How to Get Into Trigun: Everything You Need to Know About the Manga and Anime

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Recently it was announced that there is a new Trigun anime series, Trigun Stampede, set to launch in 2023. With this major announcement, a new wave of interest is set to wash over one of anime's most beloved sci-fi classics. With many anime fans sensing the gravity of this new series announcement, perhaps it is a good time to look into the inner-workings of this well-regarded, often underrated sci-fi franchise. The 1990s were an interesting time for manga and anime. While the 1980s OVA boom had helped to lend space towards more complex and aesthetically-minded anime projects, various manga series were beginning to embrace exploration in a wide range of story techniques and thematic inspirations, most often through the lens of sci-fi and other genre stories. The most famous entries of this ambitious moment remain household anime staples to this day, including Katsuhiro Otomo’s Akira, Hajime Yatate’s Cowboy Bebop and Hideaki Anno’s Neon Genesis Evangelion, there is another iconic entry from the end-of-century sci-fi zeitgeist that has remained more of a close-knit cult classic, the Trigun series created by Yasuhiro Nightow.

Trigun is a “sci-fi western” series that was developed in the 1990s by then-fledgling mangaka Yasuhiro Nightow, and the “western” elements that are sometimes more thematic in Cowboy Bebop are full setting overtones in Trigun (although the two are independent series, Bebop and Trigun have always been seen as spiritual companion pieces). Following the exploits of the infamous-yet-pacifist outlaw Vash the Stampede who takes on criminal heists in a futuristic wasteland, the series is known both for its manga and anime incarnations. Across its various incarnations, the specifics of each entry play a big role