#the engagement im getting for trigun is making me think this community is pretty cool!

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Third anon lol and big fan of trigun in general. Piping in with my opinions about the anime, since I don't think it's fair to say either adaptation is "much better" than the other. People will have their personal tastes, some strongly prefer one or the other, but I honestly love both of them. The original Trigun leans more western in the space western theme, while Trigun Stampede leans more sci-fi in the space western theme. But they both have a mix, and they both encompass the same general story. Neither of them match the manga exactly (which is my personal favorite Trigun adaptation), but that doesn't mean they're bad.

The original Trigun was made before most of the manga was made, so it ends up following its own path near the end. It's goofy though, especially towards the start, then ends up hurting you Real Bad (in a good way) later on. I love it so much!! And it's one of the few anime I prefer the dub for, just bc it has so much character. Also makes watching it genuinely hilarious sometimes, but it works for that anime. It also keeps Vash's deal more of a mystery overall, which can be great for starting out with watching.

Trigun Stampede is what I first watched, and I still love it a lot. The production quality is SO good, especially the animation and the soundtrack. I still think about those fights So much... Tristamp is based more on the manga than the original Trigun, especially with certain key events, but it's also its own thing. When the manga's creator greenlit the project, he said he didn't wanna see exactly the same story all over again. So it's a remix! Modernized in some ways, the timeline a bit different from the original stuff... some people critique its characterizations, as the characters do act a little different in this, but it's done with the perspective of being a prequel of sorts. There are characters that act more immature or naive bc it's showing them when they were a bit younger than in canon. I believe they're going to bring it back around so they're closer to their original characterizations in season two, bc that's closer to Around when most of the story happens in the manga. It's generally more serious than the original too, which some people prefer and some people don't. Up to personal taste.

Which that's a lot of talking 😂 but I didn't want you to think that any one version is significantly better than the other. It's a Three Cakes kind of situation, where they're all different and they all have things to love. So I hope you give them all a try!!! Including the manga lol, which flayed my heart alive (in a good way). If ur interested, u can read it all online for free on here @/trigun-manga-overhaul. That's a fan translation project that has fixed a lot of the problems the official translation has, so it's pretty worth reading imo.

Hi! 🙈

This is a really good analysis - thank you for the info! I admit I'm a bit more into the modern, sci-fi kind of setting than western, but I'm pretty much open to trying anything. I also love the combo of lighthearted silly + tugging on the heartstrings/wild angst. LOL 🙊

I think I literally only watched 2 or 3 episodes of the reboot so far, so my own opinions are far from being cemented any which way. 😅What intrigued me originally was the character design!

Also, I do enjoy reading manga and am not strictly an anime-watcher, so thanks for that info! Thanks for providing a fair opinion of each different version 👍 Sometimes it can be hard to remember that reboots should be viewed as their own piece of work independently from the originals.