Story (5/10) Average
Alright I'm not going to talk about the countless uninteresting and irrelevant sidestories that the anime had to other through out it's 26 episode run but the main plot which I also found uninteresting and generic anyway. Now I was going to give this anime the benefit of the doubt because of the time it came out when using the word generic but i can't I would be lying to myself if i said "If I say this back when it aired I would have probably enjoyed it more" I HIGHLY fucking doubt that. The story of Vash the Stampede i found uninteresting because not only have I seen it done before that's not the issue, it's the fact that I couldn't find anything unique or interesting about his whole story which MadHouse I felt it a quite mediocre job explaining the events of what happened through flashbacks that where so far spaced out through out this entire anime that even if cared it amount of fluff and retarded shenanigans in between the actual important things just makes me forget certain important points there where shown off as important in the first place. The pacing I felt was also felt short, as like I stated before this suffers the same thing I felt Cowboy Bebop suffered from which is uninteresting fluff in a 26 episode anime that could have been wrapped up in probably 13 episodes but this does it far worse than Cowboy Bebop.
Art and Animation (7/10) Good
More Specifically (7.5/10)
Now yes the art style and animation in this isn't anything amazing but it's far from bad. This is the late 90s so MadHouse back then aren't the Madhouse they are today. And with that being said for a late 90s anime it's just a little bit better looking than the majority of other things that came out during it's time, nothing expect for the character design and weapon designs really stood out to me, so those are the only two things that saved this category to an extent.
Sound (5/10) Mediocre
Now other than the Opening OST (Dub not sure if it's the same for the JP nor do i care) the sound for this anime is average. Gun shots sound average (yes I was expecting something above average from a anime called TriGUN when it came to gun sounds obviously Vash had a unique gun "which they didn't even really go into detail with which also pissed me off" that sounded no different and your average gun. This is coming from a Gundam fan and if you know anything about Gundam they have unique and distinct sound effect for the more important guns in their series so yes I was expecting something and got nothing). The voice acting was average (Dub) also even though this was Johnny Yong Bosch's first anime big anime character to voice act I personally think this is by far the worst character I've heard him voice act and I've heard a few. I don't care if this was the 90s bad voice acting is bad voice acting he obviously becomes better in future roles in my opinion like Ichigo, Lelouch or Yukimura Sananda and like i said this is just his worst out of all of the voices I've heard him voice act, that doesn't mean it horrendous but just the worst. And as far as the BGM chosen at given times I felt didn't fit most of the time. Example in the last episode with the show down against his brother the OST playing is just no, I have no clue who was in charge of OST but I hope they got fired. And let's not even talk about the Outro music.. probably the worst Outro music I've heard in anime history.
Characters (5/10) Average
The only characters I even found remotely interesting and not annoying was Wolfwood and the cat (yes the cat..) Everything other character was just straight annoying to no end with uninteresting or no backstory at all. Yes I've probably used the word uninteresting quite a lot in this review and interesting I guess can be subjective so take it how it is. Nonetheless I felt all the characters were average
Enjoyment (4/10) Bad
Honestly the only enjoyment I got out of this was the opening theme song. After that the enjoyment vanishes. If you've read this far then you already know what I'm word I'm about to spam you with uninteresting uninteresting UNINTERESTING, sorry if you've enjoyed this series than good for you I did not, sure there are worse things out there which is why this is at a 4 and not a 3,2 or 1 but it is what it is.
Overall (5/10) Mediocre
More Specifically (5.30/10)
I've actually started this series year ago, watched one episode and didn't look back. And all this time I kept hearing about Trigun this and Trigun that (oh yeah they as far as I remember the word Trigun never gets explained, idk it's its the name of his actual gun orrr idk anyway) I always told myself if I actually sat down and watched the anime I probably would like it, well I was sadly mistaken. I've had my far share of anime that I still have not seen that people consider some of the best/classic anime of all time and the reason I haven't seen them is mostly because this shit right here happens. Another Example is Akira (Nope didn't like that so called Masterpiece either thought it was a hot mess and mediocre at best also). I'm just going to chalk this one up to "I was never a fan of the Gunslinger anime genre and after watch the top 3 most popular/critically acclaimed Gunslinger anime (Cowboy Bebop and Outlaw being the other two) I would definitely consider this one the weakest of the three. But like I said before I'm not a fan of this genre so take everything I said with that in mind.
