Trigun
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| トライガン (Toraigan) |
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| Genre | Action, Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Philosophical, Postmodern, Psychological, Science Fiction, Shōnen, Space western |
| Manga: Trigun | |
| Authored by | Yasuhiro Nightow |
| Publisher |  Tokuma Shoten Panini Comics |
| Serialized in | Shōnen Captain |
| Original run | February 1995 – 1997 |
| No. of volumes | 3 (originally), 2 (current) |
| Manga: Trigun Maximum | |
| Authored by | Yasuhiro Nightow |
| Publisher | Shōnen Gahōsha Dark Horse Comics |
| Serialized in | Young King Ours |
| Original run | 1998 – ongoing |
| No. of volumes | 12 (currently) |
| TV anime : Trigun | |
| Directed by | Satoshi Nishimura |
| Studio | Madhouse |
| Network | TV Tokyo GMA 7 Cartoon Network A+ MTV Italia SIC Radical G4 TechTV |
| Original run | April 4, 1998 – September 30, 1998 |
| No. of episodes | 26 |
Trigun (トライガン Toraigan?) is a sci-fi manga series with a space western theme created by Yasuhiro Nightow in 1995, and adapted into a 26 episode anime series in 1998 by Madhouse. It is the story of Vash the Stampede, a.k.a. The Humanoid Typhoon, and the two Bernardelli Insurance Society employees, Meryl Stryfe and Milly Thompson, who were ordered to follow him and minimize the damage that seems to follow Vash everywhere he goes. Like Himura Kenshin from the manga/anime series Rurouni Kenshin, Vash flips personalities between foolish and clumsy klutz and unstoppable warrior, but always believes that it is wrong to take the life of another, regardless of the circumstances.
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Much of the damage attributed to "Vash" is caused by the activities of the bounty hunters who are after the 60,000,000,000$$ (sixty billion "double dollars") reward on Vash's head for the destruction of a city called July. Vash does not clearly remember the destruction of July, and only wants "love and peace", as he puts it; though he is a gunfighter of inhuman skill, he uses his weapons only to save lives wherever he can.
As the series progresses, more is gradually learned about Vash's mysterious history and the history of human civilization on Gunsmoke, the alien desert planet the series is set on. The series is often humorous in tone, but at the same time it involves very serious character development and especially in later episodes it becomes quite emotionally intense. Vash is occasionally joined by the preacher Nicholas D. Wolfwood, who is almost as good a gunfighter as Vash himself, and later is targeted by a band of assassins known as the Gung-Ho Guns for reasons which are mysterious at first.
Trigun evolves into a very serious discussion of the nature of morality, posing questions such as: What is the nature of morality? Can we judge different moral codes? If a person is forced to betray their moral code, does that betrayal invalidate that moral code, and can the person still try to live up to that moral code? Can the person find redemption from their wrongs, and if so, how? Trigun also seems to challenge, through its storyline and artwork, common dualistic world views that see good and evil as being equal. It implies that good and evil are not equal and that there is something that stands outside of both and is greater than both.
[edit] Manga
After leaving college, Yasuhiro Nightow had gone to work selling apartments for the housing corporation Sekisui House, but struggled to keep up with his manga drawing hobby. Reassured by some successes, including a one-shot Samurai Spirits manga based on the popular video game franchise, he quit his job to draw full time. With the help of a publisher friend, he submitted a Trigun story for the February 1995 issue of the Tokuma Shoten magazine Shōnen Captain, and began regular serialisation two months later in April.
However, Shōnen Captain was cancelled early in 1997, and when Nightow was approached by the magazine Young King Ours, published by Shōnen Gahōsha, they were interested in him beginning a new work. He was however troubled[1] by the idea of leaving Trigun incomplete, and requested to be allowed to finish the series. The publishers were sympathetic, and the manga resumed in 1998 as Trigun Maximum (トライガンマキシマム Toraigan Makishimamu?). The story jumps forward two years with the start of Maximum, and takes on a slightly more serious tone, perhaps due to the switch from a shōnen to a seinen magazine. Despite this, Nightow has stated[2] that the new title was purely down to the change of publishers, and rather than being a sequel it should be seen as a continuation of the same series. The 12th tankōbon was published on July 26, 2006.
Shōnen Gahōsha later bought the rights to the original three volume manga series and reissued it as two enlarged volumes. In October 2003 the US publisher Dark Horse Comics released the expanded first volume translated into English, keeping the original right-to-left format rather than mirroring the pages. With the anime series already well known in the US, the first print run of 30,000 sold out[3] shortly after release. The second volume concluded the original series early the next year, and went on to be the top earning[4] graphic novel of 2004. On the heels of this success, Trigun Maximum followed quickly, and as of January 2007 eleven volumes have been released. Translations into German, French, Italian and Spanish have also been released.
As with other popular series, a wide variety of dōjinshi has been created by fans, and partially because of the high profile anime and wealth of bishōnen characters, this includes some yaoi work. Nightow has said[5] he's not been daunted by this idea, and even implies he might have read a few of them. However he did at one point take the unusual step of requesting[6] that a publisher cease distribution of a dōjinshi manga based on Trigun - not because of any risqué content, but that it was being sold alongside his own manga in bookshops, rather than being restricted to the condoned, specialist, comic fairs.
- See also: Trigun media#Manga
[edit] Anime
Trigun was animated by Madhouse, broadcasted on TV Tokyo, produced by Victor Company of Japan (JVC) in 1998 and directed by Satoshi Nishimura with scripts by Yosuke Kuroda, character designs by Takahiro Yoshimatsu, mechanical designs by Noriyuki Jinguji and music by Tsuneo Imahori. It is licensed in the United States by Pioneer USA (now Geneon). In 2003, Trigun began broadcast as part of Cartoon Network's Adult Swim programming block. Despite the hopes of many fans, Nightow has stated[7] that due to the finality of the anime ending, it is unlikely any continuation will be made.
The October 2005 issue of Neo magazine (A UK Anime magazine) includes an interview with Madhouse's founder and series planner, Masao Maruyama. In it, he says the studio is working on a Trigun Movie that should be released in a "couple of years". The November issue of Anime Insider also confirms this news.
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[edit] Trigun
The story takes place on an alien planet where a fleet of human ships crashed over a century ago. In the harsh conditions, the surviving humans are forced to depend on a special organism known as a plant, which provides them with food, water, and energy.
July, a large city, was completely wiped out, with a single man in rags standing above the wreckage. That man was Vash the Stampede. For the destruction of July and disappearance of all the inhabitants, Vash gained a bounty of $$60 billion (Double Dollars, the fictional currency). His bounty poster points out his distinctive appearance, and notes that Vash is a staunch pacifist.
The story begins in a diner where Vash is quietly enjoying his meal. A group of bounty hunters proceed to burst in and shoot up the place in an attempt to win the bounty. However, Vash easily avoids their attacks, and they soon run out of bullets. Meanwhile, two girls, Meryl and Milly, ask about Vash in a nearby bar, and set off towards him.
Back in the diner, the city has learned of Vash's identity, and proceed to attack him to try and claim his bounty, since they need the money to repair their plant. While Vash flees through the streets, Meryl and Milly arrive at the city to see it in turmoil. In desperation to capture Vash, the officials called the Nebraska father and son, two criminals. The two then attack Vash, nearly hurting citizens in the crossfire. Vash proceeds to rescue the citizens and defeat the Nebraskas. With Nebraskas defeated, Meryl and Milly introduce themselves as agents of the Bernadelli Insurance Company and announce that the government has declared Vash the Stampede an Act of God and cancelled his bounty. However, Vash turns in the Nebraskas for their bounty, and proceeds to donate it to the city. Meryl and Milly declare that they must follow and monitor Vash's activities.
The Sand Steamer, a massive locomotive used to travel between cities in the harsh desert environment, arrives in the city, and Vash boards. Meryl and Milly follow him. However, the Sand Steamer is attacked by the Bad Lad Gang with the help of the Kaito, the son of the man who designed the steamer. However, the boy cannot bring himself to allow the Steamer to be destroyed after the leader of the Gang, Brilliant Dynamite Neon Kou Rin, decides to crash the Steamer to open its safe. Vash and Kaito work to stop Brilliant, while Vash flashbacks to his time aboard a SEEDS ship, one of the ships in the original fleet, with Rem. After a duel with Brilliant, Brilliant is won over and stops the Steamer. After Vash leaves the Steamer, he reappears to help an old couple defend their plot of land, which they spent their lives to transform into a prospersous garden.
