All the Hype over Trigun - Over rated
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Archived from the IMDb Discussion Forums — Trigun
greek_shuffler — 11 years ago(August 06, 2014 08:06 PM)
From all the ratings and reviews I'v read on Trigun people are giving it absurd amounts of credit wheres it isn't due. This anime is wildly over rated and i don't understand what the hype around this anime is for.
The first 10 episodes were practically irrelevant, had no direction and the character development of Vash just proves ever more what a shallow character he is. Vash is Bipolar going from a child's mindset to that of a serial killer yet he continues to up hold this innocence about him. Until Vash kills his first victim (via execution) does the series get interesting although by this point the series is already closing to an end. At many points in the series you become disengaged, You could miss 1,2,3,4 or even 5 episodes and it wouldn't matter, each episodes holds little relevance or value. The only thing that kept me from dropping the series was I was waiting for the story line to kick off, little did I know it only happens around episode 15 and by that stage your already more than half way into the series.
The story line had much room for development, The concept of Yin and Yang were well displayed through Vash and Knives yet underdeveloped.
Overall this is a very average anime that deserves a 6/10 - A suitable anime for the kids
There are many more terrific anime's that display great story lines, concepts, visuals etc Other Anime's you may consider are 'Berserk', 'JoJo's Bizaare Adventures, Death Note, Samurai X: Trust & Betrayal, Code Geass, Attack on Titan, Wolf's Rain, Ergo Proxy, Full Metal Alchemist etc etc and the list goes on.
If you Enjoyed Trigun then i'd refer 'Gungrave' which is from the same makers. -
MrsSpooky — 11 years ago(August 07, 2014 01:49 PM)
Thank you for your opinion.
I am definitely a madman with a box.
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daniel-amaro1990 — 11 years ago(August 14, 2014 11:40 AM)
yeah i finally started watching this (on Episode 14) After a friend has been asking me to watch it for years and being hyped up about it and yeeeah it's not that great. it is fun buti can barley remember half the episodes i just watched. I was told its as good as Bebop and my friend likes it better and maybe that was setting the bar too high. I'm still gonna finish it but yeah right now it is not as good as i was told.
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MrsSpooky — 11 years ago(August 14, 2014 04:42 PM)
You have to keep watching. It starts out really goofy with hints of other things, and about halfway through it gets progressively darker and more serious.
Vash is not who or what you think he is by episode 4.
I'll say no more.
It's worth sticking with it. Seriously.
I am definitely a madman with a box.
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Unicorn_Blade — 11 years ago(November 16, 2014 01:22 PM)
My friend has recently started watching and once got to the 'serious' part, he stopped. I think it is quite sad to see how things develop and look back at where we started, when you see the reason for Vash's seemingly happy-go-lucky attitude.
I think it is worth the hype, it is a good series with a great characters and plot, the style is a bit dated which you would expect from a series done in 1998 (wow, that has been so many years now! can't believe it).
It is different from Bebop, I think it's hard to compare them, different style and different feeling about the,. Hope you enjoyed the ending of Trigun.
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itsment2be — 10 years ago(February 05, 2016 12:34 PM)
Couldn't agree with you more. I'm utterly baffled why people give this anime so much hype.
There are plenty of characters who don't kill. Batman, Superman, Kenshin, etc. They remain loveable characters because there's a prison/jail system in place, with laws and consequences for committing crimes.
In Trigun, Vash doesn't hold these criminals responsible for the crimes they commit. He just tells them to "run along".
So they can kill, rape, and destroy property on another day, as long as it's not under his watch.
This is so unbelievably stupid, that I can't even recommend this anime to kids. It is universally insulting to the intelligence of all human beings regardless of age. If I watch this with a little kid, eventually at the end of the episode the kid will ask me why Vash doesn't put the bad guys in jail. And I won't have an answer other than:
Vash has an extremely immature view of right and wrong. Actually it's beyond immature. His moral compass has been damaged by childhood trauma. His childhood scars won't allow him to accept the simple fact that letting a murderer(who continually kills) live free is infinitely more evil than killing the murderer. His childhood scars won't allow him to comprehend how selfish he truly is, and how he kills more people indirectly, when he saves serial murderers.
It's almost like when Knives killed the spider and Vash became angry. Knives actually saved much more butterflies in the long run, because the spider won't kill any more butterflies in the future.
Vash would rather save both the spider and 1 butterfly, which will eventually result in much more dead butterflies in the future since the spider is still alive.
Vash would have to imprison the spider and feed it some kind of high protein plant based substitute for the rest of the spider's life. Either that or follow the spider for the rest of it's life and continually save butterflies until the spider starves to death.
Since Vash isn't willing to do any of the basic things necessary to ensure human public safety (Such as when he allowed Gasback to walkaway from a bank heist in the movie "Trigun Badlands Rumble", then obviously he's ok with the spider killing many future butterflies as long as he doesn't have to bear witness to it.
You can't compare Vash to batman just because they both don't kill. Joker breaks out of maximum security prisons. But at least Batman tried his best to ensure public safety. Vash allows serial murderers to walk off into the sunset, with absolutely zero consequences.
Morality is a luxury. Without civilization (technology/economy/laws/infrastructure), morality is a luxury almost no one can afford.
Vash is equally as moronic as Morgan from the walking dead.
Vash the Stampede is quite possibly the worst anime character ever created.
Such a waste of my time. Watched a couple of episodes. I looked at the IMDB ratings, and assumed that I would end up loving Trigun. I was only two episodes into the series, and I made a crappy decision to purchase these two statues:
http://www.amazon.com/Kotobukiya-Trigun-Stampede-Gunman-ArtFXJ/dp/B00E5MG184/ref=sr_1_2?s=toys-and-games&ie=UTF8&qid=1454704007&sr=1-2&keywords=vash+the+stampede
http://www.amazon.com/Kotobukiya-Trigun-Badlands-Nicholas-Wolfwood/dp/B00AQA0N06/ref=sr_1_2?s=toys-and-games&ie=UTF8&qid=1454704027&sr=1-2&keywords=nicholas+d+wolfwood
They haven't even arrived yet, and I'm already cancelling the order because I don't want eternal reminders of the single worst anime, and anime characters I've ever encountered in my entire life staring me in the face for the rest of my days.
Two eternal reminders of the hours of life I'll never get back. I don't even care if I don't get a full refund. I would rather throw those hellish things away, than sell them and risk having some poor shmuck bamboozled into thinking that the anime is actually worth watching.