Trigun (1998; anime)

Trigun (1998; anime)
a.k.a Toraigan
Director: Satoshi Nishimura
== Plot Synopsis==
Vash the Stampede (Masaya Onosaka/Johnny Yong Bosch) is the most infamous outlaw on the planet Gunsmoke and with a 60 billion double dollar price on his head the most sought after!
==Male Deaths==
*Chafurin [Nagi] (Japanese Voice)
*Masuo Amada [Monev the Gale] (Japanese Voice)
*Steven Jay Blum [Roderick Thieves Co-Captain] (English Dub)
*Bob Buchholz [Steve] (English Dub)
*Steve Bulen [Midvalley the Hornfreak] (English Dub)
*Richard Cansino [Legato Bluesummers] (English Dub)
*Jonathan Fahn [Hoppered the Gauntlet] (English Dub)
*Michael Forest [Lurald] (English Dub)
*Sho Hayami [Nicholas D. Wolfwood] (Japanese Voice)
*Ryo Horikawa [E.G. Mine] (Japanese Voice)
*Koji Ishii [Brad] (Japanese Voice)
*Milton James [Leonof the Puppetmaster] (English Dub)
*Hiroshi Kamiya [Zazie the Beast] (Japanese Voice)
*Kaneta Kimotsuki [Leonof the Puppetmaster] (Japanese Voice)
*Juurouta Kosugi [Joey] (Japanese Voice)
*Takehito Koyasu [Roderick Thieves Co-Captain] (Japanese Voice)
*Michael McConnohie [Brad] (English Dub)
*Yuji Mikimoto [Lurald] (Japanese Voice)
*Richard Miro [Rowan] (English Dub)
*Shigeru Nakahara [Rowan] (Japanese Voice)
*Keiichi Nanba [Hoppered the Gauntlet] (Japanese Voice)
*Jeff Nimoy [Nicholas D. Wolfwood] (English Dub)
*Tomohiro Nishimura [Midvalley the Hornfreak] (Japanese Voice)
*Akio Ôtsuka [Rai-Dei the Blade] (Japanese Voice)
*Bob Papenbrook [Johnson] (English Dub)
*Derek Stephen Prince [Zazie the Beast] (English Dub)
*Toshihiko Seki [Legato Bluesummers] (Japanese Voice)
*Kevin Seymour [E.G. Mine] (English Dub)
*Peter Spellos [Monev the Gale] (English Dub)
*Barry Stigler [Joey] (English Dub)
*Takashi Nagasako [Shoemaker] (Japanese Voice)
*Hirotaka Suzuoki [Chapel the Evergreen] (Japanese Voice)
*Kyousei Tsukui [Steve] (Japanese Voice)
*Kirk Thornton [Rai-Dei the Blade] (English Dub)
*Hidenari Ugaki [Johnson] (Japanese Voice)
*Dan Woren [Chapel the Evergreen] (English Dub)
*Tom Wyner [Nagi] (English Dub)
*Lance Davis [Shoemaker] (English Dub)
==Female Deaths==
*Aya Hisakawa [Rem Saverem] (Japanese Voice)
*Bridget Hoffman [Rem Saverem] (English Dub)
*Maya Okamoto [Mary] (Japanese Voice)
*Yoko Soumi [Dominique the Cyclops] (Japanese Voice)
*Carol Stanzione [Dominique the Cyclops] (English Dub)
*Gracie Moore [Mary] (English Dub)
==Trivia==
#Based on the original three-shot manga by Yasuhiro Nightow.
#When Yasuhiro Nightow began focusing on writing manga after leaving college in 1996, he submitted Trigun for the February issue of Shonen Captain, but the manga was left incomplete following Shonen Captain's dissolution a year later, so when Shonen Gahosha brought Nightow in to submit a new story, Nightow himself was troubled over Trigun being left unfinished. Thankfully, Shonen Gahosha allowed him to continue the manga under the name Trigun Maximum, publishing over 11 chapters while gaining the rights over the first three chapters.
#Legato's characterization in the manga is different from his characterization in the anime. In the manga, Legato started out as a slave boy who was violently abused until Knives rescued him and took him under his wing, with Legato becoming slowly insane while under Knives' tuletage. In the anime, Legato is shown as a sadistic nihilist determined to torment Vash to no end on behalf of Knives, while also having been shown to have Vash's original left arm grafted on his body.
#The black cat that appears in every episode of Trigun is called "Kuroneko Sama" (which means "Lord Black Cat". The cat is a female and was a creation for one of Yasuhiro Nightow's first mangas (Japanese comic books) and he has stated that the cat is female. Her alternate name is "Kuroneko Kukan" or "Black Cat Space". She also makes a cameo in the video game "Wild ARMs: 2nd Ignition".
#Yasuhiro Nightow has gone on record to say that English is the language actually spoken on the Planet Gunsmoke.
#For unknown reasons, the anime contains various fictional units of measurement. The three most prominent are "iles" instead of "miles", "yarz" instead of "yards", and "double dollars ($$)" instead of "dollars ($)".
#There are several references to real guns from Earth in the series, like Milly's last name is Thompson, as in the 1927 Thompson "Tommy" sub-machine gun. Milly and Meryl work for the Bernardelli Insurance Society. Vincenzo Bernardelli S.p.A. is an now-defunct Italian firearms manufacturing company, founded in 1721 by Vincenzo Bernardelli. Bernardelli company was forced into bankruptcy in 1997, one year before the Anime was produced.
==Gallery==
Screenshot 107.jpg|Chafurin/Tom Wyner
RoderickGuyDead.jpg|Takehito Koyasu/Steven Jay Blum moments before his death
File:Monev & Dominique's Corpse (Trigun).png|Masuo Amada/Peter Spellos (right) and Yoko Soumi/Carol Stanzione (left) (corpse)
File:E.G. Mine's death (Trigun).png|Ryo Horikawa/Kevin Seymour
File:Rai-Dei's death (Trigun).png|Akio Ôtsuka/Kirk Thornton
File:Steve's Death (Trigun).png|Kyousei Tsukui/Bob Buchholz
File:Mary's Death (Trigun).png|Maya Okamoto/Gracie Moore (left, leg)
File:Rowan's death (Trigun).png|Shigeru Nakahara/Richard Miro
File:Rem Saverem's Death (Trigun).png|Aya Hisakawa/Bridget Hoffman
File:Leonof's death (Trigun).png|Kaneta Kimotsuki/Milton James
File:Brad's Death (Trigun).png|Koji Ishii/Michael McConnohie (right)
ZazieDeath.jpg|Hiroshi Kamiya/Derek Stephen Prince (left)
WolfwoodDead.jpg|Sho Hayami/Jeff Nimoy
Screenshot 151.jpg|Hirotaka Suzuoki/Dan Woren
MidvalleyDead.jpg|Tomohiro Nishimura/Steve Bulen
LegatoDead.jpg|Toshihiko Seki/Richard Cansino (below Vash)
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