List of Trigun episodes
Trigun is an anime television series based on the manga of the same name written and illustrated by Yasuhiro Nightow. The series follows Vash the Stampede, the most feared outlaw on the planet Gunsmoke, who has a $$60 billion ("double dollar") price on his head. He displays a kindhearted, goofy demeanor and goes out of his way not to hurt anyone if he can help it. Most of the destruction blamed on him is actually caused by the extreme measures people take to capture or kill him for the reward; as a result, he has been nicknamed "The Humanoid Typhoon." As he travels through the planet to meet a certain man, he also meets two women, Meryl Stryfe and Milly Thompson, tasked with investigating his actions and minimizing the damage associated with them.
The anime was directed by Satoshi Nishimura at Madhouse, with Yōsuke Kuroda handling series composition, Takahiro Yoshimatsu providing character designs, and music composed by Tsuneo Imahori. The series was originally broadcast on TV Tokyo from April 1 to September 30, 1998. It is licensed for DVD and Blu-ray[1] in the United States by Funimation Entertainment, who re-released it on DVD on October 27, 2010.[2] The opening theme is "H.T." written and arranged by Tsuneo Imahori while the ending is "Kaze wa Mirai ni Fuku" (風は未来に吹く, lit. "Wind Blows to the Future") written, composed, arranged, and sung by Akima & Neos. Trigun was released on VHS and Laserdisc, and later DVD, by JVC and marketed by Victor Entertainment in Japan.
The English version was initially released on VHS and DVD by Pioneer Entertainment (U.S.) L.P. - and when the company became Geneon, re-released as a new box-set. In the mid-2000s, Geneon re-released Trigun on DVD in a REMIX edition featuring the video, digitally remastered for optimal video quality and the sound, also remastered and remixed in 5.1 Dolby Digital AC-3 surround sound. FUNimation Entertainment re-released the series on DVD in late 2010 upon Geneon's collapse. In the United Kingdom, the anime was released on DVD by MVM Films started in 2005, should be finished by end of 2006 (there were delays due to a fire at a disc duplication plant in August 2005) Also, a single UMD, for PlayStation Portable, was released, named Vol. 1, and contained the first two episodes. Trigun is released on DVD in Australia and New Zealand by Madman Entertainment.
Episode list
| EP# | Title | Directed by | Written by | Original airdate | English airdate | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | "The $$60 Billion Man" Transcription: "Roppyaku-oku Dabudoru no Otoko" (Japanese: 600億$$の男) | Satoshi Nishimura | Yōsuke Kuroda | April 1, 1998 | March 31, 2003 | |
| After a "Humanoid Typhoon" incident leaves the town of Dankin in ruins, a gang of thugs tracks down Vash the Stampede in hopes of collecting the $$60 billion reward for his capture. At the same time, Meryl Stryfe and Milly Thompson, employees of the Bernardelli Insurance Society, are sent to investigate the rumors surrounding Vash and keep him from doing any damage that might affect the company's finances. The gang leader and a bounty hunter named Loose Ruth mistake each other for Vash, leaving him, Meryl, and Milly caught in the middle of a fight. All three escape, while the nearby town of Felnarl suffers heavy damage but no casualties. | ||||||
| 2 | "Truth of Mistake" | Shigeki Awai | Yōsuke Kuroda | April 8, 1998 | April 1, 2003 | |
| Arriving in a town whose water supply has dried up, Meryl and Milly find Vash working for Cliff Cesar, a wealthy water seller. Cliff has hired Vash to protect a young woman named Maryann staying at his mansion, worried about a blond man with a silver weapon who has been trespassing on his property. Vash, Meryl, and Milly discover that the intruder is Maryann, actually a marshal who is investigating Cliff's business and his monopolization of the water supply. Vash foils Cliff's attempts to kill him and Maryann; Cliff's processing equipment overloads, destroying his mansion and flooding the town, and Maryann places him under arrest. | ||||||
