History Manga / Trigun

* CatSmile:
** Milly, especially when she's drunk.
** Vash during the first episode of the anime.

* AuthorAppeal: All the elaborate cowboy-like outfits and uniforms with all sorts of useless straps and buttons, huge collars, etcc, and the CoolGuns are simply because the creator likes them. The reason Vash's TradeMarkFavoriteFood is donuts is also simply because the creator likes them.

* MurderByProxy:
** Knives is very skilled at murder-by-proxy. In his origin story, he convinced a woman to lie that a skeezy crew member had raped her so he'd be put in cryogenic stasis to await trial, then convinced another man to sabotage the freezer so the first man would die. Later, he enlists Legato to force his brother, Vash, to shoot Legato by using his MoreThanMindControl to have a group of townsfolk kill Meryl and Milly, with the only way to stop him being Legato's death. As Knives expected, the act nearly breaks Vash.
** Legato has MoreThanMindControl at his disposal, and forces a group of slavers to wipe each other out, then freezer their victims, telling them it was CruelMercy. Then there's his above act of forcing Vash to kill him, or he'll have a group of people in his control beat Meryl and Milly to death.

* AndNowForSomeoneCompletelyDifferent: ''Trigun The Lost Plant'' introduces Verona Tsubasa, a woman following Vash around on search for the titular lost plant. [[spoiler:The setting is placed six years later the original manga ending, Verona is the real focus of the story, Vash is just kind of there, and no other characters make a return, in fact, they are not even mentioned]].

* GoMadFromTheRevelation: In the manga, BigBad Knives UsedToBeASweetKid before discovering that [[spoiler:his surrogate mother Rem killed and dissected another member of his species]]. This makes him snap, hard, and begins his genocidal outlook.

In 2010, Nightow started a modest series of new works for the Trigun universe in anticipation of the movie ''Trigun: Badlands Rumble''. First it was a two-chapter story, going by the same name as the movie, drawn by Nightow himself to serve as a preview for the movie. The second was a one-shot, ''Trigun: Rising'', it is a short tale about Rai-Dei the Blade, one of the original Gung-Ho Guns, drawn by Yuusuke Takeyama. The third, and final, was another one-shot, entitled ''Trigun: The Lost Plant'', a story set 6 years after the original manga ending; it was drawn by Creator/{{Boichi}} and later published as an extra for the 12th volume of his own series, ''Manga/SunKenRock''. A compilation manga titled ''Trigun: Multiple Bullets'', featuring a number of short stories (including the previously mentioned three), was released in 2011.

* AnAesop: Take your pick: [[{{Aesoptinum}} Violence only creates more violence. Non-violence is the key to solving conflicts (maybe)]]. Love thine enemy. HeWhoFightsMonsters. [[GreenAesop "Nuclear" power is bad]]. Closing yourself off from others and refusing to let go of the past are both the wrong ways to deal with trauma (manga only). [[YouAreBetterThanYouThinkYouAre Regardless of what you've done in the past]], "the ticket to the future is always blank." Respect differences. ...In other words, [[CharacterCatchphrase LOVE AND PEACE!]] Or maybe ViolenceReallyIsTheAnswer.

* AnAesop: Take your pick: [[{{Aesoptinum}} Violence only creates more violence. Non-violence is the key to solving conflicts (maybe)]]. Love thine enemy. HeWhoFightsMonsters. [[GreenAesop "Nuclear" power is bad]]. Closing yourself off from others and refusing to let go of the past are both the wrong ways to deal with trauma (manga only). [[YouAreBetterThanYouThinkYouAre Regardless of what you've done in the past]], "the ticket to the future is always blank." Respect differences. ...In other words, [[CatchPhrase LOVE AND PEACE!]] Or maybe ViolenceReallyIsTheAnswer.

* {{Catchphrase}}: "Love and peace~!"

** Blink-and-you'll-miss-it one in the very last episode. The photo shown for [[spoiler:the man related to Rem that Vash was tracking down in July]] is a still of single-episode character Shiro Tokita from ''Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion'', right down to his outfit in said shot.

** Oddly, the barkeeper lady from the third episode is credited as "Joshua" in the English credits for the anime. This seems to be a misromanization of how she was credited in Japanese "Joshou" which means female barkeeper. AKA her job, not her actual name, especially not a man's name.

