There is an outlaw with a huge bounty of $$60,000,000,000 on him. His name is Vash the Stampede, also known as The Humanoid Typhoon. Legend say that everywhere he goes he destroys entire cities just for fun, and lays waste to everyone who oppose him. However, legend is often overexaggerated. Vash is actually a huge softie who easily cries, hates blood, and refuse to kill someone. He's travelling around with the two insurance agents Meryl Stryfe and Milly Thompson, who's job is too minimize Vash's impact on the public, but can they do something about Vash's misfortune.
Vash the Stampede is the main character. He's a legendary outlaw who everyone fears and want nothing to do with, but in all actuallity he's just a softie who doesn't wanna hurt anyone.
Nicholas D. Wolfwood is a wandering priest who Vash and the insurance agents run across in the desert. He's trying to collect money for his orphanage by offering people confessions. He also carries around a huge cross on his back.
Meryl Stryfe is one of the two insurance agents from Bernadelli Insurance Society. She is a very serious person who values her work. She has a short temper, but she's a good person at heart.
Milly Thompson is the other insurance agent. She's Meryl's friend and assistant. She is very tall and physically strong, but she's also very simple and ditzy. She takes most things at face value, which in certain situations allows her to accept something as truth that others might not want to believe.
The animation in this show is honestly very poor. At no point can I say that this shows animation was good. It felt like they had production problems right from the get-go. It's sad to see that this show got that sort of treatment.
The music in this show is fantastic though. I loved it from opening to ending, and everything in between as well. I was not expecting the music to be as strong as it was, but it was a nice surprise.
Going into this show I had high expectations. Ever since I got into anime 4 years ago I've heard about this show and how fantastic it is. I've many times been told that since I like Cowboy Bebop I would love this show. But this show let me down big time. A lot of the events taking place in this story just felt so contrived. While I do like reasons behind things happening in a story, this show just felt like the reasons were an after-thought, and when it introduced it's villains it let me down even more. With Vash being a pacifist, the villain takes his role as the opposite to Vash was too seriously, and ends up feeling like a catroon villain. Now it's not just the villains I have issues with, I also have issues with Vash. He is just straight up annoying. Despite being a "badass" he's such a wimp, and his pacifist ways ends up creating so many problems, and his reasons for sticking to his ways are just way too weak for me. Annoyance aside though, the show does have some strong episodes as well. It's episodic nature allows it to try different things, and honestly, some of my favorite episodes in this show had nothing to do with Vash, but rather some of the other side characters in the show. I especially liked the episode with the old couple who's protecting their land from a dangerous man who wants to take their land and sell it.
Honestly, I wanted to like this show. I wanted to find my next Cowboy Bebop, but sadly this was not it. It's not horrible, but there are some moments where your patience will really be tasted. And taking everything this show did into concideration I do think this show is an ok watch. However, I would not recommend this show. There are much better shows out there, like Cowboy Bebop.