| 3 | "Peace Maker" | Shigehito Takayanagi | Yōsuke Kuroda | April 15, 1998 | April 2, 2003 | |
| In the city of Warrens, Vash encounters Frank Marlon, a drunkard who had once been a talented gunsmith. He had saved the town from a group of bandits by arming the residents, but fell into alcoholism after one of his guns was used to kill his family in a bank robbery. Lacking a sheriff, Warrens is defenseless against a gang who plan to rob an armored car until Vash inspires Frank and the residents to stand up agasint them. The robbery is thwarted without any injuries, and Frank gives up drinking and repairs Vash's gun in gratitude. | ||||||
| 4 | "Love & Peace" | Toshikatsu Tokoro | Yōsuke Kuroda | April 22, 1998 | April 3, 2003 | |
| In the city of Orleans, Vash, Meryl, Milly, and a young heiress named Stefany Bostalk are taken hostage in a saloon by a gang who have a score to settle with Stefany's father, nicknamed "Grim Reaper." They want revenge on Bostalk for his slaughter of their parents in a land seizure years earlier. The situation worsens when Stan, the local sheriff, hires a group of mercenaries to storm the saloon; it culminates in a showdown between Bostalk and the gang leader, in which Bostalk is spared with a non-fatal shoulder wound. Stan - who had been one of Bostalk's raiders - tries to kill the leader in a ploy to boost his own reputation, but Vash and Meryl disarm him and his deputies and Meryl strips him of his position. | ||||||
| 5 | "Hard Puncher" | Yoshimitsu Ohashi | Yōsuke Kuroda | April 29, 1998 | April 7, 2003 | |
| In the city of Inepril, Vash finds the entire population trying to capture him for the $$60 billion reward so they can pay for much-needed repairs to their malfunctioning plant. The citizens cause extensive damage in their pursuit, and their leader hires the infamous father-and-son team of Professor and Gofsef Nebraska for assistance. Vash puts himself in great peril to keep the pair from harming any civilians and ultimately stops Gofsef's huge mechanical fist by shooting it. The Nebraskas are captured for a previous prison escape, and Meryl finally admits to her dismay that the strange man she and Milly have been following really is Vash the Stampede. | ||||||
| 6 | "Lost July" | Nanako Shimazaki | Yōsuke Kuroda | May 6, 1998 | April 8, 2003 | |
| Vash allows the citizens of Inepril to claim a $$700,000 reward for capturing the Nebraskas, enough money to cover repairs to the city's plant. An engineering team arrives on a sand steamer; Vash becomes smitten with Elizabeth, its beautiful leader, but suffers multiple sudden attacks on his life. Elizabeth locks him in a room filled with overloading equipment, intending to kill him and accusing him of destroying the third city of July and leaving her an orphan when she was three years old. Vash brings the plant under control, telling her that he has no memory of the day, and she breaks down crying as she remembers him comforting her. | ||||||
| 7 | "B.D.N. (Brilliant Dynamite Neon)" Transcription: "Buririanto Dainamaito Neon" (Japanese: B.D.N. ブリリアント·ダイナマイト·ネオン) | Mihiro Yamaguchi | Yōsuke Kuroda | May 13, 1998 | April 9, 2003 | |
