#I LOVE YOU STUDIO ORANGE

[duncanor]

Honestly, Studio Orange are such a bunch of chads because this reboot was so risky.

The animation changed, they made the season 1 a prequel and didn't tell anyone, they changed the timeline, they added new characters with different designs and used a different flavor of sci-fi.

A lot of things that could make it fails so easily in the eyes of most people.. But they pulled it off so damn well.

They went against the odds and delivered something beyond amazing.

I am impatient to see what the future holds for this show.

[lumiccu]

My friend made me watch trigun with her

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[revenantghost]

MAN, I hope that Studio Orange are as proud of themselves as they should be. They took on an IP that, by all means, was one hell of a hard sell!!! No shade, I love all Triguns, but the history is rough. ��98 was an absolute flop in Japan. It formed a cult following in the west, but it’s been twenty years since the English dub first dropped in the US. The Trigun manga floundered so badly that it was initially dropped (when Nightow was consulting on ‘98, he didn’t know if he’d ever have the chance to complete it!) out of the shonen magazine it was in and switched the entire category over to seinen when it was luckily picked up elsewhere. And I don’t know how the sales went from there, it obviously did well enough that there were figures made, and Badlands Rumble popped up eventually. But again, it’s been ages since this very cult classic had traction. And not only that, when Orange dropped the reveal trailer, die-hard fans were not happy. After five years slaving over this development, it had to have looked bleak.

But not only did they manage to rope in tons of the old fans through showing the loving detail and care they loaded into Tristamp, they managed to whip up a ton of new fans into a frenzy over a franchise none of them had ever glanced at before. So many people, old and new fans, are here and loving Vash and creating a whole new thriving community from a beloved franchise that had been quietly chilling in the background for awhile. I myself would have never given Trigun a shot if it weren’t for Tristamp. And I just think that’s neat.

[latenightfoxhunt]

I feel like trigun maximum just hit that perfect sweet spot of bad DID representation done right. like yes the classic small system, blackout split, with one of them being the stereotypical crazy murderer but there's more to trimax before and after their introduction thats so important. they took all of the DID villain movie tropes, put them in a dying word + a murder cult, and shouted the same thing they've been shouting at everyone for the past 80 chapters: THEY'RE STILL HUMAN, THEY DESERVE A FUTURE!! the same volume they introduce him in is the same volume they get thrown on their redemption arc, because it wasn't DID that was his problem it was their abuser and the thing he made them do. trimax just hits you over the head with all the themes with one character and they're well written and well loved in the rest of the series. they get a cowboy hat and they both purse the cowboy way! the main take away wasn't that razlo needs to be put in a cage, it was hey this protector is trying his best, he has his own emotions, be kind to him. it was really refreshing to see in media and I didn't expect it to come from this.

im afraid that trigun stampede is going to miss the mark. not in a sense that I think they're going to change the ending, but how the story is building up is different. we haven't been shown several instances of the average joe having to kill for personal gain to survive on no man's land, so it makes livio and razlo feel like an individual crazed threat looming over the horizon. it also leans into the horror of episode 6 and 7 and ends up having a demonizing way of depicting disassociation. when wolfwood is in the cell pleading for him and livios just standing there with his eye mysteriously glowing, it gives me the ick. not that there can't be a narrative where both livios and wolfwoods feelings are being recognized in a meaningful way, its more that there's too much time given to ruminate in wolfwoods pov, that the audience is going to see them as threatening longer duration. manga readers know whats coming but a majority of viewers do not. [I did absolutely enjoyed wolfwood pulling him out of disassociation with smell the smell of smoke and calmly saying wake up old friend, it melted my heart. I also thought it was funny when livio shot himself but thats just me and a whole other tangent lmao]

do I think this is going to be better when the series is finished and everyone has all of the pieces? yes, absolutely. its just that the years inbetween their redemption undos what made trimaxs good

TLDR: trimax makes you feel like a fucking idiot for even doubting for a chapter that they were going to stray from their core theme of "everyone deserves a future" just because these guys are a DID system with blood on their hands. meanwhile tristamp finds its faults in the time it takes to get livio and razlo to their redemption arcs because it paints them to be a looming threat more than 2 dudes in a lot of pain.

other systems in the trigun fandom please tell me your thoughts + we should be friends

[cherishsscene]

BACK FROM THE DEAD TO POST THIS. IM LITERALLY SO HYPEDDDDD

[ryanthel0ser]

Sometimes I forget how good the CG animation is for Trigun Stampede and then I take a screenshot and double take cause it looks like 2D

[silvadour]

[sleepyminty]

Gonna love how studio orange leaving their anime with their characters at their lowest point :legosi now has a criminal record and quit school, vash is suffering with the aftermath of whetever happened in ep 12 and at their erik phase, phos is still at his phase 1 depression.

