Trigun: Badlands Rumble (2010)

Director:

Satoshi Nishimura

Writers:

Yasuhiro Nightow (manga) and
Satoshi Nishimura (story) ...
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Release Date:

24 April 2010 (Japan)

Genre:

Animation | Action | Sci-Fi | Western

Plot:

20 years after meddling into the bank heist of a notorious robber named Gasback, Vash the Stampede is heading towards Macca City...

Plot Keywords:

Thief | Bounty Hunter | Fear | Test Of Character | Allergy

Cast

Charles Baker	...	Additional Voices (voice: English version)
Ed Blaylock	...	Additional Voices (voice: English version)
Johnny Yong Bosch	...	Vash The Stampede (voice: English version)
Anthony Bowling	...	Additional Voices (voice: English version)
Duncan Brannan	...	Additional Voices (voice: English version)
Jonathan Brooks	...	Additional Voices (voice: English version)
Charles Campbell	...	Additional Voices (voice: English version)
Kayla Carlyle	...	Additional Voices (voice: English version)
Chris Cason	...	Additional Voices (voice: English version)
Luci Christian	...	Meryl Stryfe (voice: English version)
Leah Clark	...	Additional Voices (voice: English version)
Colleen Clinkenbeard	...	Amelia (voice: English version)
Cynthia Cranz	...	Additional Voices (voice: English version)
Kenny Green	...	Additional Voices (voice: English version)
Josh Grelle	...	Additional Voices (voice: English version)
Brad Hawkins	...	Nicholas D. Wolfwood (voice: English version)
Shô Hayami	...	Nicholas D. Wolfwood (voice)
Chuck Huber	...	Additional Voices (voice: English version)
Tsutomu Isobe	...	Gasback (voice)
Andrew Love	...	Additional Voices (voice: English version)
Lydia Mackay	...	Amelia's Mother (voice: English version)
Jamie Marchi	...	Additional Voices (voice: English version)
Bryan Massey	...	Additional Voices (voice: English version)
Robert McCollum	...	Shane (voice: English version)
Anastasia Munoz	...	Additional Voices (voice: English version)
Trina Nishimura	...	Milly Thompson (voice: English version)
Masaya Onosaka	...	Vash the Stampede (voice)
Phil Parsons	...	Additional Voices (voice: English version)
Newton Pittman	...	Mechio (voice: English version)
Wendy Powell	...	Additional Voices (voice: English version)
Chris Rager	...	Additional Voices (voice: English version)
Jerry Russell	...	Additional Voices (voice: English version)
Christopher Sabat	...	Additional Voices (voice: English version)
Maaya Sakamoto	...	Amelia (voice)
Lindsay Seidel	...	Additional Voices (voice: English version)
Micah Solusod	...	Additional Voices (voice: English version)
Mark Stoddard	...	Additional Voices (voice: English version)
Sonny Strait	...	Dorino (voice: English version)
John Swasey	...	Gasback (voice: English version)
Hiromi Tsuru	...	Meryl Stryfe (voice)
Eric Vale	...	Additional Voices (voice: English version)
Kent Williams	...	Caine / Kepler (voice: English version)
Satsuki Yukino	...	Milly Thompson (voice)

Directed by
Satoshi Nishimura

Writing credits
Yasuhiro Nightow		(manga)
Satoshi Nishimura		(story)
Yasuhiro Nightow		(story)
Yasuko Kobayashi		(screenplay)

Produced by
Yoshiyuki Fudetani	....	producer
Shigeru Kitayama	....	producer
Yukiko Koike	....	producer
Nobuhiko Sakô	....	executive producer
Shiro Sasaki	....	executive producer
Tsuneo Takechi	....	producer
Rikichiro Toda	....	executive producer

Original Music by
Tsuneo Imahori

Cinematography by
Shinichi Igarashi		(director of photography)

Film Editing by
Satoshi Terauchi

Art Direction by
Minoru Akiba

Sound Department
Z. Charles Bolton	....	adr director (as Zach Bolton)
Thanos Kazakos	....	adr recording

Animation Department
Yeong-mi Lee	....	secondary key animator (as Young-Mi Lee)
Cindy H. Yamauchi	....	animation director (as Hideko Yamauchi)

Other crew
Shigeki Komatsu	....	planning
Masao Maruyama	....	planning

Production Companies

• FUNimation Entertainment
• FlyingDog (executive production) (as Trigun seisaku iinkai)
• Klockworx Co., The (executive production) (as Trigun seisaku iinkai)
• Madhouse (executive production) (as Trigun seisaku iinkai)
• Shonengahosha (executive production) (as Trigun seisaku iinkai)

Distributors

• Klock Worx Company, The (2010) (Japan) (theatrical)
• Eleven Arts (2011) (Canada) (theatrical)
• Eleven Arts (2011) (USA) (theatrical)
• Dybex (2011) (France) (video)
• FUNimation Entertainment (2011) (USA) (video)

Also Known As:

Country:

Japan

Language:

Japanese

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1

Certification:

Singapore:NC-16

Company:

FUNimation Entertainment

Trivia:

Johnny Yong Bosch, the English voice actor for Vash the Stampede, is the only English voice actor to reprise his role from the original series.

Movie Connections:

Follows "Trigun" (1998)

Trigun is back, and it's a good time!

Trigun Badlands Rumble is a very good movie, with some nice nostalgia for Trigun fans.

It's in the style of the first half of the series, Vash wandering around getting into trouble and helping people out. He runs into our cool heroine of the movie, Amelia, and she's quite likable. Of course, Meryl, Millie, and Wolfwood are in the house as well.

The story here is not black and white with good guys and bad guys, it's interesting in that the villains of this movie aren't all that evil, and overall the movie has a more laid-back feel than you might expect.

One cool aspect is how they incorporate Vash's past and how old he is, by tying in a flashback from 20 years prior into the current events. We have some nice fun dialogue, great slapstick humor, a crazy bar brawl, lots of action, and a bit of drama to give it some weight. The animation is the most flawless aspect of the movie, the art is detailed and it's lushly done. There's a lot of great detail, and all the wacky background characters have a lot of care put into them.

Overall, though the plot takes a couple clever turns, the movie is just a nicely done, very straightforward light action romp, done well. I enjoyed the ending especially, which had a nice way of commenting on Vash's ideals. And of course, this movie is even better for letting us hang out with those classic Trigun characters for another hour and a half. Check it out!