Kino's Journey
Many Japanese manga and anime have also adopted the western genre. Yasuhiro Nightow is known for creating the space western "Trigun". The story's protagonist, Vash the Stampede, is a wandering gunslinger with a dark past. Unlike other violence-themed gunslingers, Vash carries a Shane-like pacifist attitude, and avoids killing men, even dangerous enemies. Behind him is the gun-toting priest named Nicholas D. Wolfwood, who carries with him a heavy machine gun and rocket launcher shaped like a cross. Nicholas is more violent than Vash, and the two would often argue about killing opponents. Other western genre themed manga and anime include "Cowboy Bebop" and "Kino's Journey", who both incorporate knight-errant gunslinger themes.