Trigun Maximum

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Japanese: トライガンマキシマム

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Type: Manga

Volumes: 14

Chapters: 102

Status: Finished

Published: Sep 30, 1997 to Mar 30, 2007

Genres: Action, Adventure, Award Winning, Comedy, Drama, Sci-Fi

Theme: Adult Cast

Demographic: Seinen

Serialization: Young King OURs

Authors: Nightow, Yasuhiro (Story & Art)

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Ranked: #353²

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Much of the damage attributed to "Vash" is caused by the activities of bounty hunters who are after the 60,000,000,000$$ (sixty billion "double dollars") reward on Vash's head for the destruction of a city called July. Vash does not clearly remember the destruction of July, and only wants "love and peace", as he puts it; though he is a gunfighter of inhuman skill, he uses his weapons only to save lives wherever he can.

As the series progresses, more is gradually learned about Vash's mysterious history and the history of the human civilization on Gunsmoke, the desert planet the series is set on. The series is often humorous in tone, but at the same time it involves very serious character development and especially in later episodes it becomes quite emotionally intense. Vash is occasionally joined by a priest, Nicholas D. Wolfwood, who is almost as good a gunfighter as Vash himself, and later is targeted by a band of assassins known as the Gung-Ho Guns for reasons which are mysterious at first.

Trigun evolves into a very serious discussion of the nature of morality, posing questions such as: What is the nature of morality? Can we judge different moral codes? If a person is forced to betray their moral code, does that betrayal invalidate that moral code, and can the person still try to live up to that moral code? Can the person find redemption from their wrongs, and if so, how?

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Trigun Maximum was published in English by Dark Horse from May 26, 2004 to April 8, 2009 and collected into five omnibus editions from December 4, 2012 to November 18, 2014.

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Vash the Stampede

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Wolfwood, Nicholas D.

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Thompson, Milly

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Stryfe, Meryl

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Bluesummers, Legato

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Kuroneko

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Knives, Millions

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Saverem, Rem

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the Double Fang, Livio

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the Hornfreak, Midvalley

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Jun 10, 2008

AoiMemori

Recommended

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

Recommended

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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Dec 17, 2016

butthurtbrigade

Not Recommended

It's not a very good manga, the art is shitty and badly detailed, I had trouble seeing what was going on in a lot of panels. The character development is non-existent. The action doesn't work because of the aforementioned poor art and I'm just more of a edgelord who prefers to see the protagonist kill his enemies so I guess the whole premise of Trigun just wasn't for me. (Although the series does get darker later on)

The comedy was not very good so the darker turn when it became seinen was welcomed, but overall I just didn't care for it.

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