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The day was 4/2/2010, the location was Seattle WA at the World premiere of the Trigun movie, shown to a lucky audience at Sakura Con. The movie was Presented in person by Takahiro Yoshimatsu, and Saoshi Nishimura (the director). It was presented in Japanese only with no subtitles and I do not speaky the Japanesey. So I wasnt able to grasp the depth of the story.... :( but it was good!!!!!

I strongly believe that everyone could enjoy watching this movie. The reasons that make the Trigun series good is also what makes this movie good. If you like Trigun, you ... will like this movie. IF you havent seen the original story, it probably wont spoil anything (but then again maybe it will...) , but it will probably leave you asking a few questions... So just go watch the awesomeness that the series is first, if you have time. You will be able to appreciate this movie the most after having watched the series. I am very likely to watch it many more times, as soon as i can :D.


What you should expect from this movies is all of the same awesomeness that the original story provided. The artwork was virtually identical to the original series, and the humor was excellent (basing this fact only on what i could see was funny, I'm 100% sure there was a lot of vocal humor i missed as well). I do not think that it added anything to the original story.


EXTRA INFORMATION:

This story takes place somewhere after Wolfwood appears and as the director indicated : "It is an event that Could have taken place somewhere within the story of the series". It didn't seem to add anything to the original story, so it could be considered similar to a filler episode, but were talking about Vash the Stampede here, could there really be such a thing as a filler episode when Vash is involved? :3 Plus it was wicked awesome to watch.

It is worthy to note, that when the director was telling us some background about the movie (though a translator), he told us that the reason that this movie even exists is because of the American fan-base, which was so extremely vocal about wanting more Tri-gun. (FEEL VERY PROUD TODAY ALL YOU TRIGUN FANS!!!) This was also the reason we were able to watch this movie even before it was shown in Japanese theaters.

Well, This movie does not qualify to make it on my top 50 to watch, maybe wait until its dubbed to english, with some good voice actors, it may be slightly more tolerable.

I have based my scoring on the DVD import, which the language is in Korean with english subtitles. I also watched the movie twice today to get my thoughts on this movie rounded off. Granted this movie is just slightly longer than 1 hour in length, that is a tight time frame to properly present a whole story.

STORY:
I was disappointed with the overall story ... because of its choppy nature, as there wasn't much effort given to the 'transitions' from scene to scene, it seemed like it bounced around from place to place too much as well. It did not feel like the "story" was presented smoothly, that being one of the reasons. I feel that there needed to be much more story detailing. The birthday party scene for the blond kid did not help improve the story line, it was wasted and could have been used for other important parts of the actual story. Additionally, many events that took place in the movie were poorly explained at best. I think that a 3 for score on the story was appropriate. Although, I could be missing out on some things by possibly poor subtitles, but i dont think it would make that huge a difference.
CHARACTERS:
There was close to zero character development, I did not have a sense of connection to any of the characters by the end of the movie. There is also the appearance of new characters to the story with no explanation, didn't make it any better. Some of the character designs were really good, but that blond kid in that picture up there looks bad, and its worse in the move. The way that the characters moved looked very unnatural at times, but good or very good at others. I would expect more from a CG movie made after 2000, It was much lower quality than 'Final Fantasy, The Spirits Within' (produced around the same time), not that i would expect anything to be as good as something made by Square Enix, ever. I honestly feel that good, hand drawn characters would have been more enjoyable, or to have fixed the bad parts that stick out as much as they do.
An example of what i mean :
http://www.beyondhollywood.com/moviepics2/elysium3.jpg

ART:
Aside from the few flaws of the characters, the rest of the graphics looked really good, and i thought that the Mechs looked good in both design and in movement.
SOUND:
Good sound quality, no complaints. The voice acting was pretty good too. That blond kids voice made me want to punch him in the face tho......... frequently. That kid really did not help this movie for me.

I hope this will be helpful If you choose to watch this ( I paid $8 for my copy, but i would have chosen 'other methods' if i knew what i know now, and if those 'methods' were available, lol )
Have any questions? You can send me a message and i'll do my best to answer. ( i do not know how to contact other members, so if you dont know, sorry that i cant be any more useful :3 )