* {{Bishonen}}: Can be used to describe Legato, Knives, and (particularly the manga version of) Wolfwood, but probably not the first word you think of. Vash is very bishie most of the time and has a very delicate face with distinct long eyelashes, but he loses bishie points when he has [[BarbarianLongHair long hair]] and [[BeardOfSorrow beard]] and even more when [[TallDarkAndHandsome drawn]] by Creator/{{Boichi}}.

* {{Bishonen}}: Can be used to describe Legato, Knives, and (particularly the manga version of) Wolfwood, but probably not the first word you think of. Vash is very bishie most of the time and has a very delicate face with distinct long eyelashes, but he loses bishie points when he has [[BarbarianLongHair long hair]] and [[BeardOfSorrow beard]] and even more when [[RatedMForManly drawn]] [[TallDarkAndHandsome by]] Creator/{{Boichi}}.

** Nightow has stated he is quite the fan of Creator/LeijiMatsumoto, and it shows with Elendira resembling [[Manga/GalaxyExpress999 Maetel]], complete with briefcase. The kid who gives Livio his hat and cloak also resembles Tetsuro.

''Trigun'' began in 1995 as a manga by artist Yasuhiro Nightow, published monthly in the magazine ''Shonen Captain.'' The series ran for 20 chapters (three tankobon volumes) before abruptly going into a hiatus due to the magazine's cancellation in 1997. After this, Nightow became involved in the production of a 26-episode anime adaptation by Creator/{{Madhouse}}, which covered what the manga had gotten to at that point, and then added its own finale to wrap things up. In 1998, the manga found a new home at the Main/{{Seinen}} magazine ''Young King [=OURs=]'' under the new title ''Trigun Maximum,'' running an additional 97 chapters (14 volumes) and reaching its own conclusion in 2008. The manga is licensed by Creator/DarkHorseComics, but is currently out of print.

* OffModel:
** Early on in the manga, characters' faces often look… weird. Especially women.
** The TV series is known for being all over the map in terms of its animation quality. Individual episodes can and often do jump between this and AnimationBump depending on the scene.
*** The worst-looking episode by far is Ep.16, "Fifth Moon". Unfortunately, that episode contains major plot development… and the all-important lead-up to the Incident is where the animation really takes a nosedive.
*** Episode 3 is a noticeable step down in quality from the first two.
*** Most of Ep.25 ("Live Through") looks fine, but there's one sequence near the halfway point that manages to have the laziest animation of the entire series.

In 2010, Nightow started a modest series of new works for the Trigun universe in anticipation of the movie ''Trigun: Badlands Rumble''. First it was a two-chapter story, going by the same name as the movie, drawn by Nightow himself to serve as a preview for the movie. The second was a one-shot, ''Trigun: Rising'', it is a short tale about Rai-Dei the Blade, one of the original Gung-Ho Guns, drawn by Yuusuke Takeyama. The third, and final, was another one-shot, entitled ''Trigun: The Lost Plant'', a story set 60 years after the original manga ending; it was drawn by Creator/{{Boichi}} and later published as an extra for the 12th volume of his own series, ''Manga/SunKenRock''. A compilation manga titled ''Trigun: Multiple Bullets'', featuring a number of short stories (including the previously mentioned three), was released in 2011.

In 2010, Nightow started a modest series of new works for the Trigun universe in anticipation of the movie ''Trigun: Badlands Rumble''. First it was a two-chapter story, going by the same name as the movie, drawn by Nightow himself to serve as a preview for the movie. The second was a one-shot, ''Trigun: Rising'', it is a short tale about Rai-Dei the Blade, one of the original Gung-Ho Guns, drawn by Yuusuke Takeyama. The third, and final, was another one-shot, entitled ''Trigun: The Lost Plant'', a story set 6 years after the original manga ending; it was drawn by Creator/{{Boichi}} and later published as an extra for the 12th volume of his own series, ''Manga/SunKenRock''. A compilation manga titled ''Trigun: Multiple Bullets'', featuring a number of short stories (including the previously mentioned three), was released in 2011.

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* ContrivedCoincidence: Rowan happened to murder Marry and threat Rem at gunpoint right in front of an airlock, just so Joe could use it to neutralize him.

* ContrivedCoincidence: - happened to murder - and threat Rem right in front of an airlock, just so - could use it to neutralize him.