New 'Trigun' Anime Project Announced for 2023

TOHO animation launched an official website for a new anime project for Yasuhiro Nightow's Trigun manga on Friday, revealing a teaser visual (pictured). The new anime, Trigun Stampede, is being produced by CG animation studio Orange for a 2023 debut.

This year's Anime Expo convention will announce more information for the anime on July 2. Original creator Yasuhiro Nightow, designer Kouji Tajima, Orange producers Kiyotaka Waki and Yoshihiro Watanabe, and Toho producer Katsuhiro Takei will speak at the talk show event.

Nightow originally published a Trigun one-shot in Monthly Shounen Captain in February 1995. The action adventure manga began regular serialization in April that year, but went on hiatus in January 1997 due to the magazine's discontinuation. Tokuma Shoten released the manga in three volumes between April 1996 and January 1999. Shounen Gahousha later republished it in two volumes in June 2000.

Nightow resumed the original manga under the new title Trigun Maximum in Young King OURs in October 1997. After a ten-year run, the manga ended in March 2007. Shounen Gahousha released the manga in 14 volumes between May 1998 and February 2008 and later in seven volumes from February and September in 2010.

Madhouse adapted the manga into a 26-episode television anime that aired from April to September 1998. The Trigun: Badlands Rumble side story movie premiered in April 2010.

Pioneer Entertainment (later Geneon Entertainment USA) originally licensed the television anime in North America and released it on eighth DVD volumes from March 2000 to May 2001. Funimation reacquired the series in 2010 and released it on a single DVD volume in October that year. The company also licensed the side story movie and shipped it on home video in September 2011.

Dark Horse Comics licensed the manga in English in June 2003 and released it in two volumes in October 2003 and January 2004, and in an omnibus volume in October 2013. The publisher also released Trigun Maximum between May 2004 and April 2009 and in five omnibus volumes from December 2012 to November 2014.

Trigun Maximum won the Seiun Award for the Best Comic at the 48th Japan Science Fiction Convention in 2009.

Synopsis
Vash the Stampede is the man with a $$60,000,000,000 bounty on his head. The reason: he's a merciless villain who lays waste to all those that oppose him and flattens entire cities for fun, garnering him the title "The Humanoid Typhoon." He leaves a trail of death and destruction wherever he goes, and anyone can count themselves dead if they so much as make eye contact—or so the rumors say. In actuality, Vash is a huge softie who claims to have never taken a life and avoids violence at all costs.

With his crazy doughnut obsession and buffoonish attitude in tow, Vash traverses the wasteland of the planet Gunsmoke, all the while followed by two insurance agents, Meryl Stryfe and Milly Thompson, who attempt to minimize his impact on the public. But soon, their misadventures evolve into life-or-death situations as a group of legendary assassins are summoned to bring about suffering to the trio. Vash's agonizing past will be unraveled and his morality and principles pushed to the breaking point. [Written by MAL Rewrite]

Official site: https://trigun-anime.com/
Official Twitter: @trigun_anime

Source: Comic Natalie

Trigun Stampede on MAL