This is very different interpretation of the series: Trigun… BUT THAT’S NOT A BAD THING…! The original Trigun was a true “90’s” staple of Anime Culture: Radical Attitude, Spikes and Ravaged architecture everywhere, Grunge Music, and a “Wild West” tone and style for the series to follow. The original Trigun was a staple to, of which goes right up in history with some of the greatest Anime of its time like: Cowboy Bebop (Another “90’s” Classic), and Outlaw Star for its deep-rooted symbolism and talks (With Narration.) about “What makes a man mortal”. ….Ok, the series never goes THAT deep, but it DOES have a positive and pacifist Protagonist, who is always willing to do the hardest jobs for others to have a brighter future. Along the way, meeting friends, rivals, and enemies that would test his resolve to HAVE that “Brighter Future”. So, what happens when the Original Creator of the series comes back to remake his own story? You get a COMPLETELY revamped and redone story FOCUSING on the rivalry of the Main Protagonist and Antagonist of the series: Vash “The Stampede” and Millions Knives. Debating on whether or not their entire RACE as a species can co-exist with the HUMANS that had ACTUALLY ABANDONED their old planet long ago to search for a new planet to live on!

A MORTAL BATTLE OF EXISTANCE BETWEEN TWO BROTHERS:

VASH AND KNIVES.

The series ACTUALLY STARTS OUT IN SPACE…! Giving-off only HINTS of what the series will ACTUALLY be about. THIS series starts where we only get a FLASHBACK set of episodes in the original as we are introduced to a young Vash, Knives, and Rem. As the two brothers are escaping the Space they were raised on with wise teachings of their Mother-figure: Rem Saverem, only for Knives to assumingly trick Vash into ravaging the remains of their crashed Spaceship. The present of the series actually starts with Meryl Stryfe as the assistant-report to an older veteran reporter: Roberto De Niro. (more on his character later on.) as they travel the dessert in search (ALREADY) for the infamous: Vash “The Stampede”! They find/first meet-up with Vash as he maniacally laughs while hanging upside-down for some previous vandals wanting to turn-in his bounty, as they untie him and he instantly decides to become friends with his saviors; much to Meryl’s enthusiasm and Roberto’s chagrin. his is a little similar from his first appearance in the original series, whereas he tries to stoically save some hostages from some scavengers, BUT forgets to fill his gun with bullets and thus has to make-up a brand new plan to save the hostages On-the-spot.


After this first encounter, Vash takes them back to the town he is currently living at (And where the first 3 episodes take place at.) You THINK this is where the majority of the episodes will takes place at, as like the original, which has Vash travel around the dessert planet with his friends to keep him company. BUT...! Unlike the original series, when third episode hits (After the first one is about Vash saving the town with a “1-Bullet Shot” to explode a terrorist’s bombs before they land on the town, and the second episode with Vash defeating/saving a Mad-Scientist and his Mutantly-Mechanical Son from stealing the town’s “Red-Plant” (One of two devices used to power cities in this world.)), a new villain, connected to Knives, comes and completely gives Vash a new fight with Android bombs that threaten the town with a destroying mobile-armor that Vash can’t stop! Then, just at the halfway point, Knives comes back into the story (With a new, stylish, ragged-looking hood-and-robe.) as he shows a brand new power to control his Name-sake Knives with Kinetic Power and DECIMATE the town WHILE stealing the Red-Plant.

