Trigun is an incredible anime. I would say its the best I've ever seen but I reserve that spot for Dragon Ball Z because it had such an impact on my youth. Blame it on my youth! Anyways, this anime is about a famous outlaw with a bounty of $$60,000,000 (double dollars is the currency in this futuristic world) on his head. He's a cool blonde spiky headed guy with glasses that goes by the name of Vash the Stampede. We never learn his last name throughout the show, just Vash as his first name. It turns out that the guy isn't even human and that's part of why he's lived for hundreds of years. He's actually a plant of some kind developed in space and made with cryogenics in space. Its hard to really say what this anime is about. For the most part its about Vash trying to survive and get by to other towns without killing people or letting other people get killed by bad guys. Its also about life, death, and the rights one has to life in general.
Anyways, the plot isn't nearly as interesting as the bad guys. The bad guys make this anime a real treat. Most of the fighting in this anime involves guns even though its in the future. People are still drawing like in westerns. This is a cowboy space western. There's a samurai bad guy, a little kid bad guy, various bad guys in badass armor and suits, Legato (a mind controller), Vash's brother Knives (the main bad guy), and my personal favorite, a saxophone player called Hornfreak. The saxophone player really plays some bebop riffs that sound so fast and technical. The actual sax player must be a great professional musician. He was my favorite bad guy because I love jazz and jazz in anime is always good clean fun.
Moving on, I really liked the fights in this anime. Vash saves so many people and avoids death at all costs until he's forced to choose between killing Legato or letting Legato kill the girls that follow him around(girls that work for an insurance company). So many people die in the series but its not gory at all and there's very little blood. The last fight with Vash versus his brother Knives is pretty epic. They both have some kind or mechanical (or is it some kind of plant) arm that can level cities and even put a hole in what they called the fifth moon. Its triggered by their customized guns they use and in the end Vash cancels out Knives' arm blast attack using his own. Then they have a good old shoot down in which Vash comes out the victor, inevitably killing his brother.
Lastly, what I loved about this anime is that it seems like a science fiction anime and a western. Kind of like Cowboy Bebop. I liked the characters a lot and Vash had a lot of depth to him despite being a goody too shoes who never wanted to kill anyone. The origin story episode of Vash where it describes his relationship with Rem (a woman who taught him everything he believes in) was simply one of the best episodes of an anime I've ever seen. That episode had lots of science fiction elements: space ships, escape pods, frozen human beings waiting to be transported to a hospitable planet, and Vash and Knives (plant people made by the scientists on the ship). I really loved the fact that Vash is all about peace and wanted to live in a world with no killing. Love and peace!
Anyways, the plot isn't nearly as interesting as the bad guys. The bad guys make this anime a real treat. Most of the fighting in this anime involves guns even though its in the future. People are still drawing like in westerns. This is a cowboy space western. There's a samurai bad guy, a little kid bad guy, various bad guys in badass armor and suits, Legato (a mind controller), Vash's brother Knives (the main bad guy), and my personal favorite, a saxophone player called Hornfreak. The saxophone player really plays some bebop riffs that sound so fast and technical. The actual sax player must be a great professional musician. He was my favorite bad guy because I love jazz and jazz in anime is always good clean fun.
Moving on, I really liked the fights in this anime. Vash saves so many people and avoids death at all costs until he's forced to choose between killing Legato or letting Legato kill the girls that follow him around(girls that work for an insurance company). So many people die in the series but its not gory at all and there's very little blood. The last fight with Vash versus his brother Knives is pretty epic. They both have some kind or mechanical (or is it some kind of plant) arm that can level cities and even put a hole in what they called the fifth moon. Its triggered by their customized guns they use and in the end Vash cancels out Knives' arm blast attack using his own. Then they have a good old shoot down in which Vash comes out the victor, inevitably killing his brother.
Lastly, what I loved about this anime is that it seems like a science fiction anime and a western. Kind of like Cowboy Bebop. I liked the characters a lot and Vash had a lot of depth to him despite being a goody too shoes who never wanted to kill anyone. The origin story episode of Vash where it describes his relationship with Rem (a woman who taught him everything he believes in) was simply one of the best episodes of an anime I've ever seen. That episode had lots of science fiction elements: space ships, escape pods, frozen human beings waiting to be transported to a hospitable planet, and Vash and Knives (plant people made by the scientists on the ship). I really loved the fact that Vash is all about peace and wanted to live in a world with no killing. Love and peace!
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