TriGun [Review]

Series: TriGun

Writer: Yasuhiro Nightow

Manga Publishing Company: Dark Horse Comics

Animation Company: Funimation

Genre: Weird-Space Western/Action/Adventure/Comedy-Drama

Western styled animation that’s completely action packed, full of adventures, and even greater and bigger sense of humor than any other show I have ever seen. What’s more? It takes place in futuristic world, but all at the same time, because of how western it seems, mixed with the past all at the same time, making it very weird space type of anime.

A series like TriGun isn’t really a type of series that one comes by on daily basis. In fact, it’s one of the most unique animes I have ever watched, and TriGun is only just a quick series to get through and without having to go so much into depth about the characters but rather just giving basic overviews of the characters. It’s the TriGun Maximum, the series that came after TriGun, that really goes into actual depth to the storyline, but it doesn’t mean that the TriGun isn’t worth watching. Why wouldn’t it when it had even someone like me practically dying of laughter from beginning to the end?

This specific TriGun series follows around two characters, two female characters, by the names of Meryl Stryfe and Milly Thompson, whom both work for an insurance company. Meryl is rather an average height woman whereas Milly pretty much towers over Meryl. I’m not sure how others that have watched this series in the past may have taken Milly’s character, but when I watched the series, I felt as if she had some sort of disability, sort of like an autism, for seeming to be slow in certain areas. However, when it does come to fighting, she does appear to be very sharp, especially when it comes to having to handle her rather extremely large gun that she keeps hidden under her trench coat.

With these two girls, they go around to towns that have practically been under destruction, and what all these destroyed towns have in common is that the rumor of a man named Vash the Stampede have gone through. Vash the Stampede is also known to be a Humanoid Typhoon, and has sixty billion double dollars over his head as a reward, whether it be dead or alive, making him known also as Sixty Billion Double Dollar Man. However, whenever they go into all these cities and towns that got destroyed, they come out with being unable to track down Vash the Stampede, and the main problem for them when they go in is that they don’t even know what this Humanoid Typhoon even looks like. All they know is that this man wears a red trench coat and has a mohawk, which whom they seem to find in the first episode and gets disproved when realizing that when their own information is put together with two other characters that they encounter are all completely different with the exception of the information of the trench coat.

Above all else, every towns and cities that Meryl and Milly hits to investigate in hopes of finding Vash the Stampede, they always run into one man with blonde hair, red trench coat, and a beauty mark on his face. Milly suspects that he is the very Vash the Stampede that they have been searching for, but because of how stupid he behaves that makes in the comic relief to the entire series, Meryl thinks otherwise. What Meryl believes is that the blonde man that they continuously encounter is just too foolish to even be someone “as dangerous as” Vash the Stampede himself. Whenever others are in danger, however, the blonde does get extremely serious and even to the point of proving his extremely good gunmanship that it should be enough of a giveaway for the viewers that he actually is Vash the Stampede, careless of how much of a comic relief he may be.

It’s once getting to know those main characters far better that other characters, such as a character known as Nicholas D. Wolfwood, a priest that carries around a rather large cross wrapped in an enormous piece of white cloth tied with rope of some sort. However, under that cloth, viewers later find out, actually is nothing more than rather large guns, revealing his mastership in guns. And it’s when Wolfman actually starts to take a rather large roll that the story actually starts getting somewhere and reveals what Vash truly is like – Which is far more serious than what anyone would expect and what he tries to do every time the towns he’s in ends up getting destroyed whenever he engages in fights without much choice.

Reason to his travels in the planet that the humans have begun to live in after uprooting from Earth is fully revealed towards the end of the series, but that’s a whole different story to tell and for you as viewers must find out. For me personally, TriGun is a MUST see series. I may be more of an action girl when it comes to what animes to watch and mangas to read, but when it comes down to the downright hard truth, TriGun is one of not just the most action packed series but THE most hilarious series I have ever watched.

Don’t believe me? Watch the series to find out exactly how humorous Vash the Stampede makes the TriGun series to be. And this upcoming Thursday, expect another Throw Back Thursday (TBT) moments involving TriGun.

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