Vash, Meryl, and Milly later go to a town, where they play with the local children. While Vash is enjoying himself, he suddenly notices a mysterious man with blue hair and a white coat. The two telepathically communicate, where the man reveals himself as Legato Bluesummers, a servant of Knives, whom Vash had badly injured at July. Legato leaves behind a coin case containing 12 halved coins, telling Vash 12 assassins, each bearing one of the other halves of the coins, will come to attack Vash, and if Vash collects all 12, something will happen. Legato also leaves behind the head of the man who had previously repaired Vash's boots, and exits, leaving Vash to take the blame.
Vash is arrested and held in the jail, where he thinks back to his time with Rem, and remembers that Knives was the cause of the crashing of the fleet. Rem had sacrificed herself in order to save as many ships from destruction as possible. Vash is suddenly attacked by Gung-Ho Guns Number 1: Monev the Gale, first of the 12 assassins. Vash is forced to reveal the hidden gun in his left arm to escape, and in the resulting fight, loses his prosthetic arm. Many civilians are killed by Monev in the crossfire, and Vash begins to grow angry and unstable. When Vash finally defeats Monev, he nearly kills him while Monev begs for mercy, until he remembers Rem and spares Monev.
In the aftermath, Monev surrendurs his coin and leaves. Meryl and Milly worry about Vash, and discover his body is mutilated and covered with scars from his battles. The three leave the city, where Vash finds Monev crucified, and the next Gung-Ho Gun waiting: E. G. Mine. Vash quickly defeats Mine and calls out to Legato, who is watching the battle, telling Legato that he will take the offensive.
Later, Legato thinks about Vash's challenge, and reveals his telepathic abilities to slaughter of gang of organ harvesters. At the same time, Vash is traveling by bus, where he discovers a mysterious figure with a large cross in the desert. The man introduces himself as Nicholas D. Wolfwood, a priest who works at an orphanage, and the two become fast friends. Meanwhile, Legato and the Gung-Ho Guns gather, demolishing the gang, but leaving some survivors, telling them to use their comrades bodies since there is so much money to be made in organ harvesting.
Vash arrives in the city to find the bloodstain of the slaughter, and is confronted by Gung-Ho Guns Number 3: Dominique the Cyclops. Vash defeats her, and Dominique surrendurs her coin and commits suicide. Meanwhile, Wolfwood visits the local church, where it is revealed he is a Gung-Ho Gun known as Chapel. Doctor Conrad arrives and informs Legato and the Gung-Ho Guns that Knives' restoration is nearly complete.
Knives gains a new body from one of the plants, revealing he is in fact a plant. Vash senses Knives' restoration and immediately runs to confront him, telling Meryl and Milly to flee since his last meeting with Knives resulted in the July Incident. Legato tries to attack Vash, but is crushed by Knives, who is furious at Legato's independent actions, asking "who said you could kill him?" Knives then activates Vash's Angel Arm, a powerful weapon that a plant can create, to destroy the city, but Vash resists and directs his weapon upward, blasting a hole in the moon.
In the aftermath, Knives, Legato, and the Gung-Ho Guns retreat, while Vash disappears. From the incident, it is revealed that Vash is a plant. Vash disappears for the next two years, and the second part of the story, Trigun Maximum, begins.
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Wolfwood arrives at a town that is supposedly under siege by Vash the Stampede, and stops into a bar. A girl, Lina, bursts in followed by a blonde man with glasses, Eriks. Lina had offended one of Vash's subordinates, and Vash's gang soon attack the bar. Eriks goes out to negotiate, and agrees to strip naked, revealing a scarred body and a prosthetic left arm. The gang then shoots Eriks and kidnaps Lina. Wolfwood stops at the hospital, where the doctors are amazed at Eriks' healing rate. Wolfwood talks privately with Eriks, who is revealed to be the real Vash the Stampede. Vash had tried to settle down in a peaceful life with Lina and her grandmother, afraid of his own power as a plant. Wolfwood hands Vash the trademark pistol Vash usually uses. Vash and Wolfwood defeat the impostor and rescue Lina.