| Vash departs on the sand steamer with the gratitude of Inepril, unaware that Meryl and Milly have taken jobs on board in order to keep an eye on him. He befriends a young stowaway named Kaite, who is secretly helping the ruthless Bad Lad Gang hijack the steamer. Their leader, Brilliant Dynamites Neon, intends to smash open the safe containing the passengers' valuables by crashing the steamer into the bottom of a canyon. Kaite refuses to help with this plan, claiming that the craft belongs to his father, and Vash saves him from being killed by Neon and pulls him outside. | ||||||
| 8 | "And Between the Wasteland and Sky..." Transcription: "Soshite Kouya to Sora no Aida wo" (Japanese: そして荒野と空の間を) | Kou Matsuo | Yōsuke Kuroda | May 20, 1998 | April 10, 2003 | |
| Revealing that his father designed the steamer as a way to help others, Kaite helps Vash evade the Bad Lads and sees the lengths to which he will go in order to avoid harming anyone. The gang captures Kaite and draws Vash into an ambush; Neon prepares to kill him, but relents upon finding a disguised Meryl and Milly holding him at gunpoint. Neon duels Vash and ultimately concedes, agreeing to stop the steamer, but the braking system no longer functions. To atone for his part in the hijacking, Kaite rushes into the engine room and trips an emergency stop switch; he is badly burned, but the steamer stops just short of the canyon's edge thanks to his efforts and Neon's use of his own getaway vehicle to force it to a halt. | ||||||
| 9 | "Murder Machine" | Shigeki Awai | Yōsuke Kuroda | May 27, 1998 | April 14, 2003 | |
| While traveling to May City by bus from the site of the steamer crash, Vash encounters a traveling priest named Nicholas D. Wolfwood, who is trying to raise money for an orphanage he runs. The bus comes under attack by a squadron of armed robots, remnants of lost technology, and the two men leap into action to save a girl being menaced by them. Vash and Wolfwood are sucked down through a patch of quicksand and fall into a buried alien ship that is controlling the robots. Working together, they fight their way past its defenses and shut down the main computer to save the passengers from further attack. The bus reaches May safely the next morning. | ||||||
| 10 | "Quick Draw" | Shoji Yabushita | Yōsuke Kuroda | June 10, 1998 | April 15, 2003 | |
| Vash finds Wolfwood working at a restaurant in May in order to help a woman whose husband has abandoned her and the couple's son and left her deep in debt. Wolfwood persuades Vash to sign up for a quick-draw tournament with a $$50,000 grand prize as a way to help her out; Vash shocks Wolfwood by signing him up as well. The two devise a scheme to fake their deaths in the final round, wounding but not killing all the opponents who are trying to capture Vash for the reward on him, and Wolfwood coerces the tournament organizer into giving him the prize money. The restaurant owner is happy to have her debts paid off and surprised to see her husband return home. | ||||||
| 11 | "Escape from Pain" | Yoshihide Kuriyama | Yōsuke Kuroda | June 17, 1998 | April 16, 2003 | |
| While traveling across the desert with a caravan, Milly and Wolfwood encounter Julius and Moore, a pair of lovers who are trying to escape from it. Julius, the son of the caravan company's owner, has learned that the company engages in human trafficking and wants to save Moore from being sold into slavery. Vash accepts a $$20 million contract to kill Julius and keep the company in business, to the horror of Meryl and Milly. Wolfwood is convinced that someone will have to die before the situation is resolved, but Vash comes up with a plan to fake the deaths of Julius and Moore so they can get away together. The owner sends his apologies to Julius and frees Moore, and Wolfwood parts ways with Vash, Meryl, and Milly. | ||||||
| 12 | "Diablo" | Hideo Hayashi | Yōsuke Kuroda | June 24, 1998 | April 17, 2003 | |
