Why Trigun Needs the Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood Treatment

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Trigun is the story of the huge gunslinging Vash the Stampede. While Vash is a happy-go-lucky protagonist, he’s driven by a dark goal: enacting his revenge on his twin brother Knives Millions.

Meeting some memorable characters like Milly, Meryl, and Wolfwood during Vash’s adventures on the desolate planet of No Man’s Land, the anime eventually pitsVash and Knives against one another. With the anime ending in a fairly decisive way, many fans thought that this is where the story truly ended, however there were still plenty of adventures left to be told.

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While some anime adaptations during the late 90s to 2000s didn’t always faithfully adapt the manga, Trigun was actually pretty close. Most of the story and characters were correctly shown with their designs and motivations intact, but the anime left out a few huge pieces of the story. To be fair, the original magazine that featured the manga was canceled leaving mangaka Yasuhiro Nightow without a place to finish telling the Trigun story.

During the time between Trigun being inadvertently canceled and then getting picked up by a different magazine, the story had been selected to be an anime adaptation. It wasn’t until 1998 that both the anime released and Nightow was able to publish the first chapter of Trigun Maximum, finally continuing his legendary story. By that time, there was no way the anime that was already created was going to suddenly rework it’s ending to be congruent with Nightow's continuing story.

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Nightow went on to create 14 additional volumes of the incredible Trigun story. With a slight shift in tone because the magazine that picked up manga was