Trigun

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Trigun
Original title ト ラ イ ガ ン
transcription Toraigan
Trigun logo.svg
genre Shon , adventure , science fiction , comedy , western
Manga
country JapanJapan Japan
author Yasuhiro Nightow
publishing company Tokuma Shoten
magazine Shonen Captain
First publication April 1995 - January 1997
expenditure 3
Manga
title Trigun maximum
Original title ト ラ イ ガ ン マ キ シ マ ム
transcription Toraigan Makishimamu
country JapanJapan Japan
author Yasuhiro Nightow
publishing company Shōnen Gahōsha
magazine Young King Ours
First publication October 30, 1997 - March 30, 2007
expenditure 14th
Anime television series
Country of production JapanJapan Japan
original language Japanese
year 1998
Studio Madhouse
length 25 minutes
Episodes 26th
Director Satoshi Nishimura
music Tsuneo Imahori
First broadcast April 1 - September 30, 1998 on TV Tokyo
German-language
first broadcast		 December 1, 2009 - January 8, 2010 on Animax
synchronization
Movie
► Trigun: Badlands Rumble (2010)

Trigun ( ト ラ イ ガ ン , Toraigan ) is a manga series that was created by Yasuhiro Nightow and was published between 1995 and 1997. The series takes place on a distant desert planet and belongs to the western and science fiction genre. The genre definition is given as "deep space future gun action". The manga's success drew merchandise items and an anime television series, as well as the 2010 film Trigun: Badlands Rumble .

action

The story takes place on the desert planet Gunsmoke. This was settled by people who mostly live in smaller, scattered settlements, similar to the Wild West of America.

Vash the Stampede (ヴ ァ ッ シ ュ ・ ザ ・ ス タ ン ピ ー ド, Vasshu za Sutanpīdo ), also known as Humanoid Typhoon (“human typhoon ”), has a bounty of 60 billion $$ (doubledollar) bounties. He is held responsible for the destruction of the city of July. Wherever he appears, he causes unrest and chaos, which is also due to the bounty. Because his pursuers and their defense usually cause the damage. When the government classifies it as a natural disaster, the two insurance agents Millie Thompson and Meryl Stryfe are sent to prevent further damage. Vash turns out to be a clumsy, but tough guy who can shoot incredibly well, but firmly claims to have never killed a person and wants to keep that.

Vash later meets Nicolas D. Wolfwood, a traveling priest who is also a good marksman and owner of a large arsenal in the form of a giant cross. He is also being hunted down by a group of criminals called Gung-Ho Guns.

Conception

During the plot, the mood often alternates between comedy, action and tragedy, the series mixes westerns and science fiction. The storyline is interspersed with flashbacks explaining Vash's past and the colonization of the planet. Due to the black humor, a cynical view of human nature and unpredictable antiheroes, the western part of the series has less references to classic American films than to spaghetti westerns . The stereotypes of the classic Western are dealt with satirically.

Despite the recurring comic scenes, the stories also deal with topics such as pacifism, exploitation, identity and genocide. Especially with the anime series, a change in mood can be noticed in the fifth episode: from a pure comedy to more serious topics and character development. This change of mood was deliberately built into the screenwriter Yosuke Kuroda . He delayed Vash's first use of a weapon to underscore the importance of his decision to use a weapon to protect others. Further changes in the mood of the anime follow with episode 9, in which Nicolas D. Wolfwood appears for the first time, and episode 23. The names of some characters are indicative of their activities or the motifs of the series, according to Meryl Stryfe ("strife" ≈ German "Unfrieden") or Knives (≈ German "knife") or those named after the weapons designer J ohn T. Thompson Millie.

Manga

Trigun was Yasuhiro Nightow's first major work. From April 1995 (issue 5/1995) the chapters in the magazine Shōnen Captain by Tokuma Shoten were published, from April of that year at regular intervals with a total of 20 chapters, which were also summarized in three anthologies ( Tankōbon ). After Shōnen Captain January 1997 (issue 2/1997) was set, Nightow was advertised by Shōnen Gahōsha for the magazine Young King Ours . He was about to start a new story, but wanted to finish Trigun first.