| A peaceful day in town for Vash, Meryl, and Milly is ruined when the powerful telepath Legato Bluesummers arrives to warn Vash that he will die very soon. Vash is subsequently arrested for the murder of a shoemaker and jailed to await trial; as he ponders Legato's message that night, Monev the Gale ― a member of the Gung-Ho Guns, assassins operating under Legato's supervision ― storms into the jail to kill Vash so he can be free to live his own life after 20 years of training. Vash escapes and gains the advantagee after a protracted battle that leaves many townspeople dead by Monev's hand, but suffers a crisis of conscience as he holds Monev at gunpoint. | ||||||
| 13 | "Vash the Stampede" Transcription: "Vasshu Za Sutanpīdo" (Japanese: ヴァッシュ·ザ·スタンピード) | Shigehito Takayanagi | Yōsuke Kuroda | July 1, 1998 | April 21, 2003 | |
| Vash chooses to spare Monev, who admits that he has no idea who sent him to kill Vash. The townspeople remain on edge as Meryl composes a report for her Bernardelli superiors (told mostly through flashbacks to previous episodes) summarizing the experiences she and Milly have had while making contact with Vash and accompanying him on his travels. They see the multiple scars he has received as a result of his choice to live without killing anyone, and he says that he is on a quest to put his past behind him. He leaves town, no longer facing a murder charge for the shoemaker's death, and Meryl and Milly decide to continue following him. | ||||||
| 14 | "Little Arcadia" | Shigeki Awai | Yōsuke Kuroda | July 8, 1998 | April 22, 2003 | |
| In the town of Promontory, Vash, Meryl, and Milly are drawn into a dispute over a valuable piece of land, whose elderly owners are trying to stop the ruthless tycoon Morgan from forcing them off it. Morgan has hired a gang of thugs to take the land, including the couple's son Badwick and the rest of the Nebraska family (see "Hard Puncher"). Meryl and Milly foil the thugs with a little secret help from Vash, and Badwick comes to understand his parents' determination to hold on to their livelihood and flees to file the paperwork that will make their ownership of the land official. To his surprise, he finds that they are planning to give it to him. | ||||||
| 15 | "Demon's Eye" | Tomio Yamauchi | Yōsuke Kuroda | July 15, 1998 | April 23, 2003 | |
| In the town of Jeneora Rock, Vash is horrified to discover the corpses of a gang known as the Roderick Thieves, brutally murdered by Legato and the Gung-Ho Guns. He chases after Legato but instead comes face to face with one member of the latter's group, Dominique the Cyclops, a gunfighter who can seemingly move from place to place in an instant. As the two fight, Vash figures out how to neutralize this advantage and gains the upper hand, only to be interrupted by Meryl and Milly. Dominique escapes in the confusion, and Vash warns the girls not to follow him any further and vows to find Legato at any cost. | ||||||
| 16 | "Fifth Moon" | Yoshihide Kuriyama | Yōsuke Kuroda | July 22, 1998 | April 24, 2003 | |
| Vash leaves Meryl and Milly behind in Jenora Rock to seek out Legato, however it is Legato that finds him, telling Vash to meet him in Augusta. Upon arriving in the city, Vash uses his reputation to create a panic and evacuate the city, after which he is approached by E.G. Mine and Rai-Dei the Blade of the Gung-Ho Guns. | ||||||
| 17 | "Rem Saverem" Transcription: "Remu Seiburemu" (Japanese: レム·セイブレム) | Yoshimitsu Ohashi | Yōsuke Kuroda | July 29, 1998 | April 28, 2003 | |
| The episode opens on a ship in space, with Rem and the rest of the small crew of the Project SEEDS ship. Vash and Knives are children, currently under Rem's care. As they learn and grow, an obvious schism develops between their world views as Knives rationalizes that the human race doesn't deserve to live and decides that Project SEEDS needs to be stopped. | ||||||
