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Trigun: Complete Series Box Set (Classic)
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November 15, 2010 "Please retry" | — | 8 | $36.34 | $29.98 |
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| Genre | Anime & Manga |
| Format | Multiple Formats, Animated, Box set, Color, NTSC |
| Contributor | Jeff Nimoy, Lia Sargent, Johnny Yong Bosch, Joe Romersa, Dorothy Melendrez |
| Language | Japanese, English |
| Number Of Discs | 4 |
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“…it is a must-have for any anime collector.” - AnimeNewsNetwork.com
“Trigun is deserving of its massive popularity within the world of anime” - DVDTalk.com
Product Description
Vash the Stampede is a wanted man with a habit of turning entire towns into rubble. The price on his head is a fortune, and his path of destruction reaches across the arid wastelands of a desert planet. Unfortunately, most encounters with the spiky-haired gunslinger don't end well for the bounty hunters who catch up with him; someone almost always gets hurt - and it's never Vash. Oddly enough, for such an infamous fugitive, there's no proof that he's ever taken a life. In fact, he's a pacifist with a doughnut obsession who's more doofus than desperado. There's a whole lot more to him than his reputation lets on - Vash the Stampede definitely ain't your typical outlaw.
Product details
- Aspect Ratio : 1.33:1
- Is Discontinued By Manufacturer : No
- MPAA rating : NR (Not Rated)
- Product Dimensions : 0.7 x 7.5 x 5.4 inches; 5.89 Ounces
- Item model number : 26515077
- Director : Lia Sargent, Joe Romersa
- Media Format : Multiple Formats, Animated, Box set, Color, NTSC
- Run time : 10 hours and 50 minutes
- Release date : March 12, 2013
- Actors : Johnny Yong Bosch, Jeff Nimoy, Dorothy Melendrez, Lia Sargent
- Subtitles: : English
- Studio : Funimation Prod
- ASIN : B00AUJH32E
- Country of Origin : USA
- Number of discs : 4
- Best Sellers Rank: #876 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)
- #4 in Anime (Movies & TV)
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First off, Trigun has some really great characters. They all have different motivations, values, and backgrounds. Vash the Stampede is very much motivated by a strong sense of internal morality. Merry is driven by her sense of duty. Millie is a loyal and caring individual. These characters are developed really well and it's interesting to see how they react to different situations.
The plot follows Vash the Stampede through his various trials and tribulations. It starts very light hearted, as the main plot isn't revealed too early on, but does get more serious and sad when you get further into the main plot line. It keeps it very interesting with some of the hardships that Vash faces.
It has an interesting soundtrack. Most of the soundtrack is in a Western or jazz style. It definitely improves the feel of the show and provides great effect.
Now, the animation definitely dates it. You can tell that it's an older one, but the art still looks good. If you're not a fan of older animation, you might take issue with this.
Overall, I think it's a classic that improves any collection. You can definitely rewatch it and still enjoy it. The combination of great plot, awesome soundtrack, and intriguing characters culminated in a great anime experience. I'd definitely recommend it.
The set itself is still pretty good, tho. And, even with the low image quality it's still completely watchable. Most people might not even notice what I'm seeing anyways. In the end, it's up to you whether or not to buy it. I say, if you want to own Trigun at a reasonable price, get it. It's still worth it.
Makes your really question the sense of good and evil as he tries to help someone you ultimately put another at a disadvantage. Story touches on the concepts of Life and Death, Good and evil as the Vash trys to deal with problems threw out the series. One quote comes to mind "To save a butterfly you must kill the spider, however you realize sooner or later you have become a spider".
Its a excellent value, over 15 years old yet still has a near cult following. I would highly recommend this series to any anime collector.
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And so it goes on episode after episode, with him outwitting or outfighting the evil-doers but one has to ask what happens when he moves on? Naturally the villains will return and continue their reign of terror. Apparently that doesn't occur to the writers, so off we go and find more nasty folks waiting at the next town.
This idiotic idealism leads to conflict in Vash and we are tortured in some episodes as the entire twenty minutes is taken up with his internal struggle. There is far too much of this and it is DEADLY BORING!
This show comes in 8 DVD's that are held in a case that is about twice as thick as a normal DVD case.
I don't know why but the DVD's are hard to get out of the case. The plastic is very stiff and I felt like I was going to break the DVD's when I was trying to click the DVD's out.
For some strange reason they didn't order any of the DVD's so there is no way of knowing what order they go in without putting them in the player.
The DVD's do come with extras mostly consisting of Designs of characters, weapons, villains, etc...
It’s a real shame that this series isn’t on Blu-ray but you will still enjoy the show in the standard edition.
For less than £25 it's absolutely worth it.
The story plays out the same way too. It starts off very lighthearted and comedic, but once you get to episode 12, oh boy does the story and tone take a sharp turn! It gets surprisingly deep, thought-provoking and intense in the latter episodes.
It's a very entertaining and highly memorable ride, especially in its 2nd half. One of my top 10 favourite Anime series.
What to say about Trigun? Well I guess there are three points to make.
The first is to assess Trigun from a technical view. In this respect it is mixed. The quality of the animation veers wildly from the exceptional to the downright awful. The shoestring budget often shows. On the plus side though in the most important moments the artwork, which details the characters facial expressions, is excellent and apposite, giving you a full appreciation of both the humour and the not infrequent inner turmoil. The voice acting fares much better, being solid through out, with only the occasional extra bringing down the quality. (Dub, or sub? Each is good in it's own way but, heresy though it maybe to some, I prefer the dub in Trigun) The score is fascinating, ensuing lush orchestration in favour of a much sparser sound design, which includes not just the guitar heavy opening theme, but some sequences which appear to be cleverly constructed industrial noise (however it was done the theme for Bluesummers is both striking and really creepy).
As a fun watch Trigun is even more difficult to assess, as its range is broad and it has a tendency to flip in a moment from full on slapstick comedy, through heroic action, to creepy horror, all the while musing on quite serious moral dilemmas. However, it seldom loses its innate interested and likeability. Maybe because the moral dilemmas posed are not preached to the audience and are not put to us in simple choices between absolute good or evil (though make no mistake some of the events portrayed are seriously nasty). Added to which the action sequences and the plot are often strange enough to keep you wandering what will happen next right up till the end.
Where the show stands up tall though is the characters and principally Vash the Stampede, our principal protagonist. Vash is complex, funny, likeable and occasionally scary as all hell. His story keeps you intrigued all the way through the 26 episode run. There are maybe four episodes where Vash is not the main focus of the show and they fall fairly flat by comparison to the rest of the material. It's not that the other characters are written or acted poorly, it's just that they, like the plot and the world itself, are defined by their relationship to Vash. The only character who you feel could bear watching without Vash is Nicholas D. Wolfwood, so it's just as well the show spends so much time exploring his somewhat antagonistic view, almost as much as it does relaying the central plot. In the end though it is his relationship with and reaction to Vash which becomes the focus of his character's arc. All the others are shown in various states of enmity or friendship to our hero and as such becomes rather cyphers to his story. They're well written and well played but never really achieve a life of their own. (Though the bitter-sweet, conclusion to Wolfwood's arc is one of the best written and played moments in thw whole of anime.)
This is why along with the problematic finale, which fails to properly explore the ramifications of Vash's ultimate moral choice (though if it is as it appears to be, it's a serious cop out), that the show doesn't quite manage greatness.
Trigun is a hell of a lot of fun, it has some moments which are hilarious and as many which are strikingly horrific and memorable. Even if it fails to reach its true potential for the reasons I've outlined above, it's still a wonderful ride while you're watching it.