[tombiwidgeon]

Wait... you're tellin me we get a hack into how Wolfwood is FEELING!?

So many gems in this interview article with Studio Orange, you guys!

Read it here!

Guess I'll just be glued to his shirt on my next watch through XD

[duncanor]

Now that im cured from being a hater and started rewatching Stampede, I can safely say it is peak cinema in its own way

Im eating that shit up

[plan-3-tmars]

episode 7 of trigun stampede spoilers

IT HAPPENED!!! IT FINALLY HAPPENED!!!! THEY TEASED IT FOR SOOOO LOONNGG AND IT FINALLY GOT REAVEALED AHHHAHAHAH

I'm so normal about this .

[ihadtoposttrigun]

Trigun Stampede's 1 Year Anniversary

I am just so grateful that Trigun Stampede exists. It is thoughtful, creative, it improves on its predecessors' weaknesses, it's technically impressive, and made with so much sincerity and love for the characters themselves.

No matter what happens in season 2 and beyond, I can sleep at night knowing that Badlands Rumble and Multiple Bullets do NOT serve as the final note for the franchise, ugh. Just between you and me, internet, I hated them. I always see them as two generic, risk-averse victory laps. A rant for a later time. Trigun as a story deserved better, and after like, 11 or 12 years, it finally happened. What a relief.

After watching FLCL Season 2 and 3, uuuurrrghghg my expectations were ROCK BOTTOM. My one and only wish for Stampede was, "please, just not some cheap, neutered cash-grab like what they did to FLCL. That's all I can ask for."

Realistically, I thought we'd be getting the Trigun rendition of the Netflix Cowboy Bebop Reboot, which I don't hate at all, but it did fall short in a lot of ways. I was surprised again! The ways in which Stampede surpasses its reboot contemporaries needs to be its own post too.

Thank you, Studio Orange, for your passion, such massive effort, and-- words are failing me-- for being able to read my thoughts, apparently. I love love LOVE this community and my new internet pals that tolerate my awkwardness. It all feels too good to be true.

[whom-to-kill-whom-to-let-live]

No but with TriStamp Legato being sensitive about his hair color, with the implication that it ties into to his backstory, coupled with that one tweet that mentions unnatural hair color making children more likely to be sold off into slavery.

Imagine if TriStamp S2 adapt the Legato VS The Rodericks gang scene and keep it the same, but make the trafficked girls in that scene also have unnatural hair colors like Legato does. 

[threegunbrainrot]

I look at the 98 anime with a fond fascination. It’s based off of only the original couple issues of Trigun plus like I want to say the first 4? Of trimax. And bc of how many things get developed and revealed much more down the line in the manga, it’s so interesting to think about this offshoot of the original source material where things didn’t quite ramp up to the same scale but still got to the heart of things anyways, where everyone’s backstories played out just a little to the left and led to a similar but different tale. Trimax is definitely my favorite, bc just everything about it is so well done to me, but 98 holds its own unique spot in my favor

i definitely agree anon ur So right

it's practically a branching timelines situation, where everything is so, SO close to being the same, but thanks to the butterfly effect everything got skewed ever so slightly and now the whole world is just that much more different

call it parallel universes, alternate dimensions, alternate timelines... i really love it all. there's so many specific parts of both trimax and 98 that shine brighter and dimmer than one another. unique pieces of the narrative that were either expounded or brushed aside.

like in 98, meryl didn't want to believe that vash was the legend she was looking for. it was a ridiculous notion that such a friendly, goofy guy could be the bloodthirsty killer she hunted for

but in the manga, she and milly took to it instantly. in fact, they jumped into it with AGGRESSION- actively getting involved in the fighting and PUSHING to calm the situation down. this panel in particular i think sums it up very well lol:

they meet him with confidence and they're not afraid to fire upon others for the sake of collective peace. vash is caught off by how readily he's approached and even defended, in a way. when the automatic reaction to learning his identity is usually either hostility or fear, it makes sense.

and i dont have a convenient shot of any particular moment in 98 that portrayed their early relationship well, but it's easy to see the differences anyway.

instead of steady confidence, meryl met vash with confusion and outright denial for awhile. she and milly both got involved in fewer fights overall i think? but i might be wrong. i won't speak much on this since i don't remember 98 very well, but i get the sense they sought out vash's fights much less in that rendition (at least early on. they went CRAZY toward the end- meryl especially).

and there's countless little differences like this.

so yeah, even if trimax is the source content, 98 is this funky little spinoff that treats vash just a little bit more nicely lmao. the whole thing is a little more watered down, i think; intentionally to make it more palatable. i still love it regardless, of course. it just oozes charm <3

[vqlisms]

watching btp day 1 and god. starting with monster generation i’m already crying

[leeuins-haze]

y'all i am living for the trigun revival rn with stampede