Wolfwood informs Vash that Knives has begun to move (but does not reveal he is a Gung-Ho Gun) and that every inhabitant in a town had mysteriously vanished. Vash says goodbye to Lina and her grandmother and leaves to visit the town. As he takes back his old appearance, it is revealed that some of Vash's hair has turned black. On the way, he resolves a hostage situation, but by doing so is discovered by the Gung-Ho Guns and Legato, who prepare to move out.
Wolfwood and Vash meet with Brad and Sensai, who are from an isolated SEEDS ship colony, which Vash considers his home. Vash receives new gear and a new arm. Wolfwood and Vash then leave for the abandoned town, where they are confronted by Gung-Ho Guns Number 9: Rai-Dei the Blade, who informs Vash the killing game has started again. After Vash defeats him, Rai-Dei tries to attack Vash from behind but is killed by Wolfwood. The two argue about the morality of killing, and continue on to visit Vash's home, which Rai-Dei implied was going to be attacked.
At the colony, Vash and Wolfwood battle two more Guns, Leonoff the Puppetmaster and Grey the Ninelives. In a fierce battle, Leonoff and Grey are defeated. Meryl and Milly find their way to the colony, where they learn more about Vash, who had spent his youth aboard a SEEDS ship like the colony. The colony then reports that they have made contact with Earth, which is preparing to send ships to rescue the people trapped on the desert planet.
But the situation worsens when Knives uses his Angel Arm to cut the satellite out of the sky. Vash, sensing it, moves out to confront Knives. Meanwhile, Legato reports Wolfwood had fought against Grey, but Knives informs Legato that Wolfwood is actually serving as a guide to lead Vash to him. While this occurs, Midvalley the Hornfreak flashbacks about Knives' power and hatred of humanity. The next two Gung-Ho Guns, Midvalley the Hornfreak and Hoppered the Gauntlet, are sent out to continue to torment Vash. However, Hoppered, a survivor of July, wants to kill Vash, and the two Guns make a deal where Midvalley will desert the group and Hoppered will kill Vash.
A third Gung-Ho Gun is sent, Zazie the Beast, who kidnaps Meryl to lure Vash. Wolfwood and Midvalley battle while Vash and Hoppered fight. Ending in a draw, Midvalley and Hoppered fall back, and plan their next attack. Worried about Zazie spying on them, they test their plan and kill Zazie. They then attack Vash, whose powers appear to defend him just in time. The effect of his powers reveal his tortured past to the nearby Hoppered and Meryl. In the aftermath, Hoppered lies wounded, with Vash and Meryl under rubble. Midvalley and Wolfwood arrive, and they discuss the power and danger of the plants.
Legato then arrives, hinting he knew about Hoppered and Midvalley's plans all along. Midvalley tries to attack, but is quickly killed. Hoppered is shocked, and Legato reveals that Zazie was keeping track of them. Zazie reappears as a teenage girl, revealing that he is not a human but a colony of bugs that can take control of human bodies. In a furious standoff, Legato attempts to kill Hoppered for his part in the treason, but Vash interferes. Furious, Legato loses his temper and nearly kills Vash, but is stopped by Elendira the Crimsonnail, a tranvestite and the 13th and strongest of the Gung-Ho Guns. Elendira brings Legato back and leave. Hoppered slowly dies, and his buried next to Midvalley.
Vash and Wolfwood continue onward, with Vash helping people along the way. Meanwhile, the last two Gung-Ho Guns, Livio the Doublefang and Razlo the Trip of Death, arrive accompanied by Chapel, an aged man in a wheelchair, and three masked attendants. The group, along with Wolfwood, are members of the Eye of Micheal, a group of assassins that worships Knives. Three slots in the Guns are reserved for members of the Eye of Micheal.
Meanwhile, Knives, accompanied by Elendira and Doctor Conrad, arrive to a town where a plant is slowly dying. Conrad thinks back to his meeting with Knives, where Knives had forced Conrad to work for him in order to learn more about the plants' power. However, when Knives reaches the dying plant, he witnesses the Last Run, when the plant is overloaded to gain all the remaining power. Knives, enraged, slaughter the whole time, but part of his hair turns black. Conrad reveals that the black hair means his power is running out, and that if his hair turns completely black, he will die. Knives asks Elendira if Vash's hair has begun to blacken, and when he learns it has, Knives kills Conrad in anger.
