Trigun Maximum

Jun 10, 2008

AoiMemori

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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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Aug 24, 2015

takakara_nomuro

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I was very careful with this criticism. Trigun was one of the first manga I read, and also one of the best.

Tells the story of Humanoid Typhoon Vash the Stampede. Vash is the most feared gunslinger in a desert land, with a reward of 60 billion double by his head, and held responsible for the complete destruction of the City of July. However Vash is a staunch pacifist who avoids aggression to the fullest and not admit killing under any circumstances.

Regardless of like violence or not, haunts him: the places visited by Vash are always devastated by their well-meaning interventions or people seeking the reward. ...

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Jun 13, 2013

TuesdaysDusk

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Trigun is, without question, an anime classic. It has endearing characters, and intriguing storyline, and interesting world, and a wonderful ascetic. It is a show that I recommend to anyone as they start their journey into anime fandom, and it is an excellent example of what anime can be, even without today’s animation standards. Trigun Maximum, however, is one of the very few times that I enjoyed the adaption better than the original.

Trigun Maximum is a continuation of the original Trigun manga that was cut short. It follows the further adventures of Vash the Stampede, Nicholas D. Wolfwood, and the Bernadelli Insurance girls as they ...

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Feb 7, 2023

kysayshii

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Trigun Maximum is an experience even more than it is a story. You will laugh, cry, get angry... It's an emotional rollercoaster if you're ready to invest in its world/narrative.

ART (10/10)
Some of the panels in this manga are absolutely breathtaking. Nightow uses high contrast imagery incredibly well to create graphic sequences that really pull you in. The designs of each character are very unique and appealing.

CHARACTERS (10/10)
This manga has some of my favorite all-time characters. Each character is complex, with both gifts and deficits. Making moral judgements on the characters isn't easy, and, as each backstory is revealed, your understanding of their motivations ...

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Apr 7, 2023

gen_bay29

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SHORT REVIEW FOR THOSE WITH LACKING PATIENCE
A story with extremely well developed story and characters, insane art and fights, only held back by small things like translation and paneling issues, Trigun and Trigun Maximum are everything you could ask for in a story, with great comedy included. Give it a try, it's less than a tenth of the length of One Piece it can't be that hard to find the time!

FULL REVIEW FOR PEOPLE WHO CARE
I would like to start this review off as a reminder to anyone who hasn't read, or at least watched an iteration of, Trigun to do so as soon ... as they can. I would also like to tell those same people that they must not go into it expecting massively developed plot points like Attack on Titan, or absolute masterful world building like One Piece. This series capitalizes on being a very personal, and therefore reserved, story. It isn't written to blow your mind, but for only two reasons, one of which having been given by the author, Yasuhiro Nightow, as his main motivators during the writing of Trigun. To look cool, which is the authors stated reason, and to expand on the question of human morality (what I feel is one of many deeper reasons). It's a very simple, yet extremely open, way to tell a story and it allowed the author to write my personal favorite example of character and plot development that has ever come into my life. Now that I have gotten that out of the way I would like to get to the actual review!

Translations 5/10 -
The most important thing to do right in a manga is translation, so I'm gonna start off with my first of two negatives for this manga. There are only two translations that exist that do their job correctly, and they are the official Dark Horse comics translation, which is present in any English physical copy of Trigun and Trigun Maximum, and the translation project Trigun Manga Overhaul. I highly recommend both but the problems they have are quite unique compared to other manga, such as Japanese idioms and phrases not being translated into even comprehensible sentences (Dark Horse), or the overuse of the F-word to show the cultural difference between some of the main cast (Overhaul). Overall the translations I would rate as a middle of the road 5/10.

Panel and Speech Bubble Usage 3/10 -
Since I'm on the topic of negatives for Trigun, I would like to bring attention to the only other bad thing about this manga, the sometimes nigh incomprehensible fight paneling that occurs throughout, and the speech bubbles covering important parts of the art presented. This needs very little explanation. It's simply difficult to follow some fights, even ones extremely important to character and plot development, and some very well drawn panels have speech bubbles put in very questionable places. It brings this section down to a very mediocre 3/10.

