Trivia / Trigun

• Acclaimed Flop: The manga won a Seiun Award and the anime was nominated for one more, but the anime tanked hard in its native Japan, and the manga only did marginally better. The franchise ended up being much more successful outside of Japan, however.
• Banned in China: To celebrate the anime's 20th anniversary, Fullcock produced a line of water gun replicas of Vash's gun in transparent varieties, and one with silver plastic to look like the real thing. U.S. Customs deemed the silver ones to be too realistic, and the manufacturer banned it from being imported into the United States. Anyone living in the United States who preordered one first party had their orders cancelled and refunded. The transparent varieties can still be imported, however, and the silver variant can be bought from third party sellers.
• Channel Hop: The manga did this out of necessity. It began publication in Shonen Captain, but the magazine shut down in early 1997, right before the story reached Fifth Moon and Knives's reveal. After finishing the last chapter for the then-final collected volume to give the series some sense of closure (albeit a real Downer Ending), the story lay dormant for over a year before finally being picked up by seinen magazine Young King Ours and continuing as Trigun Maximum.
  • Amusingly, it was during this Series Hiatus that JVC came knocking about making an anime. On the plus side, it allowed Nightow to be more involved in early development than a manga-ka would normally be.
• Children Voicing Children: Bryce Papenbrook was around fourteen when he played young Vash.
• Creator-Preferred Adaptation: Yasuhiro Nightow loved the first anime, largely because it was able to distill so neatly the manga's basic messages. He even drew the anime's filler characters into later manga chapters whenever an opportunity presented itself.
• Directed by Cast Member:
  • The English dub of the series was directed by Joe Romersa and Lia Sargent, who respectively voiced Descartes and Milly.
  • In the Latin American Spanish dub, Francisco Zambrano was the ADR director as well as Chapel the Evergreen's voice actor.
• Keep Circulating the Tapes: For an unknown reason, volume 3 of the Maximum omnibus edition had very few copies printed. This resulted in said volume being very rare and goes for hundreds of dollars second-hand, to the point of being a grail within the fandom. If you want to read that portion of the manga without paying an exorbitant amount of money, you'll have to go digital or find the older non-omnibus printings... And those older printings are also going up in price.
• The Other Darrin: The only voice actor to return to reprise their role for the movie's English dub was Johnny Yong Bosch as Vash the Stampede. Jeff Nimoy and Dorothy Fahn were both interested in reprising their roles (of Wolfwood and Meryl, respectively), but Funimation replaced them behind their backs mid-negotiation. Lia Sargent was also replaced as Milly, but this was expected as she had retired from voice acting years earlier.
• Newbie Boom: Trigun Stampede caused a huge resurgence in interest for the franchise in 2023.
• Overtook the Manga: An unusual example, as the anime was planned from day one to be 26 episodes, yet still caught up to the manga's story six episodes before the end despite being front-loaded with filler. The result was a defining example of Adaptation Distillation, as the final episodes contained the essential themes Nightow wanted to showcase but just hadn't gotten to yet.
• Portmanteau Series Nickname: "TriMax" for Trigun Maximum.
• Shipper on Set: Show Hayami (original voice of Wolfwood) has teased the idea of Vash and Wolfwood being a couple at events, though he was shot down by series creator Yasuhiro Nightow.
• Show Accuracy/Toy Accuracy: Kaiyodo released an action figure of Monev in 2002 that proved popular with toy collectors. Only one problem - it only superficially looked like the character. The only bit that was accurate were the arm guns. The suit's color, the face mask and various details were altered and the muscle mass was sufficiently enhanced. It was really artistic license at play, since the rest of the toys were on-model. So why was it so popular regardless? The figure was 10 inches tall and massively articulated, plus it was imported to the US by Diamond, meaning a lot of people who had no familiarity with the series were buying it just because it was far beyond what most action figures of the time were like.
  • Then they made another version, this time in clear plastic. Actually, the only Monev toy to even halfway look like the character was the Kubrick block figure.
• What Could Have Been: Much like Inuyasha, Trigun was one of the [adult swim] anime shows that was meant for Cartoon Network's Toonami block but ended up airing on [adult swim] instead due to content issues (in this case, it was due to the amount of gun violence that would have to have been edited down... and a few scenes got censored on [as] anyway)^note  The most notable cut made in the Adult Swim airing was in Episode 7, where Brilliant Dynamites Neon shoves his gun in Kaite's mouth and keeps it there for nearly 30 seconds.
  • Oddly enough, Trigun, along with the original 1963 Astro Boy, was showcased during the April Fools Day 2012 Toonami broadcast, despite the two not having aired on Toonami before.
  • Ever since Toonami was revived on [adult swim] hours, Trigun now has a chance to make an official premiere on Toonami (again, much like Inuyasha before it). So far, however, it has yet to do so. Though considering Badlands Rumble was picked for their December movie marathon...
  • There was originally going to be a Trigun video game called Trigun: The Planet Gunsmoke. One of the characters, Gazelle the Peacemaker, even had an official action figure released.
  • According to Jeff Nimoy, he originally auditioned for the role of Vash. However, the producers thought that he had the voice of a cigarette-smoker (he doesn't smoke), so they cast him on the spot as Wolfwood instead.
  • Many fans lament the fact that Legato never got an action figure, but in truth a prototype was actually shown at one point and was set to be released in 2006, but was quietly cancelled for unknown reasons.
• Word of God: Nightow says that Kuroneko-sama is female. He has also provided Wolfwood with about half a dozen middle names to go with that 'D.' ranging from "Dokonokuminomonjawaresumakinishiteshizumetarokakora" to "Daily Cigarette Intake."
  • He also states that Vash is adverse to romantic relationships due to the inevitability of outliving his romantic partner.