Therefore, the series appeared from 1997 (issue 12/1997) under the title Trigun Maximum ( ト ラ イ ガ ン マ キ シ マ ム , Toraigan Makishimamu ). The story got more serious, also because she switched from a Shōnen to a His magazine. By the end of the 5/2007 issue, 102 further chapters had appeared in Young King Ours magazine with 14 anthologies. Shōnen Gahōsha also acquired the rights for the first chapters and published them in two enlarged albums, and in 2010 Trigun Maximum in a new edition in seven albums.

In 2010 several oneshots appeared on the occasion of the film Trigun: Badlands Rumble : on February 27 (issue 4/2010) the spin-off Raidei - Rising ( 雷神 -RISING-) by Yūsuke Takeyama appeared in the Young King Ours , for the next issue of On March 30th, Nightow drew the special chapter Trigun: Bangaihen ( ト ラ イ ガ ン 番外 編 ) and on August 30th (edition 10/2010) another spin-off, Trigun (written TRIGUN), from Boichi , which was later also included in volume 12 of whose manga Sun-Ken Rock was included. The anthology Trigun: Multiple Bullets , which contains eight short stories by various artists, was published on December 28, 2011 .

Trigun was published in Germany by Carlsen Verlag in two volumes. The first four volumes of Trigun Maximum were also published there. Due to poor sales figures, the publisher decided not to continue publishing the other volumes. From October 2003, Dark Horse Comics brought out the manga in the United States . The series was also published in French by Edition Tonkam , Italian by Dynamic Italia, Portuguese by Planet Manga , Russian by Comix-Art and in Spanish . Dark Horse also released the anthology volume in 2013.

Anime television series

The Trigun television series was produced by Studio Madhouse in 1998 and directed by Satoshi Nishimura . Responsible producers were Masao Morosawa and Shigeru Kitayama . The concept and script are by Yōsuke Kuroda , the character design was created by Takahiro Yoshimatsu and the artistic direction was by Hidetoshi Kaneko . Noriyuki Jinguji was responsible for the mechanical design. The plot initially sticks to the manga template, but is shortened in some places. Scenes of violence were not taken over, or only to a limited extent. Unlike the manga, the anime begins with an insight into Vash's daily life. The anime also contains some small peculiarities. For example, a short excerpt from the current episode was incorporated into the otherwise unchanged opening credits. Furthermore, a black cat appears for a short time in every episode, but without any reference to the plot or specific protagonists. An art book was also published for the television series in Japan in 2002 .

It was first broadcast on Japanese television on TV Tokyo from April 1, 1998 to September 30, 1998. The series was shown on television in 2001 in Catalonia and in 2003 on Cartoon Network in the "Adult swim" format in the evening program in the USA, and in 2006 in Latin America broadcast. In Italy it was broadcast on an MTV group station, in France on Game One and in the Philippines on GMA Network . AXN showed the anime in Spain and Portugal, G4TechTV in Canada. Space Power showed an Arabic translation, Hyper a Polish one. There were mostly also evaluations on purchase media, also in Russia and the Netherlands. From 2004 to 2005 the series was released on DVD by Panini Video in Germany.

synchronization

role Japanese voice actors ( seiyū ) German voice actors
Vash the Stampede Masaya Onosaka Stefan Schleberger
Meryl Stryfe Hiromi Tsuru Susanne Dobrusskin
Milly Thompson Satsuki Yukino Katja Liebing
Nicholas D. Wolfwood Shō Hayami Simon T. Roden
Rem Saverem Aya Hisakawa Kordula Leisse
Millions Knives Tōru Furusawa

The German dubbing comes from G&G Tonstudios, Kaarst .

music

For the series, the opening title "HT" was produced by Tsuneo Imahori and "Kaze wa Mirai ni Fuku" (風 は 未来 に 吹 く) by Akima & Neos was used as the closing title .

The soundtrack was released on two CDs by Geneon and JVC under the titles Trigun: The First Donuts and Trigun: The 2nd Donut Happy Pack . A third CD entitled Trigun Spicy Stewed Donut was only released by Tokyopop in the USA.

Movie

On April 24, 2010, the anime film Trigun: Badlands Rumble , which is based on the manga, was released in Japan. The film was produced by Studio Madhouse and includes the plot of the last volume by Trigun Maximum . The main reason for the production of the film was the success of the anime series outside of Japan, especially in the USA, and the demand there for additional material on the franchise.

