Trigun: of sexy goofball gunslingers and the insurance agents that chase them
Thanks to whoever it was (who was it????) who recommended Trigun as the next anime to check out in my fledgling interest in the genre.
I am in love.
I love the little visual gags. I love the characters: Vash the Stampede is the most endearingly goofball main character I've ever seen (and he's blonde :P) and Milly and Meryl the hapless insurance agents crack me up. I love the set up and I love the plots.
For those who don't know and are interested, the set-up for Trigun is the following. It's a quasi-Western set in some future Western-lke world (think the milleau of Firefly). Milly and Meryl are two insurance agents who've been sent down to track the notorious Vash the Stampede, a man who was a $$60 billion bounty on his head, because the insurance company is tired of paying out enormous sums for destruction that automatically happens when Vash is around. They meet up with Vash, who is actually a peace-loving goofball (though of course utterly amazing with weapons and totally anime-hot), but don't believe it's him because you know? He isn't scary but nice and comes across as rather ineffective. And as you watch you do realize that all of the destruction isn't Vash's fault, it's the fault of either those who pretend to be him to freak others into doing what they want ot it's the result of bounty hunters destroying everything in their path to get to him.
I knew I was going to love it from the first shot of the bar and the bounty-hunters shooting up the place where there is nothing left at all, including the walls, except for one lone figure in a red coat calmly enjoying his drink. And it was utter, giddy "woo-hoo" infatuation from the moment Milly and Meryl stepped into a rough bar and asked for a tea and a banana split and the rough guys gaped incredulously before saying: "you have to ask for milk, otherwise the gag won't work."
Also Vash wins the "anime character dangermousie would most want to date so far" title: he's funny, and laid-back, and pacifist and really nice, and very competent. Yum.
If you want more info on the show (it's 26 episodes and I am only 3 episodes in), go to:
http://www.theotaku.com/anime/trigun/
Vash picture:
I am in love.
I love the little visual gags. I love the characters: Vash the Stampede is the most endearingly goofball main character I've ever seen (and he's blonde :P) and Milly and Meryl the hapless insurance agents crack me up. I love the set up and I love the plots.
For those who don't know and are interested, the set-up for Trigun is the following. It's a quasi-Western set in some future Western-lke world (think the milleau of Firefly). Milly and Meryl are two insurance agents who've been sent down to track the notorious Vash the Stampede, a man who was a $$60 billion bounty on his head, because the insurance company is tired of paying out enormous sums for destruction that automatically happens when Vash is around. They meet up with Vash, who is actually a peace-loving goofball (though of course utterly amazing with weapons and totally anime-hot), but don't believe it's him because you know? He isn't scary but nice and comes across as rather ineffective. And as you watch you do realize that all of the destruction isn't Vash's fault, it's the fault of either those who pretend to be him to freak others into doing what they want ot it's the result of bounty hunters destroying everything in their path to get to him.
I knew I was going to love it from the first shot of the bar and the bounty-hunters shooting up the place where there is nothing left at all, including the walls, except for one lone figure in a red coat calmly enjoying his drink. And it was utter, giddy "woo-hoo" infatuation from the moment Milly and Meryl stepped into a rough bar and asked for a tea and a banana split and the rough guys gaped incredulously before saying: "you have to ask for milk, otherwise the gag won't work."
Also Vash wins the "anime character dangermousie would most want to date so far" title: he's funny, and laid-back, and pacifist and really nice, and very competent. Yum.
If you want more info on the show (it's 26 episodes and I am only 3 episodes in), go to:
http://www.theotaku.com/anime/trigun/
Vash picture: