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New 'Trigun' Anime Project Announced for 2023

by Vindstot
Jun 16, 2022 8:03 PM | 87 Comments

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

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WHERE'S MILLY 😭😭😭😭

Dec 21, 2022 8:01 AM by yungwarlock

:( they've yassified Vash :((( tumblr from 2014 got ahold of him

Oct 25, 2022 7:50 AM by BananaBird

DarkDooM2 said:
Being the best CG Studio really doesn't mean much when the best CG is still worse than average 2D animation.
wow this statement is so wrong in every way, CGI is still a valid form of animation like 2d. Stop with your cgi hate boners.

Aug 12, 2022 8:24 PM by misteruno

WHY CGI WHY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
TT TT TT TT TT

Jun 22, 2022 3:26 PM by kaitoXotaku96

Wow, the original anime is so good that it'll be hard to match up to. Still, I've heard that the anime was a loose adaption, so I guess this will be like Trigun Brotherhood.

Jun 20, 2022 10:00 PM by malvarez1

Holy shit.... totally unexpected.

Time for more love for Vashu za Stampido :D

I hope they will adapt entire manga :)

Jun 20, 2022 7:17 AM by Pain_The_Kami

I'm looking forward to it cg can suck sometimes but orange does good work as long as it's better than Bakis' cgi I'll be happy with the story since I still watch it

Jun 19, 2022 3:37 PM by JodeneSparks

Feels like all my old favorites are being brought back to life.

Jun 19, 2022 12:11 PM by KuroDubZero

ExoticNeeds said:
CGI + Studio Orange.

I'll give it a try since Orange are best studio in terms of CGI Animation. Hoping it was not

GRAYLIGHTNING said:

P.S: WHERE'S OUR COMPLETE ADAPTATION OF SOUL EATER AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA. Maybe in 2028 I guess? Since it'll be 20 years since the original adaptation started airing.


Same here! Fire Force confirmed to have 3rd season while Soul Eater :(


Soul Eater is probably going to get a remake after Fire Force ends - people who read the manga know why

Jun 19, 2022 11:09 AM by Oongbuh

Casual flex, but I'm the one that gave the original Trigun its current synopsis.

Not sure how I feel about CGI being utilized, but I'll reserve judgment until we see some clips
Looking forward to this mostly.

Jun 19, 2022 8:09 AM by Protaku

Trigun was one of the things that really got me into anime when I was growing up. Definitely up there with my top favorite series. I even have all the manga and have read it a few times.

I'm not sure what to expect though as there doesn't seem to be very much information about this, but that visual teaser looks really good. I'd be tepid about an original story too as I really, really didn't like Badlands Rumble. But, if they do a retelling like with FMAB then I will probably go into this super hyped. I guess all we can do is wait and see.

Jun 19, 2022 6:04 AM by commonxreaction

CGI..? AH... OK

Not going to watch it.

Judevin said:
I was really hoping for Houseki no Kuni S2, just in time for the manga's return. Man...

bibitmeinzmk said:


The animation will be CG, just so you know, if you want to see great Trigun animation I would recommend the movie.
CG animation is still animation and Studio Orange are probably the best at CG animation in the industry. Watch any of their solo projects like Houseki no Kuni or Beastars for how they do their CG, and they've done multiple behind the scenes stuff to show how they do it. So as much as I get the "muh 2d animu" sentiment, Orange is no slouch. For example, this scene from episode 3 does not exist in the manga, they literally just added it in the show to flex their skills:


I didn't find anything great in this clip

Jun 18, 2022 8:57 PM by Sakuta002766

CGI + Studio Orange.

I'll give it a try since Orange are best studio in terms of CGI Animation. Hoping it was not

GRAYLIGHTNING said:

P.S: WHERE'S OUR COMPLETE ADAPTATION OF SOUL EATER AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA. Maybe in 2028 I guess? Since it'll be 20 years since the original adaptation started airing.


Same here! Fire Force confirmed to have 3rd season while Soul Eater :(

Jun 18, 2022 8:44 PM by ExoticNeeds

I'm really happy for this. I haven gotten to read the full manga story, I didn't love but also didn't dislike the anime's ending arc. I would expect the manga to be much better, maybe I'll even wait to watch this new adaptation in case that it is a "Brotherhood" style of complete adaptation.

P.S: WHERE'S OUR COMPLETE ADAPTATION OF SOUL EATER AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA. Maybe in 2028 I guess? Since it'll be 20 years since the original adaptation started airing.

Jun 18, 2022 7:45 PM by GRAYLIGHTNING

GakutoDeathGlare said:
Lame, another product of it's era that we don't need today. I pray they don't reboot something like Yuu Yuu Hakusho next lol


The anime of YYH was already perfect; it'd be blatant if anyone ever tried again.

Due to all this cost cutting, with 12 episode series, CG animation, I really wouldn't see the point in even wanting to try.

Jun 18, 2022 6:19 PM by CrimsonCW

Lame, another product of it's era that we don't need today. I pray they don't reboot something like Yuu Yuu Hakusho next lol

Jun 18, 2022 4:49 PM by GakutoDeathGlare

YAHOOGAYCHATROOM said:
AbelDande said:
”Tell me you haven’t watched a single show by studio Orange without saying it”


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e4THwaZtpD4
So what part of this looks amazing again? The janky 5 FPS movement? The drab color choices? The bland boring shot composition? Or it's a combination of those things that makes it look amazing?

Help me out here, my eyes tell me it looks like total dogshit, but MAL tells me Orange does GREAT cg! So obviously my eyes are lying to me.


I've always wanted to ask you what you think about this kind of aesthetic anime CG, from a 2013 3DS game:



Honestly, I think it could work as an aesthetic; not every CG anime is Clangserk.

Sometimes though it just comes down to aesthetic; it might just not be someone's cup of tea, ever. I would also prefer traditional if at all possible too though.

Jun 18, 2022 4:13 PM by CrimsonCW

AbelDande said:
ZXEAN said:
I hate CGI anime. Not watching 😞
”Tell me you haven’t watched a single show by studio Orange without saying it”


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e4THwaZtpD4
So what part of this looks amazing again? The janky 5 FPS movement? The drab color choices? The bland boring shot composition? Or it's a combination of those things that makes it look amazing?

Help me out here, my eyes tell me it looks like total dogshit, but MAL tells me Orange does GREAT cg! So obviously my eyes are lying to me.

Jun 18, 2022 11:36 AM by YAHOOGAYCHATROOM

Honestly, I've heard nothing but rave about "Maximum" and the like but it was always impossible to find or even really understand where to start, so if this thing tackles that, I'm definitely curious and would want to check it out.

Trigun always had a lot of potential to me and the original anime was always a bit of a letdown in tackling those ideas for me.


CG can look good, if it looks anything like the Fire Emblem games; but if it's more of Clangserk.... eh, we'll see. It's not immediately offputting for me though, as much as I don't prefer seeing more and more CG anime vs hand drawn.

Jun 18, 2022 11:17 AM by CrimsonCW

I hate cgi so much bros

dreihk said:
Studio Orange is basically claiming this as their magnum opus so i hope all the people blindly hating on cg will feel real dumb when this turns out amazing.


studio Orange: *squats on table over my meal, pulls down pants*
Me: stop shitting on my food please
You: HOW DO YOU KNOW IT'S SHIT? IT'S NOT EVEN OUT YET!

in all seriousness, oh wow a company is saying good things about their upcoming commercial project, guess that's proof it's gonna be a masterpiece, pack it up fellas, conversation over

Jun 18, 2022 11:13 AM by YAHOOGAYCHATROOM

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