Art 9/10 -
The art in Trigun, with the exception of some very specific panels, is absolutely badass, cool, and essentially any other word you can come up with that fits the same idea. While this can sometimes make characters do things that are biologically impossible for their bodies to do, like make their shoulder five times longer so their arm can just kind of do what looks cool, it never takes away from the fantastic characters designs, fight scenes, and especially the emotional moments present at the end of the manga. An undeniable 9/10.

Characters 10/10 -
To explain why the characters are good would be to spoil every major development the story presents to you. You just have to trust me when I say that Vash, Knives and Wolfwood are some of the best, if not the best characters to ever come out of Japan. Easy 10/10.

Fights 10/10 -
While the fights can be held back by aforementioned issues, once you begin to understand the weight each fight presents to the story, the reasons the powers of certain characters are present despite never been explained to the reader, and the insanely well choreographed movements, I highly doubt in my mind that anyone would dislike the fights in this manga. If they did it is simply a problem with themselves and them not being able to understand what had been presented to them. Another 10/10.

Story 9/10 -
While I did mention in the first paragraph that the series doesn't have a massively developed plot, that is simply due to its length. To say that they story presented isn't masterful would be doing a disservice to Nightow as it is very obvious how much time and effort went into making this story work the way it did. The best way to explain why it's so good, without spoilers, is to simply explain the similarities between the 1998 anime and the manga. Despite the 1998 anime finishing the Trigun story, Trigun as a manga would not conclude until 9 years later, in 2007. Yet despite this, the major plot twists and character developments within the last half of the manga are still present within the anime. How? The author requested certain elements and scenes be added in order for the story to land in way that would tell what needed to be said, while still allowing the studio in charge to interpret what was being written. The author knew what he wanted to say with these characters and their experiences in his story years upon years before ever writing them into it, showing a care and dedication as impressive as Tite Kubo's Bleach and Hiromu Arakawa's Fullmetal Alchemist. I would even expand beyond series such as those, and say that it could even rival Hajime Isayama's Attack on Titan. There is not much more to be said, because when an author cares that much about writing a story, there is no doubt in my mind that what is being said has extreme value. 9/10.

At the end of the day, Trigun is a series with many interpretations, all coalescing into what can only be described as the most human and heartfelt story I have experienced to this day. It transitions between lighthearted comedy and deeply intriguing moral questions as easily as typing out the word "the" is for anyone who has a keyboard and can spell. An impressive dive into the emotions shown by humankind, and how despite the massive shortcomings we as people can exhibit, the horrible things we can say and do, we truly deserve the chance to live, to make change, and to never let the sacrifices our ancestors and the people we care about made go to waste. For simply allowing the reader to think on what is being presented, hoping for us to make a change and not forcing us to make a decision based on the content, this series has gone from what would have been a simple 8/10 based on the content it presents, to a 10/10 for being not just bold in its themes, but trusting in it's readers.

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Nov 10, 2021

unebun

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If you enjoyed the anime for its cute uplifting nature at times you might not enjoy the manga but if you liked the anime for the subtle sci-fi elements and darker twist it had near the end then you’ll probably definitely love the manga. They are very very different stories so don’t expect it to be too similar when you jump in if you’re already a fan of the anime.

Trigun Maximum is somewhat of a post apocalyptic space western that takes place on a desert planet that humanity crash landed on 150 years prior to the setting of the story. It’s mainly about ...

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Oct 21, 2023

Chieken

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Hello! Try not to read the original dark horse translation for Trigun. Online, you can find Trigun Overhaul, which clears up the plot so it's more digestible. Be careful about any possible scanlations, because they can also be written poorly. Physical copies for re-release is expected to return in December, the original manga is generally hard to come by.
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Trigun Maximum is a gut-wrenching story about a blonde pacifistic gunslinger in a desolate desert planet. The themes in the manga get darker than it ever did in the anime, and it's worth reading all the way through. The lore itself has little to no explanation in ...

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Oct 20, 2023

Biisoo

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Warning : If you read the manga, The anime wont be able to satisfy you since its 90% filler. So watch the anime before the manga.
Now on to the review, Firstly when I read the first couple of chapters, I honestly had so much trouble figuring out the artwork, and even dropped the manga at one point but decided to give it one more chance and from that point onward it actually became one of the best manga I've read or one of the best stories I've read actually.
Secondly, This is a sequel to the OG Trigun manga, DO NOT SKIP THAT!
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