Success and reception

For Yasuhiro Nightow, who was 27 years old at the start of the series, Trigun was his breakthrough as a manga artist. Trigun Maximum was awarded the Seiun Prize for the best manga in 2009. However, the anime series that emerged after the first manga was not a huge success in Japan. In the US, however, the anime series was a big hit. A profit for the distribution turned up from 6,000 sold data carriers. Eventually 30,000 were sold. The television broadcast in 2003 was also successful and since the franchise was already known, the 35,000-issue edition of the manga was sold out within a few days and the second volume became the best-selling comic in the USA in 2004.

Jason Thompson writes that quiet moments and expressions of slapstick alternate in the series, "Thousands of spheres pierce everything in sight and insanely exaggerated cyborg villains carry out their devious plans." In the sequel Trigun Maximum , the usual western stories are replaced by dark ones Replaced premonitions and battle scenes. These seemed more influenced by American superhero comics, which were strongly based on the visual impression, than the usually graphically more straightforward Shōnen manga. Yasuhiro Nightow continued to develop artistically in the second manga, he relied on strong black and white compositions and downright obsessively detailed depictions. As for the anime series, Animerica magazine notes that the changes between the funny and serious mood in the plot have been implemented exceptionally well. The treatment of ethical issues is appropriate and yet always balanced by comical elements, so that the series never becomes too cheesy.

The German magazine AnimaniA writes to Trigun , Nightow combine "in unusual abstract drawing style [...] skillfully Sci-fi and Western elements ." The series offers a cool anti-hero and a lot of humor. However, the plot and atmosphere would be a bit disappointing compared to the TV series. The main character is "one of the most likable and popular anime anti-heroes of the late nineties" and the most successful mixture of loser and hero. The quality of the anime is above average, the animations are fluid and the characters are worked out externally and internally “with a love of detail” . The music ensures “the right [atmosphere] at all times” . The MangasZene cites as the reason for the success of the Manga: “A unique, unusual style of drawing, a hero that the reader is sympathetic to and lots of brute force” , as well as the “cool SF Western setting” . In contrast to the anime, the action in the manga progresses quickly. But this can also be seen as a disadvantage, since the first episodes that introduce the character are missing. The drawing style is not to everyone's taste. According to the fan magazine Funime , the anime is “a successful mix of westerns, slapstick and a lot of humanistic values” . The drawings and animations are okay for a 1998 television series and the story is unusually complex and profound. The soundtrack is "rocky and a pleasure thanks to the good mix" .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Jason Thompson: Manga. The Complete Guide . New York 2007, Del Rey. P. 375 f.
  2. ↑ a b c Animerica Vol. 8/4, pp. 20 ff.
  3. ↑ a b Angela Drummond-Mathews: What Boys Will Be: A Study of Shōnen Manga . In: Toni Johnson-Woods (Ed.): Manga - An Anthology of Global and Cultural Perspectives . Continuum Publishing, 2010. p. 67.
  4. ↑ Interview with Nightow ( Memento of November 8, 2001 in the Internet Archive ) at geocities
  5. ^ Article by Kai-Steffen Schwarz in the Comics in Leipzig Forum, October 1, 2007, quoted in the Comic Forum on December 23, 2007
  6. ↑ a b c AnimaniA 10-11 / 2010, p. 54 ff.
  7. ↑ MangasZene No. 7, p. 50.
  8. ↑ Anime News Network on the film
  9. ↑ a b Jonathan Clements : Anime - A History . Palgrave Macmillan 2013. p. 184.
  10. ↑ Interview with Satoshi Nishimura and Takahiro Yoshimatsu. In: AnimaniA 10-11 / 2010, p. 58 f.
  11. ↑ a b AnimaniA 04/2003, p. 27.
  12. ^ Macross F, Trigun Maximum Win at Japan Sci-Fi Con. Anime News Network, July 4, 2009, accessed April 20, 2015 .
  13. ↑ Trigun Manga sells out in a flash. ICv2, October 29, 2003, accessed April 20, 2015 .
  14. ^ Manga Tops 2004 Graphic Novel Sales. Anime News Network, January 4, 2005, accessed April 20, 2015 .
  15. ↑ AnimaniA 01/2003, 32 f.
  16. ↑ MangasZene No. 12, p. 40.
  17. ↑ a b Review of Funime 16
  18. ↑ Brief review in the Funime

Web links

Commons : Trigun  - collection of images, videos and audio files