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Endearing, enduring anime ‘Trigun’ turns 20
What do you get when you mix science fiction and westerns with a Japanese spin?
You get Trigun.
It’s the tale of Vash the Stampede, a not-so-lone gunman on the planet Gunsmoke, who has taken a vow to never kill anyone. Vash aimlessly wanders through the first half of the series and then, in the second half, finds himself in, not a life-and-death struggle for himself, but a fight for everything he believes in and everyone he loves. And it’s those two things in the second half that wind up in direct opposition to each other in what could be called the series’ true climax.
Vash is joined by two Bernardelli Insurance Society employees, Meryl Stryfe and Milly Thompson, in the first episode. Initially, their job is to follow him around in order to minimize the damages inevitably caused by his appearance. Later, they go from tag alongs to allies and eventually become central to the true climax of the series.
Later on in the series, Vash is occasionally joined by a cigarette smoking and hard drinking priest, Nicholas D. Wolfwood, with a mysterious past.