Vash and Wolfwood arrive at the slaughtered city, and Vash and Knives flashback to their youth aboard the SEEDS ship, where it is revealed Conrad had been a crewmember aboard their ship. They had lived happily with Rem, until they discovered the experiments performed on another plant before their birth. The plant, Tesla, died from the experimentation. Rem consoles the two, and Vash decides to trust Rem and humanity, but Knives decides humanity is too dangerous and must be destroyed. He then engineers the great fall, and plans to destroy the survivors that Rem had managed to save.
Knives, realizing he can no longer abuse his power, plans to destroy humanity as soon as possible. He learns to meld himself with other plants in order to gain more power. Meanwhile, Vash and Wolfwood finally arrive at Knives' headquarters. Vash leaves to go face Knives, while Wolfwood is attacked by Livio and Chapel, but a fight is prevented by Elendira. Wolfwood had been a student of Chapel's, but betrayed Chapel and shot him, leaving Chapel confined to a wheelchair, and consequently Chapel wants Wolfwood dead. Wolfwood recognizes Livio, revealing they had known each other before.
Vash and Knives battle, but Vash is soon defeated. Knives reveals his plan to set out and collect all the plants, and travels aboard a large ship, the Ark. Vash is imprisoned in the Ark, restrained by Legato's powers. For months, the Ark travels from city to city, taking the plants and leaving desolation in its wake. Finally, Wolfwood decides to betray Knives and side with Vash and helps Vash escape from the Ark. Wolfwood and Vash escape and are found by Brad.
In order to draw out Wolfwood and consequently Vash, Livio and Chapel take Wolfwood's orphanage hostage. Wolfwood goes alone to save them, where it is revealed Livio had been a childhood friend when they were at the orphanage. He learns about Livio's past afterwards and how he was led to the Eye of Micheal by Razlo. After a fierce battle, Wolfwood defeats Livio and Chapel, but Razlo, Livio's alternate personality, awakens. The three attendants arm Razlo with three Punishers, the strongest weapon in the Eye of Michael (Wolfwood was granted one as well), and Razlo proceeds to defeat Wolfwood, and Chapel prepares to kill everyone in the orphanage to gain revenge on Wolfwood.
However, Vash appears to save the children, and Wolfwood takes two doses of regeneration formula and fights with Chapel and Razlo. In the end, Chapel is killed, and Livio regains control to stop Razlo, surrenduring to Vash and Wolfwood. The strain of the regeneration is too much for Wolfwood, who quietly dies beside Vash. Livio decides to join Vash, and the two set out to face the Ark. Vash gives Livio Wolfwood's last vial of regeneration formula and pistol.
As the Ark progresses, humans are all forced to one last city: October. All other cities have had their plants taken by the Ark and consequently have been abandoned. Meanwhile, the ships from Earth begin to arrive and assess the situation. Knives prepares to use the combined power of all the plants he has gathered to destroy the Earth fleet and the last human city. Vash is reunited with Meryl and Milly, where Vash regains the coin case Legato gave him, along with a few coins Meryl and Milly had gained. Vash and the human leaders plan to try and communicate with the plants Knives has collected to appeal to them to stop the attack. Vash plans to keep Knives occupied in battle while the process occurs. To do so, Vash begins to use the last of his power to make special bullets.
On the Ark, Zazie the Beast meets with Knives and discuss their meeting and alliance. Zazie and the insects and worms say that they have decided that plants are more beneficial to coexist with than humans, but then use a paralyzing poison on Knives and Elendira. The insects plan to use a worm to gain control of Knives and use his power. Zazie is suddenly stopped by Legato, who has used his powers to force himself to move. Legato quickly defeats Zazie, and Knives destroys the insect hivemind, essentially destroying the whole colony. However, moments before this occurred, the insects had sent another human host to deliver their coin to Vash, leaving Vash with all 12 coins.
