"Trigun" (1998) TV series 1998-

Creator:

Yasuhiro Nightow
(more)

Seasons:

1

Release Date:

January 2003 (USA)

Genre:

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

Plot:

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!

Plot Keywords:

Gun | Able To See The Dead | Good Versus Evil | Ghost | Futuristic

Cast

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

Series Directed by
Satoshi Nishimura		(26 episodes, 1998)

Series Writing credits
Yôsuke Kuroda		(3 episodes, 1998)
Yasuhiro Nightow		(2 episodes, 1998)

Series Produced by
Shigeru Kitayama	....	producer (26 episodes, 1998)
Shigeki Komatsu	....	executive producer (26 episodes, 1998)
Masao Maruyama	....	executive producer (26 episodes, 1998)
Masao Morosawa	....	producer (26 episodes, 1998)

Series Original Music by
Tsuneo Imahori		(26 episodes, 1998)

Series Film Editing by
Yukiko Ito		(26 episodes, 1998)
Harutoshi Ogata		(26 episodes, 1998)
Satoshi Terauchi		(26 episodes, 1998)

Series Production Design by
Masahiro Otake		(unknown episodes)

Series Art Direction by
Hidetoshi Kaneko		(26 episodes, 1998)

Series Production Management
Toru Iikawa	....	assistant production manager (unknown episodes)

Series Second Unit Director or Assistant Director
Yutaka Sato	....	assistant unit director (unknown episodes)

Series Art Department
Satoshi Nishimura	....	storyboard artist: opening animation / storyboard artist (26 episodes, 1998)

Series Sound Department
Shizuo Kurahashi	....	sound effects editor (26 episodes, 1998)
Kazunari Tanaka	....	sound recordist (26 episodes, 1998)
Keiko Terao	....	sound producer (26 episodes, 1998)

Series Special Effects by
Toyohiko Sakakibara	....	special effects (unknown episodes)

Series Animation Department
Akihiko Isozaki	....	color designer: Studio OZ (26 episodes, 1998)
Noriyuki Jinguji	....	mechanical designer (26 episodes, 1998)
Takahiro Yoshimatsu	....	animation director: opening animation / character designer / ... (26 episodes, 1998)
Yoshimitsu Ôhashi	....	animator: ending animation (25 episodes, 1998)
Takuya Iida	....	background artist (unknown episodes)
Matsatsugu Kawai	....	inbetween checker (unknown episodes)
Hiroki Matsumoto	....	background artist (unknown episodes)
Masumi Nishikawa	....	background artist (unknown episodes)
Akiko Ohashi	....	animator / inbetween artist (unknown episodes)
Mayumi Okada	....	background artist (unknown episodes)
Yuka Okamoto	....	background artist (unknown episodes)
Toshiyuki Yoshimura	....	background artist (unknown episodes)

Series Editorial Department
Akihiko Sozaki	....	color coordinator (unknown episodes)

Series Other crew
Yôsuke Kuroda	....	series organization (26 episodes, 1998)

Production Companies

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

Distributors

• AXN (2009) (Hungary) (TV) (re-release) (AXN Sci-Fi)
• Cartoon Network
• FUNimation Entertainment (2010) (USA) (all media)
• Geneon Entertainment (2001-2007) (USA) (DVD)
• Pioneer Entertainment
• Selecta Vision

Other Companies

• Mad House  animation

Also Known As:

"Trigun #1: The $$60,000,000,000 Man" - USA (DVD title)

Runtime:

30 min (26 episodes) | USA:30 min

Country:

Japan

Language:

Tagalog | Spanish | Italian | German | French | Japanese | English

Color:

Color

Sound Mix:

Dolby Digital

Certification:

Australia:M (episodes 13-26) | Australia:PG (episodes 1-12) | Spain:7 | USA:TV-14 | New Zealand:M | UK:15 (DVD rating) | USA:TV-PG (one episode) | Italy:T (episodes 13-26) (DVD rating) | Italy:VM14 (episodes 1-12) (DVD rating) | South Korea:12

Company:

Mad House

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 ($)".

Quotes:

Vash the Stampede:Hey, "Thou Shalt Not Kill", remember? What kind of church man are you?

Movie Connections:

Referenced in Gungrave (2002) (VG)

Soundtrack:

H.T.

A lesson in storytelling

A lot of animes set people off. Slow beginnings, long series, and lack of substance make a lot of anime shows completely unwatchable to the newcomer.

Those animes should take a lesson from Trigun. If there was ever an anime that told a story best in 26 episodes, it's definitely this one. Vash The Stampede, a supposed outlaw with a $$60 million reward, must set out to find where his life started and how to go on now. On his journey he is tagged along by reporters Meryl Stryfe and Milly Thompson, and is later accompanied by the gun-toting priest Nicholas D. Wolfwood.

Every episode has its own wonderful story and solves a little more of the mystery of Vash's life, always wanting you hungering for more but feeding you enough to love that episode just as much as any other. I, for one, was very able to connect to the characters as each has their own colorful and lovable personality. It brought a lot of life to an anime series that you aren't treated to often.

There's no way you can't enjoy Trigun - it's an anime series for all and definitely one that will last throughout anime history as one of the best. It may not be glittered with massive CG and high-budget animation, but that's not what is important. If you haven't seen this yet, go see it now.