Trigun Stampede’s post-credits scene brings in a major manga character new to the anime

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Trigun Stampede, the latest anime based on Yasuhiro Nightow’s 1994 space-Western manga series Trigun, concluded its first season last weekend. The 2023 iteration on Vash the Stampede’s adventures across the alien desert planet of Gunsmoke inspired a lot of lively, heated debate among fans, whether they were or weren’t familiar with the original 1998 anime.

A second season of the anime, described as the series’ “Final Phase,” has been confirmed as in production. While we don’t know yet when season 2 of Trigun Stampede will premiere, the short post-credits scene at the end of season 1’s final episode hints at what’s to come for Vash and co. — and it points to future characters and events previously unexplored by the original 1998 anime produced by studio Madhouse.

The end credits sequence for the final episode of Trigun Stampede is different than the one that appeared in previous episodes. It features an unbroken shot of the crater-laden surface of what appears to be a moon overlooking a red and brown planet — presumably Gunsmoke.

After the credits roll, the sound of a sonar-like ping can be heard, followed by two voices, one male and one female, discussing “phase two” of something described as “Project Pieces of Earth.” The female voice, identified as “Special Ops Lieutenant Colonel Independent Chronica,” orders the male voice to perform a scan of the entire surrounding solar system, citing a strange “fluctuation” from a local planet. The scene cuts to a close-up shot of Planet Gunsmoke, with a shocked Chronica saying the fluctuation appears to have originated from “Project SEEDS.”

First appearing in chapter 69, “Get Ready, Get Set,” of Yasuhiro Nightow’s Trigun Maximum manga, Chronica is a self-aware “Plant.” In the