Vash prepares to face Knives and Legato, while Livio promises to face Elendira, the final Gung-Ho Gun and only obstacle before Knives and Legato. Meanwhile, the human military refuses to go along with the plan and prepares to attack the Ark. Elendira moves to handle the military, where he finds Livio. The two battle, and Livio is quickly defeated, but survives due to his regeneration abilities.
Vash goes to face the Ark and the ships from Earth launch their first attacks on Knives, which Knives avoids, showing his immense power. Knives shows his power further by sending up tendrils to take control over one of the ships, but Vash intervenes and severs the tendrils. Vash begins to battle Knives, using his special bullets to cancel out Knives' powers and attacks. The two think back to their past togethor, and the incident that led to their separation and cost Vash his left arm.
Meryl and Milly intervene to stop the military from attacking the ark and interfering with the attempts at communication, while the ships from Earth regroup and study Knives' abilities. Livio arrives to save Meryl and Milly from the military's counterattack and moves to stop the military at their headquarters. Meanwhile, Vash begins to lose ground and take damage.
The ships from Earth begin to attack Knives, distracting him so that Vash can attack, but Vash is stopped by Legato. The two confront each other, and Legato flasbacks to his past and the reasons for his devotion to Knives. While Knives continues to fight with one of the ships from Earth, Legato and Vash converse, and Legato reveals that the coin case, now filled with all 12 coins, functions as a device to block his powers. Legato, with his powers blocked from Vash, uses a massive flail, and the two begin to fight.
Meanwhile, Livio meets Elendira at the military headquarters and the two begin battling. Livio, with the experience from his previous encounter with Elendira, is able to keep up with his speed. In response, Elendira removes his restraints, and launches a furious attack that leaves Livio skewered to a wall with multiple nails. Razlo awakens and is able to keep up with Elendira, but Elendira then unleases a killing intent of such force that it incapitates Razlo. Having both been defeated, Livio and Razlo work togethor, with Razlo using his sharp senses to keep up with Elendira's speed. Realizing that Elendira is becoming frustrated, Razlo tells Livio Elendira will launch a final attack to crush them. Razlo then tells Livio to remember all the hard training they'd been through, and that Razlo's strength has been at Livio's disposal all along. Livio and Razlo then take Elendira's final strike, and then catch him. Livio, with his last strength, impales Elendira on one of the nails protruding from his body while drinking the final vial of regeneration formula that had been Wolfwood's.
Back at the duel between Vash and Legato, Vash's power has activated as a defense system as a response to Legato's attacks. Vash's power has formed into a long "wing" that serves as a blade, cutting apart anything nearby, even against Vash's own will. This blade tears apart Legato's flail and slashes him, but Legato continues to attack despite Vash begging him to stop. Legato uses a pistol and attacks, but is furiously slashed by the wing. Meanwhile, the ship begins to lose its fight with Knives, and is shot down.
Despite being slashed and losing an incredible amount of blood, Legato refuses to stop fighting. Vash then calmly destroys the coin case, and the two prepare for a final attack. They charge at each other, with the pieces of the ship falling down around them. Legato and Vash parry and strike with their pistols, and Legato finds his ability cannot keep his body going, control Vash, and stop Vash's wing all at once. Vash then sacrifices his prosthetic left arm to parry Legato's pistol and tear out his hidden gun to shoot Legato down. Legato falls and Vash puts his pistol to Legato's forehead.
Legato, realizing he has been defeated, calmly accepts his fate, but becomes furious as Vash slowly removes his pistol. Legato grabs the pistol and holds it to his forehead, roaring that Vash must kill him. He then threatens to kill with no limits, and to show that he is serious, uses his power to control the corpse of Elendira to bring Livio before them. Legato yells at Vash to choose. A shot rings through the air.
Livio stares out, unable to move, desperate for help. Suddenly, he is let go, and he turns to see Vash looking over a dead Legato. Vash's power deactivates, and Vash begins crying. Livio takes Vash and pulls him away from the falling wreckage. Meanwhile, the attempts to communicate with the plants continues, and the entire fleet from Earth moves to attack Knives.
[edit] Title
The title of Trigun is said to pertain to Vash, who has three primary weapons, each of which is a type of gun: his long barrel colt revolver, his hidden machine gun (revealed to be in his false arm during Monev's attack), and, most importantly, his angel arm. However, the name can also be seen to apply to other characters who have an arsenal of three uniques guns, a "Trigun". The two most prominent examples are the men who join Vash as his partner in arms, Nicholas D. Wolfwood and Livio the Double Fang (as well as his other personality, Razlo). Wolfwood handels three kinds of guns: his pistols, the Machine Gun end of the Cross Punisher, and the same weapons rocket launcher. Livio, if taken as a whole with Razlo, also handles three types of ammo, The Double Fang machine guns and the two modes of the Cross Punisher. Razlo on his own also, and perhaps most blatantly meets the title, as he handles three Cross Punishers simultaneously, earning his title of "Tripunisher of Death". The title becomes a reflection of the arsenals for each of these protagonists.
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| = | Author | Song Name | Time | Album (OST) |
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| Trigun Intro | Tsueno Imahori | H.T. | 1.33 | The First Donuts, The Spicey Stewed Donut |
| Trigun | Destroying Angel | H.T. (Remix) | 4.36 | The 2nd Donut (Happy Pack) |
| Knives | Tsueno Imahori | Knives | 3.18 | The First Donuts, The Spicey Stewed Donut |
| Vash | Tsueno Imahori | Never Could Have Been Worse | 4.59 | The First Donuts |
| Wolfwood | Tsueno Imahori | Blue Funk | 3.26 | The 2nd Donut (Happy Pack), The Spicey Stewed Donut |
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- ^ "When Young King Ours invited me to do some work for them, they were hoping for a new piece, but I was troubled by leaving Trigun unfinished. I told them I wouldn't feel like I had done my work unless I finished it, plus I was attached to it, and I asked them if they'd let me finish it." interview with Nightow in the September 2000 Manga no Mori newsletter, translated by sumire.
- ^ "Nightow stated that there is no difference in the story between the two titles, and the only reason for the change is because of the switch of publishing house." summary of discussion panel with Nightow at Anime Expo 2000, in Anaheim, California.
- ^ "The first volume of the English language version of Yasuhiro Nightow's Trigun manga sold out an edition of 35,000 copies at wholesale within days of its release... Dark Horse is going back to press for 15,000 additional copies" from ICV2 article posted on October 29, 2003.
- ^ "The top earning manga release of 2004 was Dark Horse's Trigun #2, which sold less copies that Fruits Basket or Rurouni Kenshin, but sold at a higher, $14.95 price point." from ANN news article posted 2005-01-04.
- ^ "Well, I draw my comics, and what readers imagine from them is their own business. So if they want to express that, no one can tell them to stop... But there is a certain shock reading them - how come these two guys just naturally progress to a bed scene?" from interview with Nightow in March 1999 issue of Puff magazine (pages 14-31), translated by sumire.
- ^ "Once, I protested against a publishing company that had put out an anthology (of Trigun parody manga) without my permission. I didn't know about it until it had been published, and bookstores had it lined up alongside my own works. Doujinshi are distributed only to like-minded individuals at special events, so I think they manage to just barely stay within an acceptable line, plus I know how much fun it is to exchange ideas and opinions like that, so I don't want to interfere. But when you're talking about a book with a commercial basis, being sold in ordinary bookstores, it's a totally different story, so I was like, "Be reasonable!"" from interview with Nightow in Manga no Mori newsletter, as above.
- ^ "When asked as to whether or not Trigun could spawn a sequel, he said that it would be unlikely given the story brings itself to a natural close." from discussion panel at AnimeExpo, as above.
[edit] External links
- Bakacity's Trigun Page
- Trinut: A Trigun Fan Discussion Forum
- Shōnen Gahōsha page on Trigun (Japanese)
- Trigun World (French)
- Extensive Trigun fansite
- Adult Swim page on Trigun anime
- Trigun (manga) at Anime News Network's Encyclopedia
- Trigun at Anime News Network's Encyclopedia
- Trigun at AnimeNfo.com
| Trigun |
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| Media |
| Trigun X | Trigun: The Planet Gunsmoke |
| Characters |
| Vash the Stampede | Millions Knives | Nicholas D. Wolfwood | Gung-Ho Guns |
