Everyone has heard of Vash the Stampede, the mysterious gunman who seems to cause trouble wherever he goes. He is considered to be very dangerous, so a bounty of $6 billion has been placed on his head (dead or alive); everyone is trailing him to get the money.
Meryl Stryfe and Milly Thompson, two insurance agents, are sent out to assess the damages and follow him around in order to prevent him from causing any more destruction. However, when they meet him, they discover he isn't quite the one they expected. Armed with patience, the two set out on a journey alongside him, slowly discovering bits of Vash's past and what made him become what he is today.
Synopsis: pandemonium91
Story & Characters
As we all know the main character is Kuroneko-sama however any great actor would gladly give the love to the entire
cast. Trigun is an anime that is slightly vintage in age. It's based upon a future world which is mostly desert.
Suns and Moons which shine down upon the planet yet somehow humans live and still attempt to co-exist and survive.
It's not really certain or mentioned why, it's just noted that humans had to go somewhere else.
Which brings us to the co-actor of the story Vash the Stampede. Somehow he's gotten himself the name of Humanoid
Typhoon and an extremely large bounty is placed upon his head due to an event which transpired in the town of July which
causes several bounty hunters that come along to collect the $$60,000,000,000 (sixty billion double dollar) for him
either dead or alive. Causing Vash to constantly be finding ways to get himself out of trouble and dodging bullets, yet
still enjoying his thrills with the doughnuts ! Could Vash's helpful deeds actually be the cause of Rem Saverem
notion of a more peaceful time where she believed you really don't need violence to solve your problems and no one
has the right to take another life or could it be his caring nature towards humans such as he meets along the
way?
Meryl Stryfe aka "Derringer Meryl" and Milly Thompson aka "Stungun Milly" are Bernardelli insurance
agents which are assigned to keep people safe, investigate Vash and claims that the damages he does is or isn't
related and that Bernardelli are or aren't held liable for payouts to the damages that Vash constantly does which
is more the other side than Vash's fault to begin with. It's hard to keep a wanted man life style and not
break a few eggs in the process, or blow up a building or wreck a sand steamer, whichever the case might be.
Nicholas D. Wolfwood, a man which is probably Vash's equal with the gun, or at least pretty close to it, yet raised
in the wrong setting and/or environment. A gun smoking, cigarette toking, man of the cloth which carries a big cross on
his back heavy with mercy. He has compassion for the children and constantly showing this by going around trying to
raise money for the orphanage.
Knives, a devious of a man which is the opposite of Vash in every way. He wants to destroy humans not protect them. He
wants to make Vash suffer for all eternity so he does just that with the help and aide of a man by the name of Legato
Bluesummers which becomes famous for his white coat and uncontrollable lust to inflict chaos everywhere he goes. Knives
also uses a group of assassins which call themselves the Gung-Ho Guns, capable of being just as sinister and sick as
Knives and equally bent on creating great chaos unto Vash's world and life. And they greatly succeed at it too.
By that time Vash has encountered many demons in human form, having given up their humanity to become twisted assassins
to do even more carnage with Knives pulling the strings.
Rating: 7
Art
As this anime is slightly older, it still hasn't lost it's incapable beauty. I feel it's been remastered
nicely, however it's still older than some, yet still nicely done. I have to admit, I was impressed by how much
detail went into things, even upon it's age. Tears which flowed felt real, however I was just not impressed with a
few scenes where the clouds floated by and they looked too fake. Over all, the character design was nicely done, the
spiky of the hair, the density of the eyes and the depth to the red coat was nicely done. The background shots were not
so great, the buildings looked slightly disappointing until they were actually used for the scene itself.
Rating: 6
Sound
Once again, I am doing this review on overall not the age from which it came from. The sound was slightly off. I
couldn't hear things properly. And at times one could barely hear the sounds of footsteps, even if they were
present. Unless they were actually needed for the scene. I felt Funimation did a decent job at dubbing, however some
of the voices they used were just so whiny and, at times, difficult to tolerate but they could have probably done
slightly better, from both versions which I have seen now (dubbed/subbed), I still like Funimation's version
better. However the background music I felt suited each and every scene. At least the sounds of bullets going off
sounded just like that, and the sound effects to the other important things were equally there, however if it
wasn't related to the scene somehow, it felt as if it was sloppy fill-ins at times.
Rating: 6
Presentation
Over all, I would have to say, I have forgotten how good this anime really was. The depths of emotions which sucked me
in and I felt myself tearing up at moments of either happiness, sorrow or moments of giggles when I would watch poor
little Kuroneko-sama go flying through the air. It has been a great long time since I have seen this anime, I was lucky
to find a box set at the store a few weeks back and I thought, why not, it was reasonably cheap and it's been over
a decade since my copy finally gave up the ghost. After I started watching it, it wasn't hard to look past the
age, but I still felt it was an anime of it's time, during it's time and honored that a box set was released
that I could get my hands on. Sadly, like a lot of the anime of yesteryear, it's forgotten until it's either
remastered or slipped out into a box set. Regardless, the anime is well worth a watch, and a worthy of a collection to
others. It's a moment in time which we feel the loss and gains of one man and struggles with both inner and outer
demons. In the end it's all about the love and peace ^.^x
Rating: 8
Final Verdict
7.0000 (above average)
Reviewed by angelxxuan, Jun 09, 2011