Trigun (1998– )

Vash the Stampede is the most infamous outlaw on the planet Gunsmoke and with a 60 billion double dollar price on his head the most sought after!

Creator:

Yasuhiro Nightow

Stars:

Mona Marshall, Masaya Onosaka, Hiromi Tsuru

Cast

Series cast summary:
Mona Marshall	...	Kaite (25 episodes, 1998)
Jeff Nimoy	...	Nicholas D. Wolfwood (11 episodes, 1998)

Storyline

Trigun takes place in the distant future on a deserted planet. Vash the Stampede is a gunfighter with a legend so ruthless that he has a $$60,000,000,000 bounty on his head. Entire towns evacuate at the rumor of his arrival. However, the real Vash the Stampede is not the same man that rumor portrays him to be. The enigmatic and conflicted lead character in Trigun is actually more heroic in nature; as well as a complete and utter idiot at times.

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Plot Keywords:

gun | able to see the dead | good versus evil | ghost | futuristic | 

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Genres:

Animation | Action | Comedy | Drama | Sci-Fi | Western

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Certificate:

TV-14

Details

Country:

Japan

Language:

Tagalog Spanish Italian German French Japanese English

Release Date:

January 2003 (USA)

Also Known As:

Trigun #1: The $$60,000,000,000 Man

Company Credits

Production Co:

Mad House, Tokuma Shoten, Victor Company of Japan (JVC)

Technical Specs

Runtime:

30 min 30 min (26 episodes)

Sound Mix:

Dolby Digital

Color:

Color

Did You Know?

Trivia

For unknown reasons, the anime contains various fictional units of measurement. The three most prominent are "iles" instead of "miles", "yarz" instead of "yards", and "double dollars ($$)" instead of "dollars ($)".

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Quotes

Vash the Stampede: [after jumping off a cliff onto a flying machine] No matter how many times I do that I still feel like I'm gonna have a heart attack! This thing's going ba-da-boom, BA-DA-BOOM!
Wolfwood: I thought you were committing suicide!
Vash the Stampede: Suicide? I strongly disapprove of...
[looks around]
Vash the Stampede: Wolfwood! What are you doing here?
Wolfwood: YOU MANIAC! I followed you! What do you think you're doing crying your eyes out like a baby and jumping off of cliffs!
Vash the Stampede: I'm visiting the folks.
Wolfwood: What do you mean 'visiting the folks'? Do they have ...

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Crazy Credits

In the opening credits for the first 17 episodes, a poster reading "WANTED - Vash the Stampede - 60,000,000,000$$" is briefly shown three times. For episodes #18-26, however, this poster is replaced by one which reads "-EMERGENCY- EVACUATION ORDER! HUMANOID TYPHOON IS COMING".

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Connections

Referenced in Underworld (2003)

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Soundtracks

"Nerve Rack"
Written by Tsuneo Imahori
Performed by Tsuneo Imahori

User Reviews

Hooked me from the beginning...

The Trigun anime series is a magnificent addition to anime of today. It starts off with about twelve or so episodes with the average hero-saves-the-day motive, but there is always a big mystery left behind for our hero, Vash: Who in the world IS he!?

About halfway through the series, Vash is caught up in the midst of his brother, Knives, who wants nothing better than to see Vash suffer. Vash has one weakness, and a pretty serious one at that: He cannot kill ANYBODY or else he'll risk total, mental damnation. So, what's one thing that Knives does? He sends out about a dozen totally unique fighters dubbed the "Gung Ho Guns", whose job is to drive Vash to kill them.

This series does a great job at bringing in well-made characters and has its share of comical humor along the way. All that I can add is that when the final episode came to an end, one word kept circling through my head: Wow. Plus, it's fun choosing which of the "Gung Ho Guns" is your favorite. Personal choice of mine: Caine the Longshot.