Why Was Trigun Shunned in Japan But Embraced in America?
Why does one show succeed while another show flops? Sometimes the answer is obvious, sometimes it’s quite complicated. The circumstances of why our favorite shows succeed or fail is one that will be discussed for years on end. Whether it was because Star Trek was beamed to the graveyard known as Saturday nights to Dragon Ball Z finally having a time slot on a popular network, circumstances of a show could just as easily make the series a rousing success or doom it to a life of obscurity.
In the case of Trigun the series finds itself in the unusual position of being a flop in its native country while being branded a beloved classic in America. Why is this though? What is it about the series that made Trigun’s native country more or less shrug off the series while Americans not only embraced the title with open arms, they’ve continued to buy and stream it for twenty years?
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Trigun began as a manga written and drawn by Yasuhiro Nightow for Monthly Shonen Captain. The series was not exactly a hit. It had enough readers to run from 1995 to 1997, but it was ultimately canceled with a cliffhanger ending leaving many plot threads unresolved. Several months later, Nightow would join Young King OURs and continue the series as Trigun Maximum, where the series would run from 1997 to 2007 and conclude with the satisfying ending he (and his readers) were hoping for the entire time.
It was shortly after the first manga ended that he was approached by Madhouse to turn Trigun into an anime series. Unaware that he would have the opportunity to draw more Trigun at the time, he agreed to a deal that would see his series receive a 26-episode adaptation. It would air on TV Tokyo
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