| 18 | "Goodbye for Now" Transcription: "Ima wa, Sayonara" (Japanese: 今は, さよなら) | Shigeki Awai | Yōsuke Kuroda | August 5, 1998 | April 29, 2003 | |
| In Kasted City, Vash has been taken in by a girl named Lina and her grandmother, and is living by the name of Erics, hoping to live a quiet, peaceful life after the tragic destruction of Augusta. Meanwhile, a man claiming to be Vash the Stampede has set up camp nearby and is terrorizing the town. In an attempt to save Lina from the man, Erics gets shot and hospitalized. Wolfwood arrives in town and approaches Vash in the hospital to convince him to return to his old life. | ||||||
| 19 | "Hang Fire" | Tomio Yamauchi | Yōsuke Kuroda | August 12, 1998 | April 30, 2003 | |
| Meryl and Milly had returned to their lives at the Bernardelli Insurance Company until Vash is spotted and they are assigned once again to follow him. Vash and Wolfwood head to New Oregon, where a family feud over a murdered distant cousin is rising to a boil. The Freeze family abducts the sand steamer Meryl and Milly were riding on and hold hostages to get revenge on the leader of the Polo family. | ||||||
| 20 | "Flying Ship" | Yuji Moriyama | Yōsuke Kuroda | August 19, 1998 | May 1, 2003 | |
| Typhoon Jaqueline hits New Oregon and Vash uses the winds to visit a ship in the sky, a leftover Planet SEEDS ship that didn't quite crash 130 years prior. Wolfwood inadvertently tags along, but finds himself an unwelcome outsider among the peaceful people on the ship. This peace is disturbed when Leonof the Puppet-Master, one of the Gung-ho Guns, follows Vash onto the ship and begins to slaughter the people on board. | ||||||
| 21 | "Out of Time" | Yoshihide Kuriyama | Yōsuke Kuroda | August 26, 1998 | May 5, 2003 | |
| Leonof announces the presence of three demons aboard the ship, who immediately begin killing people and targeting the plants in order to crash the ship. Moving fast to head off Hoppered the Gauntlet, another member of the Gung-ho Guns, at the second engine room, Vash discovers the bodies of his fallen friends, while Wolfwood faces off against Gray the Ninelives at the first plant. Despite their efforts, the ship ultimately crashes to the planet. | ||||||
| 22 | "Alternative" | Shigeki Awai | Yōsuke Kuroda | September 2, 1998 | May 6, 2003 | |
| While trying to get into the heavily defended city of Keybas, the group encounters a young child who accidentally leads them back to a group of orphaned kids living in the desert. Their leader reveals that the children happened to meet there after their parents all entered a trance-like state and wandered away from their villages. The kids' hideout is attacked by the townsfolk, but the attack is interrupted by a group of strangely organized sandworms, who are revealed to be controlled by Zazie the Beast, one of the Gung-ho Guns. | ||||||
| 23 | "Paradise" Transcription: "Rakuen" (Japanese: 楽園) | Norihiko Nagahama | Yōsuke Kuroda | September 9, 1998 | May 7, 2003 | |
| In the town of Tonim, Wolfwood reflects on his troubled childhood and disagreement with Vash, but is interrupted by the arrival of his mentor, Chapel the Evergreen. Wolfwood has been secretly following Knives' orders to bring Vash to him alive, but Chapel informs him that he must now kill Vash instead. Vash and Wolfwood face each other in the street, but before Wolfwood can finish his mission, Caine the Longshot begins firing on them from far outside of town. Vash goes after Caine, while Wolfwood targets Chapel. | ||||||
| 24 | "Sin" Transcription: "Tsumi" (Japanese: 罪) | Kazuhiro Ozawa | Yōsuke Kuroda | September 16, 1998 | May 8, 2003 | |
| Vash leaves Meryl and Milly behind after confessing his entire story to Meryl. He arrives in the town of LR, but is soon approached by Legato with a message to meet him outside of town. Vash is then ambushed by Midvalley the Hornfreak, before he meets with Legato and is forced to make a difficult choice. | ||||||
| 25 | "Live Through" | Shigeki Awai | Yōsuke Kuroda | September 23, 1998 | May 12, 2003 | |
| Ten days later, Vash awakes in a house in a small town, where Meryl and Milly have taken him to care for his wounds. He struggles heavily with the guilt of what Legato forced him to do while he slowly recovers from his injuries. They decide to stay in town, but the citizens quickly recognize Vash for who he is and revolt against him. | ||||||
| 26 | "Under the Sky So Blue" Transcription: "Konna ni mo Aoi Sora no Shita de" (Japanese: こんなにも青い空の下で) | Satoshi Nishimura | Yōsuke Kuroda | September 30, 1998 | May 13, 2003 | |
| Vash comes face to face with Knives at last, reflecting on their childhood aboard the Project SEEDS ship, their travels after crash-landing on the planet, and all the torment Knives has put him through recently. The brothers bring their guns and angel arms to bear in a final showdown. | ||||||
Home media
- Original release
- Trigun - The $$60,000,000,000 Man (DVD 1; episodes 1-4) 2000-03-28
- Trigun - The $$60,000,000,000 Man [Geneon Signature Series] (DVD 1) 2004-01-06
- Trigun - The $$60,000,000,000 Man [Essential Anime] (DVD 1) 2004-12-28
- Trigun - Lost Past (DVD 2; episodes 5-7) 2000-05-23
- Trigun - Lost Past [Geneon Signature Series] (DVD 2) 2004-03-09
- Trigun - Lost Past [Essential Anime] (DVD 2) 2004-12-28
- Trigun - Wolfwood (DVD 3; episodes 8-10) 2000-07-25
- Trigun - Wolfwood [Geneon Signature Series] (DVD 3) 2004-04-13
- Trigun - Gung-Ho Guns (DVD 4; episodes 11-13) 2000-09-26
- Trigun - Gung-Ho Guns [Geneon Signature Series] (DVD 4) 2004-05-11
- Trigun - Angel Arms (DVD 5; episodes 14-16) 2000-11-21
- Trigun - Angel Arms [Geneon Signature Series] (DVD 5) 2004-06-08
- Trigun - Project Seeds (DVD 6; episodes 17-19) 2001-01-23
- Trigun - Project Seeds [Geneon Signature Series] (DVD 6) 2004-07-13
- Trigun - Puppet Master (DVD 7; episodes 20-22) 2001-03-27
- Trigun - Puppet Master [Geneon Signature Series] (DVD 7) 2004-08-10
- Trigun - High Noon (DVD 8; episodes 23-26) 2001-05-29
- Trigun - High Noon [Geneon Signature Series] (DVD 8) 2004-09-14
- Collections
- Trigun - The Complete Series (DVD 1-4) 2010-10-26
- Trigun - The Complete Series [Anime Classics] (DVD 1-4) 2013-03-12
- Trigun - Limited Collector's Edition I (DVD 1-3) 2005-11-22[3]
- Trigun - Limited Collector's Edition II (DVD 4-6) 2006-01-17[4]
- Trigun - The Complete Box Set (DVD 1-8) 2001-11-20[5]
- Remix
References
- General:
- Shōnen Gahōsha episode list
- TV anime resource center page on Trigun
- Specific:
- "News: Funimation Gets Trigun TV Anime Series on BD/DVD". AnimeNewsNetwork.
- "Funimation Gets Trigun TV Anime". Anime News Network. 2010-02-14.
- "Trigun - Limited Collector's Edition I (With Embossed Tin Case And Necklace)". Amazon.com. Retrieved February 23, 2020.
- "Trigun - Limited Collector's Edition II (With Embossed Tin Case And Keychain)". Amazon.com. Retrieved February 23, 2020.
- "Trigun: Complete Series Box Set (Classic)". Amazon.com. Retrieved February 23, 2020.
- "Trigun Remix: Volume 1 (ep.1-5)". Amazon.com. Retrieved February 23, 2020.
- "Trigun Remix: Volume 2". Amazon.com. Retrieved February 23, 2020.
- "Trigun Remix: Volume 3(ep.1-5)". Amazon.com. Retrieved February 23, 2020.
- "Trigun Remix: Volume 4 (ep.15-18)". Amazon.com. Retrieved February 23, 2020.
- "Trigun Remix: Volume 5 (ep.19-22)". Amazon.com. Retrieved February 23, 2020.
- "Trigun - Remix (Vol. 6)". Amazon.com. Retrieved February 23, 2020.
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