The recent announcement of Trigun: Stampede has certainly been big news in the anime world, and the new series is set to be one of the biggest events of the year. Returning to the world of the classic manga with a strikingly new art style and the full involvement of original creator Yasuhiro Nightow, new details on the project have been shown at Anime Expo which reveal that Trigun: Stampede will be taking the franchise in an exciting new direction.
At the “Trigun: Stampede: Lock & Load!” panel, hosted on Saturday night of Anime Expo, Yasuhiro Nightow was met with fanfare in accompaniment with other concept artist, Kouji Tajima and anime producers Kiyotaka Waki and Yoshihiro Watanabe or Studio Orange, as well as Katsuhiro Takei of Toho Animation. As the studio behind acclaimed CGI-anime including BEASTARS and Land of the Lustrous, Orange is specially equipped to render the setting of Trigun in a new way.
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The producers at the panel mentioned that rendering the aesthetic of the original 2D animation into the technology of CGI is of their utmost importance, and that the style of both the original Trigun manga and anime as well as classic 2D Disney animation were huge inspirations for adapting the world into this new medium. Likewise, the producers stress that this technology is intended to facilitate a sort of return to classic 80s and 90s action anime, capturing the grit and essence of classics like Cowboy Bebop and Ghost in the Shell, not to mention the original Trigun itself. As for Nightow, he mentioned that the biggest essence of this new series is bringing a cinematic feel, citing Hollywood cinema and a post-pandemic quest for “pure
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