Small disclaimer, I love Trigun so much it was one of the first animes I ever watched and is still today one of my favourite anime to watch, I watch it at least every six months that is how much I love this series.
Trigun is the story about a mysterious gunslinger by the name Vash the Stampede, he is also known as the Humanoid Typhoon, who carries a 60 billion ‘double dollar’ bounty on his head and his story upon the planet of Gunsmoke.
Story:
The story starts off very light hearted and comedic, with a lot of the first couple of episodes being
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full of slapstick humour, but showing every so often that at the core this series has the heart of a very serious toned anime. The second half of the series deals a lot more in the heavy stuff cause the stakes get raised around the middle as revelations about our main character are known. The story does a great job of keeping the light tone and the heavy in a perfect balance as the series does well to move itself in a way that it starts out a light-hearted anime and slowly transitions more into the heavy stuff later in the series, so seamlessly that you don’t feel like you’ve walked into a completely different anime. The main overall arc of the entire series is the way it the anime feels about violence, it doesn’t just go killing is evil as is the main character’s way of thinking, we are given both sides to this argument about whether killing is a good or bad thing in any regard and gives the viewer something to think about.
Characters:
Vash the Stampede is one of the best main characters I have ever seen, he is a classic tortured soul character he carries a big weight from his past but his past also keeps him smiling and handling everything from a friendly non-threatening approach. Vash starts off as our comic relief for the first half of the series; he is the constant focus of much of the slap-stick humour in the series. As the series progresses he goes from being comic relief to the mentioned tortured soul who is desperately trying to fight against a world in which killing is done hourly and just wants to bring Love and Peace.
The supporting cast are also great in their own right, Nicholas D Wolfwood is a good opposite character to Vash, he starts out as the same guy very light hearted but with something hidden underneath but he believes killing in the name of good is fine which make him constantly clash with Vash and his ideal of killing is never good. The interactions between the two characters make them even more believable, they feel like they are real people constantly fighting over an argument they both have opposing sides of which in turn makes them respect each other more.
Milly Thompson and Meryl Strife make up our other supporting cast they are both insurance girls who are tasked to watching Vash to stop him from causing anymore destruction (which failed most of the time). Both of these characters aren’t as fleshed out as they could be but they do have their purposes are still good characters regardless being sort of neutral players to the events that are happening around them.
I don’t like to give spoilers out but the main villain Knives could be more fleshed out but spends most of his time off screen because of reason I won’t explain. However in the second half we are introduced to Legato the leader of a band of killers called the Gun-Ho Guns who work for Knives. Legato is a great villain, he is a man who spends most of his time tormenting Vash desperate for him to kill someone which leads to great conclusion between the two which is too good to spoil.
Art:
Trigun is a very standard when it comes to art style it has a very 90s heavy budget feel, it isn’t terrible by any stretch but it isn’t doing anything super spectacular in that regard either. I don’t really how to talk about art styles greatly so this was a bit rushed sorry.
Sound:
To be short and simple, great soundtrack to this series, all of the tracks have either a upbeat jazz or a very country and western feel to them and in some cases a combination of both. These tracks are well done and add a very powerful atmosphere to the entire series, do yourself a favour and listen to either ‘Blue Funk’ or ‘Never Could Have Been Worse’ these are in my opinion the best tracks on the soundtracks. The opening is really fast paced guitar track which fits to the overly action part of the series, the ending I am in a mix bag with not my favourite track but by no means a bad track.
Conclusion/TL;DR:
Trigun is an amazing anime with a fantastic story that is both entertaining, full of action but it also makes you think. The characters are very good with our main being one of the best characters in anime. The art style is nothing knew and feels very heavily budgeted but overall is still a good watch and the soundtrack gives the series a very powerful atmosphere that puts it all together.
As a fan boy this is a 10/10 series for me, but to the average person I would give this an 9/10, this anime is a must watch for any fan of anime.
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Jun 3, 2014
Small disclaimer, I love Trigun so much it was one of the first animes I ever watched and is still today one of my favourite anime to watch, I watch it at least every six months that is how much I love this series.
Trigun is the story about a mysterious gunslinger by the name Vash the Stampede, he is also known as the Humanoid Typhoon, who carries a 60 billion ‘double dollar’ bounty on his head and his story upon the planet of Gunsmoke. Story: The story starts off very light hearted and comedic, with a lot of the first couple of episodes being ... |
