 © 1998 Yasuhiro Nightow / Shonen Gaho-Sha, Tokuma Shoten, JVC Released in North America by Pioneer Entertainment (U.S.A) L.P. |
Genre: sci-fi action (could be considered a western) Length: 100 minutes (4 episodes) Audience Age: 13+ Opinion: A bit pricy for VHS, but still a solid buy. This is a review of the dubbed VHS version. Animation by Mad House. Licensed by JVC. |
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To tell you the truth, I did not want to write this review so soon (I wanted to get my way through the alphabet and I just finished the numerals with 801 TTS Airbats), but Vash the Stampede, Trigun's Main character, keeps popping up in the overall site make up for this update because he is just so damn cool. This may sound like an immediate recommendation and I will eventually do so in the conclusion of this review. It just does not feel right to not go through the tale of how I came across this title, the show's plot, and all the other bull $$hit. When you want to buy anime, and you do not know jack about this art form, titles with the Pioneer logo are usually safe bets. For someone who is just looking for a new series to start viewing, Pioneer's box art is so attractive that it is hard to resist buying their tapes/discs. This is how I came across Trigun (to further support my argument, I also came across Serial Experiments Lain this way). My dad is a big Clint Eastwood and John Wayne fan, and I guess this maybe hereditary, so finding out that this title was western/sci-fi, I soon became $25 poorer. Well only at the financial level that is. |
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There seems to be an abundance of accidents on a futuristic desert planet and they all seem to be related to the "Humanoid Typhoon", Vash the Stampede, a gunman with a 60 billion double dollar bounty on his head. The Bernard Daily Insurance Society is taking huge losses because of this, so they feel that sending the short tempered and short of stature Marill Strife and the extra tall and extra dense Millie Thompson (reminiscent of the Lina/Naga pairing from Slayers) to find and survey every action that this man takes to prevent future catastrophes. These two girls witness a lot of disasters in their search for the Stampede, but unless they are willing to accept that a clumsy, adolescent behaved hero they keep running into is Vash, there mission is nothing more that a very expensive business trip with very poor lodging options. Do you want
to see a review for the next set of Trigun episodes? |