After the town is destroyed, the townsfolk completely tell Vash to leave them, as he promises to return their Red-Plant as long as he still lives. These three episodes make you THINK that the series is going to be like the original, with Vash and friends traveling around the planet from place to place in search of Knives (Nicknamed: Nai.) But only a FEW episodes actually take place before the last Arc. as admittedly we still have yet to meet Nicholas D. Wolfwood.Speaking of which, HIS introduction episode comes RIGHT AFTER. With him first appearing hunting down his own bounty in a moonlit night, and his bounty (Some Scavengers who made him mad, now FEARING him…!). He first meets Vash and his friends as they accidentally run him over and panic to help get him some aid. ...Much to Wolfwood’s own Chagrin. He then gives some, just found, dead bodies a funeral (Very awkward and half-baked one.) And THIS s where you find out that Nicholad D. Wolfood’s character has COMPLETELY changed! From being a good Christian and traveling Priest in the original who sells Mini-churches for traveling Confessionals for kids to play and practice with… to being a “No-Nonsense”, cold, and serious Undertaker with his own mission of avenging to do. You will either like or hate this change. Depending on whether or not you liked him in the original as an: Innocent, Fun, and Trustingly Loyal friend to Vash, his friends, and the Church. Or if you will like this interpretation of him with a Checkered past to find out what happened to him to make him how is today.

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With it being revealed later on that he used to only care about his one friend at the orphanage that they both stayed at before they were both recruited for a program to turn one of them into Psychic Hunters. Now, with a mission to save his one friend from back then, now BRAINWASH into becoming a Bounty-hunting servant for a Higher-Power’s plan…!

There is another episode which was made JUST to show Vash’s devotion to save the innocents that looked up to him. As once in the past, a family was in danger of falling apart unless the child was taken away to get special treatment. When he ran away for the first time, Vash finds him and becomes friends with the boy, informing him that his best option is to go home where he belongs, and that if anything ever happens again to him, that Vash will save him again. Unfortunately, the boy was already going to be sent by his mother to the Psychic-Hunting Program to take away his illness, at the cost of transforming him into a Mechanical Monster. Now years later, he has found Vash and is on the hunt to kill him (Not sure if it is the boy’s grudge against Vash for the forgotten promise, or if he is just being controlled to kill him, though.), but the second that Vash reaches his hand out to start a new with the lost child, Wolfwood immediately 5blows the monster up! Thus more, cementing Nicholas’s new Cold-bloodedness in this version of the series...!Sometime later, Vash, Nicholas, Meryl, and Roberto all gather onto a traveling City that Knives is located at. To which the rest of the series takes place in. HERE we find out more about Vash’s past, needing to sacrifice so much (Including his Arm.) to keep the new Earth family that had found him and which found out the he came from a destroyed Ship as a “Plant-Being” that could potentially kill them, but once Vash leaves to not be a nuisance to them, his new family realizes what they meant to him and go out to find and bring him back (Along with some birthday gifts of a new Mechanical-Arm for the one he had lost and his current Red Jacket.) And also, what the love and teachings the Rem gave to the two brothers meant to Vash fundamentally. While Knives finds a way to use Vash to take over the planet as a “surperior” Race of “Plant-People”. All the while, another villain explains to Meryl and Roberto about the history of the Human-Race and how they abandoned their original planet years ago.

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Also, in the process of escaping, Roberto gets SHOT AND KILLED, right after he passes his gun to Meryl with the Title: Lead Reporter.

And it all ends with a mutant battle between Vash and Knives on whether or not that Humans can live in co-existence with Plants.
And finally, a surprise character is referenced at the very end.

Side note:

• One thing that may put people off is the change in characters. Vash is fine, as well as Meryl. But Wolfwood is far colder in this version then his warm and loyal-to-faith original counterpart. Also Meryl’s partner: Milly Thompson, the more peaceful and Fun-loving girl is now replaced with an older “Getting-to-old-for-this” veteran reporter in Roberto! Some may be ok or even like this change, but I personally like the original in my personal preference.

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Except for the very ending when Milly Thompson is mentioned as Meryl’s new assistant.

Also, the “Gong-ho” Guns are COMPLETELY ABSENT! I personally liked them, but they are NOWHERE in the series. Instead, Knives has the assistance of Scientists and a bug person in a mask. (Who knows Wolfwood, for that matter.)

• I really like the new theme song and music. Having “Techno” and low “Hip-Hop” mixture really sets a moody atmosphere for a Hero who wants to redeem himself. And the Sand and Technology fading into each other really make in stand-out.

• Finally, the Landscape Portraits at the end of every episode are GORGEOUS to look at! They truly are a great work of art.