Who and what is Vash the Stampede? Most know him as “The Humanoid Typhoon”. To bounty hunters, he’s an outlaw with 60,000,000,000 Double Dollars on his head. To insurance adjusters Meryl Stryfe and Millie Thompson, he’s a walking disaster area who’s cost the company a fortune. To anime fans, he’s a true hero.
Based on Yasuhiro Nightow’s manga series, this sometimes dramatic, sometimes comedic adventure takes place in the distant future on a desert planet that looks like the American Old West. Vash the Stampede wanders from town to town. Meryl and Millie follow him, trying to minimize the destruction, but Vash’s only real friend is the gun-toting preacher Nicholas D. Wolfwood.
The Trigun series is an absolute classic of anime cinema. It has everything you could like in an anime series. It has gunfights, action, philosophy, comedy, great design, and some of the most awesome music of any anime series I’ve seen. It’s top notch all the way round.
The complete boxed set of Trigun on DVD retailed for $130-150 when it was still in stores. It contained all 26 episodes of the TV series on 8 DVD’s. It didn’t really contain any extras, but I’m not sure what extras were needed. The series is phenomenal.
You can still buy the series on DVD a handful of places. First, you can buy it on Amazon for around $170 shipped new or about $140 used. You can usually find it a bit cheaper on eBay, but prices and quality can vary wildly. Either way you buy it, Trigun is a fantastic anime series that should be watched and enjoyed by all true Anime fans.
The cheapest way to get the whole Trigun series is to rent it from Netflix. The $140-170 you would spend on Amazon to buy Trigun could get you like 10 months of dvd rental on Netflix. Seriously, if you are thinking about rocking some Trigun, you really should consider signing up for Netflix if you haven’t already. If you’re into watching anime and lots of it, Netflix pays for itself.
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