I would recommend this to anyone who loves awesome fights, some pretty gripping morality questions, and cool and